CHAPTER 39: CHAPTER 38: BLACK LIGHTNING

Li Ang hurriedly rinsed off, put on his clothes, and came outside.

Zoe and the nearby villagers also noticed the anomaly in the night sky.

The villagers showed expressions of fear, recalling the seismic level climbing of the Earth Serpent that aimed to destroy the island. They had already been through a nerve-wracking time on the ground.

Now, as the distant sky turned blood-red, their panic was even more evident.

Zoe jogged over and grabbed Li Ang’s hand.

Like the villagers, it was her first time witnessing such an anomaly in the sky or scenes of war.

In the crimson light curtain, five magical flying ships about a hundred meters long formed a formation. Their hulls were spindle-shaped, and unlike the streamlined airships of traditional flying airships, they used armored hover wings made with magic guided technology, installed on both sides of the rear half of the ships.

The flying ships are products of the magic guided civilization of Makena Island Country. As new tools, their hulls are flatter and wider, their flight speed is fast, and they are robust against extreme weather. They can be equipped with magic guided ship cannons and can collide head-on with large flying demons.

However, since Makena Island Country is located in the Ignis Sky Realm, their ships have no need to come to the Flos Sky Realm for war.

Satus Island is remote, and the nearby islands are not very prosperous, so there’s no reason for conflict.

Li Ang carefully observed those flying ships and found that the emblems hanging on their hulls did not belong to Makena Island Country.

So they must be products sold by Makena Island Country. Previously, it was heard that they started accepting orders for new ships, and many forces placed orders immediately, but the Celestial Group was still observing.

To which force do they belong? He had never seen the emblem on the ships before.

The flying ships were not attacking each other; what they were continuously capturing and bombarding with the ship cannons was a mass of ice-blue light.

That light mass was rapidly crashing among the ships. Each impact would cause a sheet of ice to form, and its powerful kinetic energy would send soldiers on the deck flying out of the ship, falling to the bottom of the sky.

The aerial battlefield was getting closer to Satus Island, and Zoe gripped his hand tighter.

Li Ang looked at her, and the young girl, noticing his gaze, turned her face from anxiousness into a smile for him.

It seemed that as long as he was there, she wasn’t afraid of anything.

But Li Ang was worried.

As the fleet approached, he could see clearly what they were fighting against.

It was a gigantic demon, or more precisely, a giant wolf galloping in the sky.

Its body length could reach twenty to thirty meters, with a dark blue body and amber eyes trailing light. The fur on its neck, back, joints, and tail was long and smooth, and its color at the tips transitioned to ice blue, turning into patches of light drifting in the air.

At the instant of seeing the giant wolf, Li Ang saw a rune’s divine light flicker in Zoe’s dark red pupils. She opened her mouth as if to speak but stopped.

The magic guided ship cannons sticking out on both sides of the flying ship were always capturing the giant wolf’s trajectory, while the rapid-fire cannons on the deck kept firing purplish-red energy bullets under soldier control.

"Woo—!"

Approaching Satus Island, the giant wolf seemed to go mad. After a high-pitched howl, magical power surged around its body, forming dozens of ice blades four or five meters long. The low temperature brought dancing snowflakes. Half the sky entered a frosty and snowy state, and even the island felt the chill.

Li Ang immediately recognized it as the power of an Excellence Realm being, beyond the seventh tier. It no longer needed the process of casting materials or aggregating substances for reshaping, directly creating and shaping large quantities of ice blades harder than steel.

The giant wolf rotated its body, its furry long tail sweeping outward, launching dozens of ice blades in succession in a circular arc, instantly dyeing the ship’s deck with blood.

After the ice blades were launched, they did not shatter but gathered back to the giant wolf’s side. It condensed an ice armor around its body surface, and these blades rotated in mid-air, integrating with the armor, forming a set of deadly ice blade armor.

"Howl!"

The giant wolf growled while spinning its body like a tornado, crashing into a flying ship. Upon contact, the icy blades tore through and pierced the steel on the ship’s surface, and combined with the wolf’s fierce impact, split the entire hull into two from the mid-tier.

After the hull was torn apart, the magic guide circuit of the flying ship immediately broke, and the internal spirit core lost control, igniting purplish-red flames with the massive magic power. Other spirit cores in the two halves of the ship exploded simultaneously, bursting into crimson dust in the sky.

"Alas," Li Ang lamented, "No wonder the Celestial Group didn’t place an order earlier, the safety of this magic guided technology is still a bit problematic."

The soldiers who were blasted to death plummeted towards the bottom of the sky, some losing support and spinning in mid-air, just reaching near the giant wolf to be bitten and crushed.

This force is a bit absurd; they have money to buy expensive magical warships but no money to equip soldiers with paragliders.

As the attacked flying ship was engaged, the remaining four ships ceased their assault and dispersed, maintaining a certain distance between each other.

"Did they escape?" Zoe asked.

Li Ang sensed a strange spiritual reaction.

He raised his hand, feeling a tingling on his skin, and with his spiritual affinity skills, he could sense all surrounding spirits seemed to be trembling.

What was going on? This feeling was unprecedented.

Just then, the four ships adjusted their directions, facing the giant wolf with their ship bows. Mechanisms at the bow opened, and four peculiar style cannons extended out from within.

They had the shape of magic guided ship cannons but with longer barrels, wrapped with strange material in dark purple hues, resembling asphalt or even biological tissue. They squirmed constantly, also bubbling up with yellow-like boils.

All four cannons fired together, and what was launched from their barrels were not energy bullets, but four black bolts of lightning that spread into many strands mid-air, forming an electric net at once, locking down the giant wolf’s space to evade.

The lightning, seemingly alive, tracked the giant wolf, ultimately striking it.

The black electric light was deflected off by its sturdy ice blade armor, and the resulting explosion wasn’t enough to shatter the armor, only causing some ice fragments to erupt.

However, when the arc touched the unarmored parts of the giant wolf’s body, it ignited into black flames like wildfire consuming dry grass in an instant.

"Woo—"

The giant wolf seemed to feel unbearable pain, its ice armor couldn’t hold, disintegrating into fragments and flying outwards, with some landing on Satus Island, frosting over the meadows around instantly.

Unable to extinguish the flames on its body, the giant wolf howled as it flew over the sky of Satus Island, racing towards the horizon.

The magic guided power furnaces at the rear of the four ships went full throttle, ejecting purplish-red flames from their tails, chasing fiercely after the giant wolf.

As they nearly turned into black dots on the horizon, the once quiet village became noisy, with villagers unable to comprehend this level of warfare, thrown into chaos.

Li Ang immediately found his bag, aside from his notebook and adventure lantern, he had one critical item for leaving the island—the Beacon of Passage.

It was a product of Contan Helm, the largest airline company in the sky, made from special Mother and Child Stone minerals. The Child Stone detaches from the Mother Stone, and there exists a mutual spiritual attraction between them.

Once the beacon is activated, a passenger airship carrying a Mother Stone compass from afar would sense it, then head to the Child Stone beacon’s location. It could be considered a kind of mobile "bus stop call."

Such a beacon is a VIP item, and after many years of adventuring in the aerial realm, such accumulation was but a part of Li Ang’s possessions.

He cast spiritual manipulation curse art, strengthening the spirituality of the Child Stone. That way, they would see the reaction of the Mother Stone and prioritize coming over, with a high success rate.

Seeing that fleet and the giant wolf, Li Ang felt he had to leave the island quickly.