Shadow of the Beautiful World

While Apocalypse was defeated, a sudden encounter had just ended in a secret place on Earth.

Nearly 500 meters below sea level in the Aegean Sea, surrounded by blue light, there are traces of life activities in the ancient city of Atlantis in the first era.

The city, sealed up since the mysterious fall, was opened today.

A long time has not destroyed this sealed city. This city built of metal and white marble is still as magnificent as the kingdom of God under the halo of the energy shield.

It occupies a very large area, not much smaller than New York City.

The whole city is full of buildings with simple geometric shapes. After good planning, the main body of the city is composed of layer-by-layer ring-shaped buildings.

And those silver-gray obelisk-like energy towers that still stand on the buildings represent the city's once glorious technological civilization.

There are reserved waterways in the city, and there are large plant areas in various urban areas with different functions. During the time of storage, the city was not completely closed, and there are still residual plant samples in those plant areas.

All in all, this lost city of the first era fits well with the understanding of the hometown in the historical records of the people under the sea.

It represents civilization, represents advancement, and represents past glory.

But it also represents danger.

And the danger is in places that are not even visible from the outside.

The three kings of the deep sea kingdom are currently resting in a hall in this magnificent and huge ancient city. The most savage crabman king is still searching the city with his own guards.

The guards brought by the kings lost a quarter, and many soldiers were wounded. The cause of this incident was that when they were marching towards the city, they encountered an attack by a group of twisted flesh and blood beasts.

Under the orders of the soldiers and the king, a sealed underground weapons depot was opened.

At the moment when the ancient building was opened, there was no fixed shape, just like a mass of flesh and blood growing randomly, with claws, sharp teeth and multiple eyeballs, like a monster derived from the deepest part of hell, just in the dark Howled and jumped out.

They are extremely numerous, and their temperaments are fierce and crazy.

The soldiers who were caught off guard were knocked down immediately. If King Namor and King Curry hadn't rescued them in time and restarted the sealing equipment in the arsenal, all the guards who went to open the basement would probably have died.

The further inward this sealed city is, the more hidden dangers it will have.

King Zebel poked the cursed flesh with his trident under his feet, and said to the three kings beside him:

But the good news is that the door to the inner ring that has been sealed before has been opened. As long as we are careful, we can enter the interior that we have never set foot in. Neptune's Trident is probably there.

Maybe we should retreat.

King Curry, who had been a little restless, swung his fish tail.

There is no sea water in the city of Atlantis, so the Naga king summoned water to cover his body, making himself look like he existed in a suspended fish tank.

He saw with his own eyes the ferocity and cruelty of the released flesh and blood monsters, and this cautious king had already given up his mind.

He glanced behind him. Namor, who didn't say a word, was looking at a broken stone tablet in this ancient hall decorated with gems. He seemed to be very interested in the ancient text left on the stone tablet.

I have come here, and there is only one step away from the inner ring of the city. The treasure is close in front of me, and I will not retreat.

Zebel, the king of Nerou and the father of Princess Mela, dismissed his companions' cautiousness. He walked to the edge of the hall and looked at the inner ring of the city center, where there were several ring-shaped buildings.

It is a structure like Stonehenge, but due to some external shocks, most of those buildings have collapsed.

Actually, not just the inner ring of the city.

There are ruins everywhere in this ancient city that have been impacted and collapsed, but the city is still largely intact. The Deep Sea Kingdom once sent people into the city after obtaining the Hermes Staff from Merlin that opened the gate of the ancient city.

At that time, the seal was still strong, and the road leading to the inner ring of the city was blocked by ancient technology.

But even so, those pioneers still brought back many valuable things from outside the city, some ancient but advanced instruments, and even the remains of steam-powered mechanical giants made in the first era.

There are also many magical strange objects, even some special metals with various magical effects that have never appeared in the outside world, and many well-preserved ancient books.

This rich harvest gave the kings enough reason to believe that there must be more valuable treasures in the inner ring of the ancient city.

The certificate of the King of the Seven Seas, the sacred Neptune Trident, which was lost in the catastrophe of the Great Fall, also had a high probability of being placed in the inner ring of the city.

These texts seem to record some stories before the Great Fall.

Namor ignored King Zebel's ambitious speech, he waved to King Curry, who was highly talented and self-proclaimed naturalist, and said:

Your Majesty Curry, come and have a look, can you translate it?

King Naga swung his fish tail. Amidst the swaying of the surrounding water, he came to the glowing stone tablet. Most of the characters on it were worn away, but the ancient characters from the first era could be vaguely seen.

King Curry bent down, stretched out his webbed fingers, and stroked the obsidian-like stele.

After a moment, he frowned and said:

The word 'weapon' appears several times. It seems to describe a weapon research project hosted by Sea Emperor Atlanta himself. The inscription is incomplete. I can only guess that this should be after the initial successful experiment. left by the researchers.

arms?

King Namor stretched out his hand and pushed his tactical eyepiece. He looked around and asked softly:

What kind of weapon?

Specific energy transformation, allowing flesh and blood to escape the shackles, and reproduce mythical things... Uh, the meaning of this word should be 'opening up the territory'.

King Curry struggled to translate those obscure words. He thought of the flesh and blood monster he had encountered before, and he said with some anxiety:

If my translation is correct, our ancestors seem to have conducted more than one experiment, and they also had an ambitious 'God Remodeling' project. If translated, it should be called 'Cronus'.

boom

Just as King Curry and King Namo were talking about the inscription, a warrior from the Saltwater Kingdom holding a trident and looking like a crab rushed into the hall.

cried the warrior, as rude and insolent as their king:

My king found a treasure house! It seems to be a forging workshop of Neptune's trident, there are many sealed ancient books, and some mysterious metals. My king invites you to come and see it!

