Chapter 960: Glowing beach
Chapter 960: Glowing beach
Once the matter with the Tide Empire had been settled, there was no longer a reason for us to stay here any longer.
However, we didn’t leave right away since Ariel wanted a few days with her parents.
Since there was no way to solve the issue of her human legs, Ariel would be coming back with us to spend time in our kingdom as a royal guest. So it was perfectly fine to let her spend some time with her parents before she left for our kingdom.
At the same time, it was a chance for us since we could build up a relationship with the Merman Empire.
The relationship that the Tide Empire had with the Merman Empire had allowed it to become one of the four human empires.
So one couldn’t look down on the Merman Empire.
Especially since they were the only ones that ruled under the ocean.
That meant that the Merman Empire had a vast quantity of resources at their disposal that humans didn’t know about. The humans had no idea just how strong the Merman Empire was.
Well, I had an idea since I had my knowledge from the game, but it wasn’t as if I knew everything about the Merman Empire.
So even I couldn’t look down on them.
It was a good thing that the Merman King and Queen were easy to get along with.
After the initial misunderstanding was cleared by our man to man talk, it was much easier to talk to the two of them.
They behaved completely differently from the other royals.
They didn’t have the same arrogance that other royals had.
It must be the difference in environment that caused them to behave differently from the other royals.
Simply put, it was most likely because there was no competition for land with the Merman Empire.
Most royals would develop that kind of arrogance because of their need to show off against the other royal families that would threaten them. So they would develop this kind of guarded and arrogant personality.
But since the Merman Empire didn’t have such a threat, the royal family of the Merman Empire developed more freely as they interacted more with their people, rather than with other royals.
They were grounded rulers who saw themselves as one of the people that lived in the country, rather than rulers that were chosen by god to rule over their lands.
So they were much easier to interact with compared to other royals.
While we were able to become closer, we weren’t able to strike any deals in the end.
It wasn’t that they weren’t willing to cooperate with us, it was just that there wasn’t anything that we had that could entice them into coming all the way to our territory to trade with us. While we had a river that was connected to the ocean, the problem was that our kingdom was quite far inland so it was inconvenient for the mermaids to come that far.
At the same time, they would be able to obtain the things that they wanted from the Tide Empire which was much closer and had more variety than a small kingdom like ours.
So there were no benefits to the Merman Empire to come that far just to trade with us.
I fully understood what their reasoning was, so I didn’t push the issue.
Just like this, a week passed where we got to know the people from the Merman Empire.
Klein and the others seemed to have gotten quite close to the mermaid royal guards during this time.
From time to time, I could see them playing sumo with each other.
The mermaid royal guards had the same strong legs that Ariel had since they were also mermen that had transformed into humans. So they were quite skilled when it came to sumo even if they didn’t know the rules.
But Klein and the others had practice and the techniques that I showed them, so they were able to put up a good fight.
I even saw the Merman King down at the sumo rings from time to time…
It seemed that the mermen really were enthralled by the sport of sumo.
However, it wasn’t as if that was a bad thing.
It was a good bonding experience after all.
On this final day, we went down to the beach late at night.
It was the Merman King and Queen who had called us out this late, so we had no idea what was happening. Though we didn’t think that they would set a trap for us after all this time spent together.
When we arrived at the beach, we were shocked by the sight.
The beach was covered in glowing things that completely lit it up.
It was like the beach itself was glowing with the way that these things were spread out.
Ariel happily explained, “It’s the Glowing Seaweed!”
Then she ran down to the beach and happily ran through the glowing things that were there.
I looked at the Merman King and Queen with a confused look and they explained what this
was.
The seaweed that was there was a special kind of seaweed that was found under the ocean that glowed because of the nutrients that they absorbed. It was just that they didn’t have any
nutritional value that most things left them alone.
When it was time, they would be swallowed by the waves and sent to the beach, like what was happening now.
It was a sight that many mermen and mermaids liked to watch.
Based on this explanation, it was very easy to draw a comparison.
Fireflies.
This was the equivalent of watching fireflies for the mermaids.
The glowing seaweed spread out across the beach certainly was a beautiful sight, though it
was a bit hard for humans to appreciate since it was just seaweed.
This was most likely a cultural thing between mermaids and humans.
But that wasn’t the thing that I was the most concerned about.
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