Chapter 3965

“Yet even razing our first village to the ground changed nothing. At that point, we tried every possible shape and combination for our buildings, but things only got worse!”

“Is this the reason the layout of your current village is so… peculiar?” Lith measured his words, not wanting to start the conversation on the wrong foot.

“That’s a very polite way to refer to that jumbled mess, but yes.” Rem sighed. “After we tried and failed everything we could on the Sea Heart, we checked if at least one of the many buildings Overlord Salaark showed us resonated with the Sea Heart.

“We hoped that at least one of them would have turned that ear-piercing noise in the song it was supposed to be. When that failed as well, we got creative. We tried many combinations of buildings, and what you see today is by far the one that sounds better.”

“Fascinating.” Lith didn’t dare ask how terrible the previous villages sounded. “Yet you are wrong about one thing. The phenomenon does make sense. Listen to this prototype.”

Lith activated his spell again, but this time on the first version of the Desert Heart. The sound it produced was unpleasant and jarring, but Rem could distinguish the underlying vibration merfolk used to express trust.

“It’s amazing!” She said. “Can I give it a try?”