Chapter 45

45. An Assistant

"What are you going to do?" The giant wolf immediately prepared to cooperate with Li Ang.

"No need to help, just dodge the lightning and don't let Zoe get hurt."

"Li Ang!" Zoe said hurriedly: "Didn't you say not to think about sacrifice? Why are you yourself—"

Li Ang smiled softly at her: "Just as you said before, this isn't sacrifice. Suppressing the Star Soul is what you can do and what you want to do, while fighting people, especially these local armies that rely on scale to win, is something I am naturally good at."

"Besides, I am your team leader; protecting team members is the leader's responsibility."

In this high altitude, with the gale blowing, the one thing there is no shortage of is wind elements.

Li Ang took the Spirit Core Sphere and cast a Shaman's Wind Elemental Shield on himself.

The airflow of the Rank 4 Wind Shield was so intense it felt almost tangible, wrapping around his entire body, making it easy to ride the wind; usually, one couldn't fly very far with this method, but it was enough here.

The wind carried his body away from the giant wolf's back, and in the girl's worried gaze, Li Ang rose into the air, adjusted the airflow around him, and delivered himself onto the deck of one of the large ships.

As soon as he landed, those soldiers who saw him fly onto the ship alone were stunned for two seconds before aiming their arcane guns at him.

In the distance, on the command platform of the deck, the commander of this ship stood by the arcane loudspeaker, stunned for a moment, and shouted into the megaphone: "Who are you! Are you surrendering? Where is the child next to you? Bring her up! Otherwise, don't blame me—"

"I'm curious, how did you get such a big ship?"

Li Ang admired the arcane warship. This was his first time on such a large arcane flying ship. Although the Sky Team's ships were all larger than this, the equipment was completely different; the latter were more like sailing ships, while the one before him even had a sci-fi feel in many places. In various arcane pipes, the magic power drawn by the fusion stones flowed, causing the pipes to emit a purple-red light.

It's not that just because this force is called the "Holy Empire" it must be very powerful; on many isolated islands in the airspace, there are plenty of places with names as exaggerated as you can imagine.

"Of course, because of the glory of the Empire!" The commander put his hands on his hips.

He was a Havin tribesman, commonly known as a "Bean-person," with a height of only three to four heads tall for a human. At this moment, he was standing on a raised cargo box, and the action of puffing out his chest was somewhat comical.

"The Empire will surely rise again, and the Emperor's brilliance will shine upon every airspace!"

Can you speak like a normal person?

"On which island is the capital of your Sporell Empire?"

"Remember to add the title 'Holy'!" The commander shouted: "The Imperial capital is the Chalk Fortress! The greatest bastion of Newbis! You ignorant fool!"

Chalk Fortress, so it was that one. Li Ang had some impression of this island.

It is a typical island that does not cooperate with the Sky Knight Guild, and it is located among a large group of prosperous islands, including the Makaina Island Nation, the Giant's Garden, the Craft Island Vitum, etc., all of which belong to the Ignis Airspace.

As a Sky Knight, one often travels back and forth between those places, but Li Ang had never actually been to the Chalk Fortress in the middle; it was truly embarrassing to say that it was a place where birds don't lay eggs.

Seen from high altitude, it is a piece of white, towering city walls and towers built on dangerous island terrain. Pushing back a few hundred years, perhaps the flying ship cannons of that time could not shake those walls, and with the average strength of the Newbis people at that time, conquering the walls was also relatively difficult.

A long time ago, the Ignis Airspace was engulfed in the flames of war, and this fortress island was perhaps built at that time. But after peace arrived, especially in the three hundred years since the guild was established, there had been almost no wars in the airspace, let alone large-scale wars. Islands like the Chalk Fortress naturally lost their status.

Sometimes when flying by, looking at the Chalk Fortress, there would be discussions with peers like "Are there still living people in that place?" or "Is that an ancient ruin?"

"I see, but what does your 'rising' have to do with capturing people?"

"The Emperor said that all enemies who hinder the rise of the Empire must be cleared! We need not question, only execute his will."

