"Sea Wizards!?"
It was not just Green—Little Eight and Milly were also left dumbfounded by the Mermaid King's wildly imaginative proposal, their mouths slightly agape as they failed to recover their senses for a long while.
"Yes, Sea Wizards!"
The Mermaid King said firmly, "Back then, it was Lord Green who proposed incorporating the New Humans into the wizarding system as Heavenly Net Wizards, and succeeded. With the Mermaid race's natural beauty and wisdom, combined with the Tyrant Thorn Whale race's gifts, if Lord Green could put forward an initiative to establish Sea Wizards, I believe it would certainly..."
"Heh heh, incorporating the Mermaid race as Sea Wizards? I know the Wizard World's situation quite well. Setting aside the fact that this would directly touch upon the interests exploited by those Underground Abyss body-refining wizards, and could invite their retaliation, the wizards of other factions would never agree so easily either. The Sea Clan has served as a wizard subordinate race throughout a long history; that notion has already sunk deep into every wizard's heart. What makes you think a single sentence from you can establish a place in the wizarding system? Has Your Majesty the Mermaid King never heard the saying, 'Those not of our kind must harbor different hearts'?"
After a pause, Green sneered. "Besides, what benefit would this bring me? When I sought to take Black Isotta, who is now my second disciple, Your Majesty offered every possible excuse to delay... Heh heh!"
The tricolored light eyes beneath Green's Face of Truth gazed quietly at the Mermaid King, awaiting his response.
His expression stiffened. In the end, that old matter had still been brought up. The Mermaid King said in a low voice, "I was greatly at fault back then, too willful and arrogant. If Lord Green