Chapter 321: Day 729 (4) – Michael Vs The Envoy, Round 2, Fight!

Chapter 321: Day 729 (4) – Michael Vs The Envoy, Round 2, Fight!

The airboat stopped mid-air, not even drifting, a short distance above and away from us. About four stories up. Enough space to easily spot someone trying to board it. I had to kill the Envoy, protect Bao Wang, and somehow capture the airship.

The Envoy leapt off the airship, landing on the ground easily enough. The difference in our Body stat was incredibly small. A couple hundred at most. “Envoy of the Divine Empress,” I called out. Might as well and try and get as much information in our pre-fight banter.

“Champion Michael,” he returned the greeting. “A surprise to see. A face like yours way out here, have much to discuss.” And how could I forget his odd way of speaking.

“I doubt you were just flying around, looking for little old me. I mean after what the Divine Empress did, I would have thought I would have been left alone?” I asked and watched his face carefully. The muscles around his eyes tightened slightly as they narrowed. She was still missing, and he was looking for her.

“What do you know of her? Where is the Divine Empress? Speak now or you die.” I grinned at this. The fact that her number two was in a tizzy running all over the place, or flying all over the place, was the confirmation I needed that she wasn’t around.

“So, you don’t know what happened to her? How sad. But you can’t beat me, and your threats don’t work on me,” I replied.

“I will beat it out. No answers can you hide here. I am the Envoy.” Saying your name doesn’t make things true. Well time to fight. I kicked off the ground and approached him. I saw his eyes go wide in surprise as I closed the distance.

I had been thinking about this fight for a long time. His skills, my skills, and how we reached a draw last time. His fighting style had many holes in it. He did not have a movement skill. I would overwhelm him and claim victory quickly.

“Acid Shot,”x20.Air Burst. “Acid Shot,”x20. I shot forward as I used my acid skill, increasing the forward momentum of the balls of acid. That was why I unleashed a wave. That was the bad thing about depending on your Body stat to move. No emergency burst of speed like I had.

“Sheer Barrier,” x10. He parted my acid attacks like Moses parting the Red Sea.

Air Burst. I quickly manuvered to intercept him as he retreated and tried to strafe to the side. “Acid Shot, Acid Shot, Acid Shot, Acid Shot,” I kept up the pressure, alternating with my left and right hands. Air Burst. He kept retreating and putting up barriers, but he was on the back foot.

I was closing in on the airboat and was about to make a break for it when he suddenly stumbled and lost his footing. I didn’t even hesitate for a moment to capitalize on his mistake. “Acid Shot,” x50. It was all acid. An acid tsunami.

That was the power of combining multi-cast with lots of Spirit. I could dump it all into a single attack and overwhelm an enemy. His hands were on the ground and got caught in the acid. “Acid Shot,” x10. I wasn’t taking any chances by getting close for a suicide attack for some nonsense like that.

He didn’t even scream as he melted, but I couldn’t stick around to watch him die. I needed to capture the airboat. Air Burst. I skidded to a stop as the two soldiers’ heads fell off the airboat followed by their bodies and a trail of blood. The corpses hit the ground and burst apart in their white armor. It was a mess.

The airboat began to descend. It was the diviner and his fancy robes. “Peace! Peace!” he said and held up his arms. I didn’t like this. I looked back the Envoy and confirmed his remains were melting away. No dragging himself out and coming back.nôvel binz was the first platform to present this chapter.

The diviner began speaking in Chinese. “I don’t speak Chinese. Bao Wang!” I shouted out for my translator. He hurried over with the cart. I kept an eye on everyone as there was a rapid exchange. I really wanted to look at the airboat, but I couldn’t afford to be distracted.

“Alright, I am going to speak, you can repeat it out loud and record the questions down. One per page. Anything about the Divine Empress. Weakness, skills, power, stats.”

“Then there is the organization of the Forbidden City. The Black Talons as well. Uniforms procedures, everything about them. Then the Inquisitor and Master Fleshcrafter. Any other hidden powerhouses and their skills.”

“A rough map of the Dragon Empire along with its cities and points of interest. Standing orders the Divine Empress has left behind.”

“Best guess on where she could be. Any weaknesses as well.”

“I already asked that earlier,” Bao Wang said.

“Well put it in again.” That was the most important thing. The Divine Empress’s weaknesses. She was not someone I wanted to fight head on.

“The layout of the Forbidden City. Airships and how they work. Skills, monsters, and any other knowledge he has. Also, meta-points or god-points. Everything he knows about them.”

I tried to wrack my brain for anything else. “The Envoy of course. Since he is coming back. How is he doing that. Anything he knows about the Astrologer. Also the Almighty System and the Systemic Lands. Where are the rest of the cities? What is the calamity? The towers? That weird area to the Northeast of Esperanza, the staging city for the invasion.”

“Anything he knows about raw energy manipulation, stats, and skills.” I listed off questions one after another as Bao Wang furious translated them into Chinese. I wanted one question per page, so it would be easy to confirm that they had all been answered.

“Any other diviners? How to hide from his sensing? How is he sensing? How did he find us?” I was hitting the bottom of the barrel, but I think that covered all the key topics and we were running out of pages. Bao Wang finished up.

He then passed the notebook to the Chief Diviner who then said something. “Six days he says. That is the longest he can afford to wait around and even that is pushing it. The Envoy will be back here after that.” That was some serious bullshit, but at the same time I had just gotten a super high-level defector for cheap.

This was a person who spoke to and listened to the Divine Empress on a regular basis if anything Bao Wang had explained about how the evil empire was run was actually true. This had just fallen into my lap and I was not about to try and argue about the price.

It was actually insanely cheap in my opinion. But my guess was that the Chief Diviner wanted to leave as quickly as possible. The airboat was his escape plan, he just needed enough points to get wherever he wanted to go and hide out there.

The airboat probably had a permanency modifier like the carts. Still, there was one thing left to grab before we departed. I went over to the cart and pulled out two large blankets. Both men watched me as I went over to the splattered corpses and wrapped them up, armor and all. I also took their helmets off their severed heads.

If we were going to rob the Divine Empress, I was not about to turn down firsthand examples of high-level armor and clothing. Even if they were nasty and dented. I loaded the corpses in the cart. “Let’s go,” I told Bao Wang and he started pulling the cart as we set off. The Chief Diviner remained behind by the airboat awaiting our return.

The Envoy had been desperate and foolish, but when you could come back and your life revolved around the Divine Empress, then his actions made sense. Only Clarissa and I would be the people to know the last moments of the city. She would have a summoner scouting and I had been there. Honestly, she might know more than me. I really wish I had seen the Astrologer and the Divine Empress go at it firsthand.