The Mermaid Demigod Driven to Desperation

"Set off!"

At Chen Changhe's command.

Hundreds of brand-new Gretchin Submarines started up simultaneously and accelerated toward the deep sea.

These torpedo-like submarines could travel at over a hundred knots per hour and carried several Sneeze Cannons.

Sneeze Cannons were the massive cannon version of Goblin Horn Guns, but some exceptionally gifted Gretchin engineers had come up with clever ideas for the ammunition.

They used iron barrels as protective shells and stuffed fully armed Snotling Orks inside.

When fired, they could not only cause explosive damage but also transport troops.

Achieving the miraculous effect of soldiers falling from the sky.

Killing two birds with one stone.

Chen Changhe admired the Orks' imagination and death-defying abilities beyond measure.

After several rounds of test firing, the results had actually been quite good.

The survival rate was above seventy percent. Rounded up, that meant one hundred percent.

Therefore, he had not rejected the design.

He had merely printed cherry blossom patterns on every Sneeze Cannon barrel.

Don't ask why he had done that.

If you asked, he didn't know.

At the center of the vast ocean lay Fishman Island.

A great battle was underway.

One side consisted of the Fishmen, while the other was made up of several other Sea Folk races.

Corpses littered the battlefield.

Fishmen and other Sea Folk alike, their bodies piled into mountains.

Fishman Island, which had never been set foot upon by outsiders for thousands of years, was now being ravaged beneath the iron hooves of races they had once looked down upon and enslaved.

Fishmen died without cease.

This filled the Fishman Demigod Katherine Dobbs with boundless fury:

"Gulu Gulu! Ludwig! Paisher..."

"You lowly wretches, how dare you!"

Katherine had known that after her husband's death, these people would harbor treacherous intentions.

Thus, she had remained vigilant during this time, withdrawing her forces as much as possible.

She had tried every means to increase her strength, all so she could become a true deity sooner.

Yet she had never expected that even so, Gulu Gulu and the others would still attack Fishman Island.

Her heart bled.

These Demigods from another world had no Divine Domains.

Only true deities could create Divine Domains of their own.

And their area would not be very large.

This was the fundamental difference between advanced Divine Civilizations like the Blue Star Divine Civilization and ordinary Outer Domain deities.

Fishman Island was equivalent to Katherine's Divine Domain, and every Fishman here was one of her followers.

Yet Fishmen were dying every moment.

"You traitors! You traitors who have betrayed the Ocean Divinity!"

"You should be cast down to the ocean floor for all eternity, suffering loneliness and crushing water pressure!"

Katherine had long heard that Gulu Gulu and the others were trading with a human from the land.

And were slaughtering the Fishmen in large numbers.

But at the time, she had been powerless to intervene, so she had not looked into it.

In her view, that human from the land could only be seeking resources in exchange.

After all, the ocean did not welcome those two-legged creatures.

For hundreds of thousands of years, not a single land-dwelling race had ever been able to settle in the ocean.

It had been that way in the past, and it was still the same now.

She had even considered contacting Chen Changhe and working with him.

After all, the Fishmen were the true masters of the ocean.

But because of her pride.

She had abandoned the idea.

Only now did she realize what a foolish choice she had made.

"Were all these metal weapons traded to them by that land-dwelling human?"

The Sea Folk were poor at smelting and produced few metal weapons.

Most of the Fishmen under her command still used weapons made of bone or stone.

On the battlefield, countless Fishmen had been killed after their weapons were destroyed.

"Gulu Gulu! Ludwig! Paisher..."

"If you leave now, I will forgive everything you have done!"

Katherine waved the Sea God's Scepter and cast a divine art.

A massive circular wave spread outward from beneath her feet.

Forcing back the opponents who sought to surround her.

The Fishmen had dominated the ocean through two divine artifacts.

The Fishman Crown and the Sea God's Scepter.

The Fishman Crown had been taken away by the former Sea God and vanished after his death in battle.

It had likely become the spoils of some deity from another world.

Only the Sea God's Scepter remained on Fishman Island.

The Sea God's Scepter could greatly enhance the power of water-based divine arts cast by deities.

Katherine had endured until now solely because of this weapon.

"Forgive us? Hahaha, then I truly must thank Goddess Katherine for her magnanimity."

"But once the bow is drawn, there's no turning back. Haven't you heard that?"

"Don't hold back. Punish me to your heart's content!"

Gulu Gulu's lobster eyes raked over Katherine's body.

Though he was a Lobster Person, Gulu Gulu's taste in women was perfectly normal.

He had taken a liking to Katherine long ago.

But because he had looked at her a few times too many, Katherine had caught him and ripped off half the shell covering his body.

He had nearly suffered the collapse and death of his divine body.

"This time, I'll look my fill!"

"I'll look at you over and over, from top to bottom, until I'm satisfied!"

"This time, it'll be my turn to strip you!"

It was not just Gulu Gulu. The other Demigods also laughed and chimed in.

Half the reason they had been willing to join Gulu Gulu in attacking the Fishmen.

Was because of Katherine.

Katherine's beauty was renowned far and wide.

She was a peerless beauty famous throughout this plane.

While the Sea God had been alive, they had not even been qualified to look at Katherine from up close.

Now that the Sea God was dead.

They intended to get close to Katherine to their hearts' content.

The reason Katherine had managed to hold out for so long.

Was that they all wanted to capture her alive and had not truly tried to kill her.

"You shameless scum! Die!"

Katherine flew into a rage and cast another large-scale divine art.

A faint golden glow bloomed in her beautiful pupils, while the Sea God's Scepter in her hand continuously gathered Divine Power.

"Boom!"

A deafening explosion rang out from the sky as mountain-crushing waves rolled down in layer upon layer like a tide.

An oppressive, fearsome pressure radiated from them, bearing down directly upon all of Fishman Island.

"This bitch has gone mad!"

Gulu Gulu's expression changed drastically. He had never expected that a few careless words would enrage Katherine to this extent.

A wave with such immense power would be enough to destroy more than half of Fishman Island.

The Fishmen on the island, as well as their followers, would surely all die.

"Don't be foolish, Katherine! Do you want to destroy Fishman Island?

Withdraw your divine art, or not one of your followers will remain!"

Gulu Gulu hurriedly tried to persuade her.

He was not even sure whether he could withstand a divine art of such power.

Why was this woman so insane?

Did she not consider the consequences of her actions?

"I refuse! To die for me, Katherine, is their Glory!"

Katherine showed no intention of backing down.

A trace of killing intent flashed in her eyes. Today, she was determined to kill these invaders.

Not a single one would survive.

This was the most powerful divine art attached to the Sea God's Scepter.

Once it was unleashed, the Sea God's Scepter would be destroyed as well.

But Katherine could no longer care about that.

If she did not do this.

She would undoubtedly be defeated today.

If she did, she still had a sliver of hope.

As for those followers.

Even if she did not use this divine art.

They would have no hope of surviving today.

Since they were going to die anyway.

They might as well die by Katherine's hand.