Chapter 281 - Killing the Elders, New Krypton
Chapter 281: Killing the Elders, New Krypton
Upon hearing that these elders wanted to dispose of the Merpeople Queen, Ling Jiu knew he could no longer just standby, so he emerged.
Seeing Ling Jiu who had suddenly appeared, the many Merpeople elders were taken aback as they stared at him with a guarded look.
“Who are you?” the Elder Tiger Shark asked coldly.
At this moment, the Merpeople Queen spoke. “Master, why are you here?”
Hearing this, how could the members of the Council of Elders not know Ling Jiu’s identity. They glared at Ling Jiu one after another, with endless fury and murderous intent surging in their eyes.
“You are the human who had enslaved Her Majesty? What brazenness, you dare to intrude upon our Merpeople Royal City? Death awaits you!”
The many Merpeople elders unleashed their aura one after another as a series of terrifying aura charged forth like a giant surging wave as they slammed against Ling Jiu.
The air froze instantly.
It was not outlandish to think that should Ling Jiu made any strange moves, these powerful Merpeople would strike without hesitation and kill him where he stood.
The Merpeople Queen’s expression changed drastically. This was not the result she wanted to see. She knew that as the Queen of the Merpeople, submitting to an outsider was undoubtedly brought great shame to the Merpeople, so she had decided to abdicate her throne to someone else.
However, as Ling Jiu’s servant, Ling Jiu’s will was her priority rule of conduct, and she would never allow anyone to harm Ling Jiu.
Wooosh!!
The Merpeople Queen instantly appeared before Ling Jiu, and used her body to shield the powerful aura of the Merpeople elders. “Elders, please hear me…”
“Your Majesty, kill this person, and you shall be our Queen of the Merpeople.”
“Your Majesty, kill him!”
“Your Majesty, this is your best chance, kill this cur immediately!”
The Merpeople Elders all spoke one after another.
In the face of such an order, the Merpeople Queen naturally cannot agree to that, as she immediately said. “Elders, I can never betray master, and more so to kill him!”
“Your Majesty, how could you do this?”
One of the Merpeople Elder said with a painful look. “Not killing him means betraying the Merpeople, the Council of Elders will never accept this, the Merpeople will never accept this, nor the laws of the Merpeople would accept this!”
“Your Majesty, the Council of Elders gives you one last chance to immediately kill this person, or else…”
“Alright, shut up.”
At this time, Ling Jiu spoke as he looked at the Merpeople Queen, and said faintly. “You step back first.”
“Yes, master!”
The Merpeople Queen bowed and stepped back.
Ling Jiu looked at the elders of the Council of Elders, and smiled faintly. “I did not expect the Merpeople to have a Council of Elders, and for it to be so powerful to the point of actually deposing a queen, that’s a bit too much isn’t it?”
“You cur! What manner of trance did you put Her Majesty into? For her to submit to you even at the cost of betraying her people?”
“Why bother bantering with him? Kill this cur, and then depose the Queen. The Council of Elders will choose another queen.”
“That’s right! There’s no need to talk to him, kill him!”
As soon as they spoke, the Merpeople elders surrounded Ling Jiu.
Seeing this, the Merpeople Queen panicked. On one side was her master, and the other her people. She definitely did not want to see both sides right each other.
However, she could not control how things developed, especially when she was the weakest among them.
Ling Jiu waved his hand off, motioned her to stay calm as he looked at the elders with a faint smile. “There are many who want me dead, so who are you lot again?”
“Insolence!”
“Get him together!”
The Merpeople elders did not dither and immediately struck.
Although they were all galactic lifeforms, their attacks were not much different from the Merpeople Queen, mainly through control of water current and Laws of Water.
Against this, Ling Jiu had experienced this when he fought the Merpeople Queen, so he did not bother wasting time with these lot, and instantly swapped into his Golden Saiyan Ape clone, and started his extremely violent attack.
Boom!
His fist blasted out, and wherever the fist blast passed, the void shattered, and Ling Jiu’s fist immediately appeared directly before one of the Merpeople elders.
“Sh*t!”
The Merpeople Elder had no time to dodge, and his head was blown into smithereens by the punch, not having the time to scream before he died.
“Elder Swordfish!”
This scene caused the Merpeople elder’s expressions to change drastically as a look of fear appeared in their eyes. They had never expected Ling Jiu to be so powerful that Elder Swordfish, a powerful and ancient galactic lifeform was killed by a single punch.
What terrifying manner of strength was this?
“Next!”
Ling Jiu did not know of the terror inside the Merpeople elders, nor does he was bothered to find out. He twisted his neck and let out an audible crack as he locked onto the second Merpeoplee elder.
This was an elder with a shark tail but a human body. He was the strongest and the most indignant Elder Tiger Shark.
After Ling Jiu’s gaze swept past him, Elder Tiger Shark trembled all over, as a chill rose from his heart and he could not help but take a few steps back.
“Afraid now? Heh, being afraid won’t change the fact that you are about to die.”
Ling Jiu smiled faintly, then punched again.
