608 Trap within a Trap Part 1 (1/2)
Under Su's protection, Narnia did not sustain any injuries. She would have been able to deal with her opponent easily even without Su. Mages would usually try to put an end to a battle quickly because they would not be able to last in a prolonged battle like a silver grand swordmaster.
Facing an enemy of this grade, Su did not care too much about how much sword aura he was using. As long as he could direct his sword aura from the tip of his long sword through the enemy's armor, the white-robed warrior was as good as dead. Most of the white-robed warriors that were charging towards him had already sustained wounds caused by the soldiers of the royal swordsmen camp.
Su felt a bit guilty to be dealing with opponents that were below the grade of swordmasters that were already injured. If he was still in his clan, this type of opponents would have been dealt with by the bodyguards. His main target should have been the enemy's mage or general.
Saleen's expression became colder. The proportion of elements were incorrect and the imbalance was too great. The water element was so dense that the temperature began to drop. The fog continued to absorb heat and so more and more dense clouds began to appear in the sky.
”Uncle Fellet!”
”Saleen. What happened?”
”Look, the enemy seems to be preparing an even more powerful attack, but I cannot find the array's weakness.”
”The enemy's target is not Narnia, it is the entire group of soldiers. We have been trapped. If the reinforcements have also been trapped here, Northtown will send even more reinforcements.”
Realization suddenly dawned on Saleen. ”Yes, Narnia is extremely valuable to me, but not to the Tanggulasi Empire or the Holy See. I was too blind!”
The Holy See should not have gone to such great measures just for an envoy, even if Safilos' rumors might have played a small part. Looking at Fycro, surely not everyone in the Holy See was stupid. Those that were would not have been able to continue surviving in the Holy See.
Even so, this divine spell would likely succeed in killing all the soldiers. At this point, Saleen decided to take out a dimension stone, retrieved gigantic metal components, and began to piece them together into a metal barrack. This barrack was given to him by Lex, who used it to survive the sandstorm in the purgatory desert. Back then, the men from Holy See lacked such an equipment, so all of them perished.
This barrack was built only for fifty people and Saleen had two-hundred and fifty men with him now. If everyone tried to squeeze in, it would be cramped like the storage room on a fishing boat.
The materials of this barrack were not rare, but the cost of creating it was high. Saleen borrowed it from Lex to study and see if he could find any other suitable replacements and use them in his own army. Just nice that it could be put to good use now.
”Cuisi, I want corpses that are fully intact.” Saleen could vaguely sense the critical points of danger. Although he would not be able to thoroughly destroy the array, at least he knew how to minimize the damage.
The white-robed warriors attacked without any care for their own lives. Once they died, their souls were absorbed by the array within Green Dragon Stone. The men of the Holy See were preparing for their final attack.
Cuisi took out his long whip. It had been newly refined and was eighteen yards long. They were no longer covered with sharp thorns. Instead, the end of the whip had a magic totem in the shape of a serpent. The long whip whipped through the clouds with a loud hiss, but the sound and exact location of where the whip would land were not the same.
Cuisi handled his weapon deftly. Every time the long whip lashed out, a white-robed warrior's brain was smashed then pulled over to Saleen. Saleen used his dimension stone to keep these corpses. Cuisi was extremely fast and very soon, Saleen had taken more than one-hundred white-robed warrior corpses.
The dimension stone could buffer against the effects of divine spells so the souls of these warriors were all kept safely.
In the center of Green Dragon Stone, the red-robed Bishop suddenly felt the turning of the array begin to slow down. He scanned the area and discovered what Saleen was doing.
”A dimension stone!” The red-robed Bishop was agitated. This item was extremely precious to holy priests.
Dimension stones were similar to chlorites as both could contain divinity. Before chlorites had been mined to the point of being fully exhausted, dimension stones were rarely found on the Myers Mainland. Mages and holy priests had searched the entire mainland, but did not manage to find any mines that contained dimension stones.
”This damned mage is actually using a dimension stone to do such a disgusting thing!” He could not do anything about it except tolerate it. The array had not been fully completed so he could not leave his place. If he asked the black deacons to take the dimension stone, they would surely keep it for themselves.
At this point, the red-robed Bishop began to worry. If the two black deacons discovered the mage's dimension stone, would they try to take it for themselves? If that was the case, not only would he not get the dimension stone, the array could not be completed either!
The dimension stone was more expensive than the ice island rock. Within the Holy See, the ice island rock was awarded by the Pope to the most pious disciples and only six were given out every year.
Saleen was not aware that his actions had been seen by the enemy. His original intention was to force the enemy into unleashing their attack prematurely. He released all his puppets to construct the metal barracks with the soldiers. After killing more than two-hundred men, the metal barrack had been completed. Saleen said, ”Let's all go in. Leave the warhorses behind.”
”No!” The soldiers of the royal swordsmen camp were so anxious that they forgot about Saleen's status as a mage and rejected him outright. These warhorses were their companions, how could they leave them behind?