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Some kings and lords are willing to accept the culture of orc hunting areas. They will put up fences to enclose the orc hunting areas and even put up warning signs to inform which type of orc hunting area this is.

But this action offended the orcs. In the eyes of the orcs, this was keeping them in captivity, and they were not livestock.

Of course, humans abide by the rules of the orcs and mark hunting areas, and the orcs will also abide by them, but humans do not have that function. This is the biggest gap between different races, or to be more precise, between humans and other races.

Humans mark their territory by planting flags, marking on maps, and building boundary markers, but other species determine their territory by [feeling].

This feeling is also divided into two levels. The general level is the sense of smell. The owner of the territory will patrol and then deliberately leave his own scent at the border to declare ownership.

The other is a higher level, beyond smell, into aura. A simple example is a regional overlord, they don't need to patrol everywhere to determine their territory, they just need to stay where they are.

Their power will produce a certain aura. The stronger the power, the larger the coverage of the aura. If the aura collides with the aura, a battle between regional overlords will occur.

Covering territory with aura and marking territory with scent are both ways of defining territory, but aura and scent do not conflict.

The regional overlords who can generate aura do not care about the so-called territory, and the creatures who can only mark the territory with smell are also quite self-conscious. They can keenly feel the aura, so they tacitly submit to the regional overlord.

Occasionally, some individuals will experience breakthrough growth and challenge the regional hegemon.

But humans do not have such a keen sense of smell, and their nerves are particularly weak. They cannot feel the subtle aura and are fundamentally unable to integrate into the customs of other races.

"But recently the conflicts between us and the orcs have eased a lot, and the cases of livestock attacks have almost dropped to zero." Herbie scratched Blaze, but Blaze touched the back of his head with a confused look on his face.

"It's eased a lot in the last year." Herbie had to emphasize the time.

"Ah? Oh! Is that the case?" Blaze suddenly realized. He almost forgot that as a third-generation lion, he seemed to have something more vague and abstract than aura.

The old lion had warned him before not to enter the Eternal Kingdom and the Holy Cross Kingdom without permission, as it would cause trouble. And that was indeed the case. As soon as he stepped in, the devil Paine was awakened.

He used to pay a little more attention to it, but nothing like this has happened recently, so he forgot about it.

By the way, there is a group of female lions around the Midsummer Galaxy. This reminded him that he should find time to go and take a look.

"So let me touch it more and try to get more flavor!"

Herbie jumped up, hugged Blaze's upper body and rubbed Blaze's head hard, as if he really wanted to cover it with the so-called "smell".

"Hey! I take cleanliness very seriously. I didn't neglect it even during the days when I couldn't take off my armor. Don't accuse me of having any smell!"

"Wow, I just got here and saw such an exciting scene."

Kullene poked his head out from the corner with a sly look on his face, but his smile soon froze.

As soon as he showed up, Herbie and Blaze stopped playing and just stared at him, which frightened him.

"Then I won't disturb you."

"Wait." Blaze immediately reached out to stop Kulene. Now that this old guy, who could be called a living knowledge base, had appeared, there was no reason not to extract something from his brain.

Moreover, Kullene would not just appear in a place randomly. Even if she seemed to be just passing by, she must have some purpose.

Sometimes the appearance of Cyrene can be taken as a sign that something big is about to happen.

"You are such an old guy, why don't you find a chair to bask in the sun?"

Blaze slammed his hand next to Kullene's head, which was a protest that Kullene's appearance must mean that things are not that simple.

"Former [Hermes's Traveling Hat], the highest decision-maker, why didn't you show up earlier? Now is the time when the Chamber of Commerce is in danger. Hurry up and make use of your remaining energy!"

Hebi clapped his hand beside Kulene's elbow, which meant that he welcomed Kulene's arrival and hoped that he would show his value as soon as possible.

