Bab 144: Chapter 143: Airship departure!
Chapter 143: Airship departure!
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"H-Hey look at that chicken over there!"
Someone pointed out with a baffled look on his face.
"Huh? What the hell is that chicken doing?"
"Perching itself atop of the royal symbol? Courting death!"
As one by one from the crowd began to notice Cucko standing atop of the head of the phoenix, Duan Li panicked and sent out a telephatic message to the latter.
"What are you doing? Stand down immediately!" of which the respond Cucko gave him had him entirely dumbfounded.
"Master, we dragons and phoenixes has always been brother in arms since time immemorial, I was just happy at the thought that we could soar through the skies once again later on, and it had me emotional to subconsciously climb here.."
Cucko said all these with a serious expression to it as it's head pointing up straight to the sky, as if reminiscing the good old times.
Dragons and phoenixes are brother in arms?
I don't know about that, but one thing I do know here is that the statue you are standing on is indeed a phoenix, and a royal symbol of the Jiu Empire on top of that. But you are far too dreaming to call yourself a dragon, you little chicken!
Why not look yourself into the mirror and see that small stature of your's?
To be calling itself as a dragon, what gall!
And stop that reminiscing act! You think that it will make you appear like an expert or something?!
"Just get down here and stop causing trouble!" Duan Li bellowed out in his telephatic message.
"Yes Master.."
It was only just a while before that he had become a domineering figure in front of everyone else by putting on a superb performance, but he would still not dare to cause too much trouble yet despite everything else.
Yet, this chicken of his had already set its ambition high enough to step atop of the royal symbol as it pleases, has it already think itself as an immortal after attaining the secret to cultivation?
Ssupp!!
Cucko's silhouette slowly sinked into its own shadow as it disappeared from the public's eye.
"Eh? Where is that chicken just now?"
"What chicken? What's going on?"
"Strange.. am I having delusion?"
Duan Li and his party could finally sigh in relief as another trouble almost hit them by their knee. It seems like they should not take their eyes off from these chickens even a single moment. Otherwise, they could get complicated by their brazenness!
"You should stay in my shadow and don't come out for a while until I call for you! Consider that as your punishment, hmph!" Duan Li said to Cucko whom was currently hiding in his shadow.
Clap! Clap!
"Attention everyone!"
A figure among the crowd clapped his hand together before continuing;
"We will be departing soon, so please take a look at the listing on the projector here to determine your group members and board the Airship accordingly." the person said as he slotted in a jade slip into the projector.
Woongg!!
Multiple holograms was being projected out as it displayed three rectangular boxes, above it were the names of the three fronts; Blastwinter desert, Grand Canyon and the Green plains.
Each rectangle boxes contained the names of these students.
Since there are 81 members of the First Squad and a total of 6,000 students, the three fronts had them divided equally, which meant that each front will have 27 members of the First Squad, commanding over 2,000 students.
They will then be divided further into smaller groups consisting of 30 to 40 students while the remainder; students with the lowest cultivation levels, are put into a much bigger group between 80 to 100 students.
However, some students like Duan Li could form their own group due to their occupation as a Lord class.
"So, we are stationed to be fighting on the First front huh?" Shen Lu remarked.
To be honest, he was quite unnerved should they were stationed to be on the Second front. Although the natural protection of tall cliffs that the Grand canyon provided to the students would ensure the lowest rate of casualties as compared to the First and Third front, it would prove to be disadvantageous to their party instead.
This was because the natural cliffs would be in the way for them to be able to display their full potential. After all, not to mention others, just the battle style of their Lord and Shen Murong had him worried that the both of them would cause the collapse of the Grand Canyon!
"Let's board the Airship then." Duan Li instructed to the rest as they nodded. But then, he realized something as he turned towards his mother.
"Umm mother.. are you allowed to board the Airship as well?"
Hearing this question, his mother showed him a confused expression, as if Duan Li was asking her a question with obvious answer to it.
"That is a silly question, even if I wasn't supposed to board it, who could stop me?" she said casually as if it was a matter of fact.
"..." everyone.
...
After everyone boarded the train, the captain of the Airship sounded the hazard alarm so that anyone below it would evacuate to stay clear.
"Start up the engine." the captain said.
Wongg!!
BRRRRRRR!!
The underside of the Airship glowed a bright blue color as it started to vibrate, before sending shockwaves to the ground blowing all the dust and sands below it!
BOOMM!!
The Airship then began to slowly lift up by itself and floated up higher and higher into the air as it left the open roof of the hangar.
A lot of the students showed an excited expression onboard while looking down below as the Airship continued to float up. Although everyone here could already fly, boarding an Airship had a certain distinct feeling to it that causes one to feel powerful somehow!
In fact, even without the Airship, they could still reach the border in a matter of a few hours including some rest time. However, by using this Airship - Phoenix Craddle, knowing that the Royal family was everyone's backing, it gives them a boost of high morale that would keep their fighting spirit on a peak condition!
Furthermore, a travel using this Airship would only take an hour to reach their destination, on par with the speed of an express Airtrain. However, when compared to the latter, the Airship were a far more suitable choice to transport a larger number of personnel in one go.
In addition, the rare sight of a Phoenix Craddle soaring through the skies would have the entire populace cheer for them, adding more morale to the students onboard.
"HAHA! I will conquer tomorrow's battlefield and make a name for myself!"
"What? Don't you mean me?"
"Who cares, I'll whoop all those monsters tomorrow! Even if a hundred thousand of them came, I would still kick them all the same!"
"H-Hey! Don't jinx it!"
Hearing everyone's brightful conversation with that cheerful expression of their's, the scene now looked more like they were going on a picnic instead of heading to a battlefield.
...
"Sh*t! Sh*t! Hurry up and retreat!" Mo Shinfeng, the leader of the Sixth squad shouted out.
Everyone desperately tried to run away from the battlefield, but the extreme heat of the afternoon was not helping their condition to escape the middle region of the Blastwinter desert at all!
Instead, everyone was getting increasingly fatigued and some of the members from all three squads had already fallen as well.
At the very back, covering on everyone's retreat was the leader of the Fifth squad, Xu Liyu and the Seventh squad, Zhuge Liang, fighting it out with the monsters with scars and injuries all over their body.
"How did things come to this.."
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PERTIMBANGAN PENCIPTA 
_Ram_
_Ram_ So I've read one of the comment on the previous chapter about how Cucko could possibly evolve into a phoenix in the future due to Duan Li's blood (from the graveyard lake) as it contained the blood of many different species, and I must say that gave me great insight for future plot - kudos to you! ;)
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