Find a Troubled Girl after leaving the Guild

Chapter 670 - 331: Hidden Room (Part 2)

The researchers proved that the Eye of God has already delegated the technique of using Annihilator Flesh to create Annihilators to Jenoside.Crossing the checkpoint, Li Ang had Crook call another Soul Apex member to a secluded place. This person was a bit puzzled to see a stranger with his companion, but didn’t think much of it, after all, Spiritual Driving was unheard of.

The Demon’s Claw spread open, and another person fell into Li Ang’s grasp.

I am becoming more and more like a demon.

But carrying out missions with Soul Apex members was something he had been doing in his life in the Otherworld; it was like reliving old dreams.

However, trying to pass with two people wasn’t working; no matter what reasonable reasons from the Sky Knight perspective they raised under Li Ang’s instructions, they wouldn’t let them see other companions.

It seems the Eye of God only gave the three of them permission to act together but was afraid of a gathering of the seven here.

A seven-man squad, even some Sky Cavalry teams had only this many, like the initially formed Soul Apex, already a formidable force.

Some small teams are like this; they rank lower because they have so few people, their meritorious achievements accumulate slowly, but each is elite, even regular Celestial Groups might yield to them when not fully mobilized.

And such numbered Celestial Groups do exist, considered exceptions in the sky, possibly more renowned than some larger Celestial Groups ranked in the twenties or thirties.

Li Ang decided to form a group in this way at the start but never intended to be limited to it. Yet as troublesome young girls joined one by one, he had no choice but to carry on like this now.

Luckily, he had never seen such a gathering of Hidden Dragon and Phoenix Chick before; each of them could eventually grow to face ten opponents alone, incomparable to ordinary Celestial Group members. However, why all these eccentrics gathered around him, he didn’t quite understand either.

Since the Empire hindered the consolidation of Soul Apex members, Li Ang had the second person keep an eye on their shipyard, found out the location of hostages, and then had Crook take him to the third place.

At each place, he spiritually drove the Soul Apex main force, left marks for the Shadow Shipyard warriors, and inquired about the hostage positions.

Just as expected last night, everyone was held in the Machine Core Tunnel.

Finally, Li Ang returned to the underground of the Star Shipyard.

Li Ang had Crook and Boliya guard the entrance while he headed down to the tunnel. Seeing him come, the shipyard people all expressed their welcome, surrounding him to inquire about the situation.

"The rescue plan is underway; I came this time to bring these two to justice."

Li Ang didn’t want to tell these people he possessed mind control ability; he previously told them he had taken Boliya out and captured him, while these two needed their help with guarding before saying he came to take these two away.

Although the shipyard people were responsible for Fres and Kleem’s food, they also bore their grievances on them over the days. Seeing Li Ang, they even felt like a rescuer had arrived, helplessly unable to stand up. If he hadn’t instructed them to keep them alive and not maimed, they might never have seen him.

Having brought them out, he had to dissolve the spiritual seal first, then had to condense ether to use the outstanding Healing Water Wave to conduct a full-body healing for them.

"Li Ang, Li Ang, you’re finally here, quickly, hand me over to the Order Flower Sword Corps, you have no idea how painful it is to be beaten with these workers’ tools!" Fres screamed.

"Not in a hurry, you two still have use."

Li Ang’s Demon’s Claw covered his head.

On the side, Kleem hadn’t had any Curse Art applied yet, but he was curled up like he had been stabbed with a sword, his gaze sweeping over Crook and Boliya, who looked unconcerned, unable to restrain the trembling of his body.

After about an hour of torment, Li Ang looked at him: "It’s your turn."

"I’m sorry, I’m sorry..."

Kleem’s hardened face squeezed together, indistinguishable as to which was sweat and which was tears or snot. Although he was bound, after the spiritual seal was lifted, he could break free of the ropes himself. But seeing Boliya and Crook standing by, knowing resistance was futile, he stayed immobile.

He tilted forward to the ground, his forehead knocking against Li Ang’s foot.

