Chapter 1342 1308: The Calamity Begins in Galia City

Galia City, a magnificent city built beneath the deep sea.

As the Sea Race's first city open to Players, whether it was people's curiosity about the underwater world, or about the Tide Race that lived in the sea—

All of this let this ancient city welcome Players from all over the World every day, coming to visit and satisfy their curiosity.

But aside from that, for Players, Galia City was more like a tourist city built on the seabed.

Because around Galia City, there were no suitable places for leveling, which made many people lack a reason to come here.

Other than occasionally being able to trigger and accept a few quests here, its biggest function was that Players could buy many Rare items here that couldn't be bought on land.

However, with the Burst of the war against the Demon Race, Players from all Battle Zones were already too busy fending for themselves under the assault of the Demon King.

This instantly pulled this city from its former prosperity back to the quiet calm it had at the very beginning, before it had seen the world.

Yet on those slightly desolate streets, figures full of life still passed back and forth.

The Tide Race was different from the dull-witted Fishman Race.

Apart from a layer of scales covering their bodies and the fish fins on their heads, they were basically no different from normal people.

They likewise possessed high intelligence and rich emotions.

When the Rafam Continent was mired in the suffering of the Demon Race's war, all the Tide Race within the city could do was pray for the Hundred Races.

Because of the particular nature of their race, they were destined to be unable to leave the deep sea and wage long battles against the Demon Race.

The same was true.

During the last Demon Race Invasion of the Rafam Continent, they had not invaded the Sea Race's territory either; it seemed the Demon Race had no interest in this boundless deep sea at all.

It was precisely because of this special situation that this place, like a few Battle Zones such as Hua Country, had not been affected by the Demon Race.

The Tide Race's Clan Leader Harrison was also the City Lord of this Galia City.

He sat high in the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion, gazing heavily at the deep blue ocean outside the hall's windows.

Just then, the doors of the main hall were suddenly pushed open.

A Tide Race elder with red fish fins hurried over and said:

"Clan Leader, come with me at once."

He dropped this line and immediately turned around and left.

This left Harrison momentarily stunned:

"Elder Nien, what is it?"

The Tide Race elder named "Nien" did not look back as he said:

"You'll know when you come."

Although he still didn't know what had happened, Harrison could hear a trace of panic in this Tide Race elder's voice.

As a Tide Race powerhouse of the True God Realm, Harrison knew that even if the Demon Race army came now, their Tide Race still had the strength to resist.

He could not understand where this Tide Race elder's fear came from.

Though puzzled, Harrison instantly appeared behind the elder and followed closely after him:

"I remember the last time Elder Nien was like this was when the Demon Race was about to wipe out the Hundred Races on land."

The Tide Race were very clear about one thing.

If the Hundred Races on land were exterminated by the Demon Race, how could those Demon Race possibly spare their Sea Race living in the ocean?

However, at present, the highest Level within the Demon Race was only a Demigod Demon King.

Such Demon Race still weren't worth Harrison's notice in the slightest.

Yet in the face of Harrison's confusion, Nien's next words made Harrison's expression change.

"The Demon Suppression Stele moved!"

"What?!"

The previously nonchalant Harrison instantly lost his composure, his face changing as he roared:

"Why didn't you say so earlier?"

Before his words fell, Harrison's figure had already vanished.

Seeing this, Nien raised his head to look toward a restricted area of Galia City and murmured with a face full of tragic resolve:

"What is bound to come will come in the end."

With that, he flicked his robe and vanished from the spot as well, leaving behind only a light sigh:

"Alas~"

By this time, Harrison had already arrived at the rear of the City Lord's Mansion of Galia City.

Here, green bamboo stood tall, and cheerful insect chirps filled the surroundings.

Flowers carpeted the ground, and butterflies fluttered gracefully everywhere.

Within this range of several hundred meters, there was no erosion from seawater; it was as fresh as being on land.

If one did not look up at the azure ocean overhead, anyone who came here might momentarily forget that this was the endless deep sea.

Harrison stood at the entrance of the green bamboo grove; staring into the quiet depths of the bamboo forest, there was an indescribable worry in his eyes.

These mere few hundred meters at this moment felt like an unbridgeable chasm to Harrison, who possessed the True God Realm.

Every time Harrison came here, he had the same feeling.

If he chose to fly over from above, even as a True God, he would be torn to pieces.

Harrison never doubted this feeling, nor had he ever thought of trying it to see whether it was real.

Not long after Harrison arrived, Nien appeared beside him as well.

Harrison frowned and asked:

"When did you notice it?"

Nien answered with just two words:

"Just now."

Harrison said nothing more:

"Let's go!"

He then lifted his foot and walked toward the quiet depths of the bamboo forest.

Nien followed behind Harrison and began to explain:

"Three months ago, the Demon Suppression Stele actually moved once as well."

At this, Harrison immediately flew into a rage:

"Why am I only hearing about this three months later?"

Interrupted, Nien did not explain too much and simply continued:

"But that time, the disturbance was extremely slight, and I once thought I had sensed it wrong."

"Because of that, I did not enter meditation for over a month, observing the stele constantly."

"But after that, the stele was just like it had been for the past several thousand years, showing no abnormalities at all."

"So at the time I took it as an illusion I had upon waking from meditation, and didn't take it to heart."

"But just now…"

Nien paused here, and Harrison immediately became alert:

"What happened?"

Nien let out a long sigh:

"Ever since then, every time I woke from meditation, I would carefully inspect the stele."

"But just now, when I inspected it, I discovered a crack on the inscription."

As his words fell, Nien fell silent.

Harrison's mind shook violently:

"The inscription cracked?!"

Within the entire Hundred Races, probably only the two present here knew what it meant for that inscription to crack.

Harrison likewise thought of an extremely bad outcome, his face turning exceedingly ugly as he said:

"Is this the fate our Tide Race cannot escape?"

"Creak~"

Each step Harrison took landed on dead branches and fallen leaves, producing crisp sounds.

Yet these sounds had become a death knell at this moment, pounding against Harrison's chest.

He suddenly stopped:

"Elder Nien."

Nien looked at Harrison in puzzlement, only to see Harrison's expression turn solemn as he said:

"Galia City is to immediately enter first-level alert status. All citizens are to move to the underground city beneath the city and await orders."

Nien's brow twitched sharply:

"Clan Leader, are you sure you want to do this?"

At that moment, Harrison suddenly looked toward the depths of the bamboo forest and sighed softly:

"I hope we're not too late."

In that instant—

A jet-black energy erupted from the center of the bamboo grove and shot straight into the sky.

Immediately afterward, the surging seawater turned into towering waves that rushed into the bamboo grove.

In an instant, the winds and clouds changed.

Harrison's robe billowed without wind; a delicate Trident appeared in his hand as he faced that black energy and shouted sharply:

"Go, now!"

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