Trafford's Trading Club

Chapter 1698: Chapter 48: Bashacrown Prince

Unlike the general Sea Demon Clan, the royal family among the Sea Monster Clan looks much closer to the People of the Underwater City… The royal family’s skin has a thick keratin layer—even its face is like this, appearing extremely rough.

The royal family resembles the statue of the Sea Demon Clan ancestors standing at the entrance of the Undersea City.

This seems to be the result of deliberately maintaining the purity of bloodline for generations.

This time, the one coming to take over Longgang is the 20th prince under the siren king—though he is a prince, his status is not much higher than some elite sea monster warriors.

This 20th prince is probably on the outskirts of the royal power of the Sea Demon Royal Court, otherwise, he wouldn’t come here for this dangerous mission.

Considering the grievances between the Undersea City and the Sea Monster Clan, saying that such a handover mission would not be dangerous is something the entire Sea Demon Clan would not believe.

The Bashacrown Prince has been looking quite pale on this journey—he was recommended by several of his elder brothers to undertake this mission. Otherwise, he would be well in his territory now.

He is already far away from that place and is only focused on managing his territory well, letting the citizens of the tribe live peacefully.

Every massive offense by the Sea Monster Clan against the Undersea City draws warriors from various territories… It’s just that in recent years, warriors contributed by this 20th prince’s territory have never reached the average number—that seems to be why he has been resented by several princes.

What to do when the 20th prince’s warriors aren’t enough… The Sea Demon Royal Court is eager to fight, so naturally, it increases the conscription from other princes or lords’ territories.

Although this is definitely the true reason, the 20th prince Bashacrown really can’t explain—his territory is indeed closest to this Somna Trench… almost at his doorstep.

Because of this, the attitude of the Royal Court is, if you don’t go, who else can be sent…

“Your Highness, there’s movement up ahead! It should be people from the Undersea City!”

The voice of a subordinate came, and the 20th prince snapped out of his daze, lazily giving orders, “Send a Nightmare Sea Demon to make initial contact with the Undersea City people… If there’s no issue, bring them to this place for the handover. I really don’t want to go any further, let’s wait here.”

His Royal Highness the Prince has always been lazy, which is well-known. But the warriors involved in this mission are all from the 20th prince’s territory, loyal to the lord, so they said nothing, and soon a Nightmare Sea Demon went ahead.

The remaining sea monster warriors quickly prepared a resting area for this 20th prince—a few Giant Shark Sea Demons swiftly dug out a cave and spread it with a sort of deep-sea algae.

Inside the cave, Bashacrown Prince was squatting, folding his hands inside his sleeves—the clothes His Royal Highness wore were different from the battle armor-style clothes mostly made of fish skin within the Sea Monster Clan.

Obviously made of some woven material, covering the entire body, and the sleeves were exceptionally wide—this was a clothing style he had once picked up from a scroll-like animal skin during a walk on the seabed… This seemingly came from the surface.

The prince immediately found it attractive, spent a long time having the citizens of his territory work together to create one—even when torn, he would mend it, even if torn again, he would mend it repeatedly, unwilling to discard it.

At this moment, the Bashacrown Prince threw out an item from his sleeve.

It was a metal box only palm-sized… This was what had been urgently sent from the Sea Demon Royal Court—to exchange for the already exposed identity, Longgang, captured alive by the Undersea City government.

The Bashacrown Prince didn’t know what was inside this metal box—he studied the box carefully but couldn’t find a way to open it.

The metal box seemed like one whole piece, with no gaps to be found whatsoever—but something was definitely inside, for he had shaken it when he got it.

“What on earth is inside this thing… And what is Longgang’s true identity…” His Royal Highness muttered to himself whimsically, “It would be great if there was a bed here…”

He realized he had truly been away from the Royal Court for too long, becoming somewhat disconnected—otherwise, he likely wouldn’t have been sent here, somewhat having the suspicion of being treated as cannon fodder.

