The Golden Throne

"Yes master. I have one last question. How will you throw such a huge bomb in the centre of the enemy's forces? I don't think that the catapults that the armies have right now are insufficient to handle such a heavy weight.", Arad asked Liu Feng. 

Liu Feng froze, and he slowly turned the other way, trying to hide his face. Arad looked once and understood his meaning.

"I am supposed to deploy the bomb? You must certainly be kidding.", Arad was shocked. He did not know a thing about bombs, except for the fact that they were toys in the hands of dragons. But, he knew after seeing so many miracles that in Liu Feng's hands, even this toy could become so much more.

"Yes, Arad. Don't worry, it is not that dangerous a task as it seems, but it is just that there is no other way to deploy such a huge device.. Maybe, if I had half a year and a ton more supplies and help to work with, I could do it myself, but the time constraint meant that I had no other choice.", Liu Feng shook his head. He was right.

With that much time, he could make an actual missile launching system, and if time permitted him, he even wanted to make a computer of sorts and try to pinpoint the guidance system by the meter. But all of that was wishful thinking at times like this. Humanity itself took decades to get to such a state, and even if Liu Feng had all that knowledge in his head, it was highly unlikely that he could do everything by himself.

Saying this, Liu Feng started the truck by injecting mana into the magic circle inscribed onto the dashboard of the front seats. The truck sprung to life and gave a huge grunt. Liu Feng pushed down the pedal and started driving the massive vehicle.

"Well then, get ready for a whole day of just driving. Boy do I hate driving.", Liu Feng cursed as the truck grunted forward. The huge payload in the back wiggled a little, but its huge weight meant that it wouldn't go anywhere for the time being.

"If you hate driving so much master, then I can drive for you instead of you'd like.", Arad asked. "How hard could it be? It is just turning this wheel and pressing your foot on that thing on the ground."

"It's okay Arad. I will take my chances instead. I don't want to crash into anything, and after a while, the terrain that we will have to drive will be extremely difficult to traverse. ", Liu Feng shot him down almost immediately. 

"Are you sure? You said that you don't want to.", Arad pressed.

"Driving is not as easy as you think it is, Arad. Wait for the peaceful times, I will teach you.", Liu Feng shook his head.

The rest of the drive was silent. The light slowly faded, and Liu Feng stopped the car to install two magic stones that were dedicated to be light sources at the place of the headlights. Even after so much time, he could not figure out a way to make them just turn on and off like everything else directly from the driving seat. After he put the lights up, the path they were traversing became much clearer. By now, they were already halfway to the magic academy. 

A few hours later, they reached the magic academy. The truck was exceptionally slow because of the huge payload that it was carrying. With such a heavy  shipment, the magic stones were not enough to power the truck enough to move fast. So, the both of them were stuck just driving. The clock struck midnight, and Liu Feng parked at the exit of the Magical Academy. This exit was the entrance of Glade. Crossing this exit meant that they were officially in hostile territory. Liu Feng sighed heavily as he looked at the huge arc. The gates were broken and the path was widened because the army had already passed by here. Liu Feng took a few minutes to just breathe the fresh air in, and opened his eyes.

"Well then, let's go to war.", he said, and he put his foot on the pedal. The truck grunted forward through the arc, and into Glade territory. Now, all that Liu Feng saw felt foreign for him. He looked at the trees that looked darker than the trees on the other side.

"You are nitpicking, Liu Feng. Come on, you can't possibly listen to yourself.", he muttered to himself, as he followed the path that the army used. The pace that the truck used was timed such a way that by the time he reached near the city, dawn broke. Now, he looked around at the trees, and he suddenly took a right turn. Arad, who was sitting with his eyes closed, tumbled to the left and fell off his seat. 

"What happened! Did we get attacked?", Arad shouted as he turned his head and looked around.

"Don't worry, you should have just worn a seat belt. Just get off of the truck. I have to hide the whole thing."

"Hide the truck? Why master? I thought that you wanted to hide just the bomb."

"Hide the bomb and the truck separately. One of the defences that I am planning for the bomb is that the truck will be revealed. Once the truck is revealed, the enemy might think that this is what they are looking for and will leave the bomb alone."

"Ingenious master. Shall we separate the two then?"

"Go ahead Arad. I have to start putting up the arrays and the magical circles, and it will take a lot of time to do so. You can just go ahead and do it yourself. The ramp is part of the truck itself, and pushing it down hill is much easier than what we did back in Dilheim."

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