But now, he suffered such humiliation.
He would remember this grudge.
Amazon, Atlanna... all of you just wait!
Diana and the others looked at Aaron in unison, but Aaron still said coldly, "Sorry, we don't accept apologies."
To ensure Kara grew up strong, Aaron specifically endowed her with some small abilities.
Among them were Spider-Sense and certain extended abilities of psychic perception. This combined to create a sense of malice, allowing her to accurately sense whether someone harbored ill will towards her.
So this incident was not Kara acting up, nor was it a misunderstanding as Atlanna claimed.
Perhaps Atlanna herself was mistaken, but Orvax was absolutely deliberate. Since he dared to try and harm Kara, he naturally had to pay the price.
"Ah?"
Atlanna looked at him in confusion.
She didn't understand why, as Queen, she had already shown such weakness, yet the other party still wouldn't let it go.
Orvax raised his head, clenching his fists and gritting his teeth. "Why?!"
"If apologies work, then if I kill you and then apologize, you'll surely forgive me, right?"
Aaron snorted coldly, "What kind of look is that? I don't like it."
He even dared to look at him with such hateful eyes. It seems he couldn't be allowed to live.
Saying that, Aaron gave Diana a look.
After many days of intimate connection, Diana and Aaron had developed a telepathic understanding. With just a look, she instinctively threw out her Lasso of Truth.
"Damn it, you can't do this to me!"
"I am Orvax, the future King of Atlantis! A direct bloodline descendant of the Sea God!"
"You cannot treat a noble descendant of a god so roughly!"
Orvax was unwilling to be captured without a fight. He drew his trident and thrust it precisely.
At this moment, under immense pressure, he displayed exquisite and unparalleled tridentmanship. He swore this was the most perfect strike of his life, his condition better than ever before.
However, the Lasso of Truth seemed to have eyes. The soft, continuous lasso easily parried the trident, and in a flash of lightning, it tightly bound Orvax.
After Aaron re-forged Diana's Lasso of Truth, it took on his fOrvax.
Diana and Aaron had understood each other for many days, knowing each other's strengths and weaknesses, and often practiced rope art. Thus, she could perfectly control the Lasso of Truth, like a third arm, moving as she wished.
How could Orvax's "clumsy" moves contend with Diana, who was one with her rope?
Orvax's face was taut. He roared to the sky, the power of the bloodline from Poseidon surging within him. The not-so-distant ocean churned with towering waves at his furious roar.
"You will pay for your stupidity!"
"Come and feel the wrath of the Sea God!"
Orvax's face was flushed. He concentrated his mental power to unleash this ultimate attack.
Perhaps these giant waves wouldn't even drown Themyscira, but he believed they would definitely make the other party hesitate, and might even annihilate a large number of Amazon Warriors.
However, Aaron pulled out a drawing board, holding a pen in his right hand. "Kara, do you want to see bubbles?"
Kara immediately laughed, "Yes."
"Then watch closely with your eyes."
Aaron quickly drew. The giant wave rapidly approaching in the distance suddenly exploded, turning into countless colorful bubbles that drifted everywhere with the wind.
Reflecting the sunlight, they sparkled with iridescent light, fOrvaxing colorful rainbows, exceptionally beautiful.
Atlanna was stunned. She had been concentrating on trying to curb the giant wave Orvax created, but no one expected that Aaron, with just a few strokes of his pen, would actually turn the giant wave into billions of bubbles.
It was beautiful.
Unrealistically beautiful.
Terrifyingly beautiful!
Orvax already knew he had bitten off more than he could chew.
It's over.
"Atlanna... Queen, save me! Save me!"
"I am your fiancé! You can't abandon me!"
"Let me go, my father is the Senate President, Atlanna is my fiancée, you cannot kill me, otherwise it will inevitably lead to war between our two nations!"
Aaron shook his head speechlessly, "Still arrogant even when facing death."
He covered Kara's eyes, and also blocked her X-ray vision.
Artemis walked up to Orvax with a long sword, grabbed his shoulder, and beheaded him.
If Orvax had surrendered obediently, he might have only received some punishment, and if he had truly repented, he might even have been released.
But he not only refused to surrender, he even dared to attack them.
Then, sorry, he would be executed on the spot.
Atlanna watched with wide eyes as Orvax was beheaded. His head, as it fell, still had wide-open eyes, filled with terror and panic.
Although she disliked him greatly, she never thought of killing him like this.
War was about to begin.
Atlanna's face turned pale, her mind racing, trying to figure out how to minimize the gravity of this matter.
But no matter how she thought, this situation was unsolvable. It was even questionable whether she could return safely.
Atlanna's gaze swept over the members of her guard, only to see these fully armed soldiers, seemingly oppressed by some invisible aura, trembling on their legs, unable to muster any fighting spirit.
They too had watched their captain, Orvax, die. Even if they returned this time, they would definitely not escape the Senate's retribution.
What awaited them, besides death, was exile to the Desert Kingdom, to endure endless torture and thirst.
At this moment, the ground jungle seemed to come alive, constantly moving. Dozens of thick vines extended out, wrapping around Orvax's body and dragging it away.
And in the jungle, a giant carnivorous plant vaguely grew, swallowing him in one gulp.
At the same time, the faint, tragic scent of blood on the ground was absorbed by the earth, as wafts of rich, sweet floral fragrance drifted on the wind.
All traces of Orvax's existence were completely erased. He vanished without a trace, as if he had never appeared.
Atlanna and the others were surprised, yet also vigilantly looked around.
At some point, this jungle had strangely surrounded them. And within the dense forest, there were even more carnivorous plants and other humanoid beings.
