Chapter 245: The Lord of Coral, the Secret of the Secret Realm
Great Fluorescent Sea, Dragon King City.
A crab commander swam in from outside the palace and knelt in front of a curtain made of ivory pearls the size of a fist.
"Lord Water Dragon King, the two thousand-man teams we sent out to investigate the 'Portal' earlier found that they had all been wiped out."
"Annihilation?" An impatient voice came from behind the curtain, "I'm just letting them hold on there and not letting anything in, this can also be messed up?" β
"These two thousand-man teams are enough to take out three thousand-man teams of the Coral Palace, what a waste!"
It sounded like the owner of the voice was not concerned about the life and death of the two thousand-man teams, but about their failure to hold the door.
β... Judging from the scene and the traces of the canyon, an army from the outside world discovered the 'Portal', routed them and entered the Great Fluorescent Sea. The Crab Commander pressed his head to the ground, "But we've learned of these entrants from nearby villages. β
"Huh?"
"The leader is a human."
"Humans?" The 'Water Dragon King' voice came out in a somewhat angry voice, "Are you kidding me?" How is it possible for humans to survive here? Do you think that I have been in this palace for a long time and my brain has lost common sense?! β
"I didn't deceive you."
The Crab Soldier Commander hurriedly said in fear, "Those villagers said that the human had a very powerful army under him, who emerged from the canyon at the portal, and claimed to be the lord of a territory called the Crown of the Sea. β
"They said they were from outside the world, and they gave the villagers a large sum of food before leaving, which their subordinates had checked, and that the food was only eaten by humans."
At this time, the Water Dragon King calmed down instead, and he couldn't hear the fluctuation in his tone, "Where did this human go?" β
The Crab Soldier Commander breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Most likely, I went to the Fluorescent Forest and was on my way to the Coral Palace." β
"But in addition to that, the subordinates also found out a piece of news."
"That human also took the second prince who was originally hiding in the village."
"What? Where was that idiot? The 'Water Dragon King's tone fluctuated again, full of murderous intent, "I accidentally let him sneak away from Dragon King City a few years ago, this time I must cut it down!" β
"If that old thing really gave the throne to that simple fool, then Dragon King City would have perished long ago! Only under my leadership can Dragon King City dominate the Great Fluorescent Sea! β
"Pass my order, mobilize the first and twenty thousand teams to go to the Fluorescent Forest, and at all costs, be sure to exterminate that human and Andal's fool!"
"Besides, you take a team of 1,000 men to clean up that village, provide information to outsiders, and shield that idiot, which is enough for them to apologize for their crimes."
"Yes!"
.......
Ji Chen didn't say anything, remembered the location of this arch, and then left this ruin with the army.
Andal was stunned, gritted his teeth, and followed.
He is a weak chicken with no combat power, and if he is left alone, he will only be eaten by wandering wild monsters as a small snack.
Leaving the ruins without saying a word, the half-fish man commander of the Coral Palace, who had been staying outside, saw Ji Chen and them returning, and immediately greeted them.
"Your Excellency Ji Chen, I just heard that there seems to be a battle inside..."
"It's just a bunch of lizards, I've got rid of them."
The Half-Fish Commander nodded and didn't think much of it, if there were monsters guarding here, it should be something to gain inside.
"Your Excellency, you have helped us before, so we would like to invite you to the Sango Palace, and the Lord of Coral should be happy to have a guest like you."
If there is such a strong person who does not take the opportunity to win over, it is that he is stupid.
The military strength of the Coral Palace is already lower than that of the Dragon King City, but if it can be co-opted, then the combat power of the two sides will be reversed.
Ji Chen bowed slightly, and agreed with the water.
But Andal, who was on the side, suddenly became anxious.
"Didn't you say you were going to help me get back to Dragon King City? Why are you going to Sangoguya!? β
In his thoughts, with the Champions of the Seas team, he can definitely avoid the persecution of Diego's minions and return to Dragon King City safely, and then he will have a direct showdown and tell his true identity, and when the time comes, as long as he raises his arms, those generals and subordinates who are still loyal to his father will join him.
When the time comes, with the help of the Ocean Champions Team and these Dragon King City troops, wouldn't it be an easy task to regain the throne?
Andal seems to have seen himself on the throne, with all the Dragonlord troops and residents prostrate at their feet, and his brother Diego suffering and remorseful for his crimes.
When the time comes, he will rebuild and reconcile with the Coral Palace, coexist peacefully, and return the Great Fluorescent Sea to a peaceful place.
