609 Trap within a Trap Part 2 (1/2)
Saleen could not afford to care about maintaining the transformation of the elements around the phoenix. He pushed Narnia into the metal barrack and he entered quickly after her before Su entered last. Su latched the door and Saleen immediately cast a spell to completely seal up the metal door.
”Narnia, use some earth-element spells!”
Saleen knew that his water-element spells would not be effective. Narnia nodded and produced yellow-colored crystallizations of the earth element to change the door into a wall without any gaps.
When this metal barrack was constructed, it was rectangular in shape and could only fit fifty people. Now that it was being used as a temporary hideout for two-hundred people, it was a tight squeeze. Narnia took out a small case. There were two wind-element magic arrays on top of it along with a low-level magic nucleus.
Even though it was powered by a low-level magic nucleus, this case was something used by Qin combat vessels to supply air. In the beginning when Qin was still studying and building submarines, they were built with plenty of this magic equipment. Without them, the crews would have perished without a sufficient air supply.
Saleen had only just entered the metal barrack when Green Dragon Stone became a sea of flames. This huge inferno burned rapidly and the sky was painted red. Even if the reinforcements from Northtown had not used any signalling flares, Northtown should have realized by now that something had cropped up.
Under the influence of divine spells, water elements would break down into even smaller components and burn rapidly at terrifying temperatures. Saleen and Narnia hid in the metal barrack nervously and cast one spell after another through the thick metal walls.
The spells cast by Saleen and Narnia were sticky traps which possessed an area effect. Once the spells had been cast, a thick layer of sticky substance formed around the metal barrack. This kind of substance was hard to burn off and was even more durable than solid ice.
All the white fog around Green Dragon Stone floated towards the room in which Saleen and the rest were hiding. They acted as fuel for the fire and the attack persisted.
The sticky trap could not last long but fortunately it was a low-level spell so Saleen and Narnia could cast it over and over again without exhausting too much mental strength or magic chords. To a grand mage, he would not even have to consider these two factors at all. Narnia had just cast a modified Phoenix spell so she was not able to help Saleen for too long.
Fellet chuckled and took over Narnia's position. The sticky trap was a spell that he was not familiar with. Since this spell was only used to act as a buffer against the burning flames, he only needed to make sure he was in sync with Saleen.
After half an hour, the temperature within the metal room inevitably rose. If this continued, the temperature in the room would reach boiling point or even beyond. The people in the room would all become cooked like vegetables that had been put into a steamer.
This was when the men of the royal swordsmen camp finally revealed their horror. Their magic armor could certainly last for half an hour under the attack of flames. In this case, they could feel the effects even though spells had been cast to protect them from the direct impact of the flames. They began to doubt if their armor would be able to protect them.
”Don't worry, it is just a high temperature,” Saleen tried to assure them even as he changed the spell that he was casting at the same time. In his hands appeared a sphere of green water flames. They burned cleanly and both Tornado and Snowkill appeared outside of the metal barrack.
Snowkill was a spell with an abnormally low temperature that had a freezing effect. Saleen had no intentions of using this spell to extinguish the flames. The snowflakes that were formed from the water elements floated in the air like razor and danced in the midst of the tornado. The wind elements buffered the burning of the flames, but not the lowering of temperature due to the freezing.
The sticky substance that covered the metal barrack was now quickly transforming into ice and the entire barrack had turned into a gigantic ice block.
Saleen's only objective now was to lower the temperature within the barrack. Green Dragon Stone did not burn completely as there was still plenty of white fog everywhere. As long as no outsiders destroyed the formation of the divine spell, it could remain functional for an entire day.
Even a sorcerer would not be able to withstand an entire day of high-temperature attack.
When the red Bishop noticed the ice blocks appearing on the barrack that the mage had constructed, he immediately knew that things were not going according to plan. If this went on, more heavy-armored soldiers from north town would be sent over and he would fail to kill his original targets. His objective was to capture the envoy of Bitter Water Prefecture alive, hence he resorted to using a pressing method such as this instead of a more destructive skill.
This kind of area attack would not be fatal to a grand mage. As long as the time factor was well-controlled and the grand mage was thoroughly exhausted, he could still be captured alive. No one imagined that there would be three instead of one grand mage. Due to a godly item that he had brought along that was effective in countering spirits of the dead, the death mage was not an important consideration. Amongst the Holy See equipment, there were few that could effectively counter spirits of the dead. Without it, the death mage would have been much harder to handle.
The red Bishop realized that things might be getting out of hand. He flipped to the end of the book and began to chant a new prayer.
”To the mightiest God, there are lost souls on earth that are not able to return to the right path. They are not innocent. I seek the flame of hell to purify these heresies. Nevertheless, this goes against my religion. Your forgiveness has also made me doubtful and lost…”