Mermaid

However, compared to Ancient Era, the treatment of sea creatures in the modern Wizard World has improved considerably. →

All the major Holy Tower and Knights' Hall have explicitly forbidden the hunting of sea creatures.

Furthermore, within the Wizard Alliance, theoretically, sea creatures and humans in the Wizard World are of equal status.

Because they are all part of the Wizard World and have all contributed to the prosperity of Wizard Civilization.

Along the southern coast of the Wizard Continent, many of these Holy Tower Holy Tower invite neighboring sea creatures to participate in their Plane War.

The sea creatures are actually quite strong, just far inferior to the Knight and Mage of the Wizard World.

However, if considered individually, the power of the sea race is comparable to that of any major World Civilization.

The vast ocean holds countless marine creatures and powerful sea creatures.

Furthermore, the sheer size of the sea creatures meant that only a minority of them were actually persecuted by Knight and Mage.

The reason why there are so many sea creature hybrids along the southern coast of the Wizard Continent is that these demi-human hybrids are difficult to fully integrate into the sea creatures.

Furthermore, because their appearance is closer to that of humans, these hybrids find it easier to interact with humans in the Wizard World.

To some extent, these demi-human hybrids, who possess both sea-folk and human blood, also play a role in mediating the conflicts between humans and sea-folk in the Wizard World.

However, due to the poaching of sea creatures, which began in Ancient Era, many hybrids of demi-humans have continued to reproduce to this day.

Therefore, this kind of problem is a legacy of history, a troublesome matter that the higher-ups in the Wizard World can't seem to resolve.

Therefore, not many people pursued the matter excessively.

However, openly hunting sea creatures is no longer advisable.

Unless you want to be labeled Black Magician or a black Knight by the various Holy Tower and Knights' Hall of the South Coast.

However, the trade of the sea creatures did not completely disappear from this area.

The Wizard World's higher-ups, various Holy Tower, and Knights' Hall have indeed issued explicit orders to stop poaching sea creatures, but what if the sea creatures are doing it voluntarily?

Many sea tribes still live in primitive slave societies.

These lowly sea creatures frequently sell off surplus population within their tribes in exchange for other resources or necessities.

In addition, there are indeed some sea creatures who may fall in love with human Knight and Mage.

In Fernan Star City and many other human cities on the South Coast, one can often see bards with flutes, telling poignant or exceptionally beautiful love stories in taverns.

Some of these love stories actually exist in their original form, but most are simply modified versions with added elements.

After all, humans and sea creatures are completely different races. Their aesthetics, appearances, and organs are all different, so how could they easily fall in love with each other?

The Blue Shark People are among the billions of sea creatures whose appearance is relatively similar to that of humans in the Wizard World. →69🅂🄷🅄🅇.🄲🄾🄼

But don't be fooled by these Half-Shark People in front of you; real Blue Shark People don't look like this.

They have longer faces, no hair, and their heads are covered with thick, pale blue scales. Their pupils are also dark blue.

I really don't know what kind of perverse tastes some humans in the Ancient Era Wizard World had to go after these Blue Shark People and thus reproduce a sizable number of Half-Shark People.

The creature that truly resembles humans and is hailed as the most beautiful species in the ocean is undoubtedly the Mermaid.

Similarly, Mermaid are the most sought-after sea creature slaves in the black market on the Wizard World South Coast.

Even Half Mermaid with Mermaid bloodlines command exorbitant prices on various black markets.

A Half Mermaid slave can fetch a staggering price of twenty or even thirty Magic Coin on the black market.

It's important to know that the Half Mermaid referred to here are ordinary Half Mermaid whose Life Level is below level one.

If it's a high-quality item with a Life Level of one or more, the transaction price can soar to hundreds of Magic Coin, almost matching the total profit of a level one or higher Knight or Mage participating in a Plane War.

This shows how large the profits are.

However, the Mermaid race is not so easy to hunt. Most of them live in the deepest part of the sea and are the natural royalty of the Wizard World's oceans, able to command the creatures of the surrounding seas.

Mermaid are born with an extremely strong affinity for water Elemental Affinity. They are daughters of the sea, and the best among them can easily cultivate to level one or higher.

However, the Mermaid population has never been very large, far from being comparable to the fertility rate of humans in the Wizard World.

According to records, Mermaid have a special ability: if they mate with someone and both are truly in love, the other person's body will gain some Elemental Affinity.

This ability is also known as "the Blessing of the Sea".

However, if the result is forced and incurs the hatred of the Mermaid, the perpetrator will be naturally ostracized by the marine life in the surrounding waters after entering the Wizard World's seas.

This ability is also known as the "Curse of the Sea." However, this racial talent is nothing special to the Mage of the Wizard World who are passionate about exploring the Truth Mysteries.

Long ago, or even earlier, the Mage of the Wizard World had already deciphered its mysteries.

It's just a simple Mystic System blessing or curse in essence. Perhaps a Advanced Magic Apprentice specializing in Mystic System could remove the curse.

Therefore, this curse ability has done nothing to reduce the activities of certain profit-driven individuals who engage in poaching fish.

Driven by profit, some people dare to hunt even Giant Dragon. What are mermaids, who are weaker than Giant Dragon, compared to them?

On the contrary, this curse and blessing adds another layer of mystery to the Mermaid in the Wizard World.

The only thing they could do was to make their net worth skyrocket.

Saine knew quite a lot about the sea creatures in the Wizard World, not because the library of the Azure Source Holy Tower had such detailed information, but because he learned it by reading the Magic Notebook left by his previous mentor Moxidu.

The Black Magician, including Moxidu, clearly arrived in the Underdark via the South Coast.

The proximity and geographical nature of the human and sea creature borders mean that while the Wizard World South Coast appears prosperous on the surface, it is actually more chaotic inside, far less orderly than inland areas such as the Azure Source Holy Tower.

At least in the Azure Source Holy Tower, Saine had never heard of any illegal black market.

However, the Magic Notebook left by his mentor Moxidu recorded the existence of several black markets in the South Coast region.

These black markets were probably places Moxidu visited back then; it's unknown whether any traces of the Black Magician remain.

The city of Fernan Star City doesn't have a black market, but there seems to be a small one not far to the south.

Saine was curious about the attitude of the Holy Tower and the Knights' Hall in the surrounding area towards these black markets.

Not all Knight and Mage in the black market are Black Magician or black Knight.

In fact, the proportion of Black Magician and black Knight among them may be less than two percent.

Most of them are Knight and Mage who appear to have normal identities.

They go to the black market not to do evil, but simply to make a transaction.

It must be said that there are more things sold on the black market, and they are cheaper.

And there are many things there that cannot be bought in ordinary markets, such as mermaid slaves.