Lord of the Sky City-Chapter 624 - 586 In a Dilemma

Chapter 624: Chapter 586: In a Dilemma Chapter 624: Chapter 586: In a Dilemma It was quite obvious that this time, the people targeting Rocky had investigated him thoroughly and made ample preparations and plans.

Athena’s intervention might have seemed to disrupt their plan on the surface, but upon closer consideration, it was actually Rick who was truly disturbed by Athena. The overall plan targeting Rocky was not thwarted, nor could it be, as everything had already been arranged by the opposition.

Thus, when Rick issued the order, the City of Fury, located in Backhill Village, immediately took action and directly advanced toward Backhill Village!

The massive city slowly approached Skybreaker Peak through the clouds, clearly poised to obliterate Rocky. Rick’s actions were somewhat unexpected for Rocky—he had indeed not anticipated Rick would be so decisive, even at the risk of his own son’s life?

It was not that he didn’t care, but rather that he had calculated that Rocky would not dare to harm Zuluo.

“It seems I underestimated this Sect Hierarch…”

Upon learning that the City of Fury was closing in, Rocky sighed deeply. For Rick to rise as the City Lord of a major Sky City while also holding the position of Sect Hierarch, such a figure indeed could not be measured by ordinary standards, applying them to him was indeed underestimating him.

Fortunately, Rocky too had made his preparations well in advance!

“Send the order, initiate the flight mode for Thunderhawk City and Carltos City; let the two cities hide behind Sirius City.”

The news of the City of Fury’s approach did not send Rocky into a panic. Upon receiving the news, he immediately gave the order to hide his two cities behind Sirius City.

As previously stated, after the last great battle ended due to the appearance of Flying Demons, Rocky and the Sky Alliance were in a honeymoon phase. Hence, they stationed Sirius City at Backhill Village, meaning that although the relationship between Rocky and the Alliance was increasingly delicate, the mission of Sirius City hadn’t changed—it was to defend Backhill Village. After all, Backhill Village was a joint asset of Rocky and the Alliance, and despite some reservations about Rocky, the Sky Alliance couldn’t neglect their own asset.

Rocky precisely seized this point, making rational use of the presence of Sirius City, turning it into a barrier, even if it did not dispatch troops. Thus, the next day, Thunderhawk City and Carltos City successively hid behind Sirius City, and the advancing City of Fury was blocked by Sirius City from the opposite side.

This made the situation quite interesting.

As Rocky had hidden his two cities behind Sirius City, positionally, Sirius City was sandwiched like filling between the City of Fury and Rocky. Since Backhill Village was so named due to its location against Skybreaker Peak, the City of Fury would have to get past Sirius City if it wanted to tackle Rocky, otherwise it simply couldn’t reach him.

This really put Howling Sky in a difficult situation. To be honest, since his arrival in Backhill Village, he had gotten along well with Rocky and was inclined to help him, but there were prior orders from the Alliance—unless Rocky complied with the rules and paid Contribution Points, the Alliance Army was not allowed to mobilize, and as a Contact City, Sirius City was also forbidden from deploying troops on its own, which made his position extremely awkward.

Howling Sky was not afraid of the City of Fury; his Sirius City was also a major Sky City, and the strength of both parties was evenly matched. A real fight would definitely not result in a loss for him, but the Alliance had ordered him not to deploy troops.

Both being City Lords, Howling Sky might not have known about the plans targeting Rocky, but from his perspective, the current situation was clear—the trouble Rocky had stirred up with Heavenly Ancestor City and the Heavenly Ancestor Church was being used by the Alliance as an opportunity to discipline him, making his situation quite bitter.

In such a situation, what could he do?

Should he tell Rocky to move out from behind him? But that was impossible. Rocky’s reason for hiding behind Sirius City was precisely to use it as a shield. Besides, this place was ultimately Backhill Village; as the master of this region, Rocky would stay wherever he wanted, and if anyone was to leave, it should be Howling Sky.

But Howling Sky couldn’t leave, because although the Alliance wanted to discipline Rocky, they had not given him a direct order to evacuate. Whether or not this indicated the Alliance was still giving Rocky some leeway remained to be discussed, but at least it showed that Howling Sky and Sirius City’s mission to defend the village hadn’t changed. Moreover, if he really left, wouldn’t that signal that the Sky Alliance was afraid of the Heavenly Ancestor Church?

If all else fails… should I beg the Alliance? To ask them to show mercy and deploy their troops…

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Howling Sky was unaware of how the situation had started, so he believed that as soon as he deployed his troops, City of Fury would surely retreat.

However, after much hesitation, he dismissed the idea because, as previously mentioned, the Alliance intended to use the threat of Heavenly Ancestor City to pressure Rocky. If he meddled on behalf of Rocky now, that would undoubtedly be opposing the Elders’ Council’s decision, and Howling Sky was not about to do that.

Now he was completely out of options. He couldn’t deploy troops, couldn’t drive Rocky away who was hiding behind him, and he was unable to communicate with the Sky Alliance. What else could he do?

After much thought, Howling Sky came up with only one solution, and that was to contact City of Fury himself!

He couldn’t drive Rocky away, and he himself was stuck, so to resolve this awkward situation, the only option was to make City of Fury leave.

Thinking this, Howling Sky felt helpless. He had heard before that Rocky could stir up trouble, but since they had met, Rocky had basically handled any trouble he caused, so Howling Sky didn’t have much experience with it. But now he had truly witnessed Rocky’s capability — if Rocky didn’t stir up trouble, he was fine, but once he did, it was a big mess, involving even him.

However helpless Howling Sky felt, after this ‘caught between two fires’ situation persisted for three days, he finally couldn’t sit still any longer and finally sent out his fleet!

In Howling Sky’s view, City of Fury was not aware of the rift between Rocky and the Alliance, so he believed that just deploying his troops would be enough to intimidate the other party. This way, even without truly fighting for Rocky, it would be enough to scare the opposition away.

Therefore, under his command, a large number of warships began ascending from Sirius City and then, fleet after fleet, flew out of the city!

One hundred warships…

Two hundred warships…

Three hundred warships…

Four hundred warships…

Five hundred warships…!

In the blink of an eye, over five hundred warships were lined up outside Sirius City and soon advanced menacingly towards City of Fury!

Seeing Howling Sky deploy his fleet, City of Fury dared not delay. Immediately, a large number of fleets flew out of the Defensive Net, and similarly, four to five hundred warships were deployed!

And just like that, in the blink of an eye, nearly a thousand warships were confronting each other in the sky!

But among them, not a single warship belonged to Rocky…