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Shazam steadied himself and tried to dodge the attacks, but in the underwater environment, his incredible speed could not be fully utilized, and the speed of the ion beam was not so easy to dodge.

He looked around and found that behind the giant squid group, a group of Atlantis soldiers were pointing their weapons at him, and there, Om was also holding a golden trident and looking at him with a sneer.

Shazam hesitated for two seconds between rescuing Batman and attacking Orm directly, then rushed directly in Orm's direction.

He remembered what Batman had said to him before the mission: if he had to choose between the mission and his teammates' lives, he must put the mission first.

Under the shooting of ion beams, he rushed in front of Om.

"Everyone, retreat! It seems our enemy wants to fight me."

Upon hearing this, the surrounding soldiers put away their guns and dispersed to both sides to make it easier for Shazam to pass through.

Orm pointed the trident at Shazam: "Come on, unknown demigod, what are you waiting for?"

Om, who had obtained the authority of the seven seas, easily saw that Shazam possessed divine power, but the other party had divine power but no authority, so he did not take him seriously.

Shazam punched Orm directly in the face, but the intention of this punch was too obvious and was easily avoided by Orm.

He is an excellent warrior, especially underwater, his combat ability can even suppress Aquaman. After obtaining the Trident of Poseidon, Orm's ability has made great progress.

After dodging Shazam's fist, Orm swung the trident, and the shaft hit Shazam directly in the chest. A strong shock wave burst out from the trident, like a mine exploding in his chest, and Shazam flew out.

The pain in his chest made Shazam open his mouth involuntarily, and the sea water rushed in, almost choking him. One tenth of the breath he was holding wasted.

And Om's body was as fast as a swimming fish, so fast that only the afterimage could be seen.

Chapter 543 Om's Ambition

Shazam felt that he couldn't go on like this any longer. He gathered all his divine strength, and the power of thunder emanated from all his pores, spreading to the entire surrounding sea.

The giant squid was stimulated and couldn't help but spray out ink. The black squid ink spread very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the surroundings were dyed dark.

Shazam obviously did not expect such a change. The ink blocked his vision, making him unable to identify the enemy's position.

Unlike him, Om, an Atlantean, can see the faint light in the ocean that is invisible to the human eye, and can even see plankton. This feeling is like humans seeing the dust flying in the air under the sun.

Even ink couldn't completely obscure his vision.

What's more, Orm, holding the trident, has complete power over the ocean, and the surrounding sea water is his eyes, so even in the darkness, he can see Shazam clearly.

His figure silently shuttled through the sea and came behind Shazam. He suddenly stabbed out the trident and hit the opponent in the back.

Shazam felt a sharp pain behind him and couldn't help but want to open his mouth to scream, but he drank a mouthful of sea water and almost choked.

However, after succeeding in his attack, Om frowned secretly. He originally thought that this attack could pierce the opponent, but it did not achieve the expected results. The tip of the halberd only penetrated three centimeters and could not go any deeper.

Om sneered, "As expected, the divine body is different. Even divine weapons can't completely penetrate it."

But he still had a way to inflict greater injuries on Dane. He swung the trident to the side, and the trident entered Shazam's body and quickly took away large pieces of flesh and blood. The divine blood spread in the ocean, attracting a large number of fish to devour it.

This kind of pain is something Shazam has never experienced before. Since he transformed into Shazam, he has not felt pain for a long time. The last time he felt pain was when he was fighting Black Adam, when Black Adam left three scars on his face.

It was an injury caused by divine power, and he couldn't heal it on his own.

But even after that injury, Shazam didn't feel the threat of death as clearly as he did today. He was scared, and Achilles' courage could not help him suppress this fear of death.

After all, his human form is just a group of children, not warriors.

So he rose towards the sea level at a rapid speed. Om noticed his thoughts, was stunned for a moment, and then laughed wildly.

"Are you scared? You actually want to run away? I'm shocked by your cowardice."

After saying that, Om pointed his trident upwards, and the surrounding sea water immediately gathered towards Shazam. The soft water instantly became as hard as steel, trying to block Shazam's body.

However, the instinct for survival burst out with unimaginable power. As a demigod, Shazam still had some abilities. The sea water could not stop him at all. Therefore, he forcibly broke through the blockade of the ocean current, rushed out of the sea level, entered the clouds, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The sky is not Orm's battlefield. He is not a brave warrior like Arthur. He knows that only in the ocean can his strength be invincible. Therefore, he would rather let the enemy go than fight on a battlefield that is not conducive to his performance.

This was a trap, just as Thomas had anticipated, and Orm was not on the command ship from the beginning.

There was only a 3D image made of sea water created using Atlantis technology. Because it was made up of solid particles, it looked very realistic, and even Cyborg and Shazam couldn't see through it.

