Chapter 996: Sea Monsters Are Here!


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    Although the UN and the Celestial Kingdom were at odds due to their conflicting views, beliefs, and general cultural practices, Vaan never considered wiping out the Celestial Kingdom''s poption.


    After all, the Celestial Kingdom was ultimately a human civilization; he would not discriminate against it for being different.


    Although the Nauticans may have evolved differently to adapt to the sea, the majority of the civilian poption residing in the Residential Zone was no different from Lunarans, who made up a fraction of Pangea''s human poption.


    The only difference was that once Vaan united thend and sea, the Lunaran ethnicity would change from a minor fraction to a major fraction of the human poption.


    After Vaan took control of themand center, he gained Commander Hotri''s level of ess to all utilities and facilities in Moonwater City''s topyer, the Military Zone.


    Furthermore, with Commander Hotri''s permission level, Vaan gained ess to more confidential information rted to the starships, including their locations. Still, it was only limited to Moonwater City''s starships.


    Moonwater City''s starships were stored in the Military Zone''s restricted hangar district.


    Information on other cities'' starships was inessible, which also showed the rtionship between the Celestial Kingdom''s cities. Each city functioned like an independent city-state.


    The military faction was the only binding force that kept twelve cities together. Each city''s military formed its own groups, which wasn''t surprising.


    After all, even if people work for the same bigpany, they only have a few colleagues they work with and feel closer to than others.


    With the exception of periodically sending tributes to Celestial City, the remaining twelve cities rarely contacted each other unless they had issues or businesses to discuss.


    As such, the twelve cities were quite detached from one another.


    When Vaan examined the information on the Moonwater Lord and General Neyi, he found that they werest recorded as Eighth-stage Divine Star Realm cultivators.


    Given the nature of the Divine Inheritances, their increasing impurity caused by the sessive transfers, andck ofwprehensions, these Eighth-stage Divine Star Realm cultivators were most likely only as strong as regr Fifth-stage Divine Star Realm cultivators.


    It was also the reason Vaan could p Third-stage Divine Star Realm cultivators to death despite possessing First-stage Divine Star Realm equivalent physical strength.


    However, Fifth-stage Divine Star Realm cultivators were beyond his abilities.


    That said, Vaan had the divine protection of the Sea God Temple. Thus, while his own cultivation wascking, he still didn''t put General Neyi and the Moonwater Lord in his eyes. They couldn''t do anything to him.


    How could they, when even the Ocean Master, a Ninth-stage Divine Star Realm cultivator, couldn''t?


    While Vaan was surfing the Celestial Network, Commander Hotri was also sent to break up the conflict in the military square. s, hispetency wascking in this department; he came back with a defeated look.


    "Your Excellency, forgive this subordinate for being ipetent. I can''t stop them," Commander Hotri sighed.


    The grudge between the two warring groups in the military square had be unimaginably deep. The death of one''s brother,rade, and friend was unforgettable; the soldiers couldn''t easily forgive their killers despite them, too, being their brothers,rades, and friends.


    To kill one''s friend to avenge another friend... their rtionship was ratherplex.


    "It seems I have to intervene myself," Vaan thought.


    Commander Hotri was immediately startled by his words, uncertain of what he was nning to do.


    "Your Excellency... How do you intend to stop their conflict?"


    "Since their conflict is ultimately rted to me, the outsider, which one side does not acknowledge, I just need to give them a reason to be convinced or feared."


    Commander Hotri was immediately rmed.


    He watched Vaan take out the Sea Warden''s silver trident and strike the floor. At the same time, the Boundless Sea and Sky Aura contained within him surged out like a sonic pulse.


    Rumble...!


    Over at the border surveince room, the Garrison Captain and his subordinates were rmed when their screens turned red with alerts.


    "T-This... This is...! Oh shit!"


    "Good... heavens!"


    "Mommy...!"


    The border surveince group eximed in horror, seeing the sea monsters of the Outer Sea rushing toward their city en masse.


    Although therger sea monsters like Ancient Krakens and Overlord Skywhales couldn''t fit in the narrow trench, they were not as frightening as the ones that could-For example, the Giant Mantis Shrimps.


    The Giant Mantis Shrimps were notorious in the Southern Border for their lightning-swift and deadly w strikes, which were so fast that they could hardly be seen with the naked eye.


    Their offensive capabilities were so ungodly high that they stood at the very top of the Sea Monster rankings in terms of danger level, and it was well deserved. After all, this was a monstrous species that could deliver a force of up to 2500 times its weight.n/?/vel/b//jn dot c//om


    There were no walls built by Celestials that the Giant Mantis Shrimps couldn''t tear apart.


    "It''s the fucking Mantis Shrimps! They areing...!" a Celestial soldier shrieked, almost wanting to flee to the Residential Zone on the spot.


    However, he knew that if the Giant Mantis Shrimps were trulying to attack them,


    nowhere was safe within the city. The Giant Mantis Shrimps would tear straight through the thick walls of metal like they were soft tofu.


    "D-Did the Ocean Master summon them? Why?" the Garrison Captain wondered nervously.


    Boom!


    The city entrance was hacked into countless pieces, creating a muchrger opening after the Giant Mantis Shrimps found the previous one to be too small for them to enter.


    Dozens of Giant Mantis Shrimps quickly poured into Moonwater City''s topyer, followed by other types of sea monsters behind, mostly crustacean-type sea monsters like Devil Crabs, Killer Krills, and Spear Prawns.


    Only a few hundred sea monsters squeezed into Moonwater City''s topyer, but they already


    upied a vast space.


    The battle-frenzied Celestial soldiers in the square suddenly ended their war and became deathly silent, suppressed by the sea monsters'' oppressive gaze.


    In any other scenario, the sea monsters would have already rushed to sink their ws and fangs into their bodies upon seeing them. Yet, right now, they were strangely obedient, simply staring at them from a distance.


    "This... The Ocean Master has summoned the sea monsters to aid us!"


    The Celestial soldiers on Vaan''s side eximed, pleasantly surprised, after realizing the situation. Their respect and fear toward Vaan were instantly elevated by several levels.


    Meanwhile, the faces of the opposing Celestial soldiers morphed into pure shock, disbelief,


    and horror.


    The new Ocean Master couldmand the sea monsters of the Outer Sea! That was something not even the previous generations of Ocean Masters could do!