175 Destroying the Body Part 2 (1/2)

Destroying a body was an easy thing to do, except in the case of a dragon.

Without its heart, skin, and dragonshards, the dragon was no longer immune to magic that was level-8 and below. Even so, Lex had no choice but to employ a level-7 scroll.

Fire Enchantment – level-7 magic.

The fire enchantment was not considered to be a support spell, but it had obvious limitations. On the positive side, fire enchantment had two effects. Firstly, its offensive abilities were tremendous. The attack power created by the fire elements were stronger than that of most level-8 spells. At the same time, the movements of the target who was trapped inside of the fire enchantment would be greatly restricted, more than they would be in most level-7 water and earth control spells.

The only problem was the way in which the fire enchantment attacked. Within a distance of ten meters, the mage could cast a burning area that was approximately forty-five meters wide, but the length of this region would only be less than three meters in total.

This meant that a person would remain unharmed if they were more than three meters away from the burning area. Additionally, the burning area was less than four meters tall.

Mages who were grade-6 could fly, and this spell was not instantaneous. So no matter how powerful the spell was, grade-6 mages would not be affected at all. If a person was fighting mages who were below grade-6, then the spells used would not need to possess the offensive powers of level-8 magic.

If a mage fought against a swordsman, the swordsman only needed to be a grand swordmaster to escape. The height of a swordsman’s jumps were proportional to their sword aura, so their jumps would have exceeded the limits of their physical body long ago.

If the swordsman who was being attacked realized that this spell was going to be cast, they simply needed to jump in order to dodge the effective area of the spell.

If this spell was cast in a confined environment, the effects would be abnormally horrifying, akin to a hidden tower of soldiers within a castle. Right now, this spell could be suitably applied because the dragon had already died, so it surely would not escape the flames of the fire enchantment.

Using the dragon as the center of her aim, Lex opened the black scroll. Black flames appeared on the ground and engulfed the dragon’s body. Lex felt a little wasteful because the fats in the dragon were also a rare material, but now all would be destroyed by this fire.

Nailisi watched on happily. Many materials within the body had been dug out and stored into her bracelet. In particular, she had obtained those six leaf-shaped lungs. When the lungs were combined with the dragon’s unique larynx, alchemical equipment with amazing attributes could be created.

Nailisi was not sure whether or not the equipment produced would be able to spew dragon’s breath. However, the defensive equipment produced would surely be able to at least resist a dragon’s breath.

The fire enchantment burned swiftly, and even the torrential rain which grew heavier by the second could not extinguish it. The dragon’s body seemed to have been soaked in oil. If not for the introversion of the fire enchantment and the black flames, it would have been highly possible that the fire could have been spotted even from dozens of miles away.

Within several minutes, the dragon had been incinerated until only a skeleton without a skull remained. If any death mages had spotted this skeleton, they would have surely fainted out of excitement.

Lex continuously cast a frost array to lower the temperature of the dragon bones. If metals were cooled and heated like this, their internal structures would have been ruined. However, the dragon bones became further crystallized, eventually looking like the most precious tremolite rocks in existence.

Nailisi and Sika began disassembling the skeleton, while Lex cast an earth spell to smash apart the ground which had been burned. The crystallized earth then transformed back into soil. Next, she would have to continuously disperse the elements in order to remove all traces of the high-level spells which had been used.

By the time they finished disassembling and storing the bones, the weather had already begun to clear up. Lex continued casting the Cleaning spell to remove the blood and smell of the dragon from everyone’s bodies. Saleen removed his white magic robe and changed into the grey magic robe that Lex had given him as a gift.

A large portion of the dragon’s blood seeped into the soil, and Lex did not know what to do with it. Thus, she asked Nailisi to dig up all that soil and put it away. Sika chopped down two trees and Lex burned them into charcoal. Then, the charcoal was crushed and put back into the ground. Thereafter, several huge rocks were placed on top of the ground.

As long as other people did not examine things closely, they would not notice these anomalies. The corpses of the war horses were stored away as well. The rears of these horses had been branded, and as long as people were literate, they would be able to trace the origins of those horses. Hence, those horses could not be left behind either.

The last task was to gather and store all the spare parts that had fallen out of the fully constructed puppet when it was struck by the dragon. Then, the four of them left the scene in a hurry. The methods used by Lex and her team had not been flawless, but as long as the pursuers had not brought along a magic beast such as a magic wolf, then it would be difficult for them to discover the anomalies here.

The torrential rain had done a huge favor to Lex and her team. It was only more than four hours later that a team of people in leather armor passed by. That team seemed to be a team of mercenaries. Within this group, there were two swordsmen who rode on magic beasts a bit more than four meters tall, and they wielded lances which were seven meters long. There was no use disguising those weapons, because only the magic beast swordsmen from the Cloudflow Empire specialized in these overly long weapons.

These magic beast swordsmen might have only been beginner swordmasters, but their capabilities on the battlefield were nearly equivalent to that of one hundred swordsmen. The magic beasts which they typically rode were not gifted in magic, but that was not necessary on the battlefield either way. Those magic beasts simply needed to rampage.

The magic beasts used by those swordsmen were obviously not everyday beasts. The beasts were over four meters tall and had a body length of roughly six meters. Their bodies were slightly bloated and thick scales naturally grew upon them. Only the necks of those beasts were covered with metal armor, and those must have been the weaknesses of the beasts.

The lances in the hands of the swordsmen were also very unique. The four facets of the sharp ends of the lances contained fine magic patterns, while their bodies gave off metallic lusters. The lances were extremely heavy. A metal chain had been attached to the poles of each lance, and each lance hung behind the saddle. Only swordmasters or people who possessed inborn strength could wield such lances. An example of such a person was Sika.

With added force from the magic beast, this seven meter long lance could already cause severe injuries to the body of the dragon.

There were mercenary badges hanging from the bodies of those two swordsmen. They looked abnormally cold, and did not really have any other expressions. In front of them, there was a swordmaster who rode on a white horse. This man was holding onto a piece of metal equipment which resembled a compass. In the middle of this orange-yellow square plate was a circular depression. The top was sealed airtight with crystals, and the surroundings were filled with magic patterns.