Lord of the Sky City

Chapter 513: Chapter 477 Besties Chapter 513: Chapter 477 Besties “Athena, when will you come back? It’s so boring without you!”

As Anya’s Magic Energy Image made a pouting expression, it looked incredibly adorable.

“Don’t worry, I can’t stay here too long. At most a week, and after that, I’ll be back.”

“Oh… You must come back after a week!”

Only after Athena made that promise did Anya reluctantly nod her head, and then her Magic Energy Image finally disappeared.

And as the Magic Energy Image vanished, so too did the smile on Athena’s face.

Afterwards, she walked over to the desk in the room and quickly picked up a pen and paper and wrote a letter.

With quick and precise strokes, Athena finished writing the letter, looked it over, frowned tightly, and placed it in an envelope. After sealing the envelope, she froze.

Gazing at the envelope, she remained in a daze for a full half-minute before finally coming back to her senses and sighing.

“Anya, you’re on your own now…”

After a sigh, Athena murmured to herself, folded the envelope and set it aside, then turned to look out the window…

On the other hand, after ending her conversation with Athena, Anya turned her head and glanced at the man behind her.

The place where Anya was located wasn’t her residence, but rather the City Lord’s Mansion of Glory City, and specifically in the bedroom of the mansion. And the man behind her was none other than Alas, the City Lord of Glory City!

Glory City was an extremely famous large Sky City in the skies, housing a population of two hundred thousand people. Just by this number alone, one can imagine what kind of city it was. And the lord of this city was Alas.

The name Alas was even more famous in the skies than the city he owned. This man was indeed a legend; he became a City Lord at the age of twenty, and back then, Glory City was just a small, obscure Sky City. But within just five or six years, he had developed Glory City from a small Sky City into a large one with a population of over one hundred thousand. Such a rapid development pace was nothing short of a miracle in the skies!

Today, Glory City’s size has more than doubled from before, its population reaching two hundred thousand, and it owns one medium-sized and one small subsidiary city, making it an entity not to be trifled with by ordinary people. City Lord Alas had long become a giant of his time. The three major forces had once invited him to join them, only to be refused each time. This wasn’t surprising because a hero like him, how could he possibly submit to others?

In short, both Glory City and its City Lord Alas were heavyweights in the world, and even such influential figures paid great attention to Athena.

After the conversation with Athena ended, Anya turned her head to look at Alas and pouted, “Are you satisfied now? She will be back next week.”

After speaking, Anya bounced onto the bed like a rabbit, then showed an unwilling face, “We finally have time to be together, and yet you’re still thinking about that woman. Really.”

“Hahaha…”

Upon hearing this, the not yet thirty-year-old Alas laughed twice and sat on the edge of the bed, pulling Anya into his embrace, “You know very well what Athena is capable of. We absolutely cannot let that woman slip away, so I need you to put in more effort.”

“Hmph!”

Anya rolled her eyes at Alas, broke free from his embrace, and then climbed onto his lap, cupped his face with her little hands, and demanded, “Tell me, do you really like me or do you like that woman?”

“Of course, I like you.”

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Unbeknownst to Rocky, something was happening within the Mairente Family. At that moment, he was leading the Thunderhawk City and the mighty Alliance Army on their journey. Because the Mairente Family owned their own airspace, the journey had taken a considerable amount of time. Fortunately, the trek was nearly over. In one more day, they would arrive at the Mairente Family.

“Lord Claudy, have everyone prepared. We shouldn’t let the other side underestimate us when the time comes.”

“City Lord Rocky, everything is already in place.”

Since they were about to enter the airspace of the Mairente Family, as the person in charge, Rocky naturally had his preparations and arrangements in order.

He then turned to the three City Lords:

“Brothers, I need your help tomorrow.”

Having spent a considerable amount of time together, Rocky and the three City Lords had become quite familiar with each other, hence the naturally affectionate way he referred to them.

This was normal, for inside the Sky Alliance and across the entire sky, Rocky was seen as a rising star. Therefore, even though the three City Lords were leaders of major cities, they never looked down on him; on the contrary, they got along very well with him.

“Brother Rocky, rest assured, we’ll be there for you,” all three City Lords said in unison with a laugh, reassuring him that they would cooperate when the time came.

With this, Rocky felt relieved and issued his orders, then directed the main force to enter the Mairente airspace!

As they were about to enter the Mairente airspace, Rocky felt no stir of emotion, only a cold resolve. Truth be told, he was even surprised by his own feelings. He had thought he would feel a tinge of pity for his family, but in fact, he did not.

This strange feeling wasn’t unexpected because for Rocky, any emotional ties to the Mairente Family had long been severed.

Although by blood he was a member of the family, from the moment they had deceived him out of the Sky City his father left behind and driven him away, Rocky had essentially no affection left for them. Especially after the actions the family took against him later, any remaining ties of kinship had been definitively cut.

Indeed, not everyone in the family was cruel. For instance, Cyril had helped Rocky more than once. Perhaps her intentions in those instances weren’t entirely pure, but she had helped nonetheless. If Cyril were still with the family, then perhaps Rocky would still hold some sentiment for the Mairente Family.

Unfortunately, even Cyril had left the family, and Atted was no longer the Clan Leader. Thus, while the entire Mairente Family might seem like Rocky’s relatives, to him, these people were no better than strangers—the worst kind of strangers because they had been trying to kill him for years!

So this visit, accurately speaking this return to the family, harbored no feelings of kinship for Rocky. He was there merely to collect debts—the Alliance’s debts as well as his own.