Chapter 473 - 137: Servant of the Sea Abyss · End Messenger

The Sea General gazed at the army slipping into defeat, yet had no intention to stop it.

Because this wasn’t the first escape.

This marked at least the tenth escape this year alone.

Previous escapes were on a small scale, quickly suppressed bloodily by the Legendary Sea Race powerhouses defending the army.

Each time the army sought to resist, unwilling to be treated as cannon fodder and desiring to flee the battlefield, it was brutally suppressed.

Once, twice, ten times, fifteen times....

Until now.

All Sea Races subservient to the Sea People began to fall apart and flee, even within the Sea People Army, numerous veteran soldiers, hardened by bloodshed, started to escape.

The veterans who survived by luck clearly understood this place was a massive meat grinder.

If they did not leave, the end would surely be death.

The might of the Black Wing Nest left them no glimpse of victory or the end of the war.

And as the war dragged on, the new Sea Race warriors also vaguely grasped the horrors here.

On a battlefield already fraught with fear and dread, seeing large numbers of seasoned Sea Race warriors, stronger than themselves, start to flee, could they not run?

The actions of the veterans served as the best guidance for these terrified new recruits.

"My lord, let me kill those deserters!"

Behind the Sea General, a Legendary Tier Two Sea Person, watching this scene, wore a grim expression and stepped forward to speak.

"....There’s no need." The Sea General, looking slightly fatigued, said indifferently as it glanced at the somewhat astonished Legendary Sea Person by its side,

"The Emperor has already made a decision, and next will be the decisive battle between us and the Legendary powerhouses of the Black Wing Nest."

If some cannon fodder and a portion of elite Sea Race warriors’ lives could be used to repel the invasion of the Black Wing Nest, then for the Sea People Empire, it would naturally be worth it.

However, after tens of billions of Sea Race warriors died, many races originally subservient to the Sea People Empire started harboring intentions of rebellion. Some Sea Races located on the empire’s borders had even begun migrating to join the Naga Empire and the Mermaid Empire.

This trend is unstoppable. If only one or two subservient races defected, the Sea People Empire could still kill one as a warning to others, deterring other disloyal races. But if dozens or hundreds of subservient races started defecting, and the Sea People Empire tried to kill them all, the remaining races, witnessing this, would surely feel threatened.

Ultimately, the vast Sea People Empire would become impossibly chaotic.

This would shake the foundation of the Sea People Empire!

"Yes!" The Legendary Sea Person silently withdrew.

Since their Emperor had already made a decision, they needed only to obey orders.

Though within, the Legendary Sea Person harbored faint fear.

It knew that once a legendary battle broke out, someone in its Legendary Tier Two position would certainly be the cannon fodder in this war.

The Legendary Sea Person quietly gazed at the Sea General ahead.

"The General is a Tier Three powerhouse, moreover, the Emperor’s own brother. After the war starts, he definitely will not rush to the front... But I am different, I climbed up purely on my own, and my strength is not strong enough, with little say in the empire...."

"If I surrender to the Black Wing Nest...."

Confused thoughts welled up in the Legendary Sea Person’s heart, leaving it immensely torn.

"Gentlemen, do not worry, the Emperor will summon the Servant of the Sea Abyss."

Seemingly guessing his subordinate’s thoughts, the Sea General turned, reassuring the dozen Legendary Sea Race powerhouses beside him.

"The Servant of the Sea Abyss?" The Legendary Sea Person, who had previously been on the brink of struggling to defect, felt astonished at the General’s words, but quickly felt relieved.

After all, the pressure the Black Wing Nest exerted on the Sea People Empire was immense.

If the legendary battle erupted, with the Black King joining, no one in the Sea People Empire could stop the terrifying Black Dragon.

Rather than lose all top-level legendary combat power and summon the Servant of the Sea Abyss afterward, it would be better to summon it now, while only losing some lower-tier warriors, to reduce losses.

.....

In a bottomless sea abyss, several hundred kilometers from the location of the Sea People Empire’s Royal Court.

A vast altar, spanning dozens of kilometers, was situated within the bottomless abyss.

The surroundings were nearly engulfed in absolute darkness.

Suddenly, a glimmer of light sparked in the distance, followed by a flash that illuminated the entire radius of several hundred miles around the altar.

The environment of extreme darkness retreated.

The Sea People Emperor hovered above the altar, with a colossal chain trailing behind him.

The chain threaded through massive, imposing sea beasts.

These were the offerings.

"Great Ruler of the Sea Abyss, Guide of the Endless Ocean, Craze and Bloodshed, Indifference and Existence... the day you descend upon this world will be the day the world is engulfed by the deep sea!"

As the sacrificial prayer ended, hundreds of massive and imposing sea beasts were coldly slain by a group of legendary Sea People powerhouses.

The enormous altar began glowing with a faint light, causing the mountains of sea beast corpses and souls to vanish within the glow.

A blue watery vortex appeared at the center of the altar.

The watery vortex gradually expanded, growing from a diameter of a few meters to tens of meters, then hundreds, then a thousand meters.

A sense of intense oppression emanated from the watery vortex, laced with traces of madness and chaos.

Upon perceiving this aura, the Sea People Emperor and other legendary powerhouses present showed slight changes in their expressions.