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Chapter 744: An Encounter between Enemies
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
10 am, October 10th, 100 representatives from Ice and Snow Wilderness and Ewentra Archipelago respectively gathered on the airship base outside Navyblue Castle. They then embarked on the airboat of Golden Roc Bank with various moods.
Besides Zhang Tie and the two elders, the three heads of the wild bear tribe, fire bear tribe and sea bear tribe also joined in the side of Ice and Snow Wilderness. The sea bear Tribe arrived at Navyblue Castle yesterday, which indicated that the sea bear tribe, which had always been hesitating, finally fixed its stance in this crisis which was involved with the entire Ice and Snow Wilderness.
After Zhang Tie showed his battle force and gentle strength as a knight, the scale slowly tilted towards his side. Plus the sea bear tribe, Zhang Tie had 5 of the 8 bear tribes across Ice and Snow Wilderness on his side——the huge bear tribe, iron bear tribe, wild bear tribe, fire bear tribe and sea bear tribe. Because of this, the heads of mountain bear tribe, black bear tribe and demon bear tribe who followed the mace muling of Sacred Light School and the other representatives of major clans of Ewentra Archipelago in the airboat looked embarrassed.
"Peh..." The old wild bear spat on the ground with a disdainful look at the sight of the three heads and the mace muling of Sacred Light School.
The mace muling of Sacred Light School watched Zhang Tie with a grim look. Given that Zhang Tie sunk his flagship to the bottom and the casual reply, of course, he didn't look good today.
Watching the mace muling's look, Elder Turin narrowed his eyes while bad-tempered Elder Gouras' battle qi almost boiled.
"Today, all the animosity and contradictions between the two parties will be handled by the two fleets. Everything depends on the result of this duel. After boarding the airboat, Golden Roc Bank expects you to not make any obsessive movements. Nobody in the airboat is allowed to find troubles!" Manager Xu Tao hurriedly stood in the middle of the lounge and clarified the rules so as to relieve the intense atmosphere.
"No problem. Our clans across Ewentra Archipelago will fully respect Golden Roc Bank's judgment on the result of this duel!" Connar, the head of Rainard Clan revealed a smile generously as he threw a glance towards Zhang Tie.
After promoting to a knight, Zhang Tie didn't pay attention to those who were below knight, especially among the opponents. Those who were below knights were as trivial as ants. Even though some of them were a bit powerful, they were still as weak as chicken or dogs. After calmly glancing over the heads of mountain bear tribe, black bear tribe and demon bear tribe, Zhang Tie finally focused on the face of mace muling of Sacred Light School.
The mace muling wore a whole set of the religious ceremonial robe which was as eye-catching as a peacock. His robe was embroidered with all sorts of patterns such as sun, moons and stars. Additionally, he wore a high golden religious crown which looked like a fish head with a golden mace in hand. It looked like that he was going to preach his religion.
"Was that you who found trouble in Ice and Snow Wilderness and instigated some idiots to plunder the Tribal Axis Railway?" Zhang Tie put it straight.
After hearing Zhang Tie's words, everybody else became quiet.
"Ice and Snow Wilderness has been covered with evil and dark forces. As long as the sunshine can reach there, I will spread the halos of the God of Brilliance over there. I will lead people out of the dark!" The mace muling explained with a sacred look while he raised his mace, "Peter, what you've done yesterday has offended the dignity of the God of Brilliance. As long as you could confess in front of the mace, the God of Brilliance will purify all of your guilts; otherwise, you will have to face the scorching copper pillars and sulfuric flames in the hell. You will wail mournfully in the hell for 10,000 years ."
Narrowing his eyes, Zhang Tie directly pointed at the mace muling with one finger while his tone grew sacred like making a judgment, "The God says you're the blasphemer. Your head will be chopped off today. Your fresh blood will spray over the waves of the ocean. Your blood and flesh will be the food of fishes and shrimps. What guilts you've made will be judged today!"
The mace muling of Sacred Light School instantly changed his face as he replied with a cold voice, "Is Ice and Snow Wilderness declaring war towards Sacred Light Empire?'
"The God says the entire north water would become the tombs of all those people who made evil things and profaned deity in the name of a deity. All the blasphemers will be cursed and punished by the deity after entering the north water. The deity will display his fury in the sea."
All the onlookers became silent, including the major clans across Ewentra Archipelago. The dialogue was the collision between Sacred Light School and Ancient God School. Religious conflicts and wars were cruelest and most terrible. Nobody dared involve themselves and their family members into religious wars.
"I'd like to see who will be the winner today and whom the ocean will lose its temper to!" The mace muling of Sacred Light School revealed a grim smile as he walked upstairs on the gangway with full confidence.
Zhang Tie also boarded the airboat from the other gangway.
Nobody would like to miss such a rare chance to witness a historical event by the airboat. Zhang Tie spared 10 people for both Bell Clan and Fein Clan. Ten elites and major figures were elected respectively by the two heads and boarded the airboat...
Ms. Olina, Sabrina and the 6 women from Spencer Clan also followed Zhang Tie in.
All the major figures on Olina's side and Navyblue Castle Business Group were so excited about boarding this legendary airboat.
Zhang Tie was also full of curiosity as it was also his first time to board an airboat.
The inside of the airboat was really spacious. Due to the complex design of pipelines, turrets and waterproof cabins, even battleships' inside space was not spacious. However, the inside of this airboat was completely like a spacious theater and steel fortress. All the passengers were shocked. They just looked around out of curiosity. Golden Roc Bank might have known about the mentality of these people who boarded airboat for the first time. Therefore, they arranged for some people to show them around in the airboat, causing exclamations constantly.
Such an airboat was really much safer than airships. When they saw clouds moving outside, they realized that the airboat had already taken off. The whole process was quiet, comfortable and steady.
"How did it take off?" The old wild bear touched here and there before asking that question.
It was Donder who showed Zhang Tie's party around. Seeing that guy's solemn look, Zhang Tie felt very hilarious. 'Apparently, Golden Roc Bank arranged Donder to get close to me. From then on, nobody would doubt it even if someone found Donder being close to me later on.
"The airboat is driven by a special metal in the deep underground world which is called air-floating metal. All the resources of air-floating metal are in the hand of the military and the royal households of Taixia Country!" Donder introduced seriously.
"Can we buy an airboat in Taixia?" The old wild bear asked while licking his lips.
"Of course you can. But it's strictly limited in Taixia. Only after meeting some conditions could you buy it!"
"What conditions?"
"Generally, positions above prefectural governors and commanding generals, titles of nobility above marquis, royal members and major chancellors are qualified to purchase it. Some airboats will be gifted by Emperor Xuanyuan in Taixia Country. As it's a symbol of honor, stricter requirements are made on common major clans!"
"How strict?"
"Only when those major clans paid the tax of more than 100 million gold coins per year consecutively for 20 years could they purchase airboats!" Donder replied seriously.
'What? After paying the tax of more than 100 million gold coins per year consecutively for 20 years? What the f*ck! Even the total of revenue of the 8 bear tribes across Ice and Snow Wilderness might not reach 100 million gold coins per year. However, in Taixia, this figure is just one year's amount of tax payment of certain major clans.' All the passengers became dumbfounded by the wealth and prosperity of Taixia Country.
Right then, exclamations also drifted from the party of Ewentra Archipelago. Someone might have asked the same question.
Zhang Tie knew that one of the purposes of this airboat was to have the wealthy and prosperous image of Taixia Country deeply rooted in the heart of those people from both Ice and Snow Wilderness and Ewentra Archipelago. It was a seed, which would sprout sooner or later.
The airboat flew much faster than airships. Only after a few minutes, it had already reached above the water where the two fleets were going to fight over 100 miles away in the west of Saint Herner Island...
Chapter 745: Fire
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
The duel was arranged in the water which covered about 900 sq miles. Since this early morning, numerous cruise ships and yachts had followed the selected North Wind Fleet and the Rainard's clan fleet towards that water.
The water had been surrounded by buoys as the border. Besides the two parties' navy fleets which were going to attend the duel, no other ships even airships were allowed to enter this waters.
North Wind Fleet dispatched two battleships headed by Snow Bramble and four heavy cruisers, which accounted half of the total battle force of North Wind Fleet. Rainard Clan also dispatched 2 battleships and 4 heavy cruisers to participate in the duel. As for the loss of Rainard Clan in this duel, those major clans' representatives across Ewentra Archipelago expressed that they would provide the fund for Rainard Clan's fleet to recover its original battle force before the duel.
The rest navy ships of North Wind Fleet and the allied fleet of Ewentra Archipelago would cruise around the water so as to maintain the order. They would sink any ships who dared enter the duel in the water.
Of course, the onlooking ships dared not break in the duel. They were all gathering about 2-3 miles away from the duel water. The rich passengers and onlookers climbed onto the masts or stood at high places. They directly took out high-performance telescopes and cameras and prepared to enjoy the big game.
The airboat of Golden Roc Bank was suspending about thousands meters high above the duel water.
With many people's exclamations, a huge cabin roof slowly slid off, exposing a patch of blue and vast sky. As a result, the enclosed cabin instantly became an exposed deck, which allowed people to watch downside through the windows on both sides of the deck. Besides, a huge optical imaging device slowly rose up from the ground of the deck, which was about 5-6 m high. Like a multi-edge crystal pillar, it had many sides, which reflected the complete duel situation. It was much more advanced than the exclusive periscope of the captain. At least it was Zhang Tie's first time to see such a huge optical imaging device.
