It was only after they reached shore and rested for a few minutes that the pallor gradually faded from Xiao Xiao's face.
"You can try riding boats a few more times in the future. Maybe you'll build up some resistance to seasickness." Nicholas looked at him with some concern. "At First University, not being able to ride a boat is a terrible problem."
Xiao Xiao gave a muffled grunt and said nothing.
"Monster!" A terrified voice rang out nearby.
Zheng Qing looked toward the sound. More than ten meters away, on the surface of Linzhong Lake, a monster was slowly revealing its ferocious face.
The monster had a fish's head and a human body, its chest and abdomen covered in bluish-black scales. Sharp fins stood along the top of its head and spine. Its limbs were short, but they looked thick and powerful. Both its hands and feet had three toes, with a thin layer of webbing between them.
At that moment, it glared with a pair of pale, dead-fish eyes, viciously sweeping its gaze across the students on shore. Its fish mouth opened and closed slightly, its sharp teeth looking savage and terrifying beneath the darkening sky.
"Fish-man!" The boy standing in front of Nicholas screamed, his voice sounding somewhat distorted.
Zheng Qing suddenly understood.
So this was a fish-man!
Thomas had once helped him borrow a copy of the Encyclopedia of the Wizarding World from the school library. Zheng Qing remembered that the book contained clear and complete classifications of the intelligent creatures of the Wizarding World.
As one of the three major native intelligent species, aquatic intelligent creatures had an entire chapter dedicated to them in the Encyclopedia.
Fish-men, mermen, and sirens were the three aquatic intelligent races with the most complete social structures.
Sirens, also called