"It's Deathless!" Orlov jumped up from his seat in shock. All of them had heard about the man. In fact, he was quite a celebrity now after his so-called coronation in China.

"Don't mind me." Arnold smiled, "There are bigger things that could use some of your reaction, Mr Orlov."

"You know... my name?" Orlov couldn't make up his mind whether it was a good thing or bad that the world's strongest warrior knew him by his name.

"It would be rude of me to not know my allies, wouldn't it?" Arnold sat on the other side of Morrino after greeting him while Nicole took a seat behind him, "Or you can say, I did my research on all of you before coming here."

"I would expect nothing less from someone of your calibre," Seomun said in a professional tone.

They weren't aware of it, but by research, Arnold meant that the moment he walked in, he had already used the Probe skill on everyone he didn't know. No matter how big someone's intelligence network was, Arnold's skill was superior to them all. After all, all it took was a simple gaze from him and he could get any information about anyone he wanted to.

The room went silent as soon as Arnold took his mask off and sat in his designated place. All of them had expected Yu Zhung to show up, not Arnold. Either way, the initial surprise wore off quickly because as Arnold said, there were bigger things they needed to be concerned about right now. Things like how were they going to fight something on the water surface.

"I don't think any of the countries taking part in this meeting has any experience on fighting aloft water?" Seomun was the first to take the discussion in a meaningful direction.

Everyone shook their heads to the question. It was the first time a dungeon had popped up in the middle of an ocean. Before this occurrence, it was an unspoken natural law that the dungeons would only spawn on land. The only exception to this law was the appearance of a few dungeons deep underground. But even then, the dungeons were approachable.

"Hm... so not only do we have to face a formidable foe. We'll have to do so on a terrain none of us had ever fought on-"

"I wouldn't be so sure about that, Ms Eva." Arnold politely expressed his thoughts.

"You mean you have fought against monsters in the middle of an ocean?" Eto Hiroshi replied sarcastically, "I know you're greatest among us all, but isn't this taking it too far?"

"Let the man speak first, brother Hiroshi." Seomun reprimanded the Japanese warrior before requesting Arnold to continue.

Despite what everyone else thought, Arnold wasn't upset by Eto's remarks. Not in the least. People had a right to express their thoughts. Just like he had the right to ignore them... and their existence.

"What I wanted to say was, that just because dungeons don't spawn above water, doesn't mean that we don't have capable warriors who have experience in fighting monsters underwater," Arnold replied as a couple of them nodded their heads. They understood what Arnold was trying to imply. But Arnold continued on for the few who didn't, "I'm sure most of you would have heard of situations where the warriors who went into a transdimensional portal and had to fight both above and below water bodies. If we can get those warriors to train the others, I'm fairly sure we would stand a better chance at fighting back."

"Oh right! I do know a few warriors who had to go through the same." Carlos exclaimed in joy. He was finally able to contribute something to the cause, "But I'm afraid they have retired..."

"I don't see an issue with it." Morrino said out loud, "After all, we are not asking them to fight with us. We just want them to train us so that we can at least stand a chance against the monsters."

"But is there enough time for us to train people?" Hiroshi remarked once again, "For all we know, the dungeon could break open any moment. Just like what has been happening in China recently."

The room was filled with sounds of murmuring. If a sudden breakout happened in this dungeon like the ones in China, then they were doomed. But Arnold only smiled. He knew that the dungeon wouldn't break on its own this time. But there was no way he could assure the others of that. Not without revealing the fact that he was the one who caused those breakouts. So he did the next best thing he could instead.

"If that were to happen, then..." Arnold mumbled before freezing the glass of water in front of him, "I guess we'll just trap them and deal with them later. We'll just need to gather all Ice elementalists to help us."

"Do you genuinely think that'll work?" Hiroshi rolled his eyes and this time, most of the people were on his side. Arnold's idea seemed pretty absurd this time.

Arnold couldn't help but laugh at everyone's reaction to his plan. Obviously, he knew they wouldn't be able to stop a horde of unknown monsters just by freezing them and it was impractical to think otherwise. But in his mind stopping the monsters by freezing them was the secondary, no, it was the tertiary purpose of his plan.

"Well, even if it doesn't, it'll still do two things. One it will at the very least slow them down, which would be enough for us to plan our next move. And second, it will give the warriors the 'terrain' to stand and fight on. I apologise for not making it clear beforehand." Arnold continued, "Also since the warriors wouldn't have to worry about protecting civilians and property, they can freely unleash their powers to subdue the monsters for good. So the way I see it, the dungeon popping up in the middle of the ocean is the best thing about it as well."

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