Chapter 647: Chapter 516: Not Feeling Well

A hundred Beetle Missiles, with a sky filled with roars, were racing towards them at high speeds!

Yake swiveled his head slightly, finding out that those missiles were actually charging straight at him!

Roar!

With a roar, Yake sprinted with all his might, but he was still slightly slower than the speed of the missiles!

Roar!

Roar!

Yake roared in succession, spewing Dragon Breath all over the sky, and simultaneously banging out all kinds of Fighting Aura techniques at random!

Those beetles, upon colliding with Dragon Breath and the Fighting Aura techniques, erupted in the sky in a massive wave of explosions, but tens of beetles still managed to dodge the Dragon Breath and Fighting Aura techniques!

Damn it! You bunch of relentless bastards!

The spew of Dragon Breath and release of Fighting Aura techniques decelerated Yake’s pace, in a blink of an eye, the Beetle Missiles had already reached his vicinity!

Roar!

With all his might, Yake let loose a stream of Dragon Breath, with all his Fighting Aura focused in the direction of the missiles!

In the sky, the missiles exploded one after another, with pure Dragon Power inching bit by bit to tear apart Yake’s Fighting Aura barrier.

At last, Yake thought he heard a sound similar to the shattering of glass!

Damn!

Boom!

Boom!

One after another, the Beetle Missiles bombarded Yake’s body! 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

One!

Two!

Three!

Four!

Five!

Six!

A total of six Beetle Missiles! Faced with pure Dragon Power, Yake’s Dragon Clan skin was useless. He was beaten to the point his skin split open and his flesh ruptured, and then he fell from the sky!

Just at this moment, several Black Dragons flew over, supporting Yake in midair!

"Let go of me! Don’t kill me!" Yake roared, thinking that he had been captured.

Tilian stood atop a Black Dragon, hands gripping the dragon horns, looking down at Yake.

"Your Majesty! Rest assured, you are safe now."

Seeing it was Tilian, Yake fainted on the spot.

Almost everyone in the Black Dragon empire saw Yake being hit by the Beetle Missiles and reduced to this state.

When Tilian returned to the command seat, a staff member asked softly.

"Lord Tilian, what do we do, shall we continue?"

Tilian glanced at the battlefield, then shook his head: "Considering his Majesty’s poor health, let’s stop here."

Considering his Majesty’s poor health, let’s stop here...

Tilian’s staff members trembled, was this war, or did Tilian think it was hunting?

Almost everyone had this thought, but nobody dared to say it out loud.

Whether Yake fell or not had no bearing on whether the battle would carry on. After all, this battle plan was predominantly composed by his military staff. The undead army was utilized to drain the White Dragon Empire’s strength. This plan couldn’t be considered perfect, but it was certainly worthwhile.

However, how many people present truly wished to wage war?

Since Yake had fallen, there was no need for the battle to continue.

Like a receding tide, the undead withdrew. The second skirmish between both sides after the official declaration of war ended in another victory for the White Dragon Empire.

This time, according to rough estimates, over two hundred thousand of the undead were destroyed and burned to ashes. However, most of them were lowly undead whose threat from disease exceeded their physical threat. However, due to the involvement of advanced undead, the Molten Beast’s losses were substantial. It is preliminarily estimated that more than three thousand Molten Beast’s crystal cores haven’t been recovered. It’s unknown whether they self-destructed or simply ran out of energy.

The Red Dragon Knights suffered some casualties this time. Several Dragon Knights were injured in battles against undead dragons and some flying undead. Two Dragon Knights were gravely wounded. Luckily, they didn’t contract the plague and were back on their feet after being rescued. This was all thanks to Long Yi’s upgraded Dragon Knights; otherwise, with that degree of injury, if they were the Dragon Knights of the past, the battle would have ended much earlier.

However, at the time, one man in the Imperial Palace of the White Dragon Empire was very displeased.

"I am upset! So upset!" Long Yi sat in the elegant seat of the garden, holding a teacup and shouting about his unhappiness.

"We’ve won a major victory. What’s there to be upset about?" Kirei asked.

"You know, if I could just catch up to Yake, that bastard would be dead for sure! You didn’t see his demeanor, acting all high and mighty just because he turned into a dragon!" Long Yi said with a sneer.

"Would killing Yake be useful?" Kirei responded with a question.

"It would be, it would end the war at least and save a lot of trouble," Long Yi replied.

"Not necessarily, right?" Kirei shook his head.

"Well, that’s true too." Long Yi laughed.

"The Black Dragon Empire still has several Crown Princes. They all had big ambitions before Yake took power. They have just been lying low because Yake’s so dominant. If you kill Yake, they’ll surely come forward. One Yake can’t change much."

