Black Manta humiliated Arthur for a while before using the Sea Monster's teleportation to leave. Luthor had other tasks for him, and he needed to prepare early.
Meanwhile, the Sea Goddess appeared to be sitting idly on the throne, seemingly lost in thought.
Thus, two alien sea tribes came over and dragged away the fish-like Arthur, planning to kill him in a secluded spot at Blood Reef to avoid sullying the sight of the gods.
"Brothers, I beg you, we must protect our own oceans just like you do."
Arthur was dragged along, powerless to resist. The magic tattoos on his body sealed his bloodline power.
Yet, the alien sea tribes couldn't understand what he was saying. Seeing his non-cooperation, they directly grabbed his head and smashed it against the coral reef beside him.
Anyway, they intended to throw Arthur into the universe's deepest cesspit, where the excrement, under liquid pressure, would flood all the openings in his body. Whether the prisoner was conscious or not was irrelevant.
But at that moment, Nu Tao suddenly appeared behind them. With one hard water magic, she stabbed the sea race beating Arthur, chilling him to the bone.
"His life belongs to us."
The surrounding sea tribes had no objections and merely knelt, showing their obedience.
If the gods said Earth sea tribes would live, then they would live.
Arthur looked at the alien sea tribe beside him, who had died with their eyes wide open, their chest cavity a ruin with organs churned into mush.
"You even kill your own people? What kind of queen are you?!"
"I'm not a queen; I'm a god." Nu Tao pulled him up and tossed him back into the arena: "I once was the sea god of the Hydration Star. My oceans were beautiful red. While you still had the Power of Life, you could feel the Earth's oceans were crying in agony. And when Poseidon imprisoned me in the Tomb of the Gods for thousands of years, I felt Hydration Star constantly screaming too."
Nu Tao touched the barnacle-covered throne, sensing the dryness of death, and coldly explained to Arthur:
"I can only feel its apoptosis! Because of my departure, the oceans turned into deserts, and Hydration Star's life became extinct... Now, we will bring the last surviving marine creatures from our three planets, which were also trapped in the Tomb of the Gods with us, to seize your Earth."
Arthur climbed up from the ground: "You don't need to invade Earth. Poseidon is already dead; we can achieve peace."
"No, that's not enough, Atlanteans, that's far from enough. Look, Earth Sinking has already begun."
Nu Tao casually tossed out a water curtain, showing Arthur the dire scenes across the Earth, Atlantis being submerged by purple seawater, his people turning into monsters.
The cold seawater soaked his legs, and he only felt a surge of fury.
Peace wouldn't come by itself; for peace, a bloody war was necessary.
"You will fail, alien scum, the Justice League will defeat you, just like Aryan did thousands of years ago."
"Ha, if it weren't for his and Poseidon's deception, do you think he would have had the power to oppose us?" Nu Tao sneered, flipping the water curtain to change the monitoring location: "Coincidentally, since you mentioned the Justice League, I'll let you see their current plight."
Thus, Arthur saw that onboard a spaceship, a sea god named Zhen Hai Commander was preparing to kill some people.
However, that wasn't the Justice League, but the Titan Squad; Gass was not among the team, and his fate was unknown.
.........
The Sea God Triumvirate couldn't distinguish between the Justice League and other hero teams because the Destruction Legion hadn't provided them with intelligence on this.
And the sea gods didn't care about mortal teams; they were confident in their power and armies.
In reality, even if Gass desperately held them back, it only delayed things by a few seconds.
Donna dragged Raven fleeing, with Garfield and Steel Armor following them, heading back to the Blast Sound Pod, planning to return to Earth.
Zhen Hai was leisurely following them from a distance, occasionally tossing some lightning or torrents, creating obstacles.
He was enjoying the cat-and-mouse chase.
This was the cosmos, surrounded by warships outside. Where else could the pests run to?
So, he wasn't in a hurry; Earth was being submerged, and time and gravity would help them clinch victory.
At this moment, Mars Girl suddenly appeared in front of the team.
"Hi, everyone? Huh? Why is he here?"
Megan originally smiled to greet Donna but was startled by the white-bearded pursuer.
Donna didn't have time to explain, she grabbed Megan and dragged her to run, holding Rachel with her left hand and Megan with her right, her speed unhindered.
...........
Not long after the Titans went skyward to mess around, the scientist team in the submerged Hall of Justice finally met Batman's demands—they found the 'faucet' location.
Batman's threats were highly effective; they didn't know how many percentage points their work efficiency had increased.
It was a mobile, seemingly alive seawater aggregate.
