Light Fortress-Chapter 1416 - 182: Authority Error

"Kill them!"

"Stop the beast tide! Stop the beast tide!"

In the high skies above the Beiku Forest, desperate shouts rang out.

The North Continent Army was advancing steadily, setting up camp and grouping into formations while exploring the dense woods of the Sangzhou Cave in batches... As for the Storm Church stationed by the Holy City, Lu Zhe and the Wild Dog couldn’t be bothered to deal with them.

No external help was needed; the North Continent could handle all troubles on its own!

However, this sudden beast tide of "A+ level" intensity was beyond everyone’s expectations...

The Wild Dog was responsible for guarding the Beiku City District, while Mu Wanqiu and Lu Zhe were in charge of this exploratory mission.

Dozens of small source energy boats soared among the trees, evading the first wave of the beast tide’s onslaught before opening fire.

Lu Zhe floated above the desolate woods, a lone iron fortress.

The formidable strength of a Fourth-Order Transcendent was vividly demonstrated in this battle where high strikes low.

Lu Zhe spread his hands about a meter apart.

As his palms formed seals, an invisible wall of space "unfolded" in the desolate woods... This space wall bore a resemblance to the poison miasma Gu Shen had previously set up.

Those extraordinary beast spirits, once they touched the barrier, would be sliced and their carcasses sent flying!

However... as strong as Lu Zhe was, he was still only one person!

These beast spirits did not fear "death" at all!

They pressed forward relentlessly, heading in the direction of the Tanyao Volcano... Initially, the North Continent Army’s firepower suppression was effective, but as the beast tide massively awakened, during the brief intervals between reloading, these beast spirits had already broken out of the source energy boats’ encirclement!

Lu Zhe grimly turned his head to look back.

The Storm Church, which was advancing behind the North Continent troops, was utterly motionless at the moment!

"Where’s the support?!"

He lowered his voice and angrily shouted at several North Continent elites behind him.

But the next moment, a cold, harsh response came from the beast tide’s front line.

"Leave it to me."

Mu Wanqiu had just awakened from her spiritual meeting.

When the beast tide erupted, she had found a relatively safe place in the deep forest to hide and completed her conversation with the "Netherworld King" Gu Shen.

She clearly saw the crisis facing the North Continent at this moment.

If the beast tide crossed the northern line, it would soon impact the Beiku City District. The Strong Logic Material had just been delivered, and the city’s walls were yet to be rebuilt. In such a situation, confronting a beast tide would directly shatter Beiku!

She immediately got up and rushed toward the Storm Church’s source energy boat—

...

...

"Lord Rannos, are we still not taking action?"

A respectful voice sounded inside the Storm Church’s source energy boat.

The Holy City Archbishop liaising with the North Continent Army was a blond, blue-eyed man from the Central Continent. Outside was a fierce battle, yet he remained undisturbed, sitting comfortably, maintaining a posture hunched over a desk, squinting his eyes, adjusting the magnification of a microscope, and intently studying the tissues of the extraordinary beast spirits hunted this time.

He waved his hand, signaling his subordinates to retreat and not disturb him.

To him, what was happening outside was unimportant—

Even if the Tanyao Volcano erupted and Sangzhou Cave was destroyed, he wouldn’t care.

He only needed to obey the orders of the Jiadi Saint.

Jiadi had not issued any orders.

He remained motionless.

"Rannos!"

A sharp voice penetrated the Red Silver Protective Shield of the source energy boat.

The Archbishop frowned, looking out the window.

A slim and slender figure in fifth-order red Source Armor hovered 800 meters above the ground, at the same altitude as the Storm Church’s boat. The figure’s posture was strikingly magnificent, slender and graceful. However, from her expression, she seemed hostile.

Her sword-like eyebrows arched, and her phoenix eyes filled with hostility.

Mu Wanqiu placed her hands on her battle sword and said, "Beiku is under attack, the beast tide is upon us... have the Church’s Transcendents go down and fight! Right now!"

"Sorry, you have no authority to order me."

Rannos looked coldly at Mu Wanqiu.

"I only follow the will of ’Lord Jiadi,’ and so far, no orders have come from the Holy City."

In fact... this was a very perfunctory excuse.

The Sangzhou Cave was filled with floating mountain ash.

The internal communication system of the Deep Sea had been frequently malfunctioning recently.

This kind of excuse was a perfect opportunity to watch the "North Continent" make fools of themselves, especially since the other day, when the Holy City’s Transcendents landed in Sangzhou Cave... Rannos hadn’t even entered the gates of Beiku City District!

"Are you doing this on purpose?"

Mu Wanqiu squinted her eyes, furious but smiling, "Do you think I won’t dare to act against you?"

"..." 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Rannos also smiled, but he said nothing.

Clearly... this was intentional.

He didn’t think the North Continent wouldn’t dare to act against him.

It was just that at this critical juncture, there was no need to create additional trouble.

The North Continent had Lu Zhe, a Fourth-Order Transcendent, which was impressive... but behind him, there was also a Fourth-Order Transcendent, the Jiadi Saint!

"If you want the Church to act, it’s possible..."

Rannos said blandly, "The North Continent needs to apologize for what they did the other day..."

After all, he was a Fourth-Order Archbishop, and when he brought reinforcements the other day, they were shut out and had to sleep in the wild. What an absurd humiliation was that?

Honestly, in the Southern Continent, who would dare treat him with such an attitude?

Now, it was his turn to set the conditions!

"Apologize?"

Mu Wanqiu was silent for a second, frowning as she looked at this Archbishop, "Are you serious?"

"...Of course."

Rannos’s tone was unwavering.

So... the source armor woman floating in the air, and the old-fashioned source energy boat produced twenty years ago, fell into nearly ten seconds of silence.