Poseidon in Arknights

They finally realized that they might be facing a deity not just the gods they knew, at least they had never heard of any god who could directly replace the world.

Yes, when they saw what was happening around them, they understood their own minds, their own demons, which were telling them that this was not assimilation like the demons within them.

The world submits to the other's power, and the other transforms the world into her domain.

The demon inside the body kept roaring, trying to escape, but it remained tightly inside the body of the guard, not daring to move.

At this moment, the ground, or rather the water surface, slowly rose, and from within the water, terrifying beast shadows quietly appeared.

"Hai Si?" The inner guard recognized the suddenly appearing beast shadows, and his doubts only deepened.

'Why Hai Si? Could he be a newborn? But even a newborn shouldn't possess such power.'

Beside Xiyue, a water curtain rose and then receded, revealing a human-like figure standing calmly before her.

Yu Yue stared at the figure before her for a moment before recognizing it: "The one who spoke first?"

The appearance of the first speaker was no longer visible; the chitinous carapace and sharp spikes of the sea creature had been replaced by a white membrane that extended from its back to its entire body.

If it weren't for the fact that the other party still retained Hai Si's face and sharp claws, Yu Yue probably wouldn't have been able to recognize it until the other party gave its name.

Upon hearing Xiyue's words, the first speaker immediately knelt on one knee, uttering in dry, hoarse words: "Ocean, swarm, respond, your anger."

“Hmm.” Xi Yue calmly looked at the speaker in front of her, then turned around and walked towards the school. She should go and check on the group of children who were still in shock.

"In accordance with your will..."

The first speaker watched Xi Yue's departing figure, then, as if receiving some command, stood up, turned around, and glared fiercely at the guards before him.

"The ocean's anger needs your blood to quell it."

The next moment, the white membrane on the First Speaker's body gradually adhered to his body, and the spikes hidden under the membrane easily pierced through it, making the First Speaker's body look full of primal violence.

The surrounding sea creatures also revealed their claws and fangs, their eyes flashing red light.

The ocean is angry, and its fury needs to be quelled. The blood of those who provoke the ocean's rage is the best sacrifice.

As Hai Si approached, the guards wanted to raise their swords to fight back, but their black trench coats began to ripple like flowing water.

Immediately, the trench coat on their bodies felt as heavy and hard as a mountain, immobilizing them almost completely, as if everything in the world was projecting its most primal malice upon them.

"Ah!!!" The guards frantically stirred the fragments of the demon within their bodies, and wisps of black mist struggled to pass through, allowing them to regain a sliver of their mobility.

However, their movements were still a little too slow. Like a tidal wave, the sea monsters had already pounced on them. The mobility they had managed to regain with all their might seemed more like a mockery of their death throes as seen by the world.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!!!" The inner guards were surrounded by the sea creatures like a tidal wave. The fierce children used the simplest method: their sharp teeth and claws to tear open the inner guards' dry flesh.

Although the guards' blades could kill the sea creatures that the blades touched, the sea creatures, once cut open, would only turn into water and flow into the water at their feet.

They were never here in the first place; that swarm of sea creatures was never here in the first place. They came from the depths of the sea in response to the ocean's fury.

As the speaker drew closer, the guards around the inner guards gradually retreated. By this time, the five inner guards were covered in bite marks, and their heavy military uniforms had been reduced to tattered rags.

The respirator on the mask was ripped off during some unknown tug.

The black mist continued to emanate from the guards, but the once invincible black mist did not achieve the effect the guards had imagined.

It was as if the black mist floating around them was just the simplest black fog, which dispersed when a gentle breeze blew across the sea.

It was utterly unproductive and meaningless.

"The ocean is benevolent, the ocean is calm." The words uttered by the first speaker gradually became full of vitality, "The ocean's love nourishes all things."

"The ocean is angry with you, but it will also have a final act of kindness towards you."

As soon as the speaker finished speaking, he raised his sharp claws and plunged them straight into the chest of one of the guards.

The other guard struggled to his feet, several deep, bone-revealing bite wounds on his legs making it almost impossible for him to move.

But he still pressed on, and with the last of his strength, he slashed his military knife fiercely at the speaker in front of him.

But the military knife that the guard swung with all his might was easily caught in the chief speaker's hand. The hard military knife then shattered into pieces in the chief speaker's hand and fell into the water.

The first speaker charged forward, pulling his claws from the chest of the man before him, leaving trails of dark red blood, and with one swipe, he severed the head of the guard in front of him.

"No need to rush, the ocean's final mercy will descend equally upon you all."

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"Hmm, they're all asleep." Xi Yue gently stroked the students who were sleeping on the ground, many of whom had wounds on their bodies.

"A bunch of damned beasts." Xi Yue's gaze swept out the window. She didn't want Hai Si and the others to help her deal with Mephisto. For someone like that, she had to crush his head herself to make her feel better.

But what's more important now is the children who have suffered for the past few days. As for that guy, let him suffer for a few more days first.

A wicked smile appeared on Xi Yue's face. She was never the kind of person who would leave a grudge for the next day. She reserved her kindness for her friends and patients, but she would never leave it for beasts.

There are always plenty of interesting items in the system, and Xi Yue has to pick out the best one for that guy to match his status.

Although Yuuki had read the story and knew that Mephisto was a good child before he turned bad, his dream was simply to sing, and he cherished hope for life.

But times have changed. Mephistopheles has long since lost the respect he deserves for life.

Xi Yue gently lifted all the children in the school with water and carried them to the playground. Then, looking at the large number of students in front of her, she couldn't help but scratch her head.

