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Chapter 507: Pirates (I)
Chapter 507: Pirates (I)
“Sooner or later, I need to retrieve all of the armor!” Li Hao muttered. He was a Battle Heaven troop leader, after all. It was an affront that evil factions such as the three great organizations were making use of it. At the very least, the Silver Moon Guard were on the side of good.
The warehouse was replete with Battle Heaven armor, weapons, and ordinary armor. Li Hao ventured further in to examine the treasures left behind. The Guards had taken most of it with them, leaving the shelves rather bare.
After a while, he saw a door to a secret room. Li Hao opened the door to discover that this was the ancient archives room, where the Guards stored most of the ancient tomes that they’d discovered on their expeditions. Some of them were ordinary titles, but it was a good find to the young man all the same.
He selected one at random and flipped it open. It was in good condition—the words “War of Southern Jiang” were written on the page. A battle record? Now this was a rare sight. The ancient books that Li Hao knew of rarely discussed topics like these.
The first chapter started off with—In the first year of the New Martial calendar...
New Martial seemed to be the beginning of a new era, a particular calendar designation. Li Hao had seen it in many ancient tomes. The ancient civilization utilized the New Martial calendar, and there was another primordial civilization before that.
The young man quickly scanned the pages. This was a book that not many would pay attention to. He didn’t know if anyone else had read it or if there was even anyone who could. There should be, right?
It was Li Hao’s first time seeing general overviews of ancient powerhouses. The Human King, Martial King, Nether King...
Monikers in lieu of names appeared in the book. According to the book, Southern Jiang seemed to be an old haunt of the Human King during the ancient civilization. When he was out traveling the world and seeking to improve his weak self, it was invaded by an alien race called the Earth Dwellers. A massive war erupted in Southern Jiang as a result.
The weak Human King traveled with large numbers of human powerhouses into the enemy’s lair, so that the human territory of Southern Jiang wouldn’t suffer damage. Although it was exceedingly dangerous to venture deep into enemy land, all of these people did so without a second thought, so as to protect the ordinary people of Southern Jiang!
Eliminating the enemy outside our home! Refusing to let the enemy take half a step into human territory, even if the price was to fall in battle outside their homeland and being unable to be brought back to their final resting place...
Li Hao had wanted to scan the book quickly, but he fell silent and continued paging through it to read more closely. The book described a ghastly battle and mentioned a name he was familiar with.
“In the war between Southern Jiang and the Earth Dwellers, the sixth rank Eternal Sword Sovereign stunned the world by employing his sword Sever Immortality to strike down an eighth rank enemy. The Human King wailed with grief and brought a dying Eternal Sword Sovereign to his battles in the Earth Dweller home. They fought ferociously throughout the land. The battle of Southern Jiang witnessed the first taste of the Human King’s might and caused the name of the Eternal Sword Sovereign to be known throughout the two worlds...”
The Eternal Sword Sovereign!
This was a name and title that Li Hao was more familiar with. People seemed to call his ancestor that. According to the book, his ancestor was very weak then. Sixth rank... was quite weak according to the ancient tomes that Li Hao had pored through before. He could deduce from what he’d read that cultivators wouldn’t even have manifested their mind intent at sixth rank. Their physical bodies would be slightly stronger than most—it was eighth rank that was hailed as grandmaster. This was a fight akin to a Sunderer killing a Dominator, or perhaps a little more impressive than that.
The enemies were formidable beyond imagination in the New Martial era, but they were ultimately destroyed beyond human territory. Lights remained on in thousands of homes, peace and prosperity flourished. The faith of humanity was shared throughout millions upon millions of people. Everyone believed in their powerhouses. Countless youngsters answered the battlefield’s call and died in foreign lands, but they did so without regret.
“Complete exaggeration...” Li Hao muttered. This was just a book of historical fiction, there must be elements of overstatement involved. He didn’t believe that this was really how the ancient civilization had been.
At the same time, how did that explain the Battle Heaven Army?
There was still a certain degree of mental impact to the young man. Li Hao laughed wryly. What he’d seen and heard the most these days was destroying the enemy outside of the gates. Had he gotten too sensitive to it, or was he thinking too much? Everytime he saw those words, it was like they reminded him to not utilize Silver Moon as a battlefield. Whether it was pirates or powerhouses, it was best if they were all destroyed outside the province. They could not be allowed to disturb the lives of ordinary people or drag mundanes into the fighting.
Hao Lianchuan also reminded him to not wait until the pirates invaded. It was better to take the fight to them.
“The Human King... Eternal Sword Sovereign...” Li Hao murmured in a daze. Were these two really that strong?
No, not strong. It was a kind of ultimate fervor and hot-bloodedness to fight the strong when one was weak. Was the Human King the killing fiend he’d glimpsed?
What kind of concept was fourth rank? He’d rampaged in all directions in a place rife with ninth rank enemies, carrying the dying Eternal Sword Sovereign by his side. He ultimately reaped stunning battle accomplishments and war loot, thus marking his official rise within humanity.
Various concepts echoed in Li Hao’s mind; he swiftly put down the book and walked toward the next area. He’d just wanted to take an inventory count of what was here. He should stay away from these books in the future. It gave rise to a certain impulse every time he picked one up, one to let go of all of his reservations and stop waiting patiently!
It was not terrifying to be weak, it was terrifying to not dare let loose even once. But if he did... he might die in a moment of carelessness. Li Hao didn’t want to die yet.
He walked forward and entered another secret room. A ship that sparkled with light sat here—it was very small at only one meter across. However, the young man knew that this was the origin weapon. It should be able to grow bigger if the weapon soul was awake.
Li Hao summoned Stellaris and knocked it gently on the ship. “Show yourself if you’re awake. Otherwise... I’ll chop you into two!”
The ship remained unmoving. Li Hao knew that it wasn’t afraid of a simple sword; he summoned sword intent with a visualized move...
A weapon soul immediately presented itself. It looked like a big fish, but also like a bird. Li Hao frowned at it, what kind of monster spirit was this? A fish that could fly?
“I can claim you, yes?” He ignored its trembling. “The kind through blood?”
While the big fish didn’t say anything, the ship itself trembled. After his experience communicating with the Flaming Phoenix Spear, Li Hao took it as a tacit agreement.