Magic Merchant Racial Anecdote

Avery, who lives under the sea, is racking his brains to find a way to make himself an adult as soon as possible.

As a mermaid who has already passed adulthood, he has always seemed a little too calm.The urging from his parents and the worries of his brothers did not put too much pressure on him.

Whether he is an adult or not doesn't seem to be that important to him.But now the situation is different, he wants to have a pair of legs that can move freely on land, so... he can go to Werther.

Avery was sitting in the lecture theater, holding his chin and listening to the knowledge about the mermaid's adulthood taught on the podium below, and his thoughts gradually drifted away.

He once again thought of Werther's haggard face in his dream, his pale lips were always tightly pressed, and the gentle smile in his eyes was gradually replaced by anxiety.

It's no use just waiting, and Avery is acutely aware of this.

In the mermaid family of 'Poseidon', there has been an ancient legend.In the past, there was a beautiful mermaid princess who fell in love with a prince on land, but she was cursed and could not become an adult, and she could not have legs to be with the prince.So she prayed to the witch in the deep sea, drank the forbidden medicine, and finally succeeded in transforming into a shape and living happily with the prince.

Avery a year ago would probably have laughed off the story.But when things really happened to him, Avery understood the hidden meaning of the story.

The reality that he didn't care about before suddenly became sharp. He always felt that he was underage because he didn't want to. As long as he wanted to, there was still a way.

But nearly a month of trying has told him he may never be an adult.

When you don't work hard, you can still deceive yourself that you can't do it because you don't need it, but if you don't pay off after working hard, life will inadvertently reveal its true and hideous side.

Millions of mermaids live in this underwater city. As he grows older, Avery, who has been unable to graduate from school as an adult, has long been the object of ridicule by his peers.

With the appearance of an adult, but unable to melt his legs, the prince who was originally envied by countless mermaids will receive harsher evaluations and a lot of ridicule once he rolls into the dust.Some mermaids even suspect that he is not the king's own son.

It's just that Avery didn't care about it before, so he won't be hurt.

To this day, those gossips that have been ignored by Avery have been suddenly magnified, and those whispers echoed in his ears, hitting him like a tide until they drowned him.

"Look, it's him, His Royal Highness who has never been able to grow up."

"This year is his fourth year in a college of higher learning. He keeps repeating grades. It's a good thing he can stay."

"Do you think he has any defects, otherwise how could he not be an adult?"

Avery covered his ears and didn't want to listen, but he felt those emotions, ridicule, pain, jealousy, disgust... filled his mind.

He didn't know that this was because his ability as a 'guide' was growing. The recent pressure and frequent connections with Werther awakened the emotional perception ability of the 'guide' in him.

Without the correct guidance and the mental barrier built by the 'sentinel', these emotions will continue to pour into Avery's spiritual sea like an upstream river, until it bursts.

Avery sat on a chair in the classroom, feeling overwhelmed, his body and will no longer belonged to him.Those emotions ran rampant in his mind repeatedly, without any hesitation.He was hit by unprecedented pain, it felt like being burned by fire, or pushed into a cliff...

He passed out.

***

On the other side, Werther followed Alai and Ned to District [-] non-stop.

Because they didn't know the exact location of Avery, and Werther couldn't breathe in the sea, Alai thoughtfully opened the 'door' to the land port city closest to 'Poseidon'.

The time here is still morning, close to noon.The city is very quiet, and there are few people on the port.The busiest morning market has already closed, and only some fishermen are still eating their first late meal in small restaurants.

From the moment he set foot on this land, Werther knew that they had found the right place, and the spiritual power of his little guide in his mind was constantly strengthening, bright like the North Star in the night sky, pointing out the direction for him.

The peregrine falcon in his mind was flapping its wings happily, and the fishy smell of the ocean was no longer disgusting. Werther stood blankly in the alley of the port, stretching out his tentacles of thinking towards the sea.

He could feel that his little guide was there.

"Can you now feel the specific location of the person you are looking for?" Alan asked Werther, whose eyes suddenly brightened, and asked in a low voice.

"Yes, it's very clear, it's in that direction." Werther said firmly, pointing his finger in the direction of the sea.

"Then we will follow your perception. We have to take a boat to reach the sea. I will rent a boat to go to sea." Alai nodded and signaled Werther to go to the port with them and prepare to take the boat go to sea.

Werther has already been fully absorbed by the weak induction in the distance. He only nodded when he heard what Alai said. As long as he can get him to see his little guide quickly, even if he is asked to swim, he will nod back without hesitation. Dive into the sea.