"Li Ang, please be gentle, don’t turn me into an idiot. All my earnings are back home, I still want to, I still want to..."

"Still want to live well for the rest of your life, right?" Li Ang said.

"Yes."

"I know what you used to say about me behind my back."

"Those, those were all nonsense, don’t mind them..."

"Nonsense, huh? You guys were quite serious, like why not profit for yourselves, why not take private jobs when Rams allowed wearing prized equipment, why not stealthily claim team assets under the guise of loss."

Kleem dared not answer, the three already under control showed struggling expressions, though they now obeyed orders, their inner reason and cognition struggled against it.

"How did you guys evaluate me again? Brain dead, idiot, don’t know why I care so much about team ranking. Let me ask you, after rising to first, did you get any benefits?"

Kleem was silent for a few seconds and said: "Yes."

"I won’t ask specifically what benefits, just things like lower body and money-making."

Li Ang smiled slightly: "People have desires, that’s normal. But I hope for Soul Apex to reach the pinnacle, which is what I desire too. You guys think I am abnormal, from now on, perhaps I’ll wield and slaughter like ’normal people’ as you see it."

The youth’s Bloody Claw scratched over the metal ground built by the previous civilization, the tip of the blade tore the steel smoothly as if slicing through ointment, Kleem’s eyes quivered wildly.

"You might as well stop apologizing, it’s tedious, it’s just fear of this Curse Art leaving trauma or me taking your life."

"Rest assured, you three, and these four I don’t know, we don’t have major feuds, though I wanted to thrash you guys once before, but that’s it. Besides, I did beat you up once already. Compared to some people with Rams I truly want to kill, you guys don’t even rate."

"I’m not a demon or anything. I’ll consider guild law and human rights, and when you wake up in the Order Flower Sword Corps’ prison, remember not to go against me anymore."

The Bloody Claw covered Kleem’s face, Li Ang completed the control of all seven Soul Apex members in the shipyard.

In terms of casting difficulty, this Demon’s Hand offered an enormous enhancement in both control length and quantity. Previously, Li Ang hadn’t fought simultaneously against so many Excellence Realm enemies; controlling ordinary people could hardly test the Demon’s Hand’s limits.

Now, it’s nowhere near the limit, of course.

"Alright, to your posts, wait for my command, Boliya, take me around the interior of the five shipyards."

If faced with danger, he could call upon the seven Soul Apex members for command, almost reaching a past medium-sized mission configuration.

During the previous exploration with Xiaomo, they saw a ship station, but the factory didn’t encompass the entire space of a shipyard, many areas had Annihilation Knights defending staunchly, hiding who knows what inside.

The Empire, an enemy Li Ang never faced before, but he was accustomed to figuring out all kinds of information about opponents.

Boliya led Li Ang into the five shipyards in collaboration with the Empire, and the atmosphere changed immediately.

They weren’t vacant, with no workers coerced into working numbly, many members freely walked internally. If not for occasionally seeing Annihilation Knights and researchers or the sporadic appearance of the purple-black of Annihilator Flesh, it would be a normally operating factory.

"Over there, they also don’t let us enter."

Boliya pointed at a not particularly large factory, obviously not enough space for a ship station, battleships won’t be produced there.

Previously, Li Ang and the Shadow Factory estimated the number of battleships shouldn’t exceed thirty because the completed ships need to be pushed off the ship station. To hide from sight, the Empire surely wouldn’t let the battleships sail out, so the capacity limit of the twelve shipyards wasn’t too large.

Li Ang wanted to see what deeper things were hidden, like what the Oracle envoys inside were doing, but unlike last time on Spark Island, there wasn’t a cleared city underground channel to the City Lord’s Mansion.

He didn’t find the Oracle envoy, only with Boliya discovering each shipyard had an absolutely outsider-forbidden room.

While pondering how to obtain internal information, he heard a call.

Ivynis’s outline was sketched out against the azure sky. She descended lightly like an Apostle of the Sky beside Li Ang, and time around them stopped completely.