Chapter 306 |
Seeing his spear about to pierce the head of the human in front of him, while none of the human’s subordinates around reacted, a surge of excitement rose in Namor’s heart.
Although that Naga named Narassus and the others on the ship seemed strong, he believed that with his own strength and flying ability, he could easily escape.
At that moment, this mysterious organization would certainly fall into chaos, and he could retreat with his people back to Talokan and use the geographical advantage to defend.
But in the next second, he saw Josh’s face bearing a contemptuous and disdainful smile, and his spear couldn’t move forward even an inch.
Namor’s heart skipped a beat; instinctively, he tried to withdraw the spear, but it wouldn’t come back either.
“I gave you a chance, but you’re useless!” With Namor’s stunned gaze, Josh sighed, then extended a finger and tapped the spear tip.
Immediately, a violent purple energy surged into Namor’s spear. The once incredibly sturdy vibranium spear was utterly powerless against the purple force, cracking inch by inch, until it finally shattered with a bang.
The massive shockwave directly blasted Namor backward, while countless fragments of the destroyed spear, mixed with destructive power, pierced into his body, rapidly destroying his vitality.
Moreover, the blasted Namor was blocked by an invisible energy barrier and heavily fell back onto the deck.
“Nothing’s impossible. You think your little schemes can fool anyone?” Josh calmly sat back in his chair, then looked to the side and said, “Since you started this, don’t blame me!”
“No, please, it’s all my fault. Kill me, but spare my people!” Hearing Josh’s words, Namor sensed trouble and immediately begged.
Though both are “Sea Kings,” Namor’s personality and views are worlds apart from Arthur of the neighboring DC universe.
Because Arthur was raised by humans, after becoming Sea King, he dedicated himself to peaceful coexistence between Atlantis and humans.
Namor, however, is a born sea creature, responsible only to his own people and willing to wipe out humans if necessary.
But for his own people, his sense of responsibility is extremely strong.
Hearing Josh’s words, Namor knew it was because he acted first that the other side was preparing to attack Talokan.
At this time, the Talokan people themselves still had no idea what was happening.
What would happen facing the huge underwater army’s attack, Namor could easily imagine.
He could not accept this outcome.
Immediately abandoning his previous arrogance, he began to plead with Josh.
“When doing something, you should think through the consequences, right? Let it drag on, but don’t let him die—he’s still useful!” Josh waved his hand and said to Vito nearby.
Useful for what? Of course, to reciprocate kindness—let Yuri brainwash this Sea King, then use him and his people after the war to continue exchanging for Nagas from Abbendis!
Because in Azeroth, due to the powerful Naga empire underwater, Abbendis cannot openly use Naga slaves and can only sell them to Josh.
But what if there’s a “human” group that can also move freely underwater like the Naga?
This would obviously be a very important force for Abbendis, capable of playing unexpected roles in special situations.
Surely Abbendis would like that.
This is not just business but mutual support and assistance.
Josh has invested a lot of effort in Abbendis, and Azeroth’s rich resources are a key focus for him.
So the stronger Abbendis’ forces become, the more benefits he gains.
“I’m leaving the rest to you. Capture him alive if possible! But no need to be too merciful—just a few are enough!” After Vito dragged Namor away, Josh finally said to Narassus, “Afterwards, that underwater city will belong to you Nagas. From now on, you will be the Queen of Talokan!”
When the Nagas occupy Talokan and later reveal themselves at the right time, the countries on Earth should be very surprised, right?
“Thank you for the master’s blessing!” Narassus immediately showed joy—who doesn’t like power?
When she left, her serpent tail wagged especially happily, making Josh feel like giving her a pat.
At this moment, the underwater sea tribes began attacking the Talokan army.
Just like Wakanda once, Talokan also had relatively advanced technology, but relying on strong vibranium and good physical qualities, they preferred to fight the most primitive wars.
All their weapons were spears and long lances.
Josh’s sea tribes? Most of them could wield magic.
Even the weakest murlocs had many who could use magic as murloc seers.
Though not very advanced spells, simple frost magic and healing magic were wielded very smoothly.
The lobster men were also shooting frost arrows skillfully.
Narassus and the water elementals were even more powerful.
Because of the vibranium armor, frost arrows couldn’t directly harm the Talokan people wearing it, but the freezing effect was enough to cause them great trouble.
The battlefield was over a thousand meters deep.
The water temperature here stayed between 0-2 degrees Celsius year-round; it didn’t freeze due to the lower freezing point of seawater and vertical convection.
However, under the influence of the cold magic attached to the frost arrows, a lot of broken ice formed easily.
Strong water currents carrying the ice battered them, a painful sensation even for the Talokan people adapted to deep-sea life.
However the greatest threat was not the frost magic but the dolphins and giant squids.
The dolphins carried sonic weapons similar to those in Red Alert, and before this mission, the frequency of these sonic weapons had been adjusted to cause vibranium to enter a dormant state.
Once hit by the dolphins’ sonic weapons, the vibranium armor on a Talokan warrior would instantly collapse.
The only downside: dolphins are not deep-sea creatures and cannot dive as deep as whales.
Normally, they can only dive about 300 meters, but now reaching over a thousand meters was a result of genetic modification.
Yet deeper than that still exceeded their range.
In contrast, giant squids were different; before modification, they lived below 2,000 meters deep.
These terrifying creatures had no weapons on their bodies, and their strength alone couldn’t break vibranium armor.
But with a single coil of their tentacles, a Talokan soldier would be swept away and tossed into the ranks of other sea tribes.
Under this all-around suppression, the Talokan army of over five thousand quickly began to retreat.
