500 Blood knights Part 2 (1/2)

Contempt was not equivalent to belittling. The fact that the enemy could destroy the flying puppet swiftly, and locate the exact position of the camp, meant that there was at least a holy master who was equivalent to a grade-6 mage present. Since there were so many blood knights, there had to be a huge number of low grade holy masters too.

Lex was lucky. The Tanggulasi army had discovered her tracks very late, so even though they traveled quickly, they were still afraid of letting her get away. Consequently, they deployed the blood knights, who traveled the fastest, to harass her. It was not a planned operation. If there were holy masters among the blood knights, the blood knights would not have been obstructed by the magic traps and fell off their warhorses so easily.

The Tanggulasi Empire did not dare risk the lives of their holy masters. The Tanggulasi people knew that there was a mighty presence accompanying Lex. If the holy masters had entered recklessly without the protection of soldiers, they would be easily slaughtered by the grand swordmasters serving Lex.

Since the holy masters were detached from the blood knights, Lex's war puppets came in handy. Under Wild Bear's command, the war puppets wielded bulky blades, slashing at the blood knights ferociously.

As Lex had insufficient mages with her, the war puppets could not be controlled individually, so they had to act on their own. As a result, the war puppets behaved inflexibly even though they could move swiftly. Fortunately, the enemy were blood knights who had lost their senses and the holy masters were not around to control them either. Banking on a higher amount of strength, the war puppets slaughtered all the blood knights who managed to avoid the magic traps as though they were vegetables.

Wild Bear only made two return trips into the midst of the blood knights and he could not see any more of them already. Human heads and amputated limbs were strewn across the ground, it was an extremely grotesque sight. Wild Bear actually calmed down. These monsters could actually be killed, and they could be killed easily.

Once the two Black Metal Grand Swordmasters saw this scene, they slowed down, then they led the swordmasters back into the heat of battle once more. Given their rich combat experience, they immediately identified the weakness of the blood knights. The blood knights possessed inferior skills, they relied on their fearless bodies and immense strength to triumph, which was very similar to some low grade magic beasts.

Even though the two Black Metal Grand Swordmasters were lousier than Jola, they had killed countless magic beasts too, so they were not afraid of those monsters.

To a real warrior, there was nothing to be afraid of as long as the enemy would die. Via the Sound Transmission Magic Arrays in their helmets, the two grand swordmasters disseminated the crux to winning the battle to their swordmasters. Coupled with good chemistry, the twelve people got into an arrowhead formation, before piercing straight into the team of blood knights.

This time around, Lex's swordmasters had abandoned their usual combat style. They instead began cooperating with one another. Five swordmasters used the large shields to form a circle, while the Black Metal Grand Swordmasters chopped the heads off the blood knights who could not maneuver swiftly in the circle.

Occasionally, a blood knight would use his giant axe to strike the huge shields, but he would only leave a faint scratch on the metal surface. Most of the impact had been negated by the shield itself. The heavier an object in mid-air was, the more difficult was it to agitate it. A giant axe weighed less than one-hundred pounds. After the impact was negated by the huge shield, it would be impossible to use brute force to injure the person holding the shield.

Since the Spirit Snake Armor was sealed, the stench of blood in the air only reached the noses of the swordmasters after being filtered by a magic array. The smell still nauseated them though. The flesh of a blood knight smelt like it had been rotting for a few months. The swordmasters could only concentrate on killing the enemy in order to temper the feeling to vomit.

The magic array only filtered toxins, not smells.

When the double-edged serrated knives sliced the neck of a blood knight, blood would spurt out, gushing in all directions. Most of the blood knights were killed by the two Black Metal Grand Swordmasters, while the ten swordmasters seemed to have acted as guards. Their armor had long been drenched in large amounts of blood. If it was not for the self-cleaning function of magic armor, scabs of blood would have formed on their skin already.

Saleen suddenly felt a sense of being shaken. He felt that he was a spectator in this battle, even though he was also the enemy's target. That being said, the blood knights only rushed here desperately after receiving information about Lex's movements, their intention was to harass Lex.

When half the face mask of a blood knight was destroyed, revealing a bearded face, Saleen then recognized that they were barbarians.

The barbarians captured by the Black Bishop were shipped back to the Tanggulasi Empire. Now, they had appeared in this location.

Barbarians did not care about etiquette nor hygiene, and they were not as disciplined as the Caucasus people, so they were never really well liked. Saleen knew that the barbarians were pure at heart and easygoing. If the barbarians had lived in a city long enough, they would also learn to live like a Qin person.

Even though they received occasional mocking, the barbarians would only wave their fists in displeasure, they would not really wallop anyone.

Saleen did not groom those barbarians into very good soldiers, but in his heart, he had already accepted those barbarians as his citizens. There was no difference between a barbarian, a Qin person, or a Sikeqinyan. All of them could cry, laugh, fume, and think.

The barbarians had already become a part of Metatrin City. Now that so many barbarians, who were captured by the Holy See, had appeared right before him, Saleen no longer felt that he was a spectator in this battle.

”Even though it is a war, don't the people of the Holy See have some conscience?” Saleen could not help but blurt out a naïve thought. Given his experiences, he should not have posed such a question. Given the current situation, he did not know how to express his emotions

Nailisi was jubilant, then said, ”Master, you humans have a saying; if this world is not up to par, then one should either tolerate it or rebel, but they should never ask why.”