Chapter 833 – Royer’s Invitation
Chapter 833 – Royer’s Invitation
Saul closed the door.
This was already the third noble he had refused to pay a visit at his door.
“If it’s still someone like this, don’t bring them to me.” He said to the attendant at the side.
“But ……,” the squire had a difficult look on his face, “Lord Cowgall represents one of the dukes of Neverwinter Nights, and I can’t afford to offend him.”
Thor nodded his chin, “Then tell them that the next person to bother me. It will turn into fish feed.”
Looking at the squire’s stunned expression, Saul smiled, not re-emphasizing that he wasn’t joking.
Anyway, if someone did come, then the people in the future would know if he was joking or not.
Saul returned inside the palace, and at this time there was another guest in the palace.
Royer was leaning against a column in the middle of the palace, smiling happily.
“These nobles are annoying, aren’t they? But don’t worry, they are also very smart. They will desperately test the limits of your patience, but as long as you show a slight expression of impatience, they will honestly retreat.”
Royer bristled, “Those who don’t know to retreat back would have been cleared out long ago.”
“I hope so.” Saul whispered, “I don’t like keeping fish.”
Royer nodded, “I don’t like it either, but there’s no way around it, mermaids are like nutrients for the Red Sea Tree, and without them, the Red Sea Tree wouldn’t be able to keep growing.”
He followed Sol into the lab.
Royer was cheeky enough to follow him in and go through someone else’s notes, as long as Saul didn’t outright stop him.
And Saul glanced sideways and didn’t stop Royer from coming in.
Anyway, from these materials on the surface, Royer couldn’t tell what raw materials were in what he was fusing.
Who knew what it had eaten, for example, in the case of the baby algae?
The most conspicuous thing placed on the lab table at this moment was a soft, red meat.
The mass of meat trembled and seemed to want to escape when Royer approached, as if it had its own consciousness.
“This is?” Royer leaned down and scrutinized the red mass of meat.
“The mermaid I brought.”
“Ha, you purposely brought it around to raise it, and you thought how special it was, and this is slaughtered?”
Saul poked the mass of flesh in front of him with a glass rod, “Keep it because it’s useful; kill it because it’s useful.”
The red mass of flesh was like a drop of blood that had just dripped onto the glassware, seemingly ready to break at any moment, yet maintaining stability due to surface tension.
Royer was worthy of being a third-order sorcerer, and after only a few moments of observation, he found a problem.
“There’s a consciousness injected inside this mass of flesh and blood?” A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, “How did you manage to make the body of consciousness able to maintain wakefulness in a situation that is completely incompatible with human physiology?”
“Let the conscious body adapt first, when it gets used to it.” Saul brushed it off, “This time you came over, other than checking the progress of my experiment, is there anything else?”
Royer straightened up, “Haha, how can I call it checking? But it’s just a discussion between all of us. But then again, that Alfonso guy looks dull, but he’s also been studying mermaids for decades, and I didn’t expect you to be able to solve the problem right off the bat when he couldn’t even solve it. Even if you end up saying there’s nothing you can do, I won’t blame you.”
He came closer to Sol, “To be honest, I actually came over here to work with you.” Saul put down the glass rod and pushed the mass of flesh he had deliberately displayed to Royer back into the containment bin.
“Cooperate on what?”
“Making new royalty.” Royer grinned broadly and slung his arm over Saul’s shoulder, he was a bit shorter than Saul and was still a bit awkward doing the maneuver, “I know Alessandra’s always looking for you lately, but whatever he’s promising you, I can give you something of equal value.”
Saul didn’t move, “He and I are old friends, you can find out if you want to.”
His actions in Blue Water Bay were not much hidden. If a high-ranking sorcerer wanted to track it down, he could easily find out the truth of the matter from the clues.
Of course, certain details would be difficult to define.
Especially what happened under the surface of the sea.
“Former friends?” Royer snorted, “What kind of friendship can a wizard have with an ordinary human? It must be that Alyxandrah is holding some treasure passed down from their family, right? I can guess some of the resources in his hands, it’s nothing more than some special sorcery props that have been passed down from the ancient times.”
He guessed in a good direction, he just hadn’t considered that Saul was also the party seeking cooperation.
Moreover, he couldn’t have imagined that Alyxandrah’s ancestor had even reached a custody agreement with the Emperor of the Black Inferno Empire as well, handing over a sorcery prop that ordinary people couldn’t use and sorcerers tended to rush to others for safekeeping.
Naturally, Saul would not mention the content of his deal with Xander, “Then what can you offer me?”
“How could I be the one to make the conditions? It’s not like I’m the one who wants to be the emperor.” Royer smirked.
“Who wants to be this puppet emperor?”
“Alessandra’s stepmother. She had a child with the last emperor. It was just bad luck that she didn’t inherit the mermaid royal bloodline like Alyxandrah. So after the old emperor died, we picked up Alyxandra and sent her and her child to a small mountain village inland by the way.”
“So when they heard that you were going to fuse them with the new mermaid royal bloodline, they immediately came running over to sign up?”
“Enroll? You used that word correctly, they did shout their names out loud yet. But I also brought them here considering that their family has had experience in successfully fusing bloodlines after all, and the success rate of fusing a new bloodline can be higher.”
Saul originally wasn’t interested in Royer’s experiment, after all, he was going to be too busy with his own affairs.
On one hand, he had to cure the mermaid’s contamination infection, and on the other hand, he had to create the third target of Symphony of Fate.
But just as Saul was about to open his mouth to refuse, he suddenly thought of a problem.
“If I help you with the bloodline fusion experiment, will I be able to access the mermaid royal bloodline stored in the Court of Judgment?”
Royer stroked his chin, “You really are still interested in mermaids! Well, if you can help me conduct the fusion experiment, I can promise you right now that I will give you at least one tenth of a portion of the original royal bloodline for initial research.”
Royer winked at Sol, “How about that, I’m generous, aren’t I? I heard that you haven’t even touched the share Alfonso is holding yet. Haha, don’t look at his business-like demeanor, but people are stingy.”
Saul tsked his tongue, “Try it then, I’m not interested in fusing bloodlines, but the primordial royal bloodline has indeed been coveted for a long time.”
Royer’s line of sight swept across the entire lab as if without a second thought, finally settling on a small water tank.
“Are you raising other fish here?”
That small glass water tank was currently dry and clean without being drained.
“Not fish.” Saul sidetracked, “When will the bloodline fusion experiment start?”
“What a rush!” Royer had already accomplished his goal and headed out, “In a couple of days, in a couple of days, tomorrow His Excellency Ai Luo from the Black Inferno Empire will be arriving, and all projects will be suspended during this time. After entertaining him, we’ll conduct the experiments again.”
(End of chapter)