Todd sat up straight: "How did you know about the Black Plague?"
Seemingly sensing the hidden meaning in the other party's words, Huggins quickly said, "Your Majesty, Silver Ring City is not far from the Papal States, and there have been many rumors circulating in the city recently."
Todd glanced under the table; Huggins' right hand was trembling slightly. After a moment's thought, he decided not to delve any further into the matter and instead said, "Let's leave it at that."
Huggins bowed his head and said nothing more.
The door opened a crack, and Evie peeked in, saying to Todd, "You haven't forgotten anything, have you?"
Todd said to Evie, "Are they getting impatient?"
What do you think?
Todd waved his hand at Huggins: "You can leave now."
Remembering His Majesty's mention of reactivation, Huggins opened his mouth as if to ask something, but quickly abandoned the idea.
As Huggins walked past her, Evie turned to Todd and said, "I need to warn you, those guys outside are about to start fighting."
Todd rubbed his temples in exasperation, stood up from his chair, and walked toward the door: "Have everyone assemble in the main hall."
Evie blinked: "What do you want to do?"
Todd stepped out the door: "It's time to let those people in the kingdom know our situation."
Waiting Wave Island, the Salamander chieftain's residence.
With her fish tail submerged in a seawater urn sprinkled with flower petals, Mermaid Chief Rita closed her eyes and enjoyed the service of her maids.
"I never expected such an assassination attempt to happen at a wedding."
"I heard it's a romantic entanglement."
"Muxi City is not as safe as we originally expected."
Hearing the maids' whispers, Rita slowly opened her eyes and let out a long sigh.
The maids immediately shut their mouths and stopped whispering.
"Where's that stupid shark?"
Upon hearing Rita's question, a maid quickly replied, "The shark-man leader, Yego, has led his people to build fishing grounds in the waters near Waiheke Island."
"Hmph, herding, raising fish, doesn't that stupid shark have any better ambitions?" Rita rolled over, her slender waist and voluptuous figure swaying with the water's currents. "What's the use of having more food?"
"Chief, do you mean...?"
Rita cupped a handful of seawater in her hands, watching the droplets fall from her fingertips, and said softly, "The key to maintaining a place in this kingdom is to find your own place."
"I was worried that the people of the Dragon Kingdom would be very resistant to outside races, but today's events have given me a wake-up call. They are also divided into factions and have many conflicts, and they are simply too busy to take care of themselves."
Rita gently stirred the pool water with her hand, watching the ripples spread and undulate across the surface.
"The more turbid the seawater, the bigger the prey it hides."
The maids became more and more confused as they listened.
Rita stopped what she was doing and suddenly asked a seemingly unrelated question: "Did you see 'Supreme Deirdre' at the venue today?"
The maids chimed in with their own opinions.
“That’s really interesting,” Rita said with a smile. “A great god would actually unite with a mortal and have children.”
A maid whispered, "I've heard that the Supreme Deirdre is a powerful alien."
"Do you think that 'Supreme Deirdre' is able to sit in her current position because of her abilities?" Rita chuckled, shaking her fishtail. "Rumors in the city say that the Dragon God has intimate relationships with several women, so why is she the only one with the right to sit in that position?"
"Why?"
"Of course, it's because of that princess from the Dragon Kingdom, who has the blood of a deity."
Rita slapped the water with her fishtail as she spoke, "According to the information we have so far, the Dragon God's lineage is small. The Dragon God must value this child highly, which is why her mother holds a high position... Perhaps, it's possible..."
"Chief, something terrible has happened!"
Seeing her tribesmen stumbling in, Rita asked unhappily, "What happened?"
"They're here! They're here!"
Rita paused, then hurriedly asked, "Explain more clearly, who are they?!"
"The Quillia Merfolk, the Kinlaska Sea Owls, the Amina Shadow Sharks... and many other races we've never encountered before!"
Rita loudly asked her people, "What about what I told you to do?"
"Chief Yego of the Shark Clan is leading his people to block the intruders. We've also told them that this is the Dragon God's Sea, and they must not trespass without permission. But I'm afraid we can't hold out for long."
Donning the shell armor handed to her by a maid and picking up the trident, a symbol of power, Rita leaped into the sea, signaling her people to follow her.
Rita swam westward from Waiheke Island for a full half hour before finally reaching the forefront of the conflict.
Standing in the sea, Rita looked ahead and was so shocked by what she saw that she was speechless.
Beneath the calm surface of the sea, thousands upon thousands of marine creatures gathered, supporting the old and carrying the young, dressed in rags, their faces weary, each one etched with unease and anger.
"Back off!" The shark-man Yego led a hundred or so of his people, forming a human wall, waving his weapons and shouting at every alien race that tried to charge at him.
A maidservant of Rita, hiding behind the shark-man, shouted to the sea refugees in front of her, "Ahead lies the Dragon God's sea. You dare to enter without the god's permission; this is an insult to the Dragon God!"
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