Ji Chen looked at Andal and knew that he was making a mistake again.
He didn't care that he just gave Alice a look, and the latter understood, and waved his hand for the two soul servants to come up and pull Andal to the back.
Ji Chen nodded, "Okay." β
Half-Fishman Leader: ......
Although he was a little curious about this weak chicken catfish mixed in with many men, he didn't ask anything more interestingly, and just honestly began to lead the way in front.
A group of people marched out of the fluorescent forest and into an underwater plain.
Illuminated by the luminescent plants, they quickly passed through the leg-high plains of green grass and made their way into the Coral Palace's sphere of influence.
In the distance, a group of coral palaces with countless giant corals stands in an undersea basin, and many fluorescent trees grow in the middle of the period.
Hundreds of stone pillars stood around the edges in a regular pattern, with engraved runes and surging light indicating that they were not ornaments, but sea creatures that looked like black dots weaved from one building to another.
But the most striking thing is that a white shroud that looks like an upside-down bowl hangs over the entire palace complex.
This appearance makes people easily think of the great array of sect protectors of those sects in the cultivation of immortals.
As soon as the army of the crown of the sea appeared, several patrol teams of the Sango Palace rushed over, but when they saw the half-fish people leading the army in front, they all leaned in.
The Half-Fishman Commander took the initiative to swim over and explain.
Soon, these Coral Palace soldiers all showed friendly eyes to Ji Chen.
No matter who you are, as long as you fight the bastards of Dragon King City together, you are their friends.
While he was excited about the record of destroying a thousand-person team in Dragon King City, he couldn't help but be curious about Ji Chen.
A human lord from outside the world...
What is the outside world like?
On this day, the calm Coral Palace suddenly came alive.
A human lord from beyond the Great Fluorescent Sea visited with his mighty army.
A coral palace in the heart of the Coral Palace, in a hall.
Ji Chen sat at a table made of some kind of coral, with Alice and Anina standing behind him.
Behind the other tables in the hall sat a number of different forms of Coral Palace nobles.
At a glance, shrimp, crabs, fish, etc. are almost complete.
He was the only human in the entire hall, and it felt strange to be watched by so many seafood.
But he noticed a problem, how these Coral Palace nobles have more or less human-like parts, such as shrimp is not shrimp claws but a pair of hands, and crabs are not crab legs but legs.
There are no people like people, and shrimp are not like shrimp.
At first glance, it looks like a stitching monster that escaped from some biological laboratory.
"Could it be that all the sea tribes in the deep sea are like this?"
Anina heard Ji Chen's muttering, lowered her head and whispered in her ear.
"It's not quite, the sea tribe generally evolves in two directions, either in a complete biological form or in a human form."
"Alice and I are the latter, but we are both high sea tribes, able to move freely between biological and human forms."
Saying this, Ji Chen understood.
Soon, this feast, which was both a wind and dust and a celebration of the elimination of the Thousand Troops in Dragon King City, began with the bizarre music of several shrimp people playing some kind of conch instrument.
As soon as they heard the music, many of the nobles of the Coral Palace began to have fun, and just wanted to take a picture with the human who claimed to be from another world, only to find that he had disappeared without knowing when.
In front of an even more luxurious coral palace in the central area, the Half-Fish Commander paused, "Your Excellency Ji Chen, the Lord of Coral is already waiting for you inside. β
"But only you can go in, both guests are to stay outside..."
Ji Chen bowed slightly, turned around and motioned for Alice and the two to wait outside, and then walked in.
The coral door behind him closed, and he began to look around.
This coral palace is about the size of three basketball courts, more than 20 meters high, and the irregular but beautiful top is supported by thick corals
The interior is dotted with extravagant ornaments, the ceiling hangs with glowing night pearls, illuminating the place as if it were day, and even the tables and chairs made of coral are inlaid with pearls and gems half a fist size, and the seals are engraved with beautiful patterns and diagrams.
Putting such a chair on the North Continent market can sell for a terrifying price, and even the designer of the elves is ashamed of its beauty and complexity.
He frowned.
He had already thought it was a little strange in that banquet hall before, why was the house used by the Sea Clan full of human styles?
Including the tables and chairs they use, the interior decoration, and all kinds of furniture, all of them seem to be for human use.
Ji Chen had observed in Catfish Village before, and the inside of the giant corals where catfish lived basically only had a layer of soft seagrass for sleeping, and there was nothing else at all.
