Lord of the Sky City-Chapter 626 - 588 Complete Lockdown
Chapter 626: Chapter 588: Complete Lockdown! Chapter 626: Chapter 588: Complete Lockdown! The situation in Backhill Village had essentially solidified after a few days, with Rocky using Sirius City as a shield. Although Howling Sky was in an awkward position, he acquiesced due to his sense of responsibility and relationship with Rocky. Although he didn’t actively help, he placed the fleet outside the city as a form of deterrence, effectively thwarting the advances of City of Fury.
However, this exact outcome played right into the hands of Rick and his comrades, as they had anticipated this development!
To target Rocky, not only had they thoroughly investigated him personally, but also everyone related to him was scrutinized, including Howling Sky’s reactions. Therefore, everything Howling Sky was doing not only failed to surprise Rick and his group, but in fact, it was exactly what they had hoped to witness.
After this, City of Fury remained on the outskirts of Backhill Village without launching an attack, merely deploying troops outside the city. It was as if they intended to drag things out indefinitely, preparing for a protracted stand-off against Rocky.
But was that really the case?
Obviously, it wasn’t, because three days after such a situation arose, the true face of City of Fury was revealed!
On this day, the merchant ships of the Ruby Chamber of Commerce arrived at Skybreaker Peak’s airspace as usual and headed straight for Backhill Village.
As one of Rocky’s largest business partners, the Ruby Chamber of Commerce would travel to and from Thunderhawk City at least six or seven times a month. Each trip involved transporting and bringing back a large amount of goods. The trade was especially brisk recently because Thunderhawk City had just built a new armory, which received a large number of orders. Therefore, the armory needed a vast quantity of materials to manufacture Armor, and the Ruby Chamber of Commerce was responsible for procuring and transporting these materials.
That day, twenty merchant ships from the Ruby Chamber of Commerce were en route to Thunderhawk City as usual, loaded with a variety of goods. This included materials needed by the armory, leather required for the leather factories, and products for the local market, especially several expensive Demon Skins, which were raw materials for making Demon Skin Bags.
It should be explained that Rocky, when he announced his collaboration with the Apple Tree Corporation, had promoted his luxury products. After a few months of fermentation, the luxury leather bags he created had achieved considerable fame among the upper echelons of Sky City, with many already aware of their existence and desiring to purchase them. Consequently, Rocky decided to formally promote his luxury brand.
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However, he couldn’t do this alone, and the Ruby Chamber of Commerce, which had always maintained a good partnership with him, became the ideal partner. Hence, the two quickly reached an agreement for the Ruby Chamber of Commerce to handle the promotion and sales of Rocky’s luxury products. Of course, all this occurred before the arrival of City of Fury.
Because of this, the merchant ships sent by the Ruby Chamber of Commerce were unaware of City of Fury’s presence, and as the caravan was nearing Backhill Village, it was intercepted by the fleet dispatched by City of Fury!
As dozens of large warships blocked their way, four Escort Ships immediately moved to the front of the caravan. Then Void Magic Warriors launched from the Escort Ships, flying towards City of Fury’s fleet.
All of these Escort Ships were solely responsible for protecting the caravan, part of the Escort Fleet. Over the years, the Ruby Chamber of Commerce had grown from a small Chamber of Commerce to a considerable size and could now dispatch an Escort Fleet for large-scale transportation. However, from the number of Escort Ships, it was evident that their role in deterrence was far greater than their actual combat effectiveness, and the Chamber of Commerce had never expected such an incident during the transport of goods to Backhill Village.
But such is life, full of unforeseen events.
What came as a greater surprise to the caravan was that the City of Fury’s fleet didn’t even wait for the Void Magic Warriors sent for negotiations to return before they opened fire!
Dozens of large warships fired simultaneously, instantly turning the four Escort Ships responsible for the escort into four balls of fire. When the flames dissipated, City of Fury’s dozens of warships had the twenty merchant ships carrying goods completely surrounded, and then escorted them all to City of Fury!
The twenty merchant ships from the Ruby Chamber of Commerce headed to Thunderhawk City were thus hijacked by City of Fury!
This news traveled back swiftly to the headquarters of the Ruby Chamber of Commerce, and from there, was conveyed to Thunderhawk City.
“How could this happen?!”
Upon receiving the news, Rocky who had been at the research institute, immediately returned to the City Lord’s Mansion. He then summoned the manager of the Ruby Chamber of Commerce stationed in Thunderhawk City, learning the full details of the incident from him. He called for Felly and had the surveillance crew of the Reconnaissance Ship, who had been scouting outside, come back to report the situation thoroughly.
Only after understanding the events from various perspectives did Rocky call Athena to his side.
“Athena, is City of Fury attempting to blockade us?”
After giving Athena an overview of the situation, Rocky asked because it was evident from the hijacking of the merchant ships; City of Fury hadn’t launched a full-scale attack, but they weren’t idle either. They were planning to lock Rocky in at Backhill Village!
“So that’s their plan… I understand now…”
When Rocky said this, Athena wasn’t really listening to what he was saying but instead muttering to herself. She then turned toward Rocky and nodded, “My lord, it’s true that they are planning to blockade us.”
“This…”
Hearing Athena say this, Rocky furrowed his brow. He hadn’t anticipated that City of Fury would resort to such a tactic.
Although such events were not uncommon in the skirmishes of Sky City, where two Sky Cities at war would blockade each other when the battle reached a stalemate, with the dominant side completely cutting off the enemy’s external communications to suffocate the opposing Sky City without supplies, Rocky had never personally experienced it and had no prior knowledge of how to handle such a situation. Hence, he had completely failed to foresee City of Fury’s move.
Now he was in a dire situation because the blockade by City of Fury would sever all his connections with the outside world. And once isolated, neither Thunderhawk City nor Carltos City could survive!
After years of management, Thunderhawk City could subsist on its own while Carltos City was even more self-sufficient; the city had always been able to sustain itself. However, this was all based on trade. As soon as the external blockade cut off trade between the city and outside Chambers of Commerce, no Sky City could hold out!
