Chapter 14: The Merman
Ivey became a nun, and I could leave in peace, but I had to fight Lynn before I left.
Lynn was really weak, and it wasn't fun for me to fight him, but if he lost, he would tell me about the dock iron ship, so I still had to beat him up.
You can come whatever you want, and after sending Ivy away, Lynn came in a hurry.
He was followed by dozens of mages who entered the academy to look for me. This time they found me, and the gang all scolded me for being cowardly yesterday.
Lynn was a proud fellow, and his head was held high: "Mr. Ah Si, are you free today?"
I like this kid, he's just too young and easy to be arrogant.
I said that I was free, and he immediately invited me to the dueling arena of the academy, and a group of people also made a noise, and many students of the academy also ran over, especially Ji'er, who despised me from a distance and made a disdainful grimace at me.
I think it's too much trouble to go to the dueling arena, and you have to find a referee. I'll just say let's fight here, it's going to be fast anyway.
Everyone was stunned and scolded me: "It's so arrogant, Vice President Thomas, beat him!"
Lynn is also an eclectic person, and he said okay, let's fight here.
He raised his staff, and the onlookers quickly retreated, hiding far away. I looked at Lynn with my claws, and his staff lit up red, faintly emanating from flames.
This is the universal magic of the continent, the Great Fireball. Ji'er's fireball is only the size of a human head, and Lynn's fireball probably has to be a meter wide.
Sure enough, the kid quickly summoned a large fireball with a diameter of about one meter, raising the temperature all around, and those who were close to him were sweating profusely.
Everyone praised and amazed, and Lynn smiled proudly: "I'm going to do it." ”
Magic fireballs will track people, so they can't dodge, and generally mage fights use fireballs to collide with each other, and use magic to offset magic.
I didn't know how to do magic, so I walked straight to him: "Do it." ”
So the fireball smashed over, it was indeed quite hot, and it could roast ordinary people. But I still felt too weak, and I just kicked it.
With a bang, the fireball fell to the ground in all parts and quickly disappeared.
The crowd fell silent all of a sudden, and Lynn opened her mouth wide: "What kind of magic is this?"
I said kickball magic, it's my turn. I wasn't interested in really fighting him, all his magic couldn't help me, and now I approached him and snatched his staff with my claws.
The scene was even more deadly, and Lynn looked at his empty palms, his face flushed.
Actually, I could kick him into the air, but he's a good guy after all, so I won't be rude.
He flicked his staff and handed it back to him: "Okay, you lost, tell me about the iron ship at the docks." ”
He was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head in a dejected manner. The people around him shouted again: "What, how can there be such a fight? Vice President Thomas, keep beating him!"
Lynn was defeated, he knew it. A group of people refused to accept the reality, and I threw myself in the waist and shouted: "I don't accept you to come." ”
They were all cowardly, and they dared not speak out. Lynn was a little embarrassed, then bowed to me, "It's me who lost." ”
I had to give him the stairs down and put my arm on his shoulder: "Okay, let's get down to business." ”
I took him away, and the crowd looked at each other. We stayed away from the crowd, and Lynn kept his promise and said directly: "That ship is the city lord's shark fishing boat, and the chains on the ship are all thin hooks, which are difficult to see clearly at the bottom of the sea, and it is very sharp, it is a masterpiece of goblins, and it is priceless. When catching sharks, the shark fishing boat stops at the edge of the shallow sea, and the crab workers drive the sharks to hit the hook, the sharks are extremely fast, and no one can catch them, but they can't escape when they hit the hooks, just pull them up. ”
It's such a strange thing, I said are sharks fish? What are you catching them for?
Lynn's face was very unnatural: "It's kind of ...... The sea tribe is not edible, the mermaids are too beautiful, and the number is scarce, and they are the playthings of the great nobles......"
I frowned: "You catch the sea clan as a plaything?play fish??"
Lynn scratched her head in embarrassment: "Sharks are very peculiar, they can talk, and they have the upper body of a human and the lower body of a fish, which is really beautiful and charming." ”
My eyes narrowed: "Mermaid?" Lynn was puzzled: "What is a mermaid?" But it is indeed very vivid, Mr. Ah Si, you are very talented. ”
I'm convinced, aren't mermaids just mermaids?
Mermaids are an extremely weak race in the deep sea, and if it weren't for the protection of the dragons, I wouldn't have expected that there would be mermaids at the edge of the shallow sea.
Hearing Lynn say that if you catch them with a thin hook, wouldn't they hook them into the flesh? I felt angry in my heart: "Since they can speak, they are intelligent races, how can you catch them?"
Lynn became more and more embarrassed: "This ...... There are a lot of interests involved, the royal family likes mermaids the most, and the secret sales are also rampant, and I can't help it, it's all like this. We sell mermaids in the coastal waters of Haiyue Country, Bauhinia Country and Elven Forest meet to sell orcs, and Beiqian Kingdom uses dwarves as slaves...... It is said that hundreds of years ago they were still involved in elves, and now the atmosphere is very good. ”
What a fart, Lao Tzu is really angry, the human race actually did this kind of thing, that is Maina's race!
I said I was going to wreck the ship, but Lynn hurriedly stopped me: "Don't, your destruction will make the city lord angry, that kind of ship is too expensive, the city lord will definitely double the catch of the mermaid in order to recover the loss, and he will blame the workers at the docks, maybe the workers will be executed." ”
"Then I'll go and kill the city lord. ”
I said coldly, and Lynn panicked even more: "You're crazy, if you kill him, there will be other city lords, fifty-one cities along the coast, and every city-state is capturing mermaids, you can't control it." ”
I'm really stuffed in my heart, I have to do something, mermaids are my favorite race, how can I let them be playthings?
