Tides: Years of Dawn

"Yes, anyway, if you become a lord, you have to marry my older sister or younger sister, and I can be your assistant," Rael said, paused, and then said, "But my sister and I are both members of the Turtle family. , You don’t have to worry about my support, but it’s a waste of resources. If you can find another family as an assistant—such as the Moray family, then you can get the support of two families.”

After Gao Wen returned to school, he just took this incident as a joke and told Leier, and he thought that Leier would also feel that this was a fantasy.Unexpectedly, Rael was very calm. After thinking carefully for a while, he analyzed the pros and cons for Gao Wen and answered the above-mentioned words.

Gao Wen couldn't laugh or cry.

"You? Are you my assistant?" Gao Wen repeated word for word, he believed that the other party didn't understand what he said, so he replied.

"If that's the case, I can try my best to make you make fewer mistakes," Rael smiled, and patted Gawain's arm in a friendly way, "For example, I won't let you plead with your father to get Crewe out. "

Gao Wen's heart skipped a beat.Although he didn't reveal a word to Rael before he went or after he came back, it seemed that Rael understood everything clearly.

He was about to refute, but suddenly he had a plan.He paused for a moment while helping Lemarlock clean the fish tank, then bent down and continued.

But his movements were fully seen by Rael. At this moment, Rael was holding the sleeping little sea monster Lemarlock in his hands. The sleeping little sea monster smacked his lips, and hiccupped for some reason.

"What are you thinking?" Rael asked, "You just thought of something important."

"What are you thinking?" Gawain pretended to be stupid, took the little sea monster from Leier's hand, and slowly put it back into the fish tank.

The little sea monster fell to the bottom of the fish tank with a thud, but it still didn't wake up. It chose a comfortable position and continued to sleep soundly.

"I can tell, to be honest, Gawain." Rael clapped his hands and looked at Gawain sideways.Seeing that Gao Wen still remained silent, he couldn't help guessing—"You won't tell me that you want to choose Ott///Puss as your assistant?"

"I didn't say anything." Gao Wen said, trying to keep his tone calm.

Rael laughed, and snorted, "Gao Wen, Crewe is not suitable to be your assistant. And if you want to use your and your family's reputation as a guarantee to clear his name, then you really are—— "

Leyle didn't finish right away, and after confirming that Gao Wen would not answer, he said with some regret—"This is too much for the loss." Leyle shook his head helplessly, "You know what happened to the last seaman who guarantied someone else's reputation? what?"

"Well, it's been five years since he committed suicide." Geraint was able to use a very peaceful tone when talking about this matter now.Although his heart was still twisting and aching, after all, he was talking about his father.

"It's been five years..." The man from the jellyfish family sighed softly, "Baro is a good man, and I have always admired him."

"Oh, really, it's a pity that I don't know him very well." Geraint said flatly.

He is indeed not very familiar with his father, he only knows that his father seldom spends time with him, which directly led to his inexplicable being tied up to the outside world when he was seven years old.

His memory of that time is already a little fuzzy, and he vaguely remembers that he was taken to a snow mountain on land.He cried and shouted, but no one from his family came to rescue him.

The wizard who kidnapped him gave him little to eat until he was almost frozen, and then a group of wizard guards on land ransomed him.

Afterwards, the guards on land arranged for him to be sent to the hospital, where he regained some physical strength and spirit before sending him home.

Ironically, this kidnapping was Geraint's first time out.Although it was passive, at least it allowed him to see what it was like outside.

And not two years after he was sent home, his father Baroseben committed suicide.

In Geraint's childhood, everything about his father was thin and pale. Even though he had just been sent back in shock, his father didn't stay with him for a while.

When he was young, he didn't know what was going on, and every day he saw his father and his assistant—that is, Crewe's sister—walking in a hurry with anxiety on his face.

So he really didn't know what was good about his father, and the only good thing was that his status as the young master made everyone around him respect him.He doesn't need to look at other people's faces, nor does he need to please anyone.Their family was rich, and he got almost anything he wanted.

But a year later, following Crewe's sister back to Octopus's house, everything changed.

Crewe's sister has feelings for him, and the children of the lord's family in the Cracked Rock Islands are basically brought up with assistance.So Crewe's sister Debbie treats him better than Crewe, and she hopes to give Geraint the feeling that he still has relatives by his side.

But Geraint's fate is so fucking bad. It hasn't been a year since this kind of life has passed, and Debbie also died unexpectedly.

I remember Crewe sitting next to him crying at that funeral.Although Geraint didn't know why Crewe was crying, after all, Debbie always had a disgusting attitude towards Crewe.

But Geraint is also very sad, and he believes that this is not an accident, he believes that Debbie's death has another explanation.

"He helped me once, a lot," the male jellyfish continued, pointing to his intact face, "If it wasn't for Barrow, my face would be ruined as well."

"Why did it become like this?" After seeing the other person's appearance clearly, Geraint was no longer afraid.

Although the festering side is really disgusting, it can be seen that it is caused by the overflow of toxins in the body and is not contagious.

"I'm from the execution team." The man glanced at the corner of his mouth nervously, and pulled the hood tighter. "I don't know if you have heard your father say that we are capturing some monsters."

"What monster?" Geraint had never heard of it. He had too few opportunities to communicate with his father, and the servants and attendants at home would never discuss business with a child.

"A . . . land wizard mixed with seafolk abilities," the man said.

"……I don't know."

In Geraint's understanding, a sea witch is a sea witch, and a land wizard is a land wizard.Although they have been enemies of each other since ancient times, just like the sea beast Leviathan has always been the enemy of the land beast Behemoth.But the two species have not been in contact with each other for many years, and there is a very serious reproductive isolation between them, and it is impossible to produce offspring.

