American comics: I became a god at the beginning, I chose to practice both science and magic

Unlike the surface world's ambiguous attitude towards faith, the underwater people firmly believe in gods, and they have solid evidence to prove that gods really exist.

Therefore, the hierarchy based on bloodline is unbreakable here. The nobles are nobles, and the commoners are commoners. The gap between them cannot be bridged. The classes are not only solidified, but also fixed.

To put it bluntly, when it comes to the class issues of its citizens, the Undersea Kingdom is not much better than India.

The only difference between them is that the underwater kingdom has advanced technology and extremely high productivity, and does not need to drive 99% of the livestock to support only 1% of the people like India does.

Therefore, even though the status of common people is lower than that of nobles, they do not need to do menial jobs like the untouchables in India, such as shoveling excrement and pouring out night incense.

However, there are still restrictions on positions or rights, such as civilians cannot hold military positions, cannot enter parliament, do not have the right to vote, etc.

Among all the class divisions, there is another class below all the underwater people, that is, the mixed-race people, the mixed-race people of the seabed and the surface.

This is also why Arthur was not welcomed by the Atlanteans at first, and why Atlanna was exiled.

As a mixed-race, Arthur is of the lowest bloodline, but the other half of his Atlantean bloodline happens to be the noblest royal bloodline, which makes the underwater people feel conflicted about him.

But when the Council of Nobles discussed how to deal with Arthur, the half royal blood in him was the important reason why he was able to survive to adulthood. Even if he was the lowest half-blood, he was still a descendant of Poseidon.

As for Atlanna, she was unlucky.

In the eyes of the underwater people, Atlanna, as the queen, having an affair with the surface people is polluting the royal blood and the bloodline left by the great god Poseidon. This is a heinous act.

It was precisely because of this that a queen was tried by Parliament and ultimately thrown into the trench to fend for herself.

One can imagine how deeply rooted the class concept of the underwater people is, and how powerful the idea of theocracy is here.

Dane realized this at the time, so he appeared in front of the underwater people with the power of Poseidon.

If he were just a surface person, then no matter how strong he was, the underwater people would still discriminate against him in their hearts even though they would obey him on the surface.

But he is a god, and he controls the power of the sea god, so he not only becomes the highest-level god, but also the ancestor of the underwater people.

This is why King Zebel not only did not stop Mera from getting close to him, but even intended to bring them together.

In front of God, the king is nothing...

Due to the extreme abundance of resources, under normal circumstances, there is no gap between nobles and common people in the underwater world, at least on the surface.

Only at a higher level, where ordinary people don’t even have the qualifications to know, can they see that this civilization is a privilege that belongs to the rulers.

For example, the golden trident in Arthur's hand is a divine weapon that only people of royal blood are qualified to wield. Ordinary civilians will be turned into ashes by the magic lightning on the trident, let alone using it. Even if they just touch it lightly, they will be struck by the magic lightning on the trident and turned into ashes.

Therefore, this trident became a symbol of royal power. Only the king could lift it or even use it.

And the common people, those who do not have royal blood in their blood, are not even qualified to touch it. This is the absolute contempt of the superiors for the inferiors.

If civilization had not been on the verge of extinction, the arrogance of the underwater people would never allow them to communicate on an equal footing with the surface people. Even the order of King Arthur could not change their inherent discrimination against the surface people.

After all, he is a half-blood. If you let Om give this order, maybe the Council of Nobles will consider it carefully.

Misfortune comes with blessings, and blessings come with misfortunes.

An extinction-level invasion by Apocalypse not only nearly wiped out the nation of the underwater people, but also destroyed their pride, their previously accustomed social system, and ideology.

Nowadays, communication between the underwater world and the surface world is much easier than in Dane's world. In the face of foreign enemies, whether they are underwater people or surface people, they are all Earthlings.

With this consensus, many things can be discussed further.

In this situation, Arthur, a so-called half-blood with blood from two worlds, has become popular.

He also used this as an excuse to get rid of the mountain of documents and return to the surface world to engage in political activities with the surface people as the King of Atlantis.

But Dane knew that the guy actually did nothing serious. He just worked in the Justice League with other members every day to do justice. He preferred being a superhero to being a king.

Batman basically helps him in his so-called diplomatic activities with the surface civilization. As for Arthur, he can only drink, say "OK, OK, no problem", and then stamp the documents.

Dane suspected that if Batman ever wanted to buy Atlantis for a dollar, Arthur might sign the deal.

Mera, the Queen of the Sea, obviously knew his temper, so after Arthur left Atlantis, she took the initiative to take over the government affairs. Now she is the one trapped in the paperwork.

Fortunately, she already had rich experience in this. Before Arthur came, she was the one doing these jobs. It was no big deal to do it again now, although it was a little more than before.

But recently, Queen Mera of the Sea has been troubled by something.

Because she was busy with government affairs, she had no private life, and it was inevitable that she had some endocrine disorders after being away from home for a long time.

It wasn't a big deal, she was already used to being alone.

But she didn't know when it started, but she developed a mysterious connection with Mera, her counterpart from another world. This feeling is hard to describe.

