Chapter 478 - White Mane God King

The Supreme Merchant Group tried to flee, but Jing Jing and Han Wu wouldn’t let them go so easily. Han Wu had lost almost 100 billion locusts. He couldn't just let them walk away without avenging his fallen units.

More locusts rose under his command. He rallied his other powerful units as well. Black dragon Alpheus, silver dragon Erebard, gold dragon Smog, frost Great Dragon Leng Ning, lightning Great Dragon Bakir, and the powerful Great Dragons squadron soared into the air at his signal.

The might of the Great Dragons’ pressure shook every life form in the vicinity. Even the Supreme Merchant Group’s three directors panicked.

“Is his core race the locusts or the Great Dragons? How could he have so many Great Dragons?” Hu Lan shouted in disbelief.

Yin De and Xi Wa were crestfallen too. They had pushed hardest for war against Han Wu, and now they regretted it after witnessing his strength.

Hu Lan didn’t have the time to blame them for their mistakes. All he wanted to do now was to protect the Supreme Merchant Group’s core assets from falling in this war. “All Small- and Middle-class ships stay behind and provide suppressive fire. All Big-, Giant-, and Behemoth-class ships retreat immediately with the Giant Protectors.”

Upon receiving their orders, the Small- and Middle-class ships intercepted the Great Dragon squadron, the locust swarms, and Jing Jing’s Titan Osteomancers. Their crews resorted to suicidal tactics to buy as much time as possible.

The remaining ships recalled the Giant Protectors and attempted to break out of Han Wu’s territory. Steely and Dark Locust received Han Wu’s orders to stop them at any cost.

Freed from the battle, the two rushed toward the Supreme Merchant Group with their full strength. Steely used Steelcutter and fused his 100 3-Star God greatswords into a 1,000-meter-long greatsword formed from a hurricane. He swung it and the violent wind sheared through everything in its path. The Big and Giant-class ships lurched under the force and veered off course. Several even collided with one another and broke apart.

Dark Locust used Dark Domain and trapped many life forms inside it, suffocating them in absolute darkness. The two Earthsunder life forms tore through the lower-ranking life forms without slowing. Even Sage life forms couldn’t withstand two strikes from them.

The directors occupied two Giant-class ships and the Behemoth-class ship. They relied on their Divine Jurisdictions to barely protect their ships from the two Earthsunder life forms’ attacks, but the protection strained under the pressure. They couldn’t hold out for long with their Divine Jurisdictions alone. The battle had turned into a slow grind.

The three directors focused so hard on defending against Dark Locust and Steely that they overlooked Jing Jing, the Earthsunder undead who was controlling the Titan Osteomancer army.

Using them as a springboard, Jing Jing leaped onto a Giant-class ship. The life forms there spotted her at once because of her seductive figure. She released her Skeleton Domain without hesitation or mercy. Every living being inside it was eroded, and once the erosion reached a set threshold, they transformed into skeletons that obeyed her every command. In just one minute, 60% of the ship’s life forms had been turned.

Jing Jing commanded them to attack their former comrades. Within an hour, skeletons overran the entire ship. Even the Giant Protector couldn’t fend off against their invasion and fled to another ship. Jing Jing shadowed it to the next Giant-class ship and used Skeleton Domain once more.

Hu Lan felt searing pain in his heart as he watched the ships crashing one by one. The Supreme Merchant Group had spent centuries building this foundation, and now they suffered massive losses just because they had offended a single God. It was preposterous!

With the situation collapsing, Hu Lan no longer believed they could escape. His only remaining hope was to protect the Supreme Merchant Group’s final and greatest asset with the other two directors: the Behemoth-class ship beneath their feet.

It truly was their last and greatest asset. Even though the three directors combined their Divine Jurisdictions to protect it, numerous Titan Osteomancers kept hammering at them. They swarmed like ants that attacked relentlessly to bring them down.

“Those damned skeletons, locusts, and Great Dragons!” Yin De’s anger surged, but he had no way to vent it. He could use his Divine Jurisdiction to fend off one of the Earthsunder life forms on his own.

However, Han Wu had three, along with several Sage Great Dragons that matched Earthsunder life forms in strength. Under that pressure, the three directors were unwilling to leave the ship. The moment they stepped off, one blow could end them. Yet the risk of the ship falling grew by the second.

Once the situation reached that level of danger, they stopped hesitating. They had to summon the founder. He was a God King, and his strength could secure their safety.

The three directors took out their respective keepsakes. The three pieces merged into one and formed a circular ring. The ring was the founder’s keepsake, and once complete, it allowed them to summon him to its location.

A burst of frigid air surged from the ring the moment it took shape. The ring expanded until it formed a portal large enough for a person. Then a humanoid covered in white fur stepped out.

“Founder!” the three directors cried in unison; the white-furred figure was their savior.

The White Mane God King extended his senses to gauge the situation outside the ship and scoffed when he saw the Titan Osteomancers batter the Behemoth-class ship’s defenses.

The scoff froze the Titan Osteomancers in place. Even the locusts outside turned to ice as well. Only the Great Dragons resisted it. Thanks to their incredible defenses against elemental attacks, they managed to survive the White Mane God King’s hit.

Jing Jing and Han Wu appeared together the moment they felt his Divine Jurisdiction’s overbearing pressure. Fighting a God King as mere Gods invited certain death, but the two refused to back down and endured his casual blow.

The White Mane God King studied the pair with rising seriousness. He would use a more powerful Divine Jurisdiction to crush them.