Chapter 11: Sea Spirits (1)

Five Oceanids floated towards Su Chen on the ocean waves.

Actually, it was more accurate to say that the Oceanids were being carried towards Su Chen and the others by the waves.

The Oceanid at the front was a golden-haired youth. His hair parted at his shoulders, and when he arrived, the wave turned into a mountain that lifted the five of them up to the floating palace. The golden-haired youth confidently strode forwards to the foot of the palace, where he bowed in front of Su Chen before saying, “The Twelfth of the Sea greets Sir Su.”

“So you’re Prince Frostpoint,” Su Chen said with a slight smile. “Pleased to meet you.”

The Oceanids’ current ruler was named Greatcloud, and Prince Frostpoint was the twelfth prince that had been acknowledged by him. That was how Prince Frostpoint had come to be known by the moniker “Twelfth of the Sea.”

That’s right — he wasn’t Greatcloud’s biological son. And Princess Westminster wasn’t Greatcloud’s biological daughter either.

In the Oceanids’ culture, the youngest generation of Oceanid children were all raised together. Only after they reached a certain age would some individual Oceanid adults be allowed to choose some to raise. As a result,...