A Necromancer Who Just Wants to Plant Trees-Chapter 1781 - 486 Attack_2
Chapter 1781: 486 Attack_2 Chapter 1781: 486 Attack_2 A vast army surrounded the basin.
The endless firepower destroyed the stone pillars that resembled mysterious ancient relics.
Fire and plasma, like Death itself, claimed the lives of person after person.
At the end of the scene,
a text message slowly emerges—
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“Sky Heart Land has been severely attacked, and the Sky-reaching Matrix might have fallen into others’ hands, please disconnect from the Sky-reaching Matrix immediately.
But please do not give up hope.
We shall meet in dreams.
—Guda”
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It was a message left by Master Guda.
Matthew glanced at the young Tauren beside him, who stood as if struck by lightning, seemingly at a complete loss about what to do next.
Meanwhile,
Melinda, although included by Matthew into the Sky-reaching Matrix, did not have sufficient privileges, so Matthew quickly relayed the message he had received.
Melinda’s face changed dramatically upon hearing it.
She couldn’t help but mutter to herself:
“Why would the royal faction attack Sky Heart Land at this time?”
Stuart sneered:
“The royal faction has never gotten along with the Ancients, it’s not your first day knowing that.”
“Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been His Highness the general who initially signed the specific agreement with the Ancients for Storluk.”
“Alright, I’ve told you so much out of respect for the old ties.”
“You three are not permitted to go anywhere else for now, let’s board the ship first!”
Matthew’s eyebrows furrowed.
Suddenly, Melinda spoke:
“Okay, we’ll go with you.”
She gave Matthew a look, who, after hesitating for a few seconds, decided to trust her this time.
At that moment,
the trio boarded a larger hovercraft escorted by a few Special Soldiers.
They sped towards the larger ship at high velocity.
In the meantime,
Stuart was relatively polite to them.
Incredibly, he did not search them or use any restraining devices; he simply ordered the soldiers to closely watch their every move.
This action made Matthew even more suspicious.
Just then,
Melinda had already used a secret technique to establish a psychic link with him.
“Don’t trust him!”
“He’s deceiving us!”
Melinda smiled as she gazed at the Hippocampus commander on another hovercraft some forty or fifty meters away.
She seemed to be in a good mood.
But the words she said to Matthew were of a completely different tone!
“How can you tell?”
Matthew, although he had noticed some clues, was not a native of Stuluke and knew very little about the internal strife of the space undead.
Melinda explained:
“Among the Imperial Descendants, every generation of the king holds supreme power, but the king normally resides within the bastion and seldom involves himself in expansion efforts;
the next portion of power is in the hands of consecutive generals.
The general and the king form a balance of power.
They are number one and number two respectively, but in reality, there is not much conflict between them.
Because the iron law of the Antu Empire stipulates:
The general shall not claim kingship.
The king shall not serve as general.
In most cases, although there is mutual restraint, head-on conflicts rarely occur.”
Matthew found it odd:
“Then why is there both a royal faction and a general faction?”
Melinda responded:
“The general faction is easy to understand, but the royal faction is much more complicated. This involves a third person—the Undead Prince.”
“The princes of successive generations often hold power only second to the king and the general; he is bound to replace the current king someday.
“Therefore, the conflicts between the king and the prince are irreconcilable.”
“After the Undead Prince was exiled, to balance the general’s power on Storluk, a group of people were parachuted from the bastion, including Captain Gray Eagle whom you’ve met—he’s a staunch Royalist!”
“But many within the royal faction have actually been secretly bought over by the Undead Prince, so it’s challenging to determine the real motives behind their actions.”
“What’s strange to me is…”
“After the Great Rupture, the general’s power has been greatly diminished, and he himself has even been effectively exiled by the Deep Cold King. In such a scenario, if they are loyal to the Deep Cold King, the royal faction has absolutely no need to stir up trouble.”
“Moreover, with the trouble aboard the Skyhawk Ship, the royal faction is likely concentrating most of their forces on supporting it. This Strategic Weapon cannot be lost; if it is damaged too severely, it actually represents a heavy blow to the royal faction.”
“In this situation, I really can’t find any reason for them to suddenly divide their forces and attack Sky Heart Land.”
Matthew pondered:
“Is it possible that it’s because of the Undead Prince’s early return?”
Melinda said:
“There is that possibility.”
“But a greater likelihood is that the general and the Undead Prince reached some kind of agreement, and the attack on Sky Heart Land might be a performance between the two of them…”
“After all, if it involves the Ancients, the general will have the opportunity to return to Storluk planet and legitimately confront the forces of the Deep Cold King.”
“The most direct evidence is the movement of the Azure Dragon Series—”
“If the Azure Dragon Series is aligned with the royal faction, then why didn’t they participate in the rescue operation for the Skyhawk Ship? Instead, they’ve been relentlessly pursuing us?”
“Moreover, when he let us board the ship just now, he didn’t even check our weapons, clearly fearing to provoke us…”
“I believe the Hippocampus and Azure Dragon might be the general’s forces, or at least a part of them has been infiltrated by the Undead Prince. We can’t know what kind of tacit agreement exists between them.”
“But we must find a way to numb them; after shaking them off, we’ll quickly enter the outer layer of the Earth Core Dream!”
Matthew nodded silently in his heart.
It seemed that as long as Melinda wasn’t getting too full of herself, her mind was quite sharp.
“The only thing I’m worried about right now is this silly Tauren.”
Watching the hovercraft rapidly approaching the deck.
Melinda quickly said:
“He seems restless; I wonder if he will be able to snap out of it soon?”
“If he forgets the entrance to the Earth Core Dream, it would be even worse!”
Matthew calmly said:
“Don’t underestimate this young man.”
“I can feel it; though his heart is confused, his emotions are still stable. He just needs some time to digest.”
“In a moment you’ll grab him and go straight in; I’ll catch up very quickly…”
After hesitating for a moment, Melinda chose to agree.
A dozen seconds later.
The hovercraft slowly approached the big ship.
A float ladder was lowered from above the ship.
Matthew voluntarily went towards the ladder with composure:
“Excuse me, excuse me.”
“I’ll go up first.”
The soldiers, unsuspecting, made way.
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Matthew stepped onto the float ladder.
But the next second.
His body rapidly enlarged.
In the blink of an eye, he became a giant sea turtle over forty meters in length!
“Shapeshifting Form: Deep Sea Dragon Turtle!”
A weight unlike any other pressed atop the float ladder, causing a severe tilt in the ship itself—
Boom!
The soldiers hadn’t even reacted.
And they saw a massive dragon turtle laying on one side of the big ship.
Matthew casually swiped—
Boom!
The mechanical ship immediately capsized toward the direction of the dragon turtle and was overturned on the sea surface!
In a split moment.
Chaos reigned on the sea.
The Deep Sea Dragon Turtle trod the waves, driving hordes of Hippocampus Force from the deck into the sea!
Amidst the chaos.
He spotted several signs of the ceremonial field being activated on the deck of that mechanical ship—
“Sealing Demon Magnetic Field?”
“Noise Wind Channel?”
“This commander indeed had no good intentions!”
Matthew knew.
The Sealing Demon Magnetic Field was aimed at him and Melinda.
And the Noise Wind Channel was a weapon against psionic users, clearly targeting Konda.
Stuart had planned from the start to just trick them onto the ship and then capture them!
Upon this realization.
The dragon turtle that Matthew had transformed into forcefully shoved the mechanical ship dozens of meters below the sea surface.
Then he lunged at the neighboring two ships!
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(After two days of driving, every part of my body aches, taking another day off, will definitely update tomorrow!)
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