How to become a mermaid

Chapter 18 Endgame
After reaching a consensus with Johnny, Batonio and Johnny worked together to remove the wooden boards on the edge of the observation deck and let them be tied to Johnny.

Batonio grabbed the solitary mast with his hands, and stepped on the only remaining floor of the observation deck with his feet, stabilizing the figures of the two.

"Are you ready?" Batonio asked.

"Yeah." Jonny nodded.

"I didn't expect that I, Batonio, would cooperate with someone like you." Batonio complained angrily, and then bent down.

"call out!"

Batonio's body leaped upwards, and he and Jonny clung to each other like Siamese twins and fell towards the distant sea water.

The moment they flew into the air, a bright yellow light glowed underwater.

This is the Sharkman leader preparing to release his skills!
Seeing this situation, Jonny pulled out the plank abruptly and threw it in the direction of the shark-man leader.

Suddenly, a shark-man jumped up from the sea, opened his bloody mouth and bit towards the board.

"Crack!" After a crisp sound, the board was bitten into pieces.

The light at the bottom of the water was still on, and Johnny failed to stop the shark leader!

Seeing that the skill was about to be released, Jonny took a pistol and pointed it at the sea.

"Snapped!"

He pulled the trigger!

The barrel of the gun vibrated, and the bullets flew out.

Johnny's shot wasn't accurate, and the pistol wasn't too powerful, but the shark leader in the water was still scared.

The light in the water quickly dissipated, and the leader of the shark people turned around and dived to avoid bullets.

"Boom!" At this time, Batonio also fell steadily to the surface of the sea and stepped on a sharkman.

"call out!"

Before the sharkman could react, Batonio jumped up again.

This is not [Leap Strike], but [Continuous Leap Strike]!
Taking advantage of the lack of time for the sharkman leader to activate his skills, Batonio jumped violently, his body jumped up continuously like a spring, and unexpectedly popped out of the sharkman's encirclement!
He escaped!

But that wasn't enough, the shark people were still too close to him.

Batonio sank under the water, kicking his feet back and darting forward like a swimming fish.

This jump was almost 20 meters long.

The jumping fish is originally a sea fish, and it can jump farther underwater than on land.

Before the sea was full of sharkmen, Batonio didn't dare to go into the water, but now he was finally out of the siege, and he could jump freely in the water.

"call out!"

"call out!"

At intervals, Batonio sprinted forward, making it impossible for the sharks chasing behind him to catch up.

After chasing for a while, the sharks stopped.

They turned back and stopped chasing!

"Hahahaha! My master Barto escaped!" Seeing the pursuers give up behind him, Batonio laughed wildly.

"Gulu Gulu..." At this moment, a grunt came from Batonio's back.

A lot of air bubbles came out of Johnny's mouth and nose, and he choked on water.

Batonio drank the magic potion of jumping fish, and he could maintain a short breath in the water. Johnny, an ordinary person, was completely different. He couldn't stand the bumps in the water.

Looking at Johnny who was choking on the water on his back, Batonio narrowed his eyes.

He still vividly remembered Jonny's threat just now, and Batonio, who had never been offended so much, was very angry and wanted Jonny to just drown in the water.

But... Seeing the increasingly painful expression on Jonny's face, Batonio, who still has a conscience, felt a little unbearable.

While unaffected by potions, he wasn't bad enough to break the moral line.

"Forget it, even if Lord Barto is kind this time, we're even!"

Batonio brought Johnny to the surface and ripped him off him.

Johnny, who lost his support, floated on the water like a dead fish, and his consciousness completely fell into a coma.

"You can wish for luck, Master Barto is gone!"

Batonio took out the chart from his arms and looked at it carefully, then turned and swam in the opposite direction from Johnny.

However, just after he swam forward for a certain distance, he suddenly saw a shadow that was rapidly approaching him reflected on the surface of the sea.

There's something overhead!

Batonio looked back and saw that it was a huge bird.

"Zhi-!" The big bird uttered a strange cry.

It flew close to the surface of the water, stretching out its long and pointed claws, trying to grab Batonio.

"No! I'm not a fish!" Batonio uttered a terrified cry.

He almost used all the strength in his body to jump forward, narrowly escaped from the big bird's sharp claws.

"Huh... so dangerous!" Batonio let out a long sigh of relief.

But before he could relax, a thunderbolt struck from above his head.

"Crack!"

The thunder light penetrated the body, and Batonio's body froze instantly, unable to move at all.

"Wow—!"

The big bird flew past, and its long claws clasped Batonio's chest, piercing his heart and lifting him out of the water.

The big bird lifted into the sky, and the strong wind blew its thick feathers, during which a subtle flash of lightning could be faintly seen.

This is the real [Thunderbird].

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After Batonio and Johnny parted ways, the Sharkmen began to clean up the battlefield.

Shark people have a shape similar to sharks. Their heads are long and pointed, their mouths are full of sharp teeth, and there is a long triangular fin on their backs.

Unlike sharks, their front two fins become webbed hands, and they also have two stubby legs near the tail.

In this battle, all twelve ships of the fleet sank, and all died except for Batonio and Joni, and the corpses became the dishes of the sharks.

"Guji Guji..."

"Galla gala..."

Shark people communicate in their own language.

For the convenience of reading, the following is the shark-human language translation:

"Boss Patrara! Here's a tender one!" A silver-gray sharkman dragged a gnawed corpse and swam towards a bright white sharkman.

This sharkman named Patrara is the leader of this group of murlocs and the only sequencer among them.

Mermaids become Sequencers by nature, humans become Sequencers by potion, and murlocs become Sequencers by mutation.

In the murloc population, there will be one mutant murloc among about [-] murlocs. They are smarter than other murlocs and can awaken extraordinary powers to become sequencers.

This bright white shark man is one of the mutant murlocs.

However, as the boss, it seems to be smaller than other sharks, and it loses the majesty of its leader.

"Lacknini, what's in the boat? Is there a shiny gem?" Patrala asked.

"No, these humans are poor ghosts! Don't talk about gems, they don't even have a single gold coin!" said the sharkman boy named Laknini.

"Then... is there a glass bottle?" Patrala asked again.

"A glass bottle...is that something that holds a strange liquid?" Laknini asked.

"Yes! That's the one, bring me all the glass bottles!" Patrala happily ordered.

"Boss, why do you want that kind of thing? The stuff in it is terrible and poisonous!" Lacknini was puzzled.

"Don't worry about it, I'm useful!" Patrala didn't want to explain to her subordinates.

"understood!"

The silver-gray sharkman swam away, leaving behind the tender corpse it said.

After his men left, Patrara grabbed the corpse, stuffed it into his mouth and began to bite.

Well, it's really tender~~
　Sharks don't seem to have vocal cords, so they can't bark, but shark people have vocal cords, so they can talk, and that's it!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)