At this moment,
one by one, they removed the armor masks they wore, revealing the delicate skin and moist red lips beneath.
Then,
the Mermaid Misses' singing resonated through the seabed, enveloping Su Wen directly in a pale green glow.
Yet even under such utterly focused treatment, it was not until half an hour later that his tightly shut eyes finally trembled beneath the gentle caress of the light before slowly opening.
At first, Su Wen still felt dizzy.
But when he saw the tears still clinging to Jiang Menghan's eyes amid her joy, he understood what had happened.
So he merely stroked her long hair gently.
"It's all right. Aren't I fine?"
But upon hearing Su Wen's voice,
the young woman had no thought of blaming him. She simply wiped away her tears, then clasped his hand tightly and said earnestly,
"Mr. Su, if there is ever another time when you need to force yourself beyond your limits,
I don't want you taking on any danger for me.
Can you promise me that?"
But hearing her request, Su Wen fell silent.
He knew very well:
he simply could not make such a promise.
Thus, the handsome Scholar slowly rose to his feet and looked toward the vast ruins of the Sea God Temple.
At this moment,
only half of the dome that had once accommodated tens of thousands remained. Fragments of Moonlight Stone lay scattered like a galaxy across broken walls entwined with seaweed.
Countless fractured bronze pillars had been driven upside down into the seabed, still wrapped in faded war banners.
"Is this the Sea God Temple that once belonged to Atlantis?"
There was an almost imperceptible calmness in Su Wen's voice, because he could not sense even the slightest trace of any deity here.
Neither the projection