Chapter 1108 - More than Enough (2/2)

The following day.

At the Coral Bay.

This was a harbor in the far east of the Kingdom of Dawn. Compared to the ports near Graycastle and the Fjords, it looked quite deserted. After the church had invaded the Kingdom of Wolfheart and the Kingdom of Everwinter, the royal families fell and the local nobles started to fight for the thrones. As the city was still in a chaos, business activities reduced significantly in this area. Most sailing ships at the dock were from the Chambers of Commerce at the Fjords. There were very few boats from the Kingdom of Wolfheart or the Kingdom of Everwinter.

One of the ships had a pretty conspicuous appearance among all the others.

This particular ship was made of stone, with no sail but two giant wooden wheels on either side of the ship. Black smoke billowed from the top of it.

“This is the famous Graycastle stone ship,” thought Joe.

He had heard about those ships before, but this was his first time actually seeing one.

Joe and Sean boarded the ship and soon, two people greeted them.

A man and a woman.

Joe’s eyes flitted between the two people, feeling a little surprised.

For some reason, the woman looked familiar to him.

“Ah, Ms. Zooey and Ms. Betty,” Sean greeted them in a cordial tone. “So His Majesty asked you to come here?”

“I was at Neverwinter at that time and have been to the Kingdom of Dawn before,” the woman said with a shrug. “If it wasn’t an order from the king, I really didn’t want to come all the way here… We’re now having a fight against the demons at the front. I should have stayed there.”

“Also, I prefer Lady Betty to Ms. Betty,” the man said, grinning. “Unlike Zooey, I was awakened pretty late, just over 100 years ago.”

“Don’t you think 100 years is old enough?” the woman retorted, giving him a sideways glance.

“It’s strange in the Dream World though. Those people called me Miss. Of course… I don’t mind them calling me ‘Your Majesty’ either.”

“Better be Lady Betty,” Sean said resignedly, “if that pleases your ladyship.”

“Hang on… what are they talking about?” Joe gazed at them blankly, confused about the way they addressed each other. He wondered why the man wanted Sean to regard her as a lady. However Joe saw it, he was a man. Joe did not remotely understand why the demons were at the front either. The Bloody Moon had not appeared yet. What “demons” were they indeed referring to?

“So this man is the last Priest of the church?” The woman called Zooey asked while studying Joe up and down. “The dream of the Queen of Starfall City was finally reduced to a tool that foolish men used to win their political game. That’s pathetic. Although she was our enemy, I feel sad for her.”

“So, let us finish what she started. I believe it’s a sort of retribution,” Betty agreed, nodding. “Now everybody’s here. Let’s go.”

“Everybody’s… here?”

Having no time to question them, Joe looked around in confusion. The concrete ship was definitely not large enough to accommodate an army. He did not see any other Graycastle ships either.

“Sir…” Joe could not contain himself anymore. He asked gingerly.

Zooey replied to him, “The rescue team you are referring to is here already.”

“Here?”

As if seeing through his mind, Zooey pointed at herself, then at Betty and said, “She and I are going to rescue her.”

Horror-stricken, Joe looked at Sean and said hysterically, “Sir, Lorenzo has a God’s Punishment Army…”

“Five, no more than ten of them, right?” Sean interrupted him.

Joe stared at Sean, dumbfounded. All of a sudden, he lost his strength to speak. “Why, why do they look so relaxed? The God’s Punishment Warriors are monsters much more powerful than ordinary men!”

Was it because they knew nothing about the God’s Punishment Army’s power? No, Graycastle’s soldiers had personally fought the God’s Punishment Army at Coldwind Ridge. Like the church, they should have known how ferocious those monsters were.

Although the Graycastle soldiers possessed advanced firearms, firearms would be of no use in conquering a fortified castle, because bullets would not be able to travel very far. If the soldiers ran into an unavoidable confrontation with a God’s Punishment Warrior, they would find it hard to repel the God’s Punishment Warrior, because the latter did not feel pain. The Warriors would continue to fight until he lost his fighting capacity completely.

Joe expected to see at least one or two hundred soldiers come to rescue. They should gradually infiltrate the castle and remove the hidden enemy one by one at a minimal cost. If the number of soldiers was below 100, this battle might cost them dearly.

But… two?

“How’s that possible?”

“You must be wondering how this is possible, right?” Zooey sneered. “That’s because you have no idea of Lady Alice’s plan. The God’s Punishment Warriors you know are just a bunch of useless shells. Two of us is more than enough to take care of them.”