Chapter 1336 - 288: Ibira (Part 2)

The power of the individual is determined collectively by skills, species innate talent, and physical quality.

In the Ibira form of the Sea King Tribe, the species innate talent naturally speaks for itself—they are much stronger than the Sea Demons! Each one belongs to the Inherent Divine Beast Seed!

But the Sea Demons aren’t bad either...

The awakening of skills is full of uncertainty, and physical quality has natural limitations. If the power value of a fully formed Ibira Sea King is 10, then the power value of a Sea Demon Sea King can roughly reach around 7.

There is a gap, and it cannot be ignored, but it is not incomparable...

The food demand that once troubled the birth of the Ibira Sea King became negligible with the opening of the Demon Realm’s Gate, yet there are still two problems within.

One is reproductive ability.

The reproductive ability of the Sea King Tribe is very weak, with an evolution success rate of less than one percent, whereas the Sea Demon Sea Kings have sexual reproduction ability. This greatly compensates for the population scarcity issue of the Sea King Tribe, but the Ibira Sea Kings do not. They cannot reproduce.

The second is about adaptability to the land...

The Sea King Clan in the Ibira form, without special skills or high enough level, simply cannot adapt to a waterless environment, which is not seen as an issue by the ordinary Sea King Clan.

They never thought of going to live on land...

But the Sea King, in the end, is different.

He yearns for the land...

It’s not just about a kind of ambition for conquest, but also a yearning for everything named human culture, technology, and all kinds of things, coupled with the newly-born Fifth Skill of the Sea King augmented to the Sea King Clan, making them naturally possess the trait to command sea beasts—with this ability, individual power seems less important from the Sea King’s perspective, who does not excel in martial strength.

Can you fight, and can you fight 100? 1000?

In this ocean, freaks like Ibira are rare, but there are plenty of super sea beasts one grade lower than Ibira... With the awakening of the Sea King’s Fifth Skill, all these sea beasts are controlled!

What does this mean? This means from now on, the Sea King Tribe is truly worthy of the name "Sea King Tribe"—this is actual, unlike the once empty title of "Sea King," achieved only through Ibira’s individual military deterrence!

The members of the Sea King Tribe are already scarce, in the Sea King’s view, their status is ruler, not warriors going to the frontline to fight with bayonets!

All these add up to the turning point in Sea King’s choice.

From here, you can also see, what Sea King just said to Wen Yu about "due to resources, he chose the form of a Sea Demon Sea King" was obviously "humble"—the real purpose was for the ambition towards the land.

Lin Haifeng’s then-established Sea King control plan... was indeed not baseless—these high-ranking guys, each one has this kind of demeanor.

Wen Yu did not pierce through the flaw in Sea King’s words, he just kept listening.

"When I proposed abandoning the Ibira Sea King transformation plan, Ibira said nothing, he just turned and left. I thought this was the effect of my identity as the tribe will form, but until a day later, Ibira returned to the ancestral land, I then found out that from start to finish, Ibira was never under my control!"

...

Mud churned in the deep sea, water froze, beasts roared.

When Ibira returned to the ancestral land again, he brought total catastrophe!

His eyes were scarlet, with frenzy stirring in his gaze, and the smaller Ibira Sea King beside him just swung its eight tentacles absurdly, clueless.

The next second, Ibira opened his big mouth, sharp teeth pierced fiercely like daggers into the body of the Ibira Sea King, tearing forcefully, thus the Ibira Sea King was shredded!

"What are you doing?"

Sea King was completely unprepared for the scene unfolding, he loudly questioned, meanwhile, attempting to control Ibira’s behavior—yet this time, the authority of the tribe will form completely lost effectiveness on Ibira.

Ibira glanced at the Sea King fiercely, there was a moment of bewilderment in his eyes, but this bewilderment quickly vanished, he raised his neck, tearing the remains of Ibira Sea King apart and chewing them.

Blood splattered and followed the waves stirred by Ibira fiercely towards those five Stone Pillars!

Upon seeing this, Sea King suddenly came to realization!

...

"He wants more... more of his own kind."

It sounded somewhat childish, yet whether Wen Yu or Sea King could understand Ibira’s mindset at that moment.

Genes decided the species, but physical appearance decides the closeness within the species.

Even deformities suffer various disdain and resistance in society, let alone Ibira and other Sea King Tribe members.

Maybe alone by force, Ibira could erase all discordant factors, but how much more satisfying is it to transform the whole Sea King Tribe to his likeness!

From the very beginning, Ibira was never under the Sea King’s control. When the Sea King awakened and summoned Ibira, Ibira might have approached with awe towards the tribe will form, or perhaps, he had already set the ambition to transform the Sea King Tribe to his likeness, in the end, these two successive Sea Kings experienced irreparable divergences in tribe form, which eventually evolved into inevitable conflict.

Since the soft approach didn’t work, why not take the hard one!

Ocean currents mixed with blood raced towards the birth Stone Pillars of the Sea King Tribe, all occurred so fast, fast enough that Sea King had no opportunity to stop it.

The blood fused on the seaweed, transformation began, Sea King’s heart sank, he knew quite well what significant occurrence was unfolding, thus he rallied the still-controllable Sea King Tribe members and numerous sea beasts to clear out Ibira, this rebel.

For the tribe will form, a single individual in the tribe, even if not under control, doesn’t have to be exterminated—provided that Ibira fled away, Sea King wouldn’t pursue, simply because when Sea King reaches Level 5, the Sea King Tribe’s position as deep-sea dominator becomes indisputable, Ibira’s importance immediately diminishes to dispensable.

At appropriate times, sea beasts throughout the ocean must heed the Sea King Tribe’s command, under such circumstances, what significance does individual strength have?

Sea King’s thoughts are very similar to Lin Haifeng’s once thinking...

Yet destroying ancestral land, forced stimulation of Ibira Sea Kings, this, in Sea King’s eyes, is absolutely intolerable!

The birthrate of the Sea King Tribe is already low, with such disruption by Ibira, what are the actual damages, Sea King knows very well.

He even felt his guts trembling...

What’s more, just by looking at Ibira’s appearance, Sea King could perceive whether this matter is settled by fight or by harmony was not contingent upon Sea King’s own will.