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The pope held the priest's hand, and he felt that the soul of the priest was resonating with some more distant and higher will. This man was gradually being influenced by the consciousness in the endless deep sea. The lips of the priest moved, and his eyes became more and more intense. In a trance, his last words were broken: "Those voices are calling... those voices are calling... those voices are saying..."
All of a sudden, his trance seemed to fade away, and an unprecedented clarity appeared in the priest's mutated eyes. The Naga's lips, who were human a few seconds ago, trembled violently, as if the last trace of instinct in his muscles was still there. struggled, but in the end his struggle failed—
The trembling lips finally turned into a bright smile, and the corners of his mouth were raised, he was very happy: "Let's go dig the big squid!!"
Saul Storm let go of the officiant's hand and sighed dejectedly.
This person already belongs to the deep sea.
Everyone on this island already belongs to the deep sea.
The priest who turned into a naga was still lying on the bed, still immersed in the trance brought about by his first "promotion". The pope, wearing the triple storm crown, stood up. He tidied his clothes and picked up the With his scepter, he turned and walked towards the door—he left the room deep in the temple, walked through the long and deep corridor, and walked through the closed doors one after another. Behind the doors, there was an inhuman murmur, There was an inexplicable sound of waves, and a chilling, slippery sound like a sea snake crawling on the ground.
He walked through all of this expressionlessly, the pope's robes were gradually eroded and disintegrated by the elements, and with the continuous footsteps, scales began to appear on his face, webs grew between his fingers, and thick, moist and smooth skin Covering his torso, there were scales and fins protruding from the thick skin. He staggered and fell to the ground, and the scepter fell to the ground. After a few seconds, he slowly got up again, picked up the scepter, and continued to move forward Serpentine.
Saul Storm walked through the empty and silent streets of the town, and when he came near the coast, many naga came out of the nearby houses and followed him silently. A hundred years ago, everyone carried the port ramp that was built little by little by hand, and came to the end of the trestle leading to the sea.
The sea water surged, and a gorgeous throne formed by the condensation of water elements slowly rose from the water. A graceful and elegant woman with long silver-white hair and an extremely beautiful appearance stood in front of the throne. On both sides of the throne are tidal royal guards holding particle pulse rifles and trident beam warblades.
"Sol Storm," the Siren Queen Petya nodded slightly, with a slight smile on her face, "We have been waiting for a long time."
"The last of us lasted longer than expected," Saul Storm bowed his head. "We want to wait until this is all over."
"It's okay, this is what we promised from the beginning," Petiya said gently, "Although I'm not a human being, I understand how a race wants to maintain its original form until the last moment... the one who persists until the end If he knew that everyone on the entire island, including you, the Pope, had been transformed into Naga half a month ago, he would probably commit suicide—this is a great tragedy."
"...this dramatic transformation of life form can have such a profound effect on a person's body and mind, and until the transformation is complete, the human mind cannot imagine or understand it," Saul Storm, the naga form, shook Shaking his head, "Anyone who hasn't completed the transformation will fall into deep fear during the mutation process. Too many people have done unnecessary self-mutilation for this."
"Fortunately, we have solved the problem of Naga's loss of sanity in the early stage of conversion, otherwise the chaos will become more serious," Petiya nodded, her eyes looked not far away, where the sea water was surging, and a machine was in the sun. The tower-like facility formed by many pipes and antenna devices exuding luster below gradually rises to the surface of the sea, "I will leave the mental stabilizer here for a while, and wait until the minds and personalities of the last batch of naga on the island are completely stabilized After that, bring them to the continent of Io."
The tower-like device was created by the sea monsters after studying Naga for a period of time. For the sea monsters who have advanced technology, it is a very simple thing, and its function is also very simple-by continuously releasing The "spiritual singing" that cannot be heard by human ears but can be recognized by sea monsters and Naga, comforts those Naga who are in a trance due to the just completed transformation, so that Naga, who originally took about a month to regain memory and personality Recovers within a few hours after the transformation is complete.
The "spiritual singing" that the sea monsters like can speed up Naga's waking speed. The discovery of this phenomenon is completely unexpected to the sea monsters-it originated from the "spiritual singing" held by the sea monsters on the sunny beach a few months ago. A small episode during the "New Naga Citizens Welcome Conference", when the deep sea witch Hathaway drank an excessive amount of "big squid extract", the high-ranking witch who fell into a serious state of excitement broke through the blockade of the royal guards, and several other The same excited witches performed a song of death heavy metal together—the sea monsters love music, and they are good at various styles of music, but it is clear that Naga, who has just embraced the deep sea, has not followed the Romans. In that accident, more than half of the Naga fell into a deep coma...
