Chapter 1491 - 264: Yet Another Unexpected Incident

Chapter 1491: Chapter 264: Yet Another Unexpected Incident

Until the end, aside from the final ripples ’hitting’ the aircraft Ian was in, the Heavenly Flood King caused little destruction.

"So, it was a covert Third Energy Level team causing the destruction?"

Sio began to analyze: "I think they must have mixed into the city when we were preparing for the Holy Ground foundation ceremony, when there were a lot of people, and then exploded at the most critical moment, catching us off guard instantly."

"If that’s the case, we should do reconnaissance and prepare in advance, then we might be able to stop it."

"No, that’s not possible."

Ian shook his head slightly: "It’s difficult to explain, but the opponent did not infiltrate the city to cause destruction."

Sio was unaware of the Heart of Terra’s capabilities—in fact, only Adalbert knew the true function of the Heart of Terra. Others thought the Heart of Terra was just an ordinary Artificial Underworld server.

The Heart of Terra can detect all Spirit Energy and Sublimation Reactions in its vicinity through terminals. Basically, all special entities entering the territory cannot escape the Heart of Terra’s detection. Once they enter, they are found and registered.

Not only that, even those with abnormal mental states or possessing Spirit Energy and Domain of Void reactions would be detected by the Heart of Terra.

That’s how Rongying was discovered. His infiltration ability was indeed unparalleled, but he was a demon. Ordinary Terra Ascendants and Spirit Energy Users could not keenly detect the demon’s specifics, but for the Heart of Terra, demons were as noticeable and horrifying as flying cockroaches in the house!

Therefore, Fiery Flame Land couldn’t rely on ’infiltration’ to enter Xiahui City and then destroy it... According to Ian’s speculations, the opponent should be some kind of long-range attack.

So, is it some kind of cannon? Firing a projectile at high speed from afar that cannot be stopped?

No, Ian could withstand even a supersonic Hyper Electromagnetic Cannon.

So, is it some sort of laser weapon? Or weather manipulation for long-range natural disaster meteorological weapons?

Or even, doesn’t care about anything and directly uses the Third Energy Level as a suicide truck to explode? With low success chances, not to mention it’s too wasteful... Respect the Third Energy Level of the household a bit more!

Ian considered several possibilities that would make his Seer’s Ability unable to foresee and respond to but denied each one.

This is where other prophets outperform Ian. They only need to see and can certainly spot some details, while Ian can only know ’that such a thing will happen.’

"Forget it."

Suppressing his confusion, Ian steadied himself, speaking to both Sio beside him and himself: "No matter what the enemy intends to do, we just need to do our part."

"Besides, sometimes, rather than preventing the ’disaster’ from happening, it’s better to do the preparation ’preventing’ the disaster. In my hometown of Harrison Port, there’s a typhoon every year, and in the past few years, there have even been ’great storms’ caused by the remnants of pre-epoch civilizations... My hometown folks have long known these events would occur, which is equivalent to being prophets."

"Even if they knew, they couldn’t prevent natural phenomena and disasters. So, they strengthened houses, prepared watertight basements, stocked up on bubbles or alchemical oxygen, and definitely didn’t go out to sea shortly before a typhoon."

"So, over the years, few people have really died from typhoons in Harrison Port, fewer even than people who have died from food poisoning by eating raw sea fish."

"You mean..."

Sio vaguely understood, and the True Dragon smiled knowingly: "Just brace for it?"

"Exactly."

Ian smiled too: "Just brace for it."

"Coincidentally, recently, version 1.21 of the Shelter Array has been freshly released, and by the time the foundation ceremony is held, it might update to version 1.5. By then, the protective ability of a single Shelter Array will be enough to withstand ordinary alchemical cannon attacks, and multiple arrays linked together will dramatically increase the defense power in a short period."

Raising his head, Ian looked in the direction of Fiery Flame Land and sneered: "I truly want to see... how powerful your destructive actions really are."

"Can you break my defense?"

Following this prophecy, the internal construction in Xiawei Territory was slowed down, with a large amount of resources redirected to Shelter Array related construction.

Towers soared at the city’s four corners, each with peculiar octagonal prism tops, every face covered with dense, brass-colored glowing inscription arrays. No one knew their exact function.

The inscription craftsmen in the engineering department who knew all about it remained tight-lipped, with a temporary Soul’s Steel Seal contract signed through a confidentiality agreement stopping even the most talkative person from revealing a bit of information.

Besides this, Ian also informed Marquis Barton and others about possible actions from Fiery Flame Land. The inspection knights assured they would tighten inspection audits, leaving no chance for enemies to invade.

Soon, Terra Year 775, May 18.

Xiahui City welcomed the first batch of emissary teams participating in the Holy Ground foundation ceremony.

The Huai Guang Church delegation, the Imperial Oath’s Archbishop, and the Southern Ridge Tianyan Archbishop arrived hand in hand.

In addition, the delegation included three familiar faces.

The trio of Glorious Sword, Redemption Light, and Yingguang also came to Xiahui City together.

They watched the brightly lit square and streets before them with disbelief, completely unable to fathom that this was the same city where they had dealt with the Baron Leyan incident two years ago.