500 Blood knights Part 2 (2/2)
Saleen cut off the connection with the puppets, as he remained upset. Nailisi propped Saleen up, then said, ”Master, stop sulking, we should prepare to leave.”
”Leave?”
”Lex cannot hold the fort, we have to enter the desert earlier.”
Saleen did not ask why. He was in a bad mood, so he did not think about this question. With Nailisi's reminder, he came to understand that Lex was depending on just a dozen people. Even though she had a powerful assassin with her, it was impossible to continue camping in the Black Rock Mountain anymore.
The people from the Holy See could attack this place endlessly, or they could even besiege the area. By then, Saleen would not be able to leave even if he wanted to. The reason why Lex did not give the retreat order was because the blood knights were too fast, they could even catch up to a skeletal warhorse.
If this emblem group of blood knights was not extirpated, it would be difficult to solve the problem even if Lex's team had fled into the desert. Lex's subordinates could not be abandoned, only the war puppets could be abandoned.
Lex had already recalled the injured puppets. In the fight against the blood knights, many more injuries were added onto the bodies of the war puppets. Since the puppets had coarse skin and thick flesh, almost none of them were fully destroyed. More than half of them could not continue fighting already. Some puppets even lost a whole arm. Since the puppets had lost their weapon, they could only kick the enemy, so there was no point for them to remain on the battlefield.
Saleen really wanted to ask Nailisi to release another ten-thousand magic bugs to devour those blood knights. Summoning magic bugs depleted a great deal of resources though, and there was no time to set a secure magic array.
Aiwa was responsible for storing the tent. Indeed, Lex's subordinates were also dismantling the tents. These tents were specially produced magic appliances. One would not even be able to pitch a tent in the Purgatory Desert otherwise.
Lex was also dispirited. She was going to receive information from Metatrin City, yet she got discovered by the Tanggulasi army. It was likely that the news released by Bifano had been discovered by the Agares family.
For the past twenty days, Bifano had stopped transmitting further information, which meant that he was dead. The Agares family would have deployed many men to investigate into this matter. After Lex left, she tried her best to avoid the cities, yet she could not avoid the villages. Since the Agares family had managed Titan for such a long time, they were in control of most farmers, so there was no way Lex could hide her movements from them.
”Since the Agares family knew that they couldn't capture me, they decided to leak the information to the Tanggulasi Empire. If I were in their shoes, I would have done so too. The Agares family had acted too quickly though, I cannot even stay for two or three more days.”
The sound of the war drums in the distance were drawing closer. It seemed like the Tanggulasi army had met with some trouble, so they could not follow the blood knights closely. It was possible that they had alarmed the ferocious creatures at the periphery of the desert due to the presence of their large manpower.
The magic beasts in the Purgatory Desert were different from the ones outside. Due to a lack of food, they were highly aggressive. This was the reason why Lex was not willing to bring along a large number of people, instead she was willing to use the pricey war puppets. Had she brought along an emblem group, the blood knights would have been wiped out swiftly.
Lex could not waste any more time, she spoke into the Sound Transmission Magic Array, ”Longqi, come back. Leave the war puppets behind to defend the rear. Saleen, put away the fully constructed puppets, don't have such a high level of consumption for now.”
Saleen nodded. The fully constructed puppets controlled by Nailisi and him were mosaicked with the fragments of the dragonshard, but the other fully constructed puppets were using intermediate level magic nuclei. The dragonshard could self-recover slowly, but a magic nucleus was a disposable item.
Lex's Black Metal Grand Swordmasters were actually the leaders of her first emblem group. Once the order was given, the two of them immediately led the swordmasters away from the encirclement of the blood knights.
The blood knights gave chase fearlessly, so the swordmasters had no choice but to turn around and use their alchemical crossbows to shoot the blood knights' warhorses. The arrow of a miniature alchemical crossbow did not have a tail. Its head was triangular, sharp, and wide. It could amputate the leg bone of a warhorse.
After traveling for hundreds of yards, over a hundred blood warhorses collapsed. Without legs, a four-legged animal could not run no matter how ferocious they were. The fallen blood knights thus began running on foot. Lex's swordmasters dashed into the formation of war puppets quickly, allowing the war puppets to clean up the rest of the enemies.
By now, the mages had boarded the magic war chariots. Other than the tents and alchemical crossbows, the rest of the appliances in the camp compound were abandoned.
This time around, Lex personally gave the directions, leading the rest of the people through the Black Rock Mountain, towards the east.
Without coordination by Wild Bear, the remaining over one-hundred war puppets lost their oppressive advantage, thus they were swiftly drowned out by the hundreds of oncoming blood knights. Lex's method of guarding the rear was a success though. As long as the core of a war puppet was not destroyed, they could continue fighting. The cognition of a blood knight was inferior to that of a magic beast. As long as the war puppets kept moving, the blood knights would pound them ferociously.
About one-hundred war puppets could actually hold back a group of blood knights many times larger than them.