Shesha slowly stood up, and the fish-man guards put gold jewelry and a shawl on her.
She looked towards the distant Blue Sky Base and sighed deeply, "Not only did I fail to obtain the Ring of Temperance, I almost lost myself in it. What a loss..."
"Your Excellency, Bishop, this is our fault. Please punish us!"
The blue-gray fishman guards all knelt on the ground and bowed their heads to ask for punishment.
"Not letting you follow was my own order. Do you want me to overturn my decision?" Shesha glanced emotionlessly at the guard kneeling at his feet with his huge bulging fish eyes.
"No! I dare not!"
"The power of restraint is strange. No matter how many people come, it will be useless. If you follow me in, not only will you not be able to protect me, but you will become a greater source of danger."
“Yes… yes!”
Shesha is 32 years old and lives in the villa area in the north of Xinghai City. She is unmarried and works in a famous high-end hotel. She specializes in seafood and Japanese cuisine. She gets home before 8 o'clock every day at the latest, doesn't smoke, occasionally drinks, and goes to bed at 11 o'clock at night to ensure she gets 8 hours of sleep.
Murlocs, sea creatures, deep divers, and naga.
Their race has many names, but at its core, they are just a deep-sea intelligent race that serves the Star King.
Shesha was born in the city of Gerholm, located outside the North Sea in Europe.
The Naga people do not raise their children in traditional families with one parent. Instead, they place their newborn offspring in a collective brooding room and feed and educate them uniformly.
Naga education lacks love, nor human ethics and morality. It only has the coldest and most rational knowledge and reverence for the Father God Dagon and the Mother Goddess Hydra, as well as infinite worship and faith in the great Father in Heaven and the King of the Savior Planet.
In the cold deep sea where time seemed meaningless, Shesha celebrated her coming-of-age ceremony and successfully graduated from the Gelho Broodroom.
As a direct descendant of the Father God and the Mother Goddess, Shesha is not powerful and strong, but she is more thoughtful and energetic than her cold and ruthless compatriots.
Ever since she gained self-awareness, she has been curious about the world on the sea.
What is the “person” in the knowledge being imparted?
She quietly left the Naga city, hid in the dark and watched the ships coming and going, but eventually she felt bored.
The hairless apes were bored, locked in an endless cycle of war and conflict, never to be pacified. They could have been stronger, but instead they cut off their own legs and used their intelligence and strength as weapons to attack their own kind.
In her opinion, apart from the artistic merit, hairless apes are boring and uninteresting.
One day, she picked up a small device from a shipwreck, which the hairless ape called a mobile phone.
The phone is extremely waterproof and can still be used normally even in the sea.
As the screen flickered, she saw a message on her phone:
【Where are you? 】
The sender's name is Shesha.
She was very smart and easily mastered how to use the phone, clumsily tapping the keyboard with her slender, sharp claws: [I am on a small island in the South Pacific.]
From then on, she established a bridge of communication with the human named Shesha on the other end of the phone.
They sent messages to each other from time to time, asking about each other's recent situation, chatting about nature and history, philosophy and art.
It lasted for two or three years on and off until the end of the red light.
The Father and Mother Gods conveyed their will, and the Naga tribe became restless. They gathered together and chanted hymns praising the Star King.
Unfortunately, the expected awakening of the Star King did not come.
When she finally had some time to herself and picked up her phone to check the messages, the message was stuck at three days ago.
[Are you free recently? Let's meet up. I'm in Xinghai City, Yan Country.]
[You seem very busy recently and haven't replied to my messages.]
[How are you? There was a flash of red light in the sky today, and many people around me suddenly turned into zombies.]
[…Are you dead? Sorry, if you see this message, I apologize for cursing you. I'm trapped in the hotel kitchen now, and outside are all man-eating monsters. The world has suddenly become so terrifying.]
The tsunami flooded Xinghai City. Although we were safe because of our hiding place on higher ground, we felt like we were doomed. We should have run earlier, though we're not sure if we could outrun the zombies.
The food is running out...
[I think I saw the starry sky you mentioned. It's so beautiful...]
【Goodbye, Leviathan... Or should I say, I'm here to find you?】
Oh, her name is Leviathan.
"What shall we do next, Bishop?"
"We have fulfilled our obligations under the contract. Now it is Daoxuan Sect's turn to complete its mission."
The guard asked, "What if they fail to awaken the Lord of Earth?"
"Cut it to pieces." Shesha... no, Leviathan said coldly, "The hairless monkey completed its mission, and everyone is happy. Even if it fails, it won't affect us. Our original mission was just to create more companions."
Thanks to her good brother, who got involved in some unknown struggle, a large part of the vassal army was consumed, resulting in a serious shortage of fish.
Unlike their ugly appearance that makes people think of goblins and orcs, the Naga is a taciturn race and will not come into contact with each other unless necessary.
If it weren't for the orders of the Father God and the Mother God, they would never get together to reproduce.
Therefore, in order to expand their ethnic group, the Naga, in addition to the most traditional method of reproduction, used the most common method of assimilation, assimilating humanoid races similar to themselves.
Among them, hairless monkeys are the best.
Although the assimilated species were only second-generation Nagas, they could only be used as low-level vassal troops.
But it's enough.
"It's time for us to leave now," Leviathan said.
"But didn't you plan to assimilate all the hairless monkeys in the Maling Mountain base?" the guard was puzzled.
"The plan has changed. A tough guy has arrived." Leviathan said, "He'll be killed. There's no need to sacrifice yourself for a few fish."
Thinking back to the powerful and mysterious girl with beautiful scales, even the cold and rational Leviathan couldn't help but be obsessed.
Is this the "King of Shadows" mentioned by Daoxuan Sect?
How beautiful...how powerful!
It is still very young, but it is this youthfulness and beauty that fascinates Yu.
If she could be given a chance to develop, once the Shadow King fully matured, she would surely be even more… blasphemous! Blasphemous! I couldn't even think of it!
Leviathan resolutely cut off this thought and ordered the guards around him: "Let's go back!"
In the shadows, a pair of pointed ears appeared, and through them, a dog's head peeked out.
The dog looked around stealthily, then retracted its head and hid in the shadows to follow quietly.
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