Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 383: Flood Crossing

"Qin Yu, protect the Great Bridge, and protect the farmland as well."

At this moment, while driving the vehicle, Li Wei used his Prestige Card to contact the Forest Witch Qin Yu. The latter's cultivation was clearly a large margin higher than his Second Aunt's; even Hathaway would be slightly inferior when facing her.

This was something foreseeable based on Hathaway's attitude during the few times she occasionally came over over the past month.

And Qin Yu's presence was practically like a guardian deity for Li Wei's hundreds of acres of farmland. In truth, it was more than just those hundreds of acres. After arranging everything at the beginning of the month, Li Wei led many of the old, weak, women, and children, as well as some freemen with the Farmer profession, to reclaim an additional five hundred acres of vegetable plots and cornfields near the farmland.

Over the past dozen or so days, there had been several consecutive torrential downpours causing severe waterlogging. What saved them was precisely Qin Yu's magic.

As for other things like brief thunderstorms, gales, or hail, those were entirely not an issue.

"Received. I am already in position."

At this time, Li Wei cast another glance towards the south bank. In that fortress currently under construction, Javier and Seth were currently leading sixty soldiers, manning three Enchanted Giant Ballistae and ten ordinary Giant Ballistae, staring vigilantly at the sky and the land. These days of pouring rain were detrimental to cavalry training, so they were arranged by Li Wei to be on garrison alert at this unfinished Black Mountain Fortress.

Of course, under normal circumstances, there would also be a squad of soldiers placed here on routine alert.

In short, there were no problems whatsoever.But that feeling of unease still followed like a shadow. Moreover, the closer he got to the dike breach, the clearer the feeling became.

"Hathaway, conserve your Magical Power, be careful of the flood. If it cannot be contained, do not force it!"

So Li Wei hurriedly sent a message to Hathaway.

At this time, Adai—carrying Hathaway—was about to arrive at the breached section. From the rear, Li Wei could see through Adai's vision that a section of the north bank's dike over fifty meters wide was being smashed open. A surging flood rushed wantonly out from the river channel, wreaking havoc across the flat earth. The points where the water scattered outward looked just like thousands upon thousands of demons escaping from hell.

This scene was extremely terrifying; one could only say that the power of nature remained incomparably terrifying.

But Li Wei didn't discover any anomalies, nor did he see the so-called mutated creature.

Adai was currently circling above, while the breach on the river dike continued to expand. The flood peak this time was simply too terrifying; it felt as if someone upstream was stirring up a barrier lake.

"Li Wei! I must make a move now. If we delay any longer, in just a brief moment, the width of this breach could expand to hundreds of meters. By then, it will be too late for everything," Hathaway shouted in a deep voice.

"There's no rush for the moment, wait a bit longer. Wait until I get there, then we'll see."

As he spoke, Li Wei waved to a soldier in the passenger seat to have him jump into the driver's seat, while he himself jumped onto the roof of the vehicle. With a reach of his hand, the Enchanted Strong Bow appeared in his grasp, and three Enchanted Four-Star Armor-Piercing Arrows were nocked onto the bowstring.

During extraordinary times, one could not fail to have defenses prepared.

Early last month, the Frost Duke took down Ron, and this month he should still be locked in a decisive battle with Socrates. But who could guarantee that an opponent on the level of the Frost Duke would honestly let him develop?

Not making a move previously was merely because the timing wasn't right. Once the time was right, it would likely be a heaven-rending and earth-shattering event.

"Alright! Hathaway, right now, strike!"

Soon, Li Wei's convoy caught up. At this time, he saw the muddy waves surging wildly within the breached section. The tens-of-meters-high turbid, massive waves were like giant dragons, rapidly devouring the dikes on both sides. In just this short amount of time, the dike breach had expanded to nearly a hundred meters.

Just how massive was this water flow? Something was wrong, extremely wrong.

At this moment, Li Wei dared to bet that the Frost Duke was absolutely upstream using Ice Magic to block the flood peak, and then waiting until the volume reached its extreme before releasing the floodwaters downstream. Motherfucker!

At this moment, a white light flashed by like lightning. Hathaway had already unleashed her Ice Magic. In a split second, a massive wall of ice erected itself across the hundred-meter-wide breach, steadily sealing off the breached floodwaters.

This was the power of Ice Magic.

However, almost at this exact moment, a massive silhouette suddenly emerged from within the floodwaters and violently rammed into the colossal ice wall.

This all came far too quickly. Furthermore, this thing was exceedingly cunning, completely hiding within the giant waves, so much so that even Hathaway, who was close at hand, hadn't noticed.

Except for Li Wei—the advantage of +8 Perception was unparalleled. Especially since his current position was already approaching two hundred meters away.

The moment that black silhouette rammed towards the ice wall, the Enchanted Strong Bow in his hands had already lightning-fast completed a three-arrow rapid-fire sequence.

"Boom!"

The ice wall shuddered violently, and several dozen massive cracks appeared. This was unavoidable. That thing's volume was at least the size of two large trucks. This kind of inertial force wasn't something Li Wei's three Enchanted Armor-Piercing Arrows could resolve.

However, a bloody light erupted from that thing's body. Li Wei's three Enchanted Armor-Piercing Arrows had all landed a hit.

The first arrow blasted open that thing's head, while the remaining two penetrated its front leg, directly blowing up one of its Life Cores.

It was actually an enormous tortoise!

At least Level 5, with four Life Cores.

At this moment, it instead became more frenzied and continued ramming towards the ice wall.

At the same time, it was actually extremely agile within the floodwaters, appearing as if it could control the flood. With a single rotation, a skyward giant wave crashed down.

