Monarch of Evernight - Chapter 940

Chapter 8-940: Volume 8 - Chapter 940: Impending Storm

The sounds inside the room came to a sudden stop . The girl, her clothes in disarray, had been pressed onto the table . She was cutting quite the sorry figure in that awkward position, and it looked like she would fall to the predator any time soon . Song Zining, on the other hand, was like a fully strung bow, ready to devour the young girl at a moment’s notice .

The two looked over in unison, frozen in their previous position with faces full of shock .

“Zining, seriously, you’re too… Ah, it’s you?” Qianye was stunned when he saw the girl’s face clearly . This girl was one of Song Zining’s maids, but she also served as his assistant because she was rather smart and capable . She had already followed Song Zining for many years, so scenes like this weren’t exactly rare .

As an experienced person, Song Zining quickly recovered his calm . He patted the girl below with a smile and said, “You go out first, I have something to discuss with Qianye . ”

The girl was also calm now . She glanced at Qianye, chuckling with her mouth covered as she left in a flash .

It was Qianye who couldn’t quite calm down . “This… I thought…”

Song Zining laughed . “You thought I was bullying a weak civilian girl?”

“What you guys were saying, it sounded like…” Qianye stammered .

Song Zining laughed loudly . “Don’t you think these words are classic? It’s more interesting when you role-play, you fool . ”

Qianye was speechless . This young master’s urges were simply too difficult to approve of .

Song Zining stared at Qianye, saying, “You’re not that kind of jealous person, what’s up?”

Qianye said awkwardly, “You have all the women you want . There’s no need to use such methods, right? You just need to swap out the girl if one doesn’t agree, the loss is theirs . Besides, we’re on our own turf right now . It won’t be that great if word gets out . That’s why I came in to dissuade you . ”

Song Zining laughed until he was bent over . He then slapped Qianye on the shoulder with his fan, saying, “You’re really cute . You can’t even figure out such a classic script! It’s in all those shitty plays . ”

Qianye was emotionless . “I don’t watch plays . ”

“Fine, let’s leave the discussion here . How did the mission go? Did you get the goods? Were there any accidents?”

“There was, in fact, an accident . I ran into Linken’s demonkin fleet and a battle broke out . ”

“Linken!” Song Zining shot to his feet . “Which Linken? Don’t tell me it's that demonkin duke?”

Qianye thought back carefully . “Her strength, as far as I remember, isn’t at the duke level . She should be just a vice-duke . ”

Song Zining glared fiercely at Qianye . “Just!? A vice-duke is still a duke! Sire Qianye, that vice-duke is stronger than a newly ascended imperial divine champion! Besides, it’s a fleet battle, right? How are you alive, even?”

“Mm, her flagship was there, too . ”

Song Zining was about to sit down at first, but he shot back to his feet . “Her flagship!? It’s over, it’s over . That means the corvette and cargo ships are gone, right? This… what should I do? Let it be . That’s not important . Are you injured? Are you okay? Let me know if you need any medicines, I’ll find a way to get them . There’s nothing in this place, I have to get it from the empire . It’ll take a long while to go back and forth . ”

“I’m not injured . ” Despite saying that, Qianye felt a bit guilty under Song Zining’s gaze . “It was just a bit of light injury, nothing half a day’s rest cannot heal . You know I recover pretty fast . ”

Song Zining didn’t trust him at first . He grabbed Qianye up and began groping him all over, probing wantonly with his origin power . He seemed to have forgotten about Qianye’s blood energy in his urgency . In the end, the dark golden energy broke out in retaliation and engulfed both of them in sanguineous flames .

Song Zining howled in pain as he retreated urgently . Qianye also suppressed his blood energy as quickly as he could and went back to check if the seventh young master was fine .

Fortunately, despite its decline, the Song clan’s cultivation arts were at the peak of the empire . Song Zining’s Three Thousand Flying Leaves Art was the same . His origin power looked supple and weak, but he was able to leave unscathed from Qianye’s sanguineous flames .

Saying he was unscathed was a bit of an exaggeration actually . The seventh young master found his face covered in black ash, and a small part of his brows had been singed .

Qianye looked apologetic . “I never thought it’d turn out this way, are you okay?”

Song Zining stretched an ash-covered hand toward Qianye, saying furiously, “Okay? Do I look okay?”

Qianye felt relieved . “It’s fine as long as you’re fine as a whole . A bit of hair can be ignored . ”

Song Zining grabbed Qianye by the collar . “What do you mean by a bit of hair!? A bit of injury is fine, but how is this young master supposed to meet people with a damaged eyebrow?”

