175 Destroying the Body Part 2 (2/2)
Inside the crystal was a levitating magnetic needle, and this needle was spinning about in chaos.
”Why did we stop?” A man wearing green metal armor whispered behind those two magic beast swordsmen.
”Sir, we have lost the direction of the tiago.”
”What!” The man in green metallic armor rode his horse around the two magic beast swordsmen and came beside the swordsmen holding onto the metal plate. Then, he grabbed the metallic square plate. Upon noticing that the magnetic needle was spinning about aimlessly, the man pushed his mask aside, revealing a youthful face.
It was a pale face which was very delicate and clean. In that moment, the face had a ferocious expression on it. Then, without any emotion, the man asked, ”Bjorn, didn’t you say that we wouldn’t lose it?”
”Sir, we wasted too much time last night…”
”Bjorn, so you’re saying that I was wrong to let you all avoid the rain?” The youth’s tone became sharp as he ruthlessly glared at the swordsman on the white horse. That swordsman thought quickly. He swiftly dismounted from his horse and knelt on one leg before bowing down and saying, ”Sir was only being compassionate and kind to his subordinates.”
As that swordsman spoke, he scolded the youth in his mind. You were obviously infatuated with that showgirl in town. That’s why you let all of us take shelter. To think that you are heir to the title of an earl when you actually took a liking to that kind of woman. What an idiot.
”Mm, good that you know that.” The youth then pressed on the two triangular protrusions on both sides of his helmet. Ka da! The youth took the helmet connected to the carapace off of his head, revealing a head full of long brown hair.
”What do you all think we should do next?” The youth tossed the metal plate aside and turned around.
The remaining twenty swordsmen could not think of anything, so one of the magic beast swordsmen said, ”Sir, why don’t we wait until the mages arrive? They will have a solution for tracking the tiago.”
”Mages?” Hehe… send four people to seal the front and back of this road. The rest of you shall search the vicinity. Search every nook and cranny within a two mile radius. Once you find any clues, come report them to me,” the youth arrogantly commanded his men. The youth had only been putting up a pretense when he had asked for suggestions. Since the last clue had been found here, they needed to search this area. This task could not have been any simpler, and yet the fools still wanted to wait until the mages arrived.
Once the mages arrived, then who would claim the credit?
Lex and her team had already travelled more than one hundred miles. Lex was injured, so Sika was carrying her on her back. With the level-3 Windspeed spell, they still managed to cover one hundred miles in this four hour duration.
Sika did not feel exhausted yet, but Lex could not take it anymore. The four of them then took a break. The place they were at was already very far from the roads of Qin. It was situated at a ridge, so there was a vantage point where they could observe all directions.
As Lex took a sip of magic liquid, many thoughts ran through her mind. After obtaining the tiago’s skin and subtracting the six pieces of equipment which would be given to Saleen, Lex would still have enough skin left to produce close to one hundred sets of swordsman equipment. Furthermore, the fine hairs of the dragon could be used to create magic robes. All these things would already enable Lex to create an emblem group consisting of swordmasters and mage masters to serve as her main forces.
There were quite a few experts in the Bitter Water Army, so their equipment had been fairly standard all this while. Even alchemical armor was still inferior to genuine magic armor. The many sets of armor obtained from Dragon’s Tooth Town were already enough to equip an entire swordsman camp. After soaking all this armor into dragon’s blood, the metallic attributes would be altered, and the armor would be able to resist magic.
Unfortunately, large amounts of the dragon’s tendons had been destroyed during the fire, and the remaining materials were pretty good, so they would be reserved for Bain.
Saleen and Nailisi had been the ones who had killed the tiago. Lex had only dealt the finishing blow. Thus, it was fine for Lex to forgo the dragonshards, but she would need a few pieces of the dragon’s teeth in order to produce daggers and arrowheads.
The bones could be used to craft hard armor, so Saleen would not snatch them from Lex. It would be impossible to craft so much equipment if she did not go to Alchemy City. If Lex relied solely on the abilities of Bitter Water Prefecture, the equipment would take up to a few years to be produced, and that was under the condition that the grade-8 sorcerer and the mage masters who had returned to the prefecture were around. If it had been any other city, it would have been nearly impossible to craft all of that equipment using the materials currently at hand.
”Lex, are you feeling alright with all those injuries?” Saleen stood beside a tree and looked into the distance, not turning around.
Lex looked at Saleen’s back and grew emotional. When she had first seen Saleen, he had still been a child and had not yet grown taller than herself. Now, he was almost an adult, and his shoulders had broadened. Saleen was now calmer, unlike the flighty person he had been during his first meeting with Lex.
”I’m fine. As long as I continue to cast the Chunlin spell, it won’t hurt much.”
”Mm. Do you think those people who severely injured the dragon will be able to track us down?”
”Yes. We created such a mess in Dragon’s Tooth Town that our tracks will definitely be exposed eventually. At the very least, we will be under suspicion, but don’t worry. Those people will not enter the Qin Empire. Any mage above grade-8 from the Cloudflow Empire cannot enter the Qin Empire for no good reason. As long as we reach Alchemy City, those people will be helpless even if we had stolen the national treasures of Cloudflow.”
”That’s good. I feel that this time around, there will be many more people pursuing us.” Saleen gently heaved a breath out of his chest and tried his best to relax. However, his intuition told him that danger was still nearby.