Chapter 597: You’ve Been Captured
After a brief period of mindless screaming, these two women seemed to have understood their situation and gradually calmed down.
Then one of the women, claiming to be the ‘Li Yuan District’ Empress ‘Chengdi’, demanded Yashan and Feng Cheng to escort her back to the Mage Headquarters ‘Peace Castle’ in Xingji City within a day. In return, they would be absolved of their ignorance, otherwise death was inevitable.
The other woman also corroborated that ‘Chengdi’ was telling the truth.
To Feng Cheng’s surprise, they had indeed brought back an emperor. He thought their previous words were just a playful game.
However, whether or not she was an emperor was irrelevant to Feng Cheng; he was more concerned about what this ‘Natural Disaster Cannon’ he had heard of actually was.
But despite persistent questioning, ‘Chengdi’ refused to disclose anything and denied the existence of such a ‘Natural Disaster Cannon’.
So, Feng Cheng handed ‘Chengdi’ over to Zhi Peng for a chat. Soon, ‘Chengdi’ became a good friend of Zhi Peng, talking openly and candidly.
In just over two hours, Zhi Peng obtained information about the ‘Natural Disaster Cannon’ from ‘Chengdi’.
Zhi Peng looked incredulous: “The Eighteen Empire actually has a weapon capable of destroying a city?”
Feng Cheng nonchalantly replied: “It’s only destroying a city, nothing extraordinary. Achieving this with Source Pearls isn’t difficult.”
Zhi Peng’s face turned ugly: “But they intend to use such a weapon to destroy a city, annihilating everything in the city, including the citizens living there!”
Feng Cheng smiled lightly and said, “Zhi Peng, it’s a waste that you’ve been the leader of the Radiant Society for so long, yet you know nothing about war. Don’t look at your opponents with that ‘kindness’ in your eyes. What’s the harm in destroying a few cities to eliminate the enemy?”
Zhi Peng felt a sense of strangeness in Feng Cheng’s gaze and suddenly felt chilled all over.
He couldn’t understand why these people treated life so lightly. That was a city where more than a hundred thousand people lived!
Seeing him silent, Feng Cheng continued, “Now that you understand the enemy’s methods, what do you plan to do?”
Zhi Peng replied, “I plan to stop them before the Eighteen Imperial Empire completes the Tianzai Cannon.”
“Oh? And how do you plan to stop them? By destroying the Tianzai Cannon they’re making, or by overthrowing the rule of the entire Eighteen Imperial Empire?” Feng Cheng asked.
Zhi Peng couldn’t answer because he couldn’t do either.
At that moment, Yashan appeared and, upon understanding the situation, said with a smile, “Isn’t it simple?”
Zhi Peng was shocked, “H-how… how?”
…
For Yashan, who acted without any reservations, solving this problem was indeed simple.
If they could capture an emperor and turn him into Zhi Peng’s friend, it meant they could capture more emperors and turn them all into Zhi Peng’s friends, solving many issues easily.
The key was that, according to the Emperor Cheng, currently, all seventeen emperors of the Empire were gathered in Xinji City and periodically held meetings at the ‘absolute safe’ Magician Headquarters, the ‘Ning Fortress.’
Wouldn’t it be easy to capture them all when they were in a meeting?
And also bring back the ‘Magician and’ as well.
As long as they succeeded, everything else would be simple.
After finalizing the plan, Yashan and Feng Cheng placed tracking coordinates on Emperor Cheng and returned her.
From the time Emperor Cheng was brought back until she was sent back, it took a total of five hours.
In just those five short hours, the Zaiyue Immortal Palace almost turned upside down.
At the moment Emperor Cheng disappeared, her guards who were protecting her sensed her disappearance. After hesitating for a while, knocking and receiving no response, they immediately broke in to search. Chaos quickly ensued.
With the entire Zaiyue Immortal Palace searching, how could they find her?
Just as the guards were contemplating how to escape punishment and save their lives, their queen miraculously reappeared in the same room where she had disappeared from.
Guards: “???”
What puzzled the guards the most was that their queen claimed that she had never left the room, and after the commotion, she fell asleep hugging a girl and had just woken up.
Could this be a sign of a strange disaster?
Various strange events happened worldwide, so the ‘Queen Missing Incident,’ though a bit extreme, was not entirely unbelievable.
