Wizard Bloodline.

Chapter 256: Ghostly Fish, Mermaid Song, Sea Tribe Chuck

"Mr. Wells often mentions you, and Cheryl tells me about you almost every day, and Miss Winnie."

The boy looked at Ronan with admiration, as if he had finally met his legendary idol. He quickly pulled out a small package wrapped in waterproof oilcloth from his arms, wiped it hard on his body, and then handed it to Ronan.

Ronan took the oilcloth package handed to him by the boy with a smile, opened it, and a small communication stone immediately fell out.

In addition, there is a letter.

The letter was indeed in Cheryl's handwriting, and it looked a little sloppy, as if it was written in a hurry.

Cheryl said in the letter that Venetia's beauty had attracted a powerful wizard in Windhaven who was crazy about her. Venetia was overwhelmed by him, but she couldn't offend him, so the three of them finally chose to leave Windhaven. Old Wells used his connections to board a ship from Windhaven. They didn't even know where they were going. If Ronan saw this letter one day, he could try to contact them using the message stone.
Ronan picked up the communication stone and sent a few messages to the other party, but there was no response.

Cheryl probably didn't know that the communication stone she left behind was only an apprentice-level item, and its communication range was very small, and it would lose its effectiveness outside the town of Qifenggang.

Ronan looked at the letter and the communication stone in his hand in silence. It was unknown what he was thinking about. After a long time, he slowly put the two things away.

"What's your name?"

Ronan turned his gaze back to the boy in front of him. The boy, staring at him, tried to straighten his chest and replied loudly: "Meleageros Becker. Everyone calls me Meleager."

"Thank you, Meurer."

Ronan reached out his hand and gently stroked the boy's fluffy and soft curly hair. Something shiny flowed down his sleeves and fell into the boy's arms.

"Magic Stone?!"

The boy, Mueller, was stunned for a moment, then his eyes widened, "So many!"

When he hurriedly put away all the magic stones, he looked up and found that Ronan had disappeared from his sight.

In an open-air tavern near the coastline, under a simple sunshade tent made of palm leaves, the sea breeze blew robes, and two figures were sitting opposite each other and talking in low voices.

"The weeping ghost fish is also commonly called the devil fish or the devil fish. It is characterized by its ability to make a terrifying cry that is enough to threaten a formal wizard. According to the local legend in Qifeng Port, a ship once mistakenly entered an ancient forbidden area. The souls of all the crew members on the ship were cursed by the devil and forced to be imprisoned in the bodies of sea fish, and could only make painful howling sounds."

"Many wizards are interested in the Weeping Ghost Fish, but the Weeping Ghost Fish only appears in the depths of the Green Abyss, a dangerous place that even formal wizards dare not easily set foot in. Only those who have mastered special skills have the opportunity to catch it. If one occasionally appears, it will always be quickly bought at a high price."

Ronan listened to the story of the first-level wizard in front of him without much fluctuation on his face. He thought for a moment and said, "Since you came to me again, you should not just come to tell me that there is no way to solve this matter, right?"

"of course."

The black-haired wizard in front of him smiled and said, "As long as you are willing to spend enough magic stones, I can always meet your requirements."

Ronan's lips moved slightly, and the black-haired wizard's eyes lit up. He was refreshed and continued speaking quickly: "At the bottom of the Green Abyss, the ruins of the ancient Mermaid Song are buried. Before the Mermaid Song was destroyed, some of the survivors escaped. No one is more familiar with the Green Abyss than them.
Although most of these people died over a long period of time, I know that there is a descendant of the survivors with the blood of the sea clan living in Qifeng Port.
If you decide, I can take you there anytime."

The Mermaid's Song
Ronan listened to the other party's story, his eyes flickering slightly.

He had only read about the legends of the sea people in books. The collapse of the world continent affected not only the structure of the wizarding world, but many ancient races that once lived on the same level migrated with it, or simply disappeared completely or even became extinct in this world.

Elves, Winged Tribe, Fairies, and Barbarians Ronan never expected that in the south, in a small place like Qifeng Port, there were still the former sea people alive.

Moreover, he only just now learned about the ancient sea kingdom and the Mermaid Song ruins.

"Let's go."

Without further ado, Ronan simply stood up, and the black-haired wizard politely began to lead the way.

Ronan came to the Port of Qifeng not only to reminisce about the past with old Wells and others, but his main purpose was to find out the secret of the "roaring fish" that he had obtained at the Sunset Gathering in the ruins of the ancient goblin city.