“If you two want to play the good cop and the bad cop, why don’t you rehearse it in advance?” Kullene rolled her eyes vigorously and crossed her arms across her chest, using her silence to express her determination to be soft and not hard.

"You have such a bad attitude, I am only willing to answer three questions from you now!"

Blaze and Herbie immediately turned around and started whispering, trying to figure out how to maximize the value of the three questions, and they just didn't notice that Kullene had one eye open, a look that suggested that she would only cooperate if she was flattered.

"The first question is the difference between mermaids and sirens."

"Deep-water fish and shallow-water fish."

Chapter 1496 The Lost Kingdom

Deep-water fish and shallow-water fish, as the name suggests, are fish that live in deep water areas and fish that live in shallow water areas.

In the ocean world, it means living on the seabed and living on the sea surface.

"The shallow-water fish refers to the Siren?" Blaze pinched his chin. He had also seen the Siren, on the way to the Fountain of Youth.

They linger around the reefs, luring sailors to come closer with their singing, and then the reefs or undercurrents destroy the reefs, causing the ship to sink and the people on board to exhaust their strength in the undercurrent or die from hitting the reefs, and then they go up to eat.

"Siren is a humanoid monster, while mermaids are residents of the underwater world." Kullene took out a book with burnt yellow pages and the words "Illustrated Book" were written on the cover.

This is a widely circulated monster ecology atlas. In the past, humans relied on this atlas to face monsters. In a sense, this book is like an escape guide.

The dream of many adventurers is to complete the Monster Ecology Atlas. If they can add one or two pages to the book before they die, it would be a worthy death.

However, after the stranger appeared, the illustrated book, which was originally less than one centimeter thick, quickly gained weight in a very short period of time and became as thick as a dictionary.

This is partly because adding content to the encyclopedia can earn a one-time reward, and because one can sign on the added pages and continue to gain reputation, so strangers are somewhat fanatical about completing the encyclopedia.

Of course, there is also a section about Sirens in it. When Blaze was looking for the Fountain of Youth, he read the section about Sirens.

The monster ecology atlas completed by the stranger introduces that they are hunters living in the ocean forest. The reefs are the forests in the ocean and also the living area of ​​the Sirens.

Sirens have a very peculiar ecology. When they lay eggs, they secrete a special mucus to wrap the eggs. The mucus quickly solidifies and forms a columnar object that looks like a reef.

Since the Sirens are in the form of fishmen when laying eggs, the eggs they produce are no different from the eggs of other fish creatures, so Siren caviar occasionally appears in the black market.

According to current investigations, Sirens do not have the concept of family in the popular sense. Whether it is spawning or mating, it is all due to the instinct of the estrus period. Therefore, for the eggs that serve as their offspring, Sirens simply instinctively hide the eggs in the form of reefs.

However, it does not mention whether sirens are shallow-water fish, and there is no mention of mermaids at all. Perhaps in the eyes of foreigners, there is no difference between mermaids and sirens.

But if mermaids are deep-water fish, then it is normal not to find any trace of mermaids. Unless mermaids have an extremely powerful and huge physique like marine behemoths and can withstand the abnormal state of [decompression sickness], otherwise they can only stay in the deep sea area and cannot leave.

Blazer had seen some fish caught from deep waters with their bodies swollen, their eyes vomited out, and sometimes their stomachs vomited out, which was quite terrifying.

"In addition to the difference between shallow-water fish and deep-water fish, there is another difference. Sirens are only female, so they will attack males of other species during the estrus period, while mermaids are humanoid creatures with normal male and female differences."

"You do know something about mermaids." Hebi crossed his arms, raised his chin, and his tone contained an urging feeling for Kullene to tell the truth quickly.

"Tell me your misdeeds quickly. I don't want to be attacked suddenly or lose an important building I built and work in vain."

What is being talked about here is of course the profligate history of Cyrene.