That huge optical imaging device was surrounded by rows of seats. Passengers could sit on the seats and watch the battle. Besides, there were some high-end drinks prepared by Golden Roc Bank. This was like a small amphitheater suspending in the air.
When the roof was opened, Gongsun Liniang the female knight of Golden Roc Bank had already released a water green enshrouding battle-qi. She directly suspended in the air and monitored the battle situation.
Guan Xiyi, the CEO of Golden Roc Bank and a group of retinues were also watching here.
The two fleets whose boilers had not died out were emitting a red flare respectively from the southwest and the northeast corners of the duel water, which indicated that they had already prepared for the duel.
All the onlookers held their breath when they saw two flares rising into the sky.
"Your Excellency, can we start now?" Manager Xu Tao asked Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie nodded while the other member of Golden Rob Bank who inquired about the opinion of the representative of Ewentra Archipelago also nodded towards Xu Tao. Xu Tao then nodded towards Guan Xiyi. Guan Xiyi also nodded towards Xu Tao.
Zhang Tie noticed a faint sneer on the face of mace muling of Sacred Light School when Connar nodded towards Zhang Tie with a genial look.
Zhang Tie also sneered as he really wanted to see their trump card.
The airship then emitted a red flare downwards...
When the flare touched the sea water, the two fleets moved. At the same time, dense smoke came out of their chimneys. Like full-armored cavalries on battle horses, the two fleets started to accelerate towards the opponent.
In such fixed water, the two fleets were both within the visible range of the opponent. Unless the opposing commander was an idiot or made major commanding mistakes, neither of the two fleets could grab the T-shaped formation.
Therefore, the two fleets directly surged towards each other at the beginning.
After a few minutes, when the two fleets were still 15,000 m away from each other, the main cannon on the flagship of Rainard Clan's fleet had smoked...
After a few seconds, one main cannon on Snow Bramble of North Wind Fleet also smoked...
After another a few seconds, two booms drifted to the airboat.
Almost at the same time, a high water column rose from the sea water over 70 m away from North Wind Fleet...
A couple of seconds later, the same kind of water column rose from the sea water over 100 m away from the fleet of Rainard Clan...
The moment they heard the booms, the onlookers had been boisterous——the duel finally breaks out.
Everyone on the airboat became intense...
"This is just a trial fire of the two fleets' main cannons. Through the trial fire, they could measure the point of fall and error of the trajectory. They will rectify the fire parameters. After the fire parameters on the flagship are confirmed, they will pass the fire parameters to the other ships through lamplight signals. After adjusting their fire parameters, all the ships could fire at the same time!" Elder Turin whispered to Zhang Tie.
"Given the trial fire, it seems that Rainard Clan was in a dominant position. That fleet fired 4 seconds earlier than North Wind Fleet. Additionally, the first shell fell closer to the opponent!" Zhang Tie turned around.
"Yes. The comprehensive strength of the fleet of Ewentra Archipelago is indeed a bit greater than North Wind Fleet. We are not in the dominant position!" Elder Turin looked faintly gloomy.
"Don't worry. It's just the beginning!" Zhang Tie revealed a casual smile.
After the first round of trial fire, the representatives of major clans across Ewentra Archipelago also whispered to each other after seeing what happened through the imaging device. Connar, the head of Rainard Clan had revealed a faint smile. However, he still nodded towards Zhang Tie in a very gentle way, so did Zhang Tie.
After over 10 seconds, the two fleet started the first round of fire with the gap of 1 second...
At this moment, the booms which were much louder than before reverberated across the duel water. As the two fleets accelerated forward, they fired rapidly...
Within the first minute, the two fleet both finished 3 rounds of the salvo. In the first round, the fleet of Rainard Clan was 2 seconds earlier than that of North Wind Fleet. When the 2nd round of salvo started, the gap expanded to 4 seconds. When the 3rd round of salvo started, the gap increased to 6 seconds.
The shells fell on the water surrounding the opposing fleet, arousing huge water columns. Given the distribution of those water columns, the commanders of the two fleets both focused their salvo on the opposing battleships. At such a critical moment, as long as they could destroy or disable one opposing battleship, they would have the scale tilt to their side.
Besides battle force, luck was also a very important factor for the two fleets. It seemed that North Wind Fleet had a good luck. In the 3rd round of salvo, a flame rose from the head of a heavy cruiser in the fleet of Rainard Clan.
Those on the side of Ice and Snow Wilderness cheered up at once in the airboat.
"Well done, North Wind Fleet..." The old wild bear shouted.
Unless a shell could hit the ammunition stowage of the battleship and arouse a big explosion or coincidentally fall onto the key parts near the propeller below the draft line of the battleship, it could never disable a battleship.
It seemed that the heavy cruiser's speed was not influenced. The optical imaging device directly targeted at that burning battleship and zoomed in. All the passengers on the airboat could see clearly that the sailors were rapidly putting out the fire so as to reduce the loss. In this critical moment, the fleet's loss controlling ability was also a key component of the battle force and viability of the fleet.
"North Wind Fleet is a respectable opponent!" Connar, the head of Rainard Clan talked to Zhang Tie with the same genial look.
"Connar doesn't seem to worry about that!" Zhang Tie smiled.
Connar blinked his eyes with the same faint smile, "It's just a start, isn't it?"
"Do you believe in luck, clan head Connar?"
"Luck is very important; however, the most important is the battle force!"
"A good start means a half success. Additionally, luck is a part of the battle force. I feel that luck favors me today."
"Let's see it!"
...
Although they argued with each other on the airboat, the duel still didn't come to an end.
The loud booms were still reverberating in the water below.
After 3 minutes, the fleet of Rainard Clan finally showed its advantage in the battle force than North Wind Fleet. During the period, North Wind Fleet completed 9 rounds of salvos; however, Rainard Clan's fleet completed 10 rounds of salvos. In the 10th round of salvo, one shell precisely fell on the Snow Bramble battleship.
This time, all those on the side of Ewentra Archipelago cheered up.
...
The first battle lasted 15 minutes. After that, the two fleets both moved out of the opponent's fire range. During this period, North Wind Fleet was struck by 5 shells while Rainard Clan's fleet was struck by 4 shells. Both fleets' losses were not fatal.
After leaving the opponent's fire range, the two fleets changed their directions at the same time and prepared for the second battle...
In the second battle, North Wind Fleet struck the opponent by 7 shells while being struck by 6 shells. The middle main cannon of Snow Bramble was disabled while a battleship of the opponent caught a ferocious fire.
After the second battle, both parties gradually came into their own, causing a more miserable loss.
The two fleets changed their directions once again and fired the next round of battle. However, at this moment, the two battleships in front of North Wind Fleet slowed down. The formation of the entire fleet was disrupted at once.
"What happened?" All the others sprung up from their seats intensely except for Zhang Tie...
"Zoom in the two battleships of North Wind Fleet!" CEO Guan Xiyi, who was always silent, opened his mouth at this moment.
Gradually, the Snow Bramble and the other battleship enlarged on the optical imaging device...
After seeing it clearly, everyone on the side of Ice and Snow Wilderness felt being struck by a lightning bolt.
Numerous 1-m wide pitch-dark starfish and conches were floating up from the seabed and were attaching to one side of the two battleships of North Wind Fleet. Besides slowing down, the two battleships started to tilt towards one side...
Chapter 746: The Will of the God of Brilliance
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
In such a fierce duel, as long as one battleship lost its speed, even though it kept firing, it could be easily targeted.
The starfish was a mutated iron-magnetic species. As heavy as a rock, each of them could firmly attach to the metal bottom of ships. Generally, there were always sea creatures like starfish and conch at the bottoms of those big ships. However, at this moment, there were countless starfish and conchs over the bottoms and one side of the two battleships. As a result, the battleships increased their weight sharply, causing a greater resistance in seawater. Additionally, the two battleships faintly tilted. In this state, the battleships slowed down and had a poorer firing precision.
When the front 2 battleships slowed down, the other 4 cruisers behind them had to slow down too, causing a chaos in the formation of the entire fleet at once.
Nobody could imagine such an event before.
Gongsun Liniang had already rushed downside there as fast as a meteor and directly dove into the sea...
All the passengers of the airboat could see many sailors rushing to the decks and flushing off the starfish and conchs from the shells using water cannons. However, it seemed not to work. Because the starfish and conchs being flushed off only accounted a small part of the total amount of starfish and conchs. Actually, more starfish and conchs were attached to the bottoms where water cannons could not reach.
As a result, the speed of two battleships of North Wind Fleet gradually decreased from above 20 nautical miles per hour to about 10 nautical miles per hour.
Seeing this, not only people on the side of Ice and Snow Wilderness sprung up, even the numerous onlookers outside the duel water were in an uproar. Due to the far distance and poor perspective, many people could not see the true situation facing North Wind Fleet. Therefore, they didn't know why the North Wind Fleet slowed down abruptly. This was nothing different than committing suicide.
When the North Wind Fleet slowed down, the fleet of Rainard Clan kept accelerating towards their opponent as heroic as cavalries on battle horses...
Starting from 15,000 m, the cannons of the two fleets roared once again. When the fleet of Rainard Clan got out of the firing range of North Wind Fleet, a sharp difference appeared between the two fleets——Rainard Clan's fleet was struck by 3 shells; however, North Wind Fleet was struck by 9 shells.
