"Understood, your highness" the advisors all bowed before they all swam out into the palace hall, leaving Flowua all to herself.
Flowua clenched her fist with rage in her eyes, " someone is deliberately riling up and poking at the obvious loophole in my kingdom"
"No murlocs or scaled one show have dared try standing up to me unless they are no longer in the kingdom or they have something strong to rely on"
"Either way, I’m guessing the girls won’t be find out the true leader but it can still be considered a win if some men from our side manages to infiltrate and get usable information" Flowua thought to herself as she once again put on her beautiful smile.
" I should maybe consider calling brother, but the situation hasn’t gotten to that yet so I will hold off on that" Flowua said out loud as she later down on her shell throne.
Somehow in a cave deep underwater, a small distance from Flowua kingdom, inside the cave can be seen decorated with luminescent water plants lighting the cave up.
Deep into the cave can what would be called a mutant murloc be seen, the murloc unlike the usual short visage was tall and burly with sharp bony protrusion coming out from its back.
The murloc can be seen much on a huge dead shark body causing blood to flow around tainting the surrounding water.
Soon the murloc was done with the shark only to look up to show an ugly visage with sharp teeth and red eyes.
It goes to say that this was a demon taking possession of a murloc from the kingdom of Tide, only to flee once he noticed how ugly things could get for it there.
Using the memory from the murloc, the demon traversed all the way to Flowua kingdom where it found out that it was still in danger but because of the system of Flowua kingdom it was still manageable.
There was no suspicion from the female guard once he proved he came here to work under the guise that he was tired of the inequality between sharkmen and the murloc.
They also didn’t doubt him as he was a male, and one thing Flowua Kingdom was in need of the most Were men.
Using the new opportunity, the demon laid low while working under Flowua, at the same time it was looking for an opportunity that was easy to find as it saw the treatment of the men in Flowua society.
It immediately started from there and became the messiah in their eyes, the demon gave them a little knowledge on how to use magic weapons before immediately making its way out from Flowua territory.
It understood that it was only a matter of time before search for where the knowledge came from would start leading it to be exposed.
It found this cave, it was currently staying in from here it was making sure that things were working well. Seeing how well the problem it started was going, the demon sprouted the idea of hitting Tide kingdom.
Under the guise of saving their fellow species, most of the followers he gathered in Flowua kingdom made their way to Tide kingdom where they also started creating chaos.
A smile xe upon the demon face, " it’s been a long time, I have missed this feeling of toying and playing with my preys, I bet both demigods are losing their mind wanting to find me"
"Too bad, the sea is wide and I am never at one place for too longs soon I will be moving but the next moves depends on how this two demigods respond else all these was for nothing"
The demon is betting on the character of Tide and Flowua, if it guesses right then stage two will begin but if it was wrong, it will have to move to the surface quickly to see if there is an opportunity there.
Far away from his people and kingdom, Ikem’s huge body can be seen in deep meditation out in the open in the forest.
He was so in harmony with the surroundings that birds and snakes all creeped and made themselves comfortable around him.
The surrounding area destroyed from the forest was also benefiting from this meditation as plants can be seen slowly but surely coming to life.
Ikem’s mind now is deep in the green crystal space found in his heart, he was among the elements and Bara who is now a red tree, Ikem’s soul can be seen crossed legs at the root of the tree as he was surrounded by the elements.
The space has been getting bigger the further he went into the fourth stage, weirdly Ikem found from his kids that the core formed at their third stage of power didn’t form in their heart like it did with him.
Instead the core was located at their navel, which didn’t bring any outward changes and transformations to his kids.
What Ikem was doing is his daily meditation to get in tune with his powers, so it’s easy to use whenever he wants and as for the reason why he was in the forest.
This had to be brought back to when Ikem was at the mountain, where after the meeting he and his kids started sorting things and adopting the new method brought up to their people.
It took about a week before things went back to normal, before Ember and his clan set off to look for their new location, the same with Ripple as for Zephyr he already knows what needs to be done.
Seeing that things were done and ready, Ikem decided it was time for him to set off to the shrine to meet up with Osisi; he believes they both have a lot of catching up to do.
On his way, Ikem was also paying attention to the humans, and was able to closely see the situation of disaster he and his children talked about.
It is important to note that the disaster wasn’t all as Ikem was able to see how fast they humans were adapting and progressing in their new situation.
Ikem believed in a few years, the humans will have caught up to their current technology development and the fact that there were more humans was quickly showing the advantage.
"My people are still outnumbered greatly" this was Ikem thought as he watched the humans.
No longer paying attention to the humans, Ikem continued his journey where he occasionally stops to help out the forest and some cute animals he finds along the way.
He also noticed that the animals are now slowly coming out from their place of hiding after the disaster now the forest was no longer as barren as it was before. Breaking off the meditation Ikem stood up causing the animals and bride surrounding him to all flee and fly away.
Looking up at the sun, Ikem thought to himself "I will be there before the sun goes down" Ikem could have reached there much earlier but he decided this is a good opportunity to get a view of the changes in the surrounding as he often doesn’t have time to leave his position.
So a huge human looking gorilla the size of a small tree can be seen walking through the forest with a smile on his face, but soon Ikem’s expression changed as he looked to his left.
"Something was looking at me with hostility"Ikem said to himself as he sensed to see if he found any life force.
Not sensing anything, Ikem made his way to where the feeling of being watched came from the most.
Meanwhile a deer can be seen quickly making its way across the forest with humanized fear in its red eyes. "What the hell is a demigod doing smiling and walking around in the open"
The demon inside the deer is panicking as it instinctively released bloodlust once it sensed a strong enemy, it thought it was just another strong wild animal it can easily provoke with the bloodlust and then prey on but instead it was a giant demigod.
"He definitely sensed me, damn it" the demon thought as it pushed the deer body further causing the deer legs to bulge as it raised its speed.
But soon the deer stood petrified as it saw Ikem standing in front of it causing the deer to forcibly halt as it tried to hold steady to the ground.
Squatting down, Ikem looked at the deer with curiosity "What are you, you are alive and moving yet I can’t sense you"
"I finally became full consciousness, I don’t want to die" The demon thought as he looked at the giant demigod in front of it before acting like it was stupid as it started sniffing down to the grass like it was making a choice for a grass to eat.
"Don’t play with me, your eyes shows reasoning meaning you fully understand what I am saying" Ikem said no longer smiling as he put a hand on the deer’s neck.