But who could have thought that a queen, who had just been taken away for interrogation moments ago, would reappear miraculously and have traveled who knows how far?
However, as long as the queen was safe, no one else would be harmed.
A false alarm.
…
A month later, the Eighteen Imperial Empire meeting was held as scheduled at the ‘Ning Fortress.’
Many male emperors teasingly said to Emperor Cheng with a mysterious smile, “I heard that Emperor Cheng went to the Zaiyue Immortal Palace some time ago. What a great interest!”
“Yes! Emperor Cheng is so elegant, why didn’t you tell us? We could have gone together and all the expenses would have been on my account. Hehehe!”
They all knew about the Zaiyue Immortal Palace. During their time in Xinji City, they had visited there quite often. Little did they know that the seemingly aloof and beautiful Emperor Cheng also had a liking for it.
In their minds, since everyone enjoyed it, why not pair up directly…
All are emperors, no one is lacking.
Emperor still appeared cold and unmoved, ignoring the jokes of others and not mentioning their own experiences.
She cannot betray her friends!
Seeing her lack of response, others lost interest and stopped talking, instead chatting with familiar emperors, complaining about the strange things in various districts.
Soon the mage also arrived, formally entering the topic.
After opening a field with the mage, they no longer spoke, instead closing their eyes to rest, allowing the emperors to negotiate the use of the ‘disaster cannon’ among themselves.
Specifically, there were ten ‘disaster cannons’ made, and the question was who would use these ten cannons.
Because everyone was worried that something jointly created would become the private property of the other after being given away.
After much argument, there was no result, and the emperors all secretly cursed, “If only we had made eighteen instead! Who was the idiot who suggested making ten in the first place?”
However, soon they didn’t need to argue about this matter anymore.
Because after they started their discussion, Yashan on a distant overseas island received exact news.
Yashan smiled, used the positioning stone provided by Feng Cheng, and was directly teleported to Xingji City.
This place was a closed warehouse, where Feng Cheng had been waiting for a long time. Seeing Yashan, he said with joy, “Boss Yashan, this is Xingji City, feels good, right? After we finish the main task, I’ll take you to the Zhumusic Immortal Palace, guarantee you’ll be amazed.”
Yashan said, “I’m not good at handling these women, you can play by yourself!”
With that, his divine consciousness swept out, quickly locking onto the location of the meeting.
As the largest city in the world, Xingji City, the headquarters of the Mage Association, definitely had very strong defense forces, he dared not underestimate them.
He said, “Feng Cheng, start carving the ‘Source Vector Inhibitor’ now, cover the entire Xingji City area. After I capture everyone, we can release them.”
Feng Cheng said, “Alright!”
He transformed into a 【Life Forger】, and then rune armor surged under his feet, slowly carving a huge runic disk, followed by the infusion of spiritual power.
The disk flashed with white light before returning to normal.
Yashan knew the ‘inhibitor’ had been successfully activated, he tested his own source power and found he couldn’t use it anymore, saying, “Keep it up, don’t relax, otherwise I won’t know what will happen.”
Feng Cheng said, “Boss Yashan, rest assured, can I even fool you?”
Yashan closed his eyes slightly, locked onto the conference hall of the Eighteen Empires, and disappeared.
…
Just as Feng Cheng’s inhibitor was activated, the ‘Mage’ in the conference hall suddenly opened his eyes vigorously and stood up.
The seventeen emperors who were present were surprised, stopped their quarrel, and looked at the Mage, puzzled.
The Mage rubbed his eyes in front of him, and his somewhat old face showed unpredictable emotions.
When had they ever seen such an expression on the Mage’s face?
Most of the seventeen emperors were source mages. After calming down, they quickly noticed something was wrong: their abilities couldn’t be used anymore!
They immediately realized why the Mage was in such a panic: the Mage’s abilities couldn’t be used either!
How… was this possible?
Moreover, this means of inhibiting source abilities was very familiar.
It was said that because of this method, their hundred thousand mage army was wiped out in an instant…
After realizing this, they couldn’t sit still, they all stood up, looking towards the Mage at the head of the table, but out of habit, no one mentioned that their abilities had failed.
These series of actions left the few emperors who weren’t source mages confused.
What had happened?
Just as the emperors were somewhat at a loss, a tall figure clad in crystal armor suddenly appeared in the conference room, standing in the center of the round table, smashing the eagle figurine placed on the table.
“You, have been captured!”