Ronan was very interested in the ability of the "roaring fish", or the ghost fish, to convert all its vitality into terrifying sound waves in one breath. If he could figure this out, it might help him improve the life light ball compression technique of [Innocent Body].

Ronan spent three days, and after launching a powerful magic stone attack and revealing a small part of his strength as a third-level wizard, he easily found a local tyrant in Qifeng Port, the black-haired first-level wizard who was leading the way for him.

The town of Qifeng Port is not big, and Ronan and the black-haired wizard soon arrived at a place that was similar to a slum.

It was very similar to the place where he lived when he was a wandering wizard in Hoddam, with low and dilapidated old houses everywhere. There was no sewage flowing on the streets, but the air was also filled with a strong smell of sea and fish.

The two stopped in front of a particularly shabby stone hut. The outside of the hut was covered with dried or fresh and moist seaweed plants. The fishy smell was stronger, and even the black-haired wizard who led the way could not help but frown.

“@4#￥.”

The black-haired wizard chanted a spell quickly, and many black insects that looked like sea spiders crawled out from under his robe and rushed towards the hut quickly.

After a moment, the swarm of insects retreated like a tide, and the door of the seaweed hut was pushed open with a "bang" from the inside.

A thin figure walked out of the house.

Judging from his appearance, he looks like a middle-aged man in his forties, with a medium build and gray-green eyes. He looks like he has just been fished out of the water, with his hair stuck to his head in clumps.

His appearance made the fishy smell in the air even stronger.

Ronan noticed that there were organs similar to fish gills on both sides of the man's cheeks, which were slightly opening and closing.

His skin was also very damp, but there were many large sores on his body, as if caused by years of being soaked in water.

"Chuck!"

The black-haired wizard called out the man's name, his lips moving, as if he was communicating with the man alone.

Finally, he threw two potion bottles filled with pink liquid at the man's feet and said coldly: "You have to think clearly. Apart from me, there is no other wizard in the entire Qifeng Port who is willing to provide you with a slow-release agent for 'Sea Poison Disease'."

After saying this, the black-haired wizard turned around and whispered, as if he was explaining this specifically to Ronan: "People like them, who are the offspring of the sea race and humans, have a huge innate defect in their blood. Their bodies will continue to fester until they die.
Earlier we were interested in their bloodline and captured a batch for research, but unfortunately after wasting a lot of resources and energy, we only came up with something so worthless."

The black-haired wizard stared at the potion bottle that he had casually discarded on the pile of rotten seaweed, with undisguised indifference and disgust in his eyes.

He kept watching the actions of the sea tribe survivor named Chuck in front of him until he silently picked up the potion bottle on the ground, then a satisfied expression appeared on his face.

"Okay, you can discuss the rest with him on your own. My work is done."

The black-haired wizard smiled and replied to Ronan politely. Ronan took out some magic stones and sent him away casually. He and the man were the only ones left in front of the shabby hut.

Ronan watched the man open the potion bottle left by the black-haired wizard and apply the pink liquid inside little by little to the ulcerated parts of his skin. Ronan could feel his tense emotions relaxing in the process, and some of the pain was temporarily suppressed.

"What can I do for you?"

After applying the medicine on the last sore, the man carefully put away the remaining medicine and then asked Ronan humbly.

When he spoke, the cheeks on both sides opened and closed, so that the sound he made had a strange "buzzing" sound. "I need a guide to take me to the Green Abyss."

Ronan told the man about his desire to find the ghost fish. The man's eyes flickered. After weighing the pros and cons for a while, he seemed to have mustered up some courage and said boldly: "If I follow your request, this trip to the sea may cost me my life. I..."

"You think you need extra payment?"

Ronan guessed what the man was thinking and interrupted him calmly.

The man was stunned for a moment, hesitating and not daring to continue.

Ronan didn't have the patience to continue talking nonsense with him, so he took out a bag full of low-level magic stones, about two or three hundred of them, and held it up with his mental power, and presented it to the man.

The man pushed aside the bag Ronan brought him, and when he saw the number of magic stones in the bag, he was stunned for a moment.

After a moment, he raised his head and said to Ronan, "Sir, can you give me a little more time?"

Ronan nodded, and then he saw the man holding the bag of magic stones and running out of the stone house as fast as the wind.

Qifeng Port was a small place, so Ronan was not worried about where a mere mortal man could run to.

