Chapter 422: Otherwise I'll Bury You

"This is... the membrane from a planting sphere's dome? Have you learned how to craft planting spheres?" Nai Ge Li Si asked, puzzled, as he looked at the bundles of semi-transparent 'cloth.'

Swoosh— three heads popped up from the edge of the carriage one after another. Seeing Ange and the others, who had been working dozens of meters away just now, heard the words 'planting sphere' and moved at a speed comparable to teleportation, arriving in a flash.

Du Luo Ken said, embarrassed: "Not yet. Although crafting planting spheres isn't hard, I can't gather many of the materials. Let's talk about it once the materials are complete."

"Then why did you bring this 'cloth' over?" Nai Ge Li Si asked, puzzled. Seeing Ange and the other two also turned their heads to look at him in confusion, and that perfectly synchronized timing instantly brought Du Luo Ken triple the pressure.

Du Luo Ken said: "Here's what I was thinking. We can't craft planting spheres, but why do we need to craft planting spheres? Why don't we just dig a pit in the ground and change the dome to a semi-transparent one? The only difference from a planting sphere is that it can't be 'packed' away, but why would we need to pack it away? This territory is already ours. Why don't we just build a permanent one?"

Seeing Ange and Nai Ge Li Si's eyes lit up at the same time. Nai Ge Li Si praised: "Great idea. This saves a bunch of complicated structures. Just dig a pit. This kind of work suits Seeing Ange best."

Seeing Ange couldn't wait and immediately carried the semi-transparent cloth down.

Silver Coin, who was especially sensitive to costs, couldn't help but say: "Actually, I've been wanting to ask this for a long time. Since digging a pit in the ground works too, why bother with all the trouble of making it a retractable structure?"

Du Luo Ken pointed at the Star Burst magic array in the sky: "A retractable structure is redundant on the ground, but it's very practical in the void. Toss it into the void, and it automatically takes shape."

"So that's how it is." Silver Coin said, suddenly enlightened.

Seeing Ange enthusiastically dug out a large pit, propped up the transparent cloth with a frame, connected the micropore pipes, and soon, a permanent-type planting sphere appeared.

Placed next to the retractable planting sphere, it looked like two semi-transparent bowls turned upside down on the ground.

Seeing Seeing Ange having so much fun, Du Luo Ken finally revealed the true purpose of his visit.

"Surveying?" Nai Ge Li Si asked. Seeing Ange tilted his head.

"Yes. In that direction there's a river valley. We want to build a bridge there and hope my lord can help us survey it. The biggest workload in the early stage of a project is the surveying. If we did the surveying ourselves, accuracy aside, it would take at least two or three months." Du Luo Ken said.

Seeing Ange nodded, then pointed at the planting sphere and said: "Cloth, more."

Nai Ge Li Si translated: "Get more of this cloth."

Du Luo Ken said, embarrassed: "I've scoured the city clean. This is all there is. It was requisitioned from a cloth merchant who specializes in lingerie."

"Actually, if my lord wants more, you can absolutely make it yourself. My lord's silk is top-grade base material. Weave them into a fine net this big, brush on some rubber tree sap, cure it with blue light, and it becomes this kind of semi-transparent cloth."

Seeing Ange counted on his fingers, noting each step down one by one.

Nai Ge Li Si glared at Du Luo Ken, helplessly covering his face. We're done for. Isn't this just giving Seeing Ange more work to do? First raising silkworms, then planting trees, then adding blue light? Every single one is Seeing Ange's specialty.

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Heading north along Shahe toward Wind City, then turning south when almost at the foot of the mountain, that's another source of Shahe. Actually, Shahe has many sources; it's formed by countless small streams converging from the mountain range.

Soon everyone arrived at the river valley Du Luo Ken had mentioned, carved over the years by the rushing river water. Although only a little over fifty meters wide, it was several hundred meters deep.

Seeing Ange followed Du Luo Ken's blueprints, looking left and right, and began surveying.

The dam was done by Seeing Ange personally, so he just needed a glance to have a good idea. But this bridge would be completed by Du Luo Ken, so all the survey data needed to be understandable to Du Luo Ken. This required various markings, which would be a bit more troublesome.

But no matter how troublesome, it was just a matter of looking a few more times. In less than half an hour it was done. Just as the surveying was about to be completed, a group of people and horses suddenly emerged from the opposite bank of the river valley.

These people wore black cloaks, but the cloaks bulged underneath, clearly wearing armor. They were a squad of fully armed swordsmen.

The swordsmen who came around were also very surprised to see Seeing Ange and the others. They said in astonishment: "Oh? How are there people here?"

"Seems like there's a mage? Building a bridge?" someone in the squad responded.