All the passengers on the airboat witnessed such a cruel outcome. The big fires on the two battleships seemed to predict the outcome of North Wind Fleet. Given such a situation, with 3 more rounds, the two battleships of North Wind Fleet would be disabled completely. They would be sent to the bottom sooner or later.
All the people on the side of Ice and Snow Wilderness were driven mad.
The old wild bear roared as he pointed at those guys on the side of Ewentra Archipelago and asked, "B*stards, did you do that?"
"I don't know what you're talking about." Connar, the head of Rainard Clan replied calmly, "I could only command my fleet; instead of those sea creatures!"
After Connar expressed his stance, Gongsun Liniang, the female knight of Golden Roc Bank, had already flown out of the sea.
"Nobody is found at the seabed of the duel water." Gongsun Liniang said icily.
When the two fleets fired, Gongsun Liniang had already searched over the water. However, she didn't find anybody else over there. It didn't mean that nobody found the trouble, though. As for such a vast ocean, if someone really hid underwater away from this narrow duel water, he would be hardly discovered by even 10 knights, not to mention Gongsun Liniang herself. If someone really hid there, he might be a marine animal controller now that he could drive these marine creatures. Given such one's diving skill, viability and hiding ability underwater, this one must be a rare master among animal controllers. He could even order these marine creatures to make aggressive behaviors from hundreds of miles away.
Of course, this was just a possibility. As no evidence was discovered, it was not persuasive.
Elder Turin stood up with a grim look, "This duel has already lost its fairness and justice. I request Golden Roc Bank to terminate this duel!"
"I disagree!" A representative of a major clan on the side of Ewentra Archipelago stood up, "By far, there's no evidence of unfairness!"
"What's wrong with those starfish and conchs?"
"Only the sea would answer you!" That representative replied calmly as he bowed towards Guan Xiyi, "According to the agreement, neither of the two fleets are allowed to leave the water since it starts unless someone who has nothing to do with the two fleets appears in the duel and attack one party's fleet. Only in that situation could the very party proposed to terminate the duel. Otherwise, the two fleets have to fight to the end. Although some interference happened, the interferents were just some marine creatures, instead of the crew of our party. These marine creatures are not exclusive to Ewentra Archipelago. They belong to force majeure. Therefore, Ewentra Archipelago doesn't have to take the responsibility for it. Neither does the opponent have the right to exterminate this duel due to this reason. Otherwise, it would violate the spirit of the contract which we commonly respect. The spirit of the contract is the foundation of the prosperity of Ewentra Archipelago and the guarantee of the creditability of all parties. As the supervisor of this duel and the warrantor of the implementation of this contract, Golden Roc Bank should maintain the sacredness of the contract."
When that representative stood up and spoke, Donder, who always served the side of Ice and Snow Wilderness, silently displayed his palm in front of Zhang Tie as he took the glass. There was a line of words in his palm——As long as you have any request, we will be able to make another emergency to terminate this duel.
After reading it, Zhang Tie threw a glance at Donder and kept silent.
After saying that, the representative sat down. Everybody on the airboat then moved their eyes onto Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie remained calm as he watched Connar, the head of Rainard Clan and asked, "Do that guy's words represent the opinion of all the clans across Ewentra Archipelago?"
"The life of Ewentra Archipelago lies in the prosperity of commerce while the life of commercial prosperity lies in the spirit of the contract. I don't know whether it is like this in other places; in Ewentra Archipelago, as long as one contract is established, the contract would be most sacred. I'm very sorry for the emergency facing North Wind Fleet. However, the influence of marine creatures in North Wind Fleet indeed belongs to force majeure. Therefore, it's still fair. Ewentra Archipelago's choice implies with our contract!" Connar's eyes sparkled.
"Spirit of the contract? I like this opinion. Just keep it going. I indeed "admire" your "respect" to the contract..." Zhang Tie smiled as he accented the two words "respect" and "admire", making the representatives of the major clans from Ewentra Archipelago twist their bodies restlessly, "But do you know what is the real force majeure?"
All the representatives of major clans from Ewentra Archipelago exchanged glances with each other as they were confused about Zhang Tie's meaning.
"Only the will of the God of Brilliance is the real force majeure!" The mace muling of Sacred Light School raised his scepter as he rushed to answer Zhang Tie's question, "You're still not too late to confess under my mace. The God of Brilliance has already displayed its will through the ocean. This is a warning, also your last chance!"
Zhang Tie threw a scornful glance towards that mace muling of Sacred Light School like watching a lump of shit being wrapped by brilliant silk, "Do you know why I didn't ask your name until now? Because all those blasphemers are worms on sacrificial altar in my eyes. They are not worthy enough for me to know their names!"
"You..." The mace muling of Sacred Light School was so furious that his face turned red. Gongsun Liniang threw a glance at him with narrow eyes. He then panted and glared at Zhang Tie, "I will see how long you can stand!"
Zhang Tie stood up. Looking up at the sky, he closed his eyes and stretched out his hands with sacred brilliance on his face like praying and embracing the endless void. At this moment, Zhang Tie uttered a magnificent sound, "Poseidon, I order you to display your will in a furious way in the name of the God of gods so that the blasphemers could see the true majesty of God and nonbelievers who only believe in money see the strength of the God..."
The moment Zhang Tie uttered this, all the representatives from both Ice and Snow Wilderness and Ewentra Archipelago watched Zhang Tie with a dumbfounded look——What does that mean? Could Peter order the sea god? Are you kidding me? Is he driven mad after seeing that North Wind Fleet is going to lose the battle?'
The mace muling of Sacred Light School fleered like watching a joke...
Donder revealed an unacceptable look. He had not imagined that this brat had mastered such a pretending talent only after a few years. 'Given his current pious and dignified look, he's completely different than the guy who felt guilty even by changing a new package for an old commodity...
Soon after Zhang Tie's words, a huge, terrifying shadow swam across the water...
Chapter 747: Whip of the Fury
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
"F*ck, this father chipped 2 million gold coins. What's wrong with North Wind Fleet?" The rich guy of Ewentra Archipelago who chipped 2 million gold coins in North Wind Fleet yesterday roared on the observation post of the luxury cruiser. Given the performance of North Wind Fleet, everyone knew that there was some emergency. However, due to the long distance and poorer visibility, this rich person could not see clearly what happened on the side which was closer to sea level. Therefore, he became very anxious.
Very few onlookers actually knew what happened. Some of them also caught sight of the huge iron-magnetic starfish on one side of the two battleships of North Wind Fleet; however, they only took in a deep breath.
"B*stard!" That rich person on the observation post of that luxury cruiser forcefully threw his telescope into the sea while watching the flames and smoke on the two battleships.
It was a nice day. Under the bright sunshine, the sea water below the luxury cruiser looked crystal and blue. It was of a high visibility.
When he threw away that telescope, the rich person lowered his head and found that the sea water below the cruiser was a bit deeper than that just now. He thought it was the shadow of the clouds; however, he found no clouds when he looked up.
"What's wrong?"
When others paid attention to the duel water in the distance, that rich person glanced over seriously and found that this water was indeed a bit deeper than those in the surroundings. If he did not observe it seriously, he might not have recognized that. There seemed to be a huge shadow under the sea water.
All of a sudden, that rich person felt goosebumps all over while a sense of terror rushed to his skull from the sea water along the spine. He was frozen instantly while his face turned pale.
The shadow under the sea water was moving.
The front part of the shadow was like a cloud, which extended over 1 mile forward from the bottom of the luxury cruiser towards the duel water. The latter part of the shadow was still covering that water of that cruiser.
'This is not a shoal of fish as it is bigger and moving faster than the latter. Additionally, the shoal of fish always changes its shape during movement. However, that shadow is very large and moving as fast as a torpedo under seawater in a fixed shape. It's more like a moving mountain under the sea; instead of being a shoal of fish. However, mountain under the sea won't move. Therefore, that shadow must be something alive...'
'A living thing? Under the seawater? As large as a mountain?'
The moment this thought occurred to the rich person's mind, he froze and almost fell off the observation post.
Closely after that, the rich person shrieked miserably, "Move the ship, move the ship out of this water at full speed..."
Ocean was always mild; however, it would also become berserk sometimes. No matter what, this ocean was covered with a thick mysterious veil. Once this mysterious veil was exposed, the object behind the veil would bring people a sheer terror.
No matter what was that thing under the water, when it was large enough, it made everyone so scared and intend to escape away from it as far as possible.
When the rich person exclaimed, he slid off the mast and rushed towards the cab of the cruiser. As a result, the steward who was walking towards him with a glass of wine was knocked down, spraying the wine over the ground.
When that luxury cruiser turned around and started to escape at full speed, the North Wind Fleet in the duel water had to make a tragic choice——the four heavy cruisers started to leave the two battleships and accelerated towards the fleet of Rainard Clan.
Those who had experience in the sea warfare knew that North Wind fleet was going to create a chance for the two battleships to fire at the opponent in a short distance at the risk of losing the 4 heavy cruisers.
As long as the distance between battleships and target was less than 3 miles, the power, force of penetration and precision of shells would reach a new high. As a result, the battle would be extremely fierce. This was North Wind Fleet's only choice to have its main battleships offset the advantage of the opponent. Meanwhile, it meant that they had prepared for sacrificing their own vessels so as to attract the attention of the heavy cruisers of the opponent.
Fighters of North Wind Fleet were performing their promise to Zhang Tie at the risk of their lives——North Wind Fleet might not be the most excellent sailors; however, they are definitely the bravest sailors. North Wind Fleet could not ensure the victory of such a duel; however, it could ensure that each commissioned officer and soldier who participated in the duel would like to die for victory!
