Shota's Isekai NTR Adventure

Chapter 1181: Future trades



It seemed like this was a question that he was suddenly asking which caught everyone off guard.

But the one that reacted first was the former crown prince.

The former crown prince had been trained to take the throne, so he naturally knew what the Merman King was thinking as a ruler.

The reason that the Merman King had suddenly asked this was because he wanted to find value with the sea witches. While they could create a non aggression alliance between the Merman Empire and the sea witches, that wouldn't solve the underlying problem.

After all, the non aggression alliance would only make it so that they wouldn't fight each other anymore.

Just the non aggression alliance alone wouldn't actually make them closer, it would just stop the fighting that was happening on the surface. It wouldn't solve the underlying problem that was the relationship between the Merman Empire and the sea witches.

The only thing that could do that was to have something that would bring them closer.

The only real thing that could bring people closer was benefits.

Which meant that the Merman King was trying to find something that the sea witches could offer the people of the Merman Empire. At the same time, he was trying to see if there was anything that the sea witches needed from the Merman Empire.

Only by closing this gap and creating a mutually beneficial relationship would they be able to bring the two groups together in the future.

Once he understood, the former crown prince said, "The experiments that sea witches do are to understand how to use their magic. It develops all kinds of interesting magic, such as..." He turned to Ariel and said, "Well, you can see the results of that magic for yourself." Both the Merman King and the Merman Queen nodded with smiles on their faces at this.

It seemed that both of them were very happy to see that their daughter had recovered her normal mermaid figure.

The former crown prince continued by saying, "Other than that, there are many different kinds of magic that were discovered by the sea witches that help with all kinds of different situations. The magic that they use can also help with daily life and other things."

The Merman King gave a nod of understanding when he heard this, but he still didn't say anything.

The look on his face was as if he was waiting for the former crown prince to say something. The former crown prince naturally knew what he was waiting for, so he continued speaking. "Those experiments take a lot of ingredients and it's something that's hard to find for the sea witches who have to hide themselves. So it's hard for many sea witches to do the experiment that they want to do to develop new kinds of magic. If they were able to obtain the ingredients that they needed, there is no doubt that many great things would come of it." The former crown prince's voice became more and more excited as he said this.

It was true that if this did happen, then many things would change both for the Merman Empire and the sea witches.

Only there seemed to be something that the Merman King was still concerned about.

There was a silence that lingered after the former crown prince finished what he was saying as the Merman King.

That was because there was a look on the Merman King's face as if he was thinking about something.

After a while, the Merman King finally said, "Just like how there are people who experiment to discover magic that would help people, there are people that would also experiment to discover magic that would harm people, right?"

The former crown prince slightly knitted his brows, but he eventually nodded in agreement.

This was something that he couldn't deny since the sea witches weren't a unified group in the first place.

Just like how there were good and bad people in the Merman Empire, it was the same with the sea witches.

It was impossible for everyone to be good after all since that was just the nature of living beings.

There were all kinds of people in this world and it was impossible for everyone to be the same.

It was inevitable that there would be people that would want to harm others.

The former crown prince knew exactly why the Merman King was asking this.

There was the long standing bad feelings that were between the Merman Empire and the sea witches. This was not something that could be broken down in just a day or two, this was something that would take a long time to accomplish.

During this time, there might be those that would take advantage of this situation to cause harm to the Merman Empire or the sea witches. That was why they had to crack down on these possible loopholes as the ones in charge.

They had to make sure that no one would be able to use these gaps to cause any harm to anyone or it would set everything back.

But it was impossible to ensure this.

So the only thing that they could do was strictly monitor the situation.

"I can't have the sea witches harming my people with the ingredients that we provide them, so we can't just openly trade with the sea witches just yet." The Merman King said in a strict

voice.

The former crown prince hesitated for a moment before slowly giving a nod of agreement. Even though he knew that this would harm their efforts, he had to agree with this and think of a way around it since that was the only thing that they could do.

After a long silence, the Merman King continued by saying, "If we want to do this, we have to strictly control who gets the ingredients and where it is used. We still want to open trades with the sea witches, but we need to ensure that it is done safely."

The former crown prince was surprised since it didn't seem like he would agree, but it turned out that he was wrong.

He was happy to be wrong since this meant that they could still push forward with this matter.

"Alright, we have two of the Five Great Witches of the Sea here, we can make this work." The former crown prince said with a firm nod.