Mrs. Loris is very talkative, she has a sharp mind, a broad vision, and a wealth of knowledge, and has her own opinions on any topic. When they talked about poetry and fairy tales, Mrs. Loris asked Carl curiously why he knew so much about the environment in the depths of the sea, and why he described the underwater scenery so magnificent and detailed.

Of course, Carl can't say that this is plagiarized from the great Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, and of course he can't say that he often watches the program of man and nature, so he combined the reading memory of the original body and casually made it up, saying that this knowledge is all from some bits and pieces of books, and then imaginatively processed.

Fortunately, there are supernatural forces such as magic and fighting qi in this world, and people do know something about the scenery in the depths of the sea.

Speaking of underwater customs, Mrs. Loriss also casually talked about the mermaids in the depths of the sea and all kinds of other strange and bizarre underwater creatures.

Different from the imagination of ordinary people, although the sea is vast and boundless, but suitable for living creatures to settle and survive, there are only shallow sea shelf areas, deep sea trenches and basins, because of the huge water pressure and lack of sufficient sunlight, and can not grow enough seaweed and plankton, can not feed enough fish and shellfish, so it has become a forbidden area of life like a desert, only some extremely dangerous and ferocious sea beasts, and some rely on magic to survive, called "sea kings" will haunt these areas.

In the marine world, sunlight is just as important as water on land, and the continental shelf of shallow seas is rich in sunlight and is home to seaweed and plankton, which in turn provide abundant food for fish and other creatures.

It is in these shallow continental shelves that the real mermaids live a semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural life. They carefully nurture and grow seaweed, domesticate schools of fish and sea beasts, and some of them settle steadily on the shallow continental shelf, generally chasing migratory fishing herds and living a nomadic life.

"In fact, the life of a mermaid in the underwater world is not as good as you think!"

Mrs. Loriss leaned on the sofa, took a sip of milk tea elegantly, and said with great interest: "Although the mermaid clan is the king of the blue sea, it is not without opponents, Naga, Sirens, Kraken, Azure Sea Dragon, Benthic Demons, Shahua Fish Man, and deep-sea monsters like natural disasters, are competing with mermaids for living space all the time!"

"Wars in the underwater world are more frequent and ferocious than on our land, and the war between mermaids and Naga for the shallow sea and schools of fish happens almost all the time......"

Speaking of this, as if she wanted to explain to Carl more clearly the true state of existence in the underwater world, Mrs. Loriss paused, thought carefully, and said metaphorically: "You can think of the underwater world as the barbarians on the Oriental steppe, or the moon god believers in the Katucan Desert, constantly plundering and annex......ing in order to compete for grasslands and oases."

Although the mermaids described by Mrs. Loris are different from what she imagined, Carl can also understand that after all, a real world is not a fairy tale world, and the formation of a racial civilization and culture is closely related to the living environment in which it lives.

There is no fire in the sea, and there is no way to store food in the sea for a long time. Therefore, the sea floor cannot develop the same advanced casting and smelting technology as the intelligent races on the surface, and there is no superstructure such as the nobles, merchants, and craftsmen who have surplus food to supply the demobilized nobles, merchants, craftsmen, etc., so although the civilization born in the sea has a huge number, it is far behind the land in terms of civilization level.

According to Mrs. Loris, mermaids are the highest level of marine Chinese, but they also stay in the primitive city-state tribal era. A tribe of mermaids usually occupies a seaweed-rich undersea forest pasture with a large number of fish and sea beasts.

There was no way to make fires, no way to store food, no way to give birth to forging civilizations, and no way to build granaries and granaries, so mermaids used their wisdom to domesticate, raise, and nurture the evolution and mutation of creatures. Mermaids are the best animal trainers and breeders in the world, they can cause creatures to reproduce and grow quickly, and they can help magical creatures mutate and evolve faster.

Because of this trait, the mermaid has reached a symbiotic relationship with many powerful magical creatures in the ocean, and because of thousands of years of directional evolution, the mermaid has even evolved itself into a treasure that is beneficial to all living things.

Legend has it that the tears of mermaids can remove all toxins and treat all injuries, and in fact they are an anti-epidemic function that mermaids have evolved to prevent diseases and plagues caused by large-scale grazing. Legend has it that eating the meat of a mermaid can lead to immortality, which is a preservation skill that mermaids have evolved in order to preserve food and have to extend the life cycle of the food they raise as much as possible.

