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Within the water mirror, the battle had reached its climax.
Wielding the King's Trident, Arthur's strength has been overwhelmingly enhanced.
He can command the seven seas and summon the most powerful marine creatures to fight for him.
Although Orm was also a royal elite, he was repeatedly defeated in front of the true King of the Ocean.
finally,
After a devastating waterspout, Orm's silver trident was knocked away, and he collapsed to his knees in disarray before Arthur.
"It's over, Om."
Arthur pressed the tip of his trident against his brother's throat.
The surrounding Atlantean soldiers, as well as their former allies, laid down their weapons and knelt on one knee before their new king.
"My king, Arthur!"
A thunderous roar of loyalty echoed through the underwater capital.
Arthur looked at his brother kneeling before him, at the submissive tribesmen around him, and then at Mera, who was looking at him with adoration and love in the distance. His heart was filled with an unprecedented sense of pride.
He did it; he reclaimed everything that belonged to him and became the true master of this vast ocean.
In the following days, Atlantis held a grand celebration.
Arthur officially ascended to the throne and announced his marriage to Princess Mera of the Kingdom of Xebel.
The entire kingdom was immersed in a sea of joy.
On the day of the coronation ceremony, the central square of the Atlantis royal city was packed with people.
Wearing a golden royal robe, Arthur led Mera, who was draped in a pure white gauze dress and was incomparably beautiful, step by step towards the coral throne that symbolized supreme power.
Just as he was about to sit on the throne and receive the worship of all his people.
Changes occur suddenly.
Without warning, the massive protective shield above Atlantis shattered like a mirror.
Then,
A massive cruise ship, completely different in style from Atlantis and filled with a sense of science fiction and luxury, appeared out of nowhere above the royal city, casting a huge shadow.
All the people of Atlantis were stunned. They looked up and stared incredulously at the uninvited guest.
Arthur and Mera also stopped in their tracks, their expressions instantly turning serious.
"what is that?"
Mera's voice carried a hint of wariness.
"I don't know, but we're definitely not friends."
Arthur's eyes sharpened. He released Mera's hand and gripped Neptune's trident, which stood beside the throne, once more.
Under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands, the cruise ship's gangway slowly descended.
A man with black hair and black eyes, with two alluring women in his arms, strolled down leisurely.
Behind him followed a group of women, each with a unique temperament, but all of them were stunning beauties.
One of them, a woman clad in bronze armor, wielding the sword of Vulcan, and with a face as exquisite as a divine sculpture, caused Arthur's pupils to shrink sharply.
"Diana?!"
As a fellow member of the Justice League, he would never admit his mistake.
However, the proud and righteous Amazonian princess he remembered was now like a docile maid, respectfully following behind the man, her eyes filled with a fanaticism and infatuation that made his heart pound.
"Arthur Curry".
Su Hui stepped down the gangway and onto the Atlantis plaza, feeling as if he were walking in his own backyard.
His gaze swept across the entire area, finally settling on Arthur, who held a trident and looked on warily.
"Congratulations on obtaining the throne."
Su Hui's tone was as if he were praising a subordinate who had performed well.
"Who are you? How did you get together with Diana? What did you do to her?"
Arthur pointed his trident at Su Hui and questioned him sharply.
Su Hui didn't answer his question. Instead, he glanced at Mera beside him with interest and whistled:
"A fine bride. But isn't it time to change the protagonist of this coronation ceremony?"
"Change the main character?"
Arthur Curry seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world; he let out a rough laugh, his chest heaving violently.
His eyes, long immersed in seawater, now gleamed with the fury and disdain of a king.
“Friend, I don’t care who you are, or what kind of sorcery you used to control Diana. But this is Atlantis! It is my kingdom!”
He took a step forward, slamming Neptune's trident heavily onto the ground, sending up visible ripples of energy. The entire royal city seemed to tremble with his movement.
"Now, take your woman and disappear from my sight. Otherwise, don't blame me for turning this ocean into your grave!"
Arthur's voice was filled with an undeniable domineering air. Having just ascended the throne, he was at the peak of his confidence, wielding the legendary artifact, and believed himself to be invincible in this vast ocean.
"Your kingdom?"
Su Hui's smile grew even more playful. He shook his head and looked at Arthur with the eyes of someone looking at a child. "When did this ocean become the domain of a mixed-race bastard like you?"
These words, like the sharpest dagger, pierced Arthur's most sensitive spot.
His face flushed red instantly, and veins bulged on his forehead.
"Can you say that again!"
Wasn't I clear enough?
Su Hui's tone remained calm, but the content became increasingly veiled: "Do you really think that with your little bit of cleverness and brute force, you can wrest the throne from your ambitious brother? Do you really think that by just shouting a few times, a prehistoric sea monster will recognize you as its master? Do you really think that by getting a broken trident, you've become some kind of ocean king?"
