Chapter 233 - Swallowed It (1/2)
Duke Yun had his confidence restored when Vigilante A passed a phone to Brett.
“This is the newest device to summon the Dragon God. Same as usual, after you activate it, wait outside. When an enemy is near, I will arrive in a jiffy.”
Duke Yun found the suggestion agreeable as he heard it. ‘Dogs have the best olfactory sense.
‘With that, it would make the enemies’ infiltration as difficult as ascending the heavens.’
Of course, he did not know that the might of the System Map was much stronger than the any dog’s nose.
The black dog received the phone and placed it inside the pouch on its neck.
Duke Yun suddenly said, “I don’t think it was convenient for Mr. Celestial Hound. Xuan, go and retrieve an interspatial equipment to gift to Mr. Celestial Hound.”
Brett was excited having heard that. Vigilante A nodded without refusing.
A bangle-type artifact appeared in Yun Xuan’s hand. It automatically adjusted to Brett’s foreleg, fitting it snugly.
Having gotten the bangle, the troublesome pouch on Brett’s neck disappeared. It was easy as pie for it to understand the usage of the interspatial equipment.
Fang Ning was impressed. Duke Yun was the duke of an entire city and had an abundance of riches, after all. Many powerhouses in China did not even have one interspatial equipment.
Being able to gift whenever he wanted to was a benefit to being someone who built his influence on foreign lands. It was tough, but once he succeeded, the returns were extremely high.
Brett thanked Duke Yun with its paws crossed and burrowed away.
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A thousand miles away from the Cloud Fog City, the heads of the Nine Forces of the Siberian wilderness had met up at a clearing in the forest.
With six white auras and three black ones, each of them was emitting a tidal aura that indicated their Pond-level status.
The three heads who had attacked Duke Yun were present too, and they were chatting with the other people casually.
“We’ve given Yun Hui two days, he should have packed everything he’s got and probably waiting for us to receive the goons,” said a two-meter-tall white man as he smirked.
He was Manson, one of the heads who poisoned with the help of the Eastern European sorcerer Yun Hui just two days ago.
“Don’t be lax, Manson. I don’t care about the other things, the most important one is their Well of Vitality with the Vitality Spirit. That is a treasure as rare as an arcane realm. The Russians wanted it. If we can’t get it for them, they might not adhere to the agreement. The totem Spirit Bear is not something we could fight against,” said a solemn-looking black man with his arms crossed.
“Don’t worry. We’ve given Yun Hui two day’s worth of time to move the well for us so it wouldn’t be too much of a problem. I think it’s time. The Russians just sent me a text, saying they are leading the Giant Spirit Bear here. We should move,” said Manson confidently.
The others nodded without disagreement. To them, the assets Yun Hui accumulated over the years were already as good as theirs.
“We will surround them from eight directions and block their escape route through the air as well as underground!” Manson waved his arm as he saw the nods and sped away.
The other eight Pond-level powerhouses went according to their planned route and dashed at the Cloud Fog City.
To them, it was something that just happened naturally.
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“Gather the employees and their family members in the square! Raise the central defenses, don’t let them be hurt by the battle happening afterward!” Ordering the twelve landlords under him, Yun Hui began distributing tasks.
Out of the hundred thousand manpower he had, about forty thousand had trained under him.
Materialistic things can be rebuilt after they were destroyed, but human talents are difficult to cultivate.
Seeing his behavior, Fang Ning nodded. He had just checked on Yun Hui’s Dossiers entry and it listed him as ‘Neutral’.
Evidently, as an ambitionist, Yun Hui’s standpoint could be swayed depending on the situation. He was not like other people where their alignments were relatively stable over a longer period of time.
Half an hour later, the scouts and sentinels placed around the Cloud Fog City had relayed messages that enemies had been detected to come from eight directions surrounding it.
Three groups of them charged straight toward the Cloud Fog City, five other groups were swerving to the side as if trying to flank it.
The total number of Extraordinaires involved was about ten thousand people with varying strength, but all of them were beyond Bucket-level.
Meanwhile, the nine Pond-level powerhouses had not been seen by any of the scouts.
“We might still make it if we run now.” Aside from Landlord Liu and Landlord Yun, the other ten landlords had yet to witness Vigilante A’s power, so they felt a little unsure when they heard the news.
It was natural for most people to want to flee when faced with an unrivaled enemy.
However, seeing the confidence the duke exuded, no one dared to even suggest to flee.
Duke Yun might not have been able to take on the nine Pond-level fighters, but it was still an easy task for him to beat Basin-levels like them.
To the ten landlords, Vigilante A was famous, that part was true. However, their enemies are the nine Pond-level fighters who were followed by the Russian totem, Giant Spirit Bear, who was said to be at the peak of its current realm!
Some people were regretting their decision already. ‘I should’ve known better to have stayed with Yun Hui. But we’ve all sworn a Heavenly Oath to serve Yun Hui. If I had run away and left him behind, I would no longer have the capability to advance.’
As the leader of a whole organization, Yun Hui would not be as compassionate as Fang Ning to his subordinates. He had utilized many methods to control his men, not having to care about heroic points. He would draw the line at harming people or ethically dubious acts so as to not burning the bridge.
The ten landlords were unable to voice their displeasure, so their morale was low.
However, there were things that had to be done. They flew around in the sky, gathering more than a hundred thousand people in an orderly fashion before falling into their teams according to their work ranks.
However, the gathering was mixed with the children and babies crying despite their parents’ effort to contain them. It was obvious that the kids were scared by the constraining atmosphere.
Wang Qi, along with his wife and foster daughters, were standing in a corner of the square with Captain Liu.
He set the suitcases down, and let Keiko, Sanori, and Saki sit on them while utilizing some of the powers he cultivated to sense the danger around them.
He could vaguely feel that the aura of the landlords above them was unstable, it was as if they were fearing something.
Basin-level powerhouses like them had always been looked up to by Mug-level fighters like them.
However, he realized they were in a similar situation as him, like crows without branches on which to land.
“Daddy, will we be safe?” asked his younger foster daughter, Sanori, with a terrified look on her face.
The elder Saki was playing on her phone as she said apathetically, “There’s no use being afraid. Just play a game on your phone or something.”