Heroes' Prison

Chapter 648 - 623 Ancient Godship

Chapter 623: The Ancient Godship

After the meeting ended, the leaders of various powers hurriedly teleported back to their territories, beginning a variety of preparatory work.

Huang Yi also returned to Dragon City, starting to select suitable candidates. In the recent meeting, every guild adopted the principle that fewer members were better and allocated their number of combatants. The Hero Guild, Sun Guild, Xuanyuan Guild, Hall of Famous Generals, and Styx Sect Guild were the ones with the most allocated, each reaching seven members.

After screening, Huang Yi finally determined the members of the expedition, he and his incarnation each occupied a spot, leaving five others. They were—one of the great mages from the Mage Hall, Lei Jun; one of the Chief Hunters from the Hunter Hall, Dragon Soaring Nine States; the Deputy Master of the Assassins’ Hall, Mirror Broken; the Deputy Master of the Knights Hall, Loneliness; and one of the ace priests from the Priest Hall, Xiu Tian.

None of these five held primary administrative positions; they were either Deputy Hall Masters or among the top experts of their respective halls. They not only had the strength but also did not bear exclusive management burdens. Others could take over their duties. Their expedition would not overly affect the daily affairs of the Hero Guild.

Huang Yi had the logistics department head, Little Riddler, personally prepare some necessary materials for them. After everything was ready, they finally arrived at the very top floor of the City Hall at the appointed time.

"Big brother, we’re all prepared," said the five companions as they arrived before Huang Yi, bursting with energy. At this point, they all felt excited, seemingly thrilled to be chosen.

Huang Yi glanced over them with a solemn voice, "This trip to the Land of Dongying is very dangerous. You all must always be vigilant and protect your lives. Everyone put on your face cloths and keep your identities secret. Alright, Lei Jun, open the temporary Teleportation Circle! We’ll teleport directly to Sun City!"

Everyone immediately took out their face cloths from their storage rings and covered themselves. Then, one of the great mages from the Mage Hall, Lei Jun, immediately began waving his Magic Wand, casting a sustained Spell on the spot, and a circular Teleportation Circle gradually appeared on the ground.

After reaching Level Hundred and entering the Holy Domain, every mage can learn a Teleportation skill to set up a temporary Teleportation Circle that directly teleports to cities across the continent. A Rare Class Holder like Lei Jun can acquire such skills around Level Forty or Fifty. These might be Teleportation Gates, Teleportation Circles, Teleportation Tunnels, etc. The names of the skills vary, but the effects are essentially similar. This has become an important means of travel for many players. Many mages even earn a living by charging to open Teleportation Gates for others.

"It’s done!" After a full ten minutes, Lei Jun finally retracted his Magic Wand, having set up a temporary Teleportation Circle.

At this moment, the ground in front of him displayed a faint blue-light Teleportation Circle. Although it had no physical form, it was filled with a vast amount of Magic elements.

Huang Yi led the way, and the others quickly followed, standing on the temporary Teleportation Circle.

The next moment, with a flash of light, all six of them disappeared without a trace.

...

In an affiliated island in the southern seas of Hero’s Continent, there lay a bustling city.

This city’s architectural style was full of island charm, looking like numerous shells spread until the horizon, endless and countless. The spacious streets were planted with rows of palm trees, dangling with coconuts. Thirsty passersby could pluck a coconut to drink the juice at any time, all of it free and available for the taking.

This was the famous port city of the Sun Guild—Sun City!

As the evening lights rose, the streets bustled with activity as countless players were chatting and relaxing there, resting their weary hearts from a day’s work. In the lively Teleport Plaza, a flash of light suddenly appeared on an empty spot, revealing six figures—it was Huang Yi and his companions.

Without any delay, they pushed through the crowd and headed toward the port. After traversing through numerous streets and alleyways for quite some time, the six finally arrived at Sun Port.

Sun Port is the world’s largest port, even larger than the scale of Hero Harbor. Vast ships, like Giant Beasts, came in and out of sight, their ends not visible. Among these giant vessels, there were also some medium-sized coastal ships and even small boats that could only fit a few people. Numerous ships of all sizes bustled in this Harbor, unloading noises, sounds of setting sail, the roar of tides, human voices, and more intermingled together like entering another world.

After searching for a while, Huang Yi, following the ship number mentioned in the previous meeting, finally boarded a medium-sized vessel berthed in a corner. The vessel looked quite ordinary, hidden among thousands of others, drawing no attention.

After the six boarded the vessel, they underwent a series of identity checks and smoothly entered the cabin inside. At this point, many people were already there, all elite experts from various guilds who had come secretly. They were all waiting tensely for the moment of departure. Huang Yi and his companions found a spot, stood quietly, and silently waited.