His Royal Highness the Prince started thinking.

His Royal Highness’s thoughts reached a fever pitch.

His Royal Highness emitted snores from a deep sleep…

“Your Highness, Your Highness, people from the Undersea City have arrived! Your Highness—!” The voice of a Giant Shark Sea Demon suddenly came through.

Bubbles from the 20th prince’s nose suddenly burst; His Royal Highness opened his eyes and realized he was still squatting in the algae-lined cave, startled, he stood up quickly, tidied up his robe full of patches, then hurriedly walked out.

“Oh! Have they arrived? Come on, line up! Although we have fewer numbers this time, definitely don’t let the Undersea City folks see that I hardly have a few at my disposal. Keep up your spirits…” Bashacrown Prince’s voice suddenly stalled.

Not far in front, a group of Undersea City people, not numbering much more than his side, was staring blankly, looking at this Sea Monster Clan prince with strange eyes.

Ahem.

His Royal Highness lightly coughed twice, then instinctively flung his sleeve, with his hands behind his back, walked with head held high, “You are the envoy this time?”

Lady Kaia turned her head to glance at the royal member of the Sea Monster Clan but said nothing, merely waved her hand.

Instantly, two Undersea City warriors carried Longgang from the rear of the team to the front.

“Is he Longgang?” His Royal Highness frowned.

Lady Kaia replied calmly, “Do you not know if he is Longgang?”

Bashacrown Prince shook his head saying, “I, um… I haven’t seen him before, nor heard of him either, how would I know if you Undersea City folks randomly found someone to impersonate him? You need to prove to me that this is Longgang, otherwise I won’t proceed with this handover.”

Professor Jin Kailun suddenly thought, fearing that perhaps the Sea Demon Royal Court had sent out a fool this time.

He suddenly felt a bit uneasy, as logically, if the Sea Demon Royal Court valued Longgang, they should have sent a more competent envoy.

“How do you want us to prove it?” Lady Kaia frowned.

His Royal Highness thought for a while, then kept staring at Longgang with his head down, and walked over… Now the Undersea City warriors raised their magic energy cannons, aimed at His Royal Highness.

His Royal Highness waved his hand, saying discontentedly, “What’s the nervousness about, I’m just looking! Can’t I look? See, I’m coming over alone, what are you afraid of? Truly timid.”

Lady Kaia waved her hand, so everyone lowered their weapons.

His Royal Highness squatted to the ground at this point, looked up at Longgang’s lowered face… and kept watching for quite some time.

Lady Kaia grew rather impatient, then spoke in a deep voice, “Are you done looking?”

“No!”

Lady Kaia looked coldly at the side of the Sea Demon Clan and continued, “Besides this guy, is there anyone else among you who can make decisions?”

A group of ocean warriors was lazily shaking their heads and yawning—at the back, two were even seen coiled on the ground, fast asleep.

“Forget it, let’s proceed this way.” His Royal Highness the Prince stood up and took out the golden box from his sleeve, “This is what you wanted, alright… Give me this guy back, and our transaction is done.”

Lady Kaia didn’t immediately take it… she couldn’t quite understand this sea demon prince’s regulations.

The prince simply threw the metal box onto the ground, “You expect me to prove this box is genuine, which I can’t do, and besides, you can’t prove this guy is Longgang either.”

Lady Kaia signaled with her eyes, and a warrior from the Undersea City carefully picked up the metal box.

After waiting for a moment, there was no change.

Lady Kaia thought for a moment, then directly gave the order to release the person. A giant shark sea demon came forward, picked up the muddled Longgang, and carried him.

“Hmm, got the person, time to go back.” Bashacrown Prince nodded with satisfaction and then jumped onto the back of the giant shark sea demon carrying Longgang—His Royal Highness the Prince sat on another part of the shoulder of the giant shark sea demon, looking like they were about to leave.

Professor Jin Kailun looked at the transaction in disbelief… it was so frivolous that he didn’t even know where to begin criticizing.

