Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 383 The Torrent Passes By
"Qin Yu, protect the bridge, and also protect the farmland."

At this moment, Li Weiyi was driving the vehicle while contacting the Forest Witch Qin Yu through the Prestige Card. The latter's cultivation was clearly much higher than his second aunt's, and even Hathaway was slightly inferior to her.

This was something that Hathaway had observed during her occasional visits over the past month, and her attitude was predictable.

Qin Yu's presence was like a guardian angel for Li Wei's hundreds of acres of farmland. In fact, it wasn't just those hundreds of acres. After arranging everything at the beginning of the month, Li Wei led many elderly, weak, women, children, and some free people with farming jobs to cultivate 500 acres of vegetable and corn fields near the farmland.

Over the past ten days or so, several torrential rains have caused severe flooding, all thanks to Qin Yu's magic.

Other things, such as short-term thunderstorms, strong winds, and hail, are even less of a concern.

"Received, I'm in position."

At this moment, Li Wei glanced at the south bank again. In the fortress under construction, Javier and Sith were leading sixty soldiers, operating three enchanted giant crossbows and ten ordinary giant crossbows, vigilantly watching the sky and the land. These days, torrential rains were not conducive to cavalry training, so Li Wei had assigned them to guard this unfinished Black Mountain Fortress.

Of course, under normal circumstances, a small squad of soldiers would also be on guard here.

In short, everything is fine.

But that feeling of unease still lingered, and it became clearer the closer he got to the breach in the riverbank.

"Hathaway, conserve your magic, be careful of the torrent, and don't force it if it's impossible!"

So Li Wei quickly sent another message to Hathaway.

At this moment, Ah-Dai had already grabbed Hathaway and was about to reach the breach. Li Wei, who was behind, could see through Ah-Dai's vision that a section of the river embankment on the north bank had been breached, creating a gap more than 50 meters wide. The surging floodwaters were rushing out of the river channel and ravaging the flat land. The scattered water taps looked like thousands of demons that had escaped from hell.

This situation is truly terrifying; it just goes to show that the power of nature remains incredibly terrifying.

But Li Wei didn't find anything unusual, nor did he see the so-called mutated creature.

Ah Dai was circling around, and the breach in the river embankment was widening. This flood peak was terrifying; it felt like someone was creating some kind of landslide dam.

“Li Wei! I have to act now. If we delay any longer, the breach could widen to hundreds of meters in just a moment, and then it will be too late.”

Hathaway said in a deep voice.

"No rush, let's wait until I get there."

As he spoke, Li Wei beckoned to a soldier in the passenger seat, signaling him to jump into the driver's seat. He then jumped onto the vehicle, and in a flash, the enchanted powerful bow appeared in his hand, along with three enchanted four-star armor-piercing arrows nocked on the bowstring.

In extraordinary times, we must take precautions.

At the beginning of last month, the Ice Duke defeated Ron, and this month he should still be fighting Socrates. But who can guarantee that an opponent of the Ice Duke's caliber will obediently let him develop?
The reason we didn't act before was simply because the time wasn't right. Once the time is right, it could very well be a cataclysmic event.

"Alright! Hathaway, now's the time, let's do it!"

Soon, Li Wei and his convoy caught up. At this moment, they saw the turbid waves rising into the sky from the breach. The turbid waves, tens of meters high, were like giant dragons, rapidly swallowing the riverbanks on both sides. In such a short time, the breach in the riverbank had already reached nearly a hundred meters.

This is such a huge water flow rate! Something's not right, something's really not right.

At this moment, Li Wei was willing to bet that the Ice Duke had definitely used ice magic to block the flood peak upstream, and then released the floodwaters downstream when the quantity reached its maximum. Damn it!

At that moment, a flash of white light appeared, like lightning, and Hathaway had already unleashed her ice magic. In an instant, a huge ice wall rose up at the breach, hundreds of meters wide, firmly blocking the floodwaters from the breach.

This is the power of ice magic.

However, almost at that moment, a huge figure suddenly emerged from the torrent and crashed hard into the massive ice wall.

It all happened so fast, and the thing was so cunning, completely hidden within the giant waves, that even Hathaway, who was right next to it, didn't notice it.

Aside from Li Wei, the advantage of +8 perception is unparalleled. Especially since he is currently close to 200 meters away.

The moment the dark figure crashed into the ice wall, his enchanted bow had already fired three shots in a lightning-fast burst.

"boom!"

The ice wall trembled violently, and dozens of huge cracks appeared. This was inevitable, as the thing was at least the size of two large trucks. Such inertial force could not be overcome by Li Wei's three enchanted armor-piercing arrows.

However, blood light emanated from that thing, and Li Wei's three enchanted armor-piercing arrows all hit their mark.

The first bullet blew the thing's head off, while the other two bullets entered through its forelegs, directly destroying one of its life cores.

It was a giant tortoise!

It is at least level 5, with four life cores.

