Chapter 223: Waga's Plea for Help!

"Father, you must hold on! I am going now to find the human Gervas; he will surely help us!"

"Waga, will he really help us? After all, this is a battle; it will cost the lives of our warriors!"

"Father, Gervas is a good person; he will definitely help us!" As he said this, Waga's confidence was not very strong.

After all, Gervas had saved his life before; in a sense, he still owed him.

And now, to ask for his help again was truly a bit excessive.

But seeing the hopeful gazes of his clansmen looking at him one by one, Waga gritted his teeth and said, "Father, and all clansmen, I will not let you down; I will surely persuade Gervas to agree to my request!"

"Good, Waga, then we will definitely hold on until you return!"

In the coral reef area of the seabed basin, the ruins and broken walls caused by the war two days ago had not yet been repaired.

But Toca had already received news that Chief Lada was once again assembling a coalition army to attack the Buwa Tribe.

And this Chief Lada was the fellow mentioned earlier, the one who brought back a small pot of beer from the north and showed it off to the surrounding tribes.

Ever since the Buwa Tribe began trade relations with the human Gervas.

The few pots of beer that Chief Lada had originally been proud of naturally no longer counted as good things.

In fact, some time ago, Toca even held a banquet, directly inviting the leaders of the surrounding tribes to come to the Buwa Tribe.

He treated them, making sure everyone drank a pot of beer.

After all, they were of the same race; he would not be as stingy as Lada.

And besides the beer giving Toca great face among the surrounding tribes, the life of the Buwa Tribe naturally became better and better.

Not only could the clansmen eat their fill, but they even had more time to build new houses, preparing to accept more wandering fish-people and strengthen the Buwa Tribe.

But unexpectedly, regarding the rise of their Buwa Tribe, Chief Lada became envious.

He recruited several other fish-people tribes around them who were equally envious and launched a surprise attack on the Buwa Tribe.

Fortunately, because the Buwa Tribe had recruited many wandering fish-people recently and had more time to train the tribal warriors.

They managed to repel the invading enemies and did not let those fellows of Chief Lada succeed.

However, they were not willing to give up; this time, they instead recruited several fish-people tribes from even further away.

And after the losses from the last time, Toca knew deeply that the Buwa Tribe might not be able to hold out.

So, the Buwa Tribe now had only two choices: one, either surrender immediately and hand over all the wealth accumulated by the tribe during this period.

And, show submission to Chief Lada, and in the future, earn wealth for him.

Two, that was to wait for the coalition army organized by Chief Lada to annihilate them directly, then have their wealth plundered empty, while being forced by them to reveal the true secret of how the Buwa Tribe became wealthy.

Leaving the tribe, Waga swam all the way towards the coast.

About an hour or so later, he arrived at the seaside.

Popping his head above the water surface, Waga saw many serfs constantly loading and unloading cargo at the Storm Domain Pier.

Splash! Splash!

According to the agreement, Waga did not jump directly onto the shore, but splashed waves in the water to let the humans on the shore know of his arrival.

Sure enough, the humans working on the shore immediately spotted him.

These humans did not panic; only one of them ran towards a wooden house not far away.

Not long after, a familiar human arrived at the shore, apparently called Old Jack, a subordinate of Gervas.

"Waga, why have you come? Today doesn't seem to be a trading day, right? Come on, you can go ashore!"

Hearing this, Waga, disregarding any explanation, immediately climbed onto the shore.

"Old... Jack, I... want to see Gervas, very... very urgent..."

"You want to see my lord, very urgent?" Although Waga's speech was not fluent and not standard, Old Jack still clearly understood the gist.

"Alright, Waga, I will arrange for someone to take you to the castle right now!"

Just like that, Waga got into a carriage and headed straight for the castle.

Very soon, Gervas received the news.

Ordering his subordinate to bring Waga to the castle, Gervas looked surprised and said, "Waga, why have you come? It is not yet time for our trade, is it?"

"Gervas... good friend, I beg you, save us..." Waga went directly to Gervas's side, his eyes red as he cried out for help.

Gervas knew the truth clearly, but naturally could not show it; "Waga, speak slowly, what exactly has happened?"

Hearing this, Waga immediately began to explain, "Gervas, my tribe has been attacked by Chief Lada..."

Afterwards, Waga recounted the detailed course of events; the matter was no different from what the intelligence system had reported.

The Buwa Tribe had become wealthy through trade, which naturally attracted the covetousness of other tribes.

They wanted to investigate how the Buwa Tribe had become wealthy, but the Buwa Tribe had kept it hidden.

Besides personal reasons.

It was also because Gervas had given an order that their trade between the two sides should not be revealed for the time being.

After all, this was one of the advantages of Gervas's development; he currently did not want other humans to know.

Even less did he want other human great nobles to set their sights on it.

So, keeping the sea-people quiet was also necessary.

Who knew if those sea-people might also have connections with humans.

And after failing to investigate, Chief Lada organized a team to try to seize everything by force.

Now the Buwa Tribe has reached the edge of extinction.

Waga's face was full of shame; "Gervas, please forgive my rude request, but, our Buwa Tribe can think of no better way!"

"If you do not help us, my father and all the clansmen might be killed by Lada and them!"

Seeing Waga lower his head in shame, Gervas stood up and came to stand before Waga.

"Waga, have you forgotten that we are good friends? So when you face hardship, asking your good friend for help is nothing to be ashamed of!"

"Gervas..." Waga the merman lifted his head in excitement, his eyes filled with light.

Waga had never been so moved in his life.

Even when Gervas saved his life last time, he had not been as excited as in this very moment.

"Waga, speak. How do you want me to help you? Do you need weapons or leather armor and shields?"

Gervas knew that the debt of gratitude from his good friend, Waga, could never be repaid from now on.

Hearing the question, Waga hesitated and said, "Ger... Gervas, besides weapons and equipment, can you send your army to help us? If it is just weapons and equipment, I fear... I fear it won't be enough!"

But after speaking, he felt his request might be too much.

"Of course, I know this is very dangerous. If it is not possible, then just give me some weapons and equipment..."

Yet after Gervas heard this, his focus was not on the danger at all.

It was on whether his own men could enter the sea.

"Waga, my subordinates are all of the Human Race. Can they enter the seabed? And moreover, help you fight?"