"Why?" A whiskered captain of a battleship of North Wind Fleet outside the duel water punched onto the diamond-shaped 1,000 mm-thick armor of the turret under the main cannon of the battleship, spraying blood all over...
All the commisioned officers and soldiers on the battleships of North Wind Fleet outside the ring dropped tears and wished to surge forward to replace their partners. They knew that they might lose the battle; however, they had not imagined that they would lose the battle in this way.
Those common soldiers and commissioned officers didn't know why so many huge iron-magnetic starfish appeared. But they were sure that it was a mean trap.
The airboat didn't send any signal to exterminate the duel, which meant this duel would continue.
...
On the airboat, watching Zhang Tie stretching his arms still, someone thought that Peters was driven mad due to the great stimulation. 'How could he order Poseidon to do something? Is he lunatic or wanting to exterminate this match in an expected way by pretending to be an idiot?'
The representatives of the major clans of Ewentra Archipelago were recalling that contract. They tried to remember whether there were some loopholes in the contract which could be used by Peter.
Zhang Tie remained still for 1 minute.
Even Ms. Olina watched Zhang Tie with a bit of sorrow.
With a glassy-eyed look, Elder Turin just glanced at that mace muling with a cold look.
Donder was also full of doubt. 'What the hell is this brat doing? Does he really think that he can change the situation just by pretending to be a jerk here? No way. Even if this brat has some precautions, he should at least have someone pass his message. Otherwise, his personal performance is nothing but a sh*t. None of those at present are passing a message or sending a signal from Golden Roc Bank or Ice and Snow Wilderness. Is this boy playing telepathy?'
Donder moved his eyes on Guan Xiyi when he found the latter was just watching Zhang Tie with narrow eyes. 'It seems that Guan Xiyi is also confused about Zhang Tie's plan. Actually, Golden Roc Bank has precautions to exterminate this duel; however, the right lies in Guan Xiyi's hand. Now that this brat doesn't need the help of Golden Roc Bank, Guan Xiyi kept silent. Therefore, we could only see what plan does this brat have.'
Gongsun Liniang had a despised perception of Zhang Tie. Given her look, she was obviously doubting, "How could such a rubbish guy become a knight?'
Among all the others at present, only Elder Gouras was still a bit confident about Zhang Tie, which didn't come from Zhang Tie, but from the prophecy of Pontiff Sarlin——Zhang Tie is the ruler of all the oceans in the world. How could such a person suffer a great loss in the north water of Blackson Humans Corridor?
'Pontiff Sarlin won't make a mistake!' Elder Goura tightly clutched his fist as he constantly implied himself, 'Pontiff won't make a mistake. Therefore, we will not lose this duel.'
"Ahh, what's that?' Old Bell's grandson shrieked while the eyes of all those at present moved back to the huge crystal optical imaging device on the airboat.
However, many people didn't see anything special.
"The shadow, the shadow under the sea water..." Old Bell's grandson shouted which aroused the attention of many people.
Right on the optical imaging device, they saw a huge, terrifying shadow moving towards the fleet of Rainard Fleet rapidly in the ocean.
The shadowy color was just a bit deeper than that of the sea water. Therefore, if not observed it closely, they could not notice it.
'Is that cloud's shadow?' The same thought occurred to many people's mind. It was really too huge that many people mistook it as a natural phenomenon at the sight of it.
"Zoom in..." Guan Xiyi uttered while the water where the fleet of Rainard Clan was gradually enlarged and became clear...
At this moment, Zhang Tie opened his eyes as he watched the representatives of the major clans of Ewentra Archipelago and said, "The whip of the fury of gods have already arrived!"
'What does that mean?'
Whereas, before the representatives of the major clans of Ewentra Archipelago realized that, an extremely terrifying black pillar rushed to the sky in a ground-breaking manner like a heaven pillar, causing an ear-deafening shrill shriek. When it reached over 1,000 m high above the seawater, it forcefully slashed towards one battleship of Rainard Clan's fleet like a flexible long whip when everyone widely opened their mouths...
The terrifying long whip moved so fast that the air above that water shrieked like a piece of cotton being torn apart, which was even louder and shriller than the booms of the salvos of the cannons of the two fleets and could be heard from over 100 miles away...
When a huge mass multiplied by a great speed, it would cause a terrifying, unimaginable destruction.
Almost nobody could see clearly what happened at that second. Everybody could only see a long whip slashing into the ocean, which caused a sea wave as high as dozens of meters rolling in all directions. The rest ships of Rainard Fleet were tossed high and fell down heavily. After that, they bumped helplessly like dinghies...
Chapter 748: Force Majeure
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
The sudden terrorist attack was like spraying water over the burning oil, boiling up the entire duel water.
On those luxury cruisers and warships in the distance, even if those passengers and crew didn't use the telescope, they could see clearly the huge, black whip which was longer than 1,000 m. At first, it pointed towards the sky. Closely after that, it slashed down, arousing a huge wave of dozens of meters in height.
After falling down, the huge wave gradually faded when it reached miles away. However, the surging tide still bumped those luxury cruisers and warships.
In front of such a terrifying power, all the onlooker became dumbfounded. After that, all of them made the same reaction at the same time——escape away from that monster under the seawater as fast as possible.
Those onlooking deluxe yachts and warships were of different sizes. At this moment, they were escaping in all directions like tadpoles being frightened by crocodiles.
On the airboat, all the clan heads from Ice and Snow Wilderness and representatives of major clans from Ewentra Archipelago even CEO Guan Xiyi of Golden Roc Bank were stunned by what they saw. Connar, the face of the head of Rainard Clan turned pale. Meanwhile, he trembled all over. That mace muling of Sacred Light School widely opened his mouth, which could even hold a goose egg.
The huge shadow gradually showed its body out of seawater. Meanwhile, seawater flew off its body like a waterfall as it gradually raised as high as a mountain...
When that marine creature showed itself, Rainard Clan's fleet's nightmare didn't stop right away.
Before a heavy cruiser fell back onto the seawater, another extremely terrifying, long whip-like tentacle broke out of the seawater and rolled up that heavy cruiser. Closely after that, it directly threw that heavy cruiser over hundreds of meters away in the air like throwing its own toy...
Those on the airboat might not forget this scene for the rest of their lives——an over 10,000-ton heavy cruiser flew in the air, rolled and smashed onto the seawater over 1,000 m away. From then on, it didn't appear anymore...
All the sailors of the fleet of Rainard Clan cried due to despair.
In front of a monster, those onlooking deluxe yachts and civilian warships were fragile tadpoles while Rainard Clan's fleet was at most crayfish in front of a pre-historical crocodile.
That Rainard Clan's heavy cruiser being thrown away was lucky; because another two heavy cruisers were rolled up by that kind of terrifying tentacles and smashed against each other at the same time. The later two heavy cruisers were twisted at once. When they were raised up, the despaired sailors on the cruisers shrieked and hurriedly jumped into the sea.
The two twisted heavy cruisers were like an iron hammer and pontil in two hands. Closely after that, that hammer and that pontil were respectively smashed towards the rest battleship and heavy cruiser of Rainard Clan's fleet, causing a huge wave once again. When the huge wave relieved, everything came to an end. Rainard Clan's fleet had disappeared in the sea...
The whole process only took a couple of minutes.
Until then did that creature fully reveal its huge head which was as wide as 1,000 m like a hill.
Black body, monstrous, fiery, huge pupils, once being gazed by which, the crew members on the airboat would feel a great stress.
"Moo..." That creature uttered like blowing numerous huge conchs on the sea at the same time. The loud sound caused seawater within hundreds of meters to jump like pearls in a jade plate and formed ripples.
That sound contained a bizarre strength. When it reached to the two battleships whose one side and bottom were covered with numerous starfish and conchs, those starfish and conchs hurriedly left the two battleships like receiving a dignified order...
When those starfish and conchs left the battleships of North Wind Fleet, a mysterious figure hiding in the seaweeds under the sea 7-8 miles away from the duel water was destroyed by the animal controlling method while his head exploded...
The bloody smell attracted the neighboring sharks. Only after a short while, that person had disappeared at the seabed.
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"Poseidon...Poseidon's...pet..." A representative of a major clan on Ewentra Archipelago's side stammered while turning pale.
In Slavs' myth in the north water, the most powerful huge deep-sea monster was the pet of Poseidon, the sea god. Poseidon always rode this pet and cruised across all the waters. Whenever he reached a new water, he would display his dignity and order all the aquatic creatures by blowing the conch of sea god...
At this moment, all the representatives on Ewentra Archipelago's side became extremely flurried when they remembered what Zhang Tie said just now. Many people's calves were trembling. They dared not even watch Zhang Tie's face as Zhang Tie became dignified and sacred in the hearts of them.
"I'm so sorry about the accident facing the fleet of Ewentra Archipelago; however, marine creatures' influence towards Ewentra Archipelago belongs to force majeure. This will not break the fairness between two parties. Will Ewentra Archipelago continue to respect our spirit of contract?" Zhang Tie became glassy-eyed as he asked in the expression similar to that of Connar.
Zhang Tie had displayed the so-called force majeure to everybody else!
With trembling pale lips, Connar looked around and found that all the representatives of Ewentra Archipelago were lowering their heads so as to avoid his gaze. At this moment, Connar realized how ridiculous and naive was what he had done. In front of this man, his tricks displayed nothing but his stupidity and shallow knowledge...
