Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 446 Kingdom Championship (Bonus Chapter 610 for Alliance Leader's Monthly Tickets and Recommendations)

In the following days, Li Weiyi ordered his Imperial Guards to dig a huge pit across the entire hill, while he personally went to the former Gale Fortress to pry open the remaining walls piece by piece and transport them back to build an underground fortress.

Yes, the situation is very wrong. His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of Locke, the great six-star lord, may be up to something big. Li Wei thought he had secretly gained an advantage, but he never expected that this huge warship had brought him into an unpredictable situation.

This is the helplessness of ordinary people.

"My lord, shouldn't we immediately relocate to Gale Fortress or Windbreak City? The defensive structures there are still relatively intact, and Windbreak City is said to have a vast underground area beneath it..."

Chris and the others were puzzled. Li Wei actually had the same idea, but in the end, she chose to proceed with caution.

These are his subjects, his personal guards whom he personally trained. What are they doing running off to the main city of Windbreak? Does he know what's going on there?
After working tirelessly for nearly a month, they finally completed the construction of an underground fortress capable of accommodating five hundred people.

In this way, even if they couldn't take the Imperial Guard with them, they could still live here. Li Wei also left behind the wheat from the two-star and three-star levels, just in case.

Having made all the necessary preparations, Li Wei finally prepared to settle the accounts on a stormy night.

He had checked it over the past few months. Ever since he helped these refugees get through the winter, the settlement card had been in a blue, active state. If it weren't for those ten acres of winter wheat, he wouldn't have delayed for so long.

To be honest, at this moment, there are only one month and three days left before he enters the cross-border mission.

He had to go.

However, Li Wei was dumbfounded when he took out a six-star settlement card. He saw that it was flashing a red light, but it was not the stable red light before. Instead, it was a flickering and very chaotic red light. What was going on?
"Boom!"

A terrifying clap of thunder ripped across the sky outside, and torrential rain poured down. Something just didn't feel right.

Li Wei steadied himself, put away the six-star settlement card, and prepared to go out and take a look. However, before he could even move, suddenly without warning, the entire sky was pierced and illuminated by a beam of light. The next second, the earth shook violently. Everyone was so excited at that moment that it felt like their souls were about to leave their bodies.

It felt like a huge centrifugal force, a strange feeling of being pushed back.

I have absolutely no idea why!

Li Wei's vision went black, and he was dizzy for several seconds before he recovered. The others simply fainted on the spot.

Holy crap, is this a new era of meteor shower explosions?
Are we dinosaurs?

Li Wei was terrified, and the earth-shaking continued. Fortunately, it did not cause the underground fortress to collapse. In fact, it quickly stabilized, but the strange impact continued.

Just when he almost thought he was about to be destroyed by the apocalypse, a series of bright red messages suddenly appeared and exploded before his eyes!

Every word was like a bomb, making his head feel like it was going to explode. Just to receive this information, his mental energy was being consumed at a rate of two points per second. This was definitely not an ordinary information announcement, nor was it an information announcement from the Kingdom of Locke.

It feels like you're used to 220 volts every day, but one day a high-voltage power line comes knocking on your door...

Fortunately, Li Wei had a strong foundation and quickly stabilized after the initial discomfort, successfully receiving all the information.

[Announcement from the Nine-Star Council of the Alliance of Lords of the Heavens across Dimensions]

[Note: Because you are currently in the main frequency broadcast area of ​​the current dimension, and your overall strength has met the requirements, you have been qualified to receive cross-dimensional main frequency information announcements.]

[Background: William I, the fifty-fourth ranked Lord of the All-Heavens Alliance, owner of the Locke Magic Continent, and ruler of the Locke Kingdom, recently conquered three important strongholds of the Neanderthal Crocodile Tribe. In an attempt to salvage the situation, the Crocodile Tribe's high priest launched a high-yield tactical magic bullet onto the battlefield where the two sides were engaged in fierce combat.]

This special weapon, developed by ancient mages, warped and linked the dimensional space where the Neanderthal tribe resided with the current war space, converting the energy within the two stars into magical particles. This effectively elevated the dimension of this region, encompassing twelve planets and a fragment of a magical continent covering thirty million square kilometers!

This action also triggered even more serious consequences: the ruins of an ancient magical empire that had long been lost to the depths of time and space reappeared.

Currently, William I of the Kingdom of Locke claims to be a descendant of the Orson Empire and has officially submitted the mission for the rise of the empire, namely the Seven-Star Territory mission, to the Nine-Star Council of the All-Heavens Lords Alliance!

[However, at the same time, Henry I, the ruler of the neighboring Kingdom of Ruilinbas, also claimed to be the rightful heir to the Orson Empire and had formally submitted the mission for the rise of the empire, namely the Seven-Star Territory mission, to the Nine-Star Council of the All-Heavens Lords Alliance.]

Similarly, Harris I, the ruler of the Kingdom of Salion, which was constantly at war with the Neanderthal crocodile tribes on the other side, made the same choice.

From this point on, three kingdoms and a Neanderthal tribe will compete for the ultimate throne in a vast battlefield of dimensional ascension, because the ancestors of the Neanderthal Crocodile tribe were servants of the Orsen Empire, and they also believe that they are entitled to inherit the Orsen Empire.

