16. The matter of Atlantis
"When the universe was born, the purest source force was thrown into the entire sea of stars in the Big Bang."
"Over a long period of time, in the process of the universe evolving completely, these precious and hard-to-find powers will also be shaped into completely different forms by various adventures."
"They appear in those old stories, and they play a variety of roles, some of them have died out, some of them are still alive today."
"The energies that originated at the birth of the universe are attached to them, and they are precious and hard to find."
In the stone fortress of Paradise Island, Merlin reached out and touched the red iron box placed on the stone platform, and said to the queen and Diana behind him:
"It's not the oddities themselves that I need."
"What I need is the cosmic divine power that coexists with these strange things."
"They will be the best firewood, and it only takes a flame to burn, burst out with the heat of hope, burn along the contours of everything, and shape a true cosmic era."
The Raven Maharaja turned his head and looked at Queen Hippolyta and Diana with a smile, and said:
"It's hard to understand, right?"
"Sounds incredible."
Diana sat on the circular stone platform inside the fortress, and like a little girl listening to a story, she shook her hair and said to Merlin:
"You want to save this era, and then the way you save it is by burning it with a fire..."
"Hmm..."
Merlin thought for a moment, then replied:
"That's right."
"But actually, my original idea was to take back the world we live in, along with our lives themselves, from some goddamn gambling dogs."
"We're not playthings for them to play with, and they don't care how we feel when they play games, how arrogant are we, right?"
"And then?"
Diana asked:
"What about after igniting the cosmic furnace and reshaping the cosmic epoch? Will you let those betting dogs go? ”
"Of course not."
Merlin looked at the sky, and he said slowly:
"But that's for later, we have to hold on and do what we are doing now... Speaking of which, there are three of these mother boxes, right? ”
"Yes."
Queen Hippolyta was still frowning, thinking about what Merlin had just said.
Stars, gambling dogs and the like.
She hadn't lived through the Battle of New York, so it was hard to understand.
However, she was now sure that Merlin had come with good intentions, so she was happy to answer Merlin's questions.
She looked at the red, plate-like metal box with the odd round holes on the stone platform, and said:
"The red ones are in our custody, the blue boxes are in the hands of the Atlanteans, and the silver boxes are in the hands of humans, and when they are combined, they form an 'ultimate mother box'."
"It will open a space-time tunnel of sound and light, attracting an indescribable, endless number of demonoid legions, and the commander of that legion."
At this, Queen Hippolyta pursed her lips, and she said worriedly:
"That is a powerful and violent Heavenly Father."
"Five thousand years ago, I followed His Majesty Zeus into that battlefield with the gods, a war that no one in this age could have imagined."
The queen breathed a sigh of relief, a flash of memory in her eyes.
Describing the war to Raven and her daughter, which had never been recorded, she said:
"The Amazons are only the flanks of that huge army, the Atlanteans are guarding the battlefield border with us, and the warriors of the gods are the main body."
"The Greek gods and the Egyptian gods joined forces for the first time to pull the god's solar ship to drop heavenly fire in the sky and bombard the endless army of demons."
"And the warriors of the Green Lantern Corps have created all kinds of miracles in the sky, binding the overwhelming enemy."
"And the humans at that time, they were clans and very weak, but the war happened on their land, and they couldn't escape it."
"Led by some wizards, the humans also bravely stepped into the battlefield, and then suffered heavy casualties. But among them were some indescribable heroes, an invulnerable priest with a shield and spear, as strong as a god. ”
"And those mutants, aliens, and even aliens with all kinds of abilities, all of them fight the demons in the narrow battlefield."
"It was also that battle that made the gods see the courage and potential of humans, and after that, they began to make contact with humans and spread faith and power."
The queen tightened her grip on the hilt of her sword.
It probably recalls the most tragic scene of that ancient war.
She said:
"The terrified legion was driven back into the passage by the coalition's counterattack regardless of casualties, but then, the self-proclaimed Steppenwolf's Father Lord stepped out of the passage, armed with a battle axe dripping with lava."