Connar thought, "Even if the entire allied fleet of Ewentra Archipelago expanded by 10 times, there's still a pile of building blocks floating on the sea, Do Ewentra Archipelago really expect to protect their interests and safety by a pile of toys?"
'Peh...' Connar forcefully swallowed his saliva...
Brightman, the head of Willies Clan in Gantiadu Island had already stood up and deeply bowed towards Zhang Tie. After that, he put his right fist onto his left chest, "Ewentra Archipelago will respect the sacred contract between us. From today on, the entire Ewentra Archipelago will be under the ruling of Peter Hamplester. You will be the only ruler of Ewentra Archipelago. I pledge to be loyal to Peter Hamplester on behalf of Willies Clan in Gantiadu Island!"
Closely after Brightman were the other clans' representatives of Ewentra Archipelago, who hurriedly stood up and expressed their stance, "On behalf of Gantis Clan..."
"On behalf of Sevey Clan..."
"On behalf of..."
If struggle became meaningless, no clan would be as silly as a mantis which ran towards the rolling wheels of vehicles. This was the survival of law of all the major clans of Ewentra Archipelago. With the protection of such a great man, it was actually good for all the major clans of Ewentra Archipelago.
None of the representatives were idiots.
Connar, the head of Rainard Clan also stood up slowly, "On behalf of Rainard Clan in Akray Island, I pledge to be loyal to Peter Hamplester!"
At this moment, Connar finally understood why Peter selected his fleet to fight North Wind Fleet as it was a severe warning to Rainard Clan and the force on its back. 'Perhaps from the beginning, Peter had not planned to let Rainard Clan's fleet leave this water...'
After throwing a deep glance at Zhang Tie, Guan Xiyi's eyes flickered before he opened his mouth, " Now that both parties have no objection about the result of this duel, as the supervisor of this bet and the warrantor of the performance of this contract, Golden Roc Bank officially declares that Peter Hamplester and Ice and Snow Wilderness have become the winner of this duel. After that, Golden Roc Bank will continue to perform its duties and supervise both parties to fulfill the contract." Guan Xiyi then smiled at Zhang Tie, "Congratulations, Peter Hamplester, from now on, you will be the richest person in the entire north water of Waii Sub-continent. After deducting 0.5% of the 270 million gold coins that you won as the service charge, Golden Roc Bank will transfer the rest of money into your personal account. You can withdraw them from any branch of Golden Roc Bank on any continent. We can arrange a professional financial management team to serve you in the administration and use of such huge amount of money."
After hearing this, everyone on the airboat remembered that Peter Hamplester had taken his Tribal Axis Railway as a mortgage for this bet. Through this duel, Peter Hamplester still held the Tribal Axis Railway; besides, he made an additional enormous amount of money...
"Thanks!"
Soon after Zhang Tie's words, the mace muling of Sacred Light School noticed that Elder Turin and Elder Gouras threw malicious glances at him. Therefore, he instantly flew out of the airboat as fast as a meteor...
'You want to escape? No way!' Zhang Tie's eyes turned cold as he followed the mace muling out...
Chapter 749: Killing the Mace Muling
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Elder Turin and Elder Gouras also flew out of the airboat closely after Zhang Tie.
It seemed that mace muling had mastered a secret method to fly at a high speed. In a split second, he had reached 400-500 m away. Average knights could barely catch up with him; unfortunately, he encountered Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie had been noticing his movement. Therefore, the moment the mace muling moved had Zhang Tie moved as fast as him.
Holding the sword in his hand, Zhang Tie closely chased after that mace muling of Sacred Light School while his sword qi rushed to the sky and grew fiercer. When he narrowed the distance to less than 100 m, Zhang Tie wove his longsword while a sharp sword qi turned into dozens of sharp sword-shaped qi and flew towards the back of that mace muling, which directly blocked many directions around that person.
After feeling the power sword qi behind him, the mace muling had to change his direction. However, in such a split second, he was caught up by Zhang Tie, who had long prepared for that moment.
Zhang Tie directly accelerated and started the adventurous and cruel close combat while his longsword radiated the strong brilliance.
That mace muling of Sacred Light School greatly changed his face as he had not imagined that Zhang Tie could attack him so ferociously. For knights, the close combat was like a bayonet-charge. It was completely a match on strength, speed, defensive power, the power of battle qi, striking distance, perception and knight's consciousness on battle elements such as the relative relation between space and time. If any party made a mistake, he would explode into pieces.
"Would Ice and Snow Wilderness fight Sacred Light Empire?" That mace muling shrieked with a solemn look when he responded to Zhang Tie's ferocious attack.
If his opponent was not Zhang Tie, that mace muling might be able to escape away; however, in front of Zhang Tie, who cultivated King Roc Sutra, he lost his advantage in speed.
After finding that Zhang Tie was not moving slower than him, that mace muling completely changed his face.
"What you've done in Ice and Snow Wilderness is no different than seeking for a war. Do you think that you can access to Ice and Snow Wilderness freely? From today on, the entire north waters will be the tomb of blasphemers like you!" Zhang Tie scolded as he kept releasing sword qi towards the mace muling.
At this moment, Elder Turin and Elder Gouras arrived. They didn't join the battle; instead, they just kept their eyes on Zhang Tie and the mace muling. When the two knights started the battle, the airboat had already retreated over 1 mile away. Gongsun Liniang was watching this battle without blinking her eyes above the airboat.
The words between Zhang Tie and that mace muling were transmitted to the airboat clearly.
"Attention, please. Golden Roc Bank will not interfere with the disputes between Ice and Snow Wilderness and Sacred Light Empire. Those who want to interfere with this dispute, please leave the airboat" Guan Xiyi glanced around and said faintly.
After hearing this, all those at present swore inside, 'Leave the airboat? What the f*ck! The airboat is still in the air. Besides knights, who else could be able to leave it? All the knights are staying outside the airboat.'
However, more than 99% of those at present had witnessed a battle between knights before.
Compared to the duel between two fleets, the fight between two knights was more intriguing.
Commoners could not see clearly the battle process in the distance. They could only sense two illuminating objects colliding with each other ferociously in the distance. When the two illuminating objects crashed, powerful, sharp sword qi and battle qi flew in all directions, all of those flying towards the airboat was blocked away by the female knight.
'What the hell! How could the aftermath of the battle reach beyond 1 mile?'
Everyone in the airboat was shocked by such a battle.
The heads of bear tribes across Ice and Snow Wilderness and the representatives of major clans across Ewentra Archipelago were all fascinated by such a battle, 'Compared to steel and steam, this is the real top strength in this age.'
Watching the battle in the distance, Guan Xiyi's eyes flickered. Nobody knew what he was thinking about.
After experiencing the "life or death" duel with the demon knight, Zhang Tie had completely consolidated his knight's realm. Additionally, during this period, Zhang Tie didn't stop his cultivation. Although having not formed his earth chakra yet, Zhang Tie's cultivation base still improved a bit.
The mace muling was powerful. At least in Zhang Tie's knight's consciousness, this mace muling was a bit more powerful than Jaray, the No. 1 knight of Raymlan Empire. Zhang Tie made his conclusion from this mace muling's speed and responding ability in the air.
However, he was still unable to defeat Zhang Tie as Zhang Tie's strength was also in speed and responding ability. By contrast, that demon knight, who had been killed by Zhang Tie, was more powerful and robust.
Perhaps having been used to the dignified and tricky life, this mace muling lacked rudeness a bit.
Rudeness could only be formed on the battlefield at the cost of countless blood and lives. It was the coagulation of arrogance, confidence, killing qi, fierce and powerful battle force.
All the knights were powerful. However, Zhang Tie felt that the most important spiritual quality of knights should be rudeness instead of power.
In others' eyes, Zhang Tie was very rude. Besides his powerful and sharp swordsmanship, Zhang Tie could attack his opponent through each part of his body. Sometimes, he could collide with others at a high speed...
Through constant collisions, the mace muling's battle qi gradually grew thinner and tumbled-down...
However, Zhang Tie's killing intent remained unchanged...
At the same time, the mace muling's face turned grimmer.
...
Seeing Zhang Tie slashing his longsword towards him, the mace muling of Sacred Light School suddenly clasped the blade using his hands at the risk of wounds as he shot his eye light towards Zhang Tie and roared, "Go die..."...
At the sight of this, Elder Turin and Elder Gouras changed their faces at the same time.
Right then, Zhang Tie felt something rushing into his mind and targeting at his mind sea. However, it was blocked by that shield incarnated by his god's rune "Fixing Soul" and disappeared immediately, leaving a bell ring reverberating in his mind.
Zhang Tie became shocked, 'Spiritual attack?'
Zhang Tie didn't stop his movement. He continued to push forward his longsword and stabbed it into mace muling's body after breaking through the remaining protective battle qi.
"You..." The mace muling widely opened his eyes which seemed to say that he didn't believe that Zhang Tie was not influenced by his spiritual attack.
'No way, no way!' If he could, he really wanted to ask Zhang Tie about the reason...
However, Zhang Tie didn't spare any chance to him. He drew out the longsword and chopped off his head right away with a sparkling light...
Zhang Tie caught his head by another hand while the headless corpse of the mace muling dropped off. When it reached about 1,000 m above the sea level, a huge tentacle broke out of the water and rolled it into the bottomless mouth...
