"The Huan King?! How is that possible? Whether in China or the Yue State, where could he get a Sea King Beast's essence to transform with? Even if he had it, how could anyone transform into something as terrifyingly powerful as a Sea King Beast at will?"
Seeing their encirclement strike empty air, their target vanish, and the Huan King appear, the Canada Faction's commanders finally understood. Prince Tianyao stared incredulously at the Huan King hovering in midair with his wings spread and blurted out his disbelief.
"Your Highness! The Huan King once slew the Blue Whale Demon King in the Indonesia Region. In other words, what we faced earlier wasn't a real Sea King Beast, but a soul beast..." A solar-aspect gold general hesitated before offering a quiet reminder.
"Bastard! Why didn't you..."
Prince Tianyao froze, then roared in fury. Before he could finish his rebuke, realization struck him. His expression changed drastically, and he abruptly shouted a different order:
"All forces, prepare! Watch the seabed!"
His voice rolled like thunder, echoing endlessly across the chaotic battlefield and ringing clearly in every ear!
Boom...
Crack, crack...
An enormous dark shape emerged beneath the mass of ice. With a thunderous crash, it slammed into the ice Aquarius Kadi had formed, shattering it into flying fragments!
A visible, transparent barrier rose above the sea. Inside it stood red-brick buildings with jade tiles, painted beams, and carved pillars, palace after palace stretching into the distance. Countless figures crowded the open spaces and squares between them, the vast majority soldiers clad in deep-blue armor and wielding forks and halberds.
In appearance alone, they resembled the Sea Warriors of the Greece Region, but their armor favored practicality and was relatively crude, lacking the intricate splendor of the Sea Warriors' Sea-Scale Garments!
These soldiers in