Chapter 763: Mask (1/2)

However, the situation was only slightly better even after Su Dingqian had taken action. The armored soldiers were already at the city walls. The wooden stockade was incomparably fragile before their heavy weapons, giving way to huge gaps in just a couple of strikes.

In the blink of an eye, there were holes everywhere and the steel-armored warriors gushed in like a black tide.

Atop the city lord mansion, Su Dingqian stood leaning on the railing as he gazed at the battlefield with an ashen face. At this moment, only Liu Daoming and Su Yueyuan were beside him; the rest had been sent to the frontlines.

Liu Daoming was fine, but a rank-thirteen champion like Su Yueyuan was rather unpresentable in the lineup. Su Dingqian had no other way because all of his cards were here, and he still had to take care of this talented son.

The trio’s expressions were unsightly as they watched the city walls falling one segment after the other. Liu Daoming was still calm, but Su Yueyuan could bear it no longer. “Father, why not unleash another strike? We won’t be able to hold out at this rate!”

“What's the rush?” Su Dingqian rebuked.

Liu Daoming shot Su Yueyuan a meaningful glance and stopped him from speaking. Su Dingqian killing the giant warbeast was already the limit. Divine champions had to follow an unspoken rule when taking action. It wasn’t as if the other side was lacking in divine champions; their numbers were even greater. If Su Dingqian were to attack wantonly and exhaust his energy, the divine champions on the other side would surely take advantage of the situation to strike.

Preserving his combat strength and refraining from attacking was the greatest form of intimidation. At the very least, he could restrain one divine champion and many high-ranking experts. It was even possible for him to keep two divine champions in check.

However, there would be no other way if the battle below the divine champion level were to crumble.

On the opposite end of the battlefield, there was a magnificent airship hovering in the night sky—one that would look rather extravagant even in Evernight. Many of the decorations upon it were quite flashy, and many of the origin arrays on it were there to maintain the airship’s luster.

This garish, impractical battleship was extremely famous because it was the Spider Emperor’s ship.

At this moment, the emperor himself wasn’t here. The person on the main seat was a mysterious person clad in white robes and sporting a faint-golden demonic mask. There were a few arachne within the command room, all of them powerful, valiant, and extraordinary. These were the great generals working under the Spider Emperor, but none of them objected to this outsider usurping the master seat.

That masked person—the master of the Moonlight Demons—was just as famous as the Spider Emperor. People neither knew his name nor what he looked like, only his representative mask. But one could very well imagine his character from how the Moonlight Demons operated. The best way to deal with such a powerful and half-crazed expert was to not provoke him.

This battleship hovered far beyond the battlefield and never approached. Experts would occasionally fly up to deliver battle reports. Most of the time, this masked person would only listen to the numbers without expressing anything. The only order he had ever issued was to withdraw the two warbeasts.

The experts in the command center were feeling quite bored since the battle was developing as smoothly as they had anticipated. As expected, the war beasts forced Su Dingqian to launch an attack. According to the original plan, if the city lord attacked a second time, the masked man would lead them out to surround and kill him.

At this moment, the eyes of an unmoving spider on the cabin roof lit up. “Mask, what’s the situation?”

This spider was the size of a palm and strangely translucent. The voice with which it had spoken sounded rather old and showed no respect to the leader of the Moonlight Demons.

The masked person looked up. “Old Spider, you’ve finally appeared?”

The translucent spider said with a laugh, “I still need to deal with those female spiders back home, how can I have the time? I only have five clones. It’s already good enough that I put one here with you.”

When that translucent spider spoke, all the arachne in the room bowed respectfully. That was because this strange, palm-sized spider was one of the Spider Emperor’s clones. Its function was concealment and long-distance communication, much like a pair of eyes for the Spider Emperor. Its presence was equal to that of the Spider Emperor himself.

Mask knew that the Spider Emperor was always like that. He said with a snort, “Su Dingqian has attacked.”

The Spider Emperor’s voice became serious. “He attacked? How are the losses?”

“One Giant Brigley Beast.”

“Oh, that’s not bad. One Brigley for Port City, that’s not a loss.” The Spider Emperor seemed rather heartbroken despite saying that.

Mask snorted. “He wouldn’t have dared to attack if you were here.”