Then, when the superhuman team broke into the ship, he used his ocean authority to pull the surface around the command ship directly into the ocean, into his main battlefield.

The plan was successful and the other party was completely fooled.

However, even so, Orm was still very cautious and let his men besiege and test Shazam's strength. After confirming that the other party could not threaten him underwater, he went out personally to kill the other party.

Cunning, cautious, and careful in their approach, the superhuman team deserved their defeat this time.

"Your Majesty, what should we do with the remaining surface people?" The sea soldier stepped forward respectfully and asked.

Om thought for a moment and then ordered, "Imprison them in the water cave. I will publicly execute them in front of all the people on the surface!"

He thought that the surface people he had captured seemed to be quite famous in the human world. It would be better to use them to further undermine the self-confidence of the surface civilization and achieve the goal of weakening the enemy spiritually.

"Your will, Your Majesty."

The next day, news of the annihilation of the superhuman team reached the Sky Eye Society, causing panic among the top leaders. The failure of the decapitation operation meant that humans had been defeated in the extraordinary battlefield.

Having lost to the enemy on the front battlefield and having the highly anticipated superhuman team also failed, humans began to become increasingly pessimistic about the direction of this war.

Someone proposed to ask for peace with Atlantis, but it was rejected. Since humans still have the ultimate killer weapon, asking for peace is not within consideration for the time being.

Besides, the Atlanteans might not agree to peace talks. The other side has all the advantages and is probably thinking about how to expand the victory. How could they agree to peace talks at this time?

However, strangely, after the destruction of the Superhuman Team, Atlantis did not continue to attack the land.

Some experts analyzed that the enemy's tsunami should not be able to penetrate deep into the inland areas, and flooding the coastal areas is already the limit of what they can do. Thanks to the strategic depth provided by the country, it has very effectively prevented further attacks by the sea people.

A week later, the Atlanteans hijacked the human Internet and announced that they would publicly execute any invaders who invaded Atlantis' territorial waters in 72 hours.

Although the underlying logic of the two civilizations' computer programs was inconsistent, the sea people's technology still easily cracked the human electronic network within a week.

This is all thanks to Cyborg. The sea people learned a lot about humans from Cyborg, and electronic computers and programming languages are only a small part of the achievements.

Throughout the United States, everyone who owned a smart product received news from the underwater people, and learned that they were about to execute the superhumans. What shocked them was that there were many intelligent heroes among those humans.

Especially Batman and Cyborg, the former is very well-known among the people. After all, Thomas has been Batman for many years. Even though his activities are basically limited to Gotham City, his legend has been heard all over the country.

For the people, it was not only a huge blow that such a well-known hero was executed as a criminal by the enemy, but it also aroused the people's hatred of the enemy and the voices of advocating war were very high.

In Metropolis and the old site of Gotham, naval and air battles continued, and the intensity of the war gradually increased.

Intercontinental missiles allowed the sea people to once again see the war capabilities of human beings. Chemical energy weapons still have extremely strong lethality to the sea people.

Atlantis has the technology of energy shield, but this shield cannot completely protect against missile attacks, and the energy shield consumes a lot of energy. Even if the sea people have the resources of the seven seas, it is difficult to use it continuously.

There is a clear difference in the combat styles of Orm and Aquaman here. If it were Aquaman, he would personally take action against human technological weapons, and might even lead the army to actively attack human military bases.

But Orm never left the ocean, nor did he let his army advance deep into the inland. Instead, he constantly ambushed warships and aircraft carriers in coastal areas, seized air supremacy at sea, blocked human shipping and air transport routes, and gradually eroded human vitality.

People were dying on the ocean every day, and both sides were suffering heavy casualties.

However, Lois Lane discovered the Metropolis war zone, and the sea level was rising, slowly but surely.

The sea is gradually eroding the land. This important intelligence discovery once again attracted the attention of the top leaders, but they could not find out the reason for this situation.....

"It's orichalcum," Dane said.

In the Temple of Atlas, Circe watches over the Earth from a crystal ball connected to the Rock of Eternity.

With Dane's help, she successfully connected the crystal to the human satellite, thereby secretly spying on the human network and learning what was happening in the world.

"Orichalcum..." Circe thought thoughtfully. She seemed to have a little impression of this mineral.

"Orichalcum is an energy mineral used by Atlantis thousands of years ago. Its use releases high temperatures, heating the atmosphere and causing the rapid melting of polar glaciers, indirectly leading to rising sea levels."

If Lois Lane had been more careful, she would have discovered that the sea level rise was not only occurring in metropolitan areas, but also in coastal areas around the world, with varying degrees of water level changes.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on her. The whole world is focused on this war. Who would care about environmental issues such as the greenhouse effect?

