�You have to be in front of me.�

Cale pushed the Black Dragon in front of him as they headed toward the other side of the island. He then started to frown as soon as he came out of the other side of the forest and saw the corpses.

��I was right.�

As expected, they were mermaid corpses. To be specific, there were three corpses, all with their necks broken. Furthermore, their legs and arms were twisted as well. Cale frowned even more after seeing the appearance of the mermaids with his own eyes instead of just as text in a novel.

The corpses were completely dry, as if they were mummies. However, the mermaids really did look different from humans.

There were fins on their hands and feet, while their skin seemed to be covered in scales. They also had gills instead of ears.

�Why are you not getting closer?�

The Black Dragon curiously asked Cale, who was observing from a distance. Cale easily answered back to the Black Dragon.

�It�s scary.�

��Right. I forgot that you are a weak human.�

The Black Dragon nodded and headed toward the mermaid corpses. He then started to mumble to himself.

�It seems like they were flattened to death. They also seem to have died not too long ago. Furthermore, I can see some red blood underneath their fins. I think they were in a battle.�

�It was a whale. A whale definitely killed these mermaids.�

The Whale Tribe had a small population, similar to the dragons, but they were the strongest existence in the ocean. That was how they were able to protect the ocean world from the mermaids.

The mermaids wanted to create a kingdom inside the ocean. However, the Whale Tribe did not accept sharing their territory with others. It was because they were a species that needed to migrate along with the weather. ( Guess we now know the truth about how the mermaids got control in the Little Mermaid. )

�The Whale Tribe is small in number, but they are too strong for the mermaids to do as they please. However, the mermaids suddenly started to get stronger.�

The mermaids started to get stronger, putting the Whale Tribe in a difficult situation. That was when Choi Han appeared and assisted the whales. At least, that was the contents of the novel by the end of volume 5.

Cale told the Black Dragon that they should head back and turned away from the mermaid corpses.

�Can we just leave them like this?�

�Yes.�

A mermaid corpse will not dissipate on land, instead, it will just dry out almost entirely. In order for it to dissipate, it needs to be under water. Once that happens, the smell is spread throughout the ocean, signaling other mermaids to come to get the corpses.

That was why the Whale Tribe left them on land like this on purpose.

�I need to quickly take care of things and leave too.�

There was probably only one member of the Whale Tribe who fought these mermaids. If there were two of them, they wouldn�t have left these corpses on land. They would have thrown them into the water in order to draw even more mermaids over and battle it out. They chose to act like this because they were alone. JrNovels.com