Chapter 95 Epilogue: The Ending of the Sea Hag
After the wedding of the mermaid princess and the human prince, in Neptune's palace, Neptune summoned Rhine and Aurora again.
The two human children were still inside the large fish with a transparent belly.
"Dear Magician, now, the Kingdom of the Sea and the Kingdom of Humanity have reached an alliance.
"The two countries will start trade, and both will benefit from it. The human king is also working hard to let the people on the earth understand that we mermaids can wash away their previous prejudices."
"Thank you for helping my daughter and all of us mermaids.
"From now on, if you two have any request, the people of the Kingdom of the Sea will do their best to help. In addition, I am also willing to pay the reward."
"Remuneration?" Rhine thought for a while and asked, "My partner Aurora is a powerful super warrior, and ordinary weapons cannot withstand her fighting intensity. In this kingdom of the sea, can you find a Where is the weapon suitable for her? ”
At this time, Rhine suddenly had a strange association: a story about a monkey looking for a weapon in the sea.
Neptune summoned the ministers, and after discussing with each other for a while, he finally expressed his inability to do anything.
Even Aquaman's trident is more of a symbol of power than a powerful weapon.
"Great magician, I'm so sorry, please choose another reward."
It seems that Rhine nodded with regret:
"Then I'll get some specialties from the sea."
After receiving the promise from the Sea King, Rhine successively touched thousands of big pearls in the Kingdom of the Sea. After that, he touched many beautiful coral products, handicrafts made of Bengbu and shells, and other beautiful things that can only be found in the sea.
"Your Majesty, as a magician, I have left my traces on these items. I can summon them whenever I need them," Rhine explained.
Because the reward Rhine asked for was too ordinary and cheap, Neptune strongly asked Rhine to take more, but Rhine felt it was unnecessary.
He thought: "These products from the sea are sparse and common to sea countries, but their value will increase a hundred times on land. If you take out a big pearl, it will be priceless.
"Next, I will be traveling with an entire kingdom's worth of wealth!"
In the west of the continent, most of the kingdoms are not big. Rhine is convinced that with the wealth in the sea he owns, he can buy most of the kingdoms in the west.
After returning to the palace, Neptune sighed again:
"Now just one last question.
"The magic potion you have refined can turn humans into mermaids, and mermaids into humans. This will be necessary for long-term communication between land and sea.
"Relatively speaking, it would be safer for humans to grow fish tails and go into the sea than for mermaids to grow legs on land, because they don't have to bear the terrible curse.
"However, these magical potions can only be made by your Excellency. Of course I am willing to pay extra generous compensation for this.
"But I heard that your Excellency will eventually travel to a distant place and it is impossible to stay here for a long time.
"What should we do after you leave?"
Rhine smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, I can recommend another potion master to Your Majesty. I will give her the formulas of both potions.
"After I leave, if anyone wants to go to the world on the sea, or if humans want to come to the kingdom of the sea, please ask her."
Neptune was stunned:
"What are you referring to?"
Rhine smiled and replied:
"Of course it's the sea witch who lives in the Coral Forest."
……
Passing through the turbulent whirlpool and the steaming gray wasteland, Rhine, Neptune, and a group of Sea Kingdom soldiers arrived at the Bone Cottage where the sea hag lived.
"Who, who came to see me again?"
The sea hag thought that business was coming. As soon as she opened the door, she saw the sea king holding a trident and many well-armed mermaid soldiers, and she was immediately frightened.
"Your Majesty?" The sea hag shivered.
She knew that her reputation was not very good, but she didn't expect that Neptune would mobilize an army to find her!
"Could it be that the King of the Sea knew about my intention to cut off Ariel's tongue, so he specifically came to trouble me?" The sea hag suddenly panicked.
Her magic is not powerful enough to directly confront the entire kingdom of the sea!
"Hello, Witch of the Sea, I'm back again to fulfill the wish you mentioned before." Rhine's voice sounded.
At this time, the sea hag discovered the big fish with a transparent belly and the familiar little magician inside.
"What I said before..." The sea hag couldn't help but be stunned.
"Didn't you say that you want to be recognized by His Majesty the Sea King and even the entire Kingdom of the Sea?" Rhine said, "Now, the opportunity is right in front of you."
In the sea hag's unbelievably shocked eyes, each mermaid saluted to the sea hag.
The King of the Sea showed a benevolent smile belonging to the monarch of the sea, and stretched out his hand towards the ugly witch who had always lived in the nightmares of the mermaid children:
"Please become the apothecary of my court, my dear Sea Witch. We need you.
