730: Chapter 485 730: Chapter 485 General Maria felt utterly unlucky and had no better way to find the ocean city.
She could only feel anxious aboard the submarine, which was swiftly journeying through the ocean.
Jiang Tang, known as a thief, was still tracking the personnel in the submarine with his Divine Sense.
Unable to locate the city treasure of the ocean, General Maria could only steer the submarine towards the direction of Ancient Xia Country.
Jiang Tang could guess that the other party was again up to no good, and he wouldn’t allow them to continue their misdeeds, so he dispatched the Hell Palace Artifact Spirit once more to capture the submarine.
For the Artifact Spirit of the Hell Palace Magical Treasure, having the ocean city within his magical treasure was delightful, and an additional submarine was a welcomed bonus.
After all, there were rivers in its space where the submarine could stay.
General Maria discovered that the submarine entered an unfamiliar place; this was not the ocean but merely a river.
The people inside the submarine noticed this too, and the guards panicked, desperately fleeing to exit this place, readying to navigate the submarine through the river as if it were a boat.
At first, General Maria also panicked, but as a leader who had weathered many storms, she steadied her emotions first.
She took out her binoculars and was surprised to see, within the range of her vision, the vanished city treasure.
If the guards were to navigate the submarine, it would cause her view of the city treasure to become increasingly distant.
“Stop navigating,” she ordered.
The guards did not understand why General Maria issued such an order but upon receiving it, they had to cease navigating.
General Maria opened the door of the submarine and ordered the guards to accompany her as they rushed toward the Magical Treasure City.
There, using a curse, she was able to make contact with the queen.
However, the area around Magical Treasure City was surrounded by Demonic Beasts and ghosts; the queen and ministers, along with those inside, dared not come out and could only send Puppets to prepare for battle, welcoming General Maria and her team.
To rendezvous with the queen, General Maria had no choice but to abandon the submarine.
Rushing out was dangerous, as Demonic Beasts were everywhere outside.
As outsiders burst forth, it was possible they would try to take over the territory; without the call of the Artifact Spirit of the Hell Palace Magical Treasure, different groups of Demonic Beasts appeared to block and attack.
General Maria worried about the safety of the queen and others; she had also noticed some Demonic Beasts attacking the city treasure, uncertain if it was already the second day.
The city treasure was still visible; perhaps in this magical treasure’s domain, it was not in the ocean, and the city treasure had not vanished.
General Maria’s concern grew that the most powerful dragon within the magical treasure had yet to act, and the human controlling the magical treasure remained unidentified.
This might be the same person who rescued the children, as she had heard from the queen that two months prior, the batch of boys and girls received by the queen had disappeared from the dungeons within the ocean city treasure.
The queen had stated that the locks had not been opened, and she wondered how these soulless children had been rescued without reason.
It was like the locked boxes on their own submarine that had not been opened; why then had the children disappeared?
Could the person who rescued them also unlock their locks?
General Maria’s mind was filled with various speculations as more and more Demonic Beasts attacked.
Her guards were wounded, with Demonic Beasts spewing fire, water, and suddenly everywhere was aflame, then abruptly it was a sky full of water, transforming into snowflakes covering land and sky.
What scared them most was the poison-spewing Demonic Beasts; one moment it was hot, the next cold, all of which could be countered with curses to resist heat and cold.
Yet the poison gas spread through the air, and they could inhale venom with every breath.
No matter how powerful General Maria’s curses were, she struggled to withstand the countless Demonic Beasts that surrounded them like an army, and her guards were covered in injuries.
General Maria gradually felt overwhelmed, realizing that she and her subordinates had been poisoned, with the toxin spreading through their bodies.
While she could still pronounce curses, her power was slowly fading, and she knew that at this rate, they wouldn’t even reach the queen’s Magical Treasure City to offer help; they could likely be killed before even getting there.
General Maria had no choice but to command her guards to retreat to the submarine, to treat their poisoning and heal their wounds before attempting to meet up with the queen in the ocean city.
As they intended to fall back to the submarine, the Demonic Beasts did not stop them; as long as they didn’t come up and invade their territory, the Demonic Beasts still didn’t understand the extent of their Mana and believed in overwhelming the enemy with numbers.
The Demonic Beasts attacked by the enemy only felt pain in their souls and their soul strength fading away.
The injured Demonic Beasts immediately ate a red Nourishing Soul Flower that bloomed at night, which soothed their soul pain.
The enemy’s Mana specialized in attacking souls, which was their weakness.
Had they not teamed up for the attack, they would have surely lost, and they didn’t even know if the enemy would kill and eat them if they did.
General Maria and her guards returned inside the submarine, where they searched for Detoxification Medicine and anti-inflammatory healing medicines.
After ingesting them, they found that the healing and anti-inflammatory medicines were somewhat effective, though not fast-acting as they weren’t miracle drugs, but the Detoxification Medicine had no effect on the poison.
General Maria grew desperate as she felt the venom spreading to her limbs and body, and soon it would reach her heart; at that point, death was certain.
Their curses could only be used for cultivating and attacking, yet they had no power to detoxify themselves.