Chapter 921: Mataqi Tribe

On the bridge, people watched the scene outside the Star Destroyer.

The world suddenly darkened, and star‑like specks of light appeared in the view, then the highly warped spacetime stretched them into bright white lines that rushed toward us, flashed past on both sides, as if entering a temporal‑spatial tunnel.

Clearly, the Star Destroyer had left the Prime Material Plane.

Borchi and the Extreme Warriors were not surprised; the Star Destroyer was Lei En's Floating City, and a Floating City can perform a jump, which is perfectly normal.

Only Anxiwodasi and Oruin saw the clue, exchanged glances, and saw the shock in each other's eyes.

"Lei En, this isn't a jump, is it?"

Anxiwodasi spoke up, actually having guessed which spell it was, though he could not be certain.

Lei En nodded, smiling, "Teacher, the Star Destroyer's primary method of traversing planes is 'Interdimensional Transfer.'"

Indeed!

Both Holy Soul wizards looked stunned; it truly was Interdimensional Transfer!

Anxiwodasi frowned, thinking that since Lei En dared to use Interdimensional Transfer, he must have solved its problem, and asked again, "How did you resolve the Void Turbulence Interference?"

"Phase Walker," Lei En said softly. "I merged a Phase Mayfly's demon soul."

The senior wizard understood immediately.

Legendary Element Phase Walker—this element is exceedingly rare, known by few, yet he possessed knowledge of Phase Walkers, though having lived over a thousand years he had never encountered a Phase Mayfly. Combining Phase Walker with Interdimensional Transfer indeed resolves the precise positioning issue in the void.

Oruin also understood, envying him, "Lei En, your luck is unbelievable."

"Perhaps the goddess of luck finds me more appealing," Lei En laughed.

While the three spoke, the Interdimensional Transfer ended.

The Star Destroyer emerged from the void, a swath of dark‑red sunlight flooding the bridge; a massive dark sun hung in the sky, several times larger than the Prime Material Plane's sun, imposing a crushing pressure, and it seemed it would never set.

Looking out from the bridge was an endless desert, scorching and barren, with no sign of life in sight.

"Remnant Sun Plane!"

A few Extreme Warriors shouted, having once followed Lei En here.

"This is the 'Shattered Remnant Sun'..." Oruin sighed, "It is said a divine war occurred on this plane, and the Sun God Anse fell here."

Anxiwodasi also surveyed the desert.

But he was more concerned with another matter: the Star Destroyer's jump to the Remnant Sun Plane clearly used this plane as a stepping stone, bypassing the Wu Jin Zhi Hai between the New Continent and the Old Continent; otherwise Lei En could have transferred directly to the Seain Plateau.

Next, the Star Destroyer would need to transfer once more.

Anxiwodasi watched Lei En reach out to manipulate the screen before him; as Lei En lightly tapped a prominent engine diagram, numerous data streams refreshed on the screen like a waterfall.

The Star Destroyer, still flying at high speed, quivered imperceptibly, and he heard the roar of massive energy flow.

Interdimensional Transfer begins!

Anxiwodasi silently counted in his mind; when he reached thirty, the view outside the bridge again became twisted beams of light.

Thirty seconds!

Strictly speaking, it was less than half a minute.

Anxiwodasi could no longer stay calm; that was way too fast!

The Floating City's jump duration varies; from activation to completion, the longest takes ten minutes, depending on the city's mass and volume. Differences in the city's jump array, the current space and plane, also affect jump speed.

Currently the fastest jump belongs to the Silver Star Duke's "Elarasuo" Floating City, formerly Naxas, which, being the smallest Floating City and shrunk during design, jumps quickest, though it still requires three and a half minutes.

Lei En's Star Destroyer needs only half a minute, a full seven times faster!

The Star Destroyer can still fly at extreme speed, making its maneuverability far surpass that of a Floating City; the two are not even the same tier.

If the two fought, the Floating City would be the Star Destroyer's target.

Conversely, the Floating City could not hit the Star Destroyer, only taking blows unilaterally.

Even the sturdiest shield would eventually be breached; Anxiwodasi seemed to see the Star Destroyer shattering the Floating City's barrier, crashing down from the heights.

"Is the era of the Floating City ending?"

