When You're Out in the World, You Need to Understand Human Relations-Do I Have to Teach You How to Be a King Step by Step?

"Of course I'm serious. Most of this planet is covered by ocean, and the resources in the deep sea are countless times greater than those on land.

"The Fish-Man race is aquatic by nature, so you have an inherent advantage in this regard. You have the capability, I have the channels. Working together would be a business with guaranteed profits."

The Fish-Man race could provide cheap, high-quality labor, while the deep sea held inexhaustible treasures—both resources and shipwrecks. As long as they could bring them to the surface, Oran had the means to turn them into money.

Compared with mass-producing underwater robots, this would cost far less, and it could also establish close ties with the Poseidon who would be born eight years later.

The Fish-Man legends only said that a guide would appear alongside the birth of the Sea King. They never said who that guide would be.

If one looked into it carefully, Oran had become connected to Otohime from the very beginning of her search for peace. As an old friend of Poseidon's mother, it was perfectly reasonable for him to guide Poseidon as a Godfather.

As everyone knew, monopolies were the most profitable businesses. In this regard, Merfolk Island did not even have a choice. At least for now, no other kingdom had this idea.

They should be grateful enough that people did not view the Fish-Man race as fish.

Allowing Fish-Men to walk safely on land and raising this issue at the Reverie was already an enormous help to Merfolk Island.

But after being excited for a moment, Neptune's expression suddenly turned troubled again.

Of Merfolk Island's population of several million, Fish-Men made up half. Excluding the elderly, weak, women, and children, there were still plenty of strong adult male Fish-Men.

Now Neptune faced two