Night’s Nomenclature

Chapter 940: Leaving Now Is To Return 1 Day

Midnight.

Silver City's airbase was bustling with activity, as airships continuously took off under command, reaching designated altitudes in the sky and forming expeditionary formations.

Soldiers on the ground looked up, the signal lights of the airships forming a giant arrow in the sky. This reduced wind resistance and minimized energy consumption for the entire unit.

The former tenth Black Knight, now the new Silver Duke, stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass of the control tower, with nine newly promoted Black Knights behind him.

These Black Knights were all disciples of the previous Silver Duke, Old Two, Old Five, Old Six, etc., with varying strengths; some were C-Class, some A-Class.

Now, this legacy had been completely transformed into a pawn in the hands of the royal family.

When everything was ready, the Silver Duke turned to the Black Knights behind him: "The time for revenge has come. It's time to give the Eastern Continent a painful price. We will arrive at the relay island in one day and rendezvous with the Storm City fleet, landing in the north of the Eastern Continent Federation. Within a month, we will consolidate the forces of Koshima and Shendai in the north, and within three months, we will take down the Federation.

The relay island, built for half a year, was finally put into use, opening up an unprecedented war for the empire.

At the same time, Storm City's troops were also assembling at the fastest speed. An airship slowly approached in the night sky and landed on the Storm air fortress.

Storm Duke was the first to descend the ladder and enter the Storm. In the shadows, someone in a corner was secretly observing everything. After confirming that the empire was about to launch a blitzkrieg against the Eastern Continent, he immediately turned into a cubicle in the second-floor restroom, intending to send a message to Black Widow using a satellite communication device.

However, when he pressed the send button, he found that he couldn't send it at all.

The communication device kept showing failure.

The next moment, the restroom door opened, and the crisp sound of leather heels on the floor slowly approached. The intelligence officer's heart rose to his throat, and he crouched on the toilet lid, quietly waiting.

Maybe the other party just came to use the restroom.

The leather shoes continued to move forward, and they left the intelligence officer's sight.

However, just as he was slightly relieved, he saw the leather shoes suddenly turn back, finally stopping at the entrance to the cubicle where the intelligence officer was located, directly facing the cubicle door.

The intelligence officer was a little panicked. He waited blankly, but the leather shoes suddenly stopped moving.

He began to look around, and the next moment, he suddenly screamed in terror. Storm Duke's gloomy face appeared above the cubicle, looking down at him coldly!

Black Widow wasn't dead? "Storm Duke coldly asked: "Did she betray me?

The intelligence officer trembled and didn't speak.

"Want to experience the torture of black magic?" Storm Duke asked in confusion.

The intelligence officer hurriedly said: "She's not dead, she's with Joker!"

Not every intelligence officer has an absolute sense of loyalty. Now that Black Widow was on the Eastern Continent's side, the intelligence network she controlled mostly relied on leverage to control intelligence officers, and there was no loyalty to speak of.

For example, this intelligence officer had embezzled public funds and was discovered. If Black Widow exposed him, he would definitely be disgraced.

This kind of intelligence network is actually very fragile.

However, the news that Black Widow had defected to Joker plunged Storm Duke into a fit of rage.

He recalled the woman who was kneeling naked in front of him, thinking that she might be doing the same thing next to Joker: kneeling in front of Joker and accepting whipping.

He felt extremely angry.

This green hat came so suddenly.

Storm Duke opened the cubicle door and covered the intelligence officer's face with his huge hand, which wore a ruby ring, as if he were holding a basketball.

Soon, he walked out of the cubicle and instructed an Arbiter outside: "Clean up inside, and have Kg come see me!"

The Kg who died in the Outer World was still just a substitute for the Kg's body, just like Arthur who died on Pearl Peak earlier.

The Arbiters walked into the restroom and found that the intelligence officer had turned into a charred corpse, but he wasn't afraid at all. He silently summoned someone to carry away the corpse, throwing it out of the Storm through the sewage pipe.

The black corpse fell from a high altitude and shattered on the ground.

At this moment, Kg, who had survived, came to the dark room where the Arbiters used black magic. Storm Duke looked at him: "Ready?"

