Tides: Years of Dawn

The Cracked Rock Islands consist of four main islands, Cliff Island, Ancient Stele Island, Bloodstone Island and Haicheng Island.

Haimin's school was established on Haicheng Island, which is also the island with the most developed transportation and commerce.It's just that the school is located in the west of Haicheng Island, so the children are still a certain distance from the market.

"This is also the island where human wizards first landed, so our current sea city was established for the third time after two wars."

The history tutor was talking in front of him, and a crooked boat and a matchstick-like figure were drawn on the stone wall with charcoal.

Geraint yawned and put his head on the table.

What he dislikes the most is the history class, because every time he talks about history, the history teacher never forgets to say-"The sea snake family and the sea monster family led the sea people to repel the attacks of human wizards twice, and the war between the two families There are countless heroes.”

And every time when he said this, the history teacher with arched back and two tentacles that dragged to the ground never forgot to give Geraint a hard look, as if telling him—look at your ancestors, Look at yourself again.

In order to avoid eye contact with the tutor and to point him up to answer the question that could never be answered when the tutor was emotionally unstable, Geraint buried his head a little further.

Then he saw Crewe sitting diagonally across from him.

Crewe took notes with a charcoal pencil very seriously, with a look of rapt attention.His long hair was carefully tied back, and even the knot was shaped like a small octopus.

He is so serious about every class, as if this can make him swim first when the fish is stupid, and when the bird flies first.

But actually not at all.

In Geraint's view, some things are born.

Just like Geraint was born to be the young master of a down and out family, he would either become a vengeful prince and become famous ten years later, regain his throne and re-sit on the lord's position, or it would take ten years but cross the border. Miserably, he became a vagabond with a story in the outside world who hides his achievements and fame.

As for Crewe, Crewe is doomed to be mediocre all his life.

Just like most of the non-Nine Sea People on the Split Rock Islands-the throne has nothing to do with them, and wealth has nothing to do with them.After graduation, you can be assigned an ordinary position, become a stone on the island, and continue to contribute to the rulers.

I have been busy all my life, but I don't take it seriously.

"That's pretty good!" Every time Geraint resentedly said these doomed and hopeless futures to Crewe, Crewe would always say this calmly.

Geraint couldn't tell whether it was mocking him or comforting him, but either way it made him uncomfortable.

For an existence who has been bullied and looked down upon all the year round, perhaps Crewe simply cannot appreciate the happiness that comes with dignity and status.So Crewe is easy to please, while Geraint never.

"So you are willing to be bullied by them all the time?" Geraint snorted, "You know, the little prince will inherit the throne when he grows up, and they have the final say on how they will treat you after they become kings. .”

Crewe pursed his mouth slightly, but did not speak.

"In addition to the normal marriage, the lord can also choose a member of the auxiliary family as a partner. I see that they are very interested in you, and you will definitely become one of them's auxiliary when the time comes. Do you know what auxiliary means? "Geraint continued to ask, with a very bad tone.

As the name suggests, assistance means to help the lord rule.Whether it is help at work or in life.Because most of the seamen of the octopus family are knowledgeable, with strong learning ability and adaptability, they are often selected as companions of the lord's young master early on.

After all, after all the lords succeed to the throne, they must marry a male or female of the turtle family.Their union is ceremonial, like some kind of coronation.Such unions have nothing to do with love, and sometimes not even sex.So when the lord needs it, he or she must find a solution in the auxiliary family.

Therefore, within a few years after the children of the auxiliary family enter school, they will be accompanied by several members who will compete for the leadership position in the future. They get along day and night, and they have established a deep friendship with each other.Such assistance is powerful, and the three families that often appear as lords all have default auxiliary families.

For example, the sea snake family with the most lords, their support is the octopus.For example, the sword whales, their support is sharks.And the sea monster family... well, the sea monsters don't seem to need help, although they hope that one day they can turn the only matrilineal family on the island into their support, but it seems that none of the beautiful and extremely arrogant jellyfish is willing Buy it.

And for dark horses like Sea Crocodile, there is no default auxiliary family.They have only had one acting leader in the hundreds of years, and the second is Brody Crocker who is now in power.

Looking at the strength of the Sea Crocodile family, it is very possible that the two Sea Crocodile brothers who are now Geraint and Crewe at the same time will succeed to the throne in a few years.

Crewe's tentacles curled up, and he whispered—"But, but I'm stupid, I...I won't be selected as an assistant."

"Yes, you are stupid, but you can do some things without being smart." Geraint sneered and shook his head. "I think they will also choose you, who is stupid as hell, for this."

They are 14 years old and more or less know something about adults.Crewe heard from Geraint what it means to be an assistant, and his elders also have a precedent of being an assistant.It's just that their elders are smart, and most of their assistance is to help the lord deal with work problems.

And for a very clumsy, but very good-looking, and particularly bullied support member, Crewe's support will only be limited to one aspect at that time.

"They are two perverts," Geraint said. "You will be eaten by perverts until you die."

Crewe stopped talking again, his eyes would turn red when Geraint yelled at him.His tentacles scrambled and scrambled, and after a while they wrapped around Geraint's arm again.

"Then you'll help me," Crewe said cautiously. "My sister...my sister was your father's assistant, wasn't she? Well, then you'll—"

But Geraint didn't think so, "If I don't see my hope of becoming a lord after graduation, then I will leave here, and I can't help you."

