Mag continued to ask, “Gina, how big is this Nether Shark? How does it compare to you…”
Then, Mag asked about some things related to Nether Sharks in detail. After going through Gina"s drawings, he had a general understanding of Nether Shark"s ability.
According to Gina, there were a lot of Nether Sharks at Lantisde, but they only appeared once or twice every year. Their respective size was determined by their capabilities, and numbers would fluctuate.
The power of a giant Nether Shark was comparable to a 10th-tier merfolk powerhouse. However, there would have at most three giant Nether Sharks every time when a Nether Shark school appeared.
The capability of a small Nether Shark was close to a 5th-tier merfolk, a medium-sized one was close to a 7th-tier merfolk, and a big one was close to an 8th-tier or 9th-tier merfolk.
Besides the terrifying recovery power, what gave the merfolk the most trouble was the Nether Vortex on the Nether Shark"s body. It had an extremely high defensive capability against the merfolk"s magic. When a normal merfolk got attracted by the nether vortex, they would lose their ability to control their magic momentarily, and they would be at the mercy of the Nether Sharks.
It is indeed very difficult to handle an opponent in the deep sea, and to the merfolk, it is their mortal enemy, Mag thought. One of the reasons that the merfolk wanted to leave the deep sea was to escape the Nether Sharks.
It would be too cruel to ask them to help to hunt for Nether Shark"s lips and fins.
After all, the main reason they came looking for Mag was to ask him to help them fight against the Nether Sharks.
“Gina, let me think about how to handle the Nether Sharks first.” Mag said to Gina. Then, he started to flatter the system, “System, there should be n.o.body else who is more professional than you at establis.h.i.+ng a demersal fis.h.i.+ng ground. What do we do to handle such a nasty big shark?”
“You are absolutely right to ask this system about rearing magic beasts. According to this system"s rearing experience, whatever isn"t obedient, just beat it into submission. If it still isn"t obedient, that means you didn"t beat it hard enough.” There was a smugness in the system"s voice.
You might as well have said nothing! Mag rolled his eyes. If the Nether Sharks had been so easy to handle, the merfolk wouldn"t have suffered so badly.
“I need something more practical. If I want them to establish a dependable shark"s lips and shark"s fins supply line for me, I will have to give them tangible benefits. Otherwise, who would risk their lives for me?”
“This system had once caught three Nether Sharks for research purposes. If the Host is willing to give this system some shares in the supply chain, this system is willing to give the Host the research materials as the capital for 30% of the total shares.”
“You are indeed a shrewd businessman…” Mag pursed his lips. He pondered for a while and nodded. “It"s fine that you want to be a shareholder, but you cannot partic.i.p.ate with actual operations of the supply line. You will only be ent.i.tled to the dividends.”
“Deal!” the system agreed readily. A set of research materials was swiftly sent to Mag"s mind.
“The Study Report On The Feasibility Of Rearing Nether Sharks”. Mag looked at the report in his mind and raised his eyebrows. That looked quite professional.
Apart from the System, n.o.body in this world would actually investigate the feasibility of rearing a species that had strength of the 10th-tier just for obtaining shark"s lips and shark"s fins.
Mag read through the materials rapidly after clicking open the files. His facial expressions soon became a little weird.
This wasn"t a normal research study! This was a surgical biopsy!
Even Mag, who wasn"t an animal conservationist, felt spooky after reading the system"s experiments and the experimental data.
Heat resistance, cold resistance, epidermal resistance, muscle flexibility, speed of regeneration limit, minimum period for re-harvesting, decibel tolerance limit…
All the results were obtained through actual physical experiments, and every Nether Shark was subjected to at least 10 experiments for each individual objective to prevent the emergence of accidental data.
There was even a 10th-tier Nether Shark involved.
Scientists were indeed scary.
Mag raised his brows as he had an intense feeling in his heart.
The biopsy experience was really nothing.
“Conclusion: Nether Shark is an aquatic product that has an extremely high rearing value. Its shark"s lips and shark"s fins are the perfect ingredients for ‘Buddha jumps over the wall". It has a very high nutritional value. Building a demersal fis.h.i.+ng ground would enable deep sea rearing.
“Nether Shark"s unique gift, the Nether Vortex, is formed by the magnetic field in its head. It has a high cutting power. At the same time, it produces a strong magnetic interference with the aquatic magic which renders the magic ineffective. This will damage the fis.h.i.+ng ground easily.
“Solution: Set up a strong magnetic field around the fis.h.i.+ng ground to deactivate the magnetic field of Nether Shark by adjusting the frequency, hence deactivating the Nether Vortex.
“Nether Sharks are very aggressive and have a fixed migration route. They will not stay in a specific area in a long period of time.
“Solution: After attracting the Nether Sharks into the fis.h.i.+ng ground, use ultrasound to control the Nether Shark within the range of the fis.h.i.+ng ground, thus breaking the fixed migration habit, and proceed to domesticate.”
“System, when it comes to farming for vegetables and meat, besides Yuan Longping, I only respect you.”
Mag couldn"t help but give System a thumbs-up after reading the entire thesis. He was utterly convinced.
“Since you already have the solutions, you should have already prepared the materials needed to build the magnetic field, blueprints, and the ultrasound machines? Now, it"s time for you to display your sincerity as a business partner, right?” Mag said smilingly.
“Sorry, insufficient funds.” System sent a “roll eyes” expression. “If this system had the funds, would this good deal land on you? It would only be a matter of a few slides.”
“It"s embarra.s.sing that a system is trying to cheat the host out of money every single day. Other systems are always giving money to their hosts, though?” Mag sneered sarcastically.
“Those hosts will have to cut off their d*cks and do a live-stream in drag if they fail their missions.”
Mag raised his brows. He cleared his throat before saying, “Okay, let"s discuss the problem of the equipment. Pray tell, how much will the equipment cost according to the number of Nether Sharks in Lantisde?”
“That is the only Nether Shark population in the entire Norland Continent. There are a total 3500 of them. Among them, 2000 are small, 1200 are medium-sized, 280 are large, and 15 are giant-sized.
“According to historical statistics, the number of Nether Sharks that pa.s.sed through Lantisde on their migration route was about 1/3 of the total population.
“And based on the current deep sea detection situation, that number will increase this year. They will enter the border of Lantisde three days later, and enter the merfolk"s hinterland one month later. After feasting on the merfolk, they will start on their migration route officially.
“If you want to catch all the Nether Sharks that swim into the area and rear them, you will need 3000 square kilometers of fis.h.i.+ng ground, and you will need to feed them a large number of fishes.
“All the equipment will cost 120,000,000 copper coins. Feeding will cost 300,000 copper coins per day…”