“No!!!”
Elder Tiger Shark yelled in horror and fled. However, just a few steps in, his entire head exploded.
The second elder… dead!
At this moment, the entire place was dead silent.
All of the elders seemed to be frozen in place as they looked blankly at Ling Jiu. Their eyes were filled with endless horror and despair, as if they were looking at their harbinger of doom.
“Anyone else wants to kill me?”
Ling Jiu looked at the Merpeople elders.
This time around, all of the Merpeople elders were silent, and no one uttered a word, and no one even dared to look directly at Ling Jiu.
They were all scared.
In all fairness, they would of course want Ling Jiu dead, even if their dreams, but clearly, their strength were totally on two different levels, so how to kill him?
“Since no one wants to kill me any longer, let me say a few words.”
Step by step, Ling Jiu walked onto the throne that originally belonged to the Merpeople Queen and sat on it, as he looked down upon the Council of Elders, saying faintly.
“I’ve enslaved your queen, and so, anyone has any objections to that? If you have, you can stand up and speak, I will give you a satisfactory answer.”
Hearing this, the elders of the Council of Elders wanted to curse. Talk to you? You’re probably going to kill us like you did with Elder Swordfish and Elder Tiger Shark no? Do you think us stupid?
“No objections? That is to say, you have no comments about me enslaving your queen, right?” Ling Jiu continued to ask.
The Council of Elders kept silent.
Objections?
Of course they did, but how would they dare to voice it out?
“What? Suddenly became dumb?”
Ling Jiu asked coldly.
“We…”
The Merpeople Elder stuttered as they dared not look at Ling Jiu in the eyes.
“Nothing to say? What does that imply? Yes, or no?”
Ling Jiu raised his tone, and the temperature in the hall suddenly dropped.
“We…we have no objections.”
A Merpeople elder said tremblingly as his desire to survive was as clear as day. The other elders were sad and indignant, yet they dared not say anything.
“Since there are no objections, you may leave. Remember, if anyone says something they shouldn’t, or do something they shouldn’t once they go out, I won’t mind teaching him a lesson in conduct with my fists. I believe none of you can stop me.”
Ling Jiu waved his hand.
The Merpeople elders, as if they were given amnesty, left the room as if they were fleeing. At this moment, only the Merpeople Queen and Ling Jiu were left.
“Master!”
The Merpeople Queen looked at Ling Jiu with a complicated expression.
“Alright, the trouble has been resolved. You can continue to be queen.”
Ling Jiu said lightly.
“Yes, master!”
There is no one that would be willing to give up power just like that, and the Merpeople Queen was no exception. Under the pressure from the Council of Elders, she had to relinquish her throne, but now it seemed like the matter had been temporarily suppressed.
“But, Master, the Council of Elders will not let this slide.”
The Merpeople Queen said with a worried look.
“They won’t let this slide? Let them come then, they are just a bunch of rabble, it won’t affect anything.” Ling Jiu said nonchalantly.
The Merpeople Queen did not say anything else. She noticed that her master’s strength had improved significantly compared to last time. For master now, the elders were indeed no threat.
“I came here today to ask you about something.” Ling Jiu went straight to the point.
“Master, please say!” the Merpeople Queen said respectfully.
“I want to go to Atlantis, tell me where the wormhole leading to Atlantis is.” Ling Jiu spoke his intention.
“Master, you want to go Atlantis?”
The Merpeoplee Queen was shocked. “Master, don’t do it. It’s too dangerous there!”
“No need to panic.”
Ling Jiu waved his hand. “I only want to go there to have a look, not start a war with the Kryptonians.”
That was the truth. Although Ling Jiu believed that he could directly annihilate the Kryptonians with Leoux around, he did not intend to do so.
He planned to use the Kryptonians as a touchstone to test the strength of his Golden Saiyan Ape clone. So on this trip to Atlantis, he planned to capture a group of Kryptonians to become his gardeners and to also test out the Kryptonians’ strength.
Hearing this, the Merpeople Queen heaved a sigh of relief as she respectfully said. “Master, please come with me.”
The two left the Merpeople Royal City, and came to a dark seabed. The place was pitch black, without the presence of any floating mountains around, but suspended in the middle of this darkness was a blue sphere of light.
The Merpeople Queen pointed at the light sphere and said. “Master, this is the sea cave leading to Atlantis.”
“You stand guard here, I’ll go have a look.”
Ling Jiu gave the order and entered the blue wormhole. As he passed through it, he soon appeared in the ocean on the other side.
However, unlike the dark ocean of Europa 2, this ocean was rather bright. Ling Jiu swam upwards and soon arrived at the surface, and what entered his eyes was the azure sky and the endless blue sea.
“This is Atlantis? It looks somewhat similar to Whitehole 3,” Ling Jiu could not help but say to himself.
“They may look the same, but there are still some differences to Whitehole 3.” Leoux’s voice rang in Ling Jiu’s mind. “There is no Dark Bio-energy on this planet, only slightly more potent Gene Arcana.”