Um?

King Namor immediately stood up straight, and King Zebel's eyes were even brighter.

They finally found a link to Neptune's Trident.

It must be that rude guy who can't read the ancient text, so I need your help to decipher it, King Curry.

King Zebel smiled and patted King Curry on the shoulder, and he said to the knowledgeable and talented Naga King:

Bringing you this time is indeed the most correct choice.

Yeah?

King Curry didn't have any happy expression, he said casually:

I don't think I should come with you. The doorkeeper Merlin's warning is right. We shouldn't enter here at this time. I always have an ominous premonition...

Oh, you cultural people like to think wildly.

King Xebel pushed the hesitant King Curry out of the hall in a push way, and he said with a little annoyance:

We will protect you, great poet, but now it's your turn.

King Namo leaned on his trident and walked at the end. When he left the hall, he raised his head as if feeling something, and glanced at the light curtain sky above his head.

Looking out from the city, you can only see the heavy water 500 meters above, and the dim light reflected by the water.

Namor had a strange feeling that someone seemed to be watching him on the surface of the sea.

He felt right.

In the sky 500 meters above sea level, under the afternoon sun, a fire like a phoenix is ​​crossing the Aegean Sea.

Miss Madeleine, the Red Queen, who is looking for ominous omens all over the world to take revenge and get her son back, is frowning and stopping in the clouds.

The keen perception of the power of the phoenix made her unable to help but look at the sea below. She could feel a familiar aura beneath the deep sea.

Own husband, Cyclops Summers...

He is here!

But...why is he here?

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Look! This is the mold of the Trident!

In the east of Atlantis City, in a huge underground facility, the Crabman King triumphantly pointed his giant pincers at the dusty boulder beside him.

It chattered endlessly and said to the three kings who came:

I found it from the burial ground, there is a magical power on it, and some sacred whispers can be heard when you get close to it.

really.

King Curry wagged his tail, and stopped beside the dusty stone mold. There were almost exactly the same dents on the boulder as the recorded Neptune's Trident, and some solidified stones remained in the dents. golden substance.

That should be the metal left over from the forging of the Holy Trident.

The talented King Naga took out a scroll of parchment and translated it according to the distorted ancient text left on the mold.

Beside him and King Crabman, King Zebel and King Namor led soldiers to explore this huge underground facility.

It's like a maze here.

The ancestors shaped this huge building with huge stone slabs similar to obsidian, and they seemed to have intentionally made it into a labyrinth.

However, when going deep into the maze, Namor noticed that there were skeletons left in some corners of the maze.

The distorted bones seemed to be crushed by some kind of force, and then torn apart. The fragmented bones were scattered everywhere, and the closer to the depth, the stronger the uncomfortable energy.

The power of chaos still remains in this city, and this underground facility should be one of the gathering places for the energy of chaos.

Don't move anything!

King Namor gave a warning to the guards behind him.

He also felt the threat at this time, the fighting instinct from Namor and Cyclops after folding was warning that there was a dangerous force deep in the maze.

Let's get out!

After seeing another corpse pit piled with bones, Namor felt more and more ominous, and he led his soldiers to quickly exit the maze. He shouted to King Curry and King Crabman who were translating the ancient text:

Let's leave here! There is a gathering of chaotic forces here, so it is not suitable to stay for long!

ah!

As soon as Namor finished speaking, a scream came from the center of the maze, and there was the roar of heavy objects moving, followed by the sound of weapons colliding and firing. King Zebel must have encountered an attack.

The crabman wanted to help subconsciously, but Namor held him back.

They've gone too deep, they're hopeless! Once you're stuck in the maze, you're done for, go!

Namor grabbed the terrified King Currie by the arm, and the three kings and their soldiers rushed out of the underground facility.

Amid the terrifying explosions behind him, earthquake-like vibrations spread rapidly from behind, and black cracks continued to spread on the ground, as if a monster locked in the ground wanted to tear off its shackles and rushed into the ground .

boom

Something was thrown out from the collapsed underground building behind. Namor looked back, and it was a head.

Still wearing a crown.

King Xebel's head was crushed by a third, covered in blood, with panic still remaining in his widened eyes, and a bloody spine...

This was ripped off from the neck abruptly!

Aww

While the remaining three kings watched, a creature with a height of more than 5 meters rushed out against the collapsed building.

It is muscular, holds a heavy bronze axe, hooves, tail, and a huge bull head, exuding golden light, eyes the size of copper bells, and a scarlet aura entwined all over its body.

With its head down, it rampages all the way, like an angry war tank.

The terrifying impact ruthlessly shattered any blocking objects, and for life forms, it was even more death upon touch.

To make matters worse, this monster emitted a chaotic force that was visible to the naked eye. Wherever it went, the soldiers fell into a trance, unable to make a strong resistance at all.

In just the blink of an eye, rivers of blood flowed on the shattered ground.

Monster of myth, Milotaurus! Abomination, that is abomination!

King Curry, who was supported by Namor, clenched the translation scroll in his hand, and he screamed out of control:

It...it is the weapons made by the ancestors. It was their appearance that caused the great fall. We were so stupid to release them...

God, what have we done!