Chapter 352: 352

“Have you heard? Her Majesty met a human guest outside of Atlantis, and he had only spent a few minutes building 12 palaces. He even used seawater to build more than ten rainbow bridges.”

“I’ve heard. Apart from that human guest, Her Majesty also brought thousands of slaves from the floating city. Previously, humans had always captured slaves from the sea tribe. This is the first time the sea tribe has brought back human slaves.”

“I’m going to take a look at those palaces. They say that the magnificence of those palaces is not inferior to the most magnificent palace in Atlantis, the Sea God Palace. I’m going to see if the rumors are true.”

“I’m going too. Bring me along.”

Those were the conversations of many of the sea folks in Atlantis.

It had been almost an hour since Watson constructed the twelve golden palaces. Most of the sea folks had heard that a mysterious guest had arrived from ashore and changed the terrain of Atlantis with a single move. They had placed thousands of slaves in twelve palaces. Many sea folks were curious about that mysterious guest and wanted to meet him.

Watson, who had settled the slaves at the new palaces, was invited by Poseidon to the Sea God Palace.

“Watson, the Sea God Palace is where I usually live. It might not be as good as the palaces you built, but I hope you can make do with it.”

Poseidon’s tone was much more polite than when she had just brought Watson to the bottom of the sea.

Watson looked at the scenery inside the SeaGod Palace. The interior was mostly made of purple coral. Whether it was the bed or the tables and chairs, they were all made of high-quality purple coral. The walls around the palace were inlaid with pearls and gemstones. The palace was filled with seawater. All kinds of fish swam among the corals, making it seem very quiet.

“Brother Watson, let me show you my room. There’s an empty guest room next to my room. You can stay there.”

After entering the Sea God Palace, Alice’s legs had turned back into a sky-blue fishtail. She swayed her fishtail gently and went to Watson’s side. She reached out and held Watson’s hand.

That scene caused Poseidon and Owen’s eyes to flicker. They wanted to say something, but before they could say anything, a guard with a harpoon suddenly rushed in from the outside. With an anxious expression, he shouted, “Your Majesty, something terrible has happened.”

“What happened?”

The mermaid said hurriedly, “Hundreds of human fleets had appeared on the water surface above us. They’re demanding that we hand them the slaves that we had captured from the floating city. I think they are from the Ptolemy family! They had injured many of our garrison guards too. They even said that if we don’t let the slaves go, they will exterminate the sea tribe today.”

“How arrogant! A few hundred human fleets want to exterminate the sea tribe? Ignore them. Tell garrison guards to retreat to Atlantis. Those humans can’t do anything from the surface of the sea. If they dare to come down, I will make sure they never leave.” Owen snorted coldly.

“I’m sorry, Watson. Go for a stroll with Alice in the Sea God Palace. I will check out the situation on the surface.”

Poseidon apologized to Watson and left with Owen.

In an instant, only Watson, Alice, and Elena were left in the Sea God Palace.

Watson looked thoughtful. As far as he knew, the sea tribe had three platinum-tier experts, and the strongest person in the Ptolemy family was only at the peak of gold-tier.

If it were not for fear of the Holy Dragon Kingdom, people from the floating city would have captured many more sea folks. The sea tribe would have attacked in retaliation and destroyed the floating city.

Watson thought for a while and felt that the Ptolemy family was probably bluffing. He did not worry too much and followed Alice to the Mermaid Princess’ room. Along the way, Alice excitedly introduced her life in Atlantis to Watson.

“Brother Watson, my mother has never let me go ashore before. I once snuck out and picked up an extremely beautiful conch by the sea. Mother used magic to make that conch into a magical tool that can store sound! I hope that you can say a few words into it so that I can still hear your voice after you have left.”

“Other than that conch, there are also many human things in my room. Those are all birthday gifts from Uncle Owen! Oh, and my birthday is approaching. I don’t know what Uncle Owen is going to give me this time. Among all the gifts he gave me, my favorite is a storybook from the human world.”

Alice talked to Watson excitedly, as if she wanted to tell Watson all her experiences in the past ten years. Her cute little face was filled with the naivety of a young girl of her age.

