Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 815: Coral

Royer clearly wanted to continue persuading, but Alfonso on the side couldn’t listen anymore.

He suddenly stood up and raised his voice, “Royer!”

“Hmm?” Royer still wore his smile as he looked at his friend.

“Snap!”

Alfonso suddenly snapped his fingers, and Royer completely disappeared.

Then he said to Saul, “I moved Royer outside the laboratory. Regarding the experimental project you’re participating in, it cannot be arbitrarily changed without the Chief’s agreement.”

Saul nodded. “I understand. Don’t worry, I’m still more interested in mermaids for now.”

Alfonso across from him was quiet for three seconds.

“Hmm… Lord Saul, physical relations with mermaids are not recommended.”

Alfonso pressed his somewhat colorless lips together and nodded. “That’s good then. I have trouble distinguishing between genuine intentions and jokes.”

Saul pressed his palms together. “Understood. I’ll try not to joke in the future.”

Alfonso nodded with satisfaction, then stood up. “Then let’s go to the next place.”

Didn’t you just say we were done for today?

Saul followed him up in confusion. “Where are we going?”

“To see the mermaids you’re interested in.” Alfonso made a motion to snap his fingers. “Relax, don’t resist.”

Saul blinked.

“Snap!”

Both simultaneously left the closed, busy laboratory and appeared on a wooden boat.

They were now in a dim underground waterway.

However, with Saul’s vision and mental power, he could still see the moss covering the rocks on both sides and water drops continuously dripping down.

This cramped underground waterway had only one path for a long distance, looking like an artificially excavated tunnel rather than naturally formed.

“This is beneath the royal palace.” In the darkness, Alfonso pulled in the iron chain that tethered their boat to a nearby stone pier.

The chain made a “clatter clatter” sound, with one end falling into the water with a “plop.”

“I can only teleport within a certain range of the royal palace. This is also an ability granted to me by the Chief.”

Saul wasn’t sure why Alfonso was telling him about his power limitations.

Saul rolled his eyes, gripped the boat’s edge with one hand, and sat honestly in the boat. “Ha, now I believe you and Wizard Royer are very good friends.”

“Hmm?”

“You remind me every time you teleport me, but you don’t need to remind Royer. Obviously you often throw him out, and he doesn’t resist.”

Alfonso remained silent, not refuting.

Although Saul didn’t understand how these two had become friends, he wasn’t very curious either.

He sat in the boat, watching Alfonso lower a circular device. Then motor-like vibrations came from beneath the boat, and the entire vessel shot forward like an arrow from a bow.

Alfonso touched his fingertip to the boat, and a layer of black mist appeared outside the hull.

Whenever the boat hit rocks on either side due to its extreme speed, this black mist acted like a protective film, cushioning the impact and correcting direction.

The narrow waterway suddenly opened up after a sharp descent.

It seemed they had transitioned from an artificially excavated waterway into a natural river.

The water flow here was more turbulent with undercurrents, making the boat bob occasionally.

Stone pillars occasionally breaking the surface made navigation challenging.

Fortunately, both people on the boat had reached a level where they didn’t take such challenges seriously. They could still exchange interesting conversation against the background music of “rushing” sounds echoing through the cavern.

The boat avoided blocking stone pillars with the help of the black mist, only needing to watch out for stalactites overhead.

After traveling in this area for another half hour, light finally streamed in from ahead.

Saul could finally see with normal vision.

Outside the cavern was an endless ocean. Waves sparkled, shattering the reflection of stars.

“Good weather for a night cruise.” Saul looked left and right. “Didn’t you say the southeastern coast was covered with Red Sea Trees? Why can’t I see any?”

Since Evernight needed to cultivate and control mermaids, they couldn’t possibly build the royal palace on the northwestern coastline.

“The tide is in. The Red Sea Trees are all underwater now. Mermaids live at the Red Sea Tree roots. But we’re not going there today.”

“Then where are we going?”

“Some individuals have appeared among the mermaid population whose resistance to black tide pollution has weakened for unknown reasons. They’ve already shown serious pollution symptoms with contagious tendencies. To control the pollution situation, I’ve isolated all mermaids showing pollution symptoms separately on the shore.”

The boat changed direction and began traveling along the shore, still at high speed, seemingly reckless enough to throw both passengers overboard.

“BANG!”

After a few more minutes, the boat stopped by crashing into a large recessed rock. Thanks to the black mist’s protection, the hull suffered no damage.

Saul jumped down from the boat, stepping onto soft sand. “Your driving skills need improvement—I’m serious.”

Alfonso didn’t answer, only directing the boat’s chain to automatically tie to a thick iron nail driven into a rock crevice.

Then he also jumped out. “It’s just ahead.”

Saul followed Alfonso further, rounding a massive reef the size of a small house, finally seeing a pool of water.

The pool was very clear and very deep, with a terrifying sense of wanting to suck people in.

Saul naturally wasn’t afraid of being sucked in—he’d been to even deeper ocean floors.

At that time, he’d even obtained a special oceanic rune. Though aside from research, it hadn’t been put to other uses.

“The mermaids are below?” Saul stood at the pool’s edge, letting waves wet his shoe soles.

He sensed over a dozen weak mental fluctuations.

Not the powerful fluctuations of wizards, but normal mental fluctuations even weaker than ordinary people.

He looked at the pool’s sides constantly swaying in the water. “They’re all hiding inside?”

Alfonso suddenly had brown fragments in his hand, which he threw into the pool.

The originally clear pool immediately became murky. From the pool’s depths, even deeper places where moonlight couldn’t reach, mermaid after mermaid emerged.

Water waves obscured their faces. Slender, graceful figures with fish tails swam upward in circles, creating a beautiful, heart-lifting scene.

When they came closer, faces that were conical both above and below emerged, reality shattering the fantasy.

After careful observation, Saul found that although these mermaids looked strange with faces more like fish than humans, they were at least more normal than the mermaid Kate currently inhabited.

They had seaweed-like dark green long hair but didn’t have six breasts.

They looked somewhat more pleasing to the eye.

“Maybe that wizard in Sky City made private modifications when raising mermaids. Modifying mammary organs—could he have wanted private breeding?”

Just as Saul was comparing Kate with the mermaids before him, a flash of fiery red suddenly appeared, entering his vision.

It was a unique female mermaid with red hair. When she swam, fine red strands bloomed in the water like a terrestrial rose.

“Coral is here.” Alfonso said softly, seemingly afraid his voice would frighten the timid mermaids in the pool. “She’s an atavistic mermaid, with appearance closer to the ancient Azure Scale Clan.”

(End of Chapter)