The emotion on Royer's face ca quickly and left just as fast.
But Saul could still sense the suppressed anger beneath the other's now-calm expression.
Saul knew Royer looked down on rmaids, viewing the entire population as trash.
But he hadn't expected Royer to get so angry when seeing Alfonso and Pearl get close.
"Could there be other conflicts between them?"
After glancing around at the two people and one rmaid, Saul turned to prepare for takeoff.
Then he heard Penny's laughter again.
"Brother Saul, just now when you were looking at others, that little shorty was also observing you!"
Penny actually described Stuart like that!
Saul remained noncommittal.
He and Stuart and Royer flew to the Red Sea surface according to their pre-assigned areas.
After all three gestured, Alfonso patted Pearl's head.
Pearl hesitated for a while, seemingly only then rembering what she was supposed to do, and opened her pale little mouth.
Although the rmaid princess opened her mouth, no sound erged.
Saul narrowed his eyes slightly and felt an unstable ntal power fluctuation spreading from Pearl toward the ocean.
The seawater initially showed no reaction. After about ten minutes, there were so ripples.
After another ten minutes or so, a rmaid surfaced, looking toward the shore where Pearl was located, with so curiosity and longing on her face.
This rmaid was in the area Royer was responsible for. He imdiately raised his hand, and the rmaid was scooped up from the seawater by an invisible large hand.
Once out of water, the rmaid imdiately struggled in panic.
Royer wasn't gentle—he directly tightened the invisible hand, and the rmaid didn't struggle long before imdiately fainting.
Saul quickly reminded him, "Royer, don't kill her!"
Only then did Royer loosen his grip, letting the rmaid catch her breath.
Next ca the second, third...
They looked toward Pearl's direction with so curiosity and yearning, then were pulled out of the sea one by one by three third-rank wizards guarding the surface.
Using about an hour, they caught a total of 11 atavistic rmaids.
And 136 non-atavistic rmaids.
"Isn't Pearl only supposed to summon atavistic rmaids? Why did so many co up?" Stuart asked puzzledly while sorting the rmaid types.
Saul was also selecting rmaids. "I think... it's probably not Pearl's fault. These rmaids generally have low intelligence. They probably saw atavistic rmaids swimming toward the surface and followed to watch the excitent."
While speaking, Saul also looked at Pearl. Having completed her task, she was placed back in the water. Beside her was also Coral with red hair.
The two rmaids looked quite amusing as they simultaneously gazed at Saul and the others, watching them select rmaids.
If you didn't look at their fish tails below, they looked like two beauties fresh from bathing.
Pleasing to the eye.
But Royer smiled contemptuously. "This is why we chose to use modified rmaids to absorb Red Sea Tree pollution. Controlling them with rmaid royal bloodline is very easy."
"Modified rmaids aren't as sensitive to black tide pollution, but they feed on Red Sea Tree root stems daily. There's always a ti when pollution reaches their tolerance limit," Stuart said, looking at the wilted rmaids covering the ground. "How do you handle that?"
"Of course," Royer forcefully pounded his right hand into his left palm with a thunk, "compress the useless trash and throw it into the deep sea."
This world had no concept of protecting marine environnts. In fact, the oceans here weren't sothing wizards could protect anyway.
After explaining the rmaids' final destination, Royer deliberately looked back at Alfonso, who was adjusting potions. But the latter completely ignored him, as if he hadn't heard anything.
Including the atavistic rmaids originally in the deep pool, there were 22 atavistic rmaids total. The number wasn't much among hundreds of thousands of modified rmaids, but once pollution diseases appeared in them, they could potentially infect thousands or tens of thousands of nearby rmaids.
Still very dangerous.
Alfonso's operation using Pearl to concentrate all atavistic rmaids before the black tide assault was very wise. It should have also received Tribunal approval.
Otherwise, Royer and Stuart couldn't possibly have set aside their work to help him.
At this ti, Alfonso ca over with potions. "Nearby atavistic rmaids should all be here. Later I'll take Pearl to other sea areas to collect rmaids."
Royer crossed his arms. "What, you want us to accompany you along the south coast?"
"No need," Alfonso shook his head expressionlessly. "You can return after today's experint. Local garrison wizards will cooperate with afterward. And currently atavistic rmaids have only been found in this area. The possibility of them elsewhere is small, so there's no need for you to make wasted trips."
Royer seed to think of sothing, suddenly smiling again and slapping Alfonso's shoulder. "Good, then you take your rmaid princess out for a tour. Just don't forget to co back."
Saul remained silent on the side, feeling Royer's words had hidden anings.
Penny also complained in his consciousness, "These two seem like friends on the surface, but there's so much drama underneath."
Without responding to Penny, Saul stepped forward to take the potion Alfonso had prepared, then walked toward Pearl and Coral.
According to their previous agreent, he would conduct black tide pollution experints on Pearl. But because of Pearl's special status as rmaid princess and her unique ability to summon other atavistic rmaids, Saul had also promised Alfonso he would definitely clear pollution from her body before black tides caused significant harm to Pearl.
Coming to Pearl's side, Coral was also watching nearby. Besides these two, Saul was also responsible for three other rmaids.
The rmaids assigned to him all had the most obvious atavistic features. At least one-third of the scales on their tails were cyan.
Among these five rmaids, Pearl and Coral showed higher intelligence.
Their appearances also most closely matched human aesthetics, without strange fish-like features.
Without wasting ti, Saul used Little Algae to secure the five rmaids to the ground, then injected black tide pollution sources into their bodies.
After completing the first step, Saul stepped back two paces to observe the five rmaids' reactions.
None had any reaction.
After an hour, Coral was the first to develop rotting wounds. Coral, who had felt nothing before, began crying with pursed lips.
Seemingly seeing Coral cry, Pearl also began shedding tears with "pitter-patter" sounds.
The other three rmaids hadn't shown abnormal reactions yet, but seeing Pearl and Coral cry, though looking bewildered, they also began tearing up.
The rmaids seed to know no one would care about their tears. Even when crying, they did so silently, quietly by themselves... never thinking to ask anyone for help.
Saul stood nearby like a cold-blooded, heartless killer, letting them cry while occasionally checking each rmaid's pollution condition.
When a cyan scale fell from Pearl's tail, revealing a small wound underneath, Saul imdiately stepped forward to clear the pollution from her body. He simultaneously healed Coral.
Pearl hadn't contracted the strange and terrible pollution disease like Coral, but her resistance to black tide pollution was the lowest among atavistic rmaids.
"The more obvious the atavistic condition, the lower the resistance to black tides. But the lowest resistance still belongs to Coral, who contracted the pollution disease. Coral's bloodline concentration is clearly lower than Pearl's, yet she contracted the disease first. So what exactly caused her illness?"
Saul walked to Coral and lifted her chin.
Coral was forced to look up, her ruby-like eyes gazing at Saul, eye sockets full of tears but no longer overflowing.
She looked at Saul without hatred or fear in her eyes, even with a hint of curiosity.
Saul looked down at Coral, silently thinking: "I've tried many thods but still can't find the pathogenic cause... Could it be... there is no cause?"
(End of Chapter)
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