Chapter 555: Proliferation of Seafood

Initially, the seafood curse was not taken seriously, and even went undetected for a long time, because at that time, there were only a handful of fishermen who had grown scales and flippers, and these people were living at the very edge of the Fortune Bay, so no one paid attention to them at all, and the changes that had happened to their bodies had made them panicked and uneasy, and thus they tried their hardest to hide them, and so no one found out about it.

But paper can’t wrap fire, and fishermen fishing every day is to sell, as more and more fishermen mutated, it was discovered.

The harbor guards at first just thought they were cursed by the fishmen, so the solution was rather crude, hanging them directly and throwing them into the sea.

But Fortune Bay is a city of merchants, and some shrewd small merchants found a business opportunity, so these fishermen who began to fish-manifest became novelty exhibits, appearing on the streets, in taverns, and even coming to Sea Breeze with the circus, and with more and more varieties.

Dancers whose lower bodies were octopuses twirled their soft bodies in the taverns, soothing the restless minds and bodies of gentlemen.

Hercules, whose hands were lobster pincers, was very popular with the captains, both for work and for fighting.

Even the evil change of mouth and chrysanthemum into an anemone has become a favorite of certain special groups.

It seems that this mutant group blended in well in Fortune Bay, but things started to get out of hand from then on, as more and more people showed signs of seafoodization.

At first, they were able to accept it so calmly because the change was confined to a few civilians at the bottom of the ladder, and they certainly didn’t feel any pain when it didn’t hit them.

But when the curse began to spread, and more and more civilians, merchants, and even nobles, began to show similar mutations, panic began to spread.

Eventually the mages and the priests of the temple determined that this was a new type of curse, one that originated from the sea.

In fact, the last sentence is completely nonsense, anyone can see that this curse comes from the sea, the only problem is how to lift, you know those who began to mutate the nobles are going crazy.

The mage deconstructed some of the land creatures that were seafooding quite badly, and the results were terrible, they weren’t twisted by the curse, they evolved.

Curses weren’t something rare, but most effects were to temporarily accomplish something through magical distortion, so generally most curses could be restored to their original state after being lifted, only a few could not be restored immediately after being lifted due to the magic solidifying over too long of a period of time, but could be corrected by other means as well.

But the seafood curse can’t, this thing is not entirely correct to say that it is a curse, because its nature is to mimic the marine environment to force creatures in that direction to adapt to the rapid evolution, so it is completely irreversible, at least not lifting the curse can be changed back.

Of course, if it’s interrupted when the body’s mutated evolution isn’t severe enough, it can be physically corrected, after all, it’s only a matter of a few cuts for scales to follow webbing and whatnot.

But the biggest problem now was how to lift the curse.

The merchants and nobles of Fortune Bay didn’t care how much money they spent at this point in time, and with the previous quest attracting quite a few adventurers, of which the number of spell casters was in the minority, they recruited a wide range of talents to conduct research in this area.

After going through a lot of research, the mages found that the purification of the temple could play a certain role, but this belonged to treating the symptoms but not the root cause, the seafood curse was hard to eradicate, and could only temporarily slow down the process of evolution.

Although in theory, as long as the regular purification, in the human life before the end of the arrival of the human form is able to maintain the approximate human form, but the nobles and merchants are still dissatisfied, no one likes to turn into a full of fish smell will also be secreted mucus strange people.

This is still the rich and powerful people, they can spend money to renew their lives, the lower class civilians do not have this life, after all, the priests of the temple is not the Virgin Mary, purification is certainly not gratuitous, so they can only watch as they become seafood, after their sanity gradually faded, according to instinct to swim into the sea.

Currently, the only priests with faith-enhanced priests, and warlocks with special bloodlines, were not affected much, but again, they couldn’t solve the problem, and couldn’t even guarantee that they wouldn’t be affected. The occurrence of this series of situations made Fortune Bay inevitably fall into chaos, although now still maintains the indication on the smooth, but everyone knows that with the spread of the curse, Fortune Bay turned into a seafood market is only a matter of time, by then what order is all a joke.

Now many adventurers and residents evacuated from Fortune Bay instinctively converge in the closer Sea Breeze Town, bringing wealth and chaos at the same time, and Owen is facing these troubles.

Because he invented the bubble head spell, he was a celebrity of sorts here, but the bad thing was that he was only a first ring mage.

Mages with less than three rings can’t even straighten their backs, and that gives some people the guts to get their hands dirty.

Facing the aggressive enemy, Paris calmly lowered his body and threw out the round steel shield in his hand with force, this weighty round metal plate smashed with a whistling vicious wind towards the bandit who raised his lobster pincers and charged forward.

Lobster pincer bandit’s face changed, how he did not expect there will be a shield defender will be thrown out of the shield as soon as they meet, set up an offensive stance he could not react in time to be smashed in the waist by the shield, in the strong force of the destruction, the relatively fragile lumbar vertebrae clicked with a dislocation, suddenly fell to the ground.

But the loss of his shield also allowed Paris, another bandit with a longsword, to see an opportunity to step and chop in a fairly standard stance, not realizing that the sharp blade of the downward slash was caught in a handful of hands.

As a shield guardian, Paris of course knew what losing his shield meant, so many shield guardians would choose to equip arm armor as an emergency, but now he had something better.

Solid steel prosthetic limb steadily grabbed the blade of the sword, and then folded it with force, the crisp sound of metal breaking made the bandit’s face turn pale, not waiting to pull away from the backhand of Paris followed by a stab to break his intestines, and immediately opened his mouth wide in pain, revealing a mouth full of spiraling rings of flesh and fine tentacles, disgusted Paris backhand punch smashed half of his face, his jaw drooped down, like a piece of rotting meat that hadn’t been chopped off hanging around, and finally punched back swinging, just like a piece of uncut meat. He swung back with a final blow that hit his opponent’s temple like a war hammer, and half of his brain caved in.

After solving one enemy, Paris took two steps forward and stepped hard on the edge of the round steel shield, the shield that flipped and flew up was steadily borrowed by him, and then put it on his arm.

It was then that Paris felt a little more secure, after all, he was a shield defender, without a shield in his hand he always felt unsettled, but his new master had asked him to practice his shield throwing technique a little more, which made him very distressed.

Shield guards do have shield throwing skill, but this move belongs to the last killer, only as a last resort will be used, after all, shield guards without a shield what else can play, so I have never seen that shield guards will be shield throwing as a regular skill to use.

However, thinking about the new master’s description of throwing a shield that could automatically rebound, Paris still tried to get himself used to this move, in case the master could really build it.

Of course, it was mostly the extra backbone that the steel prosthetic leg gave him; even if he lost his shield, he wasn’t powerless to fight back.

Just then, the cat-eared maid with a trifle more wildness in her eyes wiped her two blood-stained short blades and came from the side, it seemed that the two bandits who fled had not escaped the palms of this newly-minted hunter.

Apart from the mysterious new master, the one thing Paris couldn’t understand the most was this cat-eared maid.

Although it is said that the cat ear race is a natural assassin and thief, but I have never heard of such a fast progress, and it is just like adding the cat’s agility at all times, even in ordinary life, even if he does not pay attention to a little bit, he will unconsciously ignore the other party’s existence.

And this change was also produced after the new owner.

Paris wasn’t stupid, this new master of theirs wasn’t as easy as he looked, so he was more than ready to do everything his master commanded him to do, even if practicing the shield throwing technique was such a ridiculously absurd order.

(End of chapter)