The Defeated Dragon

A moment later.

The Flowers quietly came to a standstill, and whenever there was a song, it finally came to Liszt’s ears. He couldn’t  understand the song’s language. The words sounded strange, but they sound very noble, overlooking the sentiments of all living beings.

Hearing the song, it was easy to hear the sadness and pain in it.

“It’s a woman singing, therefore, the singing demon is a girl, if there is a gender at all.” Liszt listened silently, not looking for it in a hurry, fearing that the singing demon would be scared away.

At the same time, they were carefully distinguishing which direction the song was coming from.

Finally, they decided that the song was coming from the left front where there seemed to be several rocks grouped together in that area. Liszt cast his Magic Eyes because it was too far away to see anything.

“Captain Costo, head in this direction, to the reef.”

“Yes, my Lord!”

The Flowers started moving again and was chopping through the waves under the moonlight. Liszt didn’t know if the ship was too loud and was covering up the singing, or the singing demon just stopped singing immediately when it heard noises from the Flowers. Liszt didn’t hear the song again. As for the sailors, they didn’t hear anything at all.

The sails swelled and the oars were in uniform.

The Flowers quickly approached the reef.

Liszt kept casting Magic Eyes and still saw no signs of magic as they toured around the reef. However, he was strong on his speculation that the singing demon could only be dwelling in that area. If the singing demon did not need to live on the islands and reefs and could drift on the sea at will, one could only recognize it by pinching his nose.

The difficulty of finding a singing demon that can only run around in the vast sea is that of a hell-like level.

“Put down the wooden boat. I will search in the reefs myself.” Liszt made a detour, took a wooden boat and began to search in the shallow waters inside the reef.

The canoe sailed between the reef shoals.

Liszt’s Magic Eye kept observing, and finally, when he checked the middle rock, he saw a faint sign of magic in the shallow water on rock edges.

That little white light was so attractive at night.

“This way, come on, row this way!”

The sailors rowed as hard as they could, and the wooden boat was like a flying arrow, hurtling towards the rocks. The closer Liszt got, the clearer the white magic light was in the vision of the Magic Eye. He has already seen the specific position of the light, which was surrounded by rubble in the reef waters.

The waves kept beating on the surrounding rocks.

The rowing of the wooden boat became difficult.

But with Liszt’s guidance, it was still moving little by little near the place where the magic light emanated.

Finally, the distance was close to fifty meters.

The Magic Eye can clearly see a human form huddled together. Oddly enough, there seems to be a pale halo around the human form, which was shaped like a shell. The halo form was quite thin, and not very clear, especially when the waves are beating, the halo would disappear.

“Lord Baron,we can’t move anymore. The bottom of the wooden boat has been stranded by stones under the water,” said the sailor.

“I’ll go straight into the water.”

Liszt determined that there were no sea monsters around and jumped off the wooden boat. The waters around this area was already quite shallow. There were various kinds of gravel and pebbles under the water surface, making it quite difficult to stand on. The moonlight could not illuminate the water bottom, adding difficulty to the situation.

Fortunately, Liszt was prepared and took out the crystal lamp which was equivalent to that of a desk lamp. It could barely illuminate a small area of the water and the stones at the bottom.

Liszt was stepping on stones, avoiding potholes, letting the sea pass over his legs and waist.

He took a few sailors with him and moved them over little by little. When the distance was less than ten meters, he clearly saw what the magic light was.

In the vision of the Magic Eye, there was a huge shell with a human form curled up into a ball and shivering. Liszt could clearly see the shape of a woman, but there were other weak magic outlines surrounding it. There were wings and fins attached to the human form itself. 

She has fins behind her ears and fin-shaped wings on her back. Where her legs reached the bare part of her feet, the light magic light around her would merge making it  unable to see her feet.

The whole shell was emitting a faint magic light.

Liszt dispersed the Magic Eye.

“My singing demon!” Liszt was excited, his mental exhaustion was swept away, and his previous irritability was quickly dispelled. He was already faintly chanting, “Don’t be afraid, I am a good person.”

Finally.

Liszt walked over to the edge of the shell.

What he saw was a standard scallop shell with a diameter of about 3 meters. The fan has a radial wave shape, a standard left-right symmetrical structure, with no other color, only pure plain white.

“What a beautiful big shell!” Captain Costo,who followed Liszt, exclaimed.

The sailors also exclaimed,  “Oh my god, it’s so big!”

“Beautiful!”

“I can’t believe there is a shell bigger than the giant shell at the gate of Lord Baron’s castle.”

Liszt raised his eyebrows. He didn’t want the group to disturb this moment. He ordered them, “Captain Costo, take the sailors back to the ship, have them bring a net so they can drag the shell onto the boat.” The singing demon must be taken away. Since the demon lived in the shell, she must be taken away together with the shell.

“Yes, my Lord.” Costo hurriedly reprimanded the sailors and returned with them to the Flowers to fetch the net.

Liszt waited for people to leave.

He then knocked on the shell with his hand. “Hi, hello, can you hear me?”

His Magic Eyes were fixed on the shell’s contents. The trembling singing demon curled up even more with her arms around her legs, apparently hearing Liszt’s voice.

Liszt eased up.

He let his voice sound more gentle. “You should be able to hear me. I am a simple human being, a noble lord. The islands and reefs here are my territory. I heard your song, it is very sad and painful. I want to know what I can do to help you? “

He wasn’t  sure whether the singing demon could speak snake language, but he tried to communicate with it first.

After all, it is the sprite of the sea, so it has to be gentle.

If it was a sea monster, Liszt wouldn’t say a word, he would just pry the shell open and kill the demon inside. However, for the singing demon with a female profile, it seems that the creature is quite lithe and graceful, so he cannot be so rough.

“Don’t be afraid, I really just want to help you. My name is Liszt Tulip, and I am the Lord of Flower Town. I am a lord who believes in peace. I feel that human beings, sprites, or demons and all creatures of nature should live in harmony and not hurt each other. “

He then talked endlessly about his ideas of ​​peace.

This seemed to work. The trembling singing demon finally relaxed a little. She turned her head and seemed to want to respond to Liszt.

However, at this moment, Costo and others came back again, yelling, “My Lord, the ship net is here!”

After this scare, the song demon curled up tightly again.

Liszt’s face sank. He turned his head and wanted to shout at Costo and others who had arrived. He then later choked back his anger and whispered as faintly as possible. “Shut up! Everyone, stand still! No, back away, back away a 100 meters!”