626 Lex’s departure Part 1 (1/2)

Saleen had a positive dream in the morning, but unbeknownst to him, Pope Theisio had a nightmare.

It was rare for a mage to dream, but even rarer for a pope to dream. A mage's mental strength was concentrated and would not be affected by any external factors, while a pope's mental strength was protected by their god. Theisio had not experienced a nightmare for over fifty years.

That was why Theisio paid attention to this event, that youth in his dream was leading an army from a foreign plane as they destroyed the Glorious Plains. ”This is surely a reminder from God asking me to beware of certain people.”

The problem was no matter how much Theisio valued his dream he could not use a holy decree to disseminate his intentions. He had no choice but to think of another method to solve this problem.

Secretly contacting the people from the inquisition, the pope delegated their missions. The headquarters of the Holy See, the inquisition, and tens of thousands of people were deployed to infiltrate the other three empires stealthily. These people only had one mission; to look for an evil young mage and send information about him back to the Holy City. No one was allowed to act on their own and the target also could not know that the Holy See was searching for him.

The pope did not ask the seven oracles to help with his mission. Until now Fycro's location was unknown and this caused Pope Theisio to be on guard.

To the colossal Holy See this incident did not send create many shockwaves as the current war was in a precarious state. Loulan was one of the biggest duchies and the Tanggulasi Empire and the Holy See had pumped in more than one-million troops into the battle. This army with more than one-million men, coupled with an even larger logistical support, still could not breach the borders of the Qin Empire despite battling for a long time. It was winter at the moment, which made the Holy See frustrated.

Fortunately, half of Titan Duchy had been seized. Cloudflow's army had retreated, guarding the borders of Cloudflow tightly. Since Cloudflow's imperial family did not have the ability to retaliate on land, they deployed three fleets to harass the waters surroundings Tanggulasi Empire. They stood ready to invade the coastal cities.

Back in Metatrin City, the construction of the city had been halted due to the frigid temperatures of the winter season. The population of the city had in fact exceeded five-hundred-thousand. This was a large number, luckily Saleen had already purchased huge amounts of rations and looted some from Cexing City. These free citizens could live a life free of worries.

Nailisi was in control in the temple and the issue of building a demonic city had begun.

The port south of Metatrin City was seven-hundred miles from Metatrin City, a normal warship would need to travel for a dozen hours to reach it. Even the dragon skeleton warship would require six hours of travel to arrive when traveling at full speed. The skeletal warships could travel very quickly, but it still took about eight hours of sailing.

The locally produced white rocks from Metatrin City were slowly taken to the site of the demonic city using Saleen's Dimension Stones. Saleen then realized that the white rocks from Metatrin City were a kind of invaluable construction material. The toughness of them was comparable to that of steel rocks, the only flaw was that it was difficult to bless them with magic. The colossal number of skeletons summoned by the three kings became coolies, while the slaves purchased from the eastern sea were assigned to carry out the intricate work.

After Cuisi's drawing of the demonic city was altered by the mages from Sregl Island the workload became increasingly larger.

There was a huge amount of rocks left from the development of Metatrin City because many gigantic rocks had to be flattened. A drainage system also had to be dug under the ground and massive underground warehouses were built. These rocks were stored in the warehouses, they could be used directly. The size of the demonic city was simply too huge, Saleen had no choice but to mine rocks outside the city and send them to the construction site.

The supply of rocks was definitely sufficient. The first structure to be built in the demonic city was a demon-summoning array.

Saleen did not seek Lex's opinion regarding the construction of a demonic city because Saleen was very sure that Lex would not partake in it even if she nodded her head. Saleen provided all the materials needed for building the summoning array.

Saleen had many magic nuclei in his possession, however, he did not have many of the materials required for building a summoning array. Nailisi had to resolve this problem on her own. Nailisi had amassed more materials than Saleen, but she still had to borrow some materials from the winged skeleton in order to obtain all the resources required to build a demon-summoning array.

It was a summoning array with a diameter of six-hundred yards, such an enormous magic array had not been built on the Myers mainland before. This summoning array had to be fully sealed, which meant that a space spanning six-hundred yards had to be built on the magic array and it had to be a structure without any pillars.

Even a mage would find it challenging to construct such a structure. There was no choice. The core of the demonic city had shifted another dozen miles towards the mountainous region. A lofty mountain on the plains was selected and the demon-summoning array was built inside this mountain.

Saleen had to do this himself, but he also roped in all the mages from Sregl Island. After using magic to surveil the underground portion of the mountain, Saleen used the Current Cutter to cut out a hole in the core of the mountain, expanding from the interior of the mountain to its exterior. All the mages had to monitor the situation simultaneously to see whether the load bearing portion of the mountain was sturdy enough or not. They also had to use magic to reinforce the mountain.

As Saleen and the mages were developing the magic array Daniel led a huge number of spirits to aid in the construction.

At this moment, a piece of information was relayed back by one of the spirits deployed by the winged skeleton. This spirit had discovered a secret resupply point along the eastern sea route. That was an island with a radius of less than one-hundred miles. This island was more than seven-thousand miles from the coasts of Qin, its position was closer to the perilous waters. In a year it would be afflicted with hurricanes for about ten months.