Especially after many soldiers realized the greatest threat—the dolphins—couldn’t pursue them into deeper waters, the retreat became a full-scale rout.
“Good, run, run fast, lead us to Talokan!” Seeing the fleeing Talokan soldiers, Narassus was unexpectedly delighted. She and her troops calmly followed behind—this was exactly the effect she wanted, or else they wouldn’t find that underwater city anytime soon.
However, with her current forces, taking Talokan might still be a problem.
But there was no need for her to worry too much, because at this moment a large number of giant submarines were already heading in the direction she was moving, and the countless deep-sea robots inside the submarines were the true main force of this invasion operation.
At this time, Talokan still did not know, nor could they imagine, that disaster was about to strike.
In their hearts, their king, their guardian god Namor, would always protect them.
Little did they know that Namor himself was already barely able to hold on.
So when the first fleeing soldiers returned to Talokan, the Talokan people were not even able to organize a defense immediately.
In this regard, it could be said that the Talokan people were even worse than the Wakandans. Over the past few hundred years, Namor had protected his people too well; living on the seabed, this truly isolated environment, had even caused them to lose basic adaptability.
So when Narassus arrived with her army, what she saw was not the impregnable defense she imagined, but a group of panic-stricken, utterly chaotic rabble.
Seeing this scene, Narassus, who grew up in the war-torn Azeroth and was very familiar with war, naturally would not let go of such a good opportunity. She immediately commanded her troops to attack Talokans defenses.
By the time the deep-sea robot forces arrived, Narassus had already been slaughtering through the Talokan city.
However, limited by the priority of forces, she was unable to completely capture the entire city.
Just as Josh had guessed beforehand, Talokan did not have a large population, only a few hundred thousand.
Because before entering the ocean in the 16th century, Talokan was only a small tribe in Central America that had developed over a few hundred years to reach its current scale.
But having a small population did not mean the city was not large. The entire seabed was unclaimed land; as long as they stayed within the defense perimeter, the Talokan people could build as they wished. The city’s scale was by no means smaller than large cities on land.
It was still very difficult for Narassus’ vanguard troops to take over the entire city.
But with the arrival of the subsequent deep-sea robot army, the already declining Talokan defenders instantly collapsed.
Those Talokan civilians who had been thinking of observing began to scatter and flee.
However, the surrounding sea area had long been trapped by Josh with an intricate net of layers, leaving the Talokan people nowhere to escape.
In just a few hours, without the leadership of their leader, King Namor, the seabed city Talokan, located more than eight thousand meters deep in the ocean, completely fell under the assault of countless robots.
The vast majority of the Talokan people were captured; very few managed to escape.
A few hours later, Josh rode Godzilla, entering Talokan in the posture of a conqueror, and sat on the throne originally belonging to Namor, welcomed respectfully by Narassus!
"You did very well. From now on, this position will be yours, my Queen of the Sea!" However, Josh did not sit on the throne for long but stood up and gestured for Narassus to sit.
Actually, the whole thing was made of vibranium, extremely hard, and uncomfortable to sit on.
"Thank you, Master!" Narassus was overwhelmed with excitement.
When Josh placed the golden trident representing the highest ocean authority into her hand, she was even more overwhelmed, her heart full of heroic spirit.
To hell with Azeroth, to hell with Enzo, the great Josh Kane is her god, her heaven!
"Boss, the results are in. This region’s vibranium reserves exceed Wakanda’s, and we found large amounts of raw ore stocks in several warehouses!" Just after Josh bestowed Narassus with the authority to rule the ocean, Vito rushed over excitedly to report to Josh.
Hearing that Talokans vibranium reserves were greater than Wakanda’s and that there were large inventories, Josh was very pleased.
Now he no longer had to worry about a lack of vibranium, and he also gained an underwater kingdom.
"And we also discovered the secret allowing Talokan people to live underwater!" Vito said, handing Josh a somewhat strange little flower. "As long as humans ingest this flower, they can gain the ability to breathe through their skin from water and an extraordinary physique, but as a price, the user will lose the ability to breathe on land!"
"Heh, so it’s another existence similar to the heart-shaped herb. It seems there must be some deity behind Talokan as well!" Josh laughed upon seeing the flower.
But he did not investigate further because he knew that ordinary dimensional gods now dared not come to Earth.
When chatting with Ancient One before, the latter said that since the disappearance of the four dimensional demigods, including the Panther Goddess, the weaker dimensional demigods began to keep their distance from Earth.
However, seeing Ancient One’s strange expression back then, Josh felt things were not so simple.
But no matter what, in the short term, he did not need to worry about dimensional matters.
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After dealing with the Talokan matters, Josh returned to Neuschwanstein Castle and once again lived a pastoral life, ears closed to the outside world.
"Sir, Mr. Aldo is calling!" One afternoon while Josh was fishing, his watch sounded a notification from Pangu.
"Answer it!" Josh said casually.
"Boss! Next Friday is the 5th anniversary of Jurassic Park’s first park and also the opening day of Westworld’s first park. Do you want to come check the work?" Aldo’s voice immediately came through the watch.
The first Jurassic Park was officially opened five years ago, a year before Josh last left Earth, causing a huge sensation in the US and worldwide.
With the experience of the first, the Continental Group had now begun building the second park on an island in southern Spain.
As for plans after that, none for now.
Because except Europe and America, other regions were still relatively poor, building too many would only cause losses.
Although Josh did not plan to make much money from such theme parks, he also did not want to lose money, right?
As for Westworld, it was the Continental Group’s latest project. That project…well, those who know, know!
"Going back to America…it’s good to go back and check!" Josh hesitated briefly, then made up his mind.
But before that, a new dimensional beacon was about to be activated!