60 God’s Left Hand Part 1 (1/2)
”Your honor, enemies have been discovered.” The soldier in Qin armor had a worried look on his face as he reported to Baron Cook. He was the baron’s personal guard. Like Sijia, he had been specially selected for the baron by the emperor.
”How many are there?” Baron Cook’s eyes were a little bloodshot as he had only slept for two hours.
”No fewer than fifty thousand.” There was a quiver in the soldier’s voice. He had been even more fearful when he had seen the scarecrows on top of the tower, compared to now.
”Black puppets… what do they look like?” Baron Cook forced himself to stay calm. Black puppets were not really powerful, but when their numbers were large, only the heavily armored mercenaries of the Qin Empire could be their match.
”They are scarecrows.”
Phew…
Baron Cook and the soldier heaved a sigh of relief at the same time. They were thinking that they were lucky it was not the legendary stone statue. Black puppets made from scarecrows could be killed by a regular soldier, but there were too many of them. There were only six hundred soldiers in the castle, but their enemies had more than fifty thousand black puppets.
”How many alchemy arrowheads have the mages made?”
”A hundred and ten thousand pieces…” the soldier replied, not convinced of this figure himself. In only a night, the two pathetically graded mages had been able to make a hundred and ten thousand alchemy arrows.
”So many!” Delight appeared on Baron Cook’s face. If there were sufficient alchemy arrowheads, the large number of black puppets would no longer be an issue.
”Your honor…”
”What?”
”They also exhausted six Grade 5 magic nuclei, and need you to write them off.”
Baron Cook was dumbfounded, and then relieved. A low-level mage would never be able to create that many alchemy arrowheads no matter what. The consumption of the high grade magic nuclei had been necessary. The six magic nuclei had cost about thirty thousand gold coins. One hundred and ten thousand arrows, when divided out, had cost only a few silver coins each.
”Your honor…” the soldier called out nervously.
”What else?”
”And… it looks like they have damaged the equipment in the laboratory.”
Baron Cook clenched his fist. Damage to the equipment of the mage master? The baron said with composure, ”Do not tell anyone about this matter. I will take care of it. Where are the mages?”
”The two mages are dead tired and are resting.”
”Have the weapons been distributed?”
”All done.”
”Let Sijia direct the battle. You guys will coordinate with her. I will be with Flamenco. Do not worry about my safety.”
The soldier hesitated for a moment, heeded the order, and left. The nine soldiers that Sijia were leading were the swordsmen who were usually in charge of Baron Cook’s safety. However, he was more familiar with Flamenco who was a senior swordmaster and at least a Grade 5 professional. Compared to himself, these people were mightier, and the baron should safer being with these mercenaries.
Saleen was not tired at all. Manufacturing low-grade magic medicine did not exhaust his magic chords, it only depleted his mental power. He was energized, and so naturally the recovery speed was faster. Once night had fallen, it had been Aini who had been unable to withstand it. If the materials for the Magic Flame Medicine had not been used up, Saleen had planned to continue.
He was now naked and soaking in the big wooden bathtub. He appeared to be reclining back with his eyes closed. Nailisi laid at the edge of the barrel bored, and was using her fingers to fiddle with the flower petals in the water.
Saleen had not needed to take a bath. He had Grade 0 magic – Cleansing Magic. However, he loved to practice in the water. When he was in the water, be it the speed of completing magic or the recovery speed of his magic chords, things were much faster.
Take the mutated water shield, for example. He was already able to cast it instantly in the water. Within two-sixtieths of a second, he could complete three stages: preparation, completion, and deployment of the spell. If he left the water, the deployment speed of this spell would be slowed by more than one hundred times.
Currently, there were twenty water shields stuck onto Saleen. These water shields had been compressed by him until they were very small, smaller than the size of a palm. This did not reduce the ratio of the consumption of his magic chords. In reality, Saleen was only left with a low level of magic chords at this point in time, and the maximum he could deploy was three Grade 1 spells.
Saleen was practicing the movement of water shields. He discovered that the defensive capabilities of the water shield were strongest at the core and weakest at its surroundings. However, such a scenario did not exist for the mutated water shields; the defensive capabilities of the water shield with air bubbles were the same at any spot.
The only flaw of the water shield was that it was not a holistic protection spell. Even if it were a mutated water shield, its size was only half a meter in radius.
Saleen also discovered that if he compressed the water shields, their defensive capabilities would double. He had compressed them to smaller than the size of his palm now, and their defensive ability had increased tenfold.
However, the smaller the magic shield, the bigger the openings. Saleen hoped to perfect this mutated spell, so he needed a hundred percent control of the water shield. It was just like what he was doing now, using his mental power to control the nonstop movement of the water shields.