I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

Central Federation, an island.

Shadow abruptly opened his eyes, instantly adapting to this backup body. He raised his hand to press against the glass door of the hibernation pod. His body slowly transformed into flowing shadows, slipping out through the gap, and then reformed on the tiled floor outside.

He didn't examine the room with the hibernation pods. He quickly pushed the door open and walked out, entering a seemingly ordinary corridor. Then, following the map in his mind, he began to explore this chaotic maze.

After a few minutes of walking according to the map, he saw his destination.

A blood-red door.

Shadow pushed the door open. What entered his eyes was an ordinary-looking room, except for some special metal patterns on the floor, arranged in a special hexagon according to a mathematically logical manner.

After a few minutes, Li Hu and Zhao Guanwu, whom he had just seen, walked into the room one after another.

As soon as the old man entered, he began to examine the structure of the room. After confirming something, he nodded and looked at Shadow, who was already standing in the middle of the hexagon, and said:

"Let's begin."

The old man and Li Hu each stood at a corner of the hexagon. Then, Shadow's hands began to turn into flowing shadows, flexibly seeping into the metal array on the ground. Immediately, the ground began to glow with a creepy dark red light. Finally, the entire room was completely submerged in shadows.

Thump.

Several black bubbles floated out of the shadows on the ground. Then, the shadows began to flow out like a liquid from the location covered by the hexagon, instantly submerging their ankles, and the level of the black liquid continued to rise.

Li Hu and Zhao Guanwu both looked very natural, not at all surprised by the scene before them. They stood in place patiently waiting for the shadow liquid to slowly submerge over their heads.

Until Shadow felt that he had "filled" the entire room, he began to gather the shadows towards himself, while tearing apart the hexagon array buried under the floor in the process.

Snap.

As the shadows dissipated, seawater poured in. A bright, giant underwater city emitting a blue light appeared before them. Countless bizarre buildings, completely different from land buildings in structure, floated in the sea, and they could vaguely feel amazing power.

That belonged to the power of the ocean itself.

At this moment, although they floating in front of the city looked very similar to before, wisps of black shadows were flowing on the surface of their bodies, indicating that they were in an intermediate state between matter and spirit, which could ensure that they could safely leave the ocean.

However, in this state, they could not fully exert their power.

"I'll remind them." After the old man finished speaking, he raised the index finger of his right hand towards the top of Atlantis.

A dazzling blue light instantly cut through the gloomy seawater, directly creating a bright blue "light" directly above the entire city, instantly attracting the attention of all the residents of the city.

At the same time as he raised his hand, Shadow also took out a notebook made of living things from his arms and threw it out in front of him. The shadows on the notebook slowly dissipated as it moved away from his body, eventually transforming back into a pure material form.

Just as he was controlling the notebook to float properly, the surrounding seawater suddenly stirred up terrifying whirlpools, but when they passed through them, they seemed to have passed through their bodies without touching anything. In the next moment, two figures, a man and a woman, appeared in front of them.

Standing slightly ahead was Milord:

"Dogs of the land, you dare to appear before us?"

Shadow nodded expressionlessly:

"And as long as we don't want to, you can't threaten us.

"If we wanted to, we could even teleport an army here and destroy your city before you could react, thwarting your evil plot against us, but we didn't do that.

"We are here to negotiate terms."

The old man pointed to the notebook floating in front of them:

"You can take a look. These are our conditions."

Although the few of them were not completely floating here, Nu Hai could already feel some pressure. Shadow's true body in the middle was the most dangerous of the three, whether he was there or not.

The others didn't fully show their true bodies, but Milord could sense them like feeling the undercurrents hidden under the sea. The power hidden behind the shadows of the younger man had already made him feel a bit threatened.

Milord couldn't judge who was stronger or weaker based on feeling alone. Without relying on external objects, the possibility of victory or defeat between them was completely unpredictable. In other words, he was a very strong opponent.

But what really made him feel terrified was the old man. He only made Milord feel unfathomable. If he fought him without any external objects, he would probably be in great danger, unless he fought in the deep sea with artifacts. Otherwise, he was not sure he could deal with this guy.

Even if the one called Shenxiao fell, there were still dangerous powerhouses on land.

Seeing this, Milord didn't think much and directly reached out to take the notebook they handed over and began to read it.

He closed the notebook casually:

"You want to have three different levels of duels with us, and if we win, we can get your help and city. If we lose, we have to face the sea race alone and can't try to drag you into this war.

"And you also require that we can't fight in the sea. It sounds like you are well prepared."

Shadow said:

"Yes, and we have already selected the Tier V candidate, that is Mr. Li Hu next to me.

"He will represent the Federation to face you."

Milord's first impression was that he felt that his combat power was similar to him. With the help of artifacts, he could definitely defeat him, but now it seemed that this was likely a misjudgment. The other party's proposal of this condition meant that he was sure to win.

The level of threat he felt was likely the result of deliberate misleading by the other side. This powerful enemy likely had the confidence to defeat him on land even after he used the artifacts, or they had other tricks that they hadn't used.

However, the other party didn't know that what they were facing was not Atlantis at all, but two land forces that had long wanted to deal with them, and they were all religious organizations, which meant that he could believe that they would indeed be hostile to the Federation.

Their original plan was not perfect. Now, the new opportunity was more likely for them than the original one.

So, after Milord made up his mind, he said to them:

"I will consider it."