Chapter 23: The Pre-Ceremony Mission
Itrina looked at Condell, who was excited and confused, and couldn't help but be stunned for a while, but she didn't expect that he, who had a resolute and calm personality, would show such a state.
Condell came back to his senses and hurriedly continued the topic just now, and said: "Father, as the Duke of the Barrow Empire, has a fief on Lieying Island, which is across the sea from the Barrow Continent, in the northwest of the Barrow Continent, an island with an area of about one-eighth of the Barrow Continent, my father doesn't like others to call him Duke Jones, he likes to hear his subordinates call him the head of the regiment, and he does not allow me to call him father on solemn occasions, and the Night Knight Mercenary Regiment is my father's greatest pride and eternal pain." At this point, Condell remembered his mother, and his eyes lit up with sadness.
Italina was a little overwhelmed, seeing the tall and burly Condell, she was so sad, and she didn't know whether to comfort her, such an iron-blooded knight, there were times when she couldn't help but show her true feelings.
Condell couldn't help but smile bitterly, how could he just be swayed by emotions twice in front of Etrina, which made him not think clearly, was it because Etrina was born with affinity, or was he accidentally rescued by Etrina at a moment of despair and lifelessness, so he didn't have a psychological defense against her at all?
Condell's eyes drifted up and down, looking left and right, adjusting his state, no matter what the heart is, he can't lose his mind anymore, otherwise I'm afraid that in Etrina's impression, he will have to give him a strange definition of "sentimental manhood".
"On the Barrow Continent, there are some sects that are also not weak, especially the four major sects in the Far East Wasteland, but the harsh environment restricts their development. ”
Itrina nodded, and said with understanding: "It is precisely because of their bad environment that the imperial family acquiesced in their development there!"
Condell agreed, "You're right, those places are poor, and the Imperial Family is not interested in them. These are the main forces of the Barrow Continent, in the far east, there is still a continent, called the Huasheng Continent, I don't know much about there, I only know that they are black-eyed, black-headed, short-nosed, and they practice an extremely mysterious Dao technique, which is no less subtle than magic, and even surpasses it. ”
"The East, the Huasheng Empire, Taoism. Etrina silently wrote them down.
Kant continued: "Apart from these two continents, the other landmasses are innumerable islands, among which the southern archipelago is the most dense, and on those islands there are many kingdoms, principalities, and tribes, the largest being the size of a province in the Barrow Empire, and the smallest being the size of a village. ”
Eterina asked curiously, "What is the village?"
Condell was speechless for a while, he didn't know how to explain it for a while, and after thinking for a long time, he thought of a more appropriate definition to explain the "rather esoteric" word "village", and said slowly: "Village, village is a place where dozens or hundreds of people live, it is the smallest administrative body, the Barrow Empire rules eighteen provinces, each province governs several or dozens of cities, each city has a few or a dozen towns, and each town manages several villages, villages, this time you understand!" He didn't expect that he would become so eloquent in his usual few words, and it would be as smooth as he could utter such a series of tongue-twisting words in one breath.
"Oh! Italina smiled silly, sweetly, like a child who has found a toy she loves.
"Still didn't quite understand. Condell felt like she was about to vomit blood in anger, and she had tried so hard to explain that she couldn't understand it, but there was really nothing she could do.
"Okay, people didn't have a concept of that before, how can it be so easy to understand, there must be a process! When you have the opportunity in the future, you will travel to various places on the mainland, and I will understand everything. ”
Condell said: "It's okay to take you to the mainland, but you have to solve the problem of surviving on land for a long time first." ”
Eterina: "Uh......"
Leaving Condell's nasty fellow, Aterina went straight to the mermaid king in the midst of her hustle.
"Father, there have been a lot of things in the clan lately, what can I do for you?" asked Eterina with concern.
The mermaid king thought for a while and said: "That's good, you don't have to worry about other things, you can arrange the singing platform where the ceremony will be held, according to the style you want to show on the stage, so as to determine the layout of the singing platform, you also have to be an adult to take charge of yourself, show yourself to your heart's content!"
Hearing this, Itrina suddenly felt that she had always been pampered and did not seek to be motivated, so she would never show this style!
The mermaid king's sentence "take charge of oneself" still touched Eterina very much, she grew up under the doting of the mermaid king and the elders of the clan since she was a child, and her life was very happy, but it was not really sad. The cultivation of this eighth-order peak was also obtained completely by talent, and it was as easy as a matter of course.
Her biggest hobby is playing, what she is best at...... It is also necessary to remove the word "swim", that is, to play.
Whether it is in terms of cultivation, alchemy, or management, it can be said that she has never taken the initiative, and she was forced to be shoehorned into her by a pair of invisible big hands. Anyway, one thing is certain, with her ability, it is far from enough to take over the mermaid clan in the future.
That's right! She is the only daughter of the Mermaid King, the only heir to the throne, and she will be an adult in a few days, so what can she do to protect and develop the Mermaid Clan?
Eterina bit her lower lip lightly, and secretly made a decision, this is the case, and she must work harder.
As for the style of the coming-of-age ceremony, it is still necessary to think carefully before making a decision.
On the eve of her coming-of-age ceremony, she was suddenly attacked by a golden-striped whirltooth shark without warning, which really made her indignant.
Why did they attack the mermaid clan, you must know that in the war between the dragon clan and the ancient remnant race, except for the rising star carapace alliance, the other four subsidiary races were all involved, why did the golden-veined whirling tooth shark not attack other races, but found the mermaid clan? But there is no record that the mermaid clan has formed any undying hatred!
According to her analysis, in addition to the relatively weak strength of the mermaid clan, the most important point is that the mermaid clan is too kind, and in the eyes of many ignorant people, kindness is a euphemistic expression of weakness and deception.
I'll show you the other side of the merfolk clan!