Chapter 816 – Coral
Chapter 816 – Coral
Royer was obviously still trying to persuade, but Alfonso, who was on the sidelines, could no longer listen.
He suddenly stood up and raised his voice, “Royer!”
“Huh?” Royer, still with a smile on his face, looked over at his friend.
“Snap!”
Alfonso suddenly snapped his fingers, and then Royer’s entire body suddenly disappeared.
He then said to Sol, “I’ve moved Royer outside the lab. Regarding the experimental project you’re involved in, you can’t change it without permission unless you have the consent of the Court Master.”
Sol nodded, “I know. Don’t worry, I’m still more interested in mermaids at the moment.”
Alfonso across the room was quiet for three seconds.
“Well …… Lord Sol, physical relations with mermaids are not recommended.”
“Ahem ahem!” Saul couldn’t help but cough lightly twice in his defense, “Lord Alfonso, I was just joking with Wizard Royer.”
Alfonso pursed his lips that had little blood color and nodded, “That’s good. I can’t quite tell the difference between true intentions and joking.”
Sol folded his arms, “Understood, I’ll try not to joke in the future.”
Alfonso nodded in satisfaction, then got up, “Let’s go to the next place then.”
Didn’t he just say that’s all for today?
Saul got up after him in confusion, “Where are we going?”
“To see the mermaid you’re interested in.” Alfonso made a motion to snap his fingers, “Relax, don’t resist.”
Saul blinked.
“Snap!”
The two left the closed and busy lab at the same time and appeared in a wooden dinghy.
At this moment, they were located in a gloomy underground waterway.
However, with Saul’s eyesight and spiritual power, he could still see the dense moss on the rocks on both sides with the water drops that kept dripping.
This cramped underground waterway had only one path for a long distance, and looked like an artificially excavated tunnel rather than a natural formation.
“This is below the palace.” In the darkness, Alfonso gathered up the chains on the ship that were tethered to the stone pier next to him.
The chain made a clattering sound, and one end fell into the water with a thud.
“I can only instantly move within a certain range of the palace. This is the ability that Lord Courtier has given me.”
I wonder why Alfonso told Saul all about the range of his power.
Saul’s eyes rolled and he sat honestly in the boat with one hand on the edge, “Ha, I now believe that you and Wizard Royer are very good friends.”
“Hmm?”
“You remind me every time you take me on a transient, but you don’t need to remind Royer, apparently you throw him out a lot and he doesn’t resist.”
Alfonso was silent and didn’t retort.
Although he didn’t understand how these two became friends, Saul wasn’t very curious.
He sat on the boat and watched as Alfonso put down a circular instrument, followed by a motor-like vibration from underneath the dinghy, and the entire boat sprinted forward like an arrow off the string.
Alfonso’s fingertips pointed at the boat, and a layer of black mist was added to the outside of the hull.
Whenever the dinghy hit two rocks due to its super-fast speed, the black mist would act like a protective film to cushion the impact and guide the direction.
The narrow channel opened up after a violent drop.
It seems to be a man-made waterway into nature’s original river.
The current here was much swifter, with undercurrents that caused the dinghy to lurch a few times now and then.
Occasional rock pillars rising out of the water made navigation challenging.
Luckily, the two men in the boat have reached a point where they don’t take such challenges seriously, and are able to converse with interest to the soundtrack of “clattering” sounds echoing through the cavern. With the help of the black mist, the boat navigates around the rock pillars in the way, just watch out for the stalagmites overhead.
After another half hour of traveling in this area, light finally shines in from the front.
Saul could finally see with normal eyes.
Outside the cave was an endless sea. The waves shimmered and shattered the reflections of the stars.
“Rather a good day for a night swim.” Sol looked to the left and right, “Didn’t I say that the coast to the southeast is filled with red sea trees? How come I can’t see any of them?”
Since Neverwinter Nights wanted to cultivate and control the mermaids, it was impossible to establish the palace on the northwestern coastline.
“The tide is rising. The Red Sea Trees are all under the seawater now. The mermaids live at the roots of the Red Sea Trees. But we aren’t going there today.”
“Going somewhere then?”
“Some individuals have appeared in the mermaid community whose resistance to the Black Tide pollution has weakened for unknown reasons, and have developed severe contamination symptoms with a tendency to become contagious. In order to control the contamination trend, I have isolated all the mermaids that are showing contamination symptoms to the shore alone.”
The dinghy reversed course and began traveling along the shore, still going fast, with the carelessness of wanting to throw the two on board off.
“DUANG!”
After a few more minutes, the dinghy came to a stop at the expense of crashing into a large, dented rock. Because of the protection of the black mist, the hull of the boat was not broken in any way.
Saul jumped down from the boat and stepped on the soft sand, “Your piloting skills leave a lot to be desired, I’m serious.”
Alfonso didn’t reply, he just commanded the ship’s chain to automatically tie itself to a thick iron spike nailed to a crack in the stone.
He then jumped out as well, “Just ahead.”
Thor followed Alfonso as he continued on, skirting a huge, small house-like reef before finally seeing a pool of water.
The pool of water was very clear and very deep. It had a terrifying feeling that it was going to suck people in.
Saul naturally wasn’t afraid of being sucked in, and he had been to deeper depths.
At that time, he had also obtained a special marine rune. Only that it hadn’t been put to any other use except for research.
“Mermaids are down there?” Sol stood at the edge of the pool of water, letting the waves soak the soles of his shoes.
He felt a dozen or so faint mental fluctuations.
Not the kind of powerful fluctuations of a sorcerer, but normal spirit fluctuations that were even weaker than those of an ordinary person.
He looked at the side wall of the pool of water that kept swaying in the water, “They’re all hiding in there?”
Alfonso suddenly had a handful of brown crumbs in his hand and threw them into the pool of water.
The originally clear water pool was immediately muddied. In the depths of the water pool, and even deeper, where even the moonlight couldn’t shine, a mermaid burrowed out.
Their faces were obscured by the water waves, and their slender and slender bodies with their tails kept swinging, spinning in circles upstream, the picture was beautiful and refreshing.
When they got closer, a face with cones on the top and bottom was revealed, and reality shattered the fantasy.
Upon closer inspection, Saul realized that although these mermaids were strange looking, with faces closer to fish than human, they were at the very least more normal than the one Kate was currently possessed by.
They had long dark green hair like algae, but no six breasts.
It looked slightly more perky.
“Maybe that sorcerer in Sky City made a private modification when raising mermaids. Modifying the breastfeeding organs, could it be for private breeding?”
Just as Saul was comparing the appearance of Kate and the mermaid in front of him, a fiery red color suddenly appeared and reflected in his eyes.
It was a unique, female mermaid with long red hair, and when she swam, her fine red hair bloomed in the water like an earth rose.
“Coral is here.” Alfonso said softly, as if he was afraid that his voice would frighten the timid mermaids in the pool of water, “She’s a returning mermaid, with an appearance closer to that of the Cyan Scales from the ancient times.”
First shift, going to eat first, back for chapter 2
(End of this chapter)