Chapter 1117: Disarm
Although Legendary powerhouses were powerful, they were still far from being powerful enough to ignore the political powers of the mortal world. In fact, be it the Gilded Kingdom or the mainland kingdoms like Felan Kingdom and Ledin Kingdom, there were quite a few Legendary powerhouses working for their regimes. Only Sanctuary powerhouses who were near the level of the gods could be considered to be above the world.
Although there were quite a few Legendary powerhouses on The Star, Delano, who had a high status, did not take ordinary Legendary powerhouses seriously at all. Delano might be below the Legendary-level, but he had a father that no one else could compare to. High Priest Poer was not someone ordinary Legendary powerhouses could afford to provoke. Besides, he was now in control of the powerful Fifth Fleet. If any of them were insensible enough to stand out and offend him, he could easily blast any Legendary powerhouse and destroy them.
Hence, despite facing so many Legendary powerhouses on The Star, Delano was still full of confidence, and looked like he was bent on going by the book. After he gave out those instructions, the warriors of the Gilded Kingdom Navy around him also immediately got ready for battle. Clearly, if anyone behaved strangely, they would not hesitate to suppress them by force.
After hearing Delano’s words and seeing the actions of the Gilded Kingdom’s navy, the people on The Star immediately showed their displeasure. They came here because they were invited to participate in the Gilded Kingdom’s founding celebration, and not to be provoked. Besides, the fleet they confronted just now obviously belonged to the pirates. Was there still a need for a judge?
In this situation, even Joseph who had always wanted to build friendly relations with the Gilded Kingdom was rather displeased. However, thinking about Delano’s identity, Joseph had no choice but to suppress his displeasure and get ready to go forward to negotiate with Delano because he didn’t want to offend High Priest Poer of the Gilded Kingdom.
However, before Joseph could say anything, Claus of the Caesar Family protested in a hostile tone, “What!? Why do you want us to accept your custody? We are guests invited by the Gilded Kingdom to attend the founding celebration of your nation. Pirates appeared in your territorial waters and tried to rob us. Not only are you not giving us an apology, you even want to treat us as prisoners. This is outrageous and unreasonable!”
“Exactly, we even helped them to destroy a band of pirates. They should be thanking us!” Many agreed with Claus and chimed in after he spoke. Those people were all powerhouses of the Breezy Plains, and it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that they dominated the Breezy Plains. Hence, they had never been mistreated and belittled that way before.
Hearing the tones of the people who were getting more and more agitated, Delano’s face gradually turned sullen too. He had never encountered anyone in the territorial waters of the Gilded Kingdom who dared to disregard him. Hence, he turned to look at the deputy commander beside him, and sternly ordered, “What are you waiting for? Hurry up and disarm them, and then take over the ship.”
He’s getting the soldiers to disarm dozens of Legendary powerhouses. Does he think that the soldiers are all Sanctuary powerhouses? After hearing Delano’s words, the people on The Star were amused by the absurd command instead of being angry.
However, Delano obviously did not think so. Although his warriors were naturally not qualified to fight a group of Legendary powerhouses, he was certain that the latter definitely didn’t dare to go against the Gilded Kingdom!
Besides, Delano also felt that the president of the Tower of Dusk seemed mediocre in strength, but actually had an unusual status among them. Hence, Delano felt that as long as he could subdue Lin Li, the others should be easy to deal with.
With Delano’s strength that was below the Legendary-level, he couldn’t see what kind of strength Lin Li actually possessed. Moreover, he did not believe that a young man like Lin Li who was only in his early twenties could possess any great strength. Therefore, in Delano’s opinion, Lin Li was a perfect target for him to establish dominance.
Hence, without the slightest hesitation, Delano took a step toward Lin Li in a bid to subdue him. Upon sight of Delano’s action, the guards around him immediately followed suit. However, in order not to spoil Delano’s mood, they chose not to follow too closely. In fact, they didn’t think that Lin Li, the young mage who seemed to have weak magical waves, would pose any threat to Delano.
As Delano approached Lin Li, he cast a water-series restraining spell without saying anything at all. Actually, the spell simply created a massive ball of water that would drown ordinary people who were trapped in it in a short period of time. However, the spell was only at level-10 which would not be effective on Archmages that were above level-15, let alone Lin Li, a Sanctuary powerhouse.
Actually, if it was merely a failure of the restraining spell, it wouldn’t be considered much, but as a Sanctuary powerhouse, Lin Li had already put up numerous potent passive defensive magic spells around him that were. Hence, Lin Li didn’t have to pay much attention to it. As long as he was attacked, the spells would immediately launch a counterattack or put up a defense. Hence, very few in Anril could sneak an attack on a Sanctuary Master.
Delano thought he had found an easy target, but he didn’t expect to have met a tough opponent. As soon as the spell flew near Lin Li, a ray of light flashed from his body abruptly while he didn’t bat a single eyelid, followed by a series of magic runes that appeared out of thin air, instantly extinguishing the restraining spell. However, that was not the end of it. As the restraining spell vanished, the defensive magic spell on Lin Li’s body erupted too, and blasted at Delano immediately.
It was because Delano was too weak, and only managed to cast a level-10 restraining spell that it didn’t trigger a powerful retaliation from Lin Li. Instead, it only resulted in some repulsion. Otherwise, the entire Fifth Fleet would turn into ashes immediately.
