656 The Possessions of the Three Kings Part 1 (2/2)

By right, there was no way a person whose abdomen had just been pierced through would be able to continue fighting. The soldiers of the Holy See could do it without their strength being weakened.

Only the alchemy arrows shot from the watchtowers on both sides could kill the enemies immediately. There were not a lot of Caucasus people and the flying axes of the barbarians could not deal with too many enemies either. One barbarian could only carry approximately five flying axes.

What surprised Saleen was that the barbarians had a positive effect on morale. None of the barbarians retreated and when faced with enemies so daunting, the barbarians became even more frenzied.

Due to Cuisi's presence, there were fewer casualties in the other two areas in which Saleen had set up defense. He could use a long whip to kill enemies within more than thirty yards. By the end of the battle, there was blood everywhere on the top of the city wall. The mercenary soldiers did not possess very good equipment and were barely still standing. Saleen's soldiers were still able to run amidst the thick pools of blood however.

When the attack finally stopped, no one cheered. The top of the city wall was covered in corpses, most of them belonging to the expedition. Amongst the corpses were soldiers who were heavily injured. They could no longer be healed by holy priests and would only die slowly.

Saleen was very anxious. Only when Grand Bishop Nicholas ordered his remaining soldiers to retreat did Saleen give the order to clean up the battlefield.

A gigantic furnace was prepared in the city. The corpses of the enemy were separated from those of his own army. Quite a few slaves died, but the ashes of the the army must be buried.

Aini and Daniel left the top of the city wall. They were put in charge of this. Death mages would usually be around the furnace to collect the black smoke produced by the burning of the corpses. Such smoke was harmful to normal humans, but was valuable to death mages'.

Saleen asked Sika to fly higher. He saw that Grand Bishop Nicholas and his army had slowly passed by western town. He then ordered the mages in the city to join in the cleaning up of the battlefield.

Saleen was relieved to see the mages stepping out. The number of casualties in this battle was a few times more than he expected, but at least none of his mages died. They were all safe in the buildings within the city.

The defense mechanism of Dante's Sequence restricted the holy priests to be able to boost their warriors with divine spell only once and not cause any damage to the buildings on the top of the city wall. Saleen's mages could hide in the buildings and attack with their spells as a result.

All the low-level mages came and began to use cleaning spells to clean up the fresh blood on the ground. Giant eagles were circling in the sky, waiting to feast on the dead bodies when the battle ended.

The giant eagles in the north were all scavengers. Since Saleen's soldiers did not bother to leave the city to clean up, these eagles became bolder and began to swoop towards the ground to feast on the corpses of the expedition soldiers.

When Grand Bishop Nicholas was finally far away enough that Saleen's elemental eye could no longer see him, he told Sika, ”Take me back to the temple. I'm so tired.”

The five-thousand wardens did not join in the battle and instead, retreated very early on. They were led by two black-robed mages. These two grade-8 sorcerers looked dispirited and none of the black high priests dared to disturb them. Although the combined power of the twelve of them was higher than the two sorcerers, the latter had more ways to kill as compared to the black high priests.

If the gold grand swordmaster did not die the two of them would not have retreated in such a hurry. The two of them dared not test the power that defeated the gold grand swordmaster in such a manner.

By showing the Head Inquisitor the images they had recorded with their equipment, they might even be rewarded. If they had lost all five-thousand wardens, there would be zero chance of them being rewarded.

The two sorcerers consoled themselves in this way, but deep down in their hearts, they were actually petrified. The gold grand swordmaster was their spiritual pillar of support. Now that he has been defeated, their confidence have also been shaken.

A gold grand swordmaster and two grade-8 sorcerers were a terrifying combination. Now that the former had been killed, the two grade-8 sorcerers' powers were no longer as formidable.

The enemy could control lightning. Even the gold grand swordmaster's equipment was all turned into ashes by the lightning. Who could stand a chance against such power?

Once Saleen returned to the temple, he immediately went to the sixth level. There was a room there that was specifically for healing purposes. Saleen sank his entire body into the restorative water while putting his left hand, which was reduced to bones, into magic liquid.

Saleen was already used to such injuries. There were no signs of cracks on his dark green bones. The power of lightning had caused his entire left forearm and wrist to lose all flesh and blood. It would take half a year to grow them back again.

Saleen would not be able to advance into a sorcerer in the next half a year.

”Master!” Nailisi recovered much faster than Saleen. She entered the room and saw that Sika was looking after him alone. Nailisi was stunned for a while, but immediately understood that aside from herself, Sika was the only other person that Saleen trusted completely.

”Master, I know. You want the lightning dragon's corpse.” With that, Nailisi removed the bracelet and put it on the ground. She knelt in front of the crystal box and looked at Saleen's injured limb.

”Nailisi, what happened to you? I thought you would have wanted to keep it for yourself,” Saleen teased.