Kg looked behind him and saw his subordinates carrying a door. One of them took out a golden True Sight Eye and rotated it ten times on the door. A ripple slowly spread on the door.

Kg said: "After a month of testing, someone finally opened the Key Gate in City 18."

Storm Duke coldly said: "I want you to open the Key Gate directly in City 10! Not in City 18!"

Kg explained: "Cities 18 and 10 are known as the twin stars of the Federation, only 600 kilometers apart, enough for you to use black magic."

Hearing this, Storm Duke's expression improved slightly: "Let's begin."

The next moment, dozens of Arbiters pulled in boxes containing black magic materials into the Key Gate.

On the other side of the door was a spacious large penthouse apartment. All the sofas and furniture were covered with white cloth, and the curtains were all closed. The apartment's owner seemed to have left a long time ago.

The Arbiters ignored all this. Everyone sat cross-legged on the floor of the apartment, taking out the black magic materials they needed from the boxes.

The Storm City fleet's departure was just a smokescreen. They had already prepared a way to go to the Eastern Continent, wanting to deal a heavy blow to the Guardians' Union without any preparation!

Just when the whole world thought they still needed five days to reach the Eastern Continent, they arrived first, not giving the Guardians' Union any chance to evacuate or disperse!

This time, even Storm Duke personally came to City 18. He was going to cast the curse himself.

In the spacious apartment in the upper three zones, a group of Arbiters quickly re-cast spells on the previous list of Guardians' Union members.

They were clearly more skilled at chanting names, the black magic materials turned to ashes, and life-and-death curses took effect immediately.

Storm Duke watched this scene, his expression finally calming down.

He took out his black magic materials. The first curse wasn't on Qing Chen, but on Black Widow.

Storm Duke had always known Black Widow's real name and birthday. This was his reliance on controlling Black Widow firmly.

Success.

He watched the black magic materials turn to ashes, dissipating in front of him into the face of a black skull, and then completely vanishing.

This was a sign that the life-and-death curse was successful.

However, Storm Duke wasn't happy. This meant that Black Widow was indeed with Joker.

"You lowly woman,"

Storm Duke said coldly.

He took out another set of black magic materials: dried skin of a black-spotted frog, dew from a tea tree, tears of a giant, molted skin of a boa constrictor, the placenta of a premature baby, and the umbilical cord of a baby born on Christmas Day.

These were all top-level black magic materials. He was going to use these things to curse the powerful Joker.

Finally, he took out a baby tooth and placed it in the center of the hexagram.

If the Arbiters' life-and-death curse only had the real name and birthday, it could only curse targets weaker than themselves. However, once they had blood or hair, body tissues, they could use life-and-death curses on those of the same level.

Storm Duke chanted the name 22 times, and failed. On the 23rd time, he succeeded.

The black magic materials turned into ashes and condensed in the air.

Meanwhile, Qing Chen was writing diligently in the Garrison Troops office, formulating new guidelines and policies for the Guardians' Union.

Suddenly, he turned his head to look at the string of Buddhist beads on his left wrist, Beyond the Three Realms.

Qing Chen felt a cold wind wrapping around him like a parasite, clinging to him and refusing to leave.

The next moment, Qing Chen felt Beyond the Three Realms suddenly extracting some of his thunder plasma.

Black magic?

He frowned.

This time, Qing Chen didn't passively wait for Beyond the Three Realms to extract the thunder plasma. Instead, before it stopped, he tried to actively force the thunder plasma into the beads!

Beyond the Three Realms seemed to absorb everything indiscriminately, as long as it was given by Qing Chen, it would accept it.

In an instant, golden symbols lit up on the beads of Beyond the Three Realms.

Qing Chen was stunned. This was the first time he had seen Beyond the Three Realms' beads change like this!

It's well-known that many Forbidden Artifacts can unlock a second function. For example, Forbidden Artifact ACE-005 Da Fu, and Dayu's Forbidden Artifact ACE-066, which can control paper swallows.

If Beyond the Three Realms was truly extracted by Chen Wudi, then as one of the top Demi-gods, Beyond the Three Realms should have a second-stage unlocked form.

