The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 977 - 0974 Devils Traces

Chapter 977: Chapter 0974: Devil’s Traces

Chapter 977: Chapter 0974: Devil’s Traces

“Do you think this is a mutated mermaid?” Liszt asked bizarrely as he gazed at the hideously ugly monster because he noticed the creature’s outline, though marred by an ugly, disgusting body covered in tumors, had breasts and long hair typical of mermaids.

Legends say mermaids are female, possessing perfect breasts and waterfall-like long hair.

Moreover, the Fish Ugly and Naga statues guarding the mermaid statue within the Fish Ugly Temple indicate that mermaids hold a regal status among the oceanic races.

The ugly creature before them evidently controlled this group of Fish Uglies, suggesting a hierarchical relationship with the Fish Ugly race. This implies it was a mermaid, possibly mutated into its current form, with its magic power also transitioning to a dark attribute.

Ach, too, examined the ten-meter-long monster, “Brother, since you mention it, Ach also thinks it might be a mutated mermaid. Dark attribute high magic, tumors, decaying appearance, and the aura of death enveloping it — it is highly likely to be a soul mutation.”

“Soul mutation?”

“Yes, this is a new topic Ach discovered while researching Lich Andy. There is a strong connection between the soul and the shell. A mutation in the soul will likely cause a mutation in the body, but bodily mutations hardly ever lead to soul mutations.”

“So, how should we deal with this mutated mermaid?”

“We should seal it, confine it by the seaside, and then Ach will build a laboratory here to research the mutated mermaid and investigate its origins… As for these Fish Uglies, as long as we control the mutated mermaid, we should be able to command them. Brother, what do you think of using them as slaves?”

“As slaves.”

Liszt carefully observed the Fish Uglies, who were not adept at moving on land and possessed limited intelligence, but they were strong and had a good organizational structure. Once controlled, they could serve as inexpensive labor for coarse work.

Thus, he said, “I think it’s feasible, and once tamed, we could use them for marine farming, which would be much more efficient than traditional fishermen.”

Thus.

The mission to Anchor Island was virtually complete, with the mutated mermaid sealed for future study and the Fish Ugly race added to the taming sequence. Most crucially, the emergence of the Fish Uglies and the mutated mermaid revealed much information that Liszt anticipated — ancient races had not perished.

Thus, the splendid magical civilization of the Moon Empire era might still be lingering in the corners of the world…

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“Mission completed, reward: Evil Sea Spirit.”

After capturing the mutated mermaid, the Smoke Mission was deemed complete, as it was evident that the Fish Uglies’ invasion of the land was orchestrated by this mutated mermaid.

And this mutated mermaid was the so-called Evil Sea Spirit.

Mermaids, much higher in status than sea serpents in legends, rightfully earned the title “Sea Spirit.” A dark attribute mutated mermaid naturally became the Evil Sea Spirit.

Liszt was very curious about mermaids, but he was not a research scholar. The research on the mutated mermaid would be conducted by Ach, leading the magicians of the Magic Guild.

Fortunately, the news of an Archmage born over the sea had spread far and wide through the songs of minstrels, so many magicians from unknown countries were slowly making their pilgrimage to Flame Island. They would stay on Black Horse Island for a while, perusing less critical documents and regulations of the Magic Guild.

If they were keen and willing to serve the Magic Guild, they might be granted passage to Flame Island.

Those unwilling to comply with the management and serve the guild would be sent back, never getting the chance to cross the Mind Island Magic Gate.

And they would certainly not have the chance to meet Ach for a pilgrimage.

Even under such stringent conditions, large numbers of magicians continued to join.

According to Chris’s report from years ago, the registered members of the Magic Guild had exceeded 3,600 people, most of whom were Magic Apprentices, with a significant portion being trained by the Flame Kingdom itself. There were about 1,000 magicians and over fifty Grand Magicians.

If the Ancient Mages, whose research capability was almost zero, were also accounted for, there were more than 10,000 of them, among which nearly 300 were at the level of Grand Magicians.

Although Ancient Mages were far behind modern magicians in terms of spell-casting methods and efficiency, their strength steadily increased as they integrated into the modern magic system. Undeniably, the Magic Dust made from Elves had a powerful auxiliary effect on magic practice.

Therefore, despite Liszt’s harsh laws prohibiting the harming of Elves to produce Magic Dust, some magicians still took risks and bought Elf Bugs from some unincorporated Moon Slayer tribes to make Magic Dust to aid their magic practice.

Such magicians, once caught, were executed directly, and their bodies were used for research without any chance of reprieve.

In any case, the discovery of the Mutated Mermaids and the Fish Ugly Race would inevitably attract a large number of magicians to actively go to Anchor Island to conduct research, which Ach would manage the distribution of research tasks, sparing Liszt the concern.

He was now worried about the new Smoke Mission.

“Mission: The discovery of the Mutated Mermaid is disturbing, especially the terrible outcome caused by the mutation of the soul, which seems to hint at some evil source of power in the sea, corrupting the once noble Mermaid species. As the master of the sea, it is necessary to investigate the evil source. Reward: Devil’s Traces.”

“Evil source, Devil’s Traces, sounds a bit frightening.” Liszt thought as Ach prepared to establish an Overmarine Laboratory, while he tamed Fish Ugly and waited for a chance to dive.

He himself definitely could not dive into the sea to investigate the evil source and had to rely on Ach’s capability.

“What does the mission reward, Devil’s Traces, mean? Or what does the devil represent—is it referring to the Devil’s Sea, or some unknown creature?”

Whether it was the Sea of Azure Waves or the Shell Sea, they were just off the continental shelf, but the real deep sea was on the other side of the continental slope in the Devil’s Sea. In the past, when trying to locate Dragon Turtle Island, Liszt and Ach had approached the Devil’s Sea, where the weather was capricious and the winds and waves were violently frightening, making it difficult to navigate.

After that, he focused all his energy on developing Flame Island and plundering the Continental Kingdom and had not surveyed the Devil’s Sea again, nor tried to cross it in search of the Child of the Sun civilization.

While he pondered, the Fish Ugly being tamed seemed to sense an opportunity and lunged directly at Liszt.

Smack!

Liszt casually unleashed a Dragon Dou Qi, shattering the attacking Fish Ugly and deterring the other restless Fish Ugly. These ugly, useless Fish Ugly, not very intelligent—probably slightly more than a chimpanzee—barely qualified as a wise species but unfortunately were not obedient.

Perhaps the magicians among them, referred to by Liszt as “Fish Ugly Priests,” had strong control over them, making them care not even for their own lives.

But when Liszt subdued them with Dragon Might, they were still reluctant to obey.

Over the past few days of taming, he had killed about a hundred Fish Ugly, yet they still resisted with bloodshot eyes, showing no sign of the submissiveness typical of a slave species. The Fish Ugly Priests were the same, single-minded with no awareness of their inferiority.

Even faced with a Dragon Knight, they dared to swing their bone clubs.

Smack, Liszt feared for his life as another Fish Ugly attacked him, sighing, “To tame the Fish Ugly race, it seems strength alone isn’t enough; we’ll have to find a way from the Mutated Mermaids.”

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