I Don't Agree to the Terms

Wang Qi knew it wasn't that his own Hades' Bloodstained Serpent was inferior to the opponent's Heavenly King-class mecha, it was because the Heavenly King was inherently faster, plus the Bloodstained Serpent was massive and cumbersome.

Clang—

The attack from the Heavenly King didn't land on the Island Alliance's stronghold, but was blocked by an invisible barrier.

"Here it comes, it's the 'Main Text of History' from the Sea King," Wang Qi blurted out.

"Where is it?" Yu Ju didn't see the so-called Sea King.

"Since it's called Sea King, of course it's in the sea. We're on the mainland, how can we see it? But we can be sure it's a secret base that continuously moves along the Grand Line. After this is over, I'll take you to see it." Wang Qi actually didn't know what was going on either.

However, after the Sea King's arrival, the power of the Hades instantly tripled.

The three ancient weapons were designed to complement each other, constituting a strategic-level world protection system. If Wang Qi also controlled the Heavenly King, there wouldn't be a need for the Sea King to come; Hades' power would be at its peak. Due to the absence, to obtain similar amplification, they had to be within a certain distance.

The power of the Bloodstained Serpent became increasingly terrifying. It directly wrapped around the mecha transformed from the Heavenly King, completely disregarding the injuries it emitted.

Then, a large number of flames came from all directions.

"These are attacks released by the Sea King, called 'Truth on the Sword's Edge,'" Wang Qi explained.

After that, Yu Ju finally understood what these flames were: they were missiles of various types.

"No wonder it's called 'Main Text of History'. If it goes for a clean sweep, everything in the past would indeed become history," Yu Ju quipped.

From this perspective, the Sea King must be a marine base, possessing a complete upstream and downstream weapons production technology line.

"Yes, how else could it be called a strategic-level world protection? It's just unknown what the situation with the Heavenly King is." Wang Qi checked the situation with the Sea King, knowing it wasn't a simple sea base but a genuine marine intelligent life form. It had transformed the Five Elements Sect's vessel into its main body and continuously affected the entire ocean through the Grand Line, engaging in undersea mining, production, evolution, and so on.

If it weren't for the final authority of the Sea King being in his hands, it would've directly triggered an intelligence crisis.

Boom—

The Heavenly King burst into flames, but the power wasn't as great as Wang Qi and the others had imagined; it was somewhat small, didn't break defense, and was even less impressive than the protective shield they provided just now.

"Is that all?" Yu Ju had thought the Heavenly King would be blasted to pieces, but nothing happened.

"The power is normal," Wang Qi understood instantly why: the Sea King had only just emerged and hadn't had time to develop. These missiles were hastily collected, or else there would be no ammunition reserves.

The Sea King required time to develop, unlike the Hades, which was born with high combat power. In terms of potential, the Sea King far surpassed Hades. After all, the Red Earth Continent was limited and had already defined Hades' development.

Unlike the Sea King, given enough resources and time, it would eventually dominate the entire ocean.

The Red Earth Continent was vast, but not as vast as the ocean.

"Normal?" Yu Ju first puzzled over this, but then he immediately realized, "I understand."

He wasn't foolish; he understood that the Sea King needed time to grow.

"Damn it, we can't keep entangled like this," Cai Jian, who controlled the combat between the Heavenly King and the Bloodstained Serpent, also realized he made a tactical error. He didn't expect the Island Alliance to possess strength nearly equal to his own.

Moreover, they had suppressed him from the start.

So now his first thought was to break free from the Bloodstained Serpent and then warp away.

He saw clearly that as long as he didn't provoke the Island Alliance and stayed away from the Red Earth Continent, then the Island Alliance couldn't threaten him.

After all, the Bloodstained Serpent was the Red Earth Continent itself, its area of operation already restricted.

First, find a place to become a king and make it ancestral, then plan slowly.

Otherwise, with his own power, he could basically forget about defeating the Island Alliance.

