Chapter 537: Haoyue’s Armor Transformation, Double Divine Swords (III) (1/2)
Chapter 537: Haoyue’s Armor Transformation, Double Divine Swords (III)
Looks of unbelief appeared on the faces of all the assassins present..
After standing shocked for a short time, Sheng Yue immediately had an unsightly look. An incomparably unsightly one at that.
“Have you forgotten about what I said before we set out? I said that you are not permitted to go after the demon gods. What if your attack on Seere had failed? How do you suppose I would make an account to the Knight Temple?”
This heroic senior was extremely furious. Out of everyone here, he knew the best what Long Haochen and Cai’er meant for the Alliance. If Long Haochen were to die like that, to say nothing of himself, no one could account for that loss.
Long Haochen couldn’t show weakness at that time, because he was representing the Knight Temple as their Provisional Saint Knight Head.
“Temple Head, please calm down. I had already made meticulous preparations before that, so even if our attack on the Goblin Knight Demon had failed, Cai’er and I had certain ways to get away. I have a divine tool which can breach space and bring the two of us into another dimension, where we can stay for a long time. And it was by relying on it that the two of us made off after killing Seere.”
Hearing the words divine tool’, Sheng Yue had a blank look, and the other assassins had similar expressions. A divine tool enabling an escape through space is something that took the attention of everyone present. That was the first time they were hearing of such a divine tool. Especially to an assassin, the ability of escaping to another dimension for a long time was really attractive.
“Did you receive it from your Knight Temple?” Sheng Yue unconsciously blurted out.
Long Haochen shook his head, “It is mine, or more accurately speaking, our team’s.”
Sheng Yue’s glance turned to Cai’er, seeing his great-granddaughter nod without hesitation.
Letting out a low sigh, Sheng Yue remarked, “All right. Since that’s how things are, I won’t insist. No matter what, you have gotten rid of a demon god for our Exorcist Mountain Pass, which is a great success. However, we can predict that after what happened tonight, a demon counterattack will follow immediately. Their vengefulness is extremely high. Let’s gather the magical crystals everyone has collected from this operation in preparation for that, to show them the power of our magic cannons.”
“Yes!” All the seniors looked full of excitement.
How long had it been since they had such a delightful battle? Just as Long Haochen said, assassins are not most expert in defensive battles, but in night attacks and ambushes!
After sustaining such a surprise attack and losing so much power, even if the demons were to initiate an attack against the Exorcist Mountain Pass, their strength was limited. And, with the help from Long Haochen’s forbidden spell, the soldiers and manpower currently in the Exorcist Mountain Pass were back to their old looks.
“Temple Head, I request participating in the defensive battle.” Long Haochen immediately expressed.
Sheng Yue snorted, “Even if you didn’t want to participate, you’d still have to. Our Exorcist Mountain Pass is the most lacking in priests. Han Yu and you will be playing the role of our priests. Things couldn’t be better if you can once again activate the forbidden spell of that day.”
“Eh...” Long Haochen was speechless, secretly thinking, I’m a knight, not a priest! However, Sheng Yue had let him off with such difficulty, so he couldn’t express his dissatisfaction so bluntly.
On the contrary, Cai’er kept close to Long Haochen’s side with a sweet smile on her face. Her mood could hardly be any better, as if she had her own definite view of things.
The demons’ attack came without any prior indication. Upon daybreak, a demon army came to launch a sudden attack, with a tide of countless Dual Bladed Demons surging towards the Exorcist Mountain Pass. As they ran, their bladed hands repeatedly stabbed the ground, as they were letting out unpleasant swishing sounds. Darkness and reeking of blood were enveloping the Exorcist Mountain Pass once again.
From the defensive fort of the Exorcist Mountain Pass came out about half of the original forces forming the Brilliant Knight Regiment. In the past, they had always acted as a reserve force, only dispatched at the most critical times.
Even so, they had lost a half of their troops over this period of more than a year.
It wasn’t that Sheng Yue didn’t want to use them, but only, as the aid the Knight Temple sent out for the Assassin Temple, how could they lightly permit their visitors to bear the brunt of the danger? Therefore, unless it was unavoidable, Sheng Yue and Sheng Lingxin didn’t use this knight regiment.
The knights forming the Brilliant Knight Regiment were of course not acting as priests. They were expert in group battles and had an astonishing defensive strength, but their cultivation limited them, as they weren’t really expert at healing. But when defending the city, they were much more effective than your average soldier or powerhouse from the Assassin Temple.
The knights were serenely standing on a wall on the fortress. Alongside every one of them was a large amount of soldiers as well as powerhouses from the Assassin Temple.