Chapter 1447 - Far-reaching Strategies
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Buzz! Buzz!
A wizard tool on Su Yu’s palm began flickering all of a sudden, it was an urgent warning issued by a scout from a hundred thousand miles away.
Creak!
Then, the Life Token in Wang Qingchen’s hand emitted a soft creaking noise.
The scout who delivered the emergency message was now dead.
Buzz! Buzz!
The scout fifty-thousand miles away sent a warning, and died shortly after.
And then, a message from thirty-thousand miles away!
Twenty-thousand miles away!
Ten-thousand miles away!
The sound of rapidly thumping heartbeats in the commander’s chests could be heard.
The threat of the charging enemy was truly terrifying.
They were near!
Five thousand miles away!
They could already sense the vigorous, intense tremors coming from underground, making the entire city tremble in fear.
The sealing formation outside the city began operating immediately, stabilizing the shivering walls of the city.
Three thousand miles away!
The endless, dull rumbling of thunder boomed in their ears, accompanied by the increasingly vigorous trembling of the ground. Like a catastrophe that was about to befall, landing blow after blow in the depth of their souls.
Even when the formation was fully activated, it could not hold off the rumbling that made the heavens and the earth shudder.
A thousand miles away!
They could already see the turbulent surge of black waves filling the horizon where the earth met the sky.
Like boundless giant waves, they crashed down head-on.
Under the never-ending stretch of black waves, the grand city of Sheng Capital seemed as insignificant and vulnerable as a tiny rowboat in a stormy sea.
The marching force that seemed like it was going to topple the mountains and overturn the sea, made the eight commanders flare-up in panic and apprehension all over again.
“How could…how could they possibly have so many soldiers?”
“Oh no! A major disaster is right on our doorstep, even when the Wizard Ancestor fought the God Realm in the past, there haven’t been this many soldiers. There is no way we can hold them off by solely depending on our formation!”
Panic grew like wild grass in the hearts of the people.
On the walls of the city, some of the commanders, whose faces had turned pallid with fright, couldn’t help but abandon their posts.
But as they retreated, a golden ray was flung in their direction, chopping their heads right off their shoulders.
“Those who are having cold feet, die!”
“Those who sway the morale of the army, die!”
Su Yu’s eyes were glinting with an icy light, as he bellowed in a cold harsh voice, “The enemy is marching towards us like tempestuous ocean waves, do you think your lives will be spared by running away?”
The gruesome scene, and his ice-cold words, made those who were having cold feet, shiver.
He was right, this wasn’t a battle between the tribes, in which one could surrender by admitting defeat.
This was a war between the wizards and the God Realm. There was no surrender, only killing or being killed, guarding the city or being slaughtered, till there was not a single soul left.
Fan Capital was the best example.
Having been provoked by Su Yu’s words, the generals on the city walls gritted their teeth and suppressed the dread and trepidation within them, straining to take control of themselves.
Five hundred miles away!
The sky and the land were immersed in an ocean of darkness, engulfed by the giant black waves.
The sight looked like the end of the world, rousing a deep sense of despair in the hearts of all.
Boom! Boom! Rumble!
Shocking bolts of thunder streaked across the heavens, making Sheng Capital tremble on the verge of collapse.
Everyone in the city scurried into their houses in horror, holding on to and embracing each other, praying hard for the disaster to spare them.
Perhaps, their prayers had been heard, only a miracle could save them.
The black waves that had completely blotted the sky pounced onto the city of Sheng Capital.
However, just before they came into contact, the waves parted in two, circumventing the city.
As the rumbling of the destructive thunder howled past their ears, the black deluge gradually subsided, and the rumbling sound became increasingly distant.
Everyone was stunned. Were the enemy gone?
Where was the great war that they had been promised?
Only the commanders on the city walls understood what had just happened.
The eight commanders had turned completely pale, their hearts still timidly pounding in fear, as though they had just made it out of the jaws of death.
