The aliens who were picked up by Superman at the beginning

Chapter 49 I am the King

My name is Mera.

I am the Queen of Atlantis.

My husband's name is Arthur.

He is the king of Atlantis.

In fact, when I first met him, he wasn't even considered an Atlantean.

He was just a young man who lived by the sea with his father and had an outstanding talent for swimming.

No, it's not just about being excellent.

He was born to live in the ocean.

Because he has half Atlantean blood in his body.

He is of royal blood, because his mother was Atlanna, the Queen of Atlantis.

Of course, for some reason, Atlanna is no longer the queen, and her other pure-blooded offspring, Orm, is about to become the new king of Atlantis.

And I was born to marry the next king.

But I don't like Om.

Because Orm had stated publicly more than once that once he became king, he would not hesitate to launch a war on the land.

"Tens of thousands of years ago, the land originally belonged to us Atlanteans."

Om's eyes burned with undisguised ambition.

"But now that the land belongs to humans, we can continue to live in the sea and not interfere with humans."

"No, they are gradually encroaching on our territory."

I know that Om refers to those land-based countries whose technological development is very backward, producing a lot of industrial waste that they cannot digest.

In a sense of conservation, some people choose to dump this garbage into the ocean.

Whenever Om talked about this, his face always showed undisguised disgust.

"We developed clean energy technology and incredibly powerful magic tens of thousands of years ago. We should reclaim our land and lead backward humanity toward the next future."

I know I can't convince Om, but at least I still have enough freedom before we get married.

So I could only try to avoid him, avoid Atlantis, and even avoid the ocean.

Then I met Arthur.

A "land dweller" who fully complies with the laws of Atlantis and can compete with Orm for the throne.

His eyes always held a lazy, peaceful look, a stark contrast to Orm's ambition and anger.

He may not be a good king, but he can definitely bring peace.

I began to approach Arthur and told him that, in theory, he could get rid of that land identity at any time if he wanted to.

From the son of a lighthouse keeper, he becomes a candidate for the royal family of Atlantis.

But Arthur laughed.

He rejected me without hesitation.

"I will not become the king of Atlantis; I just want to live my life on land for the rest of my life."

Many things happened after that.

There were so many things that made the once sunny and cheerful Arthur increasingly silent and increasingly powerless.

Arthur's superpowers grew stronger and stronger. He joined the Justice League and, with the help of me and my reliable comrades, defeated Orm and ascended the throne of Atlantis.

I know Arthur still doesn't want to be the king of Atlantis.

Most of the Justice League didn't contact him during his free time on missions. He was always gazing upwards from the seabed, as if his eyes could see through the dark water to something on the surface.

But something else had bound Arthur, pinning him firmly to the bottom of the sea, to that golden throne from which he would never smile again once he sat down.

Peace connecting the sea and the land

The people of Atlantis need his leadership.

A king should bear the responsibilities of a king.

I've said these things to him, his Justice League allies have said them to him, and even Orm has said them to him.

So, as we looked at the things that had been excavated and dismantled from the treasure vaults of Atlantis, Arthur frowned for a long time.

He was very unhappy, but it took him more than ten minutes to suppress his emotions.

He turned around and told me that this matter must not be known to a second Atlantean.

"It's normal for Batman to do this kind of thing."

Arthur said this to me as if he was afraid that I, as the Queen of Atlantis, and for his own dignity as the King, would go and hold certain people accountable.

"Last time, Wonder Woman found a bunch of listening devices in her apartment and went to have a big fight with Batman. The two almost broke up."

Arthur tried very hard to make the past incident sound funnier.

He was worried and also looking forward to my response.

I held his arm and rested my head on his shoulder, showing him through my actions that I would always support his decision.

"Don't forget, you're not the only one in the Justice League; I'm listed as one too."

Arthur forced a smile, then turned to look at the listening devices. I could hear the suppressed anger in his voice.

But I also understand my husband; he is a person with a broad perspective.

"Let's put these things away. Next time I go to the Watchtower, I'll pretend to be furious and throw them in front of Batman. I can also take this opportunity to yell at him a few times."

Until a guard rushed into the palace hall.

The guards said they had discovered something terrifying beneath the city of Atlantis.

When Arthur and I arrived at the scene, it was packed with Atlanteans.

There were ordinary residents, guards, and ministers.

There are also some highly authoritative scientific and technological personnel.

Everything was such a coincidence.

During the few hours that the boy named Li Zhen was "playing" with Arthur, the continuous shockwaves caused structural damage to the seabed surface in a certain cavity.

It was during these few hours of the capricious king's antics that the people of Atlantis were unable to rest. So when the building above the cavity collapsed, nearly half of the city's population rushed to watch the spectacle.

When the king and queen arrived, people spontaneously made way for them.

Arthur, with a solemn expression, walked into the huge crack.

Accompanying them were several Atlantean scientists who had gone down to explore the area beforehand.

I suddenly fell into a state of extreme panic.

Ignoring the minister of etiquette's attempts to stop me, I rushed into the seabed crevice as well.

The previous structural collapse caused some seawater to bypass the magic bubble and seep into this natural cave through tiny cracks in the seabed.

It was pitch black, with only the voices of my husband and a few authoritative old scholars coming through.

"How powerful is it?"

"It's at least enough to affect the entirety of Atlantis."

I could feel the surrounding seawater gradually solidifying, and the trident in Arthur's hand suddenly emitted bursts of golden light.

"Anything else?"

"Reporting to the King, the technology it used looks familiar; it must be the work of Black Manta Ray."

I quickly caught up and shouted loudly to cover up the whispers behind me.

"Black Manta has always harbored a grudge against Atlantis. We need to crack and dismantle it as soon as possible. Tomorrow, I'll be going to the Justice League with Aquaman..."

The old scholar frowned.

"It has already been cracked once, and some other things have been added, but I've never seen the technology used in it before."

Before I could speak, Arthur suddenly raised the trident in his hand.

The power of the seven seas converged in his hands, and even though this place was not completely filled with seawater, the surrounding stone walls of this underground cavern were damp.

Beneath the pattering sound, every water molecule was Arthur's eyes, ears, nose, and mouth; every tiny plankton was his outstretched hands and feet.

The seabed is entirely under his control.

Even small clusters can exert tremendous power.

A piece of gravel was pried open by the united little creatures, and a small device fell into Arthur's hands.

It's all too familiar. Just minutes ago, Arthur and I were discussing how to deal with these things.

In the darkness, Arthur's figure swayed, and the trident was brought down heavily to support his body.

I don't know how I got out of that cave.

I don't think Arthur would know either.

The king's subjects rushed forward, all knowing how dangerous what was inside was, and expressions of fear were constantly being passed between them.

Some voices began to converge.

"king!"

"king!!"