Three days later, the witch of the deep sea who woke up from a hangover thought about it, and believed that it was not the musical instruments at the time that had an impact on Naga, but the powerful "spiritual singing" of the sea monsters-then she conducted a series of experiments, Confirmed his thinking.
After a series of complicated tests and adjustments, the Krakens created a "Mental Stabilizer" that could quickly regain sanity for the first-time transformed Naga. A music player that can only hear the "sound" and a whole bunch of pipes and antennas that go into making this player look awesome.
Petya withdrew her gaze from the mental stabilizer, and sighed slightly in her heart.
Krakens can only carry out this level of "technology research and development" now.
But fortunately, the situation is gradually getting better. As more and more sea monsters master the secrets of arcane magic and begin to understand and deal with the natural laws of this world, the sea monsters have been frozen by the technological tree that has been frozen for millions of years. ...Finally there is a little sign of looseness.
The former Pope of the Storm and the current leader of the Naga, Saul Storm, didn't know what the queen he had just sworn allegiance to was thinking at the moment. He was just thinking about the future of the Son of the Storm. Seemingly more relaxed: "We have had friction with you for many years... Fortunately, it is finally over."
"The siren didn't want to fight anyone, but it's a pity that both of us have been unable to communicate smoothly," Petya recovered from her thoughts, she smiled, and nodded slightly to the Naga leader in front of her, "Now you have From the echo of the psychic energy, we perceive the goodwill of the siren, so as a celebration of the reconciliation between the two parties... we will also share the secrets of the deep sea with you.
"Welcome to be a member of the ocean, and may this be your new home."
Chapter 0873 The Kraken's Efforts
This battle that lasted for hundreds of years finally came to an end when the last human being was transformed into a Naga—it ended in a way that exceeded every human's expectations, and also exceeded the expectations of the sea monsters.
In the final analysis, the strange phenomenon of "Naga" is an unexplainable accident for everyone. Human beings can't understand its principle, and the same is true for sea monsters.
In the deep sea, a deep-water shuttle with a streamlined shell was quietly skimming the seabed. Petia stood by the porthole of the shuttle, looking at the dark and deep sea outside and the rough and rough seabed. During this period, several temporarily built settlements could be seen. The Naga who had just completed their transformation were resting on this peaceful seabed, and there were sea monsters taking care of their "new friends" everywhere in the settlements.
"I'm afraid it will take us a long time to slowly study the 'Naga'," the Siren Queen said softly, "This is really an incredible phenomenon...a race, a race that has no biological relationship with the Siren, has come into being Such a huge change, and this change is obviously related to us... This world is really full of secrets, Rosalia."
Rosalia, the maid of the deep sea, floated beside Petiya, and nodded slightly when she heard the words: "As you said, Your Majesty the Queen."
Petiya hummed lightly, and asked casually, "Have the witches and deep-water technicians come to any conclusions?"
"There is no substantial progress for the time being, but after asking many Naga who have recovered their sobriety and consulting human books about religion, the witches have some conjectures - they think this change may be related to the long-standing human beings who claim to be the sons of the storm. 'spiritual beliefs'."
"Oh? Be specific."
"These 'sons of the storm' believe in a god called the Lord of Storms, obviously our 'squid'. According to information shared by our Cecil ally, human beliefs create power connections that point to specific However, the gods of the Son of the Storm have fallen many years ago, and we sea monsters... are very likely to have occupied the original position of this god, so for a long time, what the storm believers of this era believe in ...I'm afraid it's all us, or strictly speaking, it's the 'sea monster' as a whole."
"Eva..." Petya whispered thoughtfully, slowly crossing her hands on her chest, "This is amazing. Judging from the time, we started digging many quarters of civilization. The Squid, that is, the Sons of the Storm linked their beliefs to our race from the very beginning of their religion... yet we actually did nothing and didn't even know about it."
