【318】Second Wish
"Anyway, it's absolutely impossible to be a bad person," the mermaid girl smiled very naturally. "From the first moment I saw you, I felt that you didn't look like a bad person, and I always felt that you were very special. By the way, I don't know what your name is, my name is Daphne, where are you?"
"Daphne, good name, very nice," Chen Ran smiled and said, "My name is Chen Ran, a human priest, a magical figure beyond imagination. You have saved the right person. Girl, now, it's time to make your second wish."
"I haven't thought about it yet..." Daphne scratched her beautiful curly hair with fluorescent powder. "Are they really three wishes? I didn't think too much about saving you at that time, and I really had no other pursuits. My mother told me since I was a child that we should not be greedy."
"Silly girl, I have never seen you as real as you," Chen Ran was even more happy, "Tell me, my life is very valuable. A protective gem is not worthy of my value at all. Just speak, otherwise you will have no place to regret it after I leave."
"Really?" Daphne bit her lip and hesitated for a moment. Her entangled look seemed to be thinking about something very important. At this moment, a rude voice interrupted Chen Ran's tryst with Miss Mermaid.
"His Royal Highness of the Third Princess."
A male mermaid with a bulging upper body appeared in Chen Ran's vision, which broke Chen Ran's perception of mermaids. He originally thought that all male mermaids were as gentle and handsome as male elfs.
At this time, the mermaid guard wearing armor entered Chen Ran's room, and his strong body almost squeezed the door.
When the mermaid saw Chen Ran awake, she was stunned for a moment, with a bit of incredible tone: "Is this human awake? Is his injury healed?"
The title of the third princess immediately surprised Chen Ran. He did not expect that the one who saved him was a princess from the Mermaid Kingdom.
No wonder, the princess in Chen Ran’s mind should be such a cute and beautiful girl. If an ordinary mermaid can look like this, it can only be said that the beauty of the mermaid is beyond the extreme imagination of humans.
"Sauton. He is a very powerful human. After waking up, he healed his injury. I was stunned at that time." Daphne introduced Chen Ran enthusiastically, and took out the gem he had just repaired, and said excitedly: "Look, I have repaired all the gifts my mother gave me back then."
This mermaid named Thorton is probably the identity of the Chief of Guards, and seems to be one of Daphne's closest people.
Looking at the eyes of this strong mermaid, it seemed that she was a little alert, but she didn't have much malice.
The relationship between mermaids and humans is not as bad as imagined. Even if they are masters among humans, they rarely can dive into the deep sea to catch mermaids of the sea tribe.
Although there are mermaids and other transactions on the mainland, most of the mermaids are voluntarily, and it seems that in order to complete a certain mission, they voluntarily become the bargaining weight for the transaction, and exchange some items needed by the mermaids.
In various trading venues, the value of mermaids is similar to that of elves. In fact, most mermaids only have ornamental value. Their lifespan is almost the same as that of humans, and they are mostly unable to adapt to life on the shore, so their lifespan will be much reduced. However, because they are the rarest, female fishmen still have similar trading value to ordinary female elves. However, there are no mermaids with high-level identities on the market so far.
The prince Saiwen seems to have a mermaid in the palace. But no matter how beautiful she looks, she is absolutely unable to compare with Daphne in front of Chen Ran. She is a formal identity as a princess of the sea.
Chen Ran, sitting in the bubble, waved at the male mermaid guard: "Please take care of him for the first time when we met."
In this deep sea, Chen Ran dared not offend anyone. In the sea, he is just a slag with only 5 combat power. This is not the combat field he is good at. I guess any mermaid will be about to stop as long as he pokes out his current air bubble...
The mermaid guard's attitude towards Chen Ran was very plain, and just nodded and said, "Human, you should be glad that our kind third princess saved you, otherwise you would have died long ago and died in the deep sea. It is hard to believe that you, who was still a vegetative person yesterday, are standing in front of us alive at this moment."
"I also think I'm very lucky," Chen Ran smiled and said, "Thanks to the mermaid clan for helping me, I keep it in mind."
Sauton's voice was neither salty nor light, and he said in very official language: "Okay, since you have come alive, you can prepare and I will send you ashore later. You humans cannot adapt to the environment of the fishman clan."
"Please wait," Chen Ran interrupted, "Thanks to Princess Fine for saving her life, but I don't like to owe others a favor. I promised Daphne to fulfill her three wishes before, and I just realized her first one. I will leave with peace of mind after she finishes her next two wishes. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to stay on purpose. In fact, my time is more tense than you think."
"Is that right?" Thorton looked curious and turned to look at Princess Daphne beside her. Seeing her nodding, she did not stop her: "Okay, if you want to get ashore, just come to me. I will continue to patrol. The fishman clan has been too restless recently."
