The magician of the fairy tale world

The sea witch said impatiently:

"Magic works just like this, with its own strange laws and restrictions. If every detail can be explained, understood and elaborated, then it is no longer magic, and it is no different from your human organs, gears and other tightly operated instruments."

Ariel looked at the sea witch who was obviously angry:

"It's okay, I accept the risk of death. I was ready when I came to you. Please give me the medicine, I'm not afraid!"

Although she said so, her face was as pale as snow.

The pain of stepping on a knife, the risk of death after the mission failed, are these two the price to pay?

Ariel is willing to endure the former.

As for the latter, as long as she can get the prince's love and immortal soul, don't you have to worry?

Ariel knows that she has the most beautiful singing voice in this sea and land.

No mermaid can hear her singing and not be moved, let alone humans?

She can charm the prince with that beautiful singing voice and let him devote all his love and soul to her!

"Don't forget, you still have to pay me!" said the sea hag. "In exchange for this precious medicine, you have to give me a big reward."

"What should I give you?" Ariel said in panic.

She then remembered that the first two costs were the side effects of the medicine itself and the curse given by the world after turning into a human form - although, they alone were so terrible.

She also had to pay the sea hag.

This would definitely not be a small thing!

"Your voice," said the sea hag, "because even among all the mermaids in the sea kingdom, your singing is the most beautiful. Only such a reward is worthy of my help! Princess, I will cut off your tongue and use magic to take away your voice. From then on, you can't speak."

Ariel's face became even paler.

Before she could reply, Aurora next to her protested indignantly:

"This is unfair. The beautiful singing voice was originally the way Ariel used to attract her sweetheart.

"If she became a mute, how could Ariel get the prince's love?

"You clearly know that if she fails, she will turn into bubbles. But you demanded the talent necessary for her success as a reward!

"What's the difference between this and pushing her to the grave?"

Aurora looked at Rhine, who had been silent for some reason since just now:

"Please help me say something, teacher.

"It's like, in a duel where failure means death, one of the duelists is deprived of his weapon as a ticket from the beginning.

"Such a deal is not fair at all!"

Rhine, who had been thinking about something, finally spoke:

"I think the price offered by the sea witch is fine."

Aurora was stunned and speechless for a moment:

"Why?"

Rhine turned to the direction of Ariel and the sea witch, and seemed to be completely on the side of the latter:

"Dear sea witch, I oppose my friend's opinion.

"I think it's completely reasonable for you to ask for a high price - didn't we know from the beginning that it would cost a lot to ask you to fulfill our wishes?

"If Ariel can't accept the price you offer, she can just refuse the deal and find another merchant with a lower price as the trading partner - if she can really find one. Isn't that right?"

"What are you talking about?" Aurora was shocked.

"But if we don't get the potion that turns the fish tail into human legs from the sea witch, where can we get it from?" She was about to ask Rhine this, but suddenly stopped.

Aurora instantly understood what the teacher was going to say next.

The sea witch obviously didn't know what Rhine was thinking. She only saw:

The two humans quarreled with each other, and the silver-haired boy opposed the blonde girl for the first time and tried hard to speak for himself.

The sea witch laughed and praised Rhine:

"I didn't expect you to be quite sensible, child. You don't look like your friend at all.

"Your friend has been grumbling, always trying to blame me and put the blame on me. It seems that Ariel should get my help for free.

"Mermaids are just like humans, always so greedy, wanting to fulfill their wishes but not willing to pay the price!

"How can there be such a good thing in the world? How can there be powerful magicians and witches to fulfill people's wishes for free without paying the price?

"The reason is just as you said. This is a transaction that the mermaid princess voluntarily found me to make. If she doesn't want to, but I have a free time, I might as well find someone else."

For a moment, Rhine and the sea witch reached a consensus.

This scene made the mermaid princess Ariel a little confused.

Rhine looked at Ariel again:

"Just as I said. Isn't all this your own will?

"Since you want help, you should pay the price. If you don't want it, then go find someone who is willing to give you the same potion for free!"

Ariel's face turned pale and she nodded gently.

Although she was sad about losing her beautiful voice and becoming mute, she also admitted in her heart that what her human friend said was not wrong.

It's impossible to expect someone to help her turn into a human for free, right?

"Let's do it this way. I accept this deal!" Ariel mustered up the courage and said to the sea witch.

"Stick out your tongue."

The sea witch then took out a sharp knife.

She will use this knife to cut off the mermaid princess's tongue and take away the most beautiful song of the ocean and land.

"This decision should have been made a long time ago, my princess.

"As your human friends said, if you just want to realize your wish but don't want to pay the price, then you might as well close your eyes and pray, who will give you a free potion that can make you grow human legs - —As effective as the potion I mixed."

"Yes," Rhine also agreed with the Sea Hag's words from behind, his tone was firm, "For example, I will give you a free potion. Ariel can come to me."

"That's right..." the sea hag said. She was just about to agree with Rhine's words, and then she felt something was wrong.

She turned to Rhine in shock and asked word by word:

"What are you talking about? Human!"

