Lord of the Sky City

Chapter 396: Chapter 365: The Holy Knight’s Request

After leaving the airspace of Skybreaker Peak, Thunderhawk City was advancing towards Tulip City War Zone, the most fiercely contested area. Based on the speed of Thunderhawk City, it would take at least a week to reach there.

During this process, Rocky certainly wasn’t idle; he had too many things to prepare.

In today’s world, the form of war had fundamentally changed, including supply and transportation.

In both the Sky Era and the Land Era, supply and transportation were crucial in warfare. So, don’t think that just because the battles are centered around Sky Cities, supplies are no longer needed. That’s far from the truth.

Even though today’s wars revolve around Sky Cities, and while these cities are somewhat self-sufficient, they still need supplies in large-scale and especially long-term conflicts.

Supply of war resources.

Supply of food.

Even the supply of personnel.

All these supplies are essential in prolonged warfare, and it’s simply unrealistic for a Sky City to solve all these matters alone. Therefore, supply and transportation are not only equally valued in modern warfare, but even more so than before.

In such a situation, ensuring the safety of supply and transportation lines becomes a critical issue for both sides of the war. The best and safest method is to utilize the Sky Cities themselves for transportation.

For instance, in the ongoing great war, large and medium-sized Sky Cities face the enemy on the front lines, while small Sky Cities take on the logistical role in the rear. This doesn’t mean that small Sky Cities are just protecting the transportation troops; they transform into transportation units themselves, handling all supplies and air transport.

Therefore, when Rocky set his sights on the Mairente Family’s small Sky City, what he intended to do was, plainly speaking, to ambush the enemy’s supply and transport lines! Within Tulip City War Zone, the Mairente Family’s small Sky City was responsible for transporting supplies.

And to achieve this, the things he needed to prepare were numerous.

The first was intelligence.@@novelbin@@

If one wishes to ambush the enemy’s Sky Cities used for transporting supplies, massive and accurate intelligence support is essential.

For example, at least knowing the specific routes of the enemy’s transports, right?

And also, knowing the specific timings of their transports, right?

These were the pieces of information Rocky needed, and to obtain such high-level military intelligence was not something even the Shadow Alliance could achieve on its own.

The Shadow Alliance was powerful, incredibly so, but there were some bits of information they simply couldn’t provide, like military secrets of this nature. It’s not that the Shadow Alliance couldn’t get them, but rather some pieces of information, once obtained, couldn’t be sold.

This was like an unspoken rule established among the various forces: they allowed the Shadow Alliance to collect their intelligence, but the Alliance in return did not sell intelligence that concerned the life and death of these forces. There existed an unspoken understanding on this matter.

Thus, trying to clarify the enemy’s supply lines through the Shadow Alliance was simply impossible. The Alliance could only provide a rough position, at most some troop numbers, and that was about it.

So to get intelligence in this area, he had to rely on other means.

But fortunately, aside from the Shadow Alliance, there was also the Sky Alliance.

Regarding the enemy’s movements, no one knew better than the Sky Alliance, who were the very foes themselves. Therefore, Rocky enlisted Glan’s help to try and contact Wilton, and ask Wilton to provide some useful intelligence.

And the response from Wilton, was much more extensive than Rocky had imagined.

“You mean… Lord Wilton wants to speak with me personally?”

When Rocky met Glan in the City Lord’s Hall, he thought that Glan would directly tell him the result, but that was not the case.

According to Glan, after he contacted Wilton, he relayed Rocky’s thoughts. He had thought that Wilton would either agree and provide Rocky with some information, or simply disagree, but instead, Wilton didn’t say anything and asked him to find Rocky, wanting Rocky to talk to him personally.

This really startled Glan.

How high is Wilton’s position in the Sky Alliance?

Even the Elders have to give way to him!

Although Glan had heard some rumors and knew that Rocky and Wilton seemed to have some connection, he had not expected that they were familiar to the extent that they could directly converse. In Glan’s view, this was somewhat unbelievable. The people who were qualified to converse with Wilton were what kind of people!

So when Wilton told this matter to Rocky, he kept secretly observing his expression. He found himself increasingly unable to gauge the depth of Rocky. A minor Sky City’s Lord, first getting intensely involved with an academic authority like Aniye, and now having connections with Wilton too, just who is this Rocky?

Could this guy possibly be the legendary strongest small city lord?

It was normal for Glan to have this thought, because no matter whether it was Aniye or Wilton, their statuses were far too lofty compared to Rocky’s, but in reality, things were not as exaggerated as imagined.

In fact, even he didn’t know why Wilton wanted to find him.

The two of them indeed knew each other. Strictly speaking, Rocky was even Wilton’s lifesaver, but that did not mean their relationship was very close; their actual time together was not long.

Moreover, even though Rocky had once saved His Excellency the Holy Knight, Wilton had repaid that debt. Rocky’s smooth inclusion in the Sky Alliance was partly due to his own effort, and the other part was because Wilton had given him significant help.

In such a situation, Rocky couldn’t even be sure if Wilton still remembered him, so when he learned that the other party wanted to talk with him, he was quite surprised.

But no matter what, since Wilton had spoken, Rocky could not refuse, so he quickly followed Glan to the Sky Alliance embassy in Thunderhawk City and then met Wilton in a secret room.

Yes, they did meet, through a Magic Energy Image.

Using mana to transmit images and sound was already a fairly mature technology, with the transmission of sound being widely popularized, whereas the cost of transmitting Magic Energy Images due to high costs had not yet seen widespread use, but this was nothing for the Sky Alliance. Every time Glan contacted the Alliance, it was through a Magic Energy Image.

“Rocky, long time no see.”

Upon seeing Rocky, Wilton’s image smiled.

“His Excellency the Holy Knight.”

Seeing Wilton, Rocky also hurriedly paid his respects, not putting on any airs as a city lord.

“I heard you want to join the fight in the Tulip Battle Zone?”

“About that…” asked by Wilton in this way, Rocky scratched his head, “I just want to fight some guerrillas, my strength is too weak, I can’t do anything significant.”

“Hehe, having that spirit is good,”

Upon hearing these words, Wilton chuckled twice, then said, “Since you have this idea, I actually have some matters I need you to take care of…”

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