23 Bloodshed and Forbidden Spells (2/2)
The green and blue Saint Stone began to automatically chant the magic that the Saint just casted.
”The Heavens above, the Earth below, as evidence of my contract with books and stars, using the life of Saint Margaret, I plea for the ancient star spirits to listen to my summons, the Chimera constellation, the Leo constellation, the Unicorn constellation and the Chariot constellation, descend!”
”The Earth below, the Humans above, as evidence of my contract with books and stars, let death rain upon my enemies, Starfall!”
That voice was no different from that of Margaret’s and the Starfall casted casually wipes out the thousand-man army who just entered the battlefield. At the same time, a completely identical army of star spirits to the one previously summoned replaces the places of the lost and dead, re-building up a new defensive formation.
The most dangerous of all is still the Strategic-level magic. The long-range troops of the enemy wouldn’t allow ‘Ice Aeon’ to be casted.
Countless sharp arrows and magic were shot in the direction of Margaret but she didn’t even bother looking at it. She continues to patiently control her Saint Stone and the last 2 Saint’s Stone started to circle around here, creating a magic barrier from the intertwined blue and purple. The panicked attacks were easily stopped by the barrier.
Very quickly, the red, orange and yellow Saint Stone’s reaches the final stage of their incantation. Just then, a black color nameless arrow shoots towards the ground among the three Saint Stones.
”Pacha!”
Without coming into contact with the ground, the arrow disintegrates and a black magic cyclone suddenly appears, interfering with the incantation of the Saint Stone. A distortion occurs and the Forbidden Spell Ice Aeon actually activates in advance!
The white snow abruptly crystallized into a ball and bursts in all directions!
The snow rains down as the chill creeps further. In an instant, the entire world turns completely white. Under the might of the Forbidden Spell, the active volcano turned into a snow peak and regardless of whether it is the Star Spirits or the Beastmen, anyone who is caught in the area of the spell turns into an ice sculpture.
As for Margaret, due to the Forbidden Spell being activated despite being incomplete, she was also caught in its midst. Fortunately, the blue-violet magic barrier protected her.
The Saint frowns. If it wasn’t because of the Saint Stone doing the incantation in her place, she might have suffered magic feedback. Then, it wouldn’t end up with just one or two mouthfuls of blood
”Magic Combustion Arrow? I didn’t expect that the renowned Mage Hunter Minial is here too. Isn’t he the tribe head of the Centaur Beastman and known to be proud and unyielding to authority? I never expected that he would submit to Shou.Nuya. Is returning to the surface such an attractive deal?”
The Ice Aeon which activated in advance only had a third of its original might, but it had enough power to turn the entire mountainous terrain turned into a land of ice. Even the ground where the Beast Sovereign was standing froze, but 2 gigantic Black Dragons were blocking in front of the expressionless Underground Autarch.
Black Dragons were born with near complete immunity to magic but it wasn’t enough in front of this weakened Ice Aeon. The two Black Dragons who risked their lives to protect their master has turned into two white ice sculptures.
But their sacrifice had taken the brunt of the impact for the Beastmen behind them.
Even so, the tall Scorpion-tail Lion lord didn’t even glance at the subordinates who sacrificed themselves for him. With a tug of their dragon tail, using just brute force, he threw the two dragons’ corpses to one side.
Even though the sight in front of him had turned into an ice mountain, his eyes were still as calm as they were, as though it was all within his calculations. He picks up the horn from his frozen subordinate and personally blew on it.
”Wuuuu, wuuuu, wuuuu!”
After 3 rapid blows of the military horn, a dark-green tide seems to gradually move in from the horizon and the cobbling of hoofs and sounds from beasts intertwined together.
”At least 3000 cavalries? Sigh, my head is starting to hurt.”
Margaret frowns. Despite forcing the enemy to play their hand, but the opponent was exceptionally well-prepared. No, it was more like the enemy was not bothered at all about the sacrifices which made it hard to accept.
The red, orange and yellow Saint Stones had disintegrated due to the feedback from releasing the Forbidden Spell. The green and blue ones who were imitating the incantations had already ran out of power and only the blue and purple ones which were responsible for protection had magic power remaining.
”I have expended over half of my mana but the enemy is totally indifferent to their expenses. It is a little troublesome to deal with them.”
She glances behind. In the field of ice, there was a lake of fire which was still burning fiercely. There, the flames formed an image of a fire phoenix flying around and a fire pillars bursts into the heavens. Evidently, the inheritance was at a crucial step.
”There was no longer any possibility of retreat. If only I was at my Mage Tower… Blog, there are no ifs in this world, there is no meaning in hypothetical situations. Number 6 and number 7, repeat my incantations! Number 4 and number 5, begin re-charging mana.”
An army identical to the previous 2 appears and this time, even the expressionless Shou frowned. The opponent’s strength is too overpowering. The loss incurred was already more than sufficient to conquer any underground city.
Furthermore, the assaults of aerial troops and the death charge of berserkers which they specialized in were totally ineffective. If they had to use numbers to replace quality, how much did they have to sacrifice.
In the sky, the powerful Griffons and Scorpion-tailed Lions were still engaged in a bloodshed but in reality, no one’s attention was on them. The strong predating magic beasts couldn’t even qualify a supporting role on this battlefield.
A vermilion inferno bursts through the sky and two pitch black gigantic figures falls to the ground, forming two huge lumps of meat. From the aroma, there are at least medium-done.
These two black dragons seem to have intended to flank Margaret but just as they were about to get in the range for them to use their dragon breath, a dragon breath from further above grilled them.
In midair, an intense battle that wasn’t inferior to the one on the surface was going on. A gigantic Red Dragon was singlehandedly taking on an entire dragon city.
Using the same guerilla tactics, 12 young Red Dragons formed 3 teams which took turns to attack. They were using their flesh and blood to wear down the stamina of the Ancient Red Dragon Ein Mezus. But much different from the situation on the surface, their strategy was taking effect.
The reason? On the sidelines, hiding and moving freely behind her people, the Ancient Red Dragon who was significantly higher than Ein but yet, was laughing sinister was the main reason.
”Molly, you little bitch! Face me personally if you have the guts! Hiding behind your brethren to assault me, you are much more despicable and shameless than you were back then!”
Ein Mezus’s right wing was broken and her left eye could hardly open. Wounds were all over her body but she continued to fight bravely in the air while roaring, enraged.
”My foolish daughter, you indeed have muscles for brains. Our Red Dragon’s prided art of battle was actually regarded by you as despicable. Looks like I wasn’t wrong when I exiled you from Dragon City that day.”
Yes, that shameless Ancient Red Dragon is one of the Underground Autarch, Dragon Empress Molly.
While dealing with the young dragons at close-quarter battle, she had to be in the guard for Molly’s sneak attacks, making it difficult for her to cope.
The moment she tries to do something, like charge up for a powerful magic, Molly, who was proficient in the powers of Red Dragons as well, would interrupt it in advance. In such an unfavorable situation, it was hard on her to last until now.
In this moment, forcefully using her dragon breath to get rid of the Black Dragons who tried to flank Margaret, she showed an opening and her neck was viciously bitten by Molly. The bright red dragon blood created a blood rain on the surface.
Against the Alliance Army consisting of two of the Underground Autarch, the 3 big heads were forced into a corner.
”Quickly, Adam. If you don’t finish the sealing and inheritance soon, we might all die here today.”
When Little Red was finally at her limits, a pillar of silver light that tore apart the sky appears from the direction of Sulfur Mountain City at a distance suddenly.
”What is happening? That is the Light of Order, Roland that that cunning fox is actually getting serious?