But what is its function?

As the beads absorbed half of Qing Chen's thunder plasma, a golden light suddenly erupted in the apartment in City 18!

Storm Duke sneered as if prepared. He slightly dodged, allowing the golden monk behind him to miss with a palm strike.

However, just as he was about to relax, he saw another monk appear to his right, another to his left, and another in the sky.

Eighteen Arhats.

Eighteen monks firmly blocked all of Storm Duke's escape routes, and one of them immediately attacked him!

Even though Storm Duke was at the peak of Demi-god, even if these golden Arhats were only A-Class, Storm Duke still took seven or eight palms and spat out a mouthful of blood!

Eighteen A-Class suddenly appeared, even a Demi-god was caught off guard!

The eighteen golden figures gathered on one of them after their attack. That monk smiled and clasped his hands together in the light: "Happy?"

An Arbiter nearby hastily translated: "Are. you. happy?"

Storm Duke: "?"

Are these real monks?!

Real monks wouldn't ask you if you're happy after attacking you!

The monk vanished in the light.

Storm Duke stood up and instructed: "Joker is in an un-curses state, no need to try again, kill the others first! Even if you can't kill them, force them to hide in Black Leaf Plain and never dare to come out."

In City 10, Qing Chen sat behind his desk, watching the light of Beyond the Three Realms dim. He knew that the monk might have gone out for another round.

He suddenly stood up, went to the office door, and said aloud: "Little Seven! Lao Luo!"

In the quiet midnight, lights were on in the various offices. Hearing Qing Chen's call, everyone opened their doors and came to the corridor.

"What's wrong, Boss?" Luo Wanya asked.

Qing Chen said: "Evacuate! All core members of the Guardians' Union must evacuate as quickly as possible."

"Where to evacuate?" Luo Wanya asked.

"Black Leaf Plain! According to our previous plan, evacuate in zones and batches!"

Qing Chen said solemnly: "I was just cursed by black magic, which means the Arbiters are within 1200 kilometers of us! While evacuating, have the newly joined non-core members search every corner of City 10 for traces of the Arbiters!"

Qing Chen frowned. If the other party was in City 10, it would be fine, but if they were in Li Clan's City 18, it would be difficult.

He looked at Luo Wanya: "You have to go too."

"What about City 10 if we core members leave?" Little Seven anxiously asked: "Just received intelligence that the Chen Family army has set off an hour ago, and will arrive outside the city in at most seven days. I won't leave, I'll go fight."

Qing Chen shook his head: "The Arbiters must be well-prepared. Leaving will still leave them with strength; not leaving will mean having nothing left. Go quickly, this is an order. Rest assured, I'll be here."

As he spoke, there was a sudden exclamation from downstairs. Everyone leaned on the corridor railing and looked down. A family member lay in a pool of blood, their heartbeat had stopped.

Qing Chen asked: "What happened?

"I don't know, I didn't notice anything!" said the person downstairs.

However, at this moment, a flowerpot suddenly fell from upstairs, hitting the person who was speaking in the darkness.

Qing Chen casually pulled out a hair and shattered the flowerpot, but the person downstairs stumbled backward, lost his balance, and fell backward, his back of the head directly hitting the sharp edge of the flower bed.

Qing Chen's figure disappeared. He rushed to the family member's side like an arrow and supported their neck.

This curse was like death coming, it was impossible to prevent. If it failed once, it would take effect a second time. If it failed a second time, it would take effect a third time.

Each time was more unexpected and dangerous than the last.

Tens of thousands of Guardians' Union members would be cursed successively. Qing Chen could save one, but not everyone.

Little Seven didn't speak after witnessing this. They had to leave or they would die in meaningless accidents.

He lowered his head and said: "Because of the Puppeteer and the Arbiters joining forces, we have to give up this hard-won city?"

Everyone worked so hard, but they still had to leave.

Qing Chen looked at Little Seven: "Don't waste any more time, the curse will continue to take effect. At this moment, hundreds of Guardians' Union members have probably been killed. Every minute we delay, dozens of members will die. Let's go, leave now, to return one day."