Safe City Ch.64.2

Chapter 64.2: Safe City War

Meanwhile, the Dihai troops defending the area around the war corridor experienced an entirely different kind of horror.

The people of Blue Sea had finally been unleashed!!

Fight!

Fight!

Fight!!

Everyone had gone completely berserk.

Pan Tuan raised her heavy saber, blocking three blades that came slashing toward her at once.

In the next instant, she thrust both arms upward while dropping into a deep crouch. With incredible balance, she supported her entire body on one leg before sweeping the other leg in a powerful arc.

Two of the three opponents were knocked off their feet.

The third had been standing too close, leaving him no room to properly swing his weapon.

Pan Tuan didn’t care.

She lunged straight at him, throwing her full body weight onto him and tackling him to the ground. Then she swiftly drew the dagger from her waist and drove it down.

Only after getting back to her feet did she realize that a dagger had also been buried in her own abdomen.

I got careless.

The adrenaline coursing through her body was so intense that she hadn’t even felt the pain.

Heh!

I’ve never seen a dagger made from this material before, but it’s incredibly sharp. Feels like it could even slice through bone.

Good stuff.

Worth at least 800 points.

Grinning broadly, Pan Tuan carefully stowed away her newly acquired trophy.

A white-robed bishop, highly conspicuous amid the battlefield, immediately spotted the blood flowing from Pan Tuan’s abdomen.

Weaving through attack after attack, he carried a medical kit to her side.

“Keep it or remove it?”

“Keep it.”

Pan Tuan was now a quintessential Blue Sea resident.

The moment she heard the question, she understood exactly what he meant.

Did she want to stay on the battlefield and keep fighting?

The white-robed bishop was long accustomed to this exchange. Opening his medical kit, he took out a green healing injector.

“Treatment is completely free if you leave the battlefield. Wounded soldiers also receive compensation. But if you use a healing injection for rapid recovery while staying in combat, it’ll cost you 500 points per shot. Are you sure you want to stay?”

“Stay!” Pan Tuan answered without hesitation.

The bishop casually tilted his head to one side, as naturally as if stretching his neck, effortlessly avoiding the hilt of a knife that came hurtling toward him at high speed.

His expression remained as calm as ever.

Pan Tuan wasn’t the least bit surprised.

The two of them simply began the treatment right there in the middle of the battlefield.

The bishop opened his hand.

A ball of flame blossomed in his palm, illuminating the dim surroundings.

Using its light, he injected the green serum into Pan Tuan’s abdomen.

The Blue Sea people nearby—soldiers and civilians alike—instinctively gathered around them, creating a protected pocket amid the battlefield where the treatment could proceed without interruption.

A few enemy soldiers spotted what was happening and rushed over, hoping to interrupt the treatment.

They never got close.

The surrounding Blue Sea fighters intercepted them before they could reach the pair.

Half a minute later, Pan Tuan was back on her feet, looking as energetic as if she had never been injured.

She patted the trophy dagger she’d claimed to make sure it was still there.

Satisfied, she hefted her heavy saber and charged back into the fighting.

The combat techniques she had developed while battling zombies proved just as effective on a real battlefield.

Up!

Down!

Left!

Right!!

The longer she fought, the more exhilarated she became.

She could feel every muscle in her body working in perfect harmony.

She could evade attacks without even turning around, relying solely on the sound of weapons slicing through the air.

And she could instantly identify the enemy’s weak points.

The commander wasn’t lying.

War really is the fastest way to grow stronger!

A chunk had been chipped out of Pan Tuan’s heavy saber.

But that didn’t matter.

The reason she used a heavy saber in the first place was that even if it stopped being a sword…

…it still made an excellent blunt weapon.

She locked onto an ability user enemy. Judging by his physique, he was probably a body-enhancement type.

Pan Tuan charged forward, hoisted the heavy saber overhead, and hurled it like a javelin—

Whoosh!

The Awakened was sent flying two meters by the impact.

Pan Tuan leaped after him.

