Chapter 1093: A Welcoming Feast Of Seafood

Chapter 1093: A Welcoming Feast Of Seafood

UppTodated from nô/v/e/lb(i)n.c(o)/m

After a lot of banter which ultimately led to all of us having a big banquet together in the dining room, which actually had a bubble of air so mermen can enjoy the flavors of food better, we continued talking about the current situation of the Aquarose Kingdom.

Also, I learned most houses had these bubbles of air when eating, mermen seem to have figured out that eating underwater barely gives you any proper flavor of the food. Also cooking food and other things is mostly impossible, quite smart, I have to admit that.

The food they served was rather delicious and varied, and full of color. Giant clams with sweet meat gently grilled, roasted fish of all kinds of colors, they often kept the scales which the mermen ate anyways, and the heads too.

There was also lots of crabs, green, blue, red, brown, black, and white colored crabs adorned the entire table, their meat varied in tastes, some were very sweet, others more bitter, some were quite salty! And the dark red ones were incredibly spicy, apparently they originated from thermal vents and had a slight amount of poison, enough to be edible for most people, but that gave it a really nice spiciness.

As for drinks, we enjoyed a myriad of wines and juices, half of them made out of the nectars extracted from polyp trees, unique trees that grow down here made out of immobile jellyfish that harden and become tree-like, similar to corals.

When they harden and become tree-like, they apparently create fruit polyps, which often mature into mobile jellyfish that travel far away to settle down and then grow as new trees. But if taken ahead of time they're full of a very sweet nectar.

So it's like eating egg juice, its very bizarre, but the taste is nice, fruity and with a nice tanginess to it, the juices are then fermented into a lot of different wines. The fresh juice tends to have small sweet-flavored bits of jellyfish inside, which seemed to make it a favorite of the children.

"It happened perhaps ten thousand years ago, our people were a small tribe that originated from a world connected to this one through the Tower," the King said. "Our world was named Atlantis, and it was full to the brim with many island nations and underwater tribes. Because of the constant wars between the many forces of such a vast, nautical world, our small tribe decided to escape the conflicts and destruction."

"It is said in the old tales that Naiad, the Lady of Calm Waves, a young and strong Divine Saintess had become what many call a "Player", a climber of the Tower, she was an adventurer and a powerful woman. She explored the many worlds, becoming very strong, an came back to lead us to a much more peaceful world, one whose waters were mostly uncharted, where mermen did not exist," said the Queen.

"She had a party of friends from other worlds, amongst them there was his lover, Knight Eustace, a man with convictions and courage that helped us settle down for many years, always protecting us," said the King.

"By exploring the nearby ruins, we obtained new powers as we learned how to harbor the Tower's powers, leveling up and obtaining skills, we created our own little territory in these depths," said the Queen.

"It is said that there were many years of peace, our small village slowly grew bigger as we settled down inside the shell of a giant, long dead Titan Clam, whose form we slowly changed and transformed into our new homes," the King said. "Lady Naiad often came to visit us, telling us tales of the surface."

"We thought we would live in peace, but then... That appeared, a creature from the depths, a monstrous being with ten heads and twenty appendages, as the tales say," the Queen explained. "The King of the Depths was a furious beast, a resentful monster that only desired the demise of anybody that disturbed their sleep. Because of all the commotion the building of our kingdom caused, he was awakened, and in his fury, he almost managed to wipe us all

out..."

"But Lady Naiad helped us, using her incredible powers, she battled the monstrous aberration!" the King said. "She wielded the power of these oceans, and both the King of the Depths and our Hero Naiad were almost equally matched! However, mustering her last powers, Naiad put a seal on him, the King of the Depths going into an endless slumber..." "And that is mostly what we've been taught since we were young about the past," the Queen smiled. "Was it of any help to understand the current situation?"

"Y-Yeah, a bit..." I nodded, looking at Eustace. "Are you sure you don't want to say you're Eustace now?" I asked him telepathically.