Life hanging by a thread
"What did you say? How many pieces of jewelry have you exchanged?" Kelly stared at Sorea in disbelief.
Sorea looked at Kelly in confusion, "It's just a few clothes, food, and a return ticket."
Kelly looked at her naive sister with a dark expression. "All your jewelry was made by demigod-level dwarves, and it has protective inscriptions and totems such as blessings and protection on it. You just sold it for the price of gold?"
"I'll find your things for you." With that, Kelly walked away with a dark expression.
A week has passed since Sorea returned to the Osenia Palace in the Sea of Death.
After speaking with her two brothers, she learned about her father's slumber. This slumber was different from the usual one; her father had summoned all his subordinates to his divine realm, but he forbade Dagmore and Kelly from entering.
Sorea was still worried about her father, but she also understood that she could not interfere in matters of the gods.
"Your Highness, I have prepared some of your favorite desserts and black tea for you on the balcony. Please go and have a taste." Lightram, the Grand Eunuch of the Osenia Palace, smiled and bowed to Solaya.
“Okay, Lightram, I’ll go right away.” Sorea smiled and replied to the old butler who had taken care of her and her second brother since childhood.
The sun was already high in the sky, and Sorea, completely relaxed, sat on the castle balcony watching all kinds of ships coming and going.
These days, Sorea feels more and more that Yuan has brought new vitality to the continent of Singri.
After spending a few days with Soleria, Dagmore had to go out on official business to deal with the sea and marine life that had been contaminated by the power of the Kraken.
With great reluctance, Kelly was forcibly sent by Dagmore to search for the previously missing pirates.
Sorea's two brothers did not allow her to go out alone without divine power, so she could only eat snacks and chat idly with Al and Arlene, feeling bored.
The sunlight bathed Sorea in a golden glow, making her silvery-white hair shimmer.
"Enemy attack! East of the palace! Someone, come quick!"
A loud noise from the east shattered the tranquility of Solaya. Apart from the most basic defense systems in various places, the other knights went forward at the command of the knight commander.
"They deliberately chose to come when my brother wasn't home. Al, you need to go and help them!" Sorea said angrily, slamming her hand on the table.
Al shook his head. "Your Highness, I am your sworn knight and cannot stray too far from you."
Sorea looked at the situation to the east and realized it wasn't particularly urgent, and was about to call out to Al to stay.
Suddenly, a deafening roar erupted from the north. A gigantic steel giant, nearly fifty meters tall, charged in, grabbed several large guns, and began firing.
The number of knights in the north was no longer enough to fight against that steel giant.
Various elemental inscriptions and totems lit up and went out. The knights, exhausted of magic and fearless, used their weapons to block the broken city walls time and time again, only to be knocked away each time.
Royal Knight Commander Roland Montfort was blocked by a group of dwarves to the east and was unable to rush over to help the knights to the north.
"Dwarves, the gods of forging." Upon seeing the dwarves, Solaya understood the reason for the attack; they probably intended to retrieve the knife she had taken from Lilith.
As the knights fell one by one, Solaya's eyes burned with fury. If it weren't for the rows of residential areas in front of the palace walls, she would have unleashed a tsunami to drown these assassins.
Now that she has lost all her divine power and cannot draw upon the power of the ocean, going up there with only the power of a tenth-level demigod would be suicide.
She looked helplessly at the chaos below, gripping the railing tightly, half her body hanging over the balcony, biting her lip hard, oblivious to the taste of blood in her mouth.
"Your Highness, stop looking. I'll take you to the secret chamber." Arlene pulled Soraya from behind, repeating this phrase many times, hoping to persuade her to go to the secret chamber.
Al knelt beside her. "Your Highness, the Crown Prince will be back soon. You mustn't get hurt!"
Just as Solia helplessly pounded her fist against the railing, preparing to turn and head towards the secret chamber, Knight Commander Roland finally broke through the dwarves' defenses and reached the giant iron man to the north, but he was also covered in wounds.
The knights on the ground suffered heavy casualties. Roland saw his brothers, who had been chatting and training together that morning, lying lifeless on the ground, their eyes bloodshot.
