"A complete failure, and our patriarch didn't even give me a look. ”

While the other family members and elders rejoiced in the new spell of Talos' infrared detection, Helvis, Leonard, and several other four-armed Naga sat around in a room at Walter's Magic Manor.

Helveig flicked his thirteen-foot-long tail roughly and shattered a magic lamp, and the atmosphere was a little heavy.

Leonard understands her feelings all too well, and there's nothing more frustrating than being completely ignored by her opponent.

Your preparation, your actions, your calculations, and your plans are not as good as a bubble that bursts at the slightest poke in her eyes.

"We can't go on like this, for the sake of the Goddess of the Sea, her influence and control over her family is going beyond our bottom line!" said a four-armed Naga worriedly.

"What gives you the illusion that we still have a bottom line?" Helwig shouted at him in a bad temper, "and if this continues, I'm afraid it won't be long before the conversation between us and her becomes 'Yes, Chief,' 'Okay, Chief,' 'As you wish, Chief!'"

The crowd did not pay attention to Helveig's bad temper stimulated by Sandra, for they were all startled by the images she described, and the atmosphere in the room became even more dreary.

"We need to reach out to more family members who have seats—" Leonard rubbed his temples and said in his usual calm tone, "What did Elder Mathilde say?"

"The Elder told us not to do any counter-attack work for the time being. ”

"Excuse me, did I mishear something?"

The snake's tail muscles below Helveig's abdomen all contracted, and like an enraged cobra, it stood upright in a condescending posture.

She waved her arms angrily—unimaginable to humans—and exclaimed in frustration, "We're running out of time, look at the relieved look they had when Talos spoke." Hell, my mom who passed away for many years never looked at me so gently!"

The crowd didn't expect Helvey to be so mad, so they didn't stop her from mimicking Talos's tone and continuing: "Of course, I don't mind the words 'genius mage' or 'premature death' that might be used in the propaganda. ”

"Although all is in the past, it is a privilege and a blessing for all to let more people know how wonderful a Naga the Taplos of the Nepton is—before and now, and even more in the distant future. ”

"Those who used to envy me will become worshipped, and those who are jealous of me can only continue to be unwilling to be jealous, which has nothing to do with talent, hard work and chance, because the aura that belongs to the genius of Talos is radiant from beginning to end!"

Leonard had a toothache on his face, and he could only describe Elder Mathilde's impromptu speech when he asked Talos how he felt—narcissism.

Even though they weren't targeting Talos in the first place, God knows how hard it took him to refrain from reminding him of the cruel fact that he wasn't a mage anymore.

Wait a minute!

Leonard had a flash of inspiration in his head, and perhaps this was what Elder Mathilde had in mind.

The first smile after the family meeting finally crept up on Leonard's face: "Talos is indeed the inventor of infrared detection, but that doesn't change the fact that he is no longer a mage. ”

"The aura of an inventor can only make him glorious for a while, and the family, including us and the other members, will soon find out how dangerous it is to have a non-professional as the heir, and he doesn't even have the ability to protect himself!"

Talos, of course, did not know how Helvey and Leonard were depressed after the meeting, and he very happily lay down on the stone bed and slept well.

Because he was in a very good mood, he also took the initiative to reach out for the first time and carefully touched his tail, the palm was cold with a rough touch, and the snake's tail was naturally very strong in order to support the upper body.

For the first time, the pattern of large red, yellow, and black scales gave Talos a sense of identity and belonging to the Naga from the bottom of his heart, and he had a snake tail and was a veritable tidal Naga.

Then, with the current of the bottom of the sea gently brushing by his side, he flicked his tail for a while, and soon fell asleep.

On the 46th, an important day, after a hearty breakfast of lighthouse jellyfish, electric rays, and deep-sea diamond starfish, Talos automatically reclined down in a real worm restoration pod called Brenda to undergo a physical examination to confirm the relationship between "eating" and "physical fitness".

After many days, Talos didn't feel scared or frightened anymore when soft tan tentacles stretched out from the pink flesh walls and wrapped around his naked body, even though the slippery touch still made him feel slightly nauseous.

"Brenda, collect target data and conduct a comprehensive physical fitness analysis. ”

At Emma's command, the tentacles wrapped around Talos's body adjusted their positions from time to time, shooting faint bioelectric and magical aura from the suction cups attached to Talos's skin or scales.

After five days of continuous efforts to eat and refine the soul of the demonic beast, I don't know how much my physical fitness will be improved, Talos thought curiously as he lay on his back.

The chef of Evelyn and the twelve Black Sea Knights who followed Talos would never understand why he would be so loyal to running to the kitchen at a certain time in order to order the chefs to kill the ingredients for the day.

Not to mention that when Talos turned around and left the kitchen, he took the souls of demonic beasts and magical creatures with him, threw them into the soul fire, refined and absorbed.

"Later, Quintu and I are going to the Adriatic Island, where the Rococo Opera Company from the Rhine Kingdom will hold a three-day concert, are you interested in going together?"

Adriatic Island is an island located in the Black Sea, part of Sandra's territory, and is an important city for communication between the Black Sea and other continental civilizations such as the human kingdom and the elven court.

"No, have fun. Talos thought for a moment and finally rejected Emma's proposal, "I still have to receive my father's martial arts instruction in the afternoon, and he rarely spends a whole afternoon, I don't want to miss it." Also, I was skeptical of their propaganda that they had a song that was sweeter than a mermaid. ”

Although they are mortal enemies, it does not prevent Talos from admitting that mermaids do have unique skills and profound attainments in singing.

It was the sound that would make sailors line up and plop into the ocean, and the whole of Sainz could only be matched by the elves who had been immersed in the art for many years.

"Okay. ”

Emma felt that Leonhard's choice to teach Talos martial arts today should be for the same purpose as her, to divert Talos's attention from the results of the physical examination.

"Work hard, the first Grand Knight in the history of the Nepton family. ”