At that moment, Anxiwodasi's convictions wavered, and Oruin sensed the same, falling silent.

Soon, the Interdimensional Transfer ended.

The Star Destroyer leapt from the void, revealing endless plateaus and mountains; the Extreme Warriors were familiar with this place—it was the Seain Plateau.

The sky over the Seain Plateau had just brightened; it was still morning.

The weather was fine, allowing a view far ahead; over a hundred li away rose Glagur Mountain, and Kalanos lay clearly at its foot.

During transmission the Star Destroyer could not stay invisible; after the transfer, Lei En reactivated the Invisibility Field, slowed its speed toward Kalanos, and reached Kalanos's sky within minutes. Though cloaked, the ship's massive weight hanging overhead and the engine's roar were still noticed by some in the city.

"Kestajin, Maigao Na."

Lei En's voice suddenly rang across Kalanos's sky; dwarves and barbarians in the city looked up.

Two figures sprinted from Kalanos's citadel, one tall, one short, both clad in heavy armor.

A year ago, Kestajin was recalled by Lei En from Gotham City to the Old Continent, appointed as Kalanos's lord. Maigao Na had been a chieftain of a barbarian tribe by the Sky Pool Lake, and on the day Lei En arrived in the duke's domain, he voluntarily pledged allegiance.

Lei En confirmed his loyalty was sound, his power at Legendary High-rank, his mind sharp and capable, and thus assigned him to Kalanos as Kestajin's deputy, governing the barbarians of Kalanos.

The two ran out of the citadel and instantly saw Lei En descending from the sky.

"Boss!"

"Lord Duke!"

Kestajin and Maigao Na hurriedly half‑knelt in salute, and the commander of the Holy Spear Knight Corps stationed at Kalanos rushed over.

Lei En ordered, "Each of you gather two thousand dwarf and barbarian warriors, assemble within ten minutes, and follow me immediately."

"Yes!" the two shouted, then hurried off to obey.

All of Kalanos sprang into action.

In under ten minutes, over four thousand dwarves and barbarians donned armor, took up weapons, and gathered on the plaza before the citadel. Excitement lit their faces; the sudden muster clearly signaled a battle, yet some were puzzled—who was the target? How to reach it?

Kestajin returned to Lei En's side and reported, "Everyone is assembled."

Lei En nodded.

At that moment a powerful sense of oppression appeared overhead, seeming to draw nearer, as if a mountain were pressing down on them; dwarves and barbarians looked up, most saw nothing, but the oppression was real and grew stronger.

Kestajin, the King of the Hills, though not the sharpest-eyed, finally saw through the Invisibility Field as the Star Destroyer drew close.

"Mordin on high!"

Kestajin let out a scream, his eyes bulging, his whole body trembling with excitement as he shouted, "What is this thing?"

Maigao Na also saw it, his gaze went blank, his body stiffened, and he could not utter a word.

Lei En gave a faint smile, did not deactivate the Invisibility Field, letting the Star Destroyer appear before everyone, commanded it to hover a hundred meters above ground, opened the hangar doors on both sides, extended the heavy armor onto the ground as a platform, and ordered, "Board the ship!"

Four thousand dwarves and barbarian warriors hesitated; to them the two hangar doors seemed to open in mid‑air, leading to an unknown space.

Kestajin and Maigao Na could not wait, rushed in first, and shouted back, "What are you waiting for, get up here!"

The people hurried onto the Star Destroyer, filling half of each hangar.

Boom—boom—.

The hangar doors closed; amid the puzzled gazes of the city's residents, a massive shape rose overhead and quickly vanished.

Kestajin toured the hangar, every detail making his eyes shine, but unfortunately all the passage doors to elsewhere were shut; a touch told him, from centuries of rune‑lord experience, that these thick metal doors could not be forced open.

Just as he was at a loss, he was suddenly transported to a bright, spacious room.

Maigao Na arrived with him.

They saw Lei En and the view outside the bridge, and were instantly stunned.

Kestajin was about to let out a cry when his eyes fell on the two human Wizards beside Lei En, recognized them, swallowed his voice, and quickly bowed, saying, "Greetings, Master Anxi, greetings, Ouroin Master."

Hearing those two names, Maigao Na's legs went weak and he nearly fell to his knees.