Rhine smiled and said to Ariel:

"Now that we have become friends, I can boil a medicine for you for free - the effect is the same as what the sea hag said. Well, it is not exactly the same, and the side effects will be smaller."

"That doesn't sound funny." The sea hag looked at Rhine, "What are you talking about? I invented the medicine that makes mermaids grow legs. I am the only one in the sea and land who can cook it! "

I believe what you said is true, but what I copied was your alchemy skills... Rhine thought.

The sea hag said angrily:

"Stop making silly jokes, human. The medicine I am about to boil contains powerful magic. Only those who know magic can brew it!"

"Yes." The silver-haired boy responded with a warm smile, "Didn't I say it before? I am a magician."

Ariel looked at her two human friends in surprise.

"Yes." Aurora also introduced Rhine with pride, "He is a very powerful and talented magician! He is the best magician in the kingdom where we come from."

"Wait!" Ariel was extremely surprised, staring at the silver-haired boy in disbelief.

It turns out that this good friend who has been following him for a while is actually a magician?

As far as the mermaid princess knows, magic is an enigmatic and mysterious knowledge. There is only one wise man who understands magic in the sea country, that is, the sea hag.

No wonder they, as humans, can ride on strange big fish to the sea country!

"I always thought you were a knowledgeable anthropologist." Ariel said.

"This is not a contradiction," Rhine smiled. "Almost all magicians are scholars with rich knowledge."

There is no mistake in every song, one post, one content, one 6 one, one book, one book, take a look!

The sea hag interrupted them:

"Okay. With that strange big fish with a transparent belly, I believe you are indeed a magician.

"But what's the use? The potion that can cut off a mermaid's tail and turn it into human legs is my invention! I have never told anyone the secret recipe.

"Except for me, no human being or sea creature can make a medicine with the same effect!"

The young man said to Ariel with a smile on his face:

"In that case, let's try it. Give me some time, I will fry the medicine and give it to you for free."

"Free?" Ariel couldn't believe it.

"Yes. This is a gift from a friend." Rhine squatted down in the belly of the big fish.

Balls of mist were turned up in his hands, and medicine jars, herbs, mortars, pestles and other necessary props for decoction of medicines were conjured out of thin air.

Ariel was amazed when she saw this magical scene:

"Is this magic? Many things changed at once."

Many of the medicinal materials and tools included were encountered by Rhine when he was treating civilians when he first traveled to this world.

And as long as Rhine touches those items with his hand once, he can call them to his hand from a distance.

——This is the magic he learned after realizing the soldier's wish to "retrieve the tinderbox"!

The young magician then began to boil the medicine. His movements were very familiar, adding something to the medicine jar every once in a while.

From time to time, strange steam would float out of the jar.

The sea ghost woman was stunned for a moment:

"How come the formula for refining the medicine and the method of boiling the medicine are so similar to mine?"

It was as if she was decoction herself!

No, there are still many differences.

The sea snakes that were supposed to be used as medicine were replaced with snakes on land; and the silver seaweed, which was only useful when picked under the moonlight, was replaced with some kind of land medicine that the sea hag did not recognize.

Apparently, Rhine slightly modified the formula, replacing many medicinal materials from the sea with materials from land with similar medicinal properties.

There are herbs from the forest, herbs from the grasslands, and herbs from the mountains and deserts. There are many more things on land than in the vast deep sea!

There were also some medicinal materials that Rhine simply gave up and did not add at all.

Because the divination results told him that not only did this material contain no active ingredients, but it would cause serious poisoning - the original prescription was also flawed.

The sea hag saw strange steam coming out of the medicine jar and knew that the medicine was almost ready.

Moreover, the condition and quality of the medicine are definitely better than the best medicine she can cook!

The sea hag couldn't accept this fact at all.

She questioned the little magician in front of her again:

"Don't think I don't know its medicinal properties. To give this medicine magic power, you have to pour a large bottle of magic blood.

"Are you so kind-hearted that you voluntarily donate your own blood? With your small body, if you give out so much blood, you may collapse before the medicine is ready!"

"Isn't it just magical blood?" Rhine smiled. He found a piece of soft meat in the belly of the big fish and cut it open with a dagger, letting the blood of the big fish flow into the medicine jar.

The sea hag needed her own blood to make the potion, but he didn't.

This big fish was transformed into a dog summoned by the tinder box. The blood naturally comes from the big dog and contains natural magic power.

That big dog had a lot more blood than he did!

After a while, the medicine boiled, and a strange sound came from it - not the cry of the crocodile in the original work, but the melodious singing of a lark.

The medicine is just cooked.

This potion is colorless and transparent, and looks like clear water.

"Oh my god! How could such a thing happen? This is impossible!"

the sea hag screamed.

She didn't even need to watch the mermaid try to drink the medicine. Just by hearing the sound of the medicine being cooked, she knew that Rhine's medicine must be better than her potion.

"Please take this medicine to the coast and drink it before the sun comes up." said Rhine. "My potion has a similar effect to the sea hag's. It will also make you grow human legs, but the side effects will be much smaller!"