Chapter 433: Sanctuary: Obtaining The Third Gemstone
Chapter 433: Sanctuary: Obtaining The Third Gemstone
"My Queen!"The two elite guards stationed deep inside the cavernous, gem-lit tunnel greeted, respectfully bowing their heads. Even in the dim, bioluminescent glow, the tension radiating from the Mermaid Queen was palpable.
"Red alert! Go to the General and show him this." Seraphina’s voice lost all traces of the warm, doting aunt from the garden, instantly replaced by the ruthless, absolute authority of a monarch facing a siege. She snapped her fingers, and a heavy silver token materialized before her, clearly the royal token.
"Tell him, Red Alert, every single warrior should get ready to defend the city! Go now!"
"Yes, My Queen!!"
The two guards quickly nodded their heads, hearing the absolute, chilling urgency in the Queen’s tone. They understood that a Red Alert meant the survival of their entire species was on the line. They carefully took the token, their hands trembling slightly, and swam away, moving with incredible, desperate speed back toward the Silver City.
Mirabella looked over her shoulder at them, already back in her impenetrable black God-class armor. She had watched the swift shift in her aunt and realized that reaching the peak of power always carried a catastrophic toll.
"Why the deployment?" She asked, turning to Seraphina, who placed her pale palm flat against the massive, ancient stone door blocking their path. The stone was etched with celestial wards that predated modern humanity.
BOOOOM!
The colossal door vibrated violently, the sound echoing heavily through the water, and slowly moved aside, revealing a pitch-dark, foreboding passage that seemed to swallow the ambient light.
"My dear, once you get the gemstone, I will help you merged the three together, and absorb it. But that will draw every single monster towards the city, the Evil one will do anything in his powers to stop you from becoming the Death Goddess."
"Huh? Becoming a Goddess? Won’t I destroy the whole planet with such energy?" Mirabella asked, immediately calculating the collateral damage. A Divine Sovereign was already a walking calamity; condensing absolute conceptual laws into a mortal vessel should logically shatter Earth’s fragile stability.
"Nope, this chamber absorbs all energy... So it won’t affect the planet." Seraphina explained, seamlessly swimming inside the dark abyss, with Mirabella silently following behind, her armor’s thrusters guiding her through the unnatural currents.
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[Two Hours Later.]
[30,000 meters deep underwater.]
’30,000 meters, no human have ever gotten this deep before. Is it even possible to be this deep without feeling any pressure?’ Mirabella thought, as she moved her gaze around the huge chamber.
The Mariana Trench, Earth’s deepest known point, was barely a third of this depth. Mirabella deduced they were no longer strictly on Earth, but in a localized, spatial pocket dimension anchored beneath the Vatican—a divine stronghold isolated from the laws of physics.