Sudden Demons (22)

The fleet of airships crisscrossed the sky for seven full days.

They did not stop once, only arriving at their destination—high above a point roughly twenty kilometers south of Lizardmen City.

When those fifteen massive airships blanketed the heavens like thunderclouds,

Lizardmen City immediately treated them as a grave threat, and the entire city swiftly entered a state of alert.

There were no longer any idle lizardmen wandering the streets. Screaming Snake Knights circled back and forth on patrol, lizardman archers climbed the watchtowers, and lizardman warriors filled both sides of the city walls.

Dana stood on the deck of the Command Ship, staring at the tense, bustling lizardman defenses below with a slight frown.

She turned to Ang and asked, "Tell me, why would such an exclusionary race allow humans to help build their city?"

Ang kept his eyes on the distant outline of the city, his tone calm. "No one accepts interference from another race without reason. My guess is that some human noble reached a secret agreement with them."

Before he finished speaking, Gweny hurried over.

She held an urgent report that had just arrived from Fortress of Will. "My lord, according to the latest intelligence from the fortress, this Lizardmen City was contracted for construction by an Imperial noble named Beikander."

"Beikander?" Ang frowned slightly and searched his memories repeatedly for the name, but found nothing.

In the end, he shook his head, his expression cold. "Most likely a shield using a false name. The real mastermind is someone else."

As they spoke, a long cry tore through the sky. A lizardman knight rode a Screaming Snake out from the city, clearly intending to negotiate with the airship army.

But when he landed before Ang's Command Ship, his nervousness was obvious. His hand gripped the reins