"I will hire you as the monarch of the sea kingdom and treat you as a distinguished guest in the deep sea palace. From now on, your good name will be famous in this sea area."
The sea hag felt like she was in a dream.
No, no, the scene that I never dared to imagine even in my dreams actually happened in front of me!
"Thank you... thank you." Although the sea hag was unclear about the situation, she understood that this must be Rhine's contribution, and nodded excitedly to this human being several times.
"I have provided corresponding rewards. According to our agreement, you should give me information about the Witches." Rhine said with a smile.
"By the way, the Witches seem to be considering kicking you out and getting rid of you who know too many of their secrets.
"Of course, if it's calculated and unintentional, it may be easy to get rid of you quietly. But once you enter the palace of Neptune and have made early warnings and preparations, it may not be that easy to kill you. ”
The huge amount of information made the sea hag almost unable to react.
The old sea witch turned towards Rhine and nodded stiffly:
"Thank you for your kind reminder, great human magician. I will be prepared in advance!"
……
After giving the magic potion prescription to the Sea Witch and obtaining the memory bubble containing information about the Witches, Rhine asked the Sea King to search for magical creatures with self-healing abilities in the sea.
Because among the various materials used to prepare potions, magical blood is the most important. The sea hag's own blood is obviously not enough.
Relying on the deep-sea mermaid's familiarity with the sea and the assistance of her prophecy and divination abilities, it didn't take long for them to find a magical whale in this vast sea that would recover from all injuries every morning. provider.
After joining Neptune's court, the sea hag was extremely enthusiastic about her new job.
It is estimated that in less than half a year, for the mermaids in the sea country, she will no longer be the protagonist in the horror stories that parents scare their children!
In Neptune's palace, there is a refining pharmacy specially designed for the sea hag.
"Thank you, Rhine."
The sea witch carefully crushed the medicine in the jar, raised her head and looked outside the amber window at a group of mermaid children playing.
The children passed balls woven from seaweed to each other and told each other endless stories.
"Have you heard? There is an old and ugly witch in the Coral Forest. She lives in a hut made of bones and likes to eat children like us!" said one of the children.
Unexpectedly, the other mermaid children all retorted:
"What are you talking about? Those are all lies. That witch, she is His Majesty Neptune's court pharmacist, how can she be a bad person!"
……
Inside the palace of the West Asian Kingdom.
Rhine combined the information obtained and listed the information known to the Witches.
"Teacher, teacher," Aurora ran into the room happily.
"The witch in the sea said that just providing you with a little information is far from enough to express her gratitude. Moreover, you not only fulfilled her wish, but also reminded her of possible dangers. So, the witch of the sea Witch, please Ariel, give us another gift.”
Aurora took out two plant roots that were as shiny as gems and put them on the table.
"The sea witch said that this is a very precious plant from the sea that she has been reluctant to eat for so many years. As long as she eats this plant, she will be immune to all poisons from now on. And there are many evil spells And the effect of the curse on us will also be weakened.”
"Invulnerability to poison and resistance to curses? It sounds really good." Rhine said, "Your blessing just lacks this protection."
When she was dealing with the venomous snake turned into by the old witch's wand, the invulnerable Aurora's right hand was corroded by the poison.
After simply confirming that the roots of the plant were harmless, Rhine and Aurora ate them.
After eating, Rhine suddenly felt a warm current flowing through his body. Other than that, there are no more external changes.
"By the way, people recently said that after getting married, Prince Eric was different from before." Aurora added.
"What's different?" Rhine asked.
"Whether it is the king or others, they say that Prince Eric seems to have become more mature. He seems to be working hard to learn knowledge that he did not know before and strive to become an excellent king in the future." Aurora told what she had seen out.
"As expected..."
Rhine looked out the window at the blue sky.
"Prince Eric - the future king of the West Asian Kingdom, is a symbol of friendship between humans and mermaids."
"I estimate that he wants to work hard to become a great and respected king, and spend his life reshaping the world's perception of mermaids and erasing human prejudices.
"He may not like to be a king, but there are always things in the world that neither strong warriors nor knowledgeable magicians can achieve. Only a king can do it."
Although this was only about Prince Eric, Aurora nodded thoughtfully.
"Prince Eric once said that he hated politics the most. Unexpectedly, after having a new goal, he ended up becoming the person he hated." Aurora joked with a smile.
"You have a better sense of humor than before." Rhine shrugged and made another pun, "It can be seen that people will change after experiencing something."
At this moment, Rhine was suddenly stunned.
He felt that the unprecedented and extremely surging power of desire finally gathered and rushed towards him like a tsunami!
(End of chapter)