“What exactly is the Sea God Legacy?”
Nyara slowed slightly. Her sandals clicked faintly on the smooth coral floor as she looked ahead, toward the bending archway where ancient murals curved along the dome.
“A mistake,” she murmured.
Kent looked at her. “A mistake?”
“Yes,” she said, voice quieter now. “The Sea God Legacy… was once a gift. A blessing. And then, it became our greatest shame.”
They came to a large mural carved directly into the shell-wall. Nyara stopped and ran her fingers along it. It depicted three figures—serpent-like beings—gathering around a colossal trident submerged in waves of light. Each figure bore a different mark: coral, scale, and tooth.
Nyara began to speak again, voice laced with both pride and sorrow.
“Thousands of years ago, when the Sea God blessed the realm, he left behind a portion of his might. A set of trials and treasures designed not for conquest—but for stewardship. Power meant to protect the harmony of the sea.”
She gestured to the mural, where the trident glowed between the three.
“But the three great sea clans—Naga, Coral Spirit, and Abyssal Shark—misunderstood. Or rather… we let our ambitions cloud the meaning. Each clan believed they were the rightful heir. The guardianship became a competition. Then a war. Then a massacre.”
The next portion of the mural showed the sea turning red. Coral mountains cracking. A giant shark spirit splitting into pieces. Naga warriors spiraling into chaos.
“We tried to unlock the legacy by force. The Sea God’s wrath fell. The trials turned dark. The path sealed itself. And from that day, only one condition echoed in every prophecy passed down…”
Kent’s gaze narrowed.
“What condition?”
Nyara looked at him fully now. Her amber eyes glinted in the soft blue glow of the palace.
“That only a being with a worthy heart… and a scaled dragon form… could unseal the path.”
Kent’s brows rose slightly. “That’s why you brought me.”
She nodded.
“It wasn’t just the golden body or your cultivation. It was that moment… when I saw you transform. I knew. The prophecy called for ‘the Scaled One not born of sea, but returned by flame.’ I had to believe it meant you.” Thаnk yоu fоr rеаding. This wаs brоught tо yоu by МVLЕМРYR.
Kent touched the wall, letting his fingers graze the carved sea waves.
“So… no one knows exactly what’s inside the legacy?”
Nyara shook her head. “The details are lost. Some say it holds a weapon greater than any forged in heaven or abyss. Others believe it’s not a weapon at all, but a divine seed—a living piece of the Sea God’s soul that will merge with a worthy bearer. One scroll said it could grant dominion over all oceanic laws, another claimed it unlocks the Tide Gate, a realm no mortal has entered.”
She turned toward Kent.
“But they all agree on one thing. It will choose only one. And once it does… the other clans will never forgive.”
“So I’ll have the legacy. And a bounty from every sea clan that didn’t get it.”
“Unless you die in the trial,” she said, half-smiling. “Then they’ll just argue over who sent you in.”
Kent chuckled quietly.
“Sounds familiar.”
Nyara tilted her head. “You’ve been hunted before?”
“I’ve survived worse,” Kent replied. “But what I don’t understand is—why now? Why awaken it after so long?”
Nyara’s voice turned serious again. “Because… something is stirring in the deepest trench. Ancient tides are shifting. Even the ocean’s mana is unstable. The Shellbound Oracle said if the legacy isn’t claimed soon, the sealed power will decay… and bring collapse with it. Madness. Tidal inversions. Mana implosions. Our world will drown from within.”
Kent remained silent for a long moment.
“So this isn’t just about pride,” he said. “This is about survival.”
Nyara nodded. “It always was. We were too foolish to see it back then.”
They continued walking, their footsteps echoing through deeper chambers where blue moss softly glowed along the walls. The air grew cooler.
Kent broke the silence again.
“And you trust me? Even now?”
Nyara looked at him sideways.
“I trust that you’re not driven by greed. That you’re not hungry for a throne. And I trust that when you make a promise… you mean it.”
Nyara’s eyes shimmered faintly.
They stepped out onto the outer balcony. The vast sea stretched below, glowing beneath the moonlight that filtered through the upper surface. The water was calm for now — but something rumbled far below, in the abyss.
A reminder.
That storms don’t wait forever.
–
Later that Night…
Inside the Naga clan home, Elder Vrasha, his eyes dulled with age and wisdom both, held a jade slip no bigger than his thumb. His fingers trembled — not with fear, but restraint.
He glanced once more toward the shut doors that led to the Patriarch’s throne hall, where the echoes of Kent’s voice had only recently faded. The youth’s words had shaken the court — “I’m not a puppet.” The audacity of the outsider…
Or perhaps the harbinger of disaster.
Vrasha’s lips curled. The prophecy said the Scaled One would appear from outside their bloodlines. But no one ever said they had to obey him.
With one breath, he channeled his sea-imbued spiritual energy into the jade slip and began writing, the contents flowing from his thoughts like ink:
“The Scaled One has awakened the Sea God’s weapon and has received favor from the Patriarch. Within three days, he will be sent to attempt the unsealing of the Sea God Legacy.”
He paused, then added:
“Though Second Princess Nyara protects him, he trusts her blindly. His soul root still glows with fire-aligned qi — a weakness when submerged in extended ocean trials. If acted upon during his descent into the Trench Gate, he can either be eliminated… or bent to our cause.”
He blew gently on the slip, then placed it inside a shell-shaped messenger glyph, colored in neutral grey — untraceable.
Then he sent it, into the tide, where it would split and reach both Coral Spirit Clan and Abyssal Shark Clan through deep-sea tunnels only few remembered.
Elder Vrasha stood slowly, his eyes shadowed with purpose.
“The sea doesn’t kneel to land-walkers,” he muttered. “Even scaled ones.”
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