At the bottom of the bottomless abyss, Arthur had been lying motionless on the boulder for a week. In fact, he had already woken up a while ago, but he found that the energy in this place was far purer than anywhere else that he had been, so Arthur had been contented to lay where he was and absorb the purest energy he has felt in his life. It was just a bonus that it also helped him in restoring his physical condition.
After a week of healing, Arthur's body not only reached its peak condition, but he also felt that his mental power has finally broken through the bottleneck that had been plaguing him. His hearing has improved tremendously, hearing small sounds at a greater distance even underwater, and his ability to control water has also gotten stronger. Finally, he can push past the 2 minutes limit for his water abilities, and use it in actual combat.
Originally, Arthur wanted to continue to practice, but he felt that the power calling him was getting stronger and stronger, the pressure it exerted on his mind was growing stronger and stronger, so he had no choice but to stop practicing.
Arthur stood up and looked at the surrounding environment. There was a pool of fiery red magma under the boulder, and there were no living beings around due to the extremely high temperatures of the seawater. Arthur didn't even feel the heat, which showed stronger his body and powers have gotten.
Opposite him, was a huge mountain. Although it is far away, he could still see it extremely clearly across the canyon, which is enough to prove how powerful his eyesight has gotten.
There is a huge dark cave on the opposite mountain, where he could feel the mysterious power that had been calling him from.
Without hesitation, Arthur swam towards the cave, no matter what happened, he had to figure out who or what had been calling him.
The closer he get to the cave, the more he saw just how humongous it was. He doesn't don't know how the mouth of the cave, which is several thousand meters high, was able to be formed. The cave is so deep and dark that even Arthur's powerful eyesight can't see what's inside.
After Arthur entered the cave, he swam for a long time. There was nothing in the cave, it was empty. He noticed that the cave became narrower the further he swam. It felt like the whole cave was a funnel.
Finally as he reached to the end of the cave, Arthur saw the scene in front of him, it was a huge statue of a monster, hundreds of meters high, with a horse-headed snake and eight tentacles like an octopus. It is the Pegasus mount of Poseidon.
And the feeling of what called him came from under the statue. Arthur swam over and finally saw what summoned him. It was a pitch-black weapon stuck deep inside the rock, the rocks around the weapon were densely packed with cracks.
Pull me out.
What's this? Arthur felt the strong call from the weapon like a sound wave. The moment Arthur grasped the weapon, the call stopped, and he only felt the weapon in his hand trembling continuously.
The weapon trembling got more and more violent and it buzzed in his hand. Arthur gritted his teeth and with a mighty heave he pulled out the weapon. It turned out to be a trident. There was a violent vibration from the trident, and Arthur looked at it in confusion before his eyes widened in awe. The black surface of the trident began peeling away like flower petals, revealing the golden metal inside.
Arthur looked at the trident in his hand with a look of reverence, as if looking at piece of priceless art. The dark golden metal of the trident was engraved with runes, which looked simple and mysterious. The trident had long since stopped vibrating and became quiet. He adjusted the trident in his hand, feeling the warmth of its golden shaft in his hand and through his entire body.
Suddenly, the entire cave shook violently, and the cracks where the trident was stuck started getting bigger and bigger, and the horse-headed snake-body Pegasus statue above the trident also started rapidly shattering. Huge boulders fell from the cave ceiling, and Arthur seeing his life in danger quickly accelerated and fled outside the cave at supersonic speeds.
Arthur found that his speed had doubled compared to before. As he accelerated faster and faster, the trident sent a warmth of energy up his arm and through his body. It seems that the speed increase was a gift of the trident, good baby!
The moment Arthur exited the cave, it shattered with a loud boom and collapsed completely. Countless boulders fell into the hot magma, billowing thick smoke permeated the ocean floor, and the entire abyss shook.
The people of the kingdom of Atlantis, not far from the abyss, felt the violent tremor of the earth, and Namor in the palace also felt the tremor. earthquake? He thought No, there was never an earthquake in Atlantis, what happened? Could it be related to the bottomless abyss?
The ground in the bottomless abyss was trembling, boulders were falling, and a golden figure shot at subsonic speed upwards, water rushing and failing to fill up the space his body occupied.
"Roar...roar!!!!" Arthur heard the roar of monsters coming from above his head, Arthur sped up and continued swimming upwards, only to see huge figures protruding from the caves with black stone walls in the abyss canyon.
They are the giant Haiyang monsters, some look like crabs, some look like octopuses, some look like lizards, but they all look scary. Their bodies are huge, each one like a hill, it was clear that they were all sleeping, but the violent seaquake woke them up.
Arthur kept dodging the attacks of the monsters at an extremely fast speed. Just as he escaped the pliers of the giant crab, he suddenly saw a huge mouth full of teeth biting him. It was an ugly giant lantern fish stuck on the stone wall, and if Arthur's reaction ability and explosive speed hadn't been greatly improved by the trident, he would have certainly died and become fish food.
While Arthur was still in shock, a tentacle suddenly emerged from a crack in the stone wall and entangled Arthur. The speed of the tentacle was so fast that even Arthur couldn't react. Arthur, who was caught, only felt a huge force as the pressure from the tentacle tried to crush his steel-like body. Arthur was bound by the tentacles, and he couldn't escape no matter how hard he tried or struggled.
He saw the tentacle monster that was protruding from the crack. It was a dark giant red octopus. No wonder it could get through the narrow crack, it had no bones. The octopus opened its huge mouth full of rows of sharp, tiny teeth, and brought Arthur to its mouth ready to make him into Atlantean sushi. Seeing that he was about to be eaten by the octopus, the octopus suddenly stopped moving as if it had been frozen in the next second.
The tentacles of the octopus slowly released Arthur, and he jumped onto the head of the octopus with a powerful leap. The giant octopus continued to move forward.
Arthur had used his mental power to control the giant octopus and make it let him go. Arthur's mental power was much stronger than before. After obtaining the golden trident, the trident had amplified his mental energy greatly. It's the same as the trident in the Aquaman movie he had seen.
Arthur held the trident tightly in both hands, and circles of mental fluctuations radiated out to the surroundings like radar. All the giant creatures that approached Arthur were suddenly being controlled by Arthur. The giant octopus and the group of giant creatures followed behind, as more and more creatures around joined them.
As the team of monsters grew, Arthur's ability to control the creatures reached its limit. His current ability was not enough to control thousands of creatures like the Neptune in the movie. He already the fatigue from controlling so much of them.
Finally, the giant octopus carried Arthur out of the abyss completely, and Arthur became the first person in a century to leave the abyss alive.
Arthur stood on the head of the giant octopus, followed by a group of giant creatures, looking at the Atlantis castle in the distance with a blank expression. He eyes flashed gold.
"Atlantis, I'm back!"