With each word Su Hui spoke, Arthur's expression grew increasingly grim.
He vaguely sensed that his smooth journey was indeed somewhat unusual.
"If I hadn't been there to help you get rid of those troublesome patrols, hack Om's projection system, and give orders to that giant octopus, you would have been a skeleton under your brother's throne long ago."
Su Hui casually revealed the truth, as if he were talking about a trivial matter.
Arthur frowned deeply; he refused to believe that his success was merely a gift from others.
This was more humiliating to him than defeating him outright.
"Nonsense! I won because of myself!"
Arthur roared, refusing to listen any longer.
His royal bloodline was fully activated, and the surrounding seawater began to surge violently.
"It seems you won't understand the gap between us unless I bring you to your senses."
Su Hui sighed, seemingly getting impatient.
He slowly extended his right hand, facing the void, and gently clenched it.
A simple action triggered a miraculous scene.
hum-
At that moment, all the seawater within a radius of several kilometers centered on the entire city of Atlantis seemed to be paused.
The ocean currents that were still flowing, the churning bubbles, and even the swimming schools of fish suddenly and eerily froze in place.
It's not freezing, but a higher level of stillness governed by a law.
Then,
The stagnant seawater began to compress and solidify inward in a way that defied all the laws of physics, forming an enormous, translucent cage that emitted a ghostly blue light.
It completely enveloped the magnificent city that floated in the deep sea, along with all the creatures outside the city.
The inhabitants of Atlantis were horrified to discover that they were as if sealed inside a giant piece of blue amber, making even breathing incredibly difficult.
Their prized ability to control water completely failed them at this moment.
Their connection with the ocean was forcibly severed by an irresistible force.
"This... what kind of power is this?"
Mera's pretty face turned deathly pale. She looked at everything in front of her in horror. She could feel that the source of that power was the black-haired man.
He simply shook hands and took control of the entire sea area!
Arthur also felt unprecedented pressure.
He discovered that the Neptune Trident in his hand, the artifact said to be able to command the seven seas, was now dim, and the connection between him and it had become barely perceptible.
"asshole!"
Arthur roared and forcefully channeled all the power within his body, pouring divine power into the trident.
"Break it for me!"
He thrust the trident at Su Hui with all his might, and an incredibly thick golden beam of energy, carrying towering waves, transformed into a roaring deep-sea dragon that devoured Su Hui and the women behind him.
This was the strongest attack he could unleash since becoming Aquaman, enough to instantly destroy an aircraft carrier battle group.
Faced with this devastating attack, Su Hui didn't even bother to lift his eyelids.
Selena, who was behind him, even yawned, while Pamela was trimming her nails, and Carla was watching the "water dragon" with great interest, seemingly assessing its level of detail.
Only Diana's eyes showed a hint of pity.
She knew this all too well.
I was just as confident when I launched my attack, only to be met with the despair of my faith collapsing.
Just as the water dragon was about to touch Su Hui, another unexpected event occurred.
The giant water dragon, driven by Arthur with all its might and filled with a destructive will, seemed to have seen something extremely terrifying, and its massive body suddenly stopped in mid-air.
Then,
Its enormous head, made of seawater, turned 180 degrees, its "dragon eyes" fixed intently on its creator—Arthur Curry.
"No...impossible!"
Arthur's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
Before he could react, the water dragon let out an even more ferocious roar, and with several times the speed it had come from, mixed with the power of laws that Su Hui had given it—power that Arthur could not understand at all—it fiercely backfired on him.
boom!
Arthur only had time to hold the trident across his chest before he was struck squarely by his own strongest attack.
The golden royal robe shattered instantly, revealing the solid muscles beneath.
He flew backward like a cannonball, smashing through several huge coral pillars along the way, and finally crashed with a bang onto the throne he was about to ascend, leaving a spiderweb-like crack on the magnificent coral throne.
"puff--"
A mouthful of golden blood spurted from Arthur's mouth, staining the throne beneath him crimson.
He struggled to stand up, only to find that all the bones in his body felt like they had fallen apart, and his internal organs seemed to have shifted, leaving him with no strength at all.
one strike.
With just one strike, without even the opponent actually making a move, but with just a thought, this newly crowned Sea King was defeated so thoroughly and so miserably.
The whole place was dead silent.
All the Atlanteans looked at the man who still stood calmly in the center of the square with the eyes of someone looking at a monster.
Their faith, their pride, their new king—all were fragile and vulnerable in the face of the other.
"Now, do you understand?"
Su Hui walked slowly toward Arthur, who lay on the ground. His footsteps, in the silent royal city, were like the death knell, striking the hearts of everyone.
"I...I am the King of the Ocean...I will not lose..."
Arthur struggled, his eyes filled with resentment.