However, Li Wei's side wasn't vegetarian either.

As Adai agilely grabbed Hathaway to dodge the giant wave, it still had the surplus energy to fire Frost Arrows to assist in repairing the ice wall.

As for Hathaway, she unleashed several consecutive streams of Ice Magic, not only repairing the cracks on the ice wall but also enlarging it.

At the exact same time, Thomas let out a furious roar and jumped directly from the speeding vehicle. With a few accelerating strides, he charged up the ice wall, completely ignoring the crashing giant waves. Seizing the opportunity, at the exact moment the giant tortoise slammed into the ice wall for the fourth time, he leapt into the air. In the next second, he transformed into a seven-to-eight-meter-tall Stone Giant and viciously smashed directly onto the back of that giant tortoise.

Even if this giant tortoise was exceptionally formidable, with a size comparable to two large trucks, at this moment it was still smashed with a loud boom. Even the tough tortoise shell on its back was smashed out into a massive hole!

It couldn't be helped; Thomas was currently a towering behemoth weighing close to fifty tons! More importantly, he was hard enough. By borrowing momentum for a smash, no defense could possibly withstand it.

This giant tortoise was even pressed and sunk straight to the bottom of the river without the slightest temper.

However, what followed immediately was the floodwaters seeming to boil over like a pot. Giant waves churned, the floodwaters changed course, and it was simply as if they had arrived at an infuriated massive whirlpool in the sea.

In this moment, no one could help out; they could even only evade to avoid being caught in the crossfire.

That giant tortoise and Thomas continuously engaged in bloody combat amid the flood peak. One moment the giant tortoise surged up to the surface, and the next moment Thomas surged up. It was actually neck and neck.

However, that giant tortoise was clearly frightened too. It was madly trying to break free, and even dragged Thomas as it rushed downstream.

"Qin Yu, render support to Thomas at the Great Bridge. There's a Level 5 mutated tortoise heading downstream."

Li Wei was also unable to lend assistance, so he could only notify Qin Yu, because he had to hurry and block up the breach before the ice wall melted.

To tell the truth, this hundred-meter-long river dike gap truly made his eyes widen with shock.

At this time, transport vehicles carrying supplies stopped one by one. Li Wei immediately ordered everyone to begin sealing the breach. The method for plugging it was also simple: first smash down three rows of thick logs, then fill the gaps with rocks to initially form an outer perimeter dike. Following that, Hathaway would control her Ice Magic and gradually melt the ice wall, while they continued to pile in logs, rocks, and sandbags. They would repeat this process—pouring in massive amounts of dirt and rocks—until the breach was completely sealed.

Seth, Paul, Jocelyn, and the others took to the frontlines personally. Leading five to six hundred strong laborers, it took them two hours to finally get it done.

But Li Wei heavily abstained from participating the entire time. He simply held his Enchanted Strong Bow, staring coldly at the flood peak without daring to relax in the slightest. He didn't even have the time to pay attention to the result of the bloody combat between Thomas and that giant tortoise.

Because he held onto a creeping sensation of being spied upon.

The enemy was hiding somewhere, waiting for them to reveal a flaw.

However, until the river dike breach was sealed, and until several more dangerous situations occurred subsequently, absolutely nothing happened.

In the end, that vaguely dubious feeling of being spied upon instead vanished.

Yet Li Wei still didn't dare slack off. He still stood resolute with Hathaway and the others, patrolling the hundreds of kilometers of river dikes upstream and downstream until the next day when the flood peak completely passed through.

"I'm exhausted to death!"

On the electric truck, Hathaway slumped in her seat. Her entire person was covered in muddy water from head to toe, looking exceedingly wretched.

Li Wei sat beside her and handed her a bottle of water. She gulped it down cleanly in a few swallows, then unceremoniously reached out her hand.

"To my esteemed patron, ten units of Magical Power. You have to reimburse me for it."

"That's a given. In a while, go to Qin Yu to draw ten units of Magical Power." Li Wei nodded. The fact that they could ultimately turn this passing flood peak into a mere scare without any real danger, Hathaway definitely took first credit.

During these dozen or so hours from yesterday afternoon to midnight yesterday, the flood peak even briefly crested the river dikes—meaning the river's water level had surpassed historical highs.

Even though there wasn't a giant tortoise ramming the river dikes at this time, the threat of dike collapses happened consecutively dozens of times.

It entirely relied on Adai carrying Hathaway to shuttle back and forth across hundreds of kilometers. Wherever there was a location susceptible to collapse, a stream of Ice Magic slammed down would stabilize the danger.

And Li Wei's group drove trucks back and forth to handle the clean-up.

Everyone was severely exhausted. Only Li Wei alone hadn't made a single move from start to finish. He was waiting for that Neanderthal expert lurking in the shadows. But as it turned out, the other party was also exceptionally cautious.

"From now on, the days won't be peaceful anymore. Oh Li Wei, do you know? I'm even feeling a bit pessimistic. The advantages the Frost Duke has accumulated currently are far too great, and the stall you and I have set up is also spread far too wide. Just take the dangerous situations caused by the passing flood peak today; the Frost Duke's side actually didn't pay much of a price at all. At most, he expended one unit of Magical Power to create a temporary massive barrier lake upstream. After that, we had nearly a thousand people rushing about for an entire afternoon and an entire night, expending a full ten units of Magical Power from that alone."

"This is far too passive. Besides, currently, we have only just entered the rainy season. This kind of situation will continue playing out; ten times, twenty times are all possible possibilities. Will we be lucky enough to pull through every single time?"

"If a legion of enemies came charging over last night, what would we do?"

"Li Wei, aren't you a bit too optimistic?"

(End of this chapter)