She could occasionally feel some strong stimulation from Mera's body. For example, a few days ago, Mera was shot in the abdomen by Superman. At that moment, Queen Mera also felt a strange tingling in her lower abdomen.

If Dane knew this, he would be able to give the answer. This is actually the same connection between Louise and her isotope, which is the phenomenon of quantum entanglement between the two isotopes.

Theoretically, the more similar the personalities of two isotopes are, the more likely this quantum phenomenon will occur.

There is nothing wrong with this phenomenon. It is not continuous and only happens occasionally.

But last night, Mera was in a particularly high mood and her sensory stimulation was particularly great, and this feeling was synchronized with the Queen of the Sea Mera.

Let her work all night without sleep.

Chapter 484: Queen Mera's Request for Help

When Mera came to Queen Mera's office, she saw that there seemed to be faint black marks under her eyelids, forming two circles around her eyes.

She asked curiously, "Didn't you sleep well last night?"

Queen Mera rolled her eyes at her subtly, but didn't want to tell her such an embarrassing thing.

She pulled a file from under her desk and handed it to Mera.

Mera took it and found that it was a list of Zebel's supplies. At the bottom of the list, the name of a substance was marked with an emphasis symbol - orichalcum.

When the two of them returned to Zebel some time ago, as expected, they did not find any living Zebel people in that country.

They speculated that the survivors had either fled or joined other surviving Atlanteans, and that the destroyed kingdom of Xebel was no longer worth their while.

However, as an underwater kingdom with a long history, many of Zebel's treasures have not been destroyed. Of course, it may also be that Apocalypse simply does not value them, or they are not in a hurry to plunder them, which is why most of the kingdom's treasures have been preserved.

The Kingdom of Zebel is located in a secret alien space, and its treasure is naturally hidden in another alien space. Only the blood of royal nobles can open the treasure.

Both Meras meet the conditions for opening the treasure. Although it is called treasure, the contents are not gold, silver, jewelry or the like. The underwater civilization has already moved beyond the level of being obsessed with precious metals.

This treasure contains the technology and material reserves left over from the Atlantis Empire's heyday. Before the empire split, the Atlanteans had conquered the sky and the ocean and were only one step away from flying off the planet.

If it weren't for their belief in Poseidon that ultimately trapped them on this planet, Atlantis might have developed into an interstellar civilization.

But even so, the Atlanteans' technological achievements were still second to none.

Compared with the current underwater civilization technology, the knowledge of the old empire is not completely outdated. This is mainly because the underwater civilization has serious class stratification and lacks innovation. Technological products may have some progress in design and aesthetics, but the fundamental science has not been significantly improved.

This is also reflected in surface civilizations. As we all know, theoretical science is always far ahead of applied science, and this phenomenon is even more obvious in underwater civilizations. Their technology has not made any progress for a long time.

When the underwater kingdom was invaded by Apocalypse, most of the documents and carriers containing their scientific and technological knowledge were destroyed. This directly led to the degeneration of Atlantis' civilization level for a long time, and it fell to the tribal era.

Without machines, the underwater people did not know how to grow marine plants. Fortunately, they still had a good physique and an unextinguished martial spirit, and they could obtain food through fishing and hunting.

Otherwise, it is hard not to suspect that these underwater people would die of famine in the short time after being hit by Apocalypse.

Later, in order to change the poor living environment of her people, Queen Mera led the remaining survivors to scavenge on the seabed, and finally recovered some technology and equipment that had not been completely damaged, which improved the living conditions of the Atlanteans.

In the past, when they had no worries about food and clothing, the underwater people might subconsciously ignore class issues. However, when survival becomes a problem, many contradictions that were hidden in the past can easily explode, like a powder keg that is just missing a spark.

Mera, the Queen of the Sea, had a very keen political sense. She had already seen some clues at that time, so she led the Atlanteans to scavenge and search for the lost science and technology of their underwater people.

But it is obvious that relying solely on scavenging can only provide a temporary solution, but cannot completely solve the problem.

For a long time, Queen Mera has been working hard to regain their science and technology.

When Batman Doom found them, Queen Mera barely restored some of Atlantis's technological strength.

Only after losing science and technology did she understand what it meant that science and technology are the primary productive forces. Without the material prosperity brought by technological prosperity, many social contradictions began to emerge, which made her physically and mentally exhausted.

But what she didn't expect was that the solution to this problem was actually in her motherland, Zebel.

Queen Mera of the Sea had no idea what King Nereus was thinking at the time, but he was indeed very far-sighted and left behind a valuable legacy for the underwater civilization.

In Zebel, Mera and others found the treasure houses scattered around the world through the secret code left by Nereus. Who would have thought that Zebel did not hide the most precious things in Zebel, but instead hid them all over the world.

Some of the treasures were even located in the Lost Kingdom. Even though the two of them had the key to open the treasure, it still took them some time to get it.

Among these treasures, there is a high-energy mineral inherited from the old empire era, called "mountain copper". This substance is small in size but has a high energy level. It can store more energy per unit volume than any high-energy battery in the world.

