Chapter 3: Sea God Cult: A gathering of the Sea God Cult's high-ranking members, along with the Tribunal (the department responsible for carrying out assassinations).
The very origin of all this was the alliance between the Sea King and the Priest. Of the two, one sought to eliminate the Sea God Cult, while the other aimed for the 20% fragment of the "Initial Source" held by the world-destroying entity, the Shadow Devourer.
The two had many plans, but unfortunately, the Sea God Cult was tenacious, deeply rooted in the main city of the Sea Clan, and the Shadow Devourer was even more troublesome, an extremely bizarre world-destroying existence.
Therefore, the Sea King and the Priest decided that a third party must enter the fray, and that third party was naturally Su Xiao's side.
After learning through the Priest that Su Xiao intended to assassinate him, the Sea King, who usually never showed his emotions on his face, couldn't help but smile.
The Sea King could be certain that this Law Destroyer's goal was definitely not to kill him; that wouldn't align with the other party's interests. He estimated that this Law Destroyer had likely come to rescue the Dwarf King.
To this, the Sea King was very welcoming. Yes, welcoming. From the very beginning, this Sea Clan King had disagreed with allying with Arcane Eternal Star. No matter how the Sea God Cult and the Council of Elders slandered him from the outside, creating an image of how close the Sea King was with Arcane Eternal Star, in reality, what the Sea King most wanted to do now was to kick Arcane Eternal Star out, out of the Wind Sea Continent.
Previously, this was the Sea King's long-term plan. But after the Wolf God broke free from his seal and the negotiations between the Sea Clan and the Spellcasters nearly turned into a falling out, the Sea King firmly believed that, compared to their old rival the Beast Clan, Arcane Eternal Star would become an even greater hidden danger for their Sea Clan.
How to make Arcane Eternal Star leave? Military threats? Don't be ridiculous. Their Supreme Being, Soul Lord, hadn't even come, and the Sea Clan was already no match for these Spellcasters in terms of high-level combat power, let alone the fact that they had the Supreme Being who had transcended limits.
If military threats wouldn't work, they had to start from other angles. Ask yourself, why were the Spellcasters of Arcane Eternal Star willing to help the Sea Clan deal with the Beast Clan? The root cause was simply that the Sea Clan could provide Elemental Artifacts, and the only one who could forge Elemental Artifacts was the Dwarf King.
So, the question was, what if the Dwarf King was kidnapped? The answer was that Arcane Eternal Star would smile at the Sea Clan, telling them to find whoever they lost, however they lost them. If they couldn't find him, the Sea Clan would be in big trouble.
But what if the Dwarf King was kidnapped by a Law Destroyer? This was very interesting. The Law Destroyers were your Arcane Eternal Star's enemies. The cause of this incident was because of you Spellcasters. The other party had a grudge against Arcane Eternal Star, which was why they kidnapped the Dwarf King. Although the Sea Clan was negligent, they shouldn't be beaten up for it. After all, Arcane Eternal Star also cared about its external reputation.
Thus, this assassination attempt resulted in a win-win-win situation for all three parties.