"Impossible!"
"How could sothing like this be possible?!"
Vulko, who had been brimming with confidence just monts ago, froze on the spot. The smile on his face stiffened instantly, replaced by sheer shock.
He even cried out twice in disbelief, making it obvious just how shaken he was.
And it wasn't just Vulko.
Even Princess ra, who had already personally witnessed Alex's terrifying strength, stood there as if struck by lightning, completely unable to move.
So this… was the Holander's true power?
Strong to such an utterly unbelievable degree?
With a casual wave of his hand, forty warships were destroyed!
If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, neither Vulko nor ra would ever have believed such a thing was possible.
When Alex had earlier said that Vulko was being careless, Vulko had thought Alex was just bragging.
But now, Vulko finally understood—
Alex had rely been stating a fact.
To deal with a monster like this, it would probably take an entire fleet!
Sending just forty warships really had been careless.
"Whether you get the Mother Box back or not will depend on whether your sincerity is sufficient."
Leaving Vulko and ra with those words, Alex didn't linger any longer.
With a whoosh, he stepped onto his surfboard and vanished.
Vulko and ra only felt their vision blur—there was no trace at all of Alex leaving.
It was as if he had simply evaporated into thin air.
The two couldn't help but click their tongues inwardly.
To reach such terrifying speed even underwater?
Wasn't that a bit too exaggerated?
If the two of them knew that Alex's current underwater speed was already heavily suppressed by water resistance—and that on land he could be several tis faster—they didn't even dare imagine what they would feel.
But at the mont, with the Mother Box already stolen, neither Vulko nor ra had the luxury to dwell on Alex's speed.
They exchanged glances, both seeing the sa deep gravity and shock in each other's eyes.
If not for the now-empty pillar and the devastation scattered everywhere, they might not even have believed that the Mother Box had truly been taken.
"This is bad."
"This is really bad."
After coming back to his senses, even soone like Vulko couldn't help but grow visibly unsettled.
That was the Mother Box!
Sothing tied to the safety of the entire world!
"Quick—go find King Orm!"
"We must report this to the king imdiately!"
ra called out to Vulko and shot off in a flash.
Vulko followed suit.
Both of them went all out, vanishing in the blink of an eye.
…
"What did you say? The Mother Box was stolen?!"
Atlantis, the royal hall.
King Orm stared at Vulko and Princess ra, his voice rising an entire octave.
Without question, this was a major incident.
It didn't just concern Atlantis—it involved the Amazons and humanity as well.
More than that, it concerned the safety of the entire world.
That wasn't an exaggeration.
After all, once the three Mother Boxes were united, they truly possessed the power to destroy the world.
How could Orm not take this seriously?
"Who did it?"
Orm fixed his gaze on Vulko and asked in a deep voice.
"He calls himself the Holander," Vulko replied imdiately.
The Holander?
Orm frowned deeply, racking his brain, but couldn't recall such a person at all.
"The Holander is undoubtedly a noble,"
ra spoke up, her expression solemn.
"He possesses hydrokinesis like I do—but far stronger. Several tis stronger, at the very least."
She then explained Alex's identity and recounted the entire battle between herself and Alex.
Naturally, she also reported how Alex had destroyed the forty warships Vulko brought with a re wave of his hand.
After hearing it all, King Orm was plunged into overwhelming shock.
"You're telling … he did all of this by himself?"
"That one man broke through the border forces under your command, ra—and then crushed Vulko's reinforcents as well?"
Orm asked incredulously.
When he first heard the na "Holander," he had subconsciously assud that this person was rely the culprit—
Soone who had accomplished all this by leading a massive force.
But now ra was telling him—
That a single individual had done all of it?
"Are you certain?"
Orm asked again, still unable to believe it.
"Your Majesty, I know this sounds unbelievable—perhaps even absurd—but it all truly happened," Vulko added heavily from the side.
"That's impossible!"
Orm abruptly waved his hand, cutting them off decisively.
"He must have used so other thod. There cannot be such a powerful being in the underwater world!"
Alex's displayed strength completely defied common sense.
For Orm, who hadn't witnessed it personally, it really was too hard to believe.
"Your Majesty—"
"ra, enough. I know what you're trying to say."
Orm interrupted her coldly.
"That Holander may have deceived you, but he won't deceive !"
A chilling look filled Orm's face as he let out a cold snort.
"When I find him, I'll pierce his body with my trident and let him feel the wrath of the King of Atlantis!"
ra and Vulko exchanged a glance, both revealing helpless expressions.
Orm simply didn't believe them.
And Orm had always been arrogant and conceited—no matter how much they said, he wouldn't be convinced.
"Your Majesty, the reason the Holander took the Mother Box is because he has his sights set on the Sacred Trident,"
Vulko paused briefly, then continued his report.
"He wants us to exchange the Sacred Trident for the Mother Box."
"How outrageous!"
Orm instantly flew into a rage.
"That man actually dares to sche like this?!"
The Sacred Trident was the weapon of the first king of Atlantis, possessing the power to command all sea-dwelling races.
Both its symbolic aning and its actual power were of supre importance to Orm.
But that trident had been lost for thousands of years—no one knew where it was.
Otherwise, Orm would have retrieved it himself long ago. Why wait for anyone else?
That Holander… was he an idiot?
Didn't he understand sothing this basic?
"Search!"
"Search for the Holander everywhere!"
"Use the fastest possible ans to find him!"
"I will make him understand what kind of price one pays for provoking Atlantis!"
In his fury, Orm imdiately issued the order.
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