Even in Atlantis, a technologically advanced city, orichalcum itself was considered a form of advanced technology.

However, this high-energy mineral has a drawback: it is not very stable. It condenses huge amounts of energy into a small triangular prism, and the atoms inside it collide violently all the time.

Therefore, as long as this high-energy mineral is subjected to a slightly larger external force, it may directly cause an internal energy reaction and produce a huge explosion.

However, due to the high energy level, most of the energy inside the mountain copper after the explosion will be dissipated into the atmosphere in the form of heat energy, causing the environment to warm up.

During the Old Empire, this defect of orichalcum caused the melting of large areas of Arctic glaciers and the mass extinction of Arctic species.

Even the sinking of Atlantis was caused by the melting of Arctic glaciers, which indirectly led to rising sea levels.

The Atlantis Empire, which was originally far away from the sea level, was close to the ocean in just a few years, which laid the seeds for the subsequent sinking of Atlantis.

After making a huge mistake that caused drastic environmental changes, the Old Empire decided to seal up this high-energy substance and prohibit anyone from using it.

Since mountain copper is difficult to destroy and will still cause it to emit a large amount of waste heat, the old empire at that time sealed this substance in several fixed deep-sea warehouses.

The locations of these warehouses later became the main residences of several kingdoms.

It turns out that Atlantis also had such a mountain copper storage warehouse. To be honest, after Atlantis was destroyed by Apocalypse, in order to solve the people's food and fuel problems, Queen Mera of the Sea violated the ban and opened the mountain copper warehouse.

The waste heat generated by the use of mountain copper will cause the atmosphere to warm up, thereby melting glaciers and causing global sea levels to rise. However, this problem actually has the greatest impact on people on the surface. For people under the sea, rising sea levels are more like a good thing.

The temperature rise caused by global warming is not a big problem for the underwater people. At most, it will challenge the survival of marine animals and plants, and may affect the food supply of the underwater people.

At that time, all human beings in the world were oppressed by Apocalypse and the blackened Superman and had no time to take care of themselves. Queen Mera did not think that the earth would have a future, so she did such a thing of draining the pond to catch fish.

In order to make the remaining tribesmen live better, she used the mountain copper without hesitation. This seemed fine at the time, but it is a bit embarrassing now.

After the Earth passed the Apocalypse stage, the surface civilization began to rebuild. At this time, the environmental problems caused by Atlantis' use of mountain copper became very prominent.

The reason why it has not been questioned by people on the surface is, on the one hand, because Apocalypse's absorption of geocentric energy on Earth is much more serious than the problem of the Atlanteans using mountain copper, and the ecological problems it causes are also greater, so no one has discovered the trouble caused by the Atlanteans.

On the other hand, people on the surface don’t know about the substance called orichalcum... No, that shouldn’t be said. At least Batman Doomsday knows about it. When he was conducting research in Atlantis, he used orichalcum energy.

But Queen Mera of the Sea didn't know whether this man had discovered the hidden dangers of using mountain copper. If he knew, then this matter might not be kept secret for too long.

By the time the underwater people and the surface people cooperate in all aspects, the mountain copper incident is likely to have an adverse diplomatic impact on Atlantis.

After returning to Atlantis, what Queen Mera wanted to solve most was this hidden danger.

After Mera finished reading the entire document, her beautiful eyebrows frowned.

"You actually used orichalcum? That's not..."

Mera, the Queen of the Sea, raised her hand to interrupt her. "I know that's forbidden, but we were desperate at the time, you know? We had to do it."

Although underwater people can withstand the high pressure and oxygen environment of the deep sea, and can also withstand low temperatures, these have their limits.

Especially low temperatures. In order to resist the low temperatures in the deep sea, the people living in the sea need to emit higher body temperatures to regulate their internal environment temperature.

This high body temperature is bound to consume a large amount of bioenergy, which comes from Food 1.0. However, after the civilization was destroyed, their crops were burned, and fishing and hunting alone could not fully meet the survival needs of the underwater people.

So at that time they were not only hungry, but also cold. The use of mountain copper could, on the one hand, provide energy for the technological tools that could still be used, and on the other hand, the heat generated could prevent the Atlanteans from being frozen to death by the cold temperatures.

Mera was speechless after hearing her explanation. Considering the terrible living environment at that time, it was understandable that the other party did so.

If they don't, they might not survive until the Justice League arrives, and even Batman Doom won't have a chance to build a shuttle here.

but...

Mera pinched her head with a headache: "Does Arthur Curry know about this?"

Queen Mera rolled her eyes at her, and the meaning was obvious.

How could Arthur, that big fool, possibly understand the twists and turns involved?

"So what are you giving me..."

Mera adjusted her voice and tried to speak in a more normal manner: "I heard that you are quite familiar with Dane from the Justice League..."

Mera's face turned slightly red. That's not just relatively ripe, it's very ripe, very ripe.

"So, I hope you can ask him for help in this matter."

Chapter 485: Has your feudal superstition made you sweat profusely?

"Orichalcum? Have you started using this stuff?" Dane asked curiously.