"……not good."

Crewe's arms were wrapped a little tighter, and his brows were slightly frowned, as if what Geraint said was an imminent reality.

Seeing that Geraint had no expression and was unwilling to respond to him, Crewe nervously assumed another situation—"Then it's fine if you become the lord, you...you are very likely to become the lord, you are very smart , you have been outside, you, you still have that stick, you—”

Crewe was so scared that he wanted to cry again. It seemed that even he himself didn't believe that the orphan of the sea snake could defeat the sea crocodile family and win the throne.

This really made Geraint dumbfounded, he really didn't know what a friend Crewe was useful for, he couldn't even cheer him up, or even brag with him.

"Don't cry, you are going to cry, even if I become a lord one day, I will ignore you." Geraint hurriedly warned.

Crewe gritted his teeth, trying to hold back his tears.

"That's good," Geraint said, patting Crewe's tentacles.

He was quite helpless, and when Crewe cried, he had nothing to do.So much so that every conversation eventually turned into Geraint's compromise.

"Then will you choose me? If you become the lord." Crewe rubbed his eyes, and quickly took Geraint's other words seriously.

His tentacles wrapped around Geraint's wrist again, looking at him worriedly.

"Yes," Geraint sighed, "Of course I will, I said I will cover you if I become famous, I will become a lord—"

When Crewe's name was called, he stared blankly in the direction of the instructor, causing the lobster to call again, and he stood up timidly.

He had been listening carefully, but now he was eagerly flipping through his notes, and mumbling, he pronounced a noun that Geraint could not understand.

After finally saying the answer, he looked at the mentor again with that terrified look, until the jellyfish boy sitting next to him poked him and gave him another answer, the mentor nodded and asked him to sit down.

Geraint looked away.But just as he was about to flip through the textbook for the next spell lesson in the drawer, Lobster's squinted eyes turned around and landed on his head, which he hadn't raised.

"Geraint," Lobster called out his name with his hoarse voice that seemed to have been scratched countless times by a fork. How many lords can't answer?"

Hearing the sound of the lobster approaching, Geraint hurriedly pushed the spell book into the drawer, stood up as quickly as possible, took a shallow breath, and replied—"Baren."

Fortunately, Geraint still knows about this problem.But if you ask him which year a certain term was in power, and in which year—"Why did the sixth term abdicate?"

"I don't have anything to look up the family tree, mentor." Geraint smiled mischievously.

In fact, except for his father's term, he is not familiar with any term.And his impression of his father was before he was ten years old. At that time, he didn't know what a lord was or was not a lord. He only knew that the old man who didn't see each other every now and then and was always calm and arrogant was his father.

Lobster didn't like this. He was very familiar with Geraint's stubbornness. After all, Geraint skipped his classes most often.It's hard to come here now, so it must be difficult for me.

Of course, for a historian who is loyal to the tradition, Geraint is the mud that cannot support the wall, "So you have not inherited any of the advantages of the Sea Serpent family. Will you still shed your skin? Probably not. "

The contemporaries chuckled.

"No, I've evolved." Geraint shrugged and replied nonchalantly.

"Like earthworms on land." The lobster concluded.

"No, I'm evolving in another direction," Geraint said with a smile. "Recently, my shoulder hurts a bit. Maybe it's because I'm about to grow wings and become a dragon."

The contemporaries laughed even louder.

But Crewe didn't smile.He didn't like Geraint's confrontation with the tutor like this, because - "The exam is about to happen, and he will fail you."

On the way to the spell classroom in a hurry, Crewe was worried.

"It's okay, I won't take the exam," Geraint said, "I'm going out again in a few days."

Crewe was surprised, but also a little dissatisfied.

He lowered his voice and used his tentacles to push Geraint to the corridor away from his companions, and said unhappily—"Why are you going out again! You can't always go out, if you do this, you won't be able to graduate smoothly, you—"

"I must go, I need a manual," Geraint replied earnestly. For him, the school is only for ordinary sea people, but he has a bigger goal, and he wants to pursue a more realistic goal. powers—"I'm not very good with that wand, I'll have to learn how to handle it."

Crewe shut up.Whenever Geraint showed this "must go" look, Crewe knew that he might not be able to see him in the next second.

He didn't want to be alone at all, and he was terrified when he thought of the two sea crocodile brothers.

But Geraint also thought of this, he patted Crewe's tentacles, and comforted—"Don't worry, I'll just go for a few days, those two guys won't be able to come out of the hospital these days."

Crewe was taken aback, and suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen the two domineering crocodiles today, so he couldn't help asking—"What's wrong with them?"

"I don't know," Geraint rolled his eyes cunningly, "Maybe he ate something wrong."

After hesitating for a while, Crewe nodded reluctantly.

At that moment, Geraint thought that he had arranged everything well, not only avenged Crewe, but also bought time for himself to go out.

It's just that he didn't expect that this escape would cause him to be delayed for a long time, and he couldn't come back smoothly.

TBC

The author has something to say:

A chapter of historical origin is added at the beginning of the article, so that readers and friends who have not read the fanfic "Boundless" and the semi-fanfic "Sea Clan" can understand the understanding of the sea people in "The Wave".But skipping it doesn't affect the plot of The Wave, hehe~ If you are interested, you can poke it.