969 Sunk Part 1 (1/2)

Qin Empire was the most affected by Lianyun City's loss. Grand Duke Iron Blood activated more than 100 iron blood warriors and close to 1,000 metal flying machines to attack Lianyun City along with the ancient combat vessel.

Lianyun City's defense had improved tremendously. Countless magic stone artilleries and catapults had been placed along the shore and some heavy crossbows had also been set up on top of giant rocks that were hundreds of yards tall. Those defenses were helpless against the iron blood warriors though. The defenses that had been set up on the shore were destroyed very rapidly and the metal flying machines activated by Grand Duke Iron Blood hurled magic stone shells at the buildings in Lianyun City.

These magic stone shells were extremely powerful. They destroyed all the buildings in the city and killed more than 200,000 civilians. While the amount of damage could not be compared to the destruction Ironwall City, Saleen and the Grand Duke had the same mindset when it came to attacks. They initiated their attacks from the sky with the cheapest equipment and they only aimed to destroy, regardless of what their targets were.

Safilos did not think that was a coincidence. He had gone overboard by scolding Saleen in his residence. If Saleen had told him beforehand about the metal flying machines, Lianyun City would not have suffered such great losses.

The noble families of the House of Commons dared not anger him. Not only was Safilos a king of Qin, he was also a golden grand swordmaster. It would be easy for Safilos to kill many people in a fit of anger.

Safilos had a feeling that the Qin Empire might be destroyed in his hands. His nephew was innocent though. Although his nephew was the Emperor in name for the past few years, Safilos held all the true power. To make matters worse, the six-winged flying serpent imprint was in Saleen's hands. Safilos was not the emperor, so he would not be able to activate the power of the Grukos family.

If he asked the emperor to do so, Safilos would lose his powers and Ojarvis would be able to call all the shots.

Could a sickly child control the entire Qin Empire? The Empire was in a dire state! Safilos' hair had almost grown white because of all his worries. He was not satisfied with his two sons either because neither of them had ambition.

Something like ambition was even harder to develop than skills. Skills could be developed through tough training, but one had to be born with ambition.

Saleen's fleet departed from the royal port and headed towards Ceylon City. The elemental magic tower had been put away then. It had used up quite a lot of magic nuclei due to all the flying. Since the fleet would be able to travel as fast as 100 miles every hour, there was no need for Saleen to waste his resources.

Magic beasts appeared very frequently in the Sikeqinyan seas. Saleen had to count on the ancient warriors, so his fleet could push forward without slowing down. Although it was summer, one could still see floating blocks of ice in the deep seas. It was said that they had floated over from a huge piece of land that was west of the Oceanic Ice Block.

That land had been covered with layers of ice that were as deep as 1,000 of yards. Every summer, huge icebergs would melt and break off from the land, floating towards the south.

Saleen was feeling troubled and decided to slow down the fleet and began to hunt on the seas. His naval route was 3,000 miles away from the shore, while Sikeqinyan fishing vessels would never dare go as far as 500 miles from the shore. There were no traces of human movements there. The magic beasts in the seas were very curious about the combat vessels, so quite a number of low-level magic beasts decided to follow them and even tried to attack them. Those magic beasts were quickly captured by Saleen. The combat vessels contained magic equipment that would specifically attack underwater targets, so they were able to kill those magic beasts rather quickly.

All the sorcerers had been left behind with Lex, so Saleen mostly brought along grand mages. The mages used the alchemy rooms in the dragon skeleton combat vessel to refine magic equipment for soldiers; it was also a form of training.

All the small noble families around Ceylon City had been convinced by Saleen. None of them intended to resist Saleen, even though all of them thought that he was extremely cruel. No one dared to go against Saleen because of how powerful he was. Besides, Saleen had his reasons. Emperor Danny had tried to kill Lex and even pursued her all the way into Metatrin and laid siege on Lonestar City. Everyone could empathize with Saleen's fury.

Even Gugger could not deny that he might have gone crazy if someone had done the same thing to his wife.

Cuisi was the one who could empathize the most. When Cuisi's wife died, he had also lost his mind. Given his intelligence, he would never have been subdued by a devil otherwise. Ordinary demons, or even supreme demons, would never have been able to do anything to him.

Nailisi was uninterested with that sort of hunting. Although there were plenty of magic beasts in the northern seas, none of them were very rare. All of them had already been catalogued in the mages' Illustrated Handbook of Magic Beasts.

The fleet travelled for a day towards the west and covered a distance of 1,500 miles.

Nailisi noticed that Saleen was in a bad mood but didn't know how to cheer him up. She suddenly had an idea and said, ”Master, do you remember the map of Lex's calculations?”

”What map?” Saleen asked.

Nailisi glared at the people in the cabin and everyone left obediently, except for Nicholas. Cuisi stood guard outside so that no one would dare to enter.