"Could you tell us something about the Hainas Mermaid Kingdom?" Velin asked slowly, looking at Garis, who was pretending to remain calm.
Garis lowered his head slightly and said, "Please allow me to think carefully about where to begin for you and the other two ladies."
Seeing this, Velin sat quietly without disturbing him.
He was genuinely curious about the Hainas Mermaid Kingdom.
The Halifax Merman Duchy he had once visited was one of the twenty-seven duchies under the Hainas Mermaid Kingdom.
This alone showed just how vast that kingdom was beneath the sea.
However, compared with the land, the ocean's environment was far more complex. Without sufficiently powerful protectors, it was difficult to endure for long under the threat of sea beasts.
On land, magical beasts and Ferocious Beasts existed only in primeval jungles rarely visited by living creatures, or within the Demiplanes of certain powerful beings.
The ocean was a hundred times larger than the land. Countless magical beasts and Ferocious Beasts roamed its waters, feeding on any living creature outside their own species and possessing no fixed dwelling.
They ate wherever they swam, and wherever they died became the place their souls returned to.
After roughly ten minutes, Garis raised his head slightly and spoke at an unhurried pace. "The Hainas Mermaid Kingdom lies four hundred thousand kilometers northeast of the Sinapsis Subcontinent. It is one of the three great Mermaid Kingdoms between the Brizet Subcontinent and the Sinapsis Subcontinent."
"The Hainas Mermaid Kingdom was founded under the royal family's surname. It originated in the early Magic Calendar and took eight thousand years to grow from a duchy into a kingdom. Since then, it has maintained a tradition of expanding outward."
"Over more than thirty thousand years, royal family members established seventeen Mermaid Duchies, while non-royal members