Night’s Nomenclature

Chapter 947: A Dark Cloud

In the northern night sky, hundreds of airships from Silver City and Storm City were speeding southward. The signal lights on each ship were neatly arranged and orderly.

A night raid, after dismantling the Shendai Consortium's northern military forces, remained intact, not even looking like it had just been through a war.

It was too easy.

In the Silver City flagship, the newly promoted Black Knights laughed: "We originally thought there would be a fierce battle coming to the East Continent, but it turned out to be so easy."

"Too easy, just one volley, and the enemy was completely wiped out."

Silver Duke coldly looked at the holographic sand table in front of him: "Don't take this battle lightly. Our intelligence network has not yet penetrated the entire East Continent, and the military deployments in the south and southwest are still unclear. We will have to fight hard battles later." The Black Knights' expressions turned serious: "Understood."

The second knight asked, "Next, go straight to City 10? We still have to pass two cities on the way south. Should we ignore them?"

"Also, we conquered the north, shouldn't we be the ones to collect the spoils of war?" The fourth knight questioned. After all, when a city is conquered, the gold, jewelry, women, and slaves within become ownerless. The Black Knights were eyeing the spoils of war in the six northern cities and weren't particularly eager to go south.

However, Silver Duke, whose body was possessed by a royal death squad member (the tenth prince), couldn't possibly lose his judgment at this time? His reason for living was to squeeze out the last ounce of value from Silver City.

Silver Duke said coldly: "It's not time to share the spoils of war yet. After this battle, everything you deserve will be yours. A month ago, you were just ordinary knight apprentices, and now you're all marquises. Aren't you satisfied yet?" The Black Knights remained silent.

"Remember," Silver Duke said, "Our target is only Joker."

As Shendai Yunluo had guessed, this expedition was indeed hasty. The two fleets went south without leaving themselves any way out.

There were no supply lines, no ground troops cooperating. The two fleets went deep alone: more than eighty A-class nuclear-powered airships could support such long-distance operations, but the remaining ordinary airships couldn't.

Reaching City 10 was basically the limit for the two fleets.

And the reason they made this decision was that Puppeteer had arrived at the West Continent and had informed Storm Duke of everything Qing Chen was doing.

The Roosevelt Kingdom couldn't watch Qing Chen reunite the East Continent Federation.

From the West Continent's perspective, as long as Joker's power was destroyed, the empire's expedition would be half successful.

However, at this moment, a suspicious target was suddenly discovered in the airships, and the red dot representing the target actually overlapped with their fleet.

Everyone suddenly looked at the holographic sand table. It was a young man in a white hunting robe, standing on a giant dragon, looking up at the starry sky!

The hunting wind in the sky fluttered the white robe. The young man seemed to overlap with the full moon, seemingly invincible.

Beside him, there stood a petite woman in a white robe, her white hood covering her face, only her delicate and thin chin visible.

Silver Duke's heart suddenly trembled.

During the Battle of Silver City, the death squad member possessing the tenth prince wasn't present, but they had watched the entire battle through satellite modeling holographic projection.

He Jinqiu had also stood in the clouds like this, looking up at the stars, and when he lowered his head, he instantly pierced the Silver air fortress!

So when Silver Duke saw the young man's posture, he almost thought that the swordsman who had once pierced the Silver air fortress had come again!

If it was really him, all his plans would be foiled!

He looked back and found that the newly promoted Black Knights were so scared their legs went weak... These people had witnessed He Jinqiu's massacre with their own eyes.

"Useless trash, not even as good as your useless master," Silver Duke snorted coldly, then looked carefully, recognizing the person on the dragon: "It's not He Jinqiu, it's Shendai Yunluo. An A-class Yin-Yang Master dares to stop our fleet."

In an instant, one-third of the fleet's drone swarm buzzed and flew towards Shendai Yunluo.

At this moment, Hyakumegami leaped from the dragon's back beside Shendai Yunluo. She flew faster and faster, like a meteor, her white robe billowing in the wind.

The drone swarm was like mosquitoes swarming in the summer night, but Hyakumegami completely ignored them, passing through them!

The sound of explosions came, and the drones she collided with exploded, turning into bursts of sparks in the night sky!

Before this, there were people like Qing Chen who used electromagnetic pulses to destroy drones, Yang Yang who used force fields to destroy drones, and even Boss He who instantly killed all the drones.

