Monarch of Evernight - Chapter 854

Chapter 8-854: Volume 8 - Chapter 854: Robbery

The Martyr’s Palace took to the skies in the dark night and traversed the golden twilight clouds over the Eastern Sea .

At this moment, there were close to a hundred sailors and technicians rushing about the airship, most of them people Song Zining had brought .

The palace’s control didn’t take too many people with Qianye around, so most of the staff were engineers working to install all kinds of equipment and facilities . At the very least, a small sealed area had formed around the Earth Dragon’s heart, and a dozen or so lower cabins had been constructed—these engineers wouldn’t need to sleep out in the open any longer .

The five kinetic sails had been fully installed, which eased Qianye’s work quite a bit in terms of control . He only needed to maintain the airship itself in a state of flight, while the crew adjusted their bearing via the sails . This form of steering was naturally less flexible compared to controlling the Martyr’s Palace itself, but it freed Qianye from having to pay constant attention to the direction .

As someone seeing the dragonship in action for the first time, Ji Tianqing was fairly excited about everything . She scuttled through every part of the vessel with Song Zining in tow, asking countless questions everywhere . At first, Song Zining had wanted to push this responsibility onto Qianye, but after visiting a couple of places, he felt that he had no choice but to face the lady himself . That was because her questions were all related to supply, demand, and prices .

After running once around the airship, Her Excellency Miss Tianqing’s grand plans formally came into being . According to her elderly grace, the Martyr’s Palace should be built into a peerless super warship that could suppress any Evernight airship . Those, whatever, Apocalypse or Eternal Darkness should kneel before the Martyr’s Palace or flee on sight .

Of course, Miss Tianqing wasn’t quite satisfied with the vessel’s name, either . She felt that the name Martyr’s Palace wasn’t tyrannical enough and that it should be changed to H . M . S . Tianqing for perfection .

When the young miss threw out her construction plans, it was definitely more powerful than Bluemoon’s original design . To speak nothing of the other stuff, the earth-dragon powered main-cannon of hers that could destroy any regular battleship in one shot from fifty kilometers away had never appeared in this world before .

According to her concept, this legendary giant cannon wasn’t an impossible feat . It was just that the price involved would also go well beyond human imagination and feasibility . Disregarding whether or not it could really be constructed, the funds required to purchase all the parts would exceed Bluemoon’s entire budget projection .

In other words, the capital required to reconstruct the entire Martyr’s Palace wasn’t enough to build Miss Tianqing’s ideal cannon—and that was only the value of the components . More often than not, the processing and engineering for main cannons were more expensive than the parts themselves .

No wonder Song Zining’s expression turned increasingly ashen as Ji Tianqing grew more and more excited . This was only the main cannon . Naturally, there were other auxiliary equipment that had to accompany the weapon . In the end, this so-called H . M . S . Tianqing would probably require a heavenly monarch to control .

This kind of fantasy-grade warship was indeed boundless in power and could probably shoot through Twilight Continent on its own . The problem was that its construction costs would equal half of the imperial fleet, something the empire had accumulated over centuries .

Qianye was completely puzzled as he listened in from the sidelines . It was probably a good thing that he couldn’t understand many of the things Ji Tianqing was talking about . Song Zining, on the other hand, was inexplicably distressed and anxious .

Miss Tianqing wasn’t daydreaming, though . The plans she had proposed were actually things that could be done, at least in theory . The only problem was that the cost would be too high .

The Song clan had always been extremely wealthy . The seventh young master was more or less influenced by his upbringing and possessed a similar character . He had built the Ningyuan Group from the ground up and led it to great success, even gaining connections with the Twin Paragons of the empire . In terms of fortune, it could be said that Song Zining was number one among the younger generation .

Hence, the words “too expensive” were as heavy as a mountain to him . He couldn’t quite bring himself to say it .

After listening for some time, Qianye finally understood what was going on and he couldn’t help but cut short Ji Tianqing’s grandiose speech . “This… Tianqing… we really can’t afford that . ”

“No one’s telling you to pay up on the spot, what are you afraid of?”

“We can’t afford it in the future, either . ”

“Go and rob! What are the neutral lands for if not to rob money and women?”

Qianye was also defeated before the young miss’ bandit-like intent .

Ji Tianqing slapped Qianye firmly on the shoulder . “It’s all settled then! We can take our time thinking about the remodeling plans, just change the name to H . M . S . Tianqing for now . That doesn’t cost money, does it?”

Qianye glanced at the girl’s hand on his shoulder and frowned . Ji Tianqing gave him another pat, saying, “What? Don’t tell me you’re going to scream molester?”

He didn’t scream, but he did fall into deep contemplation .

“Boring . " A pouty Ji Tianqing muttered thus before running off to see other stuff on the airship .

Song Zining came over to offer words of consolation . “Don’t think too much, I can’t evade her, either . ”

People at their level of combat arts could sense external objects approaching . One would need to be completely unguarded in order to perform an intimate action like slapping each other’s shoulders . Yet, Ji Tianqing’s seemingly casual slap was actually an outstanding secret art that could mask all hostile intent, thus preventing the target’s reaction .