Ronan followed the man slowly, watching him turning around in the streets of the slums, and he became a little curious.

Finally, he saw the man rushing into an equally shabby house with a half-open door. Some loose women's underwear were hanging outside the house. It seemed to be the residence of the man's lover.

Just as Ronan guessed, after the man rushed into the house, a woman's scream was soon heard from inside.

"Get the hell out of my house, you stinking piece of rotten fish!"

"Don't even think about touching me again until you settle the money from last time!"

Along with the crisp sound of something rolling to the ground, the angry voice of the woman in the room suddenly stopped.

After a moment of silence, a louder scream rang out from the house.

"Oh my god, where did you get so much money?!"

"Oh, Chuck, you damned bastard, I just love you to death"

A strange rustling sound of clothes began to be heard in the room.

Ronan silently calculated the time, and when he counted to thirty-one, he saw the man appear again.

Unlike his numb look before, the man's face was flushed at this moment, and the gills on both sides of his cheeks spread out like two small fans. There were still a few exaggerated blood-red lip prints on his face, but the magic stone bag in his arms was missing.

A fat woman with a barrel-shaped figure ran out of the house in dishevel, waving a handkerchief in her hand and shouting to the man's back: "Chuck, our children and I are waiting for you to come back home."

As he said this, he touched his fat belly tenderly.

"Sure my Lord, when would you like to leave?"

Sea Clan Chuck returned to Ronan, wiped his wet cheeks vigorously, looked at him with burning eyes and asked.

Ronan didn't know what to say. He didn't understand but wanted to show his respect.

He turned and strolled towards the coastline.

"Now."

On the clear blue sea, a silver-gray magic airship was flying quickly in one direction, close to the sea level.

Ronan stood at the bow, squinting his eyes and looking into the distance.

With his eyesight far beyond that of an ordinary person, he could clearly see that near the junction of the sea and the sky, the originally azure blue water was slowly turning into dark green.

There seemed to be a mass of thick green ink in the sea water, which kept deepening. From a distance, it looked like a huge dark green mouth that kept opening, swallowing up the entire sea.

There was the Green Abyss where they were heading.

Ever since he saw the giant silver eel, an ancient marine creature, Ronan has always maintained a deep respect for the ocean.

The experience of crossing the ocean alone and returning to the southern continent from the east coast gave him the courage to challenge the unknown.

Ronan looked away and turned around to see Chuck looking at the "roaring fish" that he had casually placed on the deck of the airship.

This "roaring fish" bought from the Sunset Fair was already in a dying state after it exhausted its vitality and let out a fatal roar.

Ronan relied on the infusion of vitality to keep him alive until now.

But even so, it could not live long, floating belly up in the transparent crystal tank. The two strange human legs growing on the fish's body were as white and tender as a baby's at first, but now they have become shriveled and wrinkled like a dying old man.

"This is the first time I've seen a ghost fish that survived after crying."

Chuck said as he looked at the roaring fish in the tank with a tone full of wonder.

Ronan has never had any contempt or prejudice towards people living at the bottom of society. After using magic to temporarily remove the strong fishy smell of the sea creatures on Chuck's body, he began to treat him as a normal person.

After going out to sea, the two would often chat. After a few days of getting along, Chuck himself had discovered that the young man in front of him, who even the most distinguished wizards he usually met had to treat with respect, had a much better temper than he looked.

"How do you usually catch them?"

Ronan casually asked about Chuck.

Chuck answered almost without hesitation: "Flesh and blood."

Then he looked at Ronan and added, "My flesh and blood. Ordinary flesh and blood are useless. Only the flesh and blood of people with sea blood can attract the ghost fish to take the bait.

In the legend of the Mermaid Song, the Weeping Ghost Fish is a tool created by demons from the bottom of the abyss to hunt and enslave the sea creatures. They are particularly sensitive to the flesh and blood of the sea creatures.
But don't worry, sir, I am ready to devote myself to this hunting trip at sea at any time..."

Ronan didn't take Chuck's display of loyalty seriously. Instead, he was quite interested in what he said about the origin of the Ghost Crying Fish, so he couldn't help but ask, "What else do you know? Tell me in detail."

Chuck hesitated and said, “Actually, I don’t know much.

The blood of the sea race that has been passed down to my generation has become very thin, but I still can't get rid of the damn 'sea poisoning'.
All I know comes from the stories my grandfather told me when I was a child."

(End of this chapter)