Megan helped Batman contact Superman and Barry, who were already on their way there because the flooding of Metropolis had pushed Superman to his limits.
Now they're going to tackle the source of the problem.
When Superman arrived over the Atlantic Ocean, he could see a giant sea monster slowly moving, and some container ships from who knows where, being swept along like small wooden blocks.
Its size was immense, like a mountain, swimming freely in the sea while spewing millions of cubic meters of purple seawater from its abyss-like mouth every second.
It is this creature that polluted Earth and flooded Metropolis.
Superman dove down, rushing right to its eye, the monster's orange eye resembling a lifeless full moon.
"I don't know what you are, nor do I know what people behind you intend, but one thing you should know..." Superman opened his arms, charging up behind him: "This world is protected by me!"
He exerted a powerful force, clapping his hands before him, instantly turning the several-thousand-meter-high liquid monster into a splash with massive air currents and sound waves.
The sea surged with huge waves, and the massive shockwave spread out from the ocean like a tsunami.
Of course, Superman's actions caused trouble for Barry; after all, he ran across the ocean, and now suddenly there were many 'peaks' appearing on the surface, multiplying his journey by several times!
He arrived slightly later than Superman because Superman was too angry and rushed straight here.
Barry was relatively calm while passing through other places, saving thousands of people in the process.
By the time he arrived, the sea monster was gone, and the influx of seawater had stopped.
"Wow, that commotion, I could hear it from Midtown." Barry was sprinting on the water, somewhat fatigued, his rapid running making him breathless: "Members of the consortium are on their way, as long as we work together, the world can overcome this crisis."
Superman hovered in the air, looking at the sea below, this section of seawater still a deep purple, matching the monster's color.
"Is it dead?"
"Mr. Zhuoyue just contacted me, he said no matter what it is, it won't be so easily destroyed, I guess we're still on its body."
Barry answered while constantly circling to avoid sinking, merely maintaining a speed of over thirty meters per second combined with the unique effects of Divine Speed, the buoyancy of this liquid could support his weight.
However, suddenly the sea monster unexpectedly surfaced before him, opening its wide mouth.
The Flash needed to slow down to turn, and slowing down meant falling into the water, so as he maintained high speed, he couldn't avoid the monster right in front of him.
"Oh no! I can't stop!"
After saying this, he plunged into the sea monster's mouth and disappeared.
"Barry!"
Superman's eyes widened in rage, only now realizing his rashness; he shouldn't have shattered the enemy with sound waves.
Being that the enemy was liquid and this was the ocean,
he should have used his breath to turn the enemy into an ice sculpture, and due to his mistake, Barry...
He flew towards the sea monster, planning to use the correct strategy to rectify the situation, but suddenly someone surfaced from the water below him, grabbing his leg.
Superman found himself unable to break free.
"It's called the Flood Demon, a type of sea monster from my home planet Ancas."
The one surfacing was none other than the white-haired Zhen Hai Commander, summoned by the sea monster when it was attacked.
Zhen Hai arrived through a teleportation gate, ambushing underwater, noticing Superman's loss of focus, he immediately launched a surprise attack.
After grabbing Superman, he used his ability, aware of Kryptonians and even recognizing the S emblem on the chest, the Ain Ael Clan symbol.
Thus the solution was simple, using his power, he summoned filthy, turbid seawater to obscure all Superman's cells, preventing them from absorbing solar energy.
Without the yellow sun, Kryptonians are insignificant.
"They contain the Power of Apoptosis within them, they're my war machines, the Flood Demon is the last one, while I was imprisoned by your Sea God, the other monsters went mad, they destroyed my planet, all thanks to your merciless Sea God!"
Superman felt powerless, seemingly becoming an ordinary person, caught by the opponent like a bird.
Yet he wouldn't give up: "I don't think we will lose to you, you monster."
Zhen Hai Commander curled a lip, switching hands to choke Superman's neck, injecting more filthy seawater into his body.
His home planet was filled with decomposing corpse particles and dirty seawater.
That Kryptonian could still speak? That wasn't good, he was here to seize Earth, not to debate.
And suddenly, Superman's situation worsened, with his retinal cells attacked by the filthy seawater, losing his vision.
"The flood is rising, your planet is doomed, you think you can fight me, courage is commendable, but you're gravely mistaken!"
Zhen Hai Commander tossed the unconscious Superman aside into the purple seawater as if discarding trash; he didn't need to kill Superman, and if Kryptonians mutated, they'd make good henchmen on Earth.
"Join my tribe, this is your last chance, and it's a relatively easy choice."