And in another corner of this cabin, Huang Yi’s incarnation had already arrived here first. This new incarnation, freshly created, was strong and was sure to exhibit tremendous combat prowess. At this moment, the incarnation took on the identity of the Big Baddie, arousing no suspicion from anyone; even the five experts from the Hero Guild that he had brought with him were clueless and thought he was just a strange new player.

After half an hour of waiting, all the members from the various guilds had arrived, roughly around a hundred people.

"Alright, set sail!" At that moment, the Thunder God in the cockpit turned his head to look at the cabin, saw that everyone had arrived, and immediately set sail.

Instantly, this nondescript ship finally left the harbor, just like any ordinary vessel heading out to sea, gradually disappearing into the depth of the night.

Thus, the ship sailed far beyond Sun Port for hundreds of kilometers, where no other ships were in sight. The weather here was extremely bad; the sky was covered with dark clouds, thunder roared, and storms sent towering waves crashing over, making the ship wobble as if it could capsize at any moment.

The people inside the cabin couldn’t help but frown, each grasping the objects around them to stabilize themselves.

"Thunder God, where’s your Ancient Godship? This rocking is unbearable!" At that moment, the Guild Master of the Styx Sect Guild, Diesu Qiufeng, turned his head to look towards the cockpit and loudly asked.

"We’ll be fine in just a moment!" Thunder God nodded and then pulled down a lever on the control panel!

In an instant, everyone felt the surroundings change dramatically!

The previously cramped cabin had suddenly transformed into a garden filled with bird songs and fragrant flowers, as a few birds flew overhead. The sky was brightly lit by the sun, inexplicably turning from night to day. And the previously wobbling people suddenly found themselves on solid ground without a hint of swaying, as if standing on land.

"What’s going on?" Everyone was startled and stared incredulously around at the scene!

"This is the interior of the Ancient Godship, akin to a small world. Everyone, there’s no need to panic, I will teleport all of you out when we arrive at our destination," Thunder God said, coming out from behind a tree to reassure everyone.

Hearing these words, Huang Yi was also filled with shock; the Ancient Godship was similar to his Heroes’ Prison, both self-contained small worlds, completely separate from the concept of a ship. Although he had heard Thunder God talk about this divine ship many times before, he had never witnessed it with his own eyes. Now that he had, he fully recognized its power, true to the name of a Divine Ship!

The Ancient Godship had been built by a God Sealer from the Distant Ancient Era—the Sea God—modeled after the God of Life’s Noah’s Divine Ark, comparable to a Divine Artifact. The ship was originally used by the Sea God to transport islands, and it could even carry small continents, which was extraordinary.

However, at the moment, the divine ship was damaged, and even with the full effort of the Sun Guild, Thunder God had not been able to repair it completely. It was a tremendously long process, requiring over ten thousand tons of World Stone alone, while the entire Hero’s Continent only had a thousand tons, with each continent’s supply of World Stone being fixed at one thousand tons. To fully repair this ship, at least the World Stone from ten continents would need to be gathered. And since World Stone is a necessary component for creating and repairing Legendary equipment and above, countless players were scouring for this precious ore, rapidly depleting it. Players from the Hero’s Continent were the most numerous and strongest, leading to the over-mining of World Stone, which was now on the brink of exhaustion.

"So when will this Divine Ship arrive at the Land of Dongying?" Lin Yiqin, one of the leaders of the Xuanyuan Guild, couldn’t help but ask.

The rest of the people also looked expectantly at Thunder God, knowing that if it were the Deep Sea Battleship or the Dragon Fang Battleship, it would take at least half a month to reach the Land of Dongying from Sun Port. The Divine Ship was bound to be faster.

"Four days!" In the next moment, Thunder God uttered a number.

"That fast! I reckon this speed is not much different from Miyamoto Musashi’s battleship," the people began to discuss amongst themselves, excited by the Divine Ship’s speed, which was more than three times that of a Deep Sea Battleship!

Thunder God looked at everyone and shook his head slightly; he had yet to reveal that if the Divine Ship were just half as damaged, it would only take 30 minutes to travel from Hero’s Continent to the Land of Dongying. Then they could reach Dongying even faster than Miyamoto Musashi, simply waiting for their quarry at the port city of the Martial Arts Guild.

In fact, the present state of the Divine Ship was after he had made some repairs; if it were in the condition he had found it in, the speed would be much slower. Back then, he had been the first person to travel across continents. Unfortunately, he reincarnated on the Land of Dongying and, after an enduring struggle, managed to return to Hero’s Continent aboard the broken Divine Ship.

At this very moment, in the boundless sea, a midsize ship was racing towards the Land of Dongying amidst a violent storm and furious waves. It looked utterly unremarkable from the outside, like a common fishing vessel, but it sped forward with the velocity of rapid lightning, seeming to leap and fly over the waves, a sight no Deep Sea Battleship could match in majesty!

Little did anyone know, this was Thunder God’s Ancient Godship! It carried a group of people on a quest for revenge, swiftly closing in on the distant Land of Dongying every second!