Because of the special environment in the ocean, the mermaids had to solidify these functions on themselves with supernatural powers, and over time, they formed the marine mermaids that are now full of treasures.

It was the first time Carl had heard of this kind of secret news, and he was very surprised at first, but if you think about it carefully, since the human beings in this world can give birth to wizards, they can integrate all kinds of wonderful bloodlines into human beings, and countless powerful knight bloodlines are born, and it is not strange that the mermaid, who has a much older history than humans, tossed herself into a humanoid Tang Seng because of the need for survival.

"But if all the legends about mermaids are true, isn't the mermaid's situation dangerous?"

Whether it is the tears of a mermaid that cures all diseases and removes all toxins, or the flesh and blood of a mermaid that is said to last forever with a bite, it is a very tempting thing. If these are true, then with the current strength of human beings and the greed of human nobles, wouldn't they hunt mermaids everywhere?

"You're right!"

Lady Loriss nodded slightly, with some sympathy, and some helplessness: "Mermaids, with their unique physique and strength, control the infinite tide of fish and beasts, once dominated the entire blue sea, and established a huge ocean empire in the seven seas. ”

"But since the wizarding era, the human wizards discovered the harmonizing effect of mermaid flesh and blood on blood fusion, and wizards began to hunt mermaids wildly! Although no one is depressed living in the clear blue ocean, with a huge family and magical creatures to protect, but the mermaid's own combat power is not too strong, and the shallow sea water cannot prevent wizards from diving in. On the contrary, on the land lacking water vapor, neither the mermaids nor their families can move freely, so for a long time, although the mermaids have a huge military force, they have been attacked and troubled by wizards......"

"In order to completely solve the wizards' coveting of mermaids, the mermaid empire, which was subverted at the beginning, even tried to set off a large tsunami that flooded the land, triggering three consecutive sea and land wars that affected all races on the entire continent......"

"It turns out that this is the truth of the sea and land wars before the Dark Age......"

In addition to being busy studying magic these days, Carl is also trying to make up for the history of this world. In the era before the rise of mankind, the lords of the continent were still elves and orcs, but the sad thing is that the elves because of exploring the other world, and ran head-on into the exotic demon world that was conquering all walks of life, and the tragic war against the demon invasion three times in a row completely hit the elves and pulled down the throne of the continent overlord. And the orcs, who rose after the elves, were hit hard by the great flood that swept the world and the invasion of the sea tribes, which gave humans a chance to rise.

It's just that Carl didn't expect that the fuse of the sea and land war that pulled the orcs off the throne of the continent turned out to be the death of a human wizard, but the orcs and elves who were the overlords of the continent were harmed to prevent disasters, which was really a disaster.

"The truth about the war on land and sea?"

Mrs. Loriss couldn't help but shake her head slightly, and smiled lightly: "The origin of a war that almost destroyed the whole world, there is so simple! But this matter is too ancient, it is said that this world originally had nine continents like the earth under our feet, but in the three great floods caused by the sea tribes, two continents were completely submerged, and the land bridges that were originally connected to each other were also completely submerged, turning into a string of island chains and deep oceans!"

"Moreover, there is no exact record of all this, only in the epic myths depicting the ancient times, you can see a scale and half a claw, and the authenticity is doubtful!"

"It's strange, since the mermaid once established a huge ocean empire, why did it decline in the end? There is almost no trace of the mermaid in the harp sea now!"

Karl couldn't help but ask curiously, the Harp Sea is a harp-like Mediterranean Sea surrounded by two continents, the seabed is not deep, and almost all of them are shallow hotbeds suitable for the survival of sea tribes. But now, apart from the occasional Naga and Sezhin banshees, there is hardly any sign of mermaids, except for a few hapless coastal villages or merchant ships that have been attacked by beastly fishmen.

"What else could it be? Of course, because of the existence of the Magic Empire!"

"Although the mages of the Magic Empire are not like the ancient wizards who have an urgent need for mermaid flesh and blood, the mermaid itself is still extremely valuable research material for them, and there was a huge mermaid country in the Harp Sea at that time, the West Asian Sea Country. ”

"The existence of the Sea Kingdom of West Asia has seriously hindered the trade along the coast of the Harp Sea, affected the exploration of the depths of the Harp Sea by the Magic Emperors, and finally under the forbidden spell of the Magic Emperor, the entire Sea Kingdom has completely fallen!"