Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 819 Those Who Share the Same Misfortune

After listening to Saul's story, Froco closed his eyes briefly, and when he opened them again, he remained completely relaxed.

The other party's reaction was different from what Saul had expected.

"I thought you would be angry after hearing this, or at least express some sentiment."

Floco waved his hand. "When the Azure Scale Clan left this world, the remaining mermaids were all from mixed bloodlines and were originally of very low status. Even if I were still in this world, they might not be doing any better than they are now... Of course, on the surface, they might have a better reputation than they do now."

Floco is like a god to the Azure Scale Clan. A god may love his followers and people, but he won't care whether a particular group of his people is happy.

"Didn't you say this mermaid has your blood in her?"

Floco bluntly stated, "Procreation is a basic need, and racial expansion is a guarantee of survival."

Thor refrained from commenting on the other's lifestyle and produced a contaminated sample obtained from the mermaid coral's tail.

A lump of flesh, and a little blood.

"This is flesh and blood obtained from a mermaid showing signs of atavism. Can you tell if it contains your bloodline? Actually, there is an even higher concentration of royal mermaid blood, but I can't get that for now."

The flesh was pale, but the blood was darker.

Floco scanned the area with his mental energy, then shook his head. "It has nothing to do with me; it should be the bloodline of another Azure Scale Clan member."

He told Thor, "That doesn't matter. Like I said, the merfolk who remained back then were of mixed bloodlines, not royalty from our time. It was probably the merfolk who remained who elevated their own status."

When the tiger is away, the monkey reigns supreme.

Saul expressed his understanding.

"Since they're not your descendants and you don't care, then I won't hold back."

Floco raised his hand. "Do as you please."

Saul raised the question he had been pondering for the past few days.

"The spiritual bodies of atavistic mermaids are stronger than those of modified mermaids. However, their ability to adapt to the Kuroshio pollution is reduced as a result. Perhaps we can understand what modifications the Tribunal has made to the mermaids by comparing them."

The Tribunal has been fighting against the Kuroshio pollution for over a century, and some of the knowledge it possesses is beyond even Thor's natural gifts.

"That's normal. The stronger the spiritual entity, the more unstable it is. Just like the taller the building, the easier it is to collapse."

Saul nodded. "So we need to reinforce our building materials."

High-rise buildings that haven't been built with shoddy materials are definitely more durable than thatched huts.

Looking at the clear-headed Froco before him, then at Kate, and finally at the ugly mermaid who only had the instinct for survival, a light shone in his mind.

"For the Tribunal, the most difficult thing is actually controlling the mermaids. Perhaps they only tampered with the mermaids' spiritual entities, then threw all the mermaids into the Kuroshio Tide pollution, selecting the survivors for mass breeding?"

"Using natural mutations instead of artificial modification can indeed save a lot of time if the sample size is large enough," Froco said without any hesitation.

Thor looked worried again. "But then there's not much technical expertise to draw upon. Coral's contamination might simply be due to her powerful but unstable spiritual body. But to resolve the contamination, must we destroy her spiritual body?"

Thinking of that ruby-like mermaid, Thor felt a pang of pity.

He thought to himself, "I still need to go to the Red Sea Tree and the large number of mermaids to see the differences between the two. If Alfonso doesn't lead me there, I can ask the wizard Royer for help."

……

Alfonso, the wizard who was struck by Thor's electric shock, was in the Emperor's living room in the Palace of Eternal Night, watching Sand have his blood drawn.

Two young female wizard apprentices were kneeling in front of Sander, each holding one of his arms.

The mouths of these two wizard apprentices had been specially modified, with protruding lips that gradually narrowed into a thin, needle-like shape.

Their stomachs were also modified into two, one for taking in liquid food and the other for storing Sander's blood.

This large-scale blood draw is performed once a month.

Besides this, Sander also has other tasks that he must complete.

That is, mating once a week.

Although the court gave this behavior a nice name, called "inheritance," Sander only saw it as breeding in his heart.

The shame associated with the word prevented Sander from quickly succumbing to numbness and despair like his predecessors.

After the blood draw was completed, the two female wizard apprentices withdrew. They were not allowed to eat again until the stomach pouches containing their blood were removed.

Some people were lucky and completed the abdominal surgery quickly, but others starved to death as a result.

After having his blood drawn, Sander's face paled even more. He leaned back on the soft leather cushions of the recliner, but the dizziness in his head did not lessen.

He closed his eyes, but felt even more uncomfortable, so he forced himself to open them and look at the other side.

Opposite Sander, there is a huge glass door that goes all the way to the top.

That was the room next to his, a room enclosed by crystal glass.

Inside the glass is clear seawater, with clean stones and seaweed all present.

This is a room made of water, and a member of the royal family is also imprisoned inside.

An heir to the bloodline of a mermaid royal family.

pearl.

She is also a merman who has undergone atavism, and she is the one with the strongest bloodline among mermen who have undergone atavism.

She was born with a complete blue fish tail.

She was called Pearl because she had a head of lustrous white hair. When sunlight shone on it, it reflected a soft, iridescent light, just like a real pearl.

Alfonso spotted her immediately among the mermaids and used magic to pull her out of the sea.

He discovered that this strangely shaped little mermaid had a face that looked remarkably like a human girl. From head to toe, she resembled a seventeen or eighteen-year-old human girl, with almost none of the physical characteristics of a mermaid.

Alfonso examined her body several times and always suspected that she was under some kind of hallucination.

But after several years of investigation, he still found no trace of human manipulation.

Pearls are truly born this way.

However, in stark contrast to Pearl's appearance, which perfectly conforms to human aesthetics, her spiritual body is incomplete.

This has been personally verified by the Chief Justice of the Tribunal, Flim.

Pearl has the mental capacity of a three- or four-year-old child and still cannot speak.

Alfonso has yet to understand why Pearl, who possesses the strongest mermaid royal bloodline, has a fragmented spiritual body. Because of her bloodline and special identity, Alfonso has kept her in solitary confinement.

For Sander, who was also under house arrest, Pearl was a kindred spirit.

Inside the glass water room across the street, Pearl was also leaning against the wall, watching Sander.

Every time the Emperor of Eternal Night had his blood drawn, Pearl would open her rosy little mouth and watch the spectacle from behind the transparent wall with a shocked expression.

She found it novel every time, even though she had seen the scene hundreds of times.

Sander forced a smile at Pearl. Pearl immediately returned an even bigger and brighter smile.

This improved Sander's mood somewhat.

But his mood soon soured again, because Alfonso had appeared with a bottle of black potion.

He shoved the black potion directly in front of Sander's face, blocking Sander's view of the mermaid, and said in a low voice, "Drink it, then go back to sleep."

(End of this chapter)