After that, the legendary marine lord, the pet of Poseidon raised his huge eyes and looked up into the sky. Closely after that, he slowly sank to the bottom and disappeared in the vision of the public.
WIth the mace muling's head in his hand, Zhang tie flew back to the airboat.
Watching Zhang Tie kill a knight of Sacred Light Empire within half an hour in front of the public, all the representatives of Ewentra Archipelago looked at Zhang Tie with an indescribable look, which contained too many things such as awe, shock, fear, excitement, worship, etc..
"Bang!" Zhang Tie threw that head with open eyes onto the ground, which rolled towards the feet of the heads of mountain bear tribe, black bear tribe and demon bear tribe.
The three guys were on the side of the representatives of Ewentra Archipelago. However, when the representatives of Ewentra Archipelago pledged to be loyal to Zhang Tie, the three guys became isolated like dirt instantly. They just stood in the airboat in an embarrassed way. Even though they wanted to leave, they couldn't do it.
At this moment, watching the head in a brilliant fish-head hat rolling to the side of their feet, the three heads felt weak all over. They even had no ability to resist if Peter wanted to kill them.
"We..." The head of mountain bear tribe finally squeezed out a word.
However, Zhang Tie wove his hand to stop him.
"In front of the tomb outside Eschyle City where over 1.3 million Slavs are buried in. I've said that I will not have Slavs chop Slavs. Therefore, I will not kill you. After the airboat lands, you can leave for free. However, from today on, you [three tribes] are not allowed to be crowned with the name of bear tribes. Because you've betrayed the entire Ice and Snow Wilderness and all the Slavs instead of me. You are not qualified to use the totem and symbol of Ice and Snow Wilderness and Slavs as the name of your tribe..."
Under the disgusting gazes of other tribes' heads and retinues of Ice and Snow Wilderness, the three heads of bear tribes quivered...
Chapter 750: If I Come
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
On October 12th, after having a crazy day in Saint Herner City, Zhang Tie and 1,000 people of Ice and Snow Wilderness boarded the airboat of Golden Roc Bank and passed through the demon north wind belt of Oro Strait, targeting for Eschyle City.
On that day, although it felt a bit cold, the entire Eschyle City held a carnival. All the residents of this city came out of their homes. Even the neighboring tribes and foreign immigrants poured into Eschyle City as they wanted to witness the dignified lord of Ice and Snow Wilderness.
Since the result of the duel was transferred back, the entire Eschyle City had been boiling up. Peter Hamplester's reputation reached a new high.
Exterminating Demon Snake Island, having Poseidon's pet appear in the duel water, cleaning the fleet of Rainard Clan in a split second, conquering Ewentra Archipelago and chopping the mace muling of Sacred Light Empire, all the above were major events in the north waters and were extremely mysterious and legendary. Through mouth-to-mouth talk, it evolved into many versions. No matter which version it was, Peter Hamplester was always resplendent. In some versions, Peter Hamplester almost became the incarnation of God; especially the process of the appearance of the intriguing huge deep-sea monster was regarded as a sacred symbol and an indisputable god's manifestation.
After 5 years, when Zhang Tie reappeared in Ice and Snow Wilderness at this moment, his dignity and influence had reached a new high and shocked the entire north waters.
Although Zhang Tie's airboat had not arrived, this didn't weaken the onlookers' passion. Additionally, besides witnessing Zhang Tie, they also wanted to take a look at the legendary aircraft from Eastern Continent which passed through the devil north wind belt.
...
"It's time to establish a country!" Guan Xiyi told Zhang Tie as he pointed at the territory of Ice and Snow Wilderness and Ewentra Archipelago in front of a huge map in a room of the airboat, "The land area of Ice and Snow Wilderness covers more than 20 million sq mile; plus 10 million sq mile of water in Ewentra Archipelago, as long as you decide to establish a country, your country will cover 30 million sq mile which contains both water and land. Oro Strait will become the inland sea of your country. In a long period after Waii Sub-continent collapses, this territory will become the key tunnel that connects Eastern Continent and Western Continent. The value of Ice and Snow Wilderness will also stand out. Additionally, this territory can be a key base for humans to pin down demons on Waii Sub-continent! Based on the current situation, the relation between Ewentra Archipelago and Ice and Snow Wilderness has to be unified and administered by an alliance, administration or nation so as to make everything official."
It was a secret talk between Guan Xiyi and Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie had already joined Gold Power Law of Taixia Country and become an invisible gold CEO of Gold Power Law in Waii Sub-continent. Therefore, Guan Xiyi, as a visible CEO, became Zhang Tie's only contact person.
After joining God Power Law, Zhang Tie had to pass a period of probation, after which, Gold Power Law would open more secrets and resources to Zhang Tie. After joining this organization, the higher one's position was, the more one would know, the more resources one would be able to use and the more power one would have in the organization. In the words of Guan Xiyi, if one reached the level of mountain head, that person would have a great influence in position and energy in Taixia Country, not to mention Gold Power Law. If one wanted to reach higher levels, besides comprehensive strength, his contribution to Gold Power Law would also be referred to. There were always many confidential organizational agendas in Gold Power Law, which determined many people and powers' life or death, rise or fall. Those who were able to push these agendas would gain according to contribution values. When one's contribution values reached a certain degree and other hard conditions were satisfied, that person's level in Gold Power Law would be raised.
Watching that huge map behind Guan Xiyi, Zhang Tie faintly nodded to Guan Xiyi's analysis. 'It's indeed the right moment for Ice and Snow Wilderness to establish a country. Elder Turin and Elder Gouras have implied it to me for many times these days. The heads of the wild bear tribe, fire bear tribe and sea bear tribe also implied almost the same thing to me. I have to integrate the power between Ice and Snow Wilderness and Ewentra Archipelago so as to have my followers being confident to face the increasingly more severe situation. The trouble and crisis caused by the mace muling of Sacred Light School in Ice and Snow Wilderness is the best warning. If Ice and Snow Wilderness was already a nation, the mace muling of Sacred Light School would not bring such a shock to the tribes across Ice and Snow Wilderness, even if he was a knight. Because Ice and Snow Wilderness is not unified, that jerk found chances to make troubles in Ice and Snow Wilderness and Ewentra Archipelago. '
The nation was a barrier and fortress towards foreign forces and a set of stable profit distribution and guarantee system inwards.
'The current situation is as follows: outwards, Ice and Snow Wilderness faces the growing fierce battle flames across Blackhot Humans Corridor; inwards, Ice and Snow Wilderness faces the new development opportunities and the increasingly larger cake of interests due to the Tribal Axis Railway, a lot of immigrants and the improved survival conditions of Ice and Snow Wilderness. As a result, Ice and Snow Wilderness reaches a key cross.'
All the clans' heads and elders in Ice and Snow Wilderness had figured this out.
"This time, my most important target is to integrate the strength between Ice and Snow Wilderness and Ewentra Archipelago!" Zhang Tie admitted frankly.
Zhang Tie didn't mention establishing a nation. It was acceptable for a knight to establish a nation though, actually, many nations across Blackson Humans Corridor didn't have knights at all. However, Zhang Tie didn't have such an ambition to establish a nation. So many people's belief in him became a heavy responsibility for Zhang Tie, which drove him to do something. When what he wanted to do became difficult, he might encounter powerful opponents at any time. Therefore, he had to handle them with tricks. This stimulated him to grow mature.
Zhang Tie didn't have the ambition to establish a nation; however, the reality forced him to display a great ambition. Because if he didn't have such an ambition, it was equal to sparing chances to other ambitious guys. Actually, many times, when you learned to do what you didn't want to do, you were growing mature.
Every time he came to Ice and Snow Wilderness, Zhang Tie felt that he would grow mature a lot.
After hearing Zhang Tie's words, Guan Xiyi burst out into laughter, "I'm always curious that those major clans of Ewentra Archipelago actually have other solutions to deal with this conflict. However, it seems that their proposal of betting on the duel seems to be especially prepared for you. Through this bet on the duel, you could not only handle the problems facing Ewentra Archipelago instantly at the minimal price, but also handle the crisis facing Ice and Snow Wilderness at the minimal price when you put the Tribal Axis Railway as the mortgage. If this is a trick, it's really perfect. You alone have played it so well. How terrifying you are, young man!"
"Ho...ho...perhaps this is the so-called coincidence!" Zhang Tie put it off.
Actually, whether it's in Eastern Continent or Western Continent, there are some secret methods that could influence others' minds without being discovered. They could influence someone to do something in the unconsciousness according to the will of the caster..." Guan Xiyi explained faintly.
Zhang Tie was shocked; however, he still pretended to be innocent, "Ahh, is there such a secret method?"
"Affection Fascinating Valley, Bloody Soul Temple, Dream Stealing Sect, all of these marvelous sects from Eastern Continent have such secret methods!"
"Ahh, If I come to Eastern Continent, I will definitely pay a visit to the three sects for such secret methods. How amazing they are!"
Guan Xiyi revealed a benign smile...
Zhang Tie also replied with a smile...
The topic then came to an end. The two people had a privity.
Since the beginning, Guan Xiyi didn't ask Zhang Tie how he could control that terrifying huge deep-sea monster. Neither did Zhang Tie explain it to him. Each person had his own secrets, especially knights.
At this moment, a faint knock drifted from outside. Xu Tao's voice sounded outside the backroom, "We're arriving at Eschyle City!"
Before the two people walked out of this room, Guan Xiyi told Zhang Tie, "If you want to establish a nation, the three bear tribes will be a trouble. If you did not handle them properly, you might have a big trouble later on!"
