Chapter 454 (2/2)

Lanina turned her head and pulled her tail a few times, as if the World Gate had been opened. But considering the succubus had a weird behaviour all this while, let’s just let her be.

After the gravity test was completed, they also had to solve the propulsion problem. However, the installation of the engine system was not a task the Helcrown engineers could handle. And to be honest, re-equipping a space fortress of several hundred kilometers long with a new engine was inherently impossible. As engine system was not the same as a gravity regulator. While the latter could be dismantled and mounted anywhere, engine was a completely complex system; it consumed a great deal of energy, and needed a lot of things such as power lines, reactors, control centers, nozzles and things like that. The engineering work involved was enormous and even the entire rear-half of the wreckage had to be dismantled. So it was not being considered from the very beginning.

Hao Ren was waiting for the fleet of Aerymian elves to arrive. The fleet had more than a dozen engineering tugs, used by the Aerymian elves to tow the floating islands which had lost power in the ‘dead zone’. These tugs were powerful, suitable for working on things like the huge monster of hundreds of kilometers long, and had skilled technicians onboard.

When the tugs could fly around while towing a massive floating island, a mere spaceship wreckage would seem like a child’s play.

Shortly after that, the voice of the MDT was heard in Hao Ren’s mind. “Yo! Boss, we are just around the corner! Come out quickly!”

Hao Ren turned to Y’zaks and said, “Get your people ready. We’re leaving now.”

The message calling for depature quickly spread throughout Helcrown. Soldiers immediately stayed in their positions guarding the city, a huge magic barrier was switched into battle-ready mode as Helcrown was shrouded in a layer of pale green, devilish shield. The civilians were ready as well. When the siren sounded, the streets quickly became deserted as all the elderly and children who could not fight was staying indoor with their doors and windows shut and ready to set off on an unknown journey.

Y’zaks stood on the city wall, slowly transformed into a monster lava demon. He clenched his Black Sword, his primary weapon of battle for years which had finally returned to his hands, as he looked down at his feet.

His daughter are carrying a pair of pickaxes climbing up his feet.

“Y’lisbet, go back to the palace,” Y’zaks plucked her daughter down from his feet with two fingers and shoved her to Lanina. Amid the kicking and waving of protests from the little girl, Y’zaks solemnly issued his command. “Let’s roll!”

The whole city shook as the surrounding space warped with light and shadow. When everything subsided, the dark-red world of the Second Demonic Plane appeared in front of their eyes. As expected, the Demon Legion and the Allied Army were there.

The Allied Army and The Demon Legion swarmed the desolute, red Broken Plain with each occupied one side of the plain. Apparently they had not retreated much since the unexpected encounter several days ago. These people were not fools. They must have already figured out a thing or two after Helcrown appeared twice in The Second Plane. Even if they did not spot the pattern, they would surely remain in here for a year and two. After all, the Demon King Legion was the shadow of this world. Such a horrific opponent, a split second of its appearance could cause the world to fall into terror. It was only natural for the the two forces to remain in the area lest Helcrown appeared again.

And they nailed it this time: Helcrown had indeed appeared again!

Demons and races of the human world had been dead set against each other for a long time despite the effort of Y’zaks. Ironically however, the two opposing forces had reluctantly reached an agreement for a truce in Broken Plain. Though it was not known what content of the agreement was, it would not be far from something like preserving their strength to fight their common enemy and stuff like that. That was why they had stayed put in the Broken Plain—waiting for the reemergence of Helcrown.

The battle is imminent.