[Based on the rules of the Alliance of Lords of the Heavens, the Nine Star Council has decided to officially take the lead in this matter and launch the Kingdom Conquest and Lord Conquest mission. This mission will last for one hundred years. During this period, the actions of the three kingdoms and the lords under their rule will be evaluated and scored by the Nine Star Council. The specific mission rules will be revealed one by one after the mission begins.]

[Friendly reminder: There are six months left until the official start of the Kingdom Conquest and Lord Conquest. During this period, all missions in the three kingdoms, regardless of type, will be terminated unconditionally. All lords and mercenaries currently on missions will have their accounts settled unconditionally, without paying any taxes, and will receive appropriate compensation. The Nine Star Council reserves the right to interpret all these terms. All departments in the three kingdoms will temporarily cease operations, and everyone must remain in their respective territories or main cities to await orders.] [Now, Your Excellency Lord Li Wei, please prepare within thirty minutes. The Mission Settlement Officer from the Nine Star Council of the All-Heavens Alliance will arrive before you.]

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Alas!
That's it!

Li Wei breathed a long sigh of relief. He had felt that His Majesty the King was up to something big, but he hadn't expected it to be such a big deal—an ancient magical empire.

The Three Kingdoms Hegemony Tournament and the Lord Hegemony Tournament sound so exciting! And the mission starts with a hundred years, holy crap!
No wonder Windbreak City is deserted; no wonder everyone has been relocated. It seems that His Majesty the King had planned everything more than half a year ago, no, even decades ago. Moreover, he may have discovered the ruins of the Orson Empire during his exploration mission. Tsk tsk, everything makes sense.

As Li Wei was thinking this, the person who had fainted earlier gradually woke up, but had no idea what had happened.

At this moment, Li Wei quickly ordered everyone to assemble. At the same time, he also packed his things, putting all the valuable items into the resource card, not even letting go of those three-star quality stone blocks.

It's best to dismantle this underground fortress, because it's obvious that the Nine Star Council will be officially clearing out the site soon, just like the examiners have to clean up all the exam rooms before the college entrance exam, so it's impossible to leave his guards behind.

That doesn't align with humanistic care, does it?
The torrential rain outside had stopped at some point, and everyone had left the underground fortress, except for Li Wei, who was still working hard to dismantle the quarry.

Suddenly, a gentle voice sounded behind him.

"That's enough, Mr. Li Wei. You've already taken advantage of enough. If you keep tearing it down, your boss William might get angry."

Li Wei was slightly surprised. He slowly turned around and saw an old man in a gray robe who had appeared in the underground fortress at some point, looking at him with a smile.

At that moment, he immediately realized that all his plans were child's play in front of the other party.

"Well, Lord Li Wei, there's no need to belittle yourself. Five hundred years ago, I wasn't as capable of causing trouble as you. To be honest, even I have to envy your luck. To be able to encounter such a great change that has never happened in a thousand years is itself a great stroke of luck."

"Hello, senior. Are you the settlement officer?" Li Wei asked cautiously.

"Yes, you don't need to worry about anything. Since your boss William pulled off this elaborate deception, what's wrong with you, his underling, doing the same thing? It's perfectly normal. You haven't violated basic humanitarian principles. In fact, you've saved many people. You deserve this reward, both morally and logically."

"In short, I'm not an examiner, and I won't have any further dealings with you, nor will I reveal anything about you. So, can we start settling accounts now?"

"Yes, thank you for your trouble, senior." Li Wei still complimented him carefully.

The gray-robed old man didn't care. With a wave of his hand, a magical portal appeared in front of Li Wei.

"The settlement is complete. Take your people and leave."

"Huh? It's that simple!"

"Haha, little brother, why are you making things so complicated? Even if I'm just a handyman for the Nine Star Council, it's not worth wasting my breath calculating your meager earnings. Come on, come on, I wish you good luck in this Lord's Conquest mission!"

After the old man in the gray robe finished speaking, he disappeared.

A 300-second countdown appeared on the magic portal, which startled Li Wei, who quickly called for help. If they couldn't leave by the end of the countdown, they would be in big trouble.

A moment later, when everyone had entered the portal, Li Wei looked up at this world and immediately rushed in as well.

Almost at the same moment he entered, the portal vanished, and a terrifying giant wave surged in from afar, engulfing the area in a single wave...

"That kid's got some nerve. He should be grateful for the most basic human decency. If the Nine Star Council hadn't insisted we do another check to make sure no one was loitering, heh heh, he'd be smashed to pieces..."

The gray-robed old man's voice came from nowhere, and soon after, another voice mocked:

"Hehe, you can't say that. If our Alliance of Lords of the Heavens didn't have this most basic humanitarian concern, what would be the difference between us and other organizations? Besides, if Li Wei hadn't been involved with these refugees, he could have left eight months ago. Everything has a cause and effect. You can't blame him just because he upheld the most basic humanitarian concern. Hmm, you don't want to see that again—"

"Stop talking nonsense, I really don't want to, I never want to in this lifetime."

"Hahaha!"

(End of this chapter)