With the death of Theresa, the ancestor of the mermaids, the Aslan Kingdom, which had been barely maintained by her, fell into civil strife in the sixth year of the reign of the new king Cartes.
Among them, the second elder who dominated the entire House of Commons sent troops to raid the lineage of the great elder who was close to King Carters one night. There were about 672 people in the four merman families of the great elder, and none of them escaped the attack of the second elder.
No matter if it was an old mermaid on the verge of death or a newborn baby, as long as they were family members with a blood relationship with the Great Elder, they all became dead souls under the halberd in the hands of the Second Elder.
On the second day of the massacre, the second elder instigated the royal army to attack the palace. King Cartes fought hard and died on the spot along with his loyal followers.
Among his six descendants, two princes and three princesses were killed. Only the third princess escaped under the protection of the royalist's death squad. After breaking through the siege of the royal capital, she fled to the western ocean and her whereabouts are unknown.
The nobles who held military power in various places also had different ideas in the face of such violent turmoil. They sent troops to the capital under the slogan of "serving the king", preparing to kill the second elder, the thief of the country.
In the history of the mermaids, this day is called the "Dela Ri Incident".
As the civil strife in the Kingdom of Aslan escalated further, the major marine races that had once submitted to it also announced their withdrawal from the Ocean Alliance.
The reason why the kingdoms of the six oceans could recognize the Kingdom of Aslan as their sovereign was because of the existence of Theresa, the ancestor of the mermaids.
Now the ancestor of the mermaids has passed away, and the new king Aslan was killed by the Council of Elders. There is constant war in his country and he is no longer able to threaten other countries.
Under such circumstances, some powerful maritime kingdoms tore up the treaties they had signed, and with great ambition and warmongering, they tried to launch a war of maritime unification.
The death of Theresa, the ancestor of the mermaids, not only marks the decline of the Aslan Kingdom, but also represents a new era and opens its grand curtain.
The six oceans are boundless and can accommodate countless marine species.
Among the many kingdoms, there are three that are second only to the Kingdom of Aslan: the Kingdom of Fos, the Kingdom of Jet, and the Kingdom of Inniu. These three kingdoms are located in different corners of the three oceans and occupy the edges of the oceans.
The kingdom, located in a marginal geographical location, can attack or defend without having to worry about being attacked from both sides.
A country like the Kingdom of Aslan, located in the center of the six oceans, can radiate power to various kingdoms, but once it loses its dominant position in the ocean, it will immediately be attacked by other countries.
Due to the reputation of Aslan's original kingdom, when this kingdom first began to fall apart, the neighboring kingdoms did not make much movement.
But as time passed, about ten years after the civil war in the Kingdom of Aslan, the kingdoms closest to it, such as Dos and Mir, began to send troops to jointly invade the border of the Kingdom of Aslan.
The number of joint advance troops this time was not large, and it could be said to be a simple test. However, in the minds of the upper echelons of these kingdoms, the advance troops sent out for this test could be completely discarded if the invasion went badly.
but...
After more than ten years of civil strife, the Aslan Kingdom was weaker than anyone expected. A joint advance force of only a few hundred people directly captured the Tongnong Fortress in the eastern border of the Aslan Kingdom, and then marched straight in and captured more than a dozen towns.
Aslan, which had been divided by civil war for many years, had become extremely weak when the nobles and elders fought each other fiercely. It was also the weakest time in more than two thousand years.
The former reputation still serves as the most powerful weapon, intimidating the surrounding kingdoms, but during the invasion of the advance army of only a few hundred people, this last fig leaf was cruelly torn off.
The nations were shocked by this, and greed and ambition began to grow like weeds.
Everything in this world has its peak and its decline.
When the Aslan Kingdom was at its weakest, the other kingdoms were like sharks seeing a badly injured and bleeding whale, eager to rush in and eat it.
After hundreds of years of peace, the era of great strife among many kingdoms has begun again.
This world war was longer and more brutal than many kingdoms had initially imagined.
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Fifty-one years have passed since the death of the ancestor Theresa.
A small country located in a remote location in the East Ocean, the Kingdom of Nok.
This is a kingdom established by the marlin people. They are born with strong physical strength, but their reproductive ability is not strong. Their average lifespan is relatively short, only about two hundred years, which is half the average lifespan of the mermaids.
Therefore, due to various inherent disadvantages, if the Kingdom of Nok had not been extremely remote in terms of geographical location, it would have been annexed by other powerful kingdoms long ago.
But now the situation in the six oceans is becoming more and more tense, and the war is becoming more and more brutal. Even the remote Kingdom of Nok cannot escape being affected by the war.
As early as several years ago, the 11th King of Nok secretly paid tribute to the nearby Kingdom of Lido and exchanged it for a brief period of peace.
But this kind of peace is just an illusion and cannot last long.
After the Kingdom of Lido lost the front-line war with the Kingdom of Jet, it began to recruit soldiers from its vassal states to form a joint army to fight against the invasion of the Kingdom of Jet, including this small country with a sparse population.
In a town in the western part of the kingdom, in an oval-shaped temple.
"Respect the great and noble God of the Sea, and hope that my father can return safely from the battlefield."
As usual, young Allen completed his prayers for the day, then quietly left with his lunch box, swinging his tail as he headed for a kendo hall on the outskirts of the city.
A few years ago, a stranger came to this town and established a kendo hall on the outskirts of the city to teach his disciples, but this kendo hall was not very famous and the number of disciples was extremely small.
Allen is one of them.
"teacher."
When I arrived at the gym, I saw the teacher in black robes still sleeping on the coral stone at the door, and I couldn't help but call out to him softly.
The teacher always wore a black robe, covering her entire body, even her face was mostly hidden, so it was impossible to tell what race of fishman she was, but one could still tell from her voice that she was a female.
Because of the mermaid ancestors, all major marine races respect women. Even if the leaders of some countries are male mermen, this fact cannot be changed.
Out of respect, Alan did not dare to get too close to the teacher. He just kept a distance and shouted respectfully from the side.
Awakened by the young fishman next to her, Xu Xianxian yawned, propped herself up from the stone beside her, and glanced at him calmly, "Are you praying to that illusory ocean god again? I've told you so many times, praying to God is not as good as praying to yourself."
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