The leading swordsman said: "Kill them. We're on a secret mission. Don't let our tracks be exposed."

"Yes!" Two high-ranking swordsmen leapt out from the squad, channeled their battle Qi and leaped forcefully. At the peak of their jump, their battle Qi surged, carrying them toward the opposite bank. The moment they landed, they were beaten to their knees by the Little Zombie and the Little Angel.

"???" The entire squad of swordsmen on this side all popped up huge question marks. What kind of situation was this?

Because there was no need to intimidate, the Little Zombie didn't armor up. But it was tall and sturdy, and its strength being unfathomable was one thing—why was the other little loli even fiercer?

After taking down the swordsmen who had leaped over, the Little Angel was still yelling, powering up and about to unleash a big move at the opposite bank, when Seeing Ange promptly picked it up.

The swordsmen on the opposite side were dumbfounded for a long time before coming back to their senses. A squad of fully armed special ops swordsmen on a secret mission, passing by a river valley and running into a squad of road workers, wanting to casually swat them dead to avoid leaking information—yet two of them were taken down by a little loli?

The Little Angel was too fierce, making them overlook the Little Zombie. Such an absurd thing—how could they not be dumbfounded?

After a good while of recovering, the leading swordsman finally called out loudly: "Friends on the other side, we are the Latulaxi Mercenary Corps. We offended you just now. Please return our people."

"Latulaxi? What a lousy name, probably made up on the spot." Nai Ge Li Si muttered.

"His tone is so arrogant. Is he ordering us to release them? What do we do?" Silver Coin asked.

"Provoke them. If they dare come over, kill them all." Du Luo Ken said.

Nai Ge Li Si flew up, turned around, raised his tail, and wiggled—

Have you ever seen a dragon the size of an embryo wiggle its butt at you? The swordsmen on the opposite side instantly exploded with rage, drawing their weapons with a clatter.

Among them, a thin man wearing a cloak but clearly not in armor pushed through the crowd to the front. He exchanged a few words with the leading swordsman. From the leading swordsman's attitude, it was clear this thin man's status was significantly higher.

Seeing Ange frowned slightly. From the thin man, he sensed a familiar aura.

After their conversation ended, the thin man took off his cloak, cast a cold glance toward this side, and pushed his hands forward into the air.

The leading swordsman immediately shouted loudly: "Everyone, prepare!"

Swish! A pair of wings spread open behind the thin man, and his entire body radiated holy light. When his hands pushed forward to their limit, beneath the wings, another pair of light wings flickered.

A beam of light shot out the instant the light wings flickered, heading straight for the brass dragon wiggling its butt.

As the light beam fired, the leading swordsman simultaneously swung down his longsword: "Kill!"

The prepared swordsmen leaped toward the opposite bank one after another.

But the moment they jumped up, they saw a terrifying sight—the light beam had been caught by the little loli on the opposite side.

Yes, the Little Angel cut in front of Nai Ge Li Si, blocked the Holy Light Flash, and hugged it into a ball. Two pairs of light wings also sprouted from her body.

"Oh? How are there two pairs of light wings? She didn't use the Archangel's Staff?" Nai Ge Li Si exclaimed in surprise.

When the Little Angel uses the Archangel's Staff, she can unfold one pair of true wings and two pairs of light wings, transforming into a six-winged archangel. But now, the Little Angel hadn't spread her true wings, yet two pairs of light wings had appeared—something that originally required the Archangel's Staff to unfold.

She still had the leisure to mutter about this, but the swordsmen on the opposite side were all stunned, especially the swordsmen who had leaped above the river valley, a strong sense of crisis welling up inside them.

Their feeling wasn't wrong. Seeing Ange waved his hand, and rows of fireballs blasted out. Could this count as striking them mid-crossing?

Suspended in midair with nothing to push off from, most of the swordsmen could only watch helplessly as the fireballs slammed into them, wrapping them up like firemen and dropping them into the river valley.

Only one swordsman, relying on his thick battle Qi, stubbornly withstood the fireballs and used the impact to fly backward.

By the time he landed on the opposite bank, both his hands and face were badly scorched.

Everyone on the opposite bank once again stood dumb as wooden chickens.

The little angel hugged the holy orb of light, took a huffing bite out of it, and even turned her head to let out an "Aow!" at Seeing Ange.

Seeing Ange wouldn't let her use her big move, yet now the enemies opposite could use theirs—unfair, angry.

"Aow—"

"Aow?!!!!" The little angel was so excited, but she couldn't throw away the orb of light in her hands, so she could only gnaw it down bite by bite first.

The leading swordsman's legs went weak; he nearly collapsed to the ground. He looked left, looked right—his side still had twenty people left, but ten of them were the thin man's attendants, with no real fighting ability. Of his own subordinates, only ten remained…

A squad of swordsmen on a special mission, more than half dead for no apparent reason—the mission was certainly a failure, but such a bizarre failure gave him an unreal feeling. Could he be hallucinating?