In other words, these sea tribes in the Sango Palace don't need to be superfluous like human furniture at all, which seems to be a bit out of place.
Just when he was wondering.
Behind the beaded curtain in the depths of the palace, a figure stepped out.
She has a beautiful face, wears a long white dress, and her feet are naked like ivory, and at first glance she looks like a human woman.
But the white scales on her forehead and behind her ears indicate that she is not human, but a sea tribe.
γSonia (Monster Leader)γ
[Race]: Ivory mussel
[Level]: 50
[Current Rank]: Red (Legacy Level)
[Potential]: Red (Inheritance)
[Skill]: Water flooding golden mountain, whirlpool, mana surge, sea mussel body
[Class Characteristics]: Master of Coral (When leading the Sango Palace army, morale will never drop, and combat effectiveness will be increased by 150%)
[The Lord of Coral, who doesn't know how long he has survived in the Great Fluorescent Sea, has a powerful spell attack power]
This sea clan is the ruler of the Coral Palace, the Lord of Coral.
As Ji Chen had guessed before, she was a red inheritance-level monster leader unit.
Sonia, the Lord of Coral, walked up to him with a smile on her face.
"Your Excellency, do you not seem surprised? After all, the Lord of Coral turned out to be a... In human parlance, a weak woman? β
Ji Chen said surgingly.
"I don't completely determine my opinion of a person or a creature by my appearance, and besides, it doesn't mean that I look weak just because I'm weak, like Alice and Anina, they're all strong people."
Sonia nodded nondeniably, she could feel the power of the two Sea Clans outside surging in their bodies, superior to all the Lords under her command.
"In that case, I'm a little pedantic."
Sonia gently twisted the hem of her skirt with both hands, and made a salute that only human aristocratic women would use.
"Perhaps Your Excellency, you have already noticed why there are so many things and customs related to human beings in this deep sea under 10,000 meters, in this coral palace."
"As the human saying goes, painting a snake adds to it... Well, that's the word. β
"Actually, this world was originally completely dominated by all human beings, and in that era, the Sea Clan was just a weak race that survived on some leftovers because of mercy and charity under the prosperity of human civilization."
Sonia's face did not change and she said the ancient secrets hidden in this secret realm.
Ji Chen raised his eyebrows, and great interest welled up in his heart.
"Your Excellency, if you don't mind, please sit down and listen to me."
Ji Chen bowed slightly, sitting opposite her on the coral stool, just like on land.
There was a look of nostalgia in Sonia's eyes, "At that time, they sat opposite me like this. β
Before Ji Chen could ask who they were, she began to tell the story.
Thousands of years ago, most of this secret realm was still a land, and the human civilization that was born was extremely prosperous, and it was even able to use alchemy technology to generate portals to connect with the wider world outside.
At this time, the Sea Clan was only a weak race that flowed in from the outside world.
Then it was as if something terrible had happened in the outside world, and the human civilization in the secret realm took the initiative to close the portal.
But for some reason, as the last portal closed completely, the sea level rose wildly, flooding the harbor, flooding the farmland, and flooding the houses.
Over the millennium, more than a third of the land has been submerged by the sea.
At this time, the humans of the secret realm discovered that they had gradually developed in the sea, but they were still ignorant and weak.
Perhaps considering that the sea will continue to rise in the future, they decided to train these sea tribes to become competent servants, so that they can still obtain resources for survival in the ocean after the sea rises in the future.
As it turned out, they really promoted the development of the Sea Tribe, and through their scavenging of lost technology and resources in the ocean, they once regained their most prosperous appearance.
And they are the proudest and most powerful servants of the Sea Clan, one is called the Dragon King, and the other is called Coral.
But the good times were short-lived, and sea levels were rising much faster than they had expected.
The sea gradually submerged half of the land, and in the process, the sea tribes who were nurtured by the seedlings were given enough space to live freely without the help of humans.
As a result, more and more sea tribes no longer obey the orders of humans, but go to various parts of the ocean to multiply and evolve into sea tribes.
"At the same time, as humans became more and more greedy for demand, the loyal Dragon King and Coral also chose to leave, and went to the two ends of the Great Fluorescent Sea respectively, and each established its own tribe by force to collect the Sea Clan."
Hearing this, Ji Chen already knew what the tribe established by the dragon king and coral in Sonia's mouth was.
The Dragon King established the Dragon King City and called himself the Water Dragon King.
Coral established the Sancoral Palace, claiming to be the Lord of Coral.