Chapter 917: Chapter 691: Stupid Orders
Long Yi spent a significant amount of time reading, locking himself in his room for an entire month. Yet during this month, an event occurred that shocked the entire plane.
In a corner of this plane, a resource-rich planet was discovered, also suitable for human habitation. There were relics left by the Giants, indicating it must have been a planet created by the Giants but abandoned before it was ever utilized.
The Sanctuary Empire and The Divine Auffa Empire both declared they had discovered this planet first, announcing indisputable sovereignty over it.
As a result, a series of conflicts erupted between the advance teams that both sides had dispatched to the planet. The Divine Auffa Empire immediately sent a three hundred Seven-Star Mage squadron from nearby planets to the scene, detaining the entire advance team of the Sanctuary Empire. Not to be outdone, the Sanctuary Empire then sent a one-thousand-strong Divine Armor unit, which slaughtered all three hundred mages.
Emperor Saint Jialin of The Divine Auffa Empire, furious, assembled an emergency attack force of ten thousand Seven-Star Mages to the planet, followed by the Sanctuary Empire dispatching two thousand of their Divine Armor troops. Astonishingly, the combined three thousand Divine Armor troops managed to hold off the ten thousand Seven-Star Mages!
Because not only did the Divine Armor troops have the strength of Seven-Star Mages, but when they stood together, they could trigger a Magic Resonance. Magic cast under the influence of this Resonance was endlessly amplified in power!
Against such odds, ten thousand were completely held off by three thousand!
When Long Yi left his room, he happened to see Emperor Saint Danze smoking with rage. After hearing the whole story, he had only one thing to say, "Are you an idiot?"
Saint Danze, as the Emperor, had never been called an idiot before. However, at this point, even Saint Danze knew that his decision had indeed been wrong.
Saint Danze walked towards the Imperial Palace with Long Yi, who kept talking non-stop along the way.
"Are you still a child? Rushing to show off a nice thing at the first chance? Only three thousand sets of Divine Armor were ever made, and you’ve dispatched them all? Look where it’s gotten you, trapped by ten thousand enemies. Now tell me, what will you use to save them? Don’t look at me, I am not helping you. I can save you once, but am I supposed to save you a million times? How can you be so stupid? What if they throw their remaining hundred and forty thousand Seven-Star warriors in your face? Want your Sanctuary Empire then?"
The face of Saint Danze burned, and Long Yi’s words were without fault. Danze had considered these things, but the confidence the Divine Armor gave him had clouded his judgment, leading to hastily issued orders.
Truth be told, the achievement of three thousand Divine Armor soldiers holding off ten thousand Seven-Star Mages was something to boast about. However, The Divine Auffa Empire had a hundred and fifty thousand warriors of that caliber!
"Mr. Long Yi! You must save me! I’ll do whatever you say! I promise there won’t be a next time!" Saint Danze was completely throwing away his pride.
"Mr. Saint Danze, you are the Emperor of this Empire, your Empire. Whether there is a next time or not, how is that my concern? Even if your Empire falls, it’s none of my business, right? I believe there are plenty of Emperors willing to listen to me."
"Please! Mr. Long Yi! If you don’t save me, this time I’m truly done for! If I’m done for, it’s not just my loss. It also means Miss Ailin has won..."
Saint Danze hadn’t finished his sentence when Long Yi’s big hand clamped onto his face, hoisting him up with one hand. Saint Danze felt his face was about to be crushed by Long Yi. The guards around him shouted and hollered but did not dare to take a step forward.
"You still dare to mention Ailin! Everything was proceeding according to my plan, until you, this fool, suddenly caused this mess! If it really came to that, I would destroy your Empire first, rather than let it fall into her hands!"
At this moment, Saint Danze was terrified, believing that Long Yi would keep his word. However, Long Yi then put him down.
"Listen, I’ll help you this time. But if there is a next time, you don’t need anyone else to take you down, you’re finished! Do you understand?" Long Yi’s voice was low and deadly, causing Saint Danze to nod in terrified agreement.
"Alright, your Imperial Highness, calm down for a moment and leave this matter to me. Luckily, I knew you were a fool and had made preparations."
The armor designed by Long Yi was complex, but not difficult to produce. All that was required was to upgrade the existing production lines, which is why it was possible to equip more than three thousand people within just two months. No matter how quickly, however, it was impossible to create an army large enough to challenge the hundred and fifty thousand.
Now was the time to put Long Yi’s emergency plan into action.
Long Yi had long realized that Emperor Saint Danze was unreliable. Arrogant and easily swayed by emotions, it was certain he would make some wrong decisions. Long Yi just hadn’t expected the wrong decision to come so soon.
Long Yi arrived at the military factory, where in the underground warehouse, there was a metal platform usually used for fitting the Divine Armor. Saint Danze had no idea why Long Yi had come here.
Seeing Long Yi and the Emperor arrive together, the person in charge rushed over immediately.
