Silvanus swore he had nothing to do with the humans being dragged into the underwater world. It could only be that Elena had become stronger, to the point she could summon a great flood and sweep everyone into her domain without even appearing.
As he had predicted, even without the mermaid scales, Elena would still transform. The dungeon would never allow humans to pass so easily.
"Cough! Cough! Cough!"
Leonard choked on water, coughing violently. It seemed to jolt him awake a little, but the scales on his body kept growing, disappearing, growing again, then vanishing—showing his condition's instability.
The great flood had vanished, leaving them sprawled across a waterlogged ground, their bodies soaked.
This was a barren land, with nothing around but a vast, charred plain under a gray, lifeless sky. Not a tree, not a blade of grass—it was like a land forgotten by the universe, desolate and forsaken.