For Hebi, giving the chocolate coin processing factory she had painstakingly built and the monetary system it brought to the human representatives of the first underground world was an extremely painful lesson. If she could do it again, she would definitely refuse to acknowledge it and pretend that she didn't know Kullene.

But what happened happened and it couldn't be changed, but she could prevent it from happening again.

"If you have ever had an obscene relationship with a mermaid queen, mermaid princess, mermaid queen, mermaid queen mother, or the like, please jump off the boat now."

"Little guy, you are too heartless." The corner of Kullene's mouth twitched. It would have been fine if Hebi had just said that, but Blaze also nodded in agreement.

Seeing Kullene looking at him, Blaze raised his brows and slapped the wall.

"Do you know that my heart almost stopped when I yelled your name in Weimar's voice that he had sex with his daughter? And I haven't even settled the score with you yet!"

"Tell me, have you ever done anything similar?"

"If you want to set the time in the Age of Gods, then I can give you a clear answer." Cyrene spread her hands and smiled quite frankly, "Yes, I did everything. After all, mermaids are residents of the Ocean Kingdom in [Olympus]."

"Of course! If it were now, I would definitely not do it!"

Culene raised her voice, and Blaze's fist stopped in front of him.

Although he could see that Blaze would stop no matter what he said and was just using this threatening method to vent his dissatisfaction, the wind from his fist still made his face crack.

"I'm not idle enough to go to the ocean world just to recall what it's like to get along with mermaids." Kullene stretched out her hand and pushed Blaze's fist back.

"Mermaids are quite xenophobic. They are a complete appearance-oriented group. They are not interested in the appearance of creatures other than mermaids. Even when facing a god like me, they suppress their disgust and have sex with me, although that is also a different kind of fun."

Seeing that Blaze raised his fist again and would definitely not stop this time, Kullene immediately said the most important part.

"In the Age of the Gods, mermaids were isolated inhabitants of the sea, and I think this has not changed even now."

"Of course, this premise is that the mermaids have not lost the protection of the gods and become extinct in the dangerous deep sea world."

"God's blessing? Oh, you mentioned that mermaids are the inhabitants of the deep sea world, which means they also have a social structure similar to that of humans, that is, there are tribal kingdoms and the like!"

Blaze suddenly became a little excited. He looked at Kulene nervously, waiting for Kulene to say the name.

"Could it be!? Is it that one? The one that ranked in the top five in the treasure hunt story!"

"That's right." Cyrene nodded. "The kingdom established by the mermaids is dedicated to the legendary sea god Poseidon. It is a city built in the sea, and it is the now lost continent Atlantis."

Chapter 1497: Jewel Box in the Sea

The lost kingdom, Atlantis, is the most famous lost kingdom and also the ultimate destination pursued by countless seafarers.

Although Blaze has found the Fountain of Youth, which ranks higher than Atlantis, the adventure stories are never ranked in order, but are simply sorted alphabetically.

The legendary Atlantis was an extremely huge island, which could even be described as a continent. It had an extremely prosperous civilization. Unfortunately, it was swallowed up by the ocean, disappeared in history, and could never be found again.

The latest speculation about the mystery of the lost Atlantis is that due to the upheaval, this land called Atlantis entered World F and was swallowed up by the infinite sea water there.

As to whether the residents are mermaids, different people have different opinions, but there is no controversy.

Because the attraction of Atlantis itself exceeds what its inhabitants are like.

Many researchers have various speculations about Atlantis, but none of them are as convincing as what Cyrene, who came from Atlantis and never lost it, and even spent countless nights there, said.

But Cyrene's first words overturned many popular views.

"In fact, Atlantis was a continent in the ocean from the beginning, and it was a city floating in the sea. This is natural. After all, this is a kingdom dedicated to the god of the sea, and even the first king was the god of the sea. How could it be on land or on the sea?"

Cyrene describes Atlantis, not in terms of its culture, or prosperity, but in terms of its feeling.

