Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1834: Chapter 961: Tyrant (Part 3)

They flew toward the aerial fortress from all directions like tiny moths plunging toward the towering black island in the sky.

They did not hesitate to damage their nuclear power cabins and engines beyond repair, ramming into the aerial fortress without reservation.

However, the Black Water Ship had been fully prepared, without any decrease in altitude.

If the Duke of Blackwater triumphantly descended to City 18, if he lowered the Black Water Air Fortress below three thousand meters, these civilian airships might have really been able to escort the warships to the front of the Black Water Ship.

But, there are not so many ’ifs’ in this world.

The 72 main firepower guns of the Black Water Air Fortress swiftly slid on their tracks, launching electromagnetic cannons one after the other.

Alloy bullets pierced through one civilian airship after another, shattering the once solid and dense wall within ten minutes, revealing the military airships behind it.

Inside the military airships, the generals of the Li Family were each commanding their own warships.

They watched as one civilian airship after another completed its mission, falling toward the ground.

The people inside were not soldiers but volunteers from the Central Plains.

Their mission was to send Li’s soldiers on their way at the cost of an airship and their lives.

A general said softly, "Success or failure depends on this battle. I’ll go down with you later..."

Inside the airship.

"Power cabin temperature warning!"

"Engine temperature warning!"

"We’ve entered attack range. Should we launch missiles?"

"Fire!"

Nearly two hundred military airships fired simultaneously, using up all their ammunition without hesitation.

At the same time, Li’s soldiers could still see the airships around them falling one by one.

When nearly a thousand missiles flew toward the Black Water Ship, an astonishing scene unfolded: protective armor panels beneath the Black Water Ship suddenly opened, and over ten thousand interception missiles as thick as arms shot out with white smoke, creating a white net in the sky.

The missiles launched by the Li Family’s military airships were all intercepted.

The Duke of Blackwater sneered, "Do you see the gap now? Your airships are utterly useless against our new aerial fortress. Never mind airships, even if your aerial fortress arrived, it would be pointless. According to our calculations, you’d need at least two aerial fortresses to take one of ours down."

Li Yunshou remained silent.

The Li Family soldiers below the Black Water Air Fortress were all in despair; they stared blankly as their missiles were turned into fireworks, not a single one hitting the body of the Black Water Ship!

"What do we do now?" an adjutant asked inside the airship.

The general laughed and cursed, "What else can we do, damn it? We can’t escape now anyway. No one is allowed to retreat, keep charging up, no deserters allowed, don’t disgrace the Li Family! Those civilian airships escorted us here; we can’t retreat now, this is the altitude they paid for with their lives! Charge!"

Inside the Black Water Air Fortress, everyone watched the holographic projection, watching those Li’s airships launch another charge, even if they had no ammunition they would still fly up to meet their deaths.

The Duke of Blackwater sneered, "A meaningless sacrifice."

"It has meaning," Li Yunshou suddenly said.

The Duke of Blackwater turned to look at him, squinting slightly, "I originally thought you would become my faithful servant, that you would care about the 31,922 lives of the Li Family, whether they became slaves, but now I realize you don’t care at all."

With that, the Duke of Blackwater pulled over a Li Family woman, and put his hand inside her clothes: "Have you decided to let the entire Li Family become slaves?"

Li Yunshou calmly watched the holographic projection, seeing one Li’s airship after another continue their charge toward the sky, the billowing black smoke from them like a warrior’s waving battle flag.

They charged, and then fell when hit.

Li Yunshou thought for a moment and said, "I actually didn’t want to be the family head. If my seventh brother hadn’t taken the quota back then, I might have wanted to be a knight more. In fact, the Li Family is descended from Knight Li Yingyun, so I corrected you earlier, never underestimate a knight."

Li Yunshou bowed slightly to the Li Family woman: "I’m sorry, it’s my incompetence. As the family head, I failed to protect the Li Family. If the old man were here, he would have done better."

The Duke of Blackwater stared at Li Yunshou, trying to decipher something from him.

Li Yunshou looked at him with neither humility nor arrogance: "For thousands of years, countless people have come to this land, attempting to conquer it, defeat it. We have indeed been conquered, defeated, but ultimately it is always us standing here. I’m not trying to be arrogant, just telling you, you might enslave this place for a while, but eventually someone will drive you out, or kill you all."

The Duke of Blackwater sneered, "Just you?"

Li Yunshou shook his head calmly, "Not me."

The Li Family women gradually stopped crying, they didn’t know the truth of the situation, so their tears and curses at Li Yunshou were genuine.

And Li Yunshou endured it all, never said a word.

But now, they suddenly realized that things might not be as they thought, that the backbone of this family head was still straight.