MMORPG: War God, You are Invincible Again
Chapter 403 - 158 Rescue

Chapter 403: Chapter 158 Rescue

Xie Zhongxing was very curious. Initially, he could only mobilize a few people for him, but when he heard the title of Baron Yitian, why did their attitude change so drastically, casually allocating thirty thousand people to him?

Even Konstantin might not know the answer to that question. Although a philosopher is a high-ranking member of the Black Guards and should be loyal to the emperor, fundamentally speaking, the Black Guards were not created by Konstantin himself, but rather he took over halfway through their formation.

The person who had built the Black Guards from scratch was none other than the mother of Tukuru, Funie, and Konstantin’s sister, whom he ordered the Black Guards to find, was actually hiding under the protection of the Black Guards. Funie was still secretly in control of the Black Guards’ power.

It was in the Endless Forest that the philosopher received orders from Funie to swear allegiance to Lu Hong.

Therefore, between Konstantin and Lu Hong, the philosopher had no choice but to lean towards Lu Hong.

As the imperial army advanced deeper into the marine realm, the marine creatures discovered their movements and hastily mobilized a three hundred thousand strong army to intercept them.

The marine creatures labeled the imperial army as a weary force and did not take it seriously. In reality, the mercenaries who came to support were in full combat strength and didn’t even give the imperial army a chance, driving back these marine creatures.

Having repelled the first wave of marine creatures, the Black Guards found a larger island. Xie Zhongxing made a decisive decision to occupy the island and use it as a base from which to spread out and gather intelligence on the marine creatures.

As for Lu Hong’s situation, it wasn’t so good. Despite hiding in the seabed mud, they were still being discovered by the enemy in the marine creatures’ carpet-style sweep.

Relying on Yan Xinghe and Bai Baiwan fighting all the way, they had managed to escape from encirclement eighteen times so far. The four of them were already seriously injured by the Naga Queen, and their condition was even worse now.

"Do you need to pull out the knife that’s stuck in your chest?" Lu Hong kindly reminded.

"Shut up!" Bai Baiwan snapped in frustration. "If it weren’t for your insistence on barging into the marine realm alone, would I have suffered like this?"

"Don’t worry, support is on the way," Lu Hong sighed. He hadn’t anticipated that the Naga Queen would shamelessly make a move on him.

"Support? Where?" Bai Baiwan asked with a serious look: "Apart from the Naga, I don’t see anyone else."

The nineteenth encirclement arrived as they spoke, with tens of thousands of Naga coming from all directions. Yan Xinghe reignited his weapon, but the flame seemed very dim, indicating his magic power might be insufficient.

Nightingale was also in a bad state. As an assassin, she was at a disadvantage in this kind of head-on battle. Despite having the strength of the Third Transition Late Stage, there was virtually nowhere for her to escape on the vast sea, and her skills in concealment were greatly compromised. She was only just managing to contend with the Third Transition Middle Stage Naga.

Among the attacking Naga, there were at least twenty powerful beings with the Third Transition fluctuations, and among them was surprisingly Heitu.

"You must be the humans her majesty the Queen orders to kill at all costs," Heitu half-emerged from the sea: "With how half-dead you all look, I really don’t understand what makes you worth changing our strategy for."

"Hehe, if it weren’t for your queen injuring me, believe it or not, I could wipe you out in minutes," Lu Hong looked down on Heitu with disdain while secretly gathering strength. If Caesar didn’t arrive in time, he needed to prepare to fight to the death.

"Just you? Worthy of her majesty the Queen’s personal intervention?" Heitu clearly didn’t believe him: "Take them down!"

As the imperial army entered the marine realm, Heitu didn’t have time to waste here and immediately issued the attack command.

In an instant, Water Element surged over the sea, turning into dozens of massive waves, assaulting the four.

"Eat my blade!" Yan Xinghe revved up all his magic power, and his combat saber erupted with intense flames, slashing fiercely onto the giant wave.

Sizzle—just a plume of white smoke rose up.

Damn it! Yan Xinghe cursed silently; this huge wave was clearly a combined attack by the Naga, containing an enormous amount of magic power. If he were at his peak, he might be able to break through. Now, he could only watch in silence.

As they fell into despair, a sharp sword descended from the sky, touching the water surface and immediately stirring up a dazzling ripple. The giant waves stimulated by the Naga were rolled back under the interference of the ripples.