“It’s not like you’re making a living with your face . ” Qianye was nonchalant . It would be a true joke if the future god of strategy relied on his face to make a living .

“Of course I’m not relying on my face for a living, but the better one looks, the better and easier the food . Why wouldn’t I want it? You, on the other hand, could’ve easily relied on your face for a living, yet you just had to rely on that strength of yours . You had so many beautiful ladies to choose from back in the empire . You missed so many opportunities . We can let the past be, but the opportunities at present are hard to come by . Tianqing and Kuanglan aren’t bad choices…”

Qianye interrupted . “Wait a minute, I don’t like men . ”

Song Zining was startled . “What’s so bad about men?”

Qianye didn’t understand where Song Zining was coming from, nor did he know how to reply to this question . All he could do was maintain his silence .

Song Zining snorted coldly, saying, “It looks like you’re really okay . It’s all fine then, we can let the goods be . Money can be earned again . It’s those men I feel pained about, they’re the best of Ningyuan Heavy Industries who have followed me for so many years . ”

“The cargo ships are fine . ”

“Fine? Didn’t you encounter Linken’s fleet?”

“I did, and we fought . I think I destroyed half her fleet and her flagship . ”

“Oh? That’s great… you destroyed what!? Her flagship!?” Song Zining almost jumped up in fright .

“She was careless I guess . ”

“Careless? You don’t know about her accomplishments? How could she be careless? Okay, even if she was careless, how did you do that?”

Qianye summarized the process of the battle . Song Zining listened speechlessly, and then said after a long period of silence, “Wow, poor her . ”

He then became spirited . “This main cannon really solved a huge problem for us . This duke-grade warship is a high-quality vessel . We won’t need to swap it out for a good while . It’s just that she’ll probably kill her way here if news gets out . ”

Song Zining grabbed a sheet of paper and drew an outline of the Martyr’s Palace . Then he wrote down a series of numbers and said following a blur of calculations, “Yes, the materials recycled from this battle should be enough to give the Martyr’s Palace a layer of armor . ”

Next, Song Zining explained his newly designed plan . The current Martyr’s Palace largely resembled the Earth Dragon’s skeleton and most of the abdominal wall was missing . Because of how big the draconic body was, just adding a layer of armor on the empty spaces would require a vast amount of materials . Only high-grade alloy was a fit for the Martyr’s Palace, a cost even Song Zining would find difficult to shoulder . Hence, they had always been left empty .

This time, Qianye had obtained a large number of demonkin shipwrecks . Although most of the equipment on them had been destroyed, the materials from them were just what Qianye needed . However, the Martyr’s Palace was so big that the materials they had weren’t enough to cover up the holes . Hence, Song Zining designed it in a mesh design that would cover up the openings . Although this kind of body provided no cover against cannon shells and bullets, it served as a good defense against ballistae .

The large amount of materials originally designated for the ship’s body would be used to build engines and other parts . After refinement into a higher grade alloy, they could be used to build destroyer-grade engines . This would improve the palace’s mobility and put it on par with ordinary cargo ships .

In the end, they would need to install a massive fuel storage chamber and special origin arrays to provide energy . Although Landsinker couldn’t sink a continent in one shot, it would have no difficulty tearing a destroyer apart .

The barely usable demonkin warship main cannon was installed alongside the ones arriving on the cargo ships, serving as the lateral firepower of the Martyr’s Palace . This would prevent small warships from beating up the palace from blind angles .

Qianye frowned upon seeing this design . Although it was quite feasible, one could easily see that the meshwork armor was a temporary installment . It would have to be disassembled and replaced by proper ship plating one day . This kind of design was a waste of manpower and resources, possessing no merit except fulfilling temporary needs .

“What’s wrong with it? I took a long time to think, but the materials are really not enough . This is only possible because you intercepted so many demonkin materials . ” Song Zining was excited .

“Zining, are we about to fight a war?” Song Zining’s expression changed drastically at Qianye’s question . He then nodded silently .

The two were very clear . The war Qianye was referring to wasn’t just a small skirmish between ordinary mercenary corps, but a true war without limitations . The moment Linken appeared in the void, the clouds of war had already spread all over the neutral lands . Song Zining had proposed such a design in order to quickly raise the fighting power of the Martyr’s Palace . As for the complete design, there was no time to work on that .

“Why?” Qianye asked .

“The Great Maelstrom . ”

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