Alright — I'll make Chapter 172 — The Leaning Sea in full webnovel style, 1500+ words, with Poseidon already named as such and his influence beginning to manifest in large, undeniable ways.
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Chapter 172 — The Leaning Sea
The first thing the harbor guards noticed was the waterline.
It was wrong.
The tide had not just come in early — it had come in sideways. Instead of rising evenly along the seawall, the surface tilted, as if some colossal hand were pushing the whole harbor toward the east. The ships at anchor groaned and leaned in their moorings, their hulls straining against ropes that had never been tested like this.
The guards called for the dockmaster, who came running, but by then the angle had shifted again. The water swayed like a great bowl being moved across a table, sloshing from one side to the other without wind or wave.
And yet, beyond the breakwater, the open sea was calm.
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In the markets, people began to feel it in their bones.