Before he could recover, she rushed in, grabbed him, lifted him overhead, and slammed him into the ground with all her strength.

Just then, a Blue Sea fighter happened to roll across the ground nearby.

Seeing the body about to come crashing down, he immediately rolled out of the way.

“Hey! That almost landed on me!”

Pan Tuan hurriedly apologized.

“Sorry, sorry! I didn’t see you! You can have the finishing blow!”

A textbook Blue Sea-style apology.

The other Blue Sea fighter rolled right back over and finished off the ability user with a single slash.

“All right, you’re forgiven.”

Anyone who had experienced war knew that battlefields were chaotic.

Especially in a melee involving multiple Safe Cities, accidentally hitting your own side was practically unavoidable.

But while friendly fire happened everywhere, the combatants of Blue Sea reacted with astonishing speed.

Most of the time, they managed to dodge before they were accidentally hit.

Even if someone really was injured, a white-robed bishop would arrive to treat them.

Whether it meant administering a healing injection right there on the battlefield or carrying the wounded away for treatment, nothing stood in their way.

The surrounding Blue Sea fighters automatically blocked pursuing enemies.

Even if a gap briefly opened in their defensive line and an enemy managed to break through…

The white-robed bishop would simply kill the intruder.

Likewise, whenever a Blue Sea fighter was at a disadvantage, allies circling overhead on beating wings would immediately swoop down—either pulling the surrounded fighter to safety or eliminating the enemies surrounding them.

The warriors of the three allied Safe Cities who witnessed all this could hardly keep despair from creeping into their hearts.

Their only remaining hope…

…was that everyone was fighting with everything they had.

Whether it was the three-city alliance or the people of Blue Sea, surely after fighting long enough…

Everyone would become equally exhausted.

Then Cheng Qisheng made her move.

After devouring the Rule of Language, her mental strength had increased dramatically.

She no longer needed to bless her followers one by one with a touch to the head.

Now, she could bestow blessings on them all at once.

And this was the perfect moment to use it.

Closing her eyes, Cheng Qisheng extended her psychic power over all of her followers.

Then she opened them again.

On the battlefield, every Blue Sea believer felt a warm hand gently resting on their head.

It was as though they had been injected with a powerful stimulant.

Their depleted stamina was instantly replenished.

To the utter despair of the three-city alliance, the Blue Sea warriors suddenly seemed to have swallowed some miraculous elixir.

Their combat strength.

Their concentration.

Everything surged back to its peak in an instant.

Pan Tuan picked up her heavy saber and shouted together with everyone around her:

“Our God watches over us!!!”

“Long live Blue Sea!!!”

Our God!

This land will surely become Yours!

Feeling her strength steadily returning, her fighting spirit soaring higher than ever, Pan Tuan charged once more into the heart of the battlefield.

The enemy soldiers who had poured into Moonspirit Safe City had already been driven back.

Large numbers of Blue Sea warriors surged through the war corridors in the opposite direction, invading the other three Safe Cities instead.

The residents of those cities soon discovered that Blue Sea accepted surrenders.

People began surrendering in droves.

The Blue Sea fighters, however, had little interest in escorting prisoners.

The battle wasn’t over yet.

All they wanted was to keep fighting.

Blue Sea officers simply handed the captives over to Moonspirit for safekeeping before leading their troops back into the assault.

“See that tall building?! That’s where the Safe City Core is located!”

“Blue Sea! Charge that building!!!”

With their target identified, the Blue Sea warriors roared and rushed forward.

“Our God watches over us!!”

“Kill!!!”

Above them, the winged Blue Sea fighters folded their wings and dived from the sky.

Suddenly—

Ripples spread through the air.

The towering building—and several surrounding structures behind it—vanished in an instant.

At the same time, every Safe City Lord participating in the war received a notification from their intelligent assistant.

“City Lord, Mingxia Safe City has ceded part of its territory and surrendered. The victor is Blue Sea Safe City.”

“Territory ceded by Mingxia Safe City: 3,714 square kilometers.”

