The Sea Turtle Chief Steward immediately sent a message to his trusted subordinate.
"Someone! Go inform His Majesty the Emperor at once!"
"Tell him Azure Sea City is in dire straits! His Majesty's clearance record is about to be broken by a human!"
"Have His Majesty return immediately!"
Perhaps the pressure brought by that Jobless Freelancer was simply too overwhelming.
To the point that even the Sea Turtle Chief Steward's tone had lost some of its respect when referring to the Emperor.
The trusted subordinate's expression changed drastically upon hearing this. He hurriedly nodded, turned around, and went to contact the Merman Emperor.
The other Deep Sea race job-changers finally realized that something was wrong as well!
Their formerly cheerful expressions vanished completely, replaced by gloomy, ugly solemnity!
For Deep Sea race members like them, who had enjoyed countless years of privileges and benefits, having Azure Sea City's jurisdiction fall into human hands would undoubtedly be a calamity.
Over the years, the Deep Sea race's attitude toward land-based job-changers, along with all their methods and actions, had been filled with harshness, exploitation, and bullying.
Because Level 100 dungeon resources were scarce, land-based job-changers continued coming to Azure Sea City to run dungeons even though the Deep Sea race treated them terribly.
But if Azure Sea City's jurisdiction was lost...
The Deep Sea race could only crawl back to those barren places they once lived.
They would no longer be able to enjoy all those privileges and preferential treatment.
And not only that.
Given how they had treated land-based job-changers in the past, Azure Sea City would certainly not treat the Deep Sea race kindly in the future either.
At that thought.
The expressions of the many Deep Sea race members had already grown somewhat despairing.
Yet their despair lasted only