Thorton made a greeting gesture to Daphne, then twisted his tail and left the room very neatly.
He seemed to be very relieved about the scene where the princess was with a human man. He probably expected that even if Chen Ran was powerful, he would not be unfavorable to their princess in the sea.
Looking at the departing mermaid guard commander, Daphne looked at Chen Ran with a sorry look: "He doesn't mean to drive you away. Our mermaid tribe is actually quite hospitable. However, the current environment of our mermaid tribe is not stable, and your ability is not very convenient to walk around, otherwise I will definitely take you to a walk nearby."
"What do you mean by being unstable? Is there any disaster for the mermaid clan?" Chen Ran recalled the mermaid transactions that have emerged in recent years. This time, he came. Looking at Daphne's hesitation about this issue, he seemed to have guessed something, and asked: "The second willingness you said will not be related to this issue, right?"
A hint of helplessness appeared on Daphne's pretty young cheeks, and she sighed: "Indeed, I want to say this, but imagine that you are just alone, how can you change the fate of our entire fishman clan..."
"If you don't say it, how do you know if I can do it?" Chen Ran laughed and said, "My abilities have limits. Maybe I can't achieve the results you most hope to achieve, but I can do something that will help you within my ability. Don't think that I am just a person, maybe even a hundred humans are not as useful as me. Just treat it and tell me a story."
Perhaps Chen Ran's optimistic spirit infected Daphne, and her mood seemed to have improved a lot, and she began to tell the dangers faced by the mermaid clan.
This is the reason for the beginning of the matter.
The Mermaid clan has always been a royal family among the sea clan, which controls the resources of a large area of sea. Just a hundred years ago, an ancient sea god awakened at the bottom of the sea, with an incredible body and strength, and the inestimable losses it brought to the entire area of sea.
As the guardian of the sea clan, the mermaid tribe defeated the ancient sea god and sealed it at the tomb of the sea. However, in order to seal the ancient sea god, the warriors of the mermaid tribe also suffered heavy losses. The leader of the mermaid tribe, the leader of the mermaid tribe, fell to the bottom of the deep bottom. At the same time, the trident of the holy artifact of the sea king was left at the tomb of the sea and could not be retrieved.
Because of the losses of that battle, many male mermaid warriors in the clan died, causing a situation where there are more women and fewer men in the mermaid clan. Without the power of the Sea King Trident, the influence of the mermaid clan in the sea gradually weakened...
Until more than 30 years ago, some sea tribes who were dissatisfied with the supreme status of the mermaid clan were ready to move, especially the fishman tribe in the territorial sea. The dragon fishman and the stinger fishman launched a sneak attack on the Mermaid Sea Palace. Although they were repelled by the mermaid clan, the real combat power of the mermaid clan was also found out. Subsequently, more and more inferior sea tribes joined that rank, and the electric eel man and the octopus monster clan also joined their alliance one after another, hoping to overthrow the dominant position of the mermaid clan.
Next, the long war period of the sea tribe entered. Once, the coalition forces of several tribes almost conquered the Sea Palace of the Mermaid tribe. The sea tribe alliance was defeated by Daphne's mother's overdrawing of his life, but died because of his overdrawing of his power. Daphne was only six years old at that time.
Since the blood of the mermaid clan can delay aging and the flesh is delicious, the royal bloodline of the mermaid clan has the wonderful power of rejuvenation. Losing a war will not only lead to losing control of this sea area, but all mermaids will suffer a devastating blow, and may even be removed from the ranks of the sea clan. This is a battle that cannot be afforded.
Because of this war, the mermaid clan has fewer and fewer resources, and the magic crystals that protect the Sea Palace are gradually insufficient. They have to trade with humans. They exchange the rich resources of the sea clan with land until the bargaining chips become less and even have to use the mermaids as trading chips. They are helpless choices, in order to protect the entire mermaid clan.
Chen Ran quietly listened to the whole story, sitting cross-legged on his legs and knocking his fingers.
"After listening to the whole story of the incident you mentioned, I roughly understand. It seems that you gradually declined because of the lack of protection from the sea warriors and the Trident of the Sea God. The population cannot be filled in a short while, but can that key eptuagint really not be retrieved?"
Daphne shook her head bitterly: "Although there is a way, it's too difficult. None of the warriors we went to can enter the tomb of the sea. The consequences of the strong rush are all the corpses. The power of the ancient sea god is too strong, and it is impossible to find the location of the Sea King Trident as soon as possible..."
Chen Ran smiled.
"If I just secretly made a staff, maybe I could really help."
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Chapter completed!