The other party seemed to see Geraint's doubts, and explained—"They were transformed with a kind of drug, and after many generations of drug transformation, they finally turned into monsters."

"Reform...reform what? Transform wizards on land?"

"Yes, modify their body functions so that they can perceive the existence of ore like us, and have the ability to manipulate the natural climate."

There are very significant differences between sea witches and land wizards, one of which is nothing more than the difference in physical shape.

Sea witches have half the genes of sea beasts, so they can become certain marine species, communicate with fish frequencies, and have the senses of certain marine creatures.

For example, Geraint is a descendant of sea snakes and humans, so Geraint can also become a complete snake and has exactly the same venom as sea snakes.

But wizards on land can't do it. If a wizard on land wants to turn into an animal, his magic power must be very strong.But even if they become snakes, they don't have venom, which means they can't have animal characteristics other than appearance.

Second, sea witches don't use wands.Their mana comes from the power of nature, so they can sense ore and control the weather.Although they cannot cast spells accurately, once they use their natural forces skillfully, they can change the weather conditions in a large area and summon wind, rain, thunder and lightning at any time.

Neither can wizards on land.Most wizards on land use wands, which are precise, sharp, and fast.Although mana cannot be released in a large area, a sea witch can be killed with just one spell.

According to the male jellyfish in front of him, if there is a drug that can make the wizards on land have the ability of sea people, it means-"It is a special force specially created by wizards on land for the characteristics of sea witches."

"But...they don't exist." Geraint said.If there is one, the Shattered Rocks are now at war.They have long since lost their comfort, let alone being tired of staying in school, and sneaked out to have fun.

"It exists, but it's very unstable. So after they were created, they were ordered to be wiped out, and my job—" the jellyfish lowered his voice, "is to collect them back. You know, the land wizards are studying us, we We also have to study them. Otherwise, once they are successfully transformed, we don't even have a way to deal with them."

And this male jellyfish is the captain of one of the monster hunting teams.

"I failed a mission once and was captured by a wizard on the land. After I escaped, the guard family Trudeau no longer trusted me. They believed that the wizard on the land had tortured information from me, so they decided to take me Get rid of all the remaining people with my team."

He and his team members drank meth without any precautions. When they first drank meth, they didn't feel any sensation, and they were able to sleep forever in their sleep that night.After another night of corpse decay, the next day was beyond recognition.

As a result, these team members who had been captured and escaped by chance soon became nameless and unrecognizable corpses, and were thrown into the sea by the turtle family.

"The others are all dead. My life is fatal. Your father saved me. He controlled the toxin in half of my body, so..." The man smiled wryly again, and pointed at half of his face again.

Geraint couldn't recover.

He could swear that he really didn't know anything about these things.The news of the sea snake family and the octopus family is very well-informed, but he has never even heard the gossip.

"He vouched for me, he swore on his honor that I was not a traitor, and he spared my half life."

But that's not feasible, because everything about the monster is a secret.The execution team is directly under the garrison of the Sea Turtle Family, and only the Sea Turtle Family and the leader of the Split Rock Islands know about this.

Those monsters cannot be accurately defined as land wizards or sea people, and using them as research materials will likely violate the law that sea people cannot harm each other. If you violate this law, you will be eaten by your compatriots.

Although the guarding family's intentions are good, the whole operation is too controversial.Although they never compete for the position of lord, their authority is unshakable, the hearts of the people are unshakable, and the trust of the people in them is unshakable.

Otherwise, they cannot continue to maintain the inherent order of the Cracked Rock Islands.

The half-faced jellyfish is too deep into this mystery, he sees the dark side of the Rift Rocks, so he can't see the light.

"I don't know who threatened Barrow later, and I don't know the real reason why he chose to commit suicide. At that time, I was protected by him in the basement until one night he suddenly let me board the boat and leave," the man continued. Said, "He gave me a few bottles of medicine, and told me to take the medicine and never come back."

Geraint was smart. After rereading the other party's words, he came to a conclusion - "You came back to see me."

"Yes, you are the last member of the Sea Snake family, those potions will have to be handed back to you eventually," the man said with a smile and sighed again, "I just want to see how many monsters those bounty hunters have caught this time, Not at all ready to go back to the Cracked Rocks, but I never expected to meet you on this ship."

Gerald frowned.

Although he understood what the other party meant, the past few years of living under the fence made it difficult for him to trust anyone easily.

He sat back a little vigilantly, bowed his head and fell silent.

After a while, he raised his head and continued the topic again - "What are the effects of those medicines, I can't believe my father didn't tell you at all."

"That's the research result of him and his assistant Debbie," the jellyfish confessed bluntly, "it's the only antidote for those monsters to stabilize the genes of the sea dwellers and calm them down."

Geraint wanted to ask again, but suddenly understood.

This is probably the reason for Debbie's "accident", because Debbie is not willing to hand over the antidote, nor is she willing to destroy the research results, nor is she willing to let all the efforts and blessings of Barrow and herself go to waste, after all——

"The result that the guarding family wants is not for the monsters to be calm, and they don't want to redeem them. Otherwise, they will become real and undisputed sea people, and the crime of the guarding family is indeed hurting their compatriots."

Once convicted, everything the Weiwei family has done—whether it is right or wrong—will be questioned by hundreds of thousands of sea people.

The Sea Turtle family will be pushed to the forefront, and the existing defense system of the Split Rock Island will also be broken, thus setting off a wave of shaking the order of the Split Rock Islands.

TBC