The navy of Saint Roman was not strong, but a mere navy had little effect, especially when it struggled to compare with the merfolk who resided in the deep sea.
Due to the increasingly close relationship with the dragon race, humanity's magical prowess had significantly improved. Furthermore, the dean of the magic academy had begun large-scale training methods for low-level holy knights and continuously simplified the training methods for low-level mages, leading to an explosive growth in the number of new mages.
As for the colossal aerial battleships, although their construction had commenced, they were still not completed.
Such aerial battleships were considered absolute high-tech products for humanity at the current stage.
Xiao Xun did not wish for the demon god Nero to remain trapped in the outer realm.
He knew in his heart that a battle with the demon god Nero was only a matter of time.
At this moment, the Watchsea was bathed in vast, rippling azure waves, appearing calm and beautiful under the sun.
Yet, who knew how many risks lay hidden beneath the azure waters.
Xiao Xun stood by the coastline. Yesterday, he had received news that the Silver Armor Army had conquered a large portion of the beastmen's land with overwhelming force. The Frostfall tribe, who shared a precarious relationship with the beastmen, had not dispatched any troops this time, and the reason remained unknown.
Suddenly, a beautiful mermaid appeared before Xiao Xun, interrupting his thoughts.
Before Xiao Xun could draw his sword, the mermaid quickly spoke, "It was Her Majesty the Queen who sent me. Her Majesty knew Your Highness would surely come, so she had already set up reconnaissance magic in this vicinity to sense Your Highness's location."
"What exactly does Bossedur want to do?" Xiao Xun couldn't help but frown. Bossedur had previously made an agreement with him and Mestor, yet she had used a scheme to help the King of Greed summon the demon god Nero.
However, her sending only a single mermaid suggested she had no intention of fighting him. Otherwise, an army of merfolk and deep-sea octopuses would have appeared instead.
"Her Majesty the Queen sent me to inform Your Highness that what is happening in this seabed has nothing to do with her. She also did not expect such a situation to arise. Now, the new Dark Gate has been completed, the demon god Nero is about to return, and the deep-sea octopus army has already been assembled."
"What is happening in this seabed has nothing to do with her?" Xiao Xun let out a cold laugh. With Bossedur's power, she absolutely could not have been kept in the dark about what was happening in the sea, especially something like rebuilding the Dark Gate. Sensing Xiao Xun's attitude, the mermaid quickly lowered her voice, "Although our mermaid tribe is spread throughout the entire ocean, there is one sea area we cannot enter… it is this area before us, which belongs to the domain of the King of Greed."
"I understand… your Queen sent you here just to tell me this?" Xiao Xun gazed intently into the deep, dark seabed, but unfortunately, he could still see nothing.
"This is part of it. Her Majesty the Queen also sent me to inform Your Highness that the demon god Nero has already returned, and he has brought back many strange, giant dragons." the mermaid quickly explained.
Xiao Xun frowned slightly upon hearing this. "The demon god Nero brought back other dragons?"
"Do you know what kind of dragons they are?"
The mermaid shook her head, "I do not know. With my status, I cannot approach that area at all. The previous information was all told to me by Her Majesty the Queen."
"I understand. Thank you for your reminder." Xiao Xun nodded. Regardless of Bossedur's intentions, she had indeed provided him with some useful information.
"Then I shall leave. My appearance here could easily attract the attention of the Great Kraken," the mermaid whispered and then disappeared into the seawater.
Xiao Xun had prepared for battle, but to his surprise, the King of Greed never appeared. "Is the King of Greed hiding in the seabed, refusing to come out? Is he planning some scheme…"
At the edge of his vision, some black dots began to appear, and then those dots grew larger. It turned out the dragon race had arrived.
Perhaps due to their intense hatred and apprehension of the King of Greed, it was Pell who led Xiao Xun's Polgad and some other dragons to rush over at full speed. The remaining younger dragons, with their slower flight speeds, would arrive later.
However, the sight of over twenty dragons circling in the sky was still magnificent.
Xiao Xun informed Pell of the news regarding the King of Greed.
"The King of Greed is still hiding in the seabed?" Pell gazed intently at the seabed, but even with her power, she couldn't see through this sea area.
"The King of Greed is likely gathering his strength."
"King of Greed, do you now only dare to hide in the seabed like a mouse? Are you preparing to hide for ten thousand years like those merfolk?" Polgad roared angrily at the seawater.
"It's good that he doesn't dare to come out. It gives us enough time to prepare."
The initially calm sea surface began to ripple, and a faint crimson glow appeared in the deep seabed.
Then, the entire sea seemed to explode, and a massive vortex quickly formed, instilling fear and unease.
From the depths of the vortex, a colossal black shadow grew nearer, as if a monstrous creature was emerging from the seabed.
"He actually came out…"
Xiao Xun couldn't help but glance at Polgad. He hadn't expected that a single remark from him would actually provoke the King of Greed out.
Although Polgad's face was filled with rage, he was also acutely aware of the King of Greed's power and immediately prepared himself for an all-out battle.
The dragons that accompanied him also circled above the sea, ready to fight at any moment.
The black shadow from the seabed had become extremely enormous and finally roared out of the sea surface.
A large amount of seawater was flung into the sky, then fell like a torrential rain.
However, what emerged from the deep sea was not the tentacled King of Greed, but a colossal, gray-black dragon.
In the next moment, another gray-black dragon surged out from beneath the sea surface, and beneath the water's surface, countless other black shadows were rapidly rushing upwards.
Xiao Xun narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the gray-black dragons. These gray-black dragons were likely the dragons that the demon god Nero had brought back from the outer realm, as mentioned by the merfolk.
However, Xiao Xun was not particularly concerned about this.
Gray-black dragons continued to emerge from the seabed, creating a flurry of splashes. However, soon the emerging flying dragons from the seabed began to decrease in size, and eventually, even gray-black wyrms the size of Destroyers flew out of the water.
Polgad and Pell also breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the dragon race had been significantly weakened through continuous battles, adult dragons could still gather in sufficient numbers, and the younglings were in the tens of thousands, fully capable of confronting these gray-black dragons.
Xiao Xun felt even more at ease. Besides the dragon race as allies, he also possessed a massive fleet of submarines and an air force!
The sea surface began to calm down.
The gray-black dragons that had emerged from the water flapped their wings in mid-air. Although they all bore fierce and ferocious expressions, they did not attack the dragon race before them.