"Your Majesty! Mr. Long Yi! What has happened?" The person in charge had been on standby here and was completely unaware of the events unfolding.
"Can the supply Array work steadily?" Long Yi asked.
"Yes, it can now operate steadily," the person in charge replied.
"Begin charging, initiate Plan One," Long Yi instructed.
The person in charge became serious and bellowed out, "Clear the workbench! Charge the Array!"
Suddenly, everyone who had been maintaining the place swiftly evacuated, and a dense array of Arrays appeared underground, while each metal platform also began to glow.
"Mr. Long Yi... what is happening here?" Saint Danze couldn’t help but ask.
"Shut up, just watch." Long Yi said.
Saint Danze immediately dared not speak anymore.
Soon, the light from the underground Array reached its peak, and a brilliant glow emitted from each platform.
"Mana infusion complete!" the supervisor shouted.
"Activate!"
Boom!
An incredibly splendid light burst forth from each platform simultaneously, accompanied by a thunderous rumbling of space. When the rumbling ceased, there stood a Divine Armor warrior on each platform!
Clearly, these Divine Armor warriors were somewhat bewildered, still holding their fighting stances. But in the next instant, the silver armors lost all their luster and scattered on the ground.
"To prevent your pig brain from issuing nonsensical orders, I have added a summoning spell to the Divine Armors. They can be summoned back from anywhere within this Plane, but the price is that the Divine Armors will be unusable for a week, and these warriors will no longer be able to cast magic spells for a short time." Long Yi said.
"Also for a week?"
"A year." Long Yi said.
Unable to use magic for a year, the warriors began to cry out in despair when they heard this news.
"Cry for what! Aren’t you still alive!"
With a roar from Long Yi, all the crying ceased.
When the Emperor and Long Yi left the military factory, the Emperor’s slightly swollen face was filled with smiles, "Mr. Long Yi, with such excellent safety measures, why didn’t you say so earlier? If you had, I wouldn’t have disturbed you..."
"Say so earlier?" Long Yi sneered, "Telling you about the ability to recall, and then let you continue to give idiotic orders without any restraint? I’m telling you, unless I am present, that summoning Array cannot be activated at all. If there’s a next time, I’ll let you taste what it’s like for the Divine Auffa Empire to be annihilated overnight!"
After speaking, Long Yi left.
As the Emperor, Saint Danze’s face was utterly lost amid Long Yi’s fierce rebuke. He felt aggrieved, but he was powerless to respond. After all, even he understood that the whole affair was his fault.
Originally, the Emperor of the Divine Auffa Empire, Saint Jialin, had planned to dispatch a Legion of fifty thousand Seven-Star Mages to suppress the Divine Armor troops, but to his shock, the Divine Armor troops, who had been resisting fiercely, vanished into thin air right under their noses!
In the midst of their bewilderment, news came a few days later. Emperor Saint Danze personally awarded medals to these three thousand soldiers in the capital, commending their brave performance in the battle against the seven thousand Mages of the Divine Auffa Empire. Emperor Saint Danze specifically emphasized the enemy’s number of ten thousand and his mere three thousand men, which infuriated Saint Jialin.
"Why! Why couldn’t our ten thousand Seven-Star Mages break through their three thousand Divine Armor troops!" Saint Jialin roared at Ailin.
"Don’t yell at me, if you have a problem, you can humbly ask for advice." Ailin said leisurely.
Saint Jialin immediately deflated, as he was just lashing out in anger and would not dare to shout at Ailin!
"That’s more like it. In fact, this is where Long Yi’s ingenuity lies. Although I can promote your soldiers to Six-Star or even Seven-Star, their combat experience is still One-Star or Two-Star; they are simply not used to such powerful bodies. Long Yi, on the other hand, has used the Divine Armors to enhance each soldier’s strength. In fact, each soldier is just an operator of a Divine Armor. The Seven-Star power provided by the Divine Armors does not require them to adapt. And you mentioned Magic Resonance—that is precisely the advantage of magical equipment. You know, to create Magic Resonance, the magic must cooperate with absolute precision without any errors. Even very skilled Mages find this difficult, let alone those soldiers. But Divine Armors are mass-produced to standard specifications, making it easy for them to resonate with each other. For this reason, with the help of Magic Resonance, Long Yi held off your ten thousand Seven-Star Mages. In reality, if you let his Divine Armor warriors and your Seven-Star Mages fight one-on-one, their strengths would probably be similar, and the Divine Armor warriors might even be weaker."
After Ailin clarified this for Saint Jialin, he also came to understand.
"So, do you have any method to make my soldiers create Magic Resonance too?" Saint Jialin asked unwillingly.
"Not at the moment, but you can let me think about it." Ailin said.
Saint Jialin had no choice but to leave in defeat. However, in the end, he occupied that planet, which could be considered a consolation. (To be continued. If you like this work, we welcome you to vote for it with recommendation tickets and monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
