504 Setting a trap Part 2 (1/2)

The Kind William was only relative to his other five comrades. When being cruel to others, he preferred using methods other than violence to solve problems. When he had to use violence, he would be Black William, the butcher's knife of the inquisition. He rarely acted alone, but this mission had an urgent timeframe. With the head inquisitor away in the capital, the people around him did not have the ability contain a mage like Lex, so he had no choice but to act alone.

He was a little overjoyed that Lex had rejected his terms. The team in front of him was like a hedgehog, it was challenging to take action. The worst thing was that Lex was traveling too quickly. He had deployed an emblem group of blood knights, but they were unexpectedly terminated by Lex's war puppets. Even though Lex also suffered substantial losses, he had lost all the pawns available to obtain Lex.

The heavy infantrymen could definitely pester Lex's subordinates, but the horses and chariots for transportation could not be provided. Huge losses were sustained in the war with Titan Duchy, so the heavy infantrymen could only rely on inferior horses clad in armor for transport. They had to select a battlefield which the enemy could not escape from.

Given the speed of the infantrymen, it was basically impossible for them to catch up to such a swift team.

The riders from the Tanggulasi Empire were greatly disadvantaged by heavy infantrymen during the war in Loulan. Other than the imperial army, Qin had to procure most of their warhorses from Cloudflow. The local warhorses were either of an inferior species, or they were in insufficient quantities. As a result, Qin's infantrymen were all along the strongest out of the four big empires.

If William's heavy infantrymen were like that of Qin's, then he would not be in such a dilemma. The heavy infantrymen from Qin could march at a speed slightly slower than light cavalry. With the help from mages, they could cover more than two-hundred miles in a day, and equip two pieces of heavy armor in half an hour.

At the moment, Black William could only harass Lex's team on his own. Once the head inquisitor could free himself from the chaos in the capital, it would just be a matter of days for him to rush over.

The Tanggulasi Empire might not have a teleportation portal like the one in Qin, but they could still teleport a person to the borders. Once the head inquisitor reached the border, he would be able to get there swiftly given his speed.

Black William consoled himself, ”It is not my fault that I cannot solve the problem independently.” He had learned from history when the whole upper management of the Holy See was greatly damaged in the assassination of Emperor Chanake. Since Lex was Emperor Chanake's biological daughter, Black William was afraid that his plans would go awry. The Grukos family was not to be trifled with, Black William did not even want to partake in this task personally.

This time around, Lex decided to construct a wooden house for her soldiers to live in. The mages did not even disembark from the magic war chariots. By remaining onboard a magic war chariot, these mages, who were two to three grades lowers than Black William, would pose a threat to him. All of the protection duties were fulfilled by the fully constructed puppets, while the swordmasters went to rest.

If the army from the Tanggulasi Empire got there, Lex could easily abandon the wooden house anytime and flee.

Black William admired her as he observed such an arrangement. His plan to exhaust Lex's men by making them travel endlessly had failed. Lex did not even give a hoot about his surveillance. As long as there was no huge manpower present, Lex would continue doing whatever she was doing.

Lex had the same exact thoughts too. Before killing Black William, she had to wait for information from Metatrin City no matter what.

Eleanor gave the equipment drawing to Saleen, it was drawn intricately. Lex noticed this drawing, she did not demand another one, but she paid attention to it. This magic shortbow was more complicated than a usual large magic appliance. If it was not produced using a skill like the Water Flame Alchemy, but in a normal laboratory, then the size of this laboratory would have to be unusually huge. Instead, Saleen simply threw all the materials into the water flames and used his mental strength to control the details within the bow, it did not seem taxing for him at all.

Lex also had her own refinement methods, but they were inferior to the legacy from Sregl Island. She was not envious of Saleen though, as long as she could return to Raphael's magical tower, she could utilize the laboratory in the tower to create any type of magic equipment.

Nailisi slept, Sika trained, and Saleen refined the short bow while Eleanor continued the recovery of her injuries. The team had halted just like that. Only some magic arrays were positioned to guard against a sneak attack. Every day, two mages would man a special magic array, listening for any vibrations in the earth. If a huge group of people were approaching, the team would retreat immediately, they would not try to respond anymore.

If the flying puppets were released at this juncture, they would definitely be destroyed by Black William. Lex had straightened her thoughts, she would allow Black William to observe all he wanted. There were no secrets in the camp compound anyway.

The nights were abnormally frosty. Black William waited for three days and two nights, but Lex made no movements. He was even toying with the idea of summoning the army already. He knew that the moment an army got close, Lex would start running again. Unless these twenty people could be surrounded, any other efforts would just be in vain.

Just as Black William was feeling depressed, the dead camp suddenly emanated a thunderous explosion noise as black plumes of smoke rose dozens of meters into the sky. A slender shadow rushed out from the campgrounds, making a beeline for the south.

Black William put up a lens in front of his eyes. Through the lens, he saw that the person frantically running was a lady. Her build was exquisite, and there was a noticeable air flow encircling the surface of her body.

This woman donned a cotton coat, Titan styled. It was simple but the hem was short. She was a mage, but she was not wearing a magic robe.

Following that, two more people rushed out from the camp. One of them had a vague cloud-shaped air flow on the surface of their body, he was using an unknown speed-enhancing spell. The other guy was a warrior clad in sealed armor. This warrior was almost the same build as the mage, but he could run as fast as the mage who was blessed with magic.

Several more swordmasters ran out of the camp too, but were immediately recalled. A warrior clad in magic armor decided to jump atop a chariot, and used the alchemical binoculars to look to Black William's direction.

That warrior's alchemical binoculars could obviously spot Black William's position, then he made an insulting hand gesture out of the blue.