NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 122: Wait, There's Still a Queen
The earth-shattering great battle finally ended. Mera had thought that with the strength David had displayed, he might not be a match for Karasen after entering the waterfall, but he could at least retreat with his life, albeit in a sorry state.
She never expected the scene before her.
Karasen was violently yanked out of its deep-sea lair by David from afar, followed by a one-sided, brutal beating. It was overwhelmed and severely injured by him.
David stood in the void, looking down at Karasen. After confirming it had lost consciousness and could no longer fight, he clenched his fist from a distance.
Deep beneath the sea, inside Karasen's lair.
A skeleton seated on a throne was suffused with a golden glow. The Golden Trident it held also emanated a brilliant golden light, trying to resist the gravity that was enveloping and controlling it.
[Anger from the First Atlantean King's Remnant Soul +15…]
"You dare to obstruct me from obtaining the Trident?
Since you're already dead, don't come out causing trouble."
But as David squeezed his fist from afar, the violent force was like crushing a layer of fragile golden flame. The struggling golden light let out a mournful cry before dissipating completely.
The skeleton crumbled into dust, scattering with the water flow on the seabed.
The Golden Trident broke through the seawater and flew into David's hand.
Under the sunlight-like glow, the scattered water mist refracted light in the air, forming a rainbow.
David, holding the glowing Sacred Trident, stood in mid-air like a deity.
"He really got the Trident!"
Mera, submerged in the seawater like a mermaid, looked up at the figure, her expression a mixture of shock and complexity.
Everything was just as David had said. He had always known where the Trident was, but he hadn't come to retrieve it because he didn't need it. And when he came to get it, he obtained it with ease.
"Without any setbacks, without paying any price, not even shedding a drop of blood, he obtained the Trident guarded by the deep-sea behemoth Karasen."
"You got the Trident, what do you plan to do next?"
David landed on a broken island fragment. Mera and Atlanna walked ashore from the sea. Mera couldn't help but ask with a trembling voice.
"You seem very nervous?"
Fiddling with the Trident in his hand, David glanced at her.
This Sacred Trident's material was quite hard. Even with his pure physical strength, he couldn't budge it. It was comparable to a divine artifact, and it gave him a familiar feeling.
"Amazon Metal?"
He wondered if the so-called Poseidon's cold iron was perhaps the remnants of Poseidon's weapon from the war with Ares, reforged by the Atlanteans into this Trident.
"You've proven you possess the power to overturn the seas, and your target is directly aimed at the Atlanteans. As a princess of the Atlantean tribe, how could I not be nervous?"
Mera bit her lip and admitted it directly.
She was even a little scared, looking at David as if he were a supervolcano hidden beneath the sea, ready to erupt and destroy everything.
"I prefer conquest over destruction.
As long as your people obediently surrender to me and don't resist to the end.
I won't engage in a massacre."
David tentatively swung the Trident, speaking to the two of them.
Instantly, the wind rose and the clouds surged. The vast sea, with his swing, churned up hundred-meter-high waves, and giant waves crashed into the sky.
"The Sacred Trident contains the power to conquer the sea…"
Witnessing this astonishing scene, Atlanna looked at the Trident lost by her ancestors with a complex expression, murmuring the legends about its power.
She saw the divine artifact her people had lost for thousands of years, but unfortunately, it was now in the hands of an outsider, and in the hands of this terrifying young man, there was no chance of ever getting it back.
The Sacred Trident was like a baton that could command the sea; with it, one had the power to mobilize the ocean.
Yet, holding such a divine artifact, David clicked his tongue, showing little interest.
To him, this was commonplace. With his gravity manipulation ability, he could achieve the same with a wave of his hand.
To put it simply, Mera could also manipulate water flow. Was the so-called Sacred Trident just an enhanced weapon-type Mera?
"The Sacred Trident has been lost for many years.
My people already consider it a legend."
David's tone was the same as before, as if stating a fact, but Mera no longer thought he was inherently arrogant. She had deeply witnessed and experienced David's god-like power, and he was fully capable of making everything a reality.
If he could do it so easily, was it still an empty boast?
"Although it is a symbol of supreme royal power, and it has always been said that obtaining it makes one the next King of the Seven Seas.
But it's probably unrealistic to expect it to appear and make Orm give up the throne, and make all Atlanteans kneel and submit…"
Mera's tone was not laced with any mockery; her face even showed a hint of worry, and her tone was hesitant.
She was worried about what would happen if her people refused to submit to David and angered him.
"It's fine, I'll give the Atlanteans a chance."
"However, if after I defeat their king and crush their army, they still refuse to submit, then don't blame me for being ruthless."
David glanced at the two, his tone casual.
It wouldn't take much effort for him to deal with them.
Of course, if the Atlanteans still refused to submit, he wouldn't slaughter them all. He'd simply build an unprecedented deep-sea prison to lock them up.
Let them be in the lightless abyss, unable to do anything, only able to resent him miserably and powerlessly, while also providing him with emotional points.
But David's casual words made Atlanna and Mera's hearts tighten. Staring at the figure who was toying with their tribe's sacred artifact like a newly acquired toy, they couldn't suppress their fear.
Whoosh!
Dark clouds gathered, the sky and earth dimmed, storms raged, and giant tornadoes wreaked havoc on the sea.
David swung the trident, familiarizing himself with its abilities, and finally discovered something interesting.
The ability to create and command sea storms at will was something he couldn't do yet.
"This trident isn't entirely useless after all."
Although he had sought this trident not expecting to enhance his own strength, but merely to gain a justifiable claim.
"Even if such claims sometimes have no practical effect, they are best used to shut people up."
In the future, the Atlanteans might harbor thoughts of disloyalty to his rule, but they wouldn't be able to say anything because he had received the approval of the Sacred Trident, making him the destined King of the Seven Seas.
"Alright, it's time to leave!"
Ignoring the two trembling figures, David finally figured out how to leave the Hollow Earth.
He pointed the Sacred Trident, projecting its power, and a vaguely familiar blue vortex appeared on the sea.
A gravity field enveloped Mera, and David flew upwards with her.
"Wait a moment, what about the Queen!"
As they were about to enter the teleportation vortex, Mera couldn't help but cry out.
She noticed that Atlanna wasn't enveloped by David's power and lifted into the air, still remaining on the shattered island.
"Did I say I was taking her?"
David glanced at her.
Mera was the one he had chosen to handle political affairs and maintain Atlantis' stability in his absence.
"Mera still has many immaturities, her will is relatively weak, and she has a significant soft spot, willing to compromise for her people and subjects."
"This Late Queen of Atlantis, who has experienced betrayal and much of the world's vicissitudes, is different."
With a final look at Atlanna, whose face was grim and filled with despair, David controlled the gravity field and flew into the teleportation vortex, disappearing.
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