Chapter 2466 - The Underwater River at the Bottom of the Sea (1/2)
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
“It’s too dark now. Should we wait until morning?” Zhao Manyan suggested.
“Brother Zhao, if we wait until morning, we will have less than twenty hours left. We have to inform Brother Fan and Mu Bai of what we have discovered so they have enough time to stop the Forbidden Curse,” Zhang Xiaohou answered.
Zhao Manyan knocked his head on a Salt Rock nearby. He wished he could just knock himself to death. Why did these guys always drag him into life-and-death situations?
“So what exactly are you looking for that will prove it’s a trap set up by the sea monsters?” Zhao Manyan asked him.
He was clueless about the entire situation, especially the reason why Zhang Xiaohou was so confident that the Forbidden Curse was a trap. Where did he learn it was a part of a conspiracy by the sea monsters?
“I encountered an unusual creature in a trench. We’ll refer it to as the Trench Demon for now. Its intelligence is on par with humans, and it also has abilities similar to the Curse and Psychic Elements. It can consume human souls to obtain their knowledge after killing them,” Zhang Xiaohou said.
Yang Xiajie was definitely not the first victim of the Trench Demon. It must have killed a high-ranking military officer and obtained lots of information from him, including the operation of the Forbidden Curses!
“The sea monsters already know we are using a Forbidden Curse?!” Zhao Manyan blurted out in surprise.
Zhang Xiaohou nodded. The sea monsters had long learned their secrets. They even knew about the Forbidden Curse before Zhang Xiaohou did!
Zhang Xiaohou’s troop was given the mission to find a suitable target for the Forbidden Curse. The operation involving a Forbidden Curse would obviously take the military a long time to plan and discuss after being proposed.
Zhang Xiaohou’s troop had only learned about the Forbidden Curse at a later phase in the operation, after the countdown started.
Zhang Xiaohou was spooked when he learned the Trench Demon had already known about the Forbidden Curse before the countdown even started!
The operation was kept confidential. Outsiders might be able to tell a huge operation was taking place on the Giant Clock Mountain, but no one would ever link it to a Forbidden Curse. The people had been evacuated for ‘other reasons’.
Even Super Mages did not know much about Forbidden Curses, let alone other people and Mages!
The Trench Demon obviously did not learn about the Forbidden Curse by stealing the information from a nobody.
The sea monsters were prepared for it!
“I have to go to the bottom of the sea to look for a silver vein.”
“A silver vein at the bottom of the sea? Are we trying to make a fortune?”
“Brother Zhao, can we focus on the Forbidden Curse? We might die if we don’t do our job properly. What’s the point of being rich if we won’t survive it?”
The two snuck into the area of the cliffs while they were talking.
The isolated sea stacks were some distance apart from one another. Each stack was like a dark mysterious tower rooted to the bottom of the sea.
Zhang Xiaohou and Zhao Manyan were both Water Mages. They were able to move freely in the water without worrying about oxygen or water resistance.
They dove into the sea rapidly, but it was too dark at the bottom of the sea. They could only see a limited range, even with night vision.
Zhang Xiaohou was having doubts as they reached the bottom of the sea. Everything looked perfectly normal. There was no sign of a deep trench, nor did they see any special creatures.
Zhang Xiaohou had done a quick scan on the surface. The Dragon King Krill had gathered in a specific area like fish in a pond, but the sea was a lot bigger than a pond. The number of the Dragon King Krill there could easily take out a county without alerting anyone!