These unknown entities had cut off their retreat, and even made it difficult for them to discern directions.
Aaron released Kara, who had obediently closed her eyes.
Kara looked at her surroundings, blinking. "It smells so good, it must be Pamela's latest flowers. Where's that guy who was full of malice?"
Diana stroked her head. "Of course he was driven away. Themyscira doesn't welcome bad people."
Saying that, Diana's eyes subtly swept over Atlanna and the others. She seemed to be wondering if they were also "bad people."
Atlanna's heart skipped a beat and she quickly waved her hands, "It has nothing to do with me, I was always trying to stop him."
"That's why you can still stand here and talk to us."
Aaron smiled. "Atlanna, he was your fiancé. Do you want revenge for him?"
Atlanna shook her head repeatedly. "I also disliked him very much, but you were indeed impulsive this time. His father is the Senate President of the Kingdom of Atlantis. They will absolutely not let this go."
Donna asked curiously, "Aren't you the Queen? Why does it sound like you can't control the Senate, and are even manipulated by them instead?"
On Themyscira and among other divine races, the authority of the ruler was unquestionable.
Before Aaron arrived, no one could refuse the decisions Hippolyta made.
Even her sister, Antiope, a Great General, could only express her dissatisfaction and vent her emotions.
The logic of Atlantis seemed utterly inverted in their eyes.
Atlanna gave a wry smile and did not answer the question.
After all, there were simply too many reasons involved, and she didn't have the golden trident, so her claim to the throne wasn't entirely legitimate.
At least, in terms of her right to speak, she couldn't command absolute authority.
Atlanna said tactfully, "Although from my position, I don't want conflict to arise between Atlantis and Themyscira, but now..."
"With Orvax's Death, Atlantis may initiate war. I cannot stop it."
Although saying this might put herself in danger, Atlanna still couldn't help but warn them.
"If you want to fight, then fight." Aaron's expression was very casual.
Mere Atlantis.
Let alone an Atlantis already divided into seven and greatly weakened, even in its complete fOrvax, it couldn't be a match for the current Themyscira.
Don't let Gwenpool and the others constantly complain about being short-staffed fool you. In reality, Themyscira currently has several demigod and god-level powerhouses.
Diana, Anzu, Reika and Gwenpool.
Once they went all out, even if Poseidon, an ancient main god, came personally, he would not fare well.
As for the current Atlantis? It's not that Aaron looked down on them, they simply weren't good enough.
Atlanna said, "I will try my best to persuade them not to act recklessly. At least I will prevent them from uniting with other undersea kingdoms."
Aaron waved his hand. The jungle maze summoned by Pamela instantly parted, revealing a straight path to the sea.
Atlanna even saw the dozens-of-meters-tall forest guardians, ancient and towering treants, stepping into another piece of land, rooting themselves and disguising themselves as trees.
"Is it the power of nature? Could it be the God of the Forest, the God of Nature?"
Atlanna returned to the sea with a heavy heart. Once back in the ocean, the invisible and intangible oppressive feeling faded.
However, Atlanna felt no relief.
This calm felt like the prelude to a stOrvax.
The young Queen faced yet another challenge after her ascension.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
Themyscira.
Aaron returned with Gwenpool and the others.
On the way, they met Hippolyta. The latter, hearing the news, immediately ordered Antiope to mobilize the Amazon Warriors.
They did not blame Aaron and the others for unilaterally killing Orvax and starting a war. Upon hearing that the guy was even planning to harm Kara, Hippolyta and Antiope even wished they could have gone to the scene themselves to strike Orvax down with a sword.
They were the ones who had been with Kara the longest. They even regarded her as their own daughter, doting on her even more than Diana, which often left the latter quite speechless.
The Amazonian warriors quickly gathered. Their numbers weren't many, only tens of thousands.
An all-female army, they were the most beautiful sight on Themyscira.
"When are we going to teach those bastards a lesson?" Antiope looked at Aaron, eager to try.
"Wait."
Aaron's expression was calm as he motioned for them to settle down.
While playing with Kara, he observed the Kingdom of Atlantis beneath the Atlantic Ocean. He was doing two things at once, seeing Atlanna and hearing their conversation.
A fierce conflict erupted within the Senate, and Atlanna was clearly unable to restrain a Senate who had lost his son in old age.
Even though she was the Queen, she was reprimanded so thoroughly that it seemed her throne was nothing but a joke.
After a while, Atlanna hung her head, her face full of helplessness.
The Senate had clearly won this debate. Aaron even saw the triumphant and sinister face of the Senate.
He waved his hand heavily, "All forces, attack!"
Although the Amazonian warriors were brave in battle and were even the Divine Warriors chosen by Zeus, they were not gods after all. They could certainly swim, but fighting underwater was a fantasy.
However, this was not difficult for Aaron. Not to mention the power of the Vanir, who were masters of storms and oceans, and the power of the Primordial Giant, who controlled the sea, which he had obtained long ago.
Even without using his authority over the ocean, he had ten thousand ways to level the sea.
"I say: All the Amazons shall be like fish, able to freely traverse the waters, breathe freely, and ignore the 'Power of Water'."
Aaron spoke lightly, and these seemingly ordinary words exuded a rule-level power.
This power, divided into thousands upon thousands, surged into the Amazonian warriors under Aaron's direct or indirect control, whether on Themyscira or beyond.
The power of God bestowed upon them the ability to traverse the four seas and view the ocean as flat ground.
In the minds of all Amazons, they vaguely perceived the changes in their bodies.
Looking at the boundless sea, which contained endless waves, they had a misconception that the sea seemed to be their home?
They had an urge to jump directly into the water, but they forcibly controlled this "delusion."
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