"Gullveig, I'll call you Gullveig." Liszt spoke haltingly in Moon Language; his command of it was abysmal.
He could barely read and understand it, but could not speak it smoothly. After all, he had rarely had the chance to speak Moon Language.
He had never expected mermaids, an ancient race left behind from antiquity, to speak Moon Language as well. Of course, mermaid Moon Language sounded somewhat different from the Moon-Slayers' Moon Language. Even a language prodigy like A Ke, who had mastered all kinds of languages, had to guess her way through conversations with Gullveig.
"You may call me Gullveig, human king." Gullveig's voice was hoarse, and because of her enormous body, every word buzzed and rumbled. "Thank you and Lady A Ke for saving my life, freeing me from that evil curse, so that I did not continue to sink into evil."
"Can you introduce your identity?"
"I am a mermaid. Before I sealed myself away, I was the king of Fisherman Sea, ruling all its waters and islands, all its fish and shrimp, and all its waterfowl."
"So you are a venerable ruler. Then could you tell me how you sealed yourselves away, and what the oceans and lands were like in your era?"
Faced with Liszt's question, Gullveig pondered for a moment, seemingly recalling the past, before slowly answering, "Fisherman Sea, Great Western Kingdom, Saltwater Tribe, Waterwalking Deep Domain, Trench Tribe, Kingdom of Escape, Lost Sea—these were the last seven kingdoms of the mermaids. And we who sealed ourselves away were the final generation of mermaids..."
The mermaid Gullveig began recounting an ancient tale.
Starting from the era of the Moon Empire, mermaids and magicians had divided the ocean and land between them. Human magicians established a unified empire on land, while mermaids scattered many kingdoms