Chapter 704: Two Strange Men
"Who… who are you?"
A ship slave who was in his thirties asked with a shaky voice. This man was a bit dirty and chubby. His right lower leg was missing below his knee, and a metal peg leg replaced it.
Even though this ship slave was not weak and was a Six-Star Warrior, all his warrior energy got locked down after Fei pressed his body with a finger.
Fei's golden energy blocked all his energy channels. It didn't matter how hard this man tried to break free; it was no use.
Beside this man, there lied another man who was muscular and tall. His long black hair was tied into braids, and he had a red bandana on his head. There were two dark circles around his eyes, making him look like a panda. Even though he wasn't moving, his eyes were rolling around, making him look very cunning.
This man's strength was even higher than the man with the peg leg, and he was at peak Six-Star.
Fei ignored both of them.
Under Old Aryang's instruction, he quickly got to a corner at the control station that looked ordinary.
Whoosh!
Fei's spirit energy rushed out and enveloped the area.
After about one minute, the king exhaled deeply and shut down a small magic array that was about the size of a palm and flashing red light.
Then, he lightly lifted the cover on the magic array with his finger, revealing a mystic white stone that was about the size of half a palm.
There were many thin hair-like magic pathings engraved onto this piece of white stone, and blood-like red flames were flashing through the engravings.
"No!" Old Aryang was surprised to see this. He shouted, "Someone already activated this Xuan'ge's self-detonation array formation…"
Every single Xuan'ge that the Ormond Empire constructed had self-detonation devices planted in them, and it was designed this way so that the Xuan'ge would never get captured by the enemies. After all, the materials used and the creation process were all core secrets of the Ormond Empire, and they couldn't let their enemies understand and replicate Xuan'ge.
"Hahahaha, you bunch of dirty natives want to get control of this Xuan'ge? In your dreams!" A low-level commander who was knocked down by Fei saw this, and he laughed crazily, "How could the great Ormond Empire dominate the continent if our enemies could get their hands on the Xuan'ge this easily? Don't even bother trying! Dirty natives, you are all going to die with this Xuan'ge!"
What he said angered and terrified the ship slaves as well, and they all panicked; even that ship slave who had dark circles around his eyes got anxious. However, it didn't matter how hard they tried to break free; it was useless. Fei's strength was too much for them.
In comparison, the few commanders of Ormond knew that they couldn't survive through this, and they looked fanatic. It felt like they were proud to die with the Xuan'ge.
The elite soldiers and commanders of a level 7 empire sure were brave and fearless.
Fei didn't say anything more. He closed his eyes and sent out his spirit energy again.
His spirit energy condensed into thin strands like hair in silence, and they slowly merged into the thin magic pathings of that self-detonation array which were engraved onto the white stone.
Having studied all kinds of magic array knowledge with Akara and Cain for about a year and read [Demon King's Sword], which was the cultivation encyclopedia of the Mythical Era, Fei was already a grandmaster when it came to the understanding of magic knowledge and combat techniques. Even though the barbarians didn't excel in magic, Fei was the only exception.
In addition to that, the king's spirit energy was unparalleled after he trained using the methods on that mysterious purple scroll, and he knew many mysterious spirit energy techniques.
As long as there was enough time, it wasn't hard for Fei to decrypt and break the self-detonation magic array in front of him.
After ten seconds, the commanders of Ormond's eyes widened as they couldn't believe what they were seeing; the blood-red magic energy flames that were flashing on that mystic white stone gradually died down.
"This is impossible!" Those commanders of Ormond murmured as their faces paled.
"Thank G.o.d! Hahaha! Thank G.o.d! We will live on…" That man with the peg leg and that man with the dark circles around his eyes both laughed loudly with sweat on their foreheads, and they looked filthy.
Now, Fei finally had time to observe this control station of the Xuan'ge carefully.
This room was about 100 square meters big, and all kinds of magic pathings were engraved onto the walls.
Fei glanced at them and instantly understood their functions. Some of them were meant to strengthen the walls, some of them were designed to transfer energy, and some were used to pa.s.s commands. On the east side of the control station, there was a magic screen that was about five meters wide and two meters tall, looking like a LED panel. From the control station, people were able to see what was happening around the Xuan'ge clearly. Fei was quite surprised by this.
Except for the magic arrays, there were some magic mechanisms and devices that had to be powered by specific kinds of magic crystals, and there were also some ordinary mechanisms that had lights flashing on them.
Since ironwood had properties similar to metal, its effect was utilized to an extreme. The smooth walls and floors looked like they were cast from alloy, making the entire control station look very clean yet high-tech.
Suddenly, the control station shook violently at this moment.
In the next second, almost everyone on the Xuan'ge could feel that the entire barge was shaking and swaying like a drunk man walking.
Through the magic screen, Fei could see that the huge Xuan'ge was crashing toward the ground.
Old Aryang was terrified.
He quickly rushed to the control panel below the screen, took out various colored magic crystals from a chest that had magic arrays engraved around it, and switched out the magic crystals that were currently placed in the various mechanism and devices.
Green energy flames started to appear around the Xuan'ge.
Even though the descending speed was slowed, the Xuan'ge still couldn't stay in the air.
"Your Majesty, this is no use! We must come up with another way! This Xuan'ge is huge and can be the center of a Xuan'ge fleet, and it requires at least 100 people to operate all the mechanisms for it to travel in the sky smoothly. Right now, almost all the operators of Ormond were killed by these ship slaves who suddenly rebelled. Without enough operators, I can't control this Xuan'ge alone! It will crash sooner or later!" Old Aryang said to Fei in all seriousness.
"Hey, Kid! Let us go! We know how to operate this barge! Real talk! Otherwise, we wouldn't dare to kill all these Ormond dogs…" That ship slave with dark circles around his eyes and a red bandana on his head shouted, and he voice sounded a bit sissy, not fitting his tough appearance. Beside him, the ship slave with the peg leg also chimed in with his deep voice.
The two of them coordinated well and complimented what each other was saying.
Fei only glanced at the man with the dark eyes around his eyes, and he knew that the latter was up to no good.
[TL Note: Knowing the Author, what do you guys think of these two ship slave leaders?]
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