"Your Majesty, pull yourself together!"
"We swear to defend His Majesty the Sea King to the death!"
"We will live and die with His Majesty the Sea King!!"
Several Sea Clan commanders shouted, raising their weapons high.
More and more members of the Sea Clan were swept up in their fervor, letting out their final cries.
For a moment, the Sea Clan's roars shook the heavens!
The Sea King's body trembled. He stopped crying; his tears had run dry.
He slowly opened his eyes, gazing at his kin with eyes like ocean crystals as a desperate, do-or-die courage surged through him.
With everyone watching, he did something astonishing.
He raised the [Zeroing Casket] high, and then!!
Bang!
The Sea King actually hurled the [Zeroing Casket] away.
"Fuck the Pioneer!!
The warriors of my Sea Clan would rather die than submit!!!"
Bai Ye's expression abruptly darkened. "You refused the easy way, so now you'll suffer. Today, I'll send you to join your father!"
"Please be patient, Mr. Bai." Yi Jingran appeared out of thin air. "Leave this to me."
He blinked in front of the Sea King in an instant. Before the Sea King even noticed him, he transformed into a stream of crystalline blue light and slipped into his body.
The next instant, a crystalline blue glow faintly shone in the Sea King's azure eyes.
Then... the Sea King cried again.
The cold, imperious shell of a monarch peeled away layer by layer, exposing the heart of that desperate, helpless little boy from sixty years ago.
His gaze visibly grew childlike, and then he plunged headfirst into the sea of sand.
When he emerged again, he held the [Zeroing Casket] high in both hands, his reddened eyes glaring at Bai Ye with hatred.
**"In the name of the Sea King,