"You fucking beast! For some lousy throne, you don't even care about the lives of thousands of innocent civilians?!"
Arthur Curry sprang up from the mud, his eyes bloodshot as he pointed at Orm's holographic projection overhead and cursed him out.
If that doctor named Yang Ming hadn't risked his life to blast the tsunami apart, his father Thomas would already have been a mangled corpse!
"Civilians?" Orm's holographic projection lowered its head slightly, its gaze full of lofty contempt.
"The toxins land dwellers dump into the ocean every day kill tens of thousands of Atlanteans. This was merely an insignificant warning. As for you, Arthur, my bastard older brother with filthy land-dweller blood in his veins, I'm surprised you're still alive."
"Orm! You're insane!" Covered in mud, Mera pointed at the warships and shouted, "You hired land dwellers to attack Xebel just to start a war! You're pushing all of Atlantis toward destruction!"
"Shut up, Mera." Orm's gaze turned icy. "You betrayed your king and your fiancé to come running to this worthless half-breed. Once I crush this fishing village, I'll personally drag you back to Xebel to stand trial."
"I'm going to tear that arrogant face of yours to shreds today!"
Arthur could no longer contain his rage. Like a maddened bull, he shattered the planks beneath his feet and launched himself like a cannonball toward the three heavy warships stationed on the sea.
"You?" Orm sneered, barely sparing Arthur a glance as he waved a hand. "Dispose of this bastard and that land dweller with a death wish. Leave no one alive."
On the warships' decks, hundreds of fully armed elite Atlantean soldiers raised their High-Energy Ion Guns.
"Zzzzt-!"
Dense blue ion beams rained down, instantly blasting the wooden walkway along the docks to pieces.
Arthur darted