“Great commander, was that…was that the deluge of beasts?” one of the commanders couldn’t believe what he had seen.
Su Yu replied coldly, “Didn’t you see it clearly from such a near distance?”
It really was the deluge of beasts!
Wang Qingchen shuddered, “It was the deluge of beasts created by Nitian Hanxing!”
He was right, the pitch-dark gargantuan waves weren’t the great armies that they had imagined, but countless kinds of ferocious beasts!
The Black Forest occupied more than half of the Lost Nation, and what it had in abundance were ferocious beasts!
They had somehow repelled the deluge of beasts, sending them sprinting and scampering from the Black Forest.
These beasts could slaughter individual creatures in a fraction of a second, but in the face of the entire Sheng Capital, they had to take a detour.
“Why did he do that?” Wang Qingchen queried. “If the deluge of beasts could destroy an entire capital, for the past billion years, we wouldn’t still exist.”
For the destruction of the two capitals, the deluge of beasts was of no help!
With gleams of profound wisdom shining in his bright eyes, Su Yu replied casually, “Does it need more thought? It was, of course, Nitian Hanxing’s same old trick, merely a tactic to divert our attention!”
“I suspect, while we were drawn to the deluge of beasts, he has sabotaged us from the rear in some way, hasn’t he?”
“What?” Wang Qingchen turned around abruptly, looking at the other side of Sheng Capital.
They were on the east side, directly facing Fan Capital.
If the enemy attacked, theoretically speaking, they would come from the east.
But the west… They had never bothered reinforcing the defense of the west.
At the West Gate!
The giant gates were guarded by the sturdy warriors of the Wizard Tribe, led by three white-haired elders.
Whoever intended to destroy the gates had to do so over their dead bodies.
At that moment, the deluge of beasts came surging in.
The boundless momentum was as dreadful as doomsday, shrouding the air above the West Gate in a sea of blackness, instilling fear and panic within everyone who experienced it.
Right at that moment!
One of the elders’ eyes turned stern and harsh all of a sudden, the undulating sorcery energy on the surface of his body faded, replaced by an erupting surge of divine energy. It was an extremely pure Level Three divine energy!
With a deafening growl, he attacked.
The two elders couldn’t guard against it in time. They were immediately crushed by him, severely wounded and struggling at the brink of death.
“Old Qiu, why did you… If you’re not Old Qiu, then who are you?” Much to their stupefaction, the Old Qiu whom they had spent most of their time with, turned out to be a warrior from the God Realm.
The sorcery energy surging all over him was released by the unique skintight garments that he wore.
“Old Qiu? Haha!” The warrior from the God Realm put his hands behind his back and grinned coldly, “I have sent him to Hell long ago!”
As he spoke, his appearance transformed. It turned out to a special kind of disguise that he wore.
He had killed Old Qiu and lived his life for him among the wizards.
More fascinatingly, if Su Yu were here, he would definitely have recognized this man!
“Impossible! Sheng Capital never provides shelter for strangers from the God Realm, how did you infiltrate secretly, killing Old Qiu and substituting him?”
The man from God Realm taunted with disdain, “Why would I need to do that secretly? My comrades and I were brought here by you!”
The two elders were startled, and then their eyes were full of disbelief.
Flabbergasted, they questioned, “Were you the spy from the batch captured last time, who hid in the city, scouting everywhere for information?”
It was because a lock-down was imposed on Sheng Capital.
“But aren’t you supposed to be imprisoned? How could you possibly get out?”
The man from God Realm sneered, “I had a secret helper, of course!”
As he spoke, his face turned cold all of a sudden. Like a flash of lightning, he struck at the two of them brutally, slaughtering the two of them who were already wounded.
“My brothers, arise! Now is the time to show your greatness!” The man from God Realm screamed.
On the city walls of the West Gate, intense scuffles broke out, many were caught unawares as they whimpered and cried out in agony.
More than thirty robust men from the God Realm tore off their guises as wizards, revealing their true identities.