"It is tall and brute force, and it can even withstand the thunder and lightning of Zeus, defend against the trident of the sea emperor Atlan, and collide with the carriage of the god Osiris."
"It's powerful, the mighty Green Lantern worked together to create a shield to stop its charge, and then the gods all stepped forward to trap it, and finally the human with the shield spear smashed the ultimate mother box."
"After the Mother Box was broken into three branches, the passage was closed and the brutal Heavenly Father was brought back to where it had come from. It's like being sealed. ”
The queen shook her head, she broke free from her old memories.
She looked at Merlin, touched her daughter's long hair again, and said:
"I don't doubt your strength, Raven, but I think you'll be unleashing that dangerous creature once again when you regain your hands on the 3 Mother Boxes... You have to be prepared for that. ”
"Hmm."
Merlin nodded.
His hands touched the heavy red box, and with the stretch of his hands, he pulled out of the box with a strange cloud of energy that shone with the light of the stars.
But that energy was like being locked in a box, and no matter how hard Merlin tried, that energy could not be truly extracted.
"It seems that it really has to be put into the state of the ultimate mother box before it is possible to absorb the cosmic force."
Merlin frowned and said:
"It doesn't matter if the demonoid army is gone, but a strange Heavenly Father who is good at fighting... Troublesome! ”
"One more thing, Merlin."
Diana, who was sitting on the side, glanced at her mother, and she suddenly spoke:
"In the last few days, I feel that the war divine power in my body is somewhat abnormally active..."
"That's fine."
The Raven Lord waved his hand, and he said in a gentle tone:
"It's just that the speed of the evolution of the stars has broken through a certain bottleneck, and the release of higher powers has fallen into the level of the present world, with the power of war, it is only a matter of time before you break through the Heavenly Father, and the situation on Clark's side is the same."
"But I still advise you..."
Merlin's hand waved, and the heavy red mother box was held up by gravity.
He turned around, put his hands behind his back, and said to Diana:
"Get the other half of the war power from Ares as soon as possible, if this power becomes complete, it will probably take a few more years for you to reach your father's level."
"Paradise Island will also have its own patron deities."
"Of course, your father may be working towards a higher level of power right now."
Speaking of this, Merlin sighed, and he said with emotion:
"From the Father to the monolithic universe... It's been a long and arduous road. ”
"Do you mean that Heavenly Father will continue to appear in the coming period?"
Diana was surprised and said:
"This is what will happen when the universe is free?"
"That's Heavenly Father, my Diana."
Merlin smiled dumbly, and he explained to the female demigod:
"The fact that the power system of the universe is becoming complete is only a conceptual significance, and it does not mean that the path to strength will be easier because of this."
"The perfection of the power system has nothing to do with the vast majority of star life."
"It just means that there are further possibilities for the strong, but for ordinary people, the road to becoming a strong man is as difficult as before, if not more difficult."
"In this vast group of stars, Heavenly Father will definitely not become a cabbage that can be seen everywhere, and the powerhouses of the single universe are even rarer."
With that, Merlin waved his hand and opened the door to the Light Curtain to the wasteland.
He waved his hand at Queen Hippolyta and Diana, and he said:
"I'm going to find the next mother box, I'll take this hidden danger away, you don't need to worry about its threat anymore."
As the Queen and Diana watched, Merlin disappeared into the light curtain with the red box, and when the light faded, the Queen finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She was born in the age of the gods.
In that era, every Heavenly Father was an extremely noble person, and even in Mount Olympus, every Heavenly Father's presence would evolve into a grand banquet.
In those days, Heavenly Father represented the pinnacle of the power of the stars, and they could get what they wanted.
As Diana said, Her Majesty is still a conservative person, and although Merlin is very kind, the Queen has always been worried and vigilant.
"You seem to be on good terms with Lord Merlin?"
The queen looked back at her daughter and said:
"Very well, keep it up, it will be a great help for you when you are queen."