The industrial level of this continent does not seem to be as developed as Werther's plane, and ordinary ships cannot go too far.Fortunately, it happens to be the fishing holiday recently, and there are many fishing boats parked in the port.

Alai and the others pretended to be generous tourists and wanted to go out to sea in the afternoon.After some inquiries in the tavern at the port, a small sailing offshore fishing boat was soon rented.

The owner of the fishing boat is a middle-aged man with a stubble, his cheeks are tanned with red marks from going to sea all the year round, he was sitting in a tavern drinking cheap beer, when he heard that they were going to go to sea, he rushed up If you talk to me, you are willing to go to sea for only 2 silver coins.

Alai offered a high price of 10 gold coins and wanted to buy the ship directly.

The money was enough for the owner to buy a brand new fishing boat, and he happily agreed, and gave them the boat without asking them what they were doing at sea.

Neither Alai, Ned, nor Werther knew anything about operating fishing boats, but fortunately, they didn't need to actually operate fishing boats.The purpose of renting a boat is to deceive others. What really drives the boat is Alai's power system installed at the stern, which is directly controlled by 'Xiaoye'.

The fishing boat set sail, and the sea was calm at noon, and the sun shone on the water surface, forming a phantom-like wave of light.

Xiaolong, who saw the sea for the first time in a boat, quietly stuck his little head out of Ned's pocket, and groaned twice. Ned patted his back and stuffed it back into his pocket.

After leaving the port, the fishing boat was sailing at full speed at a speed that no ship on this continent could possess. Werther stood in the captain's cabin without saying a word, guiding the direction according to the increasingly strong induction.

A few hours later, the ship sailed into a foggy sea.It was clearly still afternoon, and there was still a long time before the sun went down, but the sky here was gloomy, as if it was pressing overhead.

The system detected a reef on the ocean floor, slowing the ship.

Then, Werther felt an unprecedentedly strong resonance.His little guide, his Ellie, was whining, calling for help.Calling his 'sentry' rushed to his side.

"It's right here, right under this sea area." Werther knelt down on the splint, panting. "I can feel him calling me." He stumbled up and ran all the way to the side of the boat, and he was about to fall into the sea.

"Wait, you can't just go into the sea like this, you humans can't breathe in water." Ned stepped forward to stop him, and said calmly.He didn't want the client to just fall into the sea and drown, Alai would definitely rant about it.

Werther didn't listen to Ned's advice, he stared straight at the sea, and squeezed Ned's wrist with his arms bulging.The induction is increasing, and the peregrine falcon in his brain has already plunged into the bottom of the sea before the owner.

Unmoved, Ned pulled Werther back into the boat for another two steps.

"Don't worry about Mr. Werther, we have a method to allow you to move freely underwater." Alai followed Werther and approached the side of the ship.

Werther looked at Alai reflexively when he heard the voice, and it took a while to understand what he said.At this moment, his mind was already firmly occupied by worry and anxiety, and he barely maintained his crumbling sanity.

"Okay, that's good," Witte said. "So... you have a way to let me go into the sea now, right?" He asked almost in a whisper.

"Of course, this method is not free, but I think you don't mind." Alai motioned Ned to take out a small glass jar from the space, and said to Werther.

What was contained in the jar was one of Ned's 'collections', fruit candy that could turn any race into a mermaid for a short time if eaten.Thanks to sorting out these 'collections' before, Ned found this thing easily.

"Eat it, and you can become a mermaid temporarily. It lasts for 3 hours and costs 100 gold per piece." Alai held a glass jar and sold it to Werther, who was very anxious.

"I want it all." Werther said without blinking.Money seemed meaningless to him.

"Thanks to your patronage, there are 36 pieces in total, 3600 gold." Alai was not surprised by this. He curled his mouth and handed the jar in his hand to Witt.

Colorful translucent candies, crowded together in glass jars, look like a whole rainbow in a jar under an overcast sky.These originally useless 'collections', as Ned said, have found people who really need them.

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About currency (taking the four districts as an example)

100 copper = 1 silver

100 silver = 1 gold

The general weight of gold coins in the four districts is about: 6.6g/piece

The magic content of heavy metals varies from region to region, and sometimes copper coins of certain races are worth more than gold coins from other regions.For example, the goblins in District 399 have few minerals but high magic content, so gold coins are very valuable.The gold coins in the tenth district are not worth much.For example, in Alai's system, you need to pay [-] silver coins for the four districts to buy in the third district, and the magic currency with a high content is used.