He then noticed more than a hundred Extreme Warriors in powered armor around him, shivered, and dared not speak a word.

The two Holy Soul Wizards responded modestly to the King of the Hills' greeting, turned their attention back to the Star Destroyer, and Lei En activated the transport again.

Boom—!

The Star Destroyer slipped through the void, instantly returned to the Prime Material Plane, this time landing nearby without re‑activating the Invisibility Field, descending into a narrow valley. As it lowered to a certain height, the surrounding scenery shifted, breaking through a massive shielding field, revealing the full view of the gorge.

The Extreme Warriors knew this place well; it was the Jin Gang Fort base.

On the training ground outside the fortress, the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th companies—four companies totaling 240 Extreme Warriors—had already assembled.

Though they lacked powered armor, they had already mounted their own fire dragons.

The 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th battalions of the Holy Spear Knight Corps, two thousand Holy Lance Knights riding bronze warhorses, stood in formation on the ground.

Although they had been warned by Lei En in advance, seeing the Star Destroyer descend from the sky, blotting out the sun over the gorge as if night had suddenly fallen, each expression was vivid—stunned, shocked, dazed, mouths agape.

The massive sense of oppression from the Star Destroyer terrified the fire dragons and bronze warhorses, causing a roar, and the formation became chaotic, nearly out of control.

The gorge's training ground was too small to contain the Star Destroyer.

Lei En kept it hovering, opened two more hangars, and shouted, "All aboard!"

The Star Destroyer has four hangars; excluding mounts, it can carry a super‑human legion of over ten thousand. The Extreme Warriors and fire dragons of the four companies, plus two thousand Holy Lance Knights and bronze warhorses, perfectly filled the two hangars.

With the troops aboard, the Star Destroyer rose immediately and accelerated northward.

On the bridge.

Marious already knew who Lei En's target was.

Now on the Seign Plateau, only one tribe remained unconquered: the Mataki tribe in the northwest of the plateau.

The Mataki barbarians, among many barbarian branches, were not the most gifted, but they out‑reproduced other barbarians, were numerous, and occupied the best tract of the plateau, adjacent to the resource‑rich Death Forest; over centuries they expanded their domain to nearly one‑fifth of the entire plateau.

Rumor even has it that the Mataki tribe controls part of the Death Forest.

Though only the outskirts of the Death Forest, it is still impressive; before the rise of the Makurag people, the Mataki were the undisputed strongest tribe on the plateau.

To attack the Mataki tribe, Marious had been planning for months; just as he was about to report to Lei En, the news that the Iola Core had already been manufactured interrupted him.

It now seemed his plan was no longer needed.

Boom—!

Another thunderous void vibration echoed through the sky; the Star Destroyer vanished high above, the legion inside the hangars could not see outside, only feeling a tremor.

Meanwhile, those on the bridge saw a city nestled among the mountains.

The Mataki barbarians' "Bakhahulu" City!

In terms of size and population, Bakhahulu is the largest city on the plateau, larger than Kalanos, which was built just over a year ago. Its location is superb, situated in a huge basin between six high mountains; the towering peaks form natural walls, with only an eastern gate opening to a steep, several‑kilometer‑long slope—easy to defend, hard to assault.

The Star Destroyer leapt from the void, appearing in the sky dozens of li east of Bakhahulu.

Lei En did not reactivate the Invisibility Field, boldly flying toward Bakhahulu while slowing his speed.

Such a massive movement immediately alarmed the barbarians in the city.

Wuwuwu…

A resonant horn blared, throwing the whole city into chaos; barbarians screamed and fled, hiding in houses and shelters, while some stood frozen, staring at the massive object descending from the sky, pale‑faced, wanting to run but finding their limbs unresponsive.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

"Tribe members, ascend with me and bring this thing down!"

On the six peaks surrounding Bakhahulu, each mountain bore a large group of barbarians riding venom‑spitting flying dragons; their numbers quickly exceeded a thousand, wings spread, blotting the sky. Leading them was an extremely robust barbarian, his muscles rock‑solid, exuding the aura of a Saint Rank elite.

He rode a mature green dragon, brandishing a heavy greatsword, leading the dragon swarm fearlessly toward the charging Star Destroyer!

(End of Chapter)