"This is also one of the subjects that the witches are studying," Rosalia, the maid of the deep sea, nodded, "Human's 'belief' seems to be something that operates automatically, and it starts from awe of natural phenomena or specific natural things. Strictly speaking, the original storm belief should not point to any gods, but to the awe of the ocean itself. In this case, according to the information shared by Cecil's allies, human beings should start from the faith A new "God of Storms" was created in the middle of the world, but this process was interrupted by us accidentally - our excavation behavior imprisoned an ancient god in a state of immortality and occupied its position, and In fact, we actually control a large area of the ocean, so human beliefs began to point to the 'substantial controller of the ocean', and this process...is a natural occurrence."
"Will this 'pointing' have any effect on the Siren?"
"It's not certain yet, the 'religious concept' of human beings is something we don't understand very well," Rosalia shook her head, "But judging from the current situation, this kind of 'pointing' has been going on for a long time. For many years, and even in the previous few seasons of civilization, there may have been people on land who feared the sea and pointed their beliefs at sea monsters, but they have not had any impact on us, so this 'pointing' is mostly harmless."
"It's harmless to us...but it has unilaterally affected them," Petiya said, looking away from the temporary living area of the Naga, with a sigh in his tone, "It seems that it is a long-term attack on the sea monster. Faith has influenced these human beings, transforming them into life forms similar to sea monsters...the power of the so-called 'faith' can actually affect matter, it is really an incredible change."
Rosalia responded: "The witches are studying this change—especially the opportunity for this change. The beliefs of these children of the storm have lasted for thousands of years, but their changes have only recently begun suddenly. It is a step-by-step process, which makes people very puzzled. Lady Hathaway currently has a conjecture. She believes that this is the result of the dual effects of the recent actions of the Son of the Storm and the recent changes in the Kraken society——
"Since last year, the Sons of the Storm's actions have become more aggressive. They have established a large number of strongholds in the 'Border', which caused them to get too close to the 'Big Squid' and too close to the Kraken, which strengthened the relationship between them and us' connection'; on the other hand, in the last 'hunt', we preyed on the 'god of nature' created by humans, and the god of nature seems to have biological influence—this influence may be a temptation' Naga' phenomenon."
Listening to the report from the Maid of the Deep Sea, Petiya, the Siren Queen, fell silent for a while, thinking in silence.
After thinking for a while, the ruler of the deep sea raised his head and sighed softly: "You can't eat indiscriminately from now on... This world is really dangerous."
The maid Rosalia also nodded in agreement: "...It's better to go back to my hometown. You can pick up and eat everything on the seabed."
"So, speaking of the research work of the witches - our human allies mentioned a mysterious signal they captured during the last contact. Has Hathaway made any progress on this?"
"The tidal master Tire submitted the characteristics of the signal when he reported the situation. After the comparison of the deep-water technicians, it can be confirmed that the signal was not released by Antaveen, nor is it any of our communication frequency bands. Rosalia immediately replied, "Master Hathaway is very interested in it. She thinks that the transmission method of the signal and the technology used by humans in the magic network communication are very helpful to us—for many years , due to the inability to perceive and understand the magical environment of this world, we have never been able to repair Antaveen's main antenna array, but now there may be hope."
"Oh?" Perthia raised her eyebrows slightly, "This is really good news."
……
On the edge of the continent of Io under the sun, the majestic steel starship crawled on the coastline like a mountain, and the waves gently undulated around the spaceship, licking the shell and deck of the immigrant ship.
At the end of the Antavien, on the platform where the antenna array is located, deep-water technicians are busy.
On the edge of the platform, Hathaway, a deep sea witch with long blue hair and many scales on her cheeks, withdrew her gaze from the beach in the distance.
The spaceship crashed on the planet tilted, causing everything on the ship to have an angle of about [-] degrees with the gravity of the planet itself. The Krakens were unable to move the giant ship that had lost power, but they could not Abandoning the ship's vast amount of supplies and precious living space, so after finally repairing some of the ship's functions, they first activated and reset the gravity generator of the Antavien - by recalibrating the gravity, the Kraken They can stand comfortably on this tilted ship as if they were on the ground, which also gives them a wonderful feeling when they stand on the ship and look out:
The whole world tilts.
"I think, we should set up an optical filter in all the viewing areas of Antaveen," the blue-haired witch Hathaway stretched out her hand, gesticulating between the sky and the earth, and said to the assistant beside her. Said, "Let this slanted landscape 'right' come. It always looks dizzy now."
