I was accidentally injured by God and I just want to be an ordinary person

*创世纪6186年12月25日 晚22:41分 龙岛分岛『布洛里克兹』

In the dim room, the skinny man lay motionless on the bed, only the occasional weak groan proved that he was still awake.

This person is Valai who returned from the cruise ship controlled by Camisia.

When Ella was getting anxious because of the traffic jam, Valai had already invaded the cruise ship, and was hit by a sudden light cannon. He was blown off the ship and landed next to a stall at the dock, resulting in his current bruised and swollen appearance.

The confidant carrying water walked in from outside and found that Vale had opened his eyes. He quickly put down the basin in his hand and walked to Vale in small steps.

"Master Valais, are you feeling better? I've already sent for the priest, so there shouldn't be any danger now."

Valai opened his eyes and heard the voice. He shifted his weak gaze to his confidant and then back to the ceiling.

"Um... what time is it now?"

"It's already late at night, Lord Valais. That cruise ship is protected by a defensive barrier, preventing further intrusion. Furthermore, the fact that they're willing to install such an expensive counter-magic array on the ship means they're at least a noble of the rank of Marquis! Lord Valais, how about we abandon this place?"

"Ahem... That's not the Marquis, that's the acting Demon King of the Western Demon Territory, Camisia Nott Tilum... That blond... ahem... that must be the next Demon King that was rumored before."

Because he spoke too much in one breath, Valai started coughing continuously.

After being hit by the light cannon, Valai did not fall into coma immediately, but remained conscious for a short period of time. During this period of time, Valai saw a red-haired demon with twin tails jump onto the boat. Valai had seen this figure in a portrait before. It was Camisia Nott Tilum, the top power holder in the demon clan second only to the Demon King.

"It's the Demon King! Do we need to run away now?"

"Let's get ready..."

crunch--

The sound of the wooden door being pushed open was heard, and the confidant immediately looked towards the door with a vigilant look, while Valai reached under the bed and took out a scroll-shaped prop.

The person who pushed the door continued to walk into the house as if he didn't notice what the two people did.

"Don't worry, it's me."

"V-Lord Weizhi, why are you..."

Raising his hand to signal his confidant to shut up, a middle-aged man with animal ears, who looked to be in his fifties, came to the lying Valai and spoke in a deep voice.

"I heard you were seriously injured, so I came to see you. I didn't expect you were planning to escape? Planning to break the contract? I was trying my best to pretend that I was against you."

"Ahem, I don't want to break the contract, but that person is the next Demon King of the Demon Tribe. If I take any action against her, it will definitely be discovered in front of that 'Executioner Camisia'. If I don't run now, I will have no chance."

Hearing the names of the Demon King and Camisia, the administrator of Brorickz Island, the mayor of the city, Wedge Setes, frowned on his face, which looked extremely righteous no matter how you looked at it.

"They had no intention of staying here, so don't worry. As for retaliation, don't worry. They plan to leave the island tomorrow morning. The executioners must have been focused elsewhere and didn't notice."

"Is that so?! Ugh, cough, cough, cough, then, that's good."

Moved by Wezhi's words, the excited Valai began to cough violently, but even so, a blush of excitement appeared on his gloomy face.

"How long will it take for your magic ship to be built?"

"According to the construction schedule, it will only take two weeks at most to complete."

"Two weeks?... Don't forget our agreement, or you'll be my first opponent."

"Hehehe, don't worry, Master Weeji. I don't want to be your opponent, you're already level 32."

"Is that so? I wish you were that clever."

After glancing at Valais with that majestic gaze again, Weeji walked out of the room.

The purpose of his coming here today was to inform Ella that she was about to leave, and the reason for doing so was because of an agreement he and Valai had reached a long time ago.

"Valley, a merchant, helps Weedy, the city lord, find the beast that protects Dragon Island's route, and Weedy provides Valley with protection for a period of time."

That was the only content of the agreement.

Valle, who has a fanatical belief in the underwater people, earns gold coins under the protection of Wezhi, and then uses the gold coins to build a magic ship that can dive into the seabed in order to find Tina Maria Hake, the last princess of the underwater people. In this way, Valle can find the underwater god he believes in.

The dragon clan, which lacks route guardian beasts and cannot go out to sea during the active period of sea beasts, can use the ability of the underwater princess to control sea beasts to have new route guardian beasts.

Generally speaking, it is a beneficial cooperation for both Dragon Island and Valais, but this is just a theoretical idea.