Heitu was shocked, picking up his spear and pressing down hard: "Hold them!"

Exhausting all his strength, he had barely managed to suppress the backlash of the skill, saving the surrounding Nagas.

Seeing the Holy Emperor Sword, Lu Hong heaved a sigh of relief and calmed his blood and qi, "If you had been any later, you might have had to collect my corpse."

"You’re lucky, kid. Even if I hadn’t come, you could have probably bounced back to Jinrui City alive and kicking." Caesar descended from the sky, landing beside Lu Hong, "How was the harvest this time?"

"It’s all been reported to you, I only killed less than a hundred thousand of the sea tribe, didn’t hit their core." Lu Hong curled his lips, he had been in contact with Caesar through the token along the way, and here he was asking again.

Caesar surveyed the surroundings. It seemed the Naga Queen hadn’t come, "What a pity."

"You... you’re Caesar?!" Gazing at the man who’d suddenly burst in, Heichi showed terror. This man’s figure was etched into his memory, for he had defeated the nearly invincible queen.

Caesar glanced at him indifferently, "Scram!"

Without saying another word, Heichi dove headfirst into the sea floor, moving as quickly as possible, fearing if he was a step slower, he would be slain by the sword.

"Hey, why didn’t you kill them?" Lu Hong said discontentedly, "There are many in the sea tribe; we should kill as many as we can."

"I’m afraid of displeasing the Sea God." Caesar had taken the risk to venture deep into the sea territory, knowing that the Sea God had shown his hand outside Jinrui City. If he were to act unbridled against the sea tribe in these waters, and by chance anger this Heavenly God, Caesar doubted he’d leave alive.

"I’ve told you, the Sea God definitely won’t attack actively." Lu Hong said incredulously, "Why don’t you believe it?"

"I believe in a ghost you say. You bring the Sea God here and let him promise me in person, then I will believe."

Lu Hong had assured Caesar that, bound by the covenant of the gods, the Sea God would not lay hands to exterminate any being from the God Realm downwards. But Caesar always brought up the last time the Sea God protected the Naga Queen.

"I’ll tell you one more time, the Sea God cannot attack, but he can exploit loopholes to provide protection. If he wishes to protect someone, then you just avoid them. Isn’t that simple?"

"But what if he continuously protects the Naga Queen?" This was Caesar’s gravest concern.

Pressed to the point, Lu Hong found it difficult to answer. In the game, the Sea God was described as never appearing nor doing anything that would affect divine grace. However, in reality, there seemed to be a deviation during the battle at Jinrui City. As to whether the Sea God would continue protecting the Naga Queen, nobody could tell.

"Shall we try killing first?"

Caesar laughed at Lu Hong’s words, "Do you think Demigod fighters are cabbages, to be killed whenever you want?"

"Then what?" Lu Hong chuckled.

Caesar fell silent for a moment, then nodded, "Let’s do it your way, let’s try killing first!"

Yan Xinghe and Bai Baiwan, who had never seen Caesar before, had heard of this super-strong mercenary on the mainland. As Lu Hong conversed with him, these two mercenary chiefs didn’t dare breathe too loudly. The content of their conversation sent shivers down their spines—casually talking about killing the Naga Queen and involving Heavenly Gods, it was frightening!

"I’ll escort you to Xie Zhongxing first." Caesar flicked his Space Ring, and a small vessel over ten meters long crashed into the sea.

"Wow, such a treasure, give it to me!" Lu Hong eyed the magic warship, "This is the perfect tool for sailing in the ocean. Where did you get this?"

Caesar gave Lu Hong a disgruntled look, "I built it myself. Don’t even think about it. I plan to hand it over to Konstantin to see if the empire can mass-produce them. Then the empire wouldn’t have to worry about naval operations in the sea territories."

"I support you." Lu Hong had asked for the warship for this very reason. Since they were thinking along the same lines, there was no need to say more.

"Come on board." Caesar was the first to board the warship, and introduced it to Lu Hong, "This is a magical tool I was inspired to build after I went to the mercenary continent, drawing upon the Array Patterns from the Imperial Sword. Though it’s small, its speed in the ocean outmatches most of the sea tribe, and probably even a Third Transition Early Stage strongman. Plus, it’s extremely sturdy and can withstand a full-blown strike from a Third Transition Early Stage powerhouse."

The Empire did have a fleet, but those warships were useless in war, unable to defend against a sea tribe onslaught. They were better off not deployed at all.