With Ji Tianqing’s ability, it wouldn’t be a problem for her to quickly raise her origin power to the max . This also meant that she could heavily injure Qianye and Song Zining at any given moment .

It would seem the seventh young master had openly accepted this fact . That was why he had come over to console Qianye .

Who would’ve thought that Qianye would roll his eyes at him, saying, “You might not be able to evade her, but that doesn’t mean I can’t . ”

Startled, Song Zining asked, “Then why did you look like you were so dejected?”

“To make her speak less . ”

“ . . . Qianye, you’ve really learned bad things . ”

The Martyr’s Palace flew quietly through the night and unknowingly arrived above Southern Blue . It hovered around the edge of the void, at a distance even a divine champion couldn’t sense .

Three figures flew out of the palace and charged toward the city below—Ji Tianqing, Qianye, and Song Zining .

The three went through a complete freefall in the beginning . After falling halfway and reaching less than a thousand meters from the ground, Song Zining suddenly opened his folding fan . The trio was surrounded by the faint glow of spring and a warm breeze, almost as though there was a giant, invisible hand supporting their bodies and breaking the momentum of their fall .

It was just that the three were falling too violently and the seventh young master just had to project some beautiful scenery at the expense of increased workload . Hence, his face turned pale from exhaustion not long afterward .

Qianye snorted as his own domain flickered into being . The power of the great ocean vortex was as sturdy as the mountains and actually slowed down their fall . The maelstrom’s power canceled out the fall little by little until they were descending rather gently .

Qianye was still far inferior in terms of softness . Song Zining’s Three Thousand Flying Leaves art was as gentle and silent as spring water, while Qianye’s Oceanic Vortex was firm and fierce . Even Ji Tianqing was surprised by the latter's ability to utilize his domain to such a level .

As surprised as she was, the young miss seemed to have no intention of putting in any effort . She clung onto Qianye with an attitude that said if we die, we die together .

During this kind of high altitude jump, bringing someone along was neither too hard nor too easy . Qianye had no other choice but to let her treat him as a manual laborer .

Qianye’s domain erupted as the three of them were a hundred or so meters from the ground . This time, however, the near-linear force forced them into a horizontal flight toward the city center .

The moment Qianye released his domain, two auras—a stronger one and a weaker one—surged up from the city lord’s residence . The more powerful one was naturally Ji Rui’s and the other was Guan Zhongliu’s . It was just that the latter’s aura had weakened quite a bit, quite likely a consequence of the shockwave produced by the Wolf King .

Qianye was about to speak when Song Zining said coldly, “Ignore them!”

“Exactly!” Ji Tianqing wanted nothing more than to sow chaos .

Helpless to do anything, Qianye stood hovering over the city and locked onto a certain objective .

Many mercenary corps had set up their base of operation in Southern Blue . These bases were actually no more than large courtyards and weren’t even allowed to build cannon turrets . In truth, not many of them could afford cannon turrets, especially the large ones that required support from a kinetic tower .

Qianye memorized the distribution of mercenary corps in just a glance, quickly picking out several candidate targets to compare and contrast . Just as he was matching them against the information from his memory, Song Zining dived down all of a sudden .

“Let’s go, what are you waiting for!?” Ji Tianqing followed hot on his heels with Qianye in tow .

“You’ve finished selecting?” Qianye, who felt his strategic skills had improved, was greatly set back .

“What’s there to pick? Just grab the biggest one!”

Qianye was beaten down even more . It would seem thinking too much wasn’t a good idea . either .

Frost Wolf Mercenary Corps was one of the most famous corps in Southern Blue, the absolute pride of their leader of the same name, Frost Wolf . He was also intelligent enough to know that their fame was limited to Southern Blue and that they were nothing outside of the city .

Hence, he had always adopted a stable strategy and followed firmly in the city lord’s footsteps, only doing business with the major merchants of the city . Although the profits generated from such deals weren't much, the risk was always quite small as well . Frost Wolf had grown bigger and bigger over the span of a dozen years . Even their courtyard had been expanded twice . Frost Wolf was recently pondering whether it was time to build a couple of cannon towers . The defense was secondary; the primary issue was to display one’s might .

At this moment, there were two miniature cannon tower models on the table in front of him . They were highly realistic and could be disassembled to reveal the internal components . The parts that could be adjusted or moved was clearly indicated .

Looking at these two cannon towers, he felt both delighted and worried .

Just as he was fretting about this matter, he heard a massive bang as the chamber door was kicked flying!

The development was too sudden and devoid of all warning signs . As a rank-thirteen expert himself, Frost Wolf sensed nothing up until his door was kicked down .

Outside of the door, Ji Tianqing lowered her raised leg and walked in with large strides . Observing every part of the room, she said, “Quite well maintained I must say . ”

Frost Wolf took two steps back, and with his back pressed against the wall, he asked, “You are?”

Whoever it was, he knew he wasn’t this person’s match .

“We’re here to rob,” thus said Miss Tianqing .

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