The Principality of the Ocean, located at the southern end of the world, is a country made up of oceans and many islands. Rather than being a country, they are more like a loose federation.
The citizens of the Principality of the Sea, except for the harpies living on a few islands, are collectively referred to as Sea Dwellers.
However, the Sea Dwellings cannot be generalized, just like the orcs in Wansheng Kingdom have lion orcs and deer orcs, there are huge differences between different Sea Dwellings.
There are squid girls with eight tentacles, mermaids that are half human and half fish, and even real fish that look like salted fish with four short arms.
Even though they are all mermaids, different mermaid groups cannot be generalized.
For example, Jiaoxi is a parrotfish-type mermaid. The special thing about this kind of mermaid is that they can control the magic power in their bodies at any time and switch between the two genders.
The sea dwellers of the Ocean Principality are more diverse than the orcs of the Wansheng Kingdom.
But unlike the Wansheng Kingdom, there is no leader in the Ocean Principality who can unify the Sea Dwellers.
Because there is a huge Dragon God Council Nation as a barrier between the Ocean Principality and the human world, many things here have been preserved from long ago to the present.
For example, various marine species still maintain small tribes and fight each other.
Under such circumstances, it is quite difficult to cross the barriers between various sea-dwelling species and form a strong adventuring group.
[Drifting on an Island] is undoubtedly the most successful one among them.
Jiaoxi and Langyi are adventurers belonging to the S-level adventure group [Drifting on the Deserted Island].
After a few simple greetings, Jiaoxi tied up her ponytail and stirred the waves with her tail, while Langyi, who belonged to the ichthyosaur family, sat cross-legged on the raft again and cast his fishing rod towards the sea.
"Jiaoxi, what are you doing here?"
Jiaoxi turned her head to look at Langyi, but she only saw Langyi glance at her quickly, and then looked at the calm sea quickly.
"Can't you tell from the way I looked just now? I rarely take on a masculine form in front of you."
The hand holding the fishing rod trembled slightly. Lang Yi immediately realized Jiao Xi's intention and cursed:
"That woman, has she started conquering that underground labyrinth under the sea without permission
I clearly warned her that a place guarded by monsters like that couldn't be an ordinary large underground maze. There must be something fishy going on, and who knows what dangers she might encounter in there.
She still turned a deaf ear to my words.
Tell me, did she encounter any danger or get hurt, so she asked you to come to me?"
Jiao Xi shook his head. "On the contrary, we successfully conquered the first five levels of the underground maze. Look, this necklace on my neck is the spoils of war. How is it? Doesn't it look good?"
Jiaoxi picked up the necklace around her neck and swung her tail happily, creating layers of waves, but Langyi did not turn back. Jiaoxi pouted in dissatisfaction, and the tail that was stirring the waves also stopped.
"I see, that woman must have wanted to show off how wise her judgment was.
Just because the first few levels are safe doesn’t mean the rest are necessarily safe. Maybe some entity is trying to tempt adventurers to move forward with some sweet treat.”
"Isn't that a bit of an overreaction?" Jiao Xi said.
“Hmph—I know that kind of sea monster, it’s impossible for them to have such high intelligence, and they have also learned a poison attack that has never been seen before.
I can still vividly remember the scene where we touched the yellow smoke and were almost eaten by the big fish as food.
This is all too abnormal. That woman has really forgotten the pain after the wound has healed. She is not fit to be the captain at all."
Lang Yi became more and more angry as he spoke. He just caught a small fish and swallowed it immediately.
Jiao Xi said: "But it is an indisputable fact that she is the captain. It is precisely because she is sometimes silly that she needs you as the vice-captain."
After throwing the fishing hook out again, Lang Yi remained silent. He blamed himself for being too young at the time. He joined the gang just because he listened to the woman's nonsense: "We are each an island, drifting in the endless ocean. Although we look different, we are no different in essence and can definitely become the best of partners."
Seeing that Lang Yi didn't say anything, Jiao Xi said, "If you are really that scared, go ask others if there is such a situation. I remember that your sister is in the S-level adventure group [Collecting Corpses and Putting Them into Coffins]. She should be able to get a lot of information about the human world. If you can go to the human library of all things, you should be able to confirm 100% whether similar situations have occurred in the human world."
"I don't want to deal with those soul controllers who deal with corpses, make contracts with spirits, and fight with them all day long. If my sister didn't have similar abilities to them, and we were friends with a certain person from [Collecting Corpses into Coffins], I wouldn't have sent my sister to the Terun Republic to let her learn how to use her abilities."
"You say that, but in reality you're just worried about your sister's safety! You're such a sister-con!"
Lang Yi wanted to turn around to refute, but was poked in the cheek by Jiao Xi's finger.
Noticing that Jiaoxi was looking at him with a smile, Lang turned his head expressionlessly and said, "I admit that there is one thing. After all, the human world does not seem to be very friendly to us demi-humans. Even with that elder around, I am very worried that she will be discriminated against."
"Wouldn't it be better to speak frankly like this?" Jiaoxi pushed with both hands and fell into the sea from the raft, "The captain is so anxious to conquer the underground maze, and there is a reason for that.
I heard that a large maze also appeared in the Dragon God Council Country, which seemed to be called the [Palace of Defense]. The S-class adventure group [Power of the Dragon] from the Dragon God Council Country conquered it and obtained a legendary shield and a key of unknown use.
The captain thought that the underground maze was most likely the same thing as the [Palace of Defense].
If we conquer it, not only can our ranking be improved at once, but we can also obtain legendary weapons to enhance our strength.
This is the ocean, and it is the world of our sea dwelling people.
The underground maze is still underwater, and other S-level adventure teams cannot intervene. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us, and the captain does not want to miss it.
I have already conveyed the captain's idea to you. It's up to you whether you come or not.
You piece of wood!"
After saying that, Jiaoxi dived into the sea, leaving Langyi fishing on the raft.
The sea became calm again.
Lang Yi put away his fishing rod without saying a word, then he let out a long sigh.
"Don't you two want me to go fishing in peace?"
After slowly wrapping up the fishing line on the fishing rod, Langyi took off his straw hat. At that point, he had no choice but to go into the sea again in case anything happened to the members of [Desolate Island Drifting].
(End of this chapter)