I turned around and left, and Lynn asked me where I was going, and I said to go to the edge of the shallow sea, and I was looking for the merman.
He grabbed me again: "What if you find it? You have to be there for the rest of your life to protect them? Now they are almost extinct, and they are trapped in the trench to survive, and if you go, you will only let them be frightened and run around, and there are countless traps in the trench, and they will fall into the trap and be caught." ”
I calmed down, pondered for a moment, and said, "Wait, you say they can speak, can they speak Terran?"
Lynn nodded, and I said that since they can speak the Terran language, they should be very historical and wise, how can they be so miserable?
Even the orcs are not so miserable, how can the intelligent race in the sea be so downcast?
Lynn was stunned and muttered, "Speaking of which, the history of the mermaids is similar to that of the human race, they seemed to be very powerful before, and I don't know why they suddenly became extinct. ”
I stopped talking and went straight to the library and told him to fuck off.
I'm still worried about the white robe, but it should be fine in broad daylight. I dug up the historical records of the mermen in the library, and it said that the mermen were one of the most powerful races, and they fell together with the terran orcs a thousand years ago.
I don't know why, but I came across a passage in a torn book.
"Canglong lurks in the abyss, the royal bloodline does not reappear, and the last star belonging to the sea clan will fall on the princess without pupils. ”
It's very hard to understand, I don't know if it's a ballad or a poem, but it must be about a merman, and what kind of dragon is Canglong? I've never heard of a dragon clan with a vein like Canglong.
I flipped a few more pages and saw the author's byline at the end.
Shark Stargazer Silver Moon.
I don't know when this book was written, it was written by a shark man in the mainland, and it may have been many years, but no one cared about it at all.
I don't know what Silver Moon said, but after reading a lot of records, I felt a chill down my spine. Because the decline of the merman is so similar to that of the human race, the dragon knight has disappeared, and the entire continent and the entire sea area have lost any race.
Stargazer Silver Moon even asks in the book: Who is punishing us?
I thought of the dragons again, the dragons are undoubtedly the most powerful race today, and one dragon is enough to destroy a nation. But it was impossible a thousand years ago, and we also have legends of ancient dragons on Dragon Island, and ancient dragons are dragons countless times more powerful than my father, but they have also disappeared.
The more I think about it, the more I feel that it is evil, is it really someone who is punishing us?
I read books in the library for a day, and then left in the evening in a hurry, lest the white robe come out and mess with me again.
I was not very steady, so I went to have a meal and then went back to the Cerves.
I have one more thing to do before I leave, and that is to inquire about my mother.
I asked Viscount Cervess to help me find out, and I don't know if he asked.
As soon as I got back, Viscount Cervese came to me and thanked me with a happy face: "Mr. Arng, thank you for taking care of Ivey, if it weren't for you, she wouldn't have been able to enter the monastery." ”
I'm welcome, did you find out about Lisa?
He laughed dryly, embarrassed: "I'm sorry, I've mobilized all my strength, but I really can't find Lisa Lowell, I just found a very strange situation." ”
I asked him to speak, and he lowered his voice: "I bribed a little butler of the Lowell family, and he said that a long time ago he overheard the Marquis of Lowell insulting a woman who did not know anyone, and she left alone after being scolded. ”
I frowned, and he added: "There are many old people in the Lowell family who know about Lisa, but they don't know where she has gone, and there are rumors that she went to the West for asceticism. The asceticism of the human race is to bow to God, cleanse the heart, and ask for forgiveness from God. ”
I know that the west of the continent is a very barren mountain jungle, and it is not as prosperous as the Elven Forest in the east, and there is basically no intelligent race, which is extremely dangerous.
Did my mother go to the West?
I couldn't find a clue either, and that's when there was a jumping sound from the rooftop, and a cat was watching me.
Ruth didn't know when she would come back, so I told the viscount to step back and talk to Ruth.
She jumped down and turned into a human form, looking unhappy: "Ivy said you were leaving, why don't you leave, why do you come back?"
I said that you are really a negative man, I have given you so many gems, and you are still looking forward to me leaving.
She snorted, "It's the gem I fished out, not yours." ”
I don't care about her in general, I said that you are now one of the richest orcs on the mainland, and you still have to work here?
A little star appeared in her eyes, and then calmed down: "To keep a low profile, I have to be patient, the cat clan is too weak, I can't leak money." So I had to take one gem back at a time, and I had to ask the elves to help me exchange food. ”
How many years does this have to take?
I said that when I was done, I would carry the gems to your hometown and see who dared to mess with you.
She was stunned for a moment, and glanced at me: "I want you to be kind......"
This soft tone was not scolding me, I smiled: "There is only one condition, show me the starfish." ”
Her face darkened, and she meowed and kicked me: "Get out!"
I'm going to get out the next day, I'm going to the city-state of Brad, the capital of the Sea Moon Country.
Brad City-State is one of the largest city-states in the mainland, the economic and cultural center of the Sea Moon Country, and controls the most powerful navy in the mainland, but unfortunately the navy is useless now, who will attack the Sea Moon Country from the sea.
I have a lot of tasks on this trip, the most important of which is to find clues to the dragon knight. There are countless powerhouses in the Sea Moon Country, they will always know something, if they don't know, I can only go to the Dark Council.
The other one is about the merman.
Haiyue Country is a country that sells sharks, and I hope to save some sharks. Moreover, the history of the merman is so similar to that of the dragon knight, there must be something related to it, and I can learn about the dragon knight from the side through the merman.
If all of the above tasks fail, then I can still study the Demon Spirit, which is the Seven Magic. I've thought about it seriously, Lynn's fireball should be fire-based magic, but the current Terrans don't know seven-system magic.
Where are the vanished spirits?
I don't believe that there are so many races in the entire continent, and there is not even the slightest trace of dragon knights!