But this was the first time someone completely ignored the damage of the drones and passed right through them. Inside the airship, Silver Duke watched Hyakumegami break through the drone swarm and approach the fleet.

He calmly commanded: "Open the firepower compartment and use tracking missiles to kill it."

However, the next moment, the combat personnel in the command room shouted: "Duke, our missiles cannot lock onto it!" "Hmm?" Silver Duke questioned.

"No infrared radiation, no temperature, no life signs," the combat personnel said, "Cannot lock on!"

As everyone knows, the original design of tracking missiles was primarily aimed at airborne mechanized combat units, namely fighter jets, airships, and enemy air-to-air missiles.

Secondly, it targets powerful Metahumans.

Therefore, the design principle of tracking missiles only needs to find targets with infrared radiation and life signs. As a result, a target suddenly appeared that didn't even have infrared radiation, completely defying scientific principles. "Use the interception missile system," Silver Duke said.

In an instant, all the airships fired a barrage of missiles upwards, the barrage shooting upwards like a fan. If a missile were to attack, it would hit this dense barrage.

However, Hyakumegami wasn't a missile.

It was a Demi-god-level shikigami.

Ten Directions World!

Hyakumegami's figure in the night sky suddenly stopped, no longer approaching the fleet. She raised her hands, stretching towards the bottom!

The world suddenly became crisscrossed, and the chaotic space was like a six-dimensional Rubik's Cube, being turned, turned, turned!

In just a breath, dozens of airships in the Silver City fleet were cut to pieces by this invisible, sharp, and terrifying force! The airship where Silver Duke and others were located was on the edge of the cut and luckily escaped.

The Black Knights were terrified.

Although the person who came wasn't He Jinqiu, this person wasn't much kinder than He Jinqiu!

"Didn't they say there weren't many Demi-gods in the East Continent? How come a Demi-god with such terrifying lethality just pops up?!" The twelfth Black Knight exclaimed in terror.

At this time, Hyakumegami descended again, flashing in front of airships one after another, mercilessly cutting them to pieces.

Silver Duke quickly reacted: "It's just a fake Demi-god!"

"Brother, she just killed dozens of airships with one move, do you say she's a fake Demi-god?" "Let's retreat quickly, or there won't be a chance!"

Silver Duke sneered: "If she were really that powerful, she would only need to repeat her trick three or four times, and would we even have a chance to speak? She is now destroying the airships one by one, it seems fierce, but in fact she is already exhausted and bluffing."

The next second, Silver Duke ordered: "All airships release interception barrages again, release all drone swarms, and activate self-destruct mode. Self-destruct as soon as they get within 10 meters! The drone swarm in the sky goes to find Shendai Yunluo and kill him!" Shendai Yunluo in the sky, watching the drone swarm madly rushing towards Hyakumegami, sighed: "Still can't fool them."

He originally intended to make a shocking move in the most explosive way to confuse the enemy, forcing them to retreat without knowing his real strength. However, in war, not every strategy works; the enemy isn't stupid, they have already seen through his strength. He saw one drone after another quickly activating their self-destruct after approaching Hyakumegami.

The sky was like a grand fireworks show, and Hyakumegami was swaying in the midst of the flames, tossed about by the airflow.

In just a few minutes, Hyakumegami lost her ability to move quickly, surrounded by swarms of drones… Hyakumegami looked up at Shendai Yunluo in the sky, her eyes filled with apology.

At this time, dozens of drones approached and exploded beside her.

She turned into a white light and flew back into Shendai Yunluo's spiritual bridge.

Shendai Yunluo turned and stopped looking at the battlefield below. He drove Bai Rongyi north. In the airship, the Black Knights watched Shendai Yunluo fly away, shouting: "Don't let him escape, chase him, he's not flying very fast!"

Silver Duke sneered: "A bunch of trash, if it weren't for you guys to support the Silver City fleet, I would have thrown you all out of the airships today."

This generation of Black Knights was exceptionally naive.

In fact, the first generation of Black Knights wasn't that great either. They only relied on the experience accumulated over hundreds of years to skillfully handle political affairs, social interactions, and military matters.

In fact, among the entire first generation of Black Knights, only the eldest, second, and Old Five were smart. But this generation… was really too bad.

The Black Knights were puzzled: "What do you mean?"