"However, if Lord Merlin wants to get the blue mother box from Atlantis, it is estimated that it will not be as easy as this time."
The queen and her daughter came out of the fortress, and she said to Diana with a worried face:
"After King Ovax's death, his ambitious son, Orm, who wanted to become Lord of the Seas, is preparing for a war as his coronation."
"I'm afraid he'll take aim at Paradise Island, because the Amazons and Atlanteans have a vendetta between them. That kid wants to unify the divided Seven Seas Kingdom, and a war that promotes force is what he needs. ”
Diana looked at her mother and said:
"You mean, Orm won't give the blue mother box to Merlin?"
"It won't be that easy."
The queen rode on her white horse and said to her daughter, who was not well-versed in politics:
"Aum is very upholder of tradition, but he is not a man who sticks to tradition, and he will even use it as a bargaining chip, which he will use to ask Lord Merlin to join him in the war."
"Then he's thinking too much."
Diana let out a chuckle and rolled on her horse, and said to her mother:
"From what I know of Merlin, he has no interest in war, he was a person who focused on maintaining world order before he was reborn, and he will not become a war maniac after he is reborn."
"If Orm really uses this as a threat, then the kingdom of Atlantis is destined to usher in a tragedy."
Speaking of this, Diana looked left and right, she lowered her voice, and said to her mother in the way of gossiping:
"Merlin has a nephew..."
"I've seen him, that guy has half of the blood of the royal family of the Kingdom of Atlantis, mother, you don't need to worry about the threat of war from Atlantis at all!"
"Orm, if he's as arrogant as you say... He can't sit on the throne of king at all! ”
"After all, he's not the only candidate for the King of the Seven Seas!"
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Although the paradise island is secluded, Queen Hippolyta is, after all, a person who has lived through the age of the gods.
She has not relaxed her collection of information from the outside world, especially the situation related to her own kingdom.
Her Majesty received accurate information that in the underwater kingdom of Atlantis at this time, Prince Orm, who was about to be crowned king, was indeed planning a war.
But the goal of the war is not the hard bones, not the she-wolves of Paradise Island.
It's a force that is easier to defeat and more capable of demonstrating the power of the undersea kingdom...
Mankind! The kingdom of men!
From above, Atlantis City looks very much like New York on a brightly lit night, but the city is far larger than the city on the ground in terms of scale and technology.
Pillars of blue light shone in the ocean floor, forming an avenue that stretched over the city, and the Atlanteans manipulated the density of the water with their superior instruments to make it solid and solid.
Two huge sculptures stand on either side of the glittering blue avenue, the sculpture of Aquaman Atlan, who wields a trident.
Countless fish-shaped, spaceship-like oddities are running down the avenue, with lanes in different directions on the left and right, and turn signals in advance when turning crooked.
Well, the undersea people also know it.
Although the level of technology far exceeds that of the surface world, the city is no different from the ground except for its gorgeous appearance.
In the midst of the strange underwater city, a royal palace made of white rock stands in a valley under the sea, at the highest point of Atlantis, from which you can easily overlook the whole city and even the entire kingdom.
On the terrace, adorned with huge pearls and jellyfish that glow with a strange light, the elegant and handsome Prince Aum is flirting with his fiancée.
The two of them were in love and polite...
The most excessive thing is just kissing and hugging, the etiquette of the royal family of Atlantis is still very good in this regard, and the fiancée of Lord Orm, to be honest, is indeed very beautiful.
At least there are no strange organs like fish fins, and like Orm, her appearance is indistinguishable from that of a human.
The two seemed to be on good terms, holding glasses made of beautiful shells and whispering to each other.
But in the palace of the royal palace, the projection sand table that has been made represents Aum's ambitious attack on the land, which has really been put on the agenda.
"Aum..."
Just as the prince was about to take his fiancée's waist and do something more excessive, a low call burst out from his heart, and Orm's eyes blinked.
The next moment, a heavy drowsiness came to my face.