"What is the Emperor's name? Did he obtain some ancient technology for you to rise because of it?"

The Bean-person commander became more and more excited as he spoke: "A fanatic like you has no right to know the Emperor's honorable name! The Emperor is the mountain, and those who do not bow to his holy glory are the waves; even if they roll in, they are destined to shatter against the cliffs!"

"Alright, I don't want to hear this, and I didn't come here to bow down."

It seems that the people of this Empire cannot be communicated with. Besides investigating the meter from before, Li Ang also decided to check where this Emperor popped out from.

Perhaps thinking he had come aboard to surrender, after the bow cannon of this warship finished charging, the commander did not let it fire directly.

But they still blocked Eden's flight path. The giant wolf carried Zoe and shaped a circle of floating ice shields around her body, which, like a cocoon, temporarily formed multi-angle protection; even if they fired, they couldn't hurt them for a while.

Li Ang flipped the switches on the Spirit Core one by one: "I came here to arrest you. If you have anything to say, go tell it to the Guild's Order Sky Knights."

"Just you alone? Ha—"

The Bean-person commander's laughter had just begun when the entire sound stopped abruptly. It wasn't that he was knocked down, but that the loudspeaker in front of him had failed, and his shouting was not amplified.

Also failing were the soldiers' arcane guns. They saw Li Ang wave his hand and knew he had cast a spell, but when they pulled the triggers, the gun bodies overheated rapidly without firing energy projectiles.

They quickly threw away their weapons, only to find their armor twitching uncontrollably. They themselves were like marionettes, dancing weird dances on the deck. In the process, almost all their limb joints were pulled out of their sockets, and they screamed in pain.

The turrets on the deck rotated automatically, and even the ship's cannons inside the hull could not be controlled. The helmsman was knocked away by the rapidly spinning wheel, the flames sprayed by the power furnace adjusted direction, and the entire flying ship turned sideways in the air, aiming its maximum firepower at another reinforcement ship not far away.

With the blessing of the temporary energy source, Li Ang activated his Ultimate—Myriad Spirit Disturbance, while letting his magic power cover a wider range.

"Finally, it's my area of expertise."

All the cannons on the ship fired at once. The nearby ship had no reaction; the deck was completely covered by the poured energy projectiles, and the soldiers were shrouded in the purple-red light of the explosions.

The attacked flying ship immediately lost most of its combat power. The cannon controllers in the cabin were first stunned by the sudden friendly fire, but later wanted to aim it at the ship Li Ang was controlling. However, before that, the energy projectiles from the cannons controlled by Li Ang had already exploded into the muzzles, wiping them all out.

The two smaller ships behind wanted to adjust their angles to perform a volley against the large ship Li Ang was controlling.

After Li Ang turned the ship sideways to finish the attack, the angle was directly facing them. He controlled the stern power furnace to maximum, the warship approached rapidly, and the ram at the bow crashed directly onto the deck of a small ship. Amidst the loud noise of the collision and the tearing of metal, there were countless casualties.

Li Ang walked toward the place where the two ships connected. The control range of Myriad Spirit Disturbance extended to that ship, and the soldiers who wanted to rush up immediately started dancing, while some of the small ship's weapons and the large ship's weapons aimed at the fourth ship simultaneously.

This time, the fourth ship started firing, but any energy projectiles of various sizes that entered the range of Myriad Spirit Disturbance had their explosive spirituality activated in advance, causing them to explode prematurely.

Li Ang also chose to fire back, and soon, the fourth ship fell silent under the baptism of artillery fire.

The artillery fire ceased, and in the warm breeze of the night sky of the Floss Airspace, the smoke drifted endlessly.

"You! Who on earth are you! Is, is this something a human can do!"

The Bean-person commander crawled out from a pile of soldiers with dislocated limbs. Because he wasn't wearing equipment, he could still move, but his heart was near collapse, and he even forgot to praise the glory of the Emperor.

"A Sky Knight whose path you blocked, formerly an assistant for the Sky Team."

"Sky, Sky Team... aren't these people as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns! Why could it be such a coincidence..."

The Bean-person commander collapsed on the deck.