When Han Sen had lived in the Alliance, he had been good in the water . After spending several months in the Dream Lake, his talents underwater only improved . He had become so proficient that he could
swim easily, even if he was tied up .
The last of the Spiky Turtles vanished into the
Dragon Pool, and Han Sen was the first to jump in after
them . Dragon Fifteen invited Xius to jump into the pool
after Han Sen . Then Dragon Fifteen’s maid, Long Ying,
followed Dragon Fifteen into the water .
Han Sen did not show off his abilities, though . He
pretended to use a godlight to swim .
Dragon Fifteen and Long Ying were also comfortable in the water, performing just as well in the water as on land . They were Dragons, after all .
Xius swam behind them, her snake tail sending her
smoothly through the water .
“Pure Dragons are strong,” Han Sen thought . “Dragon Fifteen and Xius are both Marquises, so Dragon Fifteen will be stronger than Dragon Thirteen was . That Long Ying is more powerful than either of them, though . She must be a Duke . There is no way!
could beat them in battle . ”
The pool did not seem large from the outside, but
it was like a bowl turned upside down . It got wider
towards the bottom . Han Sen could see many Spiky
Turtles swimming beneath them . Down there, even the giant Duke class turtles did not look very big .
The pool was deep, and Han Sen could not see
very much . He couldn’t see what might have been so
alluring, so he just followed the turtles down .
Dragon Fifteen and Xius were not in a rush, and they simply followed Han Sen . They could talk underwater, so they didn’t even need to rely on clumsy
hand signals .
The deeper they swam, the darker it became .
When they were ten thousand meters down, however, a
light appeared . It was like the light at the end of the
tunnel .
Han Sen had never been there before, so he had
no idea what the light was .
“Does this pool lead someplace else? Is it going back to the Ancient God space?” he wondered .
Han Sen swiftly realized that he was incorrect . The light was not an exit . As they went deeper, the blurry light resolved itself into an object . At the bottom of the
pool, there was a large palace .
Han Sen didn’t know what material the palace was
made of, but it gleamed with blue light . The radiance lit
up the entire underwater world like some fairytale .
But the fairytale palace had mostly collapsed . It was in disarray, little more than a ruin . The turtles, however, accelerated as they saw it .
Han Sen looked around, but he did not catch a
glimpse of the Dragon God . The thought that it was
gone made him feel safer, so he followed the Spiky
Turtles towards the palace .
Upon drawing closer to the palace, he realized that
the palace was far bigger than he had originally
thought . A single pillar was dozens of meters tall .
Han Sen looked over the palace, eventually picking out a stone table that was very large . Several human adults could lie flat on the table without covering its surface . It clearly belonged to a civilization that was
neither human nor Dragon .
The bodies of the Dragon were quite similar to
humans . They would have no reason to produce a relic
of that size .
“What is this palace?” Dragon Fifteen asked Han
Sen .
Han Sen shook his head, and he pretended to choke on water as he tried to answer . Then, using a godlight to clear the water away from his mouth, he said, “I don’t know . I told you, the Dragon God brought me here . I don’t know anything about this place . There is nothing I can do to prove it if you do not believe me . ”
Dragon Fifteen stopped asking . He had forced Han Sen to swim down with them because he found Han Sen suspicious, not because he really wanted Han Sen to lead them . He couldn’t leave Han Sen alone, and he
had to keep a watchful eye on him . It was the safest
thing to do .
Xius, looking at the palace, said, “Fifteen, the legends say that the Return Ruin Sea belongs to the sea gods from the xenogeneic space . Is that true?”
Dragon Fifteen raised an eyebrow . “When the Dragon took over Return Ruin Sea, we didn’t find
evidence of any sea gods . I don’t know if myths about
them are true, for I’ve never discovered any sea god relics before . You seem to know a lot, though . Can you tell me if the palace is related to the conundrum of the sea gods?”
Xius smiled and said, “The sea gods are a higher race, according to the legends . They fell a long time ago, however, so no one knows much about them . There are bits and bobs lying around, scattered, in faint
remembrance for their past existence . The ruins found
prior to this were far smaller and less significant,
though . Judging from the architecture, this really does seem similar to the style of the sea gods . I cannot be one hundred percent certain, of course . ”
As they held their discussion, the Spiky Turtles
reached the palace . Their purpose there was clear . They did not travel around the palace in search of something . Like arrows, they went straight past the palace to one ruin in particular .
Many Spiky Turtles stopped at a ruin that looked like a mountain . They floated in the water . When the giant Spiky Turtle brought the Turtle King there, the Turtle King squealed . The rest of the turtles surrounded the ruin and started to dig through the mound of rubble .
The rocks were the same unknown blue material .
Whatever they were, they must have been very hard, as
not even the Duke turtles could break them . They had
to just displace them, instead .
All the turtles got busy moving the rocks away . Han Sen and the others stopped some distance
from the palace and watched the turtles dig through
the ruins . They did not make a move .
The army of turtles quickly dug through the rubble, and something became visible beneath the collapsed ruin . As more and more of the rocks were moved away, the object became clearer .
Beneath the mountain of rubble was a statue of a
sea turtle . It was a very strange sea turtle, though . It
seemed to be standing on two feet, and it was clad in a
weird set of armor . A circular helmet rested on the sea
turtle’s head, and it held a hammer in each of its
claws .
That statue was a dozen meters tall . It was very strange, but it seemed to be made from the same blue rock . The weirdest thing was the biped turtle that it
depicted .
As Han Sen observed the statue, the rest of the
turtles stopped moving . The Turtle King screamed, and the rest of the turtles lay down below it . It looked as if
they were kowtowing .
The Spiky Turtle King floated down from the giant turtle’s head and swam over to the sea turtle statue .
“Are those turtles related to the statue? Are they
blood related?” Long Ying asked with surprise .
“That might be a possibility . ” Xius was looking at
the statue and the Turtle King .
Long Ying wished to say something more, but the
Turtle King had reached the statue . The plate-sized black body landed atop the helmet of the turtle statue .
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