"Aaaaaah! I'm going to kill you!"
Roland roared and slashed at the humanoid machine with his sword. Overwhelmed by grief, he instantly activated several inscribed totems, and a massive totem array unfolded in response to his movement, instantly enveloping the steel giant with the power of lightning.
However, the steel giant emerged unscathed from the sky full of lightning, and with a heavy wave of his hand, sent the exhausted Roland flying.
"Uncle!" Al shouted instinctively when he saw Roland coughing up blood from afar.
Upon hearing the sound, the steel giant opened a hole in its head, revealing a dwarf sitting amidst a complex array of parts.
He locked onto Soria firmly from within the Iron Giant, his lips silently uttering a provocation:
"Found you!"
Sorea was absolutely certain that they were after her. "Al, go help your uncle. Arlene, the two of us will go to the secret room."
Al realized that the greatest danger was the Iron Man controlled by the dwarf. Without eliminating the dwarf, the crisis facing the palace and Solaya could not be resolved, so he quickly headed north.
The main reason this attack was successful was that Dagmore and Kellis needed manpower to capture the escaped pirates, and the two of them took most of the demigod-level knights with them.
After all, the Sea of Death lies beneath the divine realm of the god of the ocean and hurricanes, and the entire ocean is under the watchful eye of Talmawen, the god of the ocean and hurricanes.
The sense of security that Talmawen brought has been overlooked by everyone for so long. Now, his seclusion and slumber have made the entire Dead Sea and even the capital of Osenia no longer an absolutely safe place.
As Solaya saw Al rush out and leave the balcony with Arlene, just as she was about to step into the room, Solaya felt a chill and an aura of death surrounding her.
Her actions were faster than her thoughts; she pulled Arlene back half a step.
A cold glint flashed past them. Had Soraya not been highly intelligent, she and Arlene would have been beheaded.
"Heh, heh, heh, these two ladies are certainly cautious enough." Accompanied by a strange laugh, a dwarf appeared before Soraya with a knife in his hand.
"Disgusting bug!" Arlene flashed in front of Sorea and cursed.
As soon as the dwarf arrived, he cleaved the sword in Arlene's hand and reached for Soraya.
Soraya saw his intention and retreated. She knew she couldn't be caught by the dwarves, or the god of forging would use her to threaten the god of the sea.
She turned and flew toward the ocean in front of the residential area. Once she reached the ocean, these dwarves would no longer be able to run rampant.
Arlene saw the dwarves chasing after Soraya and blocked their path with her body.
"Get out of my way!" The dwarf aimed his blade at her waist, and Arlene was sent flying. She tried to stop the dwarf again, but was blocked by a man with a knife next to her.
Arlene's pupils dilated as she looked at the newcomer. "Lightram, you have betrayed my lord!"
The person who stopped her was none other than the chief steward of the Osenia Palace, the person most trusted by Dagmore.
“My lord has never been the god of the sea, so how can you call it betrayal? Stop it. I watched you grow up, and I can’t bear to harm you.” Lightram maintained his perfect smile, doing what he considered gentlemanly things.
"Pah! You stupid, disgusting bug! Don't even think about harming His Highness!" Flames erupted from Arlene's body, gathering into a giant eagle that swooped down on Lightram.
Soraya flew forward, while the dwarf chasing her followed at a leisurely pace. No matter how fast Soraya sped up, the distance between them remained the same.
Although she was getting closer and closer to the ocean, Soraya became increasingly anxious. After thinking for a moment, she gritted her teeth, turned around, and paused in mid-air. She used the power of inscriptions to gather an ice bow and shot ice arrows at the dwarves.
But the dwarf easily dodged it.
"Is that all? The Divine Child isn't all that great. Look at mine."
After saying that, he took out his mechanical arrow and aimed it at Solaya.
Sorea saw the mechanical bow being drawn and stopped moving in a straight line, constantly dodging the dense rain of mechanical arrows behind her.
Suddenly, she felt her power flow slow down, and the momentary pause caused her body to be slashed by arrows, leaving many wounds.