"But..."

"But this doesn’t align with your plan," Kirei laughed.

Long Yi indeed had ambitions. And a small part of his ambition was also shared by Kirei. Precisely because of this, Kirei could entrust all of the White Dragon Empire to Long Yi. He has tremendous influence on all matters in the White Dragon Empire, ranging from finances to weaponry, and even appointments. If Long Yi were to refuse, Kirei would immediately change his decision.

Due to Long Yi’s significant contributions, there have hardly been any objections in the political circle of the White Dragon Empire to the treatment he’s been getting. After all, except for the development of military weapons, Long Yi doesn’t interfere in anything else, which at least shows the attitude of the White Dragon Empire.

As a human, Kirei might struggle to understand the dependence humanity once had on Giants. But he trusted his father’s judgment, as his father had even entrusted their entire nation to Long Yi once. Therefore, Kirei felt he could do the same!

Long Yi set down his tea cup, filled it to the brim again, drank it all in one gulp, and said, "The element of surprise worked in our favour with the Beetle Missile this time, but it won’t be so easily repeated. Yake will certainly seek appropriate defensive measures, and by that point, to achieve a similar effect with the Beetle Missile, we will probably need to use some tactics. I’ve given you all the information about the many capabilities of the Beetle Missile. It’s up to the smart people in your war council to consider how to best use it."

"No, I think you should tell us more about how to use this thing," Kirei insisted, considering that the ability to strike a target twenty kilometers away was a novelty in this world. Kirei knew that Long Yi, a Giant himself, would not consider this missile a simple toy, but Kirei, for one, had no idea how to wield it.

"The problem is that my examples don’t apply well to our warfare, so I still think it’s better for you smart people to figure out for yourselves how to use it," Long Yi flatly rejected the idea. Things from another world could hardly match up directly here. The purpose of displaying the Beetle Missile was twofold: to intimidate Yake and to show his own people what it could achieve.

Long Yi knew that what he excelled at most was taking the brunt of the battle. Although the war had already started, it was still in its early stages. It was clear that Yake was using his endless supply of the Undead to wear down the White Dragon Empire, trying to expose more of the Empire’s aces. Long Yi knew that once the war escalated and full-scale war broke out, he would have to spend every day on the frontline and command would then have to rely on the others.

So, Long Yi simply let these smart people figure it out. After all, being the clever people they are, they would surely understand it.

"Alright, even if I didn’t mention it, I believe that you ’smart people’ have already been thinking about how to use this weapon," he said.

Kirei deliberately stressed the words ’smart people’, implying that he didn’t consider himself one of the ’smart people’. Long Yi smirked but said nothing. As a member of the ’smart people’, it could not be denied just by refusing to accept it.

"What are your plans next?" Kirei asked Long Yi, remaining neutral.

"Next, I want to complete my intercontinental missile project, then figure out how to deal with the enemy’s super Black Dragons. Those Black Dragons capable of using Fighting Aura techniques really are troublesome, they would surely cause us great damage on the battlefield in the future. After that, I plan on devising strategies against the Dragon Clan as Dragon Island keeps a close eye on us. As for the rest, well, who knows? We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it," Long Yi said casually.

"So there’s still so much... I thought there was basically nothing left to research..." Kirei admitted.

"Are you serious?" Long Yi looked at Kirei’s face.

"Yes, I really thought there was nothing left to continue to study," Kirei nodded, speaking very seriously.

Long Yi felt a bit helpless but knew it wasn’t Kirei’s fault. After all, warfare in this world was entirely different from that in Long Yi’s world. In the not-too-distant past, the wars in this world were simply about the number of men and Dragon Knights. But now, the war had evolved to the point where it turned into a competition of technology.

The World Wars in Long Yi’s world ultimately proved to have propelled civilization and change. Whether in war or preparing for war, nations were utilizing their industrial and technological capabilities to their fullest. Almost all groundbreaking technologies were born out of the urgency of war. At times, a new weapon under development was still not completed until after the war had ended, creating an interesting phenomenon.

The same trend was starting to appear in the war between the White Dragon Empire and the Black Dragon Empire.

Both sides were researching new technology while fighting. The difference was, thanks in part to the presence of magic, technological advancements in this world were progressing much faster than in Long Yi’s world. This is precisely why Long Yi could continuously develop weapons to subdue the Black Dragon Empire, using his knowledge.

Long Yi explained some of these things to Kirei, who quickly understood the principles embedded in Long Yi’s words. Kirei felt a bit embarrassed because even though these things were simple and he should have thought of them himself, there was a barrier of sorts that kept him from seeing it. But once it was explicitly pointed out, these truths became easy to understand. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, please vote or recommend on qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)