"...I think the main reason why you feel dizzy is that you drank too much 'Deep Sea Special Drink'," the assistant slapped Hathaway's claws dangling in the air with his tail, "that's almost double our amount .”
"I need to stimulate my mind and maintain the ability to think at a high speed," Hathaway poked the tip of her tail at the nearby alloy ground, making a "do-duo" sound, "The recent research projects are so exciting, I don't even think about it for a moment." stop……"
The assistant took a look at this respectable deep-sea witch who had a lot of problems in her life, and shook her head helplessly: "'Stimulating the mind' is a human saying, master—where did we get our brains?"
Hathaway looked at the serious assistant and shook her head: "It's boring."
Then the deep sea witch who had experienced the "big crash" and was of the same age as the queen slid her long snake tail and came to the antenna array not far away.
This large-scale ancient device stands majestically. The streamlined shell is covered with a super-alloy frame, which conceals its complex internal structure. Its end points to the blue sky, and a set of highly sensitive sensing arrays monitors all directions at any time. incoming signal.
It was once designed for interstellar super-light communication, and was used to contact several other colony ships that had escaped from the parent star.
However, today only Antaveen crashed on this planet alone. The compatriots who fled together in the past have long since disappeared in the depths of time and space turbulence. The remaining set of the most basic sensing devices can still barely operate—not to mention receiving signals from space, even maintaining communication in the atmosphere requires various auxiliary enhancement methods.
Hathaway's line of sight followed the shell of the antenna array all the way up. At a height of about [-] meters, she saw that a part of the shell had been opened, and the deep-water technicians were busy there, making drastic changes to the ancient structure inside. , the shimmering rune devices are being installed into the original frame one by one, and there are many extra cables and drag chains extending from the "inspection port".
"Our human allies have generously shared a lot with us..." the deep sea witch said softly, "We thought that the technology on the land was very backward, but it turns out that even on the backward land, the local people's wisdom is still worthwhile where..."
The assistant's voice came from the side: "Master, do you think this transformation will really be useful? After all, we have used various methods to transform other things before..."
"A year ago, the Krakens were completely unable to understand and perceive what the 'magic' of this world was. It was something outside of our world view, and even something that was not 'compatible' with our physiological structure—this It's the result of a conflict of rules," Hathaway said in a low and serious voice. At this moment, she is already the deep sea witch who deserves the respect of all sea monsters. Her words made every sea monster around her unable to bear the thought and Approved expression, "I predicted many years ago that if the rules of this world and the rules of the home world deviate by one ten-thousandth, then we will be wiped out the moment we enter this time and space, but fortunately, We didn't get that extra one-in-ten-thousandth deviation, we survived, but the survival was incomplete.
"Our ability to perceive and think is limited to our own life form. In this world, we are like a flawed race who are born unable to understand addition and subtraction. We are born unable to perceive and understand part of the world's structure, so no matter what we No matter how hard we try, we won't be able to repair the spaceship, but we will be overthrown again and again by the demon tide of this world.
"We can't fix the antenna, not because of lack of wisdom and technology, but because we are 'blind' and 'deaf' in front of certain information.
"But that deficiency has now been filled.
"We can perceive magic power and understand what magic power is. Human runes are no longer a mess of symbols to us, and energy tremors in the air are no longer incomprehensible noises. On this basis In fact, every repair work we will do to the spaceship in the future will not be a random beating and trying like before.
"We have successfully restored a small part of the core fusion tower to normal operation, and now the energy supply rate of Antawenen has reached 30.00%. This is an inconspicuous figure, but it is enough to prove that we have indeed taken a step forward .
"Sisters, what we're doing right now is worthwhile—let's start by fixing the main antenna."
Chapter 0874 Siren's Response
The breath of summer is getting stronger every day.
Even in this northern country, the area close to the dark mountains gradually felt the heat coming.
The window of the study room was open, and the sound of birds and insects came from the direction of the courtyard. The breeze blew across the desk in the sun, causing a few pages of paper on the desk to lift slightly, but then a hand picked up the documents and began to carefully read them. Read carefully.
There was a rhythmic knocking sound coming from the direction of the door. Gao Wen flipped through the documents in front of him without raising his head: "Come in."
The study door was gently opened, and Tier yawned and arched in—she arched her upper body first, and then retracted the tail that was several meters long behind her back little by little, forming a big ball on the ground , the originally spacious study room seemed a little narrower after Miss Kraken completely entered the room.