"He's flying north, clearly trying to lure us back to the north. He slowed down, as if he was afraid we wouldn't catch up," Silver Duke said: "Shendai Yunluo is using his own life to buy time for Joker, allowing the Guardians' Union members more time to evacuate."

"Then what do we do now?" The Black Knights asked.

"Of course, we continue to fly south," Silver Duke said calmly: "I said, our target is only Joker, and our route will never change. Don't worry, Shendai Yunluo will come back to find us. Prepare the remaining drones and tracking missiles, and as soon as he comes back, open fire."

At this moment, Shendai Yunluo on the dragon's head smiled helplessly: "He's actually a smart man."

He watched the remaining more than one hundred airships of Silver City gradually drift away, completely unaffected, still firmly executing their mission to City 10.

There was no other way.

"I can only use my life to stall for time," Shendai Yunluo smiled: "I had a glimmer of hope, maybe I could survive and have a drink with Qing Chen, but it seems that I don't have that chance now. I can't even stop the Silver City fleet, let alone the Storm City fleet."

He patted the chair on the head of the white dragon: "I hope your next owner won't have such a hard life! Let's go, let's go to death!"

This young master was so casual even when facing death.

The huge body of the white dragon swayed, quickly chasing after the Silver City fleet like a fish in the sea. Shendai Yunluo waved his arms on the dragon's head: "Hey, your opponent is here, don't run, come and fight!"

The next moment, Shendai Yunluo and Bai Rongyi broke into the fleet. His remaining shikigamis manifested one after another, leaping onto the tops of airships, carrying interception barrages to destroy the airships.

Unfortunately, Shendai Yunluo himself was still only an A-class, and his other shikigamis had extremely limited destructive power. For example, Mamian Luosha barely cut open the engine compartment of an airship before being blown into a white light by drones and flying back to the spiritual bridge.

Without Hyakumegami, Shendai Yunluo had no ability to stop the fleet. Actually, he had a way.

As Ling said, it depended on whether he had the determination to gouge out the eyeballs of Shendai Kongyu and others to allow Hyakumegami to complete the breakthrough in battle and become the ultimate perfect form.

But Shendai Yunluo was still reluctant, and this was why he knew he couldn't be a qualified commander. He wasn't suitable to be a commander, and he couldn't be ruthless.

A qualified commander needs to learn to be decisive, to learn to make choices.

At this time, Shendai Yunluo himself was also being hurt by the aftereffects of the drone self-destruction, but he showed no sign of retreat. Nanluoguxiang's copper plate cakes. The izakayas of Hanamikoji.

The rice wine on Chang'an Street.

And the loquats and the old woman in that small courtyard.

Shendai Yunluo felt that his whole life had quickly flashed before his eyes in a short breath.

But what he saw in the end wasn't all this, but the little girl who had been following him like a puppy since childhood.

—Hey, don't follow me anymore! You always make such a big fuss, even when you steal loquats, you get caught!

—It's none of your business that I drink with other women, why did you chase them away?

—Do you know that our family is cursed by the Yuan Clan, destined to be unable to escape, so don't develop any feelings for me, no matter who dies, everyone will be very sad!

—Wait, don't cry!

Shendai Yunluo thought of all this and suddenly laughed.

But as he laughed, he couldn't laugh anymore… He suddenly looked up at the sky, where there was a thick dark cloud blocking the moon. It was a dark cloud that shouldn't have been there, just like the northern homeland that Shendai Yunluo shouldn't have lingered on in his life and memories.

In the Silver City flagship, Silver Duke couldn't help but sneer: "Overestimating oneself… Wait, what's that above? When did it appear?"

"Just now!" The combat personnel in the airship roared: "Not good, it's an air fortress! How can there be an air fortress here?!"

Scepter was in the southwest, Qingshan Fortress was in City 10, Shendai's air fortress was already under Storm Duke's control, how could there be an air fortress here at this time?

Wait.

This is the Chen Family's air fortress! This is the Zhushén hào!

Before Silver Duke could figure out what was going on, the black air fortress, like a dark cloud in the sky, suddenly fired its main electromagnetic cannon.

With a loud bang, the cannonball pierced through the Silver City flagship and Silver Duke.

Air fortresses have always been the key factor in air warfare that can turn the tide of battle. Just like Demi-gods in the Metahuman world, they are irreplaceable.