The Martial Unity

The intensity of the conflict of the Great Void Ocean began to grow tremendously as a greater and greater number of parties began to partake in the conflict. Private and national mining operations began to take place at the very bottom of the depths of the Great Void Ocean as the first wave of urgently refitted aquatic crafts took off into the depths of the ocean. Four days wasn’t a very long period of time, but it was just long enough for high-depth aquatic crafts to undergo some light upgrades to make them fit to mine in the bottom of the depths of the Great Void Ocean.

Among all the entities, the most successful parties thus far have been the seven powerhouses in the world.

Even though the giants, tekvores, and evolutionaries had failed to overwhelm the Panama Continent, they had managed to achieve very high success in their own mining operations. The giants consume raw negatron ores as their advanced digestive systems filter out all the useless materials, allowing them to harness negatron matter into their physiologies.

Much to the alarm of all spectating parties in the true world, some giants have been spotted warping the very fabric of space itself in a manner that resembled a wormhole.

Just days after getting an initial sample.

It was a known feature of giant physiology that their physiology could not only integrate all manner of matter into their body, but also harness its properties in a manner that served the giant best.

People could only watch with horror and imagine the kind of capabilities that the giants would have if they gained the ability to spontaneously teleport. What was especially horrifying was the fact that the giants weren’t exactly highly susceptible to the concept of deterrence and mutually assured destruction.

It was entirely possible that they would simply invade all other continents with teleportation once they had assimilated enough negatron matter into their bodies, causing them to wreak havoc and destruction across all civilizations.

This was especially concerning when it had become well-known news that the Suneater sought to return to the Panama Continent. Once the giants regained their power, they would definitely become highly emboldened. Suneater was known to have the highest raw power among all pathwalkers in the world, exceeding even the Dragon Emperor in this regard. If he were to be allowed to the ocean floor or any other continent, the destruction that he would spread would reach unparalleled levels.

It was possible that he would exacerbate the fissures in the crust left behind by the Dragon Emperor and trigger the destruction of all civilization and an apocalypse that would destroy all life in the world.

This was a scenario that every polity in the world would have to prepare for if they wanted to avoid. However, while the giants were successful, they were actually not the most successful party at the bottom of the Great Void Ocean.

The most successful party was one that was truly native to the ocean.

“We will be the ones to claim the negatron emerging from within the depths of the planet.”

Far away in the waters between Moridia and Kiriket sat a queen on a throne at the very bottom of the ocean depths. Her throne towered over an enormous underwater civilization that spread over an enormous area.

Her skin was mildly translucent while a set of gills gently opened and closed on her neck. The dark, murky waters at the bottom of the ocean were illuminated by all manner of lights.

Her fingers were webbed with skin, while her feet were long and fin-like, allowing her to paddle through water much better than any of the land-dwelling species.

Her long gray hair swayed, suspended in the depths of the ocean water, while her clothes were composed of a fabric fashioned from seaweed.

The Seafolks were one of the most successful and oldest true world hybrids formed between evolutionaries and certain aquatic clans among the therianthropes.

It was said that a long, long time ago, during the dusk of the Age of Tumult, their human ancestors escaped to the seas as the land became inhospitable to life, causing most of them to drown to their death.

There were those who survived, leveraging their genetic inheritance from the evolutionaries and the therianthropes to survive and evolve.

They became their own race.

The seafolk.

Unlike many other hybrid races that were forced to contend with the six powerhouses of the true world, they had remained aloof from the true world, forging peace with each of the powerhouses who promised not to harm them or their environment as long as the seafolk promised not to interrupt the countless ships that passed through their waters.

It was a silent peace, as far as the seafolk were concerned.

Then, the Unfolding happened.

An entirely new ocean was brought back into Gaia.

And in those oceans were monsters beyond their wildest fathoming.

Monsters that were barely kept in check by an even greater monster, so powerful that it could be regarded as a god. The seafolk found themselves in peril in an entire sphere of life, with predatory life that they had begun having skirmishes with.

The ocean did not have borders.

Nor were oceans truly separated from each other the way that continents were.

The seafolk had increasingly found their very existence threatened by an ocean of monsters that were more powerful than they, led by a creature that they had no hope of ever falling.

“The Dragon Emperor violated his pact with us by fissuring the ocean floor of the Great Void Ocean, but…” The Seafolk Queen continued as her eyes bore across the army of seafolk soldiers.

An army that was one billion strong.

“But his actions may prove to be our boon.”

Her tone was one of certainty.

“We, who were doomed to always lose a race to the stars due to being constrained by our need for the ocean, have now found a path to the stars that even we can traverse.”

Her gray eyes sharpened.

“A path that we can traverse deeper than all others.”

The air, or the water, rather, tingled with tension.

Anticipation.

Her expression grew fierce.

“All negatron matter in the Great Void Ocean belongs to us! All hail the Alfina Kingdom!”

“All hail the Alfina Kingdom!”