Lord of the Sky City

"Rocky! You're finally here!"

After deciding to head to Lingyu City, Rocky had contacted the City Lord of Lingyu City, Berg, with whom he had exchanged communicators when he left Eternal City, enabling them to keep in touch.

So when Rocky truly arrived at Lingyu City, Berg was already at the port to welcome him.

Seeing Berg, Rocky was naturally very enthusiastic, after all, the other party was a City Lord just like himself, and this time he was indeed asking a favor from Berg, so of course, he had to be polite.

"Berg, your Lingyu City is much better than you described. I think it won't be long before this place becomes a miniature Eternal City."

"Hehe, whether it can become a mini Eternal City still depends on your care, please come in!"

After a formal and friendly handshake with Rocky, Berg invited him onto a large carriage that had been prepared in advance and took him to his City Lord's Mansion.

"Rocky, you really fought a beautiful battle!"

Sitting in the carriage, before Rocky could even speak, Berg excitedly said, "I heard you annihilated one of the Mairente Family's fleets? That's impressive!"

"Berg, how are you always so well-informed?"

Glancing at Berg, although not surprised that the other party knew about his affairs, Rocky still felt somewhat helpless.

"You guy, after winning such a splendid battle, did you really think you could keep it hidden? Let me tell you, it's not just me who knows about this, that fierce woman Karina and quite a few other City Lords have heard about it too!"

"They know too? Through... the Shadow Alliance?"

Rocky looked at Berg and tentatively asked.

"Of course, who else could it be through?"

With a laugh, Berg nodded his head.

Rocky first heard about the Shadow Alliance from Karina, but because there were so many other matters, he hadn't inquired further. Now it seemed that this Shadow Alliance really was powerful. The battle between him and Baron Wolin had only just ended, and it had already been uncovered and spread by this Shadow Alliance.

In fact, that was indeed the case because the Shadow Alliance was the largest intelligence organization in the skies!

This Alliance was different from organizations like the Mercenary Guild; although large, it wasn't a public organization. Just like its shadowy name suggests, everyone knew of its existence, but couldn't see or touch it. If one wanted to make contact, they could only do so through a specified method, and then the Shadow Alliance would proactively contact you, shrouded in mystery.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

However, the Shadow Alliance's ability to gather information was truly powerful. As long as one paid ten thousand Gold Coins a month, any significant or minor event worth mentioning happening across the skies would generally be collected by them and relayed to all their clients.

Under such circumstances, the great battle between Rocky and Baron Wolin was naturally also collected by the Shadow Alliance and passed on to various clients.

Actually, Rocky still had too little contact with other cities in the skies, so he did not know what scale of battle his fight with Baron Wolin actually belonged to. In reality, their aerial battle was already considered an extremely rare large battle among the smaller sky cities.

Typically, even if a conflict arose between two small Sky Cities, each would deploy only a few warships, and if the combined number of warships deployed by both sides exceeded twenty, it could be considered a major battle.

However, a battle like the one between Rocky and Baron Wolin, where more than fifty warships were deployed at once, could even be considered a large-scale war among small Sky Cities!

Such a scale of battle naturally would not be overlooked by the Shadow Alliance, so once everything settled down, the news spread quickly, including Rocky defeating Baron Wolin, and the incidents of him taking a thousand people from Matu City were all leaked.

In the wake of this dissemination, Rocky became notorious without his knowledge. Many small Sky City Lords took note of his name and even categorized him as someone not to be provoked and unpopular.

There was no helping it; his fleet made many weaker small City Lords apprehensive, and his actions towards Matu, especially the act of essentially robbing a thousand people from Matu, instilled fear in many of the weaker City Lords. Some of them had even begun to track his location and prepared to keep their distance from him.

"Is it that serious?"

"Haha, you didn't expect that, did you?"

When Berg relayed this information to Rocky, Rocky himself was taken aback. He hadn't expected that merely an air battle would suddenly make him famous, let alone infamous.

He didn't understand that many Sky City Lords, especially those of small Sky Cities, mostly were like Matu—lacking ambition and wanting only to live their quiet little lives. City Lords like Rocky, who thought daily about how to build up their cities and how to increase their own strength, were actually in the minority. Thus, what seemed ordinary to him appeared abnormal to other City Lords.

For example, the fact that he had taken a thousand people from Matu seemed perfectly justified to Rocky. Hadn't Matu helped Baron Wolin attack him, and after losing, shouldn't he be entitled to some war spoils?

He thought this way was correct, yet in the eyes of other City Lords, this approach made him a significant war criminal because his strength and actions had greatly threatened them!

This point was something Rocky hadn't considered and found himself resigned to.

"No wonder, no wonder Karina took a liking to you; it turns out you two are birds of a feather, huh!"

As Rocky felt resigned, Berg laughed heartily at him and cheerfully said.

This comment startled Rocky. How did the topic suddenly shift to Karina?

Seeing his confusion, Berg had a sudden realization and slapped his forehead, "I forgot, you've only just met Karina and thus don't know what kind of person she is, right?"

"What kind of person? Isn't she just a beauty?"

Looking at Berg, Rocky shared his impression of Karina. He indeed found her to be quite beautiful, and not merely a pretty face. If one had to compare, she and Liliya seemed somewhat alike, both carrying a bold and wild charm.

"You really dare to say it!" No sooner had he finished speaking than Berg widened his eyes in disbelief, "Rocky, keep those thoughts to yourself. If Karina hears them, she'd likely castrate you."

He then patted Rocky's shoulder gravely, "Rocky, take this as a brother's warning, be careful."

"I see there are plenty of beauties around you too, your guard, the finance officer, and that little Beastman are all quite something, so definitely don't get any ideas about Karina. The Tyrant of Rose City isn't called so for nothing; the thorns on this rose are too sharp for you to handle..."