With a speed as swift as a sudden clap of thunder, they killed the guards and rapidly took control of the city gates.
The man from the God Realm ordered, “Open the gates and welcome the great general into the city!”
He raised his feet in an attempt to stomp on the pivot of the formation and destroy it.
But right at that moment, the man suddenly shuddered, as if he was being watched by something horrific.
He quickly turned around. It was a hundred-feet-tall Superior-Extermination Cannon fully charged with energy, which was being propelled from a hidden corner, aiming directly at the man.
Behind the Superior-Extermination Cannon, stood men on each side. They were Guo Cheng and General Bai.
Guo Cheng said, half-smiling, “Hehe, Su Yu really does foretell things like a god. He knew that Nitian Hanxing was going to use a diversion tactic and that the West Gate was his main objective!”
General Bai clasped his hands together and laughed, overwhelmed with admiration. “The most fascinating part is, he knew that there was a problem with the spies that had been captured, hence he ordered us to wait here. He knew that they would be here for sure.”
Upon hearing their conversation, the man from God Realm was stunned and blurted, “How could he have known that?”
General Bai said, “Because he thought that you gave away information too easily and that you revealed the fact that Fan Capital was under the siege of the God Realm’s army without any resistance. That was your biggest weakness.”
COMMENT
The man from God Realm was utterly surprised. “Who is your Commander?” he asked.
Guo Cheng chortled, “You must have heard of the mighty name Su Yu, haven’t you?”
“What? It’s him, the Western Alliance Master?” The man turned pale from terror. But he was resentful at the same time, a deep-seated, profound hatred raging in his eyes.
Guo Cheng and General Bai exchanged a glance. The Western Alliance Master?
This man would serve great value, he must be captured alive and handed to Su Yu!
“Brothers, bring out the weapons!” the two generals yelled. From a cranny, three other Superior-Extermination Cannons were pushed forth, the jet-black, humongous muzzles casting over the people.
Four Superior-Extermination Cannons, they were enough to destroy them four times over.
And it happened just as expected, all of them surrendered.
The small-scale rebellion was settled without drawing any attention.
But if Su Yu hadn’t guessed the enemy’s plans, the small rebellion could have turned into a major calamity that could have annihilated Sheng Capital.
The formation would have been destroyed, and the gates of the city would have been forced open. The Sheng Capital would have ended up exactly as Fan Capital did!
While they were trying to conquer Fan Capital, they had arranged people of the God Realm to infiltrate the city. It wasn’t a makeshift plan.
It was conspicuous how far-reaching their strategies were, and how subtle and witty their tactics had been.
Beyond the West gates, in the Black Forest, the endless black deluge of beasts parted once more, bypassing the mass of black-armored soldiers, and scurried away.
The great army of warriors clad in black armor made up tens of millions in number, all of them dauntless, stern and resolute. They were the true blade of the Nitian Empire!
Just as expected, they were lying in ambush in the west, awaiting signals from the inside to march into the city.
However, even when the arranged time was reached, no signal was sent.
Nitian Hanxing smiled in a teasing way and said to himself, “Has it been exposed? Su Yu, I have to admit you’re quite clever, to have found out about this alternate plan. You’re qualified to fight me on the battlefield!”
“However, the best part of the drama has just begun to unfold, I have saved my true surprise for you for later!”
Su Yu led the soldiers to the West Gate.
Guo Cheng and General Bai immediately presented him with the captives, their cheeks glistening with pride.
“Sir! We have captured these prisoners who will soon be in the dungeon, just as you arranged!”
Looking at them, the eight commanders recognized them immediately, especially Zheng Laodao who had captured them personally. Shocked, he asked, “Weren’t they imprisoned in the dungeon? Who released them?”
But he shut his mouth immediately, because their commander, Su Yu, didn’t seem to be his usual self.
He stared at the captives with the God Realm in their eyes, smiling queerly. “This is a small world, huh? So small that even beyond the Star River, we still cross paths with each other!”
