Xia Nan had never seen this kind of fish before.
It was around two point two meters long, much longer than a grown man, with a blunt head, a broad, thick snout, and fish lips edged faintly white, opening and closing to reveal dense, comb-like teeth. Its gill covers slowly flexed, showing the filtering structure of the gills within. Its round, lifeless fish eyes reflected the blue sky overhead and everyone on the deck.
The most striking feature was the fish's back.
From the back of its head all the way to the front of its tail fin, a dense layer of dark-green marine vegetation grew from the gaps between its rough, rock-like grayish-brown scales.
Seaweed, water grasses, even a few small fragments of coral clung there, their roots sunk deep into the spaces between the scales, as though they had already formed some kind of symbiosis with the great fish.
Xia Nan could even imagine how, when the great fish swam slowly along the seabed, the seaweed and water grasses on its back would sway and ripple.
"Grass-Spine Fish."
Hain walked closer at the sound and looked at the great fish lying on the deck, then began to explain.
"Judging by its size, it should have only just reached adulthood. Around twenty years old."
"This kind of fish can grow very large!"
"There used to be one that came to the coral reef I was responsible for beside Barracuda Bay. Its body alone was more than eight feet long. When it swam in the water, it looked even bigger than those fishermen's little boats in the Shallow Sea. Unfortunately, it only stayed for two months before roaming off."
Hain was indeed a Druid, and she truly did love nature. She even specifically protected a small patch of coral reef