“The ceded territory has been automatically incorporated into Blue Sea Safe City.”

Moonspirit Safe City

Moonspirit’s heart pounded.

That fast?

In such a short time, they had already driven one Safe City out of the war.

Mingxia Safe City had previously absorbed the core of another Safe City, making it slightly larger than a standard Tier 3 city. It had only gained about 800 square kilometers—the area of a Tier 1 Safe City.

A normal Tier 3 Safe City covered 3,200 square kilometers.

But Mingxia had been forced to surrender 3,714 square kilometers.

That left it with a pitiful 286 square kilometers.

Worse still, most of Mingxia’s residents had been left behind within the territory it had surrendered.

With so few citizens remaining, its military strength would plummet.

It would probably be stranded on Dazzling Star from now on.

Serves you right!!!

…

Dihai Safe City

Staring at the notification from the AI assistant, Dihai flew into a rage and overturned the table before her.

“Mingxia!!!”

Even with two Tier 3 Safe Cities fighting together, they had already been at a disadvantage against Blue Sea.

Now Mingxia had fled.

As for Mianyin, a Tier 2 Safe City, its combat strength was practically meaningless in a Tier 3 battle.

That meant every ounce of Blue Sea’s offensive power was now focused entirely on Dihai Safe City.

“My Lady, should we retreat as well?”

“Yes, City Lord. We’d only lose some land and residents. As long as the Safe City survives, we can always plunder more in the future.”

Dihai’s expression remained ice cold.

“We can’t.”

“From the very beginning, Blue Sea connected the war corridor directly to us. Their people are already scattered throughout Dihai Safe City.”

“There isn’t enough uncontested territory left for us to cut away.”

She stared fixedly at the senior officials gathered before her.

“Every one of you—go fight!”

“Meet them on the battlefield!!”

“Today, we either die fighting…”

“…or wait to become sl*ves of the people of Blue Sea!”

Some of the senior officers wore bitter expressions.

Others steeled themselves, grabbed their weapons, and charged out to fight.

A few were so terrified that their legs gave out beneath them.

Dihai walked over to one of them.

She drew her sword—

—and cut off his head.

“What are you all standing around for?!”

“Get out there and kill them!!!”

If only conventional heavy weapons could be used in this world…

A dark expression settled over her face.

She returned to her City Lord’s throne and quietly awaited the final outcome.

She did not have to wait long.

The intelligent assistant appeared.

“City Lord, your residents’ combat strength has fallen below the required threshold…”

“Safe City War adjudication: Defeat.”

“City Lord, please carry out your execution.”

With trembling hands, Dihai slowly raised the longsword she held.

…

Cheng Qisheng received the notifications.

“Honored City Lord, the Lord of Dihai Safe City has died. Blue Sea Safe City is victorious in this Safe City War.”

“Honored City Lord, the Lord of Mianyin Safe City has died. Blue Sea Safe City is victorious in this Safe City War.”

“Congratulations. The Safe City War has concluded.”

About fifty kilometers from the battlefield where the five Safe Cities had clashed…

A new Safe City suddenly descended onto a hilltop.

“Hehe. This place looks pretty good. Doesn’t seem to be Skywing Dragon territory.”

This Safe City had arrived at a random set of coordinates.

Harassed by Skywing Dragons, its City Lord had decided to relocate.

This was supposed to be his new home.

The cautious City Lord took out a pair of binoculars and surveyed the surrounding landscape.

Then…

He saw the aftermath of the battle between the five Safe Cities.

One after another, the defeated Safe Cities were being rapidly absorbed into the enormous Blue Sea Safe City.

The City Lord, who had just spent 1,000 crystals on relocating, fell silent.

“…”

No way.

Am I really this unlucky? Dazzling Star is so huge, and I just happened to relocate right next to a Safe City war?

He hurriedly opened the City Lord group chat.

The entries for [Mianyin Safe City] and [Dihai Safe City] had already turned gray.

“AI! Hurry! Spend the crystals and relocate us again!”

“Run!!”

“Move! Now!!”

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