The initially tense atmosphere gradually dissipated from the moment this ocean royal crawled out of the cave.

“Wait!” Professor Jin Kailun suddenly spoke.

The giant shark sea demon, already turned away, instinctively stopped and turned around… Bashacrown Prince sitting on its shoulder asked confusedly, “What, is there anything else?”

“After you go back, how do you plan to handle Longgang?” Professor Jin Kailun asked gravely.

“How would I know?” Bashacrown Prince replied lazily, “My task is just to send Longgang back… how he ends up after being sent back is none of my business. You old man seem very concerned about his fate?”

Professor Jin Kailun remained silent… beside him, Lady Kaia’s gaze occasionally flickered with a hint of coldness.

“Is there nothing else? If not, I’ll leave?” Bashacrown Prince shook his head, patted the giant shark sea demon on the head, and the giant shark sea demon indeed turned and went back.

Not until the group of sea demon clan had walked far did Professor Jin Kailun come to his senses, incredulously asking Lady Kaia, “Is it over?”

Lady Kaia held the metal box from the transaction and pondered, “It seems so… it certainly went smoothly. But this thing doesn’t seem fake.”

Professor Jin Kailun frowned, “Didn’t the Emperor tell you what was exchanged for Longgang?”

Lady Kaia replied indifferently, “His Majesty didn’t mention any exchanged items. His Majesty only instructed to return Longgang to the people of the Sea Demon Clan.”

“No explanation?” The professor couldn’t help but fall into contemplation… his intuition told him that Louis XXXIX wouldn’t make it this simple.

But at that moment, some tremors indeed came from beneath their feet.

Soon after, a stalactite fell from above, narrowly missing Professor Jin Kailun… his heart skipped as vibrations appeared all around, and pieces from those thousand-year stone columns began to fall.

“No good, this place is going to collapse!” Professor Jin Kailun shouted.

No sooner had he spoken when they heard chaotic footsteps ahead… the crowd looked over and saw that sea demon royal, incredibly returning with a group of sea demons.

Lady Kaia waved her hand, and a group of heavily armed warriors from the Undersea City immediately raised their weapons and awaited the order to fire.

“Run—!! Run!!” The sea demon royal at that moment stood on the shoulder of the giant shark demon, waving his hands and shouting, “Run—!! There’s evil spirits! Quick!”

Evil spirits?

The people of the Undersea City were shocked!

Among the group of sea demon clan, there indeed seemed to be a pair of enormous eyes… it was a massive head, smashing through the path behind the sea demon envoy!

The so-called evil spirit, its giant mouth opening wide enough to swallow the entire sea demon envoy!

On the ground, four thick tentacles suddenly shot out, directly wrapping up four Nightmare Sea Demons, and sending them into the evil spirit’s mouth—swallowed whole.

The evil spirit’s mouth with round layers of sharp teeth inside and out, like a shredder, instantly crushed the bodies of the Nightmare Sea Demons into pulp… the scene was unsettling.

“Lord Kaia?” A member of the Gendarme Team at that moment was sweating profusely, looking at Kaia for the fire command.

Lady Kaia took a deep breath, then suddenly turned and shouted, “Run!”

The enormous creature appearing inside the abandoned mine clearly couldn’t be fought with their current equipment, so the group had no choice but to flee for their lives.

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Boss Luo and the maid discovered the Flywheel left by Konghai at a huge fissure in the rock wall.

Konghai was not there, clearly having ventured into the giant fissure.

He said something was calling him, and he was following this call deeper… Boss Luo thought for a moment and placed the Flywheel at this spot too.

The maid waved her hand, and a soft yellow glow lit up the dark crack ahead.

This fissure was like a long corridor, as Boss Luo walked through it, he saw that the walls on both sides had many buried remains.

The appearance of these remains varied, not seeming to belong to the same species, yet they were all immense… like some kind of monster.