The first question facing Wezhi is whether the underwater princess really exists.

This is pure gamble, betting the interests of the residents of Brorickz Island on its existence. Although it seems ridiculous, if it is really found, it will definitely be a sure-win business for Dragon Island, which is now in a difficult situation. In other words, this is the only choice.

——Compared to his brother’s more outrageous behavior, his own approach was actually more gentle.

This is what Wezhi thought in his heart.

As for the second question, would Valai, with his fanatical faith in the underwater people, honestly hand over the underwater princess to Wezhi? Wezhi had already thought of a countermeasure for this step. Judging from Valai's current behavior of treating the underwater people as if they were his own masters, Valai would definitely not honestly hand over the underwater princess. But just as Valai used Wezhi as a springboard, Wezhi was also using Valai.

Once Vale finds the underwater princess, Wezhi will immediately kick Vale away without hesitation, forcibly snatch the underwater princess named Tina into his own hands, and tame her to become a tool of Dragon Island.

So this so-called cooperation is ultimately just mutual exploitation.

Although this result was not what Wezhi expected, it was also a helpless move. Dragon Island was already in a situation where it had to find the guardian beast of the route.

Although the three-month sea ban may not seem to be a problem on the surface, if you pay more attention you will find that the living conditions on Dragon Island are much worse than those in ordinary countries. This is the long-term result. If it continues like this, unpredictable consequences may occur.

Therefore, almost no one in the senior management of Dragon Island was not worried about this matter. Even his brother, the Dragon King, chose an extreme route to find the guardian beast.

After going over the plan in his mind again, Wezhi looked up at the moon that was not covered by clouds and let out a long breath.

"I hope we can find the underwater princess before my brother-sama fails completely. Otherwise, under the influence of 'that', this year's sea monster activity period will definitely be a disaster..."

Chapter 26: Bait Selection

*创世纪6186年12月26日 上午8:41分 龙岛分岛『布洛里克兹』海岸

"See you later then."

"My Lord, I will work hard and repay you in the future!"

"Yeah, come on."

Ella waved goodbye to the two girls who had recovered on the boat, and only walked back to the bow when the two girls standing on the shore turned into black dots.

Iris, who had changed into a sexy blue swimsuit, was lying on a beach chair on the deck and called Ella in a somewhat lazily tone.

"Is it okay to leave those two girls on the island? They don't have a place to live yet, right?"

"It's settled. The innkeeper's daughter is going to Dragon Island to study magic, and they're short of help, so we're letting her sister take over as a replacement. The salary will be lower due to the housing, but at least it'll cover the cost for both of us."

"yes."

After hearing Ella's answer, Iris closed her eyes with a lack of interest and continued to enjoy the sea breeze.

"Hey, Iris, you've been too lazy lately, haven't you?"

"What's wrong with that? It's a rare opportunity to avoid the surveillance of the family. Besides, even Ella likes to sleep in, so what's wrong with letting me relax a little?"

"Well... that's not wrong."

Unable to refute Iris, Ella shut up and walked to the beach chair next to Camisia and sat down - there was a giant plant on the deck that could cover three beach chairs. Iris, Camisia and Ella were sitting on the beach chairs, while Angelica and the maids were playing fishing on the other side of the deck.

"Ms. Ella, please."

After taking the juice from Lotte, Ella looked at the plant-type monster providing shade above her head.

"Thank you, Lotte—By the way, I didn't see this umbrella-like monster on the ship before. Did you buy it on the island?"

"Well, this is a monster Lotte encountered at a merchant's shop on the docks. I bought it because it looked like a good place to cool off. Does your Highness think it's suitable?"

"That's great, but won't this monster attack people?"

Ella tried to tap the plant-type monster behind her that looked like a lotus leaf with her knuckles.

Apart from monsters that are born with high intelligence and monster masters who have the skills to train monsters, very few monsters are used by other races. Even for monster masters, it takes a lot of energy to train primitive monsters into commercial monsters that can listen to others obediently. If they cannot sell them at a good price, their efforts will be in vain. Therefore, the monsters trained by monster masters are usually powerful monsters that can be used in combat. No monster master would be willing to spend time managing a plant-type monster like the one in front of Ella now.

Therefore, if this plant-type monster is not properly trained, it would be disastrous if it captures the little maid girl when I am not paying attention.

Ella's doubts were quickly dispelled by Loti. Loti grabbed a handful of something similar to feed from under the dimensional skirt of her maid outfit and sprinkled it into a large flowerpot. In just a moment, the plant-type monster in front of her grew a circle larger.