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On the contrary, as long as he managed to break free from the clutches of the Cursed Snake, there was no need to worry about being caught, given the Heavenly King's mobility.

As for performing a spatial jump at the moment, he certainly wanted to, but the Heavenly King simply couldn't do it; the Cursed Snake's restraint on the Heavenly King wasn't merely physical, it had even blocked spatial jumping.

Even if he attempted to jump forcefully, it was very likely that he would take the entire Cursed Snake with him. What would be the point then? He'd just be taking a beating somewhere else.

There was actually another way—that was to self-destruct the Heavenly King and subsequently teleport himself away, which would allow him to escape with his life.

But he couldn't bear to do it—without the Heavenly King's protection, the curse on his body would go straight for his life.

Although he had gained considerable power from this curse, it had also become his limitation. Once he left the Heavenly King, the unprotected him would surely face a dire fate.

Being able to escape didn't guarantee survival.

"In that case, don't blame me for being ruthless," Cai Jian decided to take a desperate stand, directly pushing the Heavenly King's energy output to the maximum.

"Activate Thunder Mode!"

Following the order, massive thunderbolts appeared around the Heavenly King, creating a powerful repulsion field with electromagnetism at its core.

The repulsion field naturally pushed the Cursed Snake, which was twined around the Heavenly King, away, creating a significant gap.

Unfortunately, the Heavenly King's displayed parameters were still incapable of initiating a spatial jump, but that didn't matter to Cai Jian; he didn't have such expectations.

"Full speed ahead!"

The Heavenly King started emitting creaking noises and a considerable amount of black mist appeared, indicating clearly that it was operating on overload.

Seeing the extensive damage that appeared, Cai Jian felt painfully distressed; he had been too arrogant and had ended up harming his own reliance to this extent.

The subsequent repairs would be extremely arduous, because there was no repair manual on the Heavenly King; it could only slowly recover using its own regenerative abilities, which would be an incredibly long process.

As he made his escape, a barrage of missiles attempted to intercept him, but under the electromagnetic shield formed in Thunder Mode, these missiles couldn't penetrate the defense and became duds.

"Not good, he's getting away," Yu Ju couldn't help exclaiming when he saw this.

He hadn't expected that despite being cornered, the other could still manage to break free.

The Cursed Snake was nowhere near as fast as the Heavenly King, and the attacks formed by the available military forces couldn't even serve to delay.

If they found no way to deal with it, they could only watch helplessly as the enemy got away, and that would complicate things.

While the historians couldn't threaten the Heavenly King, the Cursed Snake could, but judging from its performance just now, because it lacked the Heavenly King, it couldn't leave the Red Earth Continent or use its full power.

If the opponent really got away, then they could forget about getting their hands on the remaining one-third of the ancient weapon Heavenly King.

So, Yu Ju was in a panic.

"Don't worry, he won't get far," Wang Qi knew what Yu Ju was thinking; the main issue was the lack of means. With the world protection system missing a piece, the ancient weapons couldn't exhibit their full strength, and there was nothing he could do.

He could only control the Cursed Snake, suppress it, and try his utmost to reduce the Heavenly King to a non-combat state.

Cold light radiated from the snake's eyes within the Cursed Snake, and then it ignited blood-colored flames, turning into a streak of firelight that charged directly forward.

Caught completely off guard, the Heavenly King was struck by the abruptly accelerating blood flame and was utterly torn apart.

But the Cursed Snake didn't fare much better; it was reduced to powder. However, the Heavenly King's cockpit transformed into a stream of light and flew away, not left behind.

"The Cursed Snake is dead. It needs a year to resurrect. Retrieve the Heavenly King as soon as possible, and then the Cursed Snake can be fearless of death," Wang Qi said as he watched the retreating stream of light.

Without the Heavenly King, the world protection system's Hades indeed needed time to resurrect, and it wasn't a short period.

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