"What did you say ?"
Upon hearing what the mermaid said, Austin was stunned.
In fact, he just wanted her Illusionary Tokens.
But the mermaid got him wrong and thought he wanted to sleep with her.
"Ahem! Ahem! You..."
Austin cleared his throat before he tried to explain but the mermaid interrupted him.
"Don't say anything.
I have promised to sleep with you as long as you agree to save me. What else do you want?
Get me out of here. Hurry up!"
Seeing the expression on his face, the mermaid became angry but was also anxious.
"Alright."
Austin was rendered speechless. He had no other choice but to nod in agreement.
'I will get her out of here first, ' he thought to himself.
Austin could tell that the mermaid was not a cunning nor an evil person.
"Brat, you can't protect yourself. You still have the nerve to act like a hero?
That's not gonna happen!" Lawrence yelled at Austin.
"Guys, take that mermaid first!"
Lawrence ordered the other genuine divine gods of the beast race as he pointed at the mermaid.
The mermaid had not been caught by the people of the beast race.
But as soon as Lawrence finished his words, several genuine divine gods of the beast race rushed
forward to capture her this time.
"Oh, really?
Just wait and I will prove you wrong,"
Austin retorted with a challenging smirk.
Lawrence instantly stood alert.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Countless illusions near them became violent and surrounded the people of the beast race.
In fact, the whole space was filled with illusions.
These illusions consisted of numerous unreal creatures of all shapes and sizes. The creatures also let
out strange sounds from audible shrieks to thunderous growls.
Suddenly, the people of the beast race were trapped in the worlds created by the illusions.
"How is that possible? I can't believe it!
You could even control the illusions in the maze.
What the hell is going on?
How do you have such powers?"
Lawrence was overwhelmed with astonishment as he discovered that Austin could manipulate the
illusions.
At this point, Austin immediately dashed towards the mermaid.
Several genuine divine gods of the beast race moved closer and gathered around the mermaid,
preparing to launch attacks on her.
Outnumbered, the mermaid stood no chance against them.
As she faced their powerful attacks, she couldn't even defend herself properly. In just one round, she
was already defeated and her opponents got ready to take her prisoner. They grabbed her by the arms
and as they pulled...
"Stay away from her!"
Austin shouted as he bolted to the mermaid and attacked the crowd around her.
He performed the Puppet Strings skill immediately.
A massive number of red strings appeared right then and there.
With Austin's spiritual sense enhancing greatly, the power of the red strings had also increased sharply.
In Austin's Soul Sea, the sphere of spiritual sense rotated continuously while releasing spiritual sense.
With the sphere of spiritual sense providing energy, the red strings became more difficult for the
genuine divine gods of the beast race to deal with. Furthermore, they had to handle all those illusions
as well.
Taking his only chance, Austin waved his sleeve and dragged the mermaid with him. The two of them
turned around and left the scene.
While they were on the run, Austin activated the Reincarnation Token. In the blink of an eye, he and the
mermaid were nowhere to be found.
When Austin first entered the maze, he couldn't activate the Reincarnation Token.
But he had already made big progress in the spiritual sense and the law of illusion.
That was why he could make the Reincarnation Token work now.
"You're not going anywhere, you weakling!" Lawrence roared furiously.
Lawrence and his companions who attacked the mermaid had broken all the illusions and went to
swarm towards Austin.
However, before all of them even noticed, Austin had already vanished into thin air.
"Damn it..."
they cursed regretfully as they had just lost their target.
"You weakling, you better watch out for me. I won't let you off the hook!"
Lawrence shouted and went berserk as he stared at the spot where Austin disappeared.
Moments later, Austin and the mermaid arrived at a remote place.
She had stolen glances at Austin from time to time. Her face flushed as if she had a fever shooting up.
She was even breathing heavily and seemed unable to catch her breath.
At this point, different feelings had started to wash over her.
She wasn't sure whether she was nervous, shy, scared, or even sad.
She even slightly looked forward to what was going to happen next.
'I can't believe I would be giving my virginity to a stranger from the human race in this place. I only met
him by chance. After we are done, I'm afraid I won't be able to meet him ever again.
After I sleep with him, perhaps I wouldn't fall in love with another man anymore.
Am I going to spend the rest of my life alone?'
she asked herself as a lot of questions began to run through her mind.
Austin steadied himself and let go of the mermaid's hand.
"You are safe now. We have finally lost them,"
Austin said to her in a reassuring tone.
"Yeah.
We can stay here instead."
Her voice was so soft that it was hard to hear. Apparently, she got Austin all wrong.
'This place is quiet. I guess it's not bad to sleep with him here.'
At this moment, the girl was very nervous that her hands started to shake.
Her heartbeat raced as her chest rose and fell to the rhythm of her heavy breaths.
As a matter of fact, it was not really a surprise that she felt this way.
It was the first time that she was going to have sex.
Losing virginity was a big deal to any maiden.
Her face had already turned scarlet as she blushed.
To avoid making eye contact with Austin, she lowered her head and almost buried her face on her
chest.
Looking at the shy mermaid, Austin pretended to cough slightly as he attempted to break the awkward
silence.
"Don't say anything. Let's start.
Don't worry. Since I have already promised you, I won't take back my word,"
the mermaid said in a very low voice.
"You!"
Austin understood what she meant and couldn't help feeling amused.
'It really looks like she misunderstood me, ' he thought to himself.
"Don't get me wrong.
Let me tell you the truth.
I saved you because of your Illusionary Tokens.
I need to borrow them from you for a couple days.
Don't worry. I will give them back to you after I finish my cultivation,"
Austin revealed convincingly.
"Fine by me..."
The mermaid didn't react much at the moment. She was still blushing with her head down low.
"Wait! What did you just say? You... you just need to borrow my Illusionary Tokens for cultivation?"
She suddenly repeated to fully grasp what Austin meant.
She then realized everything and was completely dumbfounded.
She raised her head and stared at Austin with such beautiful eyes.
Judging by his expression, she knew that he was serious about borrowing the tokens from her.
Before Austin said anything about his purpose, she thought that Austin was willing to save her because
he was attracted to her.
She had even talked herself into sleeping with him, and internally prepared herself for it.
But now Austin had just admitted that he had come to her rescue because he wanted to borrow her
Illusionary Tokens.
She didn't see any of this coming.
After a few seconds, her mood shifted to excitement as she sighed in relief.
"Are you serious?
You just need to use my Illusionary Tokens to cultivate for a few days?
You don't have any other requirements, right?"
she asked Austin yet again to confirm.
"Yes, I mean that.
Rest assured. I will return the tokens to you after I finish my training.
I won't take them away from you,"
Austin replied with a smile.
The mermaid was still a little worried. "So, I... I don't need to sleep with you, right?"
she asked after she mustered up the courage one last time.
"Ahem! I had never actually thought of that.
I'm afraid you misunderstood me,"
Austin replied with a shy smile.
"I see!"
Finally, the mermaid's mind was put to ease.
She again heaved a long sigh of relief and patted her chest, as if she had been saved from big trouble.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" she whined while rolling his eyes at him.
She came to know that Austin was easy-going and wasn't a bad guy after all.
Gradually, she found herself letting down her guard against Austin.
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