Even those islands that were affected thought that these problems were just aftermath caused by the sea people and were not directed at them.

Om hid his intentions very well, and his ambition was greater than anyone imagined. On this planet where the ocean occupies 70% of the surface area, the newly appointed King of Atlantis wanted to include the remaining 30% of the land into his rule.

Once he succeeds, he will not only be the master of the seven seas, he will be the king of the world!

The mountain copper that his ancestors sealed in the forbidden areas of the major kingdoms is the best weapon for him to achieve this goal.

The use of orichalcum was banned in the past because the Atlanteans lived on land and the greenhouse effect would destroy their living environment.

But the situation is different now. The sea people living in the ocean do not care about the impact of the greenhouse effect. Even if they are unwilling to be loyal to Om's Salt Water Kingdom, they have no objection to his idea of using mountain copper to melt glaciers and flood the world.

Just don't bother the guys from the Salt Water Country.

So Om's plan went very smoothly.

In "Aquaman 2", due to the efforts of the moderate faction led by Aquaman, the orichalcum did not cause a huge disaster in the end, but in this world, there is no such faction to stop Orm from doing so.

All the sea people are very united in their malice towards the surface world. Of course, this is also because humans have been polluting the ocean since the Industrial Revolution, which has seriously affected the living environment of the sea people, causing the two worlds to be like water and fire, and the contradictions are almost irreconcilable.

If no one stops him, after a while, Om's plan might actually succeed.

Chapter 544 The Shadow Behind the War

Small divine world, dusk.

Dane walked into the square of the Tree of Life, and in front of the sacred tree, he saw a woman wearing Shiton.

He rarely saw Diana wearing such casual clothes, traditional, but suitable for her.

The other person stood in front of the sacred tree, his hands on the trunk, his eyes closed, as if communicating with the gods.

Dane stood behind her, silent.

After a moment, Diana opened her eyes, with a rare look of confusion in her eyes.

Soon, she spotted Dane standing quietly nearby.

"when did you come?"

"Just arrived, Your Majesty."

Diana quickly controlled her emotions, as if the confusion just now had never existed.

"What's the matter with you?"

"Information from the human world."

Even in the Lesser God Realm, Dane has been in contact with Louise, and she is also investigating the mastermind behind the war in her own way.

After the "Isle of Death" incident, Louise keenly noticed that the course of the war was somewhat strange. After such a long period of mutual consumption, both the human army and the sea people acted as if they were determined to fight to the death, with no intention of stopping the war at all.

With the death of Aquaman, the underwater kingdom should have fallen into civil strife in a short period of time. The struggle for power exists in any civilization, especially in a world like the Sea Clan, which has seven kingdoms and their interests are intertwined. It should not be able to stabilize again so quickly.

Although there was no evidence, Louise vaguely felt that someone did not want the war to stop. She told her doubts to Dane and learned some of the truth about the war from him.

To this end, she expressed her willingness to lurk in human society in search of the mastermind behind the incident.

She is the daughter of a general and has close ties with the upper echelons of the United States, but given her identity as a journalist, the Pentagon is still wary of her.

However, Louise found a different way and found a job in the White House in Washington. She wanted to save the country in a roundabout way by intervening in the military from here, but she didn't expect to discover some little secrets of the president.

"My people found traces of Ares in the human world." Dane said lightly.

Diana's eyes suddenly turned stern. Ares? He was an old enemy of the Amazons.

"What is he doing in the human world?"

Dane glanced at her and said nothing.

Diana quickly realized what was happening, her expression becoming somewhat grim. "He's on the human side?"

Dane had tried to test her, and although Diana was the daughter of Zeus, she knew even less about the gods behind them than Dane himself.

In the past, she only knew that behind her stood Zeus, Gaia, Hera and Athena, and behind the Atlanteans stood Poseidon, but that was all.

As for whether Poseidon had any allies or who their allies were, she knew nothing about that.

In response to Diana's question, Dane said meaningfully, "He's the God of War. Where there's war, how could he be absent?"

"That's impossible! He was imprisoned in Tartarus by Zeus a long time ago!"

In this world, the war between Zeus and Ares still broke out as in other timelines, but this time Ares did not stay in the human world. His divine body was exiled to hell by Zeus, and Hades imprisoned him in the deepest part of hell, Tartarus, the place of pain.

No god or human can escape from that dark abyss. It is the place where two generations of gods were imprisoned. Even they cannot escape from there, so how can Ares do it?

Moreover, gods cannot come to the earth. This is an iron law that even Zeus cannot violate, so Diana immediately felt that this must be a mistake.

In response, Dane simply said calmly: "Diana, do you know if there is a limit to Ares's power?"

Diana said nothing, lost in thought.