Ancient Wizards: A Little Progress Every Day

"Beauty Shell"

As Dago murmured the name, the two scallop girls, who had been held up by Chuck and exposed to the sea breeze for half a day, were now shivering from the cold. But fear sustained them as they sang their hearts out, trying to please the "giant" in front of them.

Dargo admitted that he was very interested in this amazing little gadget.

Eating it raw is of course out of the question, and he doesn't have any particular fetishes. However, it would be quite nice to use the beautiful clam shell, which can produce a beautiful singing voice, as a "walkman" when he's bored.

He brought his dust sprite Arrietty with him this time, so the three little ones could keep each other company, and his number of "living beautiful girl figurines" could increase to three.

"What reward do you want, Chuck?"

Dago gladly accepted the "gift" and asked Chuck in front of him.

"Nothing is needed."

Chuck knelt before Dago and kissed the deck beneath his feet. "It is a great favor that you are willing to give a man like me any respect."

Dago's eyes flickered slightly. After thinking for a moment, he took out some magic stones and some worldly treasures that he had been cleaning up but hadn't come to collect from his spatial ring and placed them in front of Chuck.

"Take it, Chuck. You deserve it."

"Dago said calmly."

Chuck couldn't refuse Dago's gift. He hesitated for a moment, but only picked out a beautiful gemstone necklace from the things Dago gave him, and then pushed the rest back.

"That's enough for an adult."

Chuck carefully tucked the gemstone necklace into his pocket and whispered, "If I ever have the chance to go back, I'll give it to Maggie. She'll be so happy."

Without even asking, Dago could guess that the "Maggie" Chuck mentioned was the fat woman he had specifically said goodbye to before leaving.

It seemed that she was working as a prostitute in the slums, and now Dago felt from the bottom of his heart that she was really unworthy of Chuck, who had a pure and simple heart.

Perhaps sensing the unintentional meaning in Dago's eyes, Chuck took the initiative to explain, "Maggie is a very good woman. In the entire Qifeng Harbor, she is the only one who doesn't look down on me for my appearance or my identity."

"Maybe she just wants your money."

Dago felt it was necessary to remind Chuck, "The child in her belly might not be yours."

"I also hope it's not mine."

Chuck chuckled and said softly, "That way, 'our' child won't have to become like me. She's truly a good woman; she'll be willing to live a good life with me, as a family."

Clearly, for Chuck, the sea creature bloodline in his body is a curse.

Upon hearing Chuck's reply, Dago didn't say anything more, only calmly stating, "You'll get back alive, Chuck, I promise."

Chuck bowed respectfully to Dago, then stepped aside and took out the potion the black-haired wizard had given him, applying it to his body little by little.

The magic airship continued forward, with Dago standing at the bow, controlling the direction of the airship while playing with the two beautiful shells.

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After studying them for a short while, the two tiny beauties inside the scallops fainted one after another due to fear and exhaustion from singing. Dago had no choice but to put them away temporarily so they could rest.

The airship traveled for some time before gradually arriving at the depths of the Green Abyss.

Actually, not much time had passed, but the moonlight and starlight overhead had become very dim.

The vast sea seemed to be shrouded in a thick, impenetrable green ink, and the atmosphere gradually became gloomy and eerie.

"grown ups."

After his break, Chuck stood up on his own and gave Dago an inquiring look.

Dago nodded and told him to "be careful."

Chuck didn't say anything, but took off most of his clothes, then took out a bone-handled dagger that he had brought with him, and forcefully cut wounds all over his body, with red and green blood flowing down quickly.

After doing all this, Chuck leaped out of the airship and landed in the sea with a splash.

Dago stood coldly at the bow of the airship, his mental energy fully deployed, keeping a close watch on Chuck and the movements of the surrounding sea.

Chuck lay in the icy seawater, trying his best to push the seawater, which was stained with his own blood, away and continuing to cut more wounds on his body with the dagger.

Seeing his face gradually turn pale, Dago tossed him a bottle of healing potion and collected some of his blood, intending to use it for research later.

Time passed second by second, and gradually, a strange sea breeze suddenly arose on the sea.

A sound, like the crying of a baby or the chirping of a conch shell, drifted over from afar.

"They're here!"

Dago's mental energy detected several dark figures approaching Chuck at an incredibly fast speed in the seawater. He calmly raised his hand and used his mental energy to pull Chuck directly out of the seawater.

Chuck, who had taken the treatment, was actually in good condition. After landing back on the deck, his first words were, "Sir, you were in too much of a hurry to catch them. You'd better let me continue."

"No."

Dago stepped out of the airship, his robes fluttering as he descended towards the sea below.

His main goal was to figure out the secret of the Ghostly Fish's life force burst so that he could improve his technique of compressing life spheres. As long as he could do that, whether or not he could catch the Ghostly Fish was not important to him.

"Buzz—"

As Dago's shoe tip lightly touched the sea surface, a pale golden spiritual energy field instantly spread out from his body.

The entire sea beneath him immediately pressed down, and under the terrifying mental force, the waves piled up instantly, and the void itself began to distort layer by layer.

Without needing to cast any spells, using only his mental power, Dago "captured" the several howling fish attracted by Chuck's blood, detached them from the seawater, and lifted them into the air.

It resembled the first "roaring fish" he had obtained; both were piranhas with human-like limbs on their exteriors.

The moment Dago grabbed the howling fish with his mental power, they began to struggle violently. Dago could clearly "see" intense life energy rapidly gathering in their respective bodies, like a bomb about to explode after a fuse has been lit.

The next second will probably be the terrifying sonic attack unique to the Ghost Fish.

Dago did not dodge; instead, he took the opportunity to quickly infiltrate his mental energy into the bodies of several howling fish.

Under Dago's powerful mental probing, every detail of the tiny fish's internal structure was revealed.

"Roar—Buzz—"

Several terrifying sound waves suddenly erupted in the night sky, and the ripples in the void they stirred up were instantly smoothed out by Dago's mental field, causing him no harm whatsoever. However, huge waves splashed up on the sea surface below.

As the commotion subsided, several of the howling fish, which had erupted in a burst of energy, remained suspended in mid-air, as if they were completely dead.

At that moment, a strange light shone in Dago's eyes.

In that instant, he finally glimpsed the secret belonging to the Ghost Fish.

He saw it all inside the several howling fish whose life force was bursting forth—

A strangely shaped, small, broken snail!