Alien Knights

The turbulent sea current quickly pulls any objects that fall into it to the depths of the sea.

Under the pull of this force, Todd's body was completely unable to make any resistance, and fell into the center of the vortex.

From sea level to a depth of about 200 meters, this is the area where the vortex runs the fastest. In just three minutes, Todd descended to the bottom of this area.

During this time, following the rotation of the vortex, he could vaguely see the faint sunlight in the sea water.

Shoals of fish and small creatures floating in the water shuttled around him, and floating algae drifted down with the whirlpool.

After more than ten minutes of sinking, Todd obviously felt that the light in the sea water was gradually weakening, and the common shapes of marine life were hard to find. With the ability of "night vision", he saw all kinds of strange creatures emitting light, filling the periphery of the vortex. A huge striped sea snake with cold light spots all over its body, a strange fish with spikes on its body and a small light on its head, and a moray eel whose mouth occupies almost half of its body.

Being pulled to the depths of the ocean by the vortex, even the "night vision" ability is reducing its effect. The pressure of seawater can weigh as much as a thousand kilograms per square centimeter.

Todd felt every inch of his skin, every bone, every organ cracking. Even the mutated body is only as fragile as a piece of paper under the strong pressure of sea water.

However, the pain did not come as expected.

Perhaps the ability of "Pain Suppression" is at work, or it may be that the mutation has already occupied the nerve center of pain.

After sneaking down for another ten minutes, Todd looked at the extremely dark seabed in front of him through his weak "night vision".

A group of colorful jellyfish, swaying roots tens of meters long, floated past.

A huge eye slowly appeared in the darkness, watching everything in the sea. Todd's tiny figure, compared with those eyeballs, is like putting soybeans and apples together.

Seeing the giant eyeballs in the pitch-black sea getting closer and closer, and the giant tentacles densely covered in the darkness like a forest, Todd finally recognized this guy—the sea monster that destroyed the "Black Pearl".

This is an unimaginably huge figure, slowly moving forward in the dark water.

Todd made a careful distinction. The body length of this sea monster is likely to exceed that of an ordinary town. From the appearance point of view, it looks like a fusion of the deep-sea beluga whale and the king squid, which is completely different from the "magic eye" in myths and rumors.

No fear, no panic, Todd looked at the deep sea monster calmly. There was a smile on the corner of his mouth. To him, death was no longer a pain, but a relief.

To his surprise, the giant beast passed by him, just glanced at him, and then quickly looked away, swimming towards a deeper place on the seabed.

"Is it because of my mutated body that monsters have lost interest in my flesh and blood? 』

With this in mind, Todd continued to descend under the pull of the vortex.

Now, Todd can't remember how long and how far he has dived in the ocean. The concepts of time and space seem to be farther and farther away from him.

It was completely black in sight, and even the "Night Vision" ability was useless. All he knew was that his body was still falling, as if the road would never end.

He has never hated his ability so much like now. If he didn't have the abilities of "metal skin", "regeneration", and "underwater breathing", he would have already returned to the nothingness of death, instead of being like now, never seeing the end.

The only thing he can comfort himself with is that the flood of pain caused by the mutation has slowly disappeared. Instead, there is a gradual detachment of body and soul.

At such a deep seabed, he was not sure whether his auditory organs were still functioning normally, but he did "hear" some sounds.

Some erratic, seemingly absent voices.

Some are like women's murmurs, some like children's laughter, and some are completely meaningless noises.

What caught Todd's attention was that he seemed to hear Clarence's voice.

In that voice, there was no longer the pride and arrogance of the past, and it was only filled with hysterical pleas and cries for help.

The sinking is still going on.

After a while.

The sea water in front of him was no longer black, but a color deeper than black.

If Todd had to use one word to describe it, the space he was in was more like a black hole that could capture all light and matter.

Just when Todd was about to be driven crazy by this weird feeling, the downward pull of the vortex slowly disappeared.

He could feel that his body stopped falling and was floating in the bottom of the sea.

A huge building standing straight up rose from a deeper place in the seabed to him.

It was a familiar, triangular-shaped metal spire full of strange writing.

When streaked light emerged from the surface of the spire, Todd completely lost consciousness.

When he woke up again, he found himself in a magnificent and beautiful temple.

The temple is located below the surface of the sea, and Todd looked up, and the warm sunlight shone into the sea, casting a beautiful reflection on the stone slabs. Schools of fish and sea shrimp swim among the stone pillars, and corals and shells dot the walls. A clear and crystal-clear fountain flows from top to bottom in the garden of the temple hall.

A pure white dolphin was jubilant on the sea, swimming and playing in the coral like a butterfly, and finally stopped in front of Todd, uttering words clearly in its mouth: "Candidate, welcome to the agent's room again."

"You are Jingsu...?" Todd sighed, rubbed his cheeks vigorously, sat down on the spot, shook his head with a smile and said: "The Kingdom of Shadows... The Gate of Darkness... The trial of fate, it turns out that the end of everything has returned to this beacon."

The dolphin nodded slightly: "The location of this beacon is not easy to reach. But compared to the beacon in the North Island ruins, the energy here is more stable and will not fail."

Todd looked at the sea temple beside him, and asked, "Who built the... building here?"

"This is the eternal throne established by the Danu Protoss."

"Let me guess, the Danu Protoss in the northern mythology was once a member of Jingsu's agent?"

The dolphins turned in a circle: "That's right, they defeated other candidates and opened up their era."

Todd said meaningfully: "However, compared with another agent, Odin, the king of the gods, their fate seems to be much better."

The dolphin tilted its head and looked at Todd: "Candidate, I know what you want to say; I also know that you have seen the slates of the runes. You think that we are the culprits who caused the "Twilight of the Gods". But, will things really be as simple as you imagined?"

Todd stood up from the ground, stared at the dolphin and said, "What do you mean?"

"I gave Odin strength and wisdom, but what he did violated my previous agreement with him."