Watson smiled and patted Alice’s hair, which was smoother than satin. He was a little emotional. How could humans treat such a cute girl as a commodity? How could they capture and sell her? However, Alice did not hate the humans because of that. He hoped that the girl would always maintain that mentality.

“It would be great if different races in this world could coexist peacefully.”

That was not an easy matter. The hatred between humans and the sea tribe was deep-rooted. Not only were humans capturing and selling the sea folks, but the sea tribe would also kill humans without hesitation if they had the chance. Just like how Owen had saved Alice during the day—he had used the sea tribe’s platinum-tier secret skill to flood the Crystal Palace. He did not care how many people would be killed by such a move.

He was the first human to befriend the sea folks and was invited to the Sea God Palace. He did not know if he could do anything to ease the hatred between the two races.

Watson and Alice went to their rooms to rest.

Outside of Atlantis.

In the ancient and mysterious ocean kingdom, tens of thousands of sea folks armed with harpoons were ready to set off. Apart from mermaids, there were also humanoids with lobster or crab’s lower extremities. They were all warriors from the sea tribes, especially those with a crab’s lower extremities. They held weapons in both hands, and their lower had a hard shell for armor. They also had two giant pincers that looked like they could break steel.

“Everyone, be on your alert. Pay attention to the humans that might come from the sea surface at any time! No matter who comes down, we must kill them at the first opportunity we get.”

Owen had changed into a set of bright silver armor. A longbow condensed from seawater appeared in his hand. There were three water arrows on it. It was apparent that he was ready to cast the platinum-tier secret skill—the Sea Spirit’s Breath.

The huge shell cannot on the mountain peaks had opened its half-closed shell. The deep barrel inside was aimed toward the sky. Pearls wrapped in lightning were sent into the cannon barrel, ready to be fired at any time.

Tens of thousands of sea folks waited quietly at the bottom of the sea until the sea surface was split open by hundreds of black shadows.

“Attention, the enemy is coming! No, that isn’t the enemy. What are those?”

Owen raised his hand. He was about to order the sea folks around him to attack, but he realized something was wrong. Those were not the human soldiers he expected to cut through the sea’s surface and enter the seabed. Instead, they were huge metal boxes that were several meters in perimeter. They did not know what was inside those boxes.

“There might be dangerous things in those boxes. Everyone, retreat! Let the pearl cannons break those boxes.”

Owen looked at Poseidon, who was beside him. She took a step forward and ordered the soldiers to retreat. The pearl cannons on the mountain began to condense lightning and shoot out giant pearls one after another. The hardness of those pearls was not weaker than gold-tier ores. With the enhancement of lightning magic, the power of each pearl was comparable to a peak gold-tier spell.

Boom, Boom, Boom!

The cannonball hit the metal chest and immediately shattered it. A ball of fireworks exploded in the seawater, and a giant ball of thick black liquid spread in all directions from the shattered chest. Soon, it flooded into the seawater nearby.

“What is that thing?”

A marine warrior with a crab body was curious. He approached the black seawater, and it immediately stained his harder-than-steel crab legs—they gradually rotted. The marine warrior screamed and tried to retreat hurriedly. Unfortunately, it was too late.

The rotten flesh quickly spread to his body. While he was running away, his body expanded like an inflatable balloon and exploded. Ink-like blood splattered in all directions and splashed onto the bodies of several marine warriors. Then, their bodies also grew and exploded. Black liquid immediately filled a large area of the sea.

Anyone who had contact with the black seawater exploded, creating a chain reaction that caused the sea tribe warriors who had been waiting to retreat. There was non-stop screaming.

“Run! Those boxes contain highly toxic potions.”

“Don’t get contaminated by those things, or we’re dead.”

The sea tribe members retreated frantically while Poseidon and Owen’s expressions darkened, especially Owen’s. He gritted his teeth as he said, “That group of vile humans use such a despicable move like poison in a fight. I’ll make all of you pay the price!”

He raised the longbow made of water elements in his hand and shot out three water arrows. He activated the sea folk’s platinum-tier secret skill, the Sea Spirit’s Breath. The black liquid that was rapidly spreading suddenly stopped. Instead, it converged toward the middle and turned into black whales.. Hundreds of whales that were dozens of meters long carried millions of tons of seawater and rushed toward the surface of the sea.