Chapter 623: The History of the Fishmen
"Yes, Mr. Li Ke, thank you for your generosity. The mermaid tribe will always remember your kindness!"
Nami looked at Li Ke with gratitude. She believed what Li Ke said.
That's right, this is another simple child like Neeko, who basically believes whatever others say. If she didn't have incredibly many tides - I mean, her ability to summon the tides was incredibly strong, then she would not be able to walk smoothly in the human world.
"It's a small matter for me, but the Moon God is not in a good situation in Mount Targon, so you have to be careful at that time, but..."
Li Ke looked at Nami with some confusion. He pointed at the map, which showed some waterways marked by Nami and the places she had been to.
This is what made him confused.
Nami's actions are completely contrary to Mount Targon...
She had started her voyage from the waters between Ionia and Shurima, then ran straight up Ionia to somewhere close to the Freljord, only to run into them.
Honestly, this is going in the opposite direction.
"How did you do it? You wanted to go to Mount Targon, but ended up near the Freljord? You went off the track really badly!"
Li Ke was very confused about this. This was no longer something that could be explained by the concept of being directionally challenged.
Nami didn't show any embarrassment, she just spoke very seriously.
"No, I'm not going astray. According to the tribe's records, I have to pass an island with a blessed spring first, then pass a place with countless suspended stones, then experience a cold field, then pass a stone forest that magic and tides can't pass through, and then pass a long strait before I can reach the place where I can exchange moonstones."
Nami said this very seriously. Li Ke looked at the map and nodded.
"That's what the folk songs in our tribe have always said, so it can't be wrong!"
This fucking thing has turned the whole world around!
The geography of Runeterra is basically that Valoran occupies the center, with Freljord and an unknown ice continent above it.
Then the independent continent of Ionia stands on the right side of the Valoran continent, and below it is the independent continent of Shurima. The Kingdom of Shadow Isles and Viego, which is closer to the right, is a country made up of a series of small islands.
That’s right, Viego’s country was very small, not even as big as Demacia today!
Nami's navigation rules were to forcibly orbit the earth from a place only 5,000 kilometers away from Mount Targon in Shurima.
“…”
Li Ke rubbed his temples. He wanted to ask these fishmen to help measure waterways and the like, but the result was...
It turns out that these people don’t even know what the world is like?
This is too outrageous.
"So how many people are there in your village?"
Looking at Miss Nami, who had been sleeping due to spiritual trauma and only woke up this morning, Li Ke asked curiously.
"A few hundred people, that's a lot!"
“…”
"?"
"Nothing, it's a lot."
Li Ke looked at Nami, who had an innocent and puzzled expression, and felt the power of the huge amount of tides in her body... well, it was about the power of water. He thought about it silently for a while, and then asked again.
"So Miss Nami, how many people are there who can create a tsunami like you?"
Miss Nami was still not on guard. She touched her lips with her scaly fingers, tilted her head and thought for a while before speaking.
"Almost all of them can, but they don't have the scepter, so the tide they evoke is smaller. But if it's just a small tide, everyone of us can do it. Can't the people on the ground do it?"
“…”
What kind of outrageous race is this?
Li Ke wanted to complain. A race whose members could release tsunamis was simply a dimensionality reduction attack in this era. But after thinking about the number of people in this race, plus the other monsters in this world, it didn't seem so outrageous.
and……
"Then why didn't you develop a city like ours under the sea? Is it more difficult for you to give birth? Or are there too many monsters?"
Li Ke was quite curious about this matter. Being able to control the ocean currents, being able to swim freely, having their own tools, and having human wisdom. Apart from anything else, as long as there was no problem with reproduction, then there would be absolutely no problem in building a big city.
When asked this question, Nami's face showed obvious fear.
"Because according to the legend, if the tribe is too large, it will attract a super-giant monster. The head of that monster alone is as big as thirty whales. It can swallow up a village with just one bite..."
Nami tried her best to describe to Li Ke the monsters in their poems. There were giant worms, huge monsters whose mouths alone were several thousand meters long, and countless abnormal and strange places. Li Ke was stunned when he heard it.
Although these things could not harm him at his current level, and if he went to see them in person, he might find that they were not that mysterious, but when Nami described them from the perspective of the indigenous people, Li Ke still felt a sense of helplessness, or even desperate terror.
That was the fear of a tiny force facing a monster that it could never defeat.
Considering the changes in the Vastaya people, Li Ke was a little silent.
Most of the Vastaya originated from Ionia. Some humans combined with primitive spirits, or were changed by the power of the spiritual realm, and became vastayan with various beast powers.
These people have powers that others do not have and can survive in various ways.
That’s right, Li Ke can be sure that all the Vastaya people have become what they are now under the influence of magic in order to survive.
Xia's tribe is for arrows and the power of flight, monkeys are for better climbing and more agile movements, lions are for better hunting, and chameleons are for better hiding themselves.
Almost every physical feature of the Vastaya stands for some tools and skills, which also shows how dangerous the world was back then.
Nami's tribe probably entered the water to avoid the disaster on land.
but……
As a result, they missed the process of humans gradually eliminating those terrible existences, missed the baptism of the Shurima Ascended Army, missed the shock brought by the Rune Wars, missed the system evolved by the continuous conquest of civilization... As a result, they are now threatened by the wild world under the sea, and even have a population of only a few hundred. It can be said that there are gains and losses.
After all, if they had not chosen to go into the sea, their tribe might not have been able to survive.