Zhang Tie smiled, "When I step into Eschyle City, the three bear tribes will not be any trouble anymore; instead, they will be guilty!"
Guan Xiyi faintly frowned as he didn't know how Zhang Tie could be so confident.
...
After a few minutes, under the cheers and gazes of numerous people in Eschyle City, the airboat of Golden Roc Bank slowly landed on a large-scale airport outside Eschyle City.
When the cabin was put down, Zhang Tie appeared outside the hatch door firstly.
At the sight of Zhang Tie, the entire city burst out ground-breaking exclamations.
After waving towards them, Zhang Tie walked downwards along the gangway...
When Zhang Tie's feet touched the ground of Ice and Snow Wilderness once again, all the golden sea-buckthorn trees in the periphery of the entire airport, on the roadsides and in the wild of Eschyle City put forth blossoms at the same time ahead of the flowering phase...
The entire Eschyle City was like a dreamland in a split second...
The loud cheers and uproar slowly stopped while everyone was shocked by what they saw.
The followers of Ancient God School outside the airport, especially the earliest followers of Zhang Tie had burst out into tears due to extreme excitement. At the sight of Zhang Tie, all of them felt the real God descending as they all knelt down piously...
Someone started to recite the contents in "Book of Eternity". Gradually, the sound could be heard all over the Eschyle City as loud as thunderbolt...
"The God says, I stand among you in the face of a commoner. I am a member of you. The divinity is also in your hearts and in everything else!"
"The God says, I will not manifest my dignity in terms of my throne. However, if I come, you will see it for sure. Because that's a marvel. Even grasses and woods will know it..."
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Almost at the same time, all the golden sea-buckthorn trees' petals withered within the territory of the demon bear tribe, mountain bear tribe and black bear tribe in Ice an Snow Wilderness...
Chapter 751: The Power of Belief
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
On October 13th, only after less than 1 day in Eschyle City, Zhang Tie had already left for Gozdari Plain in the north once again along with all the representatives of Ewentra Archipelago and the heads, elders of all the bear tribes and priests of hierons of Ice and Snow Wilderness.
It could be said that all the big figures in the north waters of Blackson Humans Corridor were sitting in this exclusive luxury train.
Those who guarded this train on both sides were the cavalry regiment——Thor's Hammer, the most powerful force in Ice and Snow Wilderness. As the train set off, more than 7,000 strong xiphodons also started to move, causing a ground-breaking sound.
At this moment, even without the protection of Thor's Hammer, no force across Blackson Humans Corridor dared find this train any trouble. Because almost 6 knights from Ice and Snow Wilderness were on this train, which could scare anyone else.
After getting on the train, Zhang Tie relaxed himself in the luxury carriage after leaving the most important question to those clan heads, knights, priests of Ice and Snow Wilderness and those representatives of Ewentra Archipelago——How to establish the nation.
Zhang Tie clarified two principles about establishing the nation.
First, he would fulfill his promise to the major clans on Ewentra Archipelago. After establishing the nation, Ewentra Archipelago would have an autonomous parliament. The basic rights of major clans and the commercial prosperity and vitality on Ewentra Archipelago would be guaranteed.
Second, Ancient God Church would be the national religion of the new country and the largest religion in the north waters of Blackson Humans Corridor. The new country would unify the state and the religion.
After posing the above two principles, Zhang Tie left the other questions to those people such as the garrison, taxation on Ewentra Archipelago, the adjustment of the trade relationship between Ewentra Archipelago and Ice and Snow Wilderness, the integration of the battle forces of both parties, the guarantee of the interests of all the tribes on Ice and Snow Wilderness and the manifestation of the rights of clan heads and elders in the new country...
As long as those people being involved with these topics reached their agreement, Zhang Tie would accept their consensus.
Everybody was clear that Zhang Tie had made a great sacrifice and concession to the reunification of the Slav tribes in Ice and Snow Wilderness. In the eyes of all the Slavs, this was a great, brilliant decision. As for the two principles that Zhang Tie had posed, they were actually almost the established facts.
After the train set off for less than 5 minutes, even though it was a few carriages away, Zhang Tie could still hear the old wild bear roaring, "If all the bear tribes divide their own territory clearly, who will manage those small and medium-sized tribes on their territory?"
"Small and medium-sized tribes should have the right to free migration. They would be under the control of that bear tribe whose territory they entered!" Elder Rodolfo replied.
"If so, your iron bear tribe will have a great benefit. Because of the existence of the Tribal Axis Railway, most of the small and medium-sized tribes will choose to settle down near the railway. In this way, your power will expand greatly. By contrast, no small and medium-sized tribe would like to settle down in our sea bear tribe as we even lack food. If you have the right to manage those small and medium-sized tribes within your territory, we will be lagged far away by you in the future!" The head of Sea Bear Tribe protested.
"Iron bear tribe always develops fast due to many reasons; instead of our right to manage small and medium-sized tribes. Even five fingers on a palm have different lengths, when do the tribes have the same strength?"
"Can we make a compromise? Fox and leopard tribes are not allowed to migrate without the consent of bear tribes whose territory they are in. Wolf, eagle and rat tribes have the freedom to migrate!" The head of fire bear tribe opened his mouth.
"This would cause a big chaos. As fox and leopard tribes are free in Ice an Snow Wilderness, bear tribes have no right to manage fox and leopard tribes. We cannot forbid them to migrate freely!"
"What else? Do we need to spare a territory for each tribe starting from rat tribes?"
"I disagree!" Elder Rodolfo protested, "Iron bear tribe has so many small and medium-sized tribes in its territory, what else do we have if each small and medium-sized tribe has one territory? As we all need to submit the same exit fee when we leave Eschyle City, why do we have different territories?"
"Don't distinguish territory then?" The head of fire bear tribe murmured.
"Without clear division of territory, how do our bear tribes protect our rights?" Some elders instantly protested.
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In another carriage...
"Ms. Olina, through the negotiation of the major clans in Ewentra Archipelago, we decided to select you as the speaker of the autonomous parliament in Ewentra Archipelago. Please take our advice!"
"Yes, this position is very suitable for you, Ms. Olina!"
"Only when Ms. Olina takes this position will it be the largest guarantee for the interests of Ewentra Archipelago!"
Closely after that were the praises in unison...
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Zhang Tie revealed a bitter smile as he shook his head. Compared to the party of Ewentra Archipelago, the party of Ice and Snow Wilderness was in a chaos, which made Zhang Tie puzzled.
'Forget it, let them go and quarrel, as long as they could reach the conclusion.'
After putting his powerful knight's consciousness from all the carriages, Zhang Tie started to appreciate the scenery on both sides of the railway.
In each a few meters, a tall and strong fighter stood on both sides of the railway.
Compared to 5 years ago, Ice and Snow Wilderness had changed a lot.
Zhang Tie saw towns and villages and smoking plants on both sides of the railway after leaving Eschyle City. Many villages had roads while more vehicles were running on the road in the wild. It was prosperous everywhere, which could not be seen several years ago.
Watching the train passing by, many people waved their hands towards the train. Many of them knelt down on both sides of the railway and prayed piously.
Zhang Tie even saw the emblem of Ancient God Church on the roofs of the churches in those villages and towns.
Actually, Zhang Tie didn't know the emblem of Ancient God Church until yesterday. However, each time he saw it, Zhang Tie would look strange; because the emblem of Ancient God Church was square outside and round inside compared to the emblems of other religions such as a cross. It looked like a copper coin in ancient Hua times. However, an ancient copper coin was round outside and square inside.
The emblem of Ancient God Church originated from the big stony tanks being used to store water when Zhang Tie manifested the God's will in the underground ruins. At first sight, it was absolutely the vertical view of a big stony tank. However, as an emblem of Ancient God Church, it was also granted with a sacred religious meaning like a cross.
——The round shape symbolizes each one's complete divinity while the square shape symbolizes that the divinity is indestructible. Additionally, the four corners of the square symbolizes the four sacred, brave deeds recorded in the "Book of Eternity", namely, one's sacred deed to himself; one's sacred deed to others; one's sacred deed to all the creatures in the world and one's sacred deed to the mother nature and the universe. The first sacred deed refers that one could completely abandon all the evil things; the second sacred deed indicates the perfection of righteousness; the third sacred deed implies the perfection of affection while the fourth sacred deed means the perfection of intelligence.
Even though the "Book of Eternity" was expressed by Zhang Tie orally, Zhang Tie was still dumbfounded by that pattern and its meaning. All this was "discovered" by his followers, who believed that everything that Zhang Tie did in the underground ruins contained fantastic meaning, including the 7 tanks being used to hold water. After their careful study around the clock, they finally "deciphered" the sacred code hidden in the big tanks. They were driven ecstatic like having discovered the truth.
As to why there were 7 big tanks instead of 6 or 8 or other numbers, in the eyes of the followers of Ancient God Church, this also contained a sacred meaning. Everyone believed that Zhang Tie was actually telling everybody else that the ancient god created everything——because all the lives of pregnancy cycle were integral multiple of 7; for instance, mice's pregnancy cycle was 3 multiple of 7; rabbit's pregnancy cycle was 4 multiple of 7; cat's pregnancy cycle was 8 multiple of 7; dog's pregnancy cycle was 9 multiple of 7; lion's pregnancy cycle was 14 multiple of 7; human's pregnancy cycle was 40 multiple of 7. Humans had 7 holes on their face; ladybug had 7 spots on their back...