"No problem, huh? It's called a plant-type monster, but this monster called a 'Giant Leaf' isn't aggressive at all. It feeds like ordinary plants, absorbing nutrients from the soil. If you drop nutrients containing magical energy on it, the Giant Leaf will rapidly grow in size. Once the magical energy dissipates, it will return to its original size, like a palm. It's a very convenient tool, right?"

“Eh…”

For a moment, Ella suddenly had the urge to throw the magic potion in. If the feed was a high-level magic potion, how big would the giant leaf be? - such a thought.

Of course, this is just imagination. If we really throw high-level magic potion in there, not to mention the waste problem, first of all, the huge amount of magic power will definitely make it unable to withstand it and cause mutations.

Expelling the strange thoughts from her mind, Ella shook her head and looked at the terrain search in the corner of her vision.

Even though there was a large merchant ship towing the cruise ship, they were still at least several nautical miles away from the branch island of Brorickz, and had arrived at the area where the legendary mysterious sea beast appeared.

"Lotte, where's Fukagan? I didn't see her just now."

"Ms. Fukagan is in the back with the maids. Is Miss Ella going to look for that sea monster?"

"Well, call Fukagan and Angeline over here."

"OK."

Soon, Lotte called Shen Gan and Angelica to the deck at the bow. Following them came a group of young maids carrying buckets. From the sound of water coming from the buckets, it could be seen that there should be a lot of sea fish in them.

Ella walked to a barrel and looked inside - it was filled with all kinds of strange fish whose names she didn't know, and there were even many creatures that looked like octopuses.

"Wow, I caught so many! Did you use magic?"

"Uh... well, ever since Fuka-chan started playing the piano, it's become like this without me noticing... maybe there's some magic in Fuka-chan's voice."

"Dragon language magic?"

"If Dragon Language magic was so convenient, those fishermen would have no worries about their livelihoods long ago. Senior, you think magic is too omnipotent."

After putting the xylophone back into the box, Fukagami sighed and continued to add.

"Senior, did you ask us to come here because of that legend?"

"Well, but the only clues we've found so far are that sea beasts rescue people from the water, and that among those rescued are always girls. We have no idea whether sea beasts are just one species or a whole race... So our initial idea is to have someone pretend to drown in the sea and give it a try."

After speaking with her head down, Ella looked around at the people around her.

Camisia had already stood up from the beach chair and was directing the maids with Lotte to sort the fish and put them into the cabin pool. Iris was lying on the chair without moving, with only Shen Gan and Angelica standing in front of her.

"Who will be the bait then?"

After Angelica said this, everyone looked at Ella in silence.

"..."

"..."

"Uh...eh? Why are you all looking at me?"

"At times like these, the one who makes the suggestion should go first."

Hearing something that interested her, Iris stood up from the recliner and looked at Ella.

"People over there, please don't say such things so calmly! And even if we were to choose someone, Angelina would be more suitable. She has strong physical abilities and can run away when encountering danger..."

As she spoke, Ella grabbed Angeline who was trying to sneak away.

In reality, Angeline was the best choice, followed by himself, Fuka, and Lotte. Camisia and Iris needed to be responsible for emergency rescue, so they couldn't be bait. Fuka and Lotte, however, would be a choice that would be condemned by conscience. Comparing Angeline's physical abilities, it was only natural to choose her.

"But shouldn't Aira-chan's magic shield hold out long enough for Camisia and I to come to the rescue?"

"That's right! Ella-chan, that's really too much!"

"Wow...but I can't swim."

"It's okay, it's okay. As long as we cast water repellent magic, it won't be a problem even if it sinks in the sea. Just tie a rope to Ella-chan and you won't get lost."

While speaking, Iris took out a fishing rod with a magic circle inscription from somewhere and walked in front of Ella.

"Don't move, I'll try to tie you up gently, Ella-chan."

"No way! And after all, can't you just go there as a dummy?"

Letting go of Angelica's hand, Ella naturally hid behind Shen Gan. This seemingly childish action made Shen Gan glance at Ella.

It was Lotte, who had already arranged for the maids, who turned the situation around at the critical moment.

"Your Highness, Iris, please allow me to go in Miss Ella's place."

In this scene, Lotte's smile made people feel as if the sun appeared before their eyes, causing their eyes to sting and they could only turn their heads away or squint.

"Little Lotte is truly an angel..."