**Deep Sea**
The vast sea basin, originally empty, was now crowded with all sorts of marine creatures. Hundreds of lords from the Sea of Death had gathered here, each with their own army stationed.
They eyed each other warily, on guard against the enemy.
Some lords, feeling their strength insufficient, formed temporary alliances for mutual protection, while others, powerful and disdainful, claimed their own territories.
But their attention, without exception, was focused on a bronze gate embedded in the seabed cliffs in the distance, engraved with mysterious and intricate patterns.
Their eyes were filled with desire, greed, and heavy caution.
It was a relic left behind by the gods—the Ocean God's Shrine, possessing boundless power, yet cursed with the decay of life. Although it had existed in the Sea of Death for who knows how long, no sea creatures had dared to approach it.
