Saine's Plan

In the Wizard World, there is another group that is very similar to the sea creatures. →

That is the demi-human race.

The demi-humans, widely distributed deep underground throughout the Wizard World, are not far behind the sea people in terms of the complexity of their ethnic composition, although they are not as complex as the sea people.

Back when he was in City of Mozhsuobula, Saine had a lot of dealings with these demi-humans, and Saine himself almost died at the hands of one of them.

Therefore, Saine's understanding of the demi-human race must far surpass that of other Holy Tower Magician.

Do the demi-humans suffer? Of course they do!

In some years of famine, the demi-human race even resorted to cannibalism, a horrific phenomenon.

However, in places like the Underdark, the dark Survival Law are even more pronounced than in the Endless South Sea.

At least the endless Endless South Sea has vast schools of fish and seaweed, which can barely feed the marine creatures that cannot survive.

What is in the Underdark, or other Underground World?

If even the edible moss is dug up, then all that's left is to gnaw on rocks!

(P. S.: Indeed, some demi-humans have special physical constitutions; their stomach acid can digest rocks.)

Saine's guess was actually quite close to reality.

These sea creatures came to cause trouble for Cook's alchemy ship not only to try to extort money from these Knight and Mage who walked the Gray Area, but also to reduce their surplus population.

The Sea Lizardmen people are incredibly prolific.

Although an adult Sea Lizardmen may not give birth to many children at a time, usually only three to five, Sea Lizardmen tenacious survival ability makes them have an extremely high survival rate from infancy to adulthood!

Furthermore, the Sea Lizardmen can reach sexual maturity in about fifteen years, and some even earlier, with ten years being no problem.

In this situation, even a bunch of rotten seaweed and a barren school of fish could barely sustain a tribe of Sea Lizardmen.

The reason these Sea Lizardmen have become bandits is not only because the storm season has indeed caused heavy losses to their small tribe.

There is an even more important reason, which is actually the exclusion from other sea creatures in the surrounding area.

Although the vast ocean seems boundless to land creatures like Saine, it has long been divided up by generations of sea creatures that have existed since Ancient Era.

As the lowest of the sea creatures, the Sea Lizardmen are naturally the objects of contempt and exploitation by all other sea creatures.

The impact of storm season on the surrounding waters is not limited to the Sea Lizardmen.

When other sea creatures also suffer misfortune, those living in the upper and middle layers of the sea might still have a way to survive, but what can these Sea Lizardmen living at the bottom do?

This year's storm season has cost the Sea Lizardmen nearly a quarter of their captive marine habitat.

However, in contrast, last year, due to ample sunlight and suitable climate, the hatching rate of New Life of the Sea Lizardmen increased by one-third compared to previous years.

(P. S.: Sea Lizardmen oviparous marine creatures.)

For any ethnic group to grow and thrive in the long term, it is not the middle-aged members who can thrive, but the strength of the New Life.

Although these Sea Lizardmen in front of us seem to be unintelligent and only know brute force, there are still some intelligent people in this group.

At least they are quite good at choosing their targets.

If they are targeting large, well-established merchant ships, or other sea creatures in the surrounding waters.

The final result is likely to be more than just the loss of a portion of the population; it could lead to the extinction of the entire race.

The rules of the Holy Tower and the Knights' Hall do not show excessive mercy to these sea creatures.

In general, the various Holy Tower and Knights' Hall still consider issues from the perspective of humanity in the Wizard World.

The massacre continues...

Yes, it was a one-sided massacre.

Apart from the strong Sea Lizardman Chieftain who could withstand some of the pressure from the Level 1 Knight Cook, the other adult Sea Lizardmen charging forward were, in Saine's view, suicide missions.

These Sea Lizardmen are not even at the first level of Life Level, yet they dare to withstand the elemental bombardment of Level-1 Magician while shirtless.

Due to their different evolutionary perspectives, the scales of these Sea Lizardmen are not as thick as those of most Flame Creature that Saine has seen in the Poison Fire Green Flame World.

The battle had been raging for less than fifteen hourglasses since it began, and the surrounding sea was already seeping into a crimson blue pool of blood.

Many small marine creatures, including Silver Flood Dragon Fish, were drawn by the smell and joined in this Gluttonous Feast.

Interestingly, these Sea Lizardmen did not rush to dispose of their companion's body, but instead quietly set up a thin net woven from green seaweed in the surrounding waters.

This thin net is certainly not meant to stop Cook's Alchemy Powered Ship.

Although the ship was a bit damaged, its power was still quite good; otherwise, it wouldn't have been able to get through the eye of the giant storm.

Throughout, Saine remained indifferent as he observed everything that was happening in the sea before him.

The deaths of nearly a thousand Sea Lizardmen in a short period of time, and the increasingly strong smell of blood in the surrounding sea, did not shake Saine's mind in the slightest. Instead, he thought of other things.

At this moment, Saine was extremely calm. He suddenly thought of the cheap labor of the sea creatures and the Underground World demi-human races, as well as the shortage of slave creatures in the Azure Source Holy Tower.

Those in positions of authority should fulfill their duties.

If Saine were just an ordinary Level-1 Magician, he certainly wouldn't have thought of such a profound question.

But since he is a disciple of the Tower Master, and thanks to his mentor Luluman, Saine has a relatively high level of vision and perspective on war during the recently concluded Poison Fire Green Flame World War, it doesn't prevent Saine from thinking a little deeper.

Not to mention, before the Poison Fire and Green Flame World War broke out, their lineage held discussions on the top floor of the Holy Tower of the Azure Flame Ancestor, Trilis.

The conquest and occupation of an entire plane is certainly not something that a nobody like Saine can decide.

However, it cannot be denied that he was indeed listening in as a third-generation member of the Azure Blaze Sect at the time.

This reminds me of my mentor Luluman, during the Poison Fire Green Flame World War, lacked a legion of slave creatures as her foundation.

Forced to deploy nearly 200,000 Plant Creature he had painstakingly cultivated in his World Laboratory to the battlefield, which was so precious to Luluman that it was estimated that it would take hundreds of years for the World Laboratory to recover. So, Saine came up with a more reliable solution.

Purchasing slave creatures requires money, and Luluman has no money.

But could we hire these low-level sea creatures and demi-humans to join our war effort?

Next to the Azure Source Holy Tower is a Jewel Sea, which can serve as a temporary foothold for sea creatures.

The Green Source Land is not far from the Underdark, where a large number of Underground Subhuman live.

Saine even considered that hiring these low-level sea creatures and demi-humans could be done without spending money, as they could be appeased through post-war profit-sharing.

Based on Saine's understanding of most demi-humans and the low-level sea creatures he had encountered during this period, these creatures living at the very bottom of the Wizard World actually had very low requirements.

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