The ancient god created sound; therefore, music was composed of 7 musical notes...
The ancient god created colors; therefore rainbow had 7 colors...
The ancient god created everything; therefore, the periodic table of elements took 7 as a cycle...
After returning to Ice and Snow Wilderness this time, Zhang Tie sensed the terrible strength of that religious seed that he had sowed for the first time...
Chapter 752: Better Men
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
After hearing the knocks from the door of the carriage, Zhang Tie moved his eyes away from the roof of a church in the distance.
Before any person came in, given the footsteps, Zhang Tie knew whom they were.
"Come in!" Zhang Tie said calmly.
Waajid, Zhang Tie's bodyguard, also a bear-killing fighter of the huge bear tribe, pushed open the door and took some guys in.
"Lord, I've brought them here!"
"Hmm, you can leave now!"
After receiving Zhang Tie's order, Waajid threw a glance at those guys as he seemed to warn them to be polite, before moving back quietly. After that, he closed the door.
Zhang Tie was familiar with those guys, those condemned criminals who were sent to Selnes Theater of Operations as cannon fodder——Hillman the old dog, Michelle the warehouse keeper, Figo the vet, Dinar the manager and Da Vinci, the broker of the slave trade in Stars Viewing City of Huaiyuan Prefecture.
Zhang Tie saved these guys in Selnes Theater of Operations and took them to Huaiyuan Prefecture and told them to execute a task with Da Vinci——buy a steamer ticket for those poor slaves and transport all of them to Ice and Snow Wilderness.
Over the past two years, they had been doing this. With the coordination of Spencer Clan, they had already transported more than 200,000 slaves to Ice and Snow Wilderness. Furthermore, they established 3 towns outside Eschyle City to hold those slaves.
After 2 years, all of these guys had changed. Hillman the old dog looked like a real businessman of a major clan; Michelle the warehouse keeper looked a bit more shrewd; Figo the vet looked as tender as a real doctor; Dinar the manager looked a bit merciful while Da Vinci the broker in the slave trade in Stars Viewing City looked fat.
They all wore wholly new elegant clothes. When they entered the carriage, after knowing that Peter Hamplester was going to meet them, they all looked a bit restraint and scared. After all, there was such a great gap between them and Peter Hamplester in status. Peter Hamplester was the Lord of Ice and Snow Wilderness. They had heard about the legends of this person on the first day they came to Ice and Snow Wilderness. By contrast, they were just small figures who worked with slaves. In their eyes, even the steward of Spencer Clan was a big figure, not to mention Peter Hamplester.
They wondered how Peter Hamplester knew their names and why would Peter Hamplester want to meet them.
At the sight of Zhang Tie, these guys were all shocked as they found that this Peter looked similar to Zhang Tie.
When the others still looked unbelievable, Hillman, who responded it firstly lowered his head and dared not see Zhang Tie's face any longer. The others also discovered something as they lowered their heads too. Da Vinci immediately changed his face. In a split second, his forehead had been covered with fine sweat beads.
They all understood what outcome they would face if small figures like them discovered something that they shouldn't have known.
"Take a seat..." Zhang Tie said kindly as he pointed at the two rows of luxury sofa inside the carriage.
After hearing Zhang Tie's raw voice, these guys' hearts palpitated at once. Hillman the old dog's lowered his head while Da Vinci almost fell down.
"You..." Figo the vet became stammered while being kicked slightly by Dinar on his side. He then hurriedly shut up.
Sitting on the sofa in a restraint way, they all looked strange which contained both shock and fear. They dared never see Zhang Tie's face.
"I'm very satisfied with what you've done these couple of years!" Zhang Tie opened his mouth.
Although Zhang Tie was sitting still inside the carriage, his battle qi had already penetrated through the walls and deck and covered all the sounds and shocks inside the carriage. This was a usage of battle qi which could only be mastered by knights, also a practical skill being used to prevent eavesdropping during conversations.
After hearing Zhang Tie's words, these guys didn't know what to say. Only Hillman the old dog sighed as he raised his head once again, "Your Excellency, we've not lived up to your expectation; perhaps this is the only thing we feel a bit proud of!"
"I heard you've changed a lot!"
"Actually, during the past two years, many people said we changed many slaves' lives; truthfully, we were changed by slaves!" Hillman watched Zhang Tie as he said, "Michelle married a girl who lost all of her family members in the war. He's now a police sergeant of a police station. He has become a father this year. Figo became a real vet; he teaches many students how to cure diseases for livestock and how to survive in Ice and Snow Wilderness. Dinar invented a senior papermaking technology with twigs and leaves of sea-buckthorn trees. He's now a boss of a factory with over 3,000 employees. In some harbor cities in the south of Blackson Humans Corridor, the name Da Vinci has become many slaves' hope to shake off pains!"
"What about you?"
After thinking for a second, Hillman replied, "Previously, my only target was to make money; however, now I find that there're many other things that one desires for. When you walk in a small town, if all the residents that you see smiles towards you, appreciates and respects you, trusts you and watches you with their sparkling eyes, shakes your hands with warm, exciting and quivering hands, you will also change. Although it's good to have money; it's even better to be appreciated and respected by others!"
Zhang Tie knew that Hillman's words were true. When they took those slaves to Ice and Snow Wilderness by ship, they were actually changed by those slaves. These condemned criminals who were destined to be cannon fodder on the battlefield seemed to find back their lives as they entered another stage of life.
After Michelle, the former thief lord, became the police sergeant of a police station, all the thieves disappeared from the town. The security of the town almost became the model of Ice and Snow Wilderness. Figo the pervert reaper had become the most respectful vet in the places neighboring Eschyle City. Besides those slave students, many small and medium-sized tribes and villages dispatched young men to learn vet skills from him. Dinar, who survived on making and selling fake certificates and documents had also put his talent in the right place. The senior paper that he made with golden sea-buckthorn twigs and leaves were exported to Ewentra Archipelago and became the best printing paper for high-end commercial documents. Da Vinci founded two primary schools in those slave towns. Hillman the old dog who had almost made Cross Star Commercial Bank go bankrupt became the key person in the overall plan of slave redemption.
The redemption of those slaves and those righteous deeds made every one of them strive to be a better person.
Actually, anyone could become a better person as long as he wished to change.
Zhang Tie was very pleasant as he witnessed these people's change. Although these guys' quick development was out of Zhang Tie's imagination, they were doing something meaningful to the final analysis.
"Hmm, we have no vet school in Ice and Snow Wilderness, Figo, do you wish to be the headmaster of the first vet school in Ice and Snow Wilderness?" Zhang Tie asked which shocked everyone else at present.
Figo raised his head immediately with an unbelievable look, "You won't kill us?"
"Killing is not the reward for those who are loyal to me! Additionally, you did pretty well, why would I kill you?" Zhang Tie blinked his eyes.
"Because..." Figo became silent at once.
"Because I look similar to someone that you know?" Zhang Tie smiled, "Do you think that one who took you out of Selnes Theater of Operations is that cruel and terrifying?'
'How could small figures still survive themselves after knowing this secret?' Hillman looked at Zhang Tie with a surprised expression.
"Perhaps, when you walk out of this carriage, you will forget about that secret completely!" Zhang Tie's voice became faintly penetrative.
Even senior hypnotism could help people forget about some specific memory, not to mention secret methods such as "Soul Forbidden Skill".
"Do...do I continue to do that?" Da Vinci stammered.
"Yes, you can. You can expand it but in a different way. You may have a better effect if you do this on behalf of the government!"
"On behalf of the government?" Da Vinci watched Zhang Tie with a dubious look.
"For instance, you can do that as a deputy director general of National Immigration Affairs Bureau!"
After hearing this, Da Vinci became thrilled as his face blushed at once.
Zhang Tie then moved his eyes on Dinar, "I was told that your paper has a good market. You can expand the production scale and employ more people. If you could have some more inventions, I would consider to grant you with the patent right!"
Dinar also became thrilled.
"What about me?" Michelle asked in a bashful way.
"Don't you think it's the greatest undertaking for a man to be a good father and a good husband?' Zhang Tie watched Michelle.
Michelle's face blushed at once.
"But if you had too many babies and could not feed them in the future with your salary, I have a position for you which has a high payment. You can consider it!"
"What position?"
"Senior security advisor of the police station of Eschyle City. This title allows you to feed more than 20 babies!"
"Ahh..." Michelle also became thrilled as his lips quivered. He didn't know what to say while his eyes became watery.
Zhang Tie looked at Hillman, "I have many things to deal with in Ice and Snow Wilderness. I need a steward now..."
Hillman instantly stood up as he bowed towards Zhang Tie deeply by putting his right hand on his left chest, which was both elegant and noble, "Your Majesty, it's my greatest honor to win your favor."
'Your Majesty?' After hearing this appellation, the others just watched Hillman with a dumbfounded look. Only Zhang Tie burst out into laughter, "What a cunning old dog! You really have a sharp observation..."
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When they left the carriage, besides Hillman, all the others felt that something had disappeared from their mind. However, they couldn't remember what had disappeared. They were all very excited about having met Peter and longing for their bright future...
Hillman felt a bit strange; because since they left the carriage, given their tones and looks, all the others seemed to forget some things when they talked about Peter...
A sound appeared in Hillman's ears at this moment, "As my steward, you can know a bit more than the others. You will have a broader vision and become clearer about your own instance. Never let me down!"
Hillman's heart pounded as he bowed deeply towards the carriage once again...