Rebirth: Over the Horizon

"Ah..."

"Help... Help me.."

"Fussh...."

"Ah..."

Adam shoots up from his bed, hearing loud screaming noises. At first, he thought it was a dream but, it was happening outside.

On the way down, he met Emily and two of them quickly swam out of the house.

Most of the houses were crumbled down and some of them were frozen.

Many mersoldiers dressed in imperial uniform captured the merpeople and put some marks on them and cuffed their hands and locked them in the cage.

The old granny was also captured and locked in one of the cells.

Soon after, one soldier approached them and threatened both of them with his Trident.

"Hey, you two. Follow me, if you want to keep your dear lives with you."

Adam glances at Emily who was now a child, and both of them surrenders without any resistance.

"Huh, Why both of them...look a little different from the rest." The head soldier who was locking the merpeople in the cage asked.

Adam wasn't nervous, because even though Emily is well-known throughout the empire, in her current state no one can ever get suspicious of her.

She had changed her form into a kid and Adam was also disguised as a male in his late 30s.

"We both are from the eastern territory, I came to the border with my daughter to scavenge but..."

"That's enough, stop you old man."

'Huh, How could he say I am an Old man.' Adam's heart boiled in rage.

Gritting his teeth, Adam slightly put up an act of trembling and Emily tugged his shirt.

Both the soldiers sneered at them and locked them in one of the cells. Even the granny whom they met yesterday can't recognize them.

After some more time, all the people in the outskirts were captured and locked up in the cage.

Soon, a young man appeared before the locked merpeople and glances at them disgustingly.

After observing the female mermaids for a while, he dragged two good looking mermaids and tossed them into his carriage.

Again he walked in front of the cage and cleared his throat to speak.

"You slaves, consider it an honour." He made a disgusting smile and continues.

"Your dog lives are going to be useful for his majesty, Alec, for the future of the empire."

"Be honoured of your death, slaves. Hahaha..." He manically laughed and hopped into his carriage.

Soon it started to shake up and down.

The head soldier came in front of the carriage and casts a spell, many bright white rays envelopes the cage and they were summoned into the palace.

As soon as they arrived inside the palace dozen or so soldiers appeared before them.

They started to check the bodies of the merpeople and seal a mark on their nape as approval.

Just, when one of the solider was about check Adam's body, his head was sent floating leaving behind a red stain in the water.

At the same time, other solider were alerted and the merpeople's faces went pale.

He took out his Abyss Angel and quickly finished the rest of the mersoldiers.

Because he was currently fighting underwater, there were many disadvantages, he can't use fire-type skills, he cannot even summon his golems.

Which was depressing. After running for while they arrived at the hallway to the throne room.

The place was full of glyphs and there were many strange structures were encoded on the pillars and ceilings.

"Is the palace always had been like this," Adam asked doubtfully.

"No... It can't... Be" Emily tremblingly replied and her body also recovered back to its original form, but Adam can see the shock on her face.

It was acceptable. Imagine that you bought a luxury Mansion with a garden and swimming pool.

The next day, if your house is covered with strange descriptions and glyphs like a haunted Mansion.

How do you feel?

It is the same feeling that Emily is experiencing now.

Adam sighs and says, "It is not the right time to be shocked, Emily come on, let's go."

Emily quickly recovered and both of them swam towards the throne room.

After a few seconds, both of them were standing before the throne room, Adam slightly pushes the door open.

The door opens with a CREAK...The scene that appears in front of his vision, sends shivers to his spine.

Below the throne there was a huge glyph, at the centre of it, there was a strange-looking star diagram.

There was also a person lying on top of the star and three people at each corner of the star protecting Alec and the unconscious body of a human.

"I assume, the one who is lying in the star is Aaron, right?"

Emily stared at Aaron with empty eyes and said "Yes,"

After hearing from her, Adam took a closer look at the three of the merpeople who were protecting Aaron's body.

He can recognize them...it was Lana and her two friends. They seemed to be enhanced by some sort of spell.

Alec, who was sitting on his throne finally spoke, "Haha... You finally came, huh Emily. " he said as his eyes shone with bloodlust.

"But, What to do. You are rather very late." He sneered shattering Emily's willpower. "I am more curious about the one next to you. "

Adam was calm his gaze was fixed on Alec. But his mind was thinking about finding a way to jump past Lana and release Aaron.

Alec continued to give a speech and ridicule Emily. But what he didn't know was he was just buying time for the enemy.

'I can't summon my golems, but there was another skill: elemental summon Xi'atta and there is also Yui, darkness spirit.'

'I think, this enough for me to release Aron, as for Alec, I don't know what to do?'

Adam glanced and Emily, 'She is not in any condition to support me in the battle.'

'I guess, this time it's me alone.'

Adam quickly swam towards the Star glyph. Alec truly didn't expect this. But, Lana and her friends also swam towards him ferociously.

When the distance between them was less than 3m, Adma used his skill [Elementary summon: Xi'atta]

Just as the creature appeared it froze the water surrounding it.

Adam smirked and swam past his frozen enemies. Alec was shocked but he still didn't stand up from his throne.

Adam appeared before Aaron and tried to release him, "Whizz..."

He was pushed several meters back, before he could recover a hard blow landed on his shoulder.

His thigh was pierced with a Trident, he gritted his teeth and the weapon twisted his thigh muscles, more and more blood gushed out of his thigh.

Changing the colour of the water surrounding him into crimson red.

When he regained his sight, Alec was smirking pulling the Trident out and kicking Adam's chest once again.

[-23,456 HP]

[You are affected by sea King's special skill: Bleed]

[You will lose every 20HP per second]

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Adam smirked, 'I have encountered an opponent out of my calibre for the first time in my second life.'

'It's interesting~'

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[HP: 28,348/51,844]

[MP: 1900/1960]

Days left for [Horizon] to descend:

31days/13hours/ 25min.