Seeing the dwarves' arrow rain harming the people of the residential area, she disregarded the blockage in the flow of power and forcibly used her magic to shroud the residential area under her inscribed totem.
The dwarves had no interest in Solaya and ignored the common people below, keeping a close eye on her every move.
Soraya was getting closer and closer to the sea, and the dwarves were getting closer and closer to her as well.
As she stood still in mid-air above the sea, an arrow grazed her cheek before she could dodge it.
Her blood dripped into the seawater, and the seawater began to boil.
Sorea looked at the dwarf in front of her and unleashed a tsunami, with towering waves surging up from behind her.
No, why is he laughing?
Sorea felt a chill run down her spine as she looked at the dwarf who showed no fear in the face of the surging sea behind her, but instead smiled even more brightly.
As the tsunami was about to engulf the dwarves, Solaya found herself devoid of all power as the falling seawater knocked her off her feet.
"My turn!" the dwarf laughed as he shot the arrow.
"No!"
Dagmore rushed back, and when he arrived there, he saw Soraya fall into the sea, wounded by an arrow.
Dagmore reached Soraya at a speed invisible to the naked eye and caught her.
Soraya's golden-red blood flowed continuously from her heart. Dagmore desperately channeled his power into her, but Soraya's life force continued to drain away.
As her life force faded, the waves grew larger and larger, crashing against the shore with a force capable of destroying everything.
A storm formed in the middle of the sea, and eight tornadoes surrounded Dagmore and Solaya in his arms.
The sun in the sky had long been obscured by dark clouds, and a huge blue eye, similar to Sorea's, opened within the clouds.
Talmawen, the god of the sea and hurricanes, has awakened from his slumber.
His gaze locked onto Solaya, and a deep sorrow emanated from his blue eyes.
Golden divine power, imbued with blue, surged down from the sky, locking onto Soraya.
His gaze returned to the entire Sea of Death, the ravaged civilian ghetto, the dilapidated Osenia Palace, and the countless knights lying motionless beneath its walls…
Finally, His attention settled on Solaya, and He gazed motionlessly at His long-missed little daughter.
Seeing that the divine power he once thought was omnipotent was of no use to Sorea, his blue eyes were filled with pain and anger.
His divine power swept across the entire Sea of Death.
Wherever the divine power reached, all the dead and wounded who had not lost their souls were restored.
The dwarves who attacked Osenia cried out, "Our Lord is eternal, I will give everything for him!" Then they faced their deaths with equanimity.
Talmawen's power shattered all the invaders and saved his followers.
But His power had no effect on Solaya.
Under the influence of divine power, the seawater suddenly rose and transformed into a giant hand, which was created by Talmawen.
Dagmore placed Solaya in His hands and cried out desperately, "Father, save my sister!"
Talmawen carefully examined Soraya in his hands, staring at her fatal wound, and felt a familiar divine power.
"Sethius, the god of forging, you have harmed my daughter! I will make you pay with your life!"
His angry voice resounded throughout the entire continent of Singri, and the continent trembled with his sorrow.
Suddenly, seaweed on the seabed began to grow wildly, trees on the shore stretched out their branches, and countless vines gathered towards Solaya.
Veldrian in the Emerald Sea also awoke from the chaos.
Before Him, His child was weeping incessantly, and the light emanating from the sword embedded in His body was rapidly disappearing.
His heart ached as if it had been ripped out, but this pain kept him conscious.
He is the god of forests and mountains; He is omnipresent wherever there is vegetation.
He saw it; he saw his wife lying lifeless in a pool of blood.
He was acutely aware of His half-body, the place where His soul resided, the mother of His child, His stars, and the ever-decreasing life force of His Solaya.
Veldrian wanted to get to Solaya's side immediately, but he was trapped by his own mental corruption.
Veldrian originally intended to slowly and safely expel the mental pollution, but under this stimulation, he risked the destruction of his soul to suppress the mental pollution beneath his spiritual sea.
As Talmawen roared, Veldrian's power reached Solaya's side.
The power of plant life, brought by the Forest God, flowed continuously to Solaya, and Solaya's ever-draining life force finally stopped flowing away.
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