Chapter 334: Easy Annihilation

Golden Feather City, inside the Fleming Family manor.

Mailun leaned back on a soft animal-hide sofa, savoring the latest delicious wine from Grego Heights with great contentment.

Having passed the age of fifty, his strength was progressing very slowly; he estimated it would be difficult for him to break through to the Great Mage realm in this lifetime.

Rather than meditating and training every day, it was better to properly enjoy this wonderful life.

"My Lord, we have finished investigating the purpose of the royal warships leaving port."

His subordinate Knight was reporting the latest intelligence to him.

"Let's hear it."

"It is said that His Majesty the King is very furious about the White Whale Pirate Group's attack on Count Luoning. After interrogating the pirate captives, he determined the pirate group's base; this sortie is aimed at the White Whale Pirate Group."

A cold glint flashed in Mailun's eyes, but it quickly calmed down again.

"This is to wipe out the White Whale Pirate Group?"

"Yes, my Lord." The Knight hesitated for a moment and asked, "Should we provide support?"

Mailun fell into deep thought.

After a good while, he shook his head and rejected this suggestion.

"Our Bruno, His Majesty, is also a man who cares about his reputation. Since he has personally dispatched people, if we were to strike his warships, then the Screaming Sea would once again be stirred into a storm of wiping out thieves. I have no interest in responding to such boring calls."

"Then what is your intention?"

"You are to immediately send a message to Hede, telling him to take a few core members and the assets and leave that place."

Mailun took another sip of the fine wine, "As for those unimportant people, leave them on the island to let off some steam for His Majesty the King's men."

"Yes, my Lord!"

Mailun swirled the wine glass in his hand; thinking of the White Whale Pirate Group's assassination of Luoning made him feel somewhat angry.

He liked doing business, but he did not like doing business at a loss.

Being persuaded by the Count of Yueguang Valley to cooperate in killing Luoning this time was clearly a losing business.

Not only did he lose two large ships and some Knights, but even the White Whale Pirate Group had to follow along and change their base.

Although it was not difficult to rebuild a pirate group, this feeling made him unhappy.

"Hesusu is truly an unreliable fellow. He swore to me at the beginning that it would be a one-hundred-percent success, yet I never expected it would end up like this."

Mailun had a very low opinion of the Count of Yueguang Valley.

If he had been the one presiding over the assassination, he absolutely would not have sent only one Golden Knight; he would have sent at least two.

He thought again of the championship match between Luoning and Kalada at the Martial Arts Tournament; to kill a Luoning like that, two Golden Knights probably wouldn't be enough—at least five would be needed, right?

It might not be convenient for Hesusu to dispatch five Golden Knights at once, but his son-in-law, the Meteor-level Ramsey, could absolutely be dispatched.

Killing such a person with potential was completely worth a Meteor Knight taking action.

"Fortunately, Luoning does not know that I participated in the assassination operation."

Mailun secretly rejoiced.

Not long after, a Letter Bird of the Fleming Family landed on an island.

This island did not have a formal name, but ever since the White Whale Pirate Group moved in, this nameless little island was renamed Baijing Island.

It was called an island, but the land area here was very small; an ordinary person would likely not even need an hour to run a lap around the edge of the island.

Yet, such a small island possessed a very simple pier.

At this moment, in a spacious wooden building on the island, the leader of the White Whale Pirate Group was reading a letter; on it was only a single, extremely concise character: Withdraw.

Outsiders might find it hard to understand, but this leader knew the meaning of this character.

After a brief moment of thought, he stood up abruptly and walked outside.

On the vast sea, Captain Weike, who had been requisitioned by Luoning, was piloting the "White Whale," named by Luoning, and leading the way at the front.

Following behind were two ships of the Dennis Family, as well as the royal warships.

Luoning was riding on a royal warship.

This warship was forty meters long, a size larger than Dennis I.

Luoning had toured this ship inside and out and felt very envious in his heart.

It was said that such a warship cost over fifty thousand gold coins, and even if you wanted to buy one, you might not be able to.

At this moment, Luoning was leaning against the deck railing, blowing in the sea breeze.

They had already been sailing on the sea for a day; according to Weike, it would take another half a day for them to reach their destination, Baijing Island.

"What, too afraid to go up and greet Mixi?" Luoning looked at Kalada beside him and teased.

Yesterday, when they gathered at the port, Kalada's expression was quite spectacular when he saw that the royal family had dispatched the Knight Mixi.

It was just that in the long time that had passed, the words they had spoken amounted to only a few sentences.

Kalada looked up at the Knight Mixi, who was feeding a Griffin at the bow of the ship; thoughts of going up surged in his eyes, but his feet did not move a single step.

"It's better to keep some distance."

Kalada finally squeezed out these words.

Ever since Lude had talked to him, he had deliberately kept his distance from Mixi, which could also allow the latter to suffer fewer idle rumors from the outside world.

Luoning curled his lips.

At first, he thought Kalada was having unrequited love, but later he discovered that both of them had feelings for each other; it was just that the difference in class had distanced them.

He came to Kalada's side and kicked him hard on the butt, sending him flying toward the direction where Mixi was.

He thought to himself: You don't even seize such a good opportunity, how can my territory get more talent?

Although falling in love was important, having an additional powerful female Knight who could train Griffins in the Wubei Territory was equally important.

Only to see Kalada fall onto the deck with a bang; the sound of the impact caused Mixi, who was in front, to turn her head around.

"That..."

Kalada stood up, looked back at Luoning, then scratched his head and said awkwardly, "Xiaobai has grown a bit more."

Xiaobai is the nickname of the Griffin that Mixi rides.

"Xiaobai reached adulthood long ago and doesn't grow in size anymore," Mixi laughed.

Hearing this, Luoning couldn't help but shake his head; the two's opening line was truly something else.

He turned and walked into the ship's cabin.

When passing by Meilongnika's room, he couldn't help but stop his footsteps.

This middle-aged uncle really spent most of his time on cultivation.

From the time they set off until now, the other party had almost never left the room.

Last night, Luoning had asked out of a desire to build rapport, and the other party said he was studying the secret technique "Fire Dance Thunder Strike Slash" gifted by Lulansi, striving to master it as soon as possible.

Luoning was genuinely worried that the other party would use this move on the ship, lest he tear the ship apart.

Fortunately, the other party said he was only honing his attribute fusion techniques and would not create attacks with too much power.

"What a hardworking person."

Luoning returned to his room, spread out the Magic Beast Leather, and began to draw a Spell Scroll.

Time slipped away, and in the blink of an eye, it was noon the next day.

A small island appeared on the vast sea, and as the ship approached, the outline of the island and a simple pier appeared in everyone's line of sight.

This was the base of the White Whale Pirate Group.

However, this scene made Luoning frown—around the simple pier, there were only two wooden boats the size of small dinghies; let alone ten-meter-long sailboats, there wasn't even one five meters long.

"Is this definitely the base of the White Whale Pirate Group?"

Luoning was very suspicious, "Could it be that Weike is not being honest and is deceiving us?" (End of chapter)