"It's so rare that you're awake at this hour," Gao Wen looked up at the deep-sea salted fish, and said with a smile, "Is there something wrong?"
"There's news from Antaveen," Till yawned again, and said with some strength, "The signal you caught before wasn't sent by a sea monster—the queen has already started investigating the source of the signal."
"...Isn't it really a sea monster..." Gao Wen stopped completely, and after slightly frowning, he shook his head, "What else?"
"The queen asked me to convey my thanks to you on her behalf," Tier tried hard to put on a straight face, trying to make himself look more serious and formal, "She is very happy that humans are willing to share the principle of magic net communication with the sea monster, which will help us in the future. Repair Antaveen's main antenna under the magical environment of this world. In addition, our technicians also said that if the repair project of the main antenna goes well, the communication between Antaveen and Cecil may be fine. It is more convenient, and it is even possible to establish direct communication-of course, it is up to the technical staff to decide whether it can be realized."
Listening to Tyre's report, Gawain couldn't help raising his eyebrows: "Ah, this is really good news..."
Till expressed the meaning of rejoicing and rejoicing quite perfunctorily, then stretched his five-and-a-half-meter-long and coiled waist, and said sleepily with the tip of his tail: "If there is nothing else... ..."
"Yes," Gao Wen hurriedly said before the deep-sea salted fish fell asleep on the spot, "wait a minute, I still need your help."
"Ah?" Tire suddenly showed a regretful expression on his face, but he still nodded, "Then tell me."
"You should know that we are building the North Port in the northern border of the empire, and we are preparing to restart the sea routes," Gao Wen said unhurriedly, "The infrastructure over there is already more than half completed..."
"...I think I understand what you mean," Tyre glanced at Gao Wen, and immediately understood what the other party wanted to say, "Further technology exchange... This is indeed what we agreed on. Now you have delivered the update as promised. A lot of magical technology has been given to the Kraken, and it's time for us Kraken to respond."
"We need to return to the sea, which requires a higher level of ship technology—as well as a way to avoid danger and find safe routes on the sea," Gao Wen nodded calmly, and said with a serious expression, "You should know, Feng people have already started in this regard.”
Tire looked at Gawain, and shrugged after a moment: "Don't worry, we will provide help as promised. Your magic technology has shown value in the restoration project of Antaveen. The Queen is very satisfied with this, and she has agreed Let more sea monsters come to Cecil as 'consultants', including professional deep-water technicians, who are much more professional than me in the technical field-after all, my profession is actually just creating waves on the sea."
More siren consultants——Gao Wen looked at Tyre, and a satisfied smile finally slowly appeared on his face.
He has been waiting for this day for a long time.
The technical communication between Cecil and the Kraken has been going on for several years, but it takes more than time for the two completely different races to establish sufficient mutual trust. The concept of time, the technical exchanges between the two countries have actually been limited. Even in the past few years, Cecil's "Kraken Technical Advisor" actually only has one Tyre, and this Tyre is in the The sea monster is not a technician yet - in her own words, she is actually a fighting profession in the sea monster society...
This is equivalent to sending a security captain to Cecil as a technical consultant on Kraken's side, and he has been serving as a technical consultant for several years.
The point is that the basic elementary school knowledge mastered by the security captain is really enough in the "backward human world" - although this meets Gao Wen's technical needs, the situation itself is undoubtedly awkward and cramped.
Especially when human beings decided to go to the sea and want to challenge ocean voyages, the security captain's elementary school basic knowledge finally began to be insufficient.
But now, all this has finally changed - Cecil's magic technology has proved its value in the Kraken society, the recent technical exchanges in the communication field have further impressed those deep-sea creatures, and the overall technology level of land civilization It may not be advanced enough, but at least it has its uniqueness in certain fields, and this uniqueness finally made the Krakens decide to send more consultants.
"I should express my gratitude to His Majesty Perthia," Gao Wen said with a smile, "Then when will more advisors come? How will they come? Are they taking the same route as you?"
"The sisters set out along the ocean currents and traveled all the way to the bottom of the sea—I know you must be more looking forward to the 'jumping technique' when we hunted that deer, but Antavien is entering the process of restarting several key facilities. In the important stage, there is no extra energy to open the warp channel, and the Kraken always lacks motivation for things other than predation. But you don’t have to worry, we move very fast in the deep sea, and we have very fast The fast deep-water shuttle will arrive within a few days. As for the route..." Till thought for a while, then spread his hands, "You don't need to bother receiving them—the sisters will go directly to Beigang."