At this moment, it became even more ferocious, continuing to crash into the ice wall. At the same time, it was surprisingly agile in the flood, as if it could control the floodwaters; with a single spiral, a towering wave crashed down.

However, Li Wei was not to be trifled with either.

While nimbly holding onto Hathaway to avoid the huge waves, Ah-Dai still had the energy to fire ice arrows to help repair the ice wall.

As for Hathaway, she unleashed a series of ice spells, which not only repaired the cracks in the ice wall but also expanded it.

At the same time, Thomas roared and jumped out of the speeding vehicle. He sprinted up the ice wall in a few bursts, ignoring the crashing waves. Seizing the opportunity, just as the giant tortoise struck the ice wall for the fourth time, he leaped into the air and transformed into a seven- or eight-meter-tall stone giant, smashing directly onto the giant tortoise's back.

Even though this giant tortoise was quite formidable, its size comparable to two large trucks, it was still smashed with a loud bang at this moment, and a large hole was smashed into its hard shell!
There was no way around it; Thomas was a behemoth weighing nearly fifty tons! Crucially, he was incredibly sturdy, and with a powerful slam, no defense could withstand it.

Even the giant turtle was completely submerged and sank to the bottom of the river without any resistance.

However, immediately afterward, the torrent seemed to boil over, with huge waves churning and the floodwaters changing course, as if it had entered an angry eye of the sea.

At this moment, no one can help; they can only avoid being affected.

The giant tortoise and Thomas fought fiercely in the flood, with the giant tortoise rushing up one moment and Thomas rushing up the next, and they were evenly matched.

However, the giant tortoise was clearly frightened and was struggling frantically, even dragging Thomas downstream.

"Qin Yu, meet Thomas at the bridge. There's a level 5 mutated turtle swimming downstream."

Li Wei was also unable to help, so he could only notify Qin Yu, because he had to quickly plug the breach before the ice wall melted.

To be honest, the breach in the river embankment, which was over 100 meters long, was truly shocking to him.

At this moment, the vehicles transporting supplies stopped, and Li Wei immediately ordered everyone to begin sealing the breach. The method of sealing was simple: first, three rows of thick logs were smashed down, and rocks were smashed into the middle to form an outer dam. Then, Hathaway used ice magic to gradually melt the ice wall, and continued to smash logs, rocks, and sandbags into it. This process was repeated, with a large amount of soil and rocks being thrown in until the breach was sealed.

Sith, Paul, Jocelyn, and others personally led five or six hundred strong laborers and it took them two hours to finish.

However, Li Wei did not participate at all. He simply held the enchanted bow and coldly watched Hong Feng, not daring to relax for a moment, and had no time to pay attention to the outcome of the battle between Thomas and the giant tortoise.

Because he felt like he was being watched.

The enemy is hiding somewhere, waiting for them to make a mistake.

However, nothing happened until the breach in the river embankment was plugged, and until several more dangerous situations arose.

In the end, that ambiguous feeling of being spied on disappeared.

But Li Wei still dared not slack off, and continued to patrol the river embankment for hundreds of miles upstream and downstream with Hathaway and others until the flood peak completely passed the next day.

"I'm exhausted old lady!"

On the electric truck, Hathaway slumped in the seat, covered in mud and looking utterly disheveled.

Li Wei sat down next to her and handed her a bottle of water, which she gulped down in one go. Then, without any hesitation, she reached out her hand.

"Cheng Hui, you have to reimburse me for ten units of magic."

“Of course. Go to Qin Yu and get ten units of magic power later.” Li Wei nodded. Hathaway deserves great credit for the fact that the flood passed by safely this time.

From yesterday afternoon to midnight last night, the flood peak even overflowed the riverbank, meaning the river level has exceeded the historical high.

Although no giant tortoise crashed into the riverbank at this time, the dam broke dozens of times in a row.

It was all thanks to Ah-Dai holding Hathaway and traversing hundreds of miles back and forth that the danger could be stabilized by a single ice spell at any point where the dam was about to collapse.

Li Wei and the others drove a truck to collect the remaining cargo.

Everyone was exhausted, but Li Wei didn't make a move from beginning to end. He was waiting for the hidden master from the shadows, but the master was also very cautious.

“From now on, things won’t be peaceful, Li Wei. You know, I’m even a little pessimistic. The Ice Duke has accumulated too many advantages, and you and I have spread out too far. Take the danger caused by today’s flood peak, for example. The Ice Duke didn’t actually pay a big price. At most, he only needed to consume one unit of magic to create a temporary, huge barrier lake upstream. Then, we had almost a thousand people working on it for the entire afternoon and night, consuming ten units of magic alone.”

"This is too passive. And it's only the beginning of the rainy season. This kind of situation will continue to happen, ten times, twenty times. Can we be lucky enough to get through it every time?"

"What should we have done if an enemy legion had attacked last night?"

"Li Wei, aren't you being too optimistic?"

(End of this chapter)