Instead, that thin man remained calm, flapped his wings expressionlessly, and rose into the air: "Who are you people? Why are you blocking us?"

"An angel—a Holy Spirit angel! Weren't the Church of Light on this plane chased off to some remote region? How did a Holy Spirit angel pop up here?" Nai Ge Li Si said excitedly.

Silver Coin hesitated, then said: "Lord Nai Ge, this place… is the remote region."

What place could possibly be more remote than this broken wasteland?

"Uh, right. Could they be heading to Abbert's place?" Nai Ge Li Si caught on.

"Possibly. Uh, my lord, he's twisting black and white, saying we're the ones blocking them." Silver Coin said indignantly.

"Bah! They were clearly the ones who struck first—so infuriating! Are all these Holy Spirit angels this barbaric? Isn't there a single one as cute as our little angel?" Nai Ge Li Si said angrily.

Duroken and Silver Coin blinked, glanced sideways at the little angel beside them, excitedly gnawing the orb of light with a look that said she was raring to go…

Good grief—the most barbaric one was this very creature.

The little angel finished the last bite of the orb of light, pushed her shoulders back, and with a swish, her true wings spread open.

The opposite side collectively sucked in cold breaths; even that expressionless four-winged angel was shocked: "Supreme Holy Spirit?! A six-winged archangel! Supreme Lord, forgive me, I did not mean to offend—"

The four-winged angel dropped to his knees in shock, shouting at the top of his voice.

The little angel was frantic—this was surrender? She didn't want it! She'd finally gotten to use her big move, and you dare surrender?

The little angel urgently pushed both hands forward and, just before Seeing Ange could pick her up, blasted out a thick pillar of light that swallowed the four-winged angel opposite.

She swung her hands again, and the pillar of light swept sideways, swallowing the pile of attendant swordsmen behind as well. The Holy Light of a six-winged archangel could last for a short while.

Of the twenty people remaining, another thirteen vanished.

The leading swordsman was lucky—he hadn't been caught in the pillar of light. Seeing that the four-winged angel beside him had been reduced to a single orb of light, he screamed in terror: "Run!"

He leapt up and turned tail, fleeing.

The other survivors came to their senses and fled back the way they'd come, but they hadn't gone far when a middle-aged handsome man in a tall hat and cloak stepped into their path, smiling as he tipped his hat to them—polite and elegant.

"Name."

"La… Labu." The leading swordsman stammered. It wasn't that he was a coward—today's events had simply exceeded what he could bear.

A six-winged archangel?! Looking at the little angel with her wings folded up—harmless, pink, and adorable—who could have imagined she was actually a six-winged archangel?

"What did you people come here for?" Nai Ge Li Si asked.

"I… I don't know. I'm only responsible for escorting the Holy Spirit lord to North Wind City." Labu said.

"Escort to North Wind City? Only to North Wind City? Not anywhere else?" Nai Ge Li Si was surprised. He'd thought they were heading to Abbert's stone-chamber graveyard. If it was only to North Wind City, why take this route?

Labu was bewildered: "The trade road to North Wind City is cut off—didn't you know?"

"I know that, but you're no ordinary people. Even if the road is cut, could it really stop you?" Nai Ge Li Si asked.

"But if we did that, wouldn't everyone know? The Holy Spirit lord said it had to be kept secret." Labu replied.

The questioning couldn't go further, because Labu's mission was only to escort the Holy Spirit; what exactly the Holy Spirit had come here to do, he had no idea at all.

But the Holy Spirit had been blasted out of existence by the little angel in one strike, leaving only a Holy Spirit's Heart.

The Holy Spirit's Heart was in Seeing Ange's hands, as he cast a purification spell to see if he could revive it.

The little angel, restless, hopped around beside him, reaching out to snatch it. Seeing Ange irritably swatted her hand away; after a few swats, she accidentally snatched it from him.

But she used too much force grabbing it—the Holy Spirit's Heart was crushed, shattering into fragments that drifted up into the air.

The little angel hurriedly tried to grab them, but the more she grabbed, the more they crumbled, and the faster they scattered. Frantic, she let out an "Aow—", and the sound shattered the Holy Spirit's Heart's fragments, turning them into specks of starlight that drifted down.

This time when the little angel reached out again, those specks of starlight, like weary birds returning to their nest, one after another flew into her palm.

Nai Ge Li Si spread his hands helplessly and said to Labu: "Alright, the Holy Spirit's Heart is gone too. Hurry up and come up with some valuable intel that lets us figure out his purpose, or I'll bury you right here."