"Beigang?" Gao Wen was stunned for a moment, "Does this mean to go to work directly?"
"I know that according to the rules of human beings, there should be a formal welcome ceremony or something. It's best to let the sisters come to this imperial capital to show their faces, but we sea monsters don't like these, and I know you don't like them, so everyone will Go directly to Beigang to find Byron, you just need to arrange the contact over there," Till said casually, "Besides, the consultants we sent this time... are not only siren."
Gawain frowned: "It's not just the siren? What do you mean?"
"Naga," Till said, "there will be some Naga coming together. Of course, this is only the queen's plan at the moment. If you have doubts about this, Antavien can adjust the advisory group. personnel composition."
"I want to confirm first," Gawain interrupted Tyre, he looked into the other's eyes with a serious expression, "the 'Naga' you mentioned are those transformed sons of the storm..."
"There is no church of the Sons of the Storm anymore," Tire said unhurriedly, shaking his head, "Three days ago, the last Son of the Storm also became a Naga... This is very touching. In this way, the footprints in the high seas that have continued to this day have come to an end."
"...completely transformed," Gawain took a deep breath, calming down his ups and downs after hearing the shocking news, "His Majesty Perthia will send some naga over, in other words, those transformed Naga are no longer Are they dangerous dark cultists again? What are they now? A brand new deep-sea species? A new member of the Siren Kingdom? Or a human with a mutated body and mind?"
"Probably all three—our scholars are also studying this issue," Till said slowly, "but one thing is certain, that is, the Sons of Storm who transformed into Naga have lost the fanaticism they had before. Aggressiveness, and this seems to be the result of multiple factors. The mutation has changed their personalities, and at the same time, it has also allowed them to acquire some knowledge about the deep sea, which was passed on to them from the sea monster. In principle, this knowledge actually calmed them down, and there was also the influence of hormones after the transformation of life forms. Various factors worked together to finally end the senseless struggle between the Kraken and the Son of the Storm for hundreds of years.
"Of course, not all naga have become completely harmless, there are also some transformed people who are still not conscious enough, and a few naga are still extremely irritable after transformation - we have to establish a lot of 'abnormal human containment' Center' to temporarily contain them. I hope you don't feel uncomfortable about this, I know you are human too, but my fellow citizens probably can't help it."
"Um... I can understand," Gao Wen touched the tip of his nose, and said in a strange tone, "It seems that you plan to send the most sober and harmless part of Naga. I can probably guess what your queen is thinking. .”
He paused, and slowly said with an understanding tone: "After all, those Naga were once human beings, and she probably used this method to show her friendliness, and at the same time, she also wanted to use this open and honest method to eliminate my 'Naga'. 'There may be a misunderstanding of the Kraken in this matter; secondly, the Son of the Storm was originally an ocean expert in human society. The Siren may know more advanced technology, but the Son of the Storm understands how humans build ships. It can play a big role; in the end, she should and hopes to be able to appease the Nagas and let those "humans" who have just transformed into alien races do some important things. This is a very good way to appease people's hearts and show importance. "
Gawain analyzed the intention of the Siren Queen's arrangement in an orderly manner. His clear thinking even made Tire, who had been sleepy since just now, couldn't help but widen his eyes. Miss Kraken's face was incredulous: "I Why do you think our queen doesn't think so much at all?"
Gawain looked at the other party dumbfounded: "Do you think that a queen like you would sleep like you all day long, with nothing but salt and water in her mind?"
"All siren brains are full of salt and water!" Tire immediately responded to Gawain's teasing with racial pride, and then she waved her hand, "In short, no matter what the queen thinks, you have an opinion on the above arrangement What? If you don't trust those Naga and don't want them to appear in Beigang, I will explain to the Queen next time I contact you..."
"No need," Gawain shook his head, "Don't waste your queen's good intentions.
"I believe that Byron will maintain the order in Beigang, and I don't mind some... naga appearing on the land of the empire.
"After all, Cecil has always been an inclusive country."
Looking at Gawain with a smile on his face, Tire just yawned big: "Ha - I understand, I will convey it to the Queen."
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