The Snakefolk.
"You heard, right? Those outsiders slaughtered the Fishman Tribe and wiped it out."
"Heh, those stinking fish should have died long ago."
"Your news is out of date. The latest is that those outsiders solved the sterility problem. Now all of us can reproduce!"
"That's wonderful! These outsiders are much more useful than that Miss Alice!"
"They really are. That damned woman is completely useless, yet she keeps restricting us with all sorts of rules. Thanks to her, we can only sneak off to steal those birdmen's eggs for a treat!"
The Naga.
"Chief, the Sterility Curse that plagued us for twenty years was actually broken by a group of newcomers! By comparison, isn't that Miss Alice utterly useless?"
Naga were much like Mermaids, with human upper bodies, but a Naga's lower body was that of a snake.
Moreover, Naga had multiple arms, and among the Naga, the more arms one had, the stronger one was.
The Naga chief was an eight-armed Naga whose mastery of the Eight-Sword Style was sublime. His fighting strength ranked among the best of the Fourth Tier powerhouses in these waters.
"It's also possible that those outsiders are simply too powerful..." the Naga chief said softly.
"No matter how powerful they are, they can't be stronger than Your Eminence Eddinger, can they? Even that Edding-"
"Shut up!" The Naga chief rebuked the thoughtless member of his tribe beside him, stopping him from continuing.
The tribesman also realized he had misspoken. Lowering his head, he changed the subject. "Then, regarding the proposal from those Dragonkin..."
"This isn't something we can get involved in. Don't bring it up again, and keep your distance from those arrogant fellows from now on." The Naga chief warned his tribesman with a fathomless gaze.
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