Chapter 1346 - Inability to Move (1/2)

Chapter 1346: Inability to Move

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio <i class="_hr">Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Plunging bravely into the watery depths, Li Du swae dead sea aniht

Its body was about fourout from the front of its head Here comes the narwhal!

It was, of course, a narwhal carcass, well preserved in the icy water, with no outward signs of decay However, Li Du could see when he looked closely that it had wounds on its skin along which the decay began

He swam over and felt the narwhal’s tusk, which hat he had been looking for

Noas just at the opening of the hidden ce that it was no wonder the old man with the plaited beard said that the scene was spectacular

More and more narwhals appeared on all sides and in all directions Looking up, there were many narwhal bodies above him too Some were mere skeletons while others were relatively intact carcasses of the great beast

Looking at the beasts, Li Du took a deep breath and a string of bubbles rose up around hiiant animal, his own body looked small and the bubbles even smaller

He had no idea how many narwhals were there, but wherever he looked, all he could see were the bodies of these large beasts, probably hundreds or thousands of theht era If Li Du had found so es, he would have become rich in an instant

Medieval Europeans were very superstitious, and narwhals’ teeth were said to have healing, revitalizing and detoxifying effects Narwhal teeth were used to oblets, cups, and bowls, and it was believed that when poisonous liquid was poured into them, the effects of the poison would become neutralized

The emperors and popes of the era valued whale teeth as a treasure, and despite the sudden and inexplicable deaths of princes and nobles who possessed narwhal horns, the trophies still enjoyed a reputation as an antidote, and their price reo, Charles V of the Holy Roave Malleve of Bayreuth, Germany, two narwhal horns to pay a debt equivalent to 1 million in today’s currency

Today, of course, no one believed that narwhal teeth had such ical properties, and their value now lay in sculpture and research

The narwhal could dive as deep as two kilometers under the sea level, and its tusks were i a marvel of hardiness created by nature

Such capabilities were valuable to modern ely unknown to hu equip bodily structure of sea mammals, andthem

However, Li Du knew there was a better way to est collection of narwhal horns in history He used the narwhal tusks to make a throne which was known as one of the world’stis Its legs, arms, and pedestal were made wholly of narwhal teeth

The tusks, however durable, orn down by centuries of use and competition for the throne, which was eventually destroyed in a palace coup

Nothing reraphs and Li Du wanted toto sell it to the Danish royal fa the relic would appeal to theered species, and the trade in their tusks was banned by overnments Fishermen in some parts of the Arctic still traditionally hunted theovernment

These tusks, however, which came from carcasses of narwhals ere already dead, could be put on the in