Even so, the shocking force of the counterattack was not something Delano could resist, and he was blown away forcefully before he could figure out what had happened. However, the guards behind Delano reacted rather quickly. As soon as they realized that something was amiss, they immediately tried to catch him lest he was blasted into the sea.
However, the guards were only at level-18 or level-19, and stopping the Sanctuary powerhouse from retreating or someone moving with equal force was not an easy matter, either. The guards almost used all their strength, and only managed to pull Delano up after the last few were squeezed into the sea.
However, after pulling Delano up, the guards did not catch their breath yet, and they suddenly felt that there was something wrong with Delano. In the past, the latter would have stomped his feet and cursed out loud whenever he suffered a loss like that, yet he was so quiet now.
The two guards at the front who were holding Delano were out of breath after being smashed, but they could no longer be bothered to care about their own state. Instead, they hurried to check Delano’s condition. They were stunned by Delano’s appearance.
At this moment, Delano no longer looked as arrogant as he used to be as his face was extremely pale, and he lay on the ground with his eyes tightly shut. He had passed out because of the impact. Besides, there was blood flowing out of the corners of his eyes, nostrils, mouth, and ears. He was obviously severely wounded.
Delano was the son of High Priest Pore. If something terrible happened to him here, they wouldn’t escape the blame, either. Seeing the situation, the guards immediately got into a frenzy. Some were calling Delano’s name desperately, while some were hugging him and shaking him violently.
On the other hand, the warriors of the Fifth Fleet all thought Delano had died when they saw how flustered the guards were. One by one, they unsheathed their swords and surrounded The Star. Although they had just heard that the people who came from Anril were very likely to be guests who had been invited to the founding celebration, even the nobles of the Gilded Kingdom itself could not escape the wrath of High Priest Poer, let alone the outsiders.
At this juncture, the people on The Star were indeed a little nervous. After all, they also knew that Delano was the son of the high priest of the Gilded Kingdom. If something really happened to Delano, the Gilded Kingdom would probably fall out with the Breezy Plains. Some of them were already thinking that they should kill the warriors of the Gilded Kingdom, and that they wouldn’t have to attend the founding celebration after offending the high priest of the Gilded Kingdom. Hence, they could just return to the Breezy Plains to prepare for the war.
All of a sudden, the atmosphere on the deck of The Star became a bit tense, as if a single spark would cause a big explosion.
At this moment, in the capital of the Gilded Kingdom on Four Seasons Island, there was an extremely beautiful and opulent alchemical battleship sailing slowly into the sea. Strictly speaking, the alchemical battleship could no longer be considered a battleship, because there were almost no decent weapons installed on board. It looked just like a luxurious cruise ship.
There was a middle-aged man wearing a blue magic robe standing on the deck of the luxurious cruise ship with a few diplomatic officials from the Gilded Kingdom, inspecting the various arrangements on the ship.
After walking a round, an official of the Gilded Kingdom respectfully said to the blue-robed middle-aged man, “Lord Forcus, please rest assured, everything here has been arranged in accordance with your instructions and is in line with the standards of the nation. They will not feel neglected in the slightest.”
“Okay.” Forcus nodded slightly, but there was a vague nervousness in his expression because he knew very well in his heart that the person he was going to see this time was not simple, and he could not afford to make the slightest mistake.
The few officials beside Forcus looked extremely confused, but they were carrying out Forcus’ instructions attentively. They really couldn’t imagine what kind of guest would be able to warrant the personal welcome of Forcus.
Although Forcus was not an official of the Gilded Kingdom, nor was he a royal, his status was extraordinary in the Gilded Kingdom because his teacher was Elder Zumar of the Illuminati.
In the Gilded Kingdom, the Illuminati was equivalent to the Brilliance Shrine of the Ledin Kingdom or the Supreme Council in the Felan Kingdom. It was an existence that overrode the forces of the mortal world. The priest of the Illuminati was like a god worshiped by the nation of the Gilded Kingdom, and was not comparable to any king or minister. Zumar was one of the most authoritative elders of the Illuminati, and since Forcus was Elder Zumar’s disciple, he naturally wouldn’t be taken lightly, either.
That was exactly what the officials of the Gilded Kingdom could not figure out. With Forcus’ status, he probably wouldn’t receive others personally even if they were kings of the other kingdoms. Besides, Forcus did not represent only himself, but also Elder Zumar, and, in fact, even the entire Illuminati. It was beyond the imagination of those people.
However, a sailor suddenly scurried over with a flustered expression. “Lord Forcus, look over there, there seems to be some debris of a wrecked ship floating over.”
“What!?” Forcus was astonished. He had never heard of a storm on the sea recently. Why would there be a wrecked ship!? However, he thought that since the person he had to receive was a Sanctuary powerhouse whose strength was not inferior to that of his teacher who was in the Sanctuary-realm, he wouldn’t be in danger even if there was a storm.
As expected, a sailor soon came over to report that they had found some traces of the ship that seemed to belong to the pirates from the debris of the wrecked ship that they had found. As the battleship sailed, more and more debris appeared on the sea, along with a number of mutilated corpses that attracted a large number of bloodthirsty fish. The attire on those corpses also clearly showed their identity as pirates.
“Lord Forcus, it seems to be a certain band of pirates. This area is under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Fleet, it seems that the Fifth Fleet is conducting a purge,” an official from the Gilded Kingdom said to Forcus with a respectful expression.
“These pirates are really foolish, how dare they come here. Are they really poor?” Looking at the pirate corpses that the fishes were fighting for, many of them were laughing and gloating.