Atenia, the Marquis of Great West, was the oldest of the mermaids. Before the mermaids finished their sea voyage, she had brought the sea sprites back to the Fire Kingdom in advance.
"Your Majesty, I'm sorry for the delay. I've delayed your plans for the development of the sea in the Fire Kingdom." After seeing Liszt in the Mermaid City, she immediately expressed her apologies. Obviously, she knew that Liszt was not satisfied with the mermaids' absence for such a long time.
One would not slap a smiling person. Moreover, mermaids were not knights.
Liszt did not choose to criticize the mermaids for strictly following the Knight system and becoming loyal followers, so he nodded and said, "It's been a hard journey, Marquis Atenia. How are the other mermaids?"
"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. They are living well in the sea. There are countless treasures in the sea that attract them. But they will soon finish mapping the coastline of the legendary continent, and then return to the Fire Kingdom to help Your Majesty develop the sea … We have never forgotten to purify the Devil's Sea. "
"The purification of the Devil's Sea must be carried out. When the time is right, I will personally preside over it." Liszt was also curious about the Malfa Continent on the other side of the Devil's Sea.
But rice must be eaten one bite at a time.
He asked, "What about the sea sprites you brought back?"
"They are all here."
Following Atenia's call, a large number of sprites came. Most of them were sprite worms. There were a dozen Lesser Sprites and two Greater Sprites. These sprites had already been contracted with Atenia. Liszt did not intend to contract aquatic sprites. It was more convenient to let the mermaids contract them.
"What kind of sprites are they?"
"This is a kelp sprite. I named it Shakalaka. This is a sea pine sprite. I named it Aristotle. This Lesser Sprite is …" Atenia introduced the aquatic sprites one by one. The kelp sprite and the sea pine sprite had names, but the others did not.
Judging from the tone of her introduction, she had no liking for sprites and treated them as tools. After all, a long time ago, the Sea Kingdom would capture sprite worms and trade them with humans. In their view, sprites were like fishes and shrimps.
Of course.
During the era when mermaids ruled the Sea Kingdom, the elves only had sprite worms. Lesser sprites, greater sprites, and dragon sprites had yet to be born.
Stupid sprite worms were indeed no different from fishes and shrimps.
"Well, you have to take good care of these sprites, especially the Kelp Great Sprite. It can grow kelp, a valuable seafood. It just so happened that Bruno Bosi had been very busy recently. She had to develop the saltwater sea while helping me manage the Amazon rainforest. If you come back, you can take over the Amazon rainforest. "
"As you wish." Etnia was easy to talk to.
"When you've accumulated enough battle merits, I'll confer you the title of Duke of Great Western and divide a sea as your fief," Liszt said.
"Thank you for your generosity, Your Majesty. I will manage the Amazon rainforest well."
After the official business was done, Liszt began to ask Etnia about her special experiences during the cruise. Although they had the connection of the devil-foundation, there were many things that couldn't be explained in detail through the devil-foundation.
"The sea is far lonelier than the sea of the Moon Empire era. Your Majesty, the era I lived in was probably at the end of the Moon Empire era, even many years after the Moon Empire disappeared. At that time, the pollution of the Cursed Dragon had already shrouded the sea, but it was still more lively than the sea now. "
Etnia continued with emotion: "In our era, the sea not only had a large number of intelligent marine races, such as mermaids, nagas, clowns, sirens, and so on. There were also countless sea monsters, and even the sea giant leviathan was not rare. However, during this voyage, all I saw was desolation. "
Without the intelligent marine races, mermaids, nagas, and clowns had completely disappeared. Even the remains of the palaces of the former Sea Kingdom were not found.
Sea monsters that roamed the sea were also rare.
The only magical creature found was the flood dragon, the Hydra. "We organized several collective hunts, but the Hydra escaped … The location of the Hydra is probably in this sea." She pointed to a map of the legendary continent that was gradually outlined, her fingertips pointing to the sea north of the continent.
This sea was located in the coastal area of the Noble Frost Empire.
"When I have time, I will take action with A Qi and capture this Hydra. It is reasonable to say that the flood dragon has extraordinary intelligence. Maybe it can tame the Hydra as a guardian beast, just like taming the giant lion Nimia. "Liszt was very envious of this Hydra.
He was envious of all magical things.
"Your Majesty, I also met a siren in the sea of the Unsetting Light Empire. She used to live on land. According to her conversation, the language of the Unsetting Light Empire was a high-level clear text, similar to the grammatical structure of the Moon Language. It was far closer to the Moon Language than the Wind Language and the Snake Language. "
"No matter how close it is, it is not the Moon Language. The only one that inherited the civilization of the Moon Empire and the Sun Empire is the Fire Kingdom." Liszt chuckled. "What else did you communicate with that siren?"
"I asked her if she was willing to come to the Fire Kingdom. She said she was not willing."
Although sirens were rare in the sea, A Qi was not the only one. In the past, Liszt had seen the old siren, Izzy. However, Izzy's magic talent was poor. In the historical records, there were no records of sirens having magic talent. From this point of view, A Qi was unique.
However.
Sirens were really beautiful.
"Did you talk about the situation of the Unsetting Light Empire with the siren?"
"Sorry, I am not interested in the Unsetting Light Empire, so I did not talk about it. And after all, there is a gap in our language, so I stumbled and did not have a pleasant conversation. Compared to His Excellency Achilles, that siren is too ignorant and too childish. "
…
The return of Etnia was undoubtedly a great help to the marine industry. The number of clowns was increasing, and it was impossible to rely on a mermaid like Blu Boxi to completely control them.
So Liszt continued to crazily train with the Gray-Mouthed Iron Dragon Orne.
Just like that, time flew into the future without stopping.
At the same time, the Royal Arcane Academy on Flame Island and the various laboratories affiliated to the academy were constantly launching magical technology products. Most of them were inventions related to the people's livelihood. The arcanist system had steadily moved towards the "scholar" route that Liszt had conceived.
Mages no longer prioritized learning powerful magic. After the name change, the primary goal of the arcanists was to concentrate on researching all kinds of magical technology and inventions.
In this context, the Royal Shipyard in the Whirlpool Estuary – Estuary City, as well as the ship laboratory jointly invested by the Royal Shipyard and the Royal Arcane Academy. The chief arcanist of the laboratory, Inuit Truth, announced that the era of sailing ships was about to become a thing of the past.
The magic ship was officially born!
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