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Chapter 345: Narrow Escapes

Lan Jue rushed over to the control syste strides, and took over control froyun shot her hands out The y that separated the other personnel fro by defense system controls looked nervously at the Captain The ship’s co officer lifted a hand in a silent order to remain still Under ordinary circue’s state-of-the-art internal defense h to easily overpower any Adept seventh rank and below But these were not nor death in the face In fact, the likelihood they’d survive – according to the Captain – was no better than eighty percent Everyone was in a panic If thisexperience, maybe he could pull out arare! These plashtmare of every airship pilot An armada could obliterate it with a densely packed bombardment They were in a transport ship

The , the Captain’s heart had sunk to the floor They were doomed

Lan Jue settled in the the seat His hands shot out, and his fingers danced ni He shouted over his shoulder “Shrink the shields to just over the ship Reduce shield output to thirty percent”

“What?!” The crewman at the shield controls stared open-mouthed at Lan Jue Their shields were outmatched as it is, and he wanted them reduced?

“Do as he says!” The Captain shouted from his chair Now that he’d let theback He was also a career pilot, and he knehat Lan Jue was intending; decrees surface area, and reduce energy consuht now, the smaller they were the better

The airship rolled sideways, narrowly avoiding a ht in the path of three sroaned as it was pelted by the dense and speedy debris

Lan Jue’s features were serious and soleem: Put your hands on ies all around us Block us froht

Qianlin swept behind Lan Jue without hesitation, and placed her hands on his shoulders A white, peaceful aura instantly sprang to life around her A moment later, that protective force spread outward and penetrated through Lan Jue

Tan Lingyun’s eyes lit up She knew Zhou Qianlin’s Discipline was supportive, so perhaps she was helping iht continued to spread in all directions Those behind couldn’t clearly see what Lan Jue was doing any longer Lightning flashed in his eyes as his power surged He could feel waves of his oer flowing from Zhou Qianlin and in to him The amplification wasn’t as dramatic as when they joined, but he was easily cohth level Adept

It was stupendous that an amplification Discipline could lift someone up to this level He could sense behind her,his own thunderbolt powers to that supportive energy

He made a mental note that they would have to experi each other’s abilities inti they weren’t evaporated by a titanic, gas-spewing space rock

Lan Jue lifted his hand from the keyboard and placed it on a metal sphere set within the control station This device was a power converter – it injected an Adept’s power in to the ship, to help it perforer airships had such devices installed A single Adept couldn’t control a battleship, or inject it with enough energy to run it However, by using a power converter connected to aeave it a fine tune up

Higher level Adepts were, of course, more effective in this situation For truly powerful Adepts, soh to power a ship – it’s just that no one’s done it

The instant Lan Jue’s hand touched the sphere, his energy burst from him in to the ship In the space of an instant, he was in co as a ninth rank eighth level Adept!