645 The Bond Weakens Part 2 (1/2)

Diyabannersa was trying to fool Saleen, but Saleen had already long decided to kill Diyabannersa. Once this king of spirit of the dead could no longer be controlled, Saleen would be in danger. It was only because of the Holy See's army that Saleen still needed to depend on these three fellows. Killing them now would do no good for the city's defense.

Saleen led some men to patrol the city and felt fortunate that his teacher had given him a diagram of the design of this city. Without Dante's Sequence and magic towers, even a thirty yard tall city wall would not be able to hold the Holy See's army back.

There were a number of holy priests outside the city. Some of them were even more powerful than the black Deacons and black Bishops that Saleen had encountered before and were only slightly below Genesis. Genesis was an oracle and a grade-9 opponent whose god punishment spell would be able to kill even those of the same grade. If not for Lex and her God's ring, Genesis might have been able to beat anyone.

There were more than ten holy priests outside of the city who had already reached sorcerers' standards. Such a high number of holy priests flying to the top of the city could potentially be fatal.

With Dante's Sequence, all the buildings in the city had formed a different magic array and had surpassed the magic array's Element Control Sequence. With the support of the magic array, flying would not be possible within ten miles of the city wall.

The holy priests would not dare to be within the vicinity of the city wall. Saleen thought about it and said, ”Deploy more barbarian archers. Everyone shall be equipped with twelve flying axes. Enemies that would be able to climb up the city wall would be slain warriors that were either heavy-armored or clad in many layers of armor.”

The enemy had no intentions of deploying soldiers to attack the north side of the city wall. The west side of the city wall was already eight miles wide. If they split up their forces it would be difficult to gather life strength. The Holy See had miscalculated slightly. They had thought that they would be facing a battle line of two miles wide. Saleen predicted that the enemy would concentrate their attacks on two to three areas and not attack from both the west and the north.

Saleen looked at the enemy below him and felt less nervous. At least his prediction was partially correct in that the enemy did not possess much large equipment. When the enemy lost their catapults and stepped wagons at Broken Blade Pass, they resorted to cutting down trees and using them to build another version of a catapult. In order to increase the range of this type of catapult and to prevent it from being destroyed by the city's own catapults easily, the expedition would build these catapults to be enormous. It would take a long time, so it was unable to exert pressure on the city.

The expedition created approximately one-hundred catapults. These catapults required at least fifty soldiers and five horses to operate them.

Saleen did some calculations in his mind and knew that these catapults could only fire once every half hour and would not be able to fire in a spread. The only limitation for the soldiers within the city was that they would not know where the projectiles would land. Catapults like these would fire at a very slow rate. There was no way it would hit any swordmasters. It would probably strike some auxiliary soldiers or unlucky swordsmen.

When the soldiers retreated from Broken Blade Pass, they did not leave behind too much equipment. Saleen saw hundreds of big crossbows and some small alchemy crossbows. The big crossbows were created in Qin, but the alchemy crossbows were imitated by the holy priests. Their range would definitely lose out to the real alchemy crossbows that Saleen possessed.

”Give every mage on the city wall twelve scrolls of the grade-3 fire cloud spell, twelve scrolls of the grade-3 wind blade spell, and two scrolls of the grade-2 sour rain spell. Hmm, everyone will also collect a scroll of grade-3 icicle magic from the temple.”

The grade-3 icicle magic scroll that Saleen mentioned was actually a scroll that he created on his own. Its powers were the same as a grade-3 spell, but even grade-1 mages would be able to use it. He once used restorative icicle magic to kill up to one-hundred people in one go. It was probably the most powerful low-level magic.

The mages on the city wall were not of very high levels. If not for the fact that Metatrin City's walls were so unique and could protect these mages, Saleen would not have allowed them to come up. The most common problem that low-level mages faced was insufficient magic chords, hence their ability to cast spells was also limited. This was the reason why Saleen prepared so many scrolls and diluted magic liquid to sustain the low-level mages' mental strength to battle for a long time.

There were many low-level holy priests amongst the enemy's warriors while Saleen had also deployed many low-level mages. Saleed had the upper hand as he also had Metatrin City's wall while the enemy only possessed some pathetic stepped wagons and ladders.

Fortress hammers were ineffective against Metatrin City because Saleen had sufficient magic catapults that could easily destroy the enemy's large equipment.

The enemy began to construct their catapults three miles away. The catapults in the city began to bombard the enemy without waiting for them to complete their construction. Gigantic rocks flew towards the structure of the catapults. Saleen was well-prepared and chose to use normal catapults instead of magic catapults.

There were more than two-hundred of the catapults which were also built at the last minute. It was built to deal with the enemy's foot soldiers when they attacked the city. When Saleen discovered that the enemy had constructed one-hundred catapults, he decided to use his catapults for this purpose instead.

More than thirty gigantic rocks were unleashed in the first wave. The mages were able to accurately provide the locations of the targets. More than a thousand barbarians were operating the catapults. They moved the beasts and adjusted the winches, launching the gigantic rocks away.

More than thirty catapults were hit and more than twenty of them were destroyed instantly. The last fifty catapults fired again and more than ten of the expedition's catapults were hit.