It was a huge jewel box that the sea god carefully cared for to show off his governing ability.

It is held by the sea god in the cleanest sea water. When the ocean is calm, any creature passing by the sea can see the huge and beautiful kingdom clearly when they lower their heads.

Unfortunately, when the world turned upside down, the god holding the huge jewel box was affected, the ocean was no longer clean, and the jewel box tilted into the deep sea and disappeared.

"So the God of the Ocean will also be affected by the upheaval?" Blaze asked curiously. Almost all gods will be affected by the upheaval because the totems describing them were destroyed in the upheaval.

But there are exceptions. For life forms that have left the earth, such as the sun and the moon, their own power will not be affected much even if the world turns upside down.

Of course the chaos that caused the Sun to pursue the One and the Moon to be the One is another matter.

Blaze believes that the sea god and the like will not be affected too much. After all, the ocean itself should be the totem of the sea god. The ocean is invisible, and it is still an ocean even if it is cut open.

"So what I said was that they were affected, not disappeared or died." Kullene twisted her neck uncomfortably. "Don't forget that totems not only include the power and authority of gods, but also the birth of gods and the family relationships of gods."

"If [birth] and [family relationships] happen to be in a place where the world is turned upside down and destroyed, there is no need to say what the consequences will be."

"If you lose the individuality that you gained through birth and family relationships, your personality will become incomplete. Even if you still have power, it will be meaningless." Blaze nodded thoughtfully. At the same time, he was a little surprised and looked up and down at Kullene.

"How come you don't look affected at all? It can't be that your totem is relatively small, so it didn't get cut."

Blaze said in a teasing tone, and if Kullene cared about this matter very much and got angry next time, he would apologize sincerely.

Who knew that Kullene's expression was so calm and casual.

"What's so strange about this? I was born because my father, as always, fell in love with a goddess, had sex with her, and then walked away, and then turned around and forgot about it."

"My mother is a mountain goddess. She gave birth to me and instinctively fed me until she no longer needed breast milk, then she stopped caring about me."

"Don't think that I became a god when I grew up. At that time, I was no different from an ordinary human child. I had to become cunning in order to survive. These stories that are not great and belong only to me will not be recorded on earth."

"After that, no matter who I was, I thought I was born to be such a cunning god. No one knew or cared how I became who I am."

Perhaps she noticed it, or perhaps she hated the pity this story brought her, Kullene touched the back of her head and acted very casually.

"This can be considered a blessing in disguise. Those humble stories cannot be taken away from me even if the world turns upside down, so I have retained the most important thing for a living being - myself."

"You..." Hebi walked slowly in front of Kullene and narrowed his eyes. "How old were you when you first committed petty theft, and what did you get?"

"When I was just born as a baby, I was wearing diapers and stole the cattle of the Sun God. I did it so perfectly that the Sun God couldn't find any evidence. So he had no choice but to ask the King of Gods to make the judgment." Cyrene crossed her arms proudly.

"I lost, I lost!" Herbie knelt down, holding onto the wall.

"Why do you want to compete with him in this kind of thing?" Blaze patted Herbie's back, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and consoled him, "Besides, he lives in the Age of Gods, so the upper limit of what he can do is really too high."

"Damn it! The best I've ever done is to swindle a little princess out of her monthly allowance." Hebie muttered unwillingly.

Apparently, after discovering that this former [Hermes's Traveling Hat]'s top power figure was similar to himself in birth, Herbie developed a certain confrontational mentality.

Of course the result was a disastrous defeat, both in terms of age and achievements.

"Now President, don't worry. I've been retired for many years." Kullene raised her eyebrows proudly. "You still have a chance to surpass me. Come on."

"Don't try to deceive me. If I did something like that, I would undoubtedly be kicked out of the Chamber of Commerce for being morally corrupt, and you could take advantage of the opportunity to take the stage."

Hebi pouted at Kulene, as if he knew what Kulene was up to.