There are so many unconscious students piled up on the playground, it's not going to be easy to get them out.

There are just too many people. If we want to get them out, we'll probably have to carry them on water the whole way. But that might be a little conspicuous, since there are just so many of them.

She wasn't worried about whether anyone would dare to touch it; the problem was that if she moved it out by herself, it would take up an absurdly large area, especially when walking on the street.

The scene at that time was probably similar to her feeling of carrying a mountain all by herself.

Xi Yue turned to look at the group of sea creatures outside. She thought she could ask them to help carry the goods, one by one, and if they spread out and moved forward, it should be easier.

As for the spikes on Hai Si's body, we can wrap the children in water later and hang them on the spikes so they can walk more steadily. That should work, as long as we help transport them to the vicinity of Rhodes Island.

Yuuki thought about it more and more and felt that this idea was very reliable, but then she thought of something else: "Wait, won't Kal'tsit be scared?"

Chapter 76: Warning

-----wilderness-----

"Let me tell you, Dr. Kal'tsit." Exusiai, sitting in the passenger seat, casually put her feet on the center console. To be honest, she hadn't done that in a long time.

Normally, the moment she had this intention, she would immediately receive a sharp rap on the head from Yuuki.

"Now that we've arrived at Lungmen, there are several must-visit street food stalls that I'll tell you about~" Exusiai reclined her chair back slightly, half-lying on the seat, and calmly tried to explain to Kal'tsit.

But before he could finish speaking, he heard a sound like breaking glass coming from behind him.

"Huh?" Exusiai turned around in confusion, just about to see where the glass was broken, but saw Kal'tsit holding the tablet in her hand with a gloomy expression.

Judging from the cracked patterns on the tablet, the sound of glass shattering was clearly coming from that poor tablet.

"W-what's wrong?" Exusiai looked at Kal'tsit and couldn't help but pull back her unruly legs, straightening them properly.

“No, it’s nothing,” Kal’tsit said, trying to suppress her emotions. “It’s just that on this land, there are those who have no reverence for the unknown who have tested things they cannot understand and brought about their own destruction.”

"Huh???" Countless question marks seemed to appear above Exusiai's head. She suddenly understood why Yuuki had invented that automatic questioning prompter that would automatically generate question marks above the head.

She could understand every single word on the other side, so why couldn't she understand them when they were put together?

Texas tilted her head slightly and looked through the rearview mirror at the shattered tablet in Kal'tsit's hand, although due to the angle, she could only see the faint blue light emanating from the tablet.

But that eerie blue light seemed to tell Dr. Kal'tsit behind Texas who was the source of her headache.

Texas, who was driving, then quietly asked, "Isn't Yuuki going to return to Lungmen so soon?"

"...It probably won't be that soon." Kal'tsit closed the tablet in her hand, casually tossed it aside, and sighed deeply.

She didn't know whether she should continue to Longmen or not, and was trying to turn back to dissuade them, but she felt that if she went to dissuade them, she might directly invite bad luck.

She wasn't even sure if she could be brought back to life if she went and the other person was still angry and she offended them.

Even through the drone's perspective, Kal'tsit could roughly understand the situation of the city that looked like it was made of water.

With this conceptual shift, that area can no longer be called land, unless Yuuki withdraws her influence; otherwise, it will forever remain part of the ocean.

In other words, if the sea creatures were to invade in the future, they could easily enter the interior of the earth directly from there.

Of course, compared to this dispensable invasion channel, the significance of this ocean is far more important.

In a sense, this land could become part of the ocean entirely, if the other party were willing.

Is the appearance of a god capable of submerging everything a good thing or a bad thing?

Texas glanced behind her in the rearview mirror at Kal'tsit and the tablet she had casually tossed aside.

'It seems something happened at Yuuki's place.' Texas's gaze shifted slightly downwards to her phone in her pocket.

"If you're thinking of making a phone call, she's probably still angry right now."

"She won't be angry with us," Texas replied calmly to Kal'tsit.

—————Helnoberg Peterheim High School—————

"Hmm?" Yuuki picked up the phone that was on her chest and looked at it. The screen showed a call from Texas.

"Hey, Texas, what's up?"

"Nothing much, I just wanted to ask you..." Texas's voice trailed off, as if she didn't know what to say next.

Hearing the sound of things stopping on the other end, Xi Yue smiled helplessly and said, "Don't worry, I've taken care of it here."

"You guys take Kal'tsit back to Lungmen first. I have quite a few patients to deal with here, so I might be a little late. Please ask the Emperor for leave for me."

"Okay, got it."

Xi Yue looked at the phone after it was hung up, smiled, put the phone away, and walked outside.

"Hmm?" Xi Yue looked behind her as if she sensed something. Behind her, in a mirror in the corridor that had been turned into a water curtain, a phantom figure seemed to be calling out to her and banging on the seemingly non-existent curtain.

Although the figure on the other side of the water curtain appeared illusory, her signature flaxen hair was still visible.

"Hello~ Muels~" Yuzuki reached out her hand to the illusory figure on the water curtain.

Muirsey and the illusory figure in the water stared blankly at Xiyue's outstretched hand, but after a moment's hesitation, they also tried to reach out their hand.

A hand made of water gradually appeared in the water curtain, and Yuuki smiled and grasped the hand.

But for some reason, the moment they touched, the water-based hand disappeared from beside Yuuki along with Muels's figure.

“Uh…” Yu Yue looked at the water screen that had disappeared along with Muels’s figure, “This video connection is not very stable.”

“Never mind…” Xi Yue shook her head. The child behind her was more important now.