816 Coming Home Empty-handed Part 2 (2/2)

Not that time. That time, he was there to take someone away, and that required quite a bit of discretion.

Don had a keen enough sense to join a mercenary group with little more than one-hundred members, but members of which were of high quality. The group was taken in by the city as expected without trouble.

As a mage from a mercenary group, Don was not summoned to the palace immediately, and he felt no need to rush things. If he was to go on his way by force, there was no guarantee that he would have been able to destroy all the magic towers in the way. As soon as Lex retreated into one of those towers, there was little else he could do.

There was little need to get too close to Lex. Three-hundred yards would have been enough, as she would have been out of the towers' range for protection. As long as things happened to be so, Don had enough confidence to take his target away. As for escape, there was no option but to fight his way out of the city.

Don waited a week to be selected by Lex's people to join the ranks of the palace mages. As a level two white-robed mage, there was no way for him to be able to join the ranks of her personal mages. There were other tests to be had, such as loyalty.

Don was at the time, in charge of the records, taking note of the books that low-level mages borrowed. The magic tower of the palace could have been seen from the window of his quarters. Then again, there was a need for his sharp eyes to make out the sight in a crisp-clear manner.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.

There was nothing to set up to hide anything within the tower. Don was able to somewhat see into the seventh floor of the tower with his power. There was a silhouette of a woman. The young female mage was a grade-6 grand mage, as per Theisio's description.

A grade-6 grand mage was still within his means to deal with. If she were to advance into the ranks of sorcerers, however, things would have been rather messy.

Taking someone alive was a far more difficult job than simply killing someone.

Seeing that silhouette from afar brought him a sense of tranquility. He did not intend to return quickly from the mission. All his brothers from back then were dead. As a holy master of the Heaven Knights, he knew full well that there was a ruin from the second dynasty in the place that his brothers were looking for him in.

The mages committing sacrilegious acts on the dynasty committed equally blasphemous acts of various sorts against the gods. Don did not mind it. He liked magic, and he did not regret giving up his future for the art. He was unfortunate to be born as a child of God. As a believer, it was not fitting for him to learn such things.

”So, that is to say, I will be cast to hell for it then?” Don thought as he looked at the female mage within the tower, how wonderful and blessed it was to be able to practice magic to one's heart's content. ”I will just let her be happy for a few more days then.”

The mage's crystal coffin was no longer inside the tower's seventh floor. Stephanie had moved Eleanor to the eighth floor to continue her treatment. There was actually no need for the treatment to take such a long time. The delay was due to Stephanie's research on the body of the elf as the treatment took place. While that did not benefit Eleanor in the slightest, it was at least reassuring to know that the treatment was a meticulous one, and would not have left her with unwanted side effects.

The female who was dressed in Lex's clothes and had her hair done like Lex's on the seventh floor was Isabella. While Daliang had been free from any crisis at that time, it was somewhat unnerving for Lex to leave for such a long time. As such, Lex did not announce her departure and instead had Lex practice within the tower in her stead.

Lex was not even within the city. She snuck out and headed for Bitterwater Prefecture, and returned to Metatrin City through the teleportation portal. Jason needed her back as soon as possible, so she went the quickest way she was able to think of.

It was a matter of fact that the Holy See had spies within Daliang, but their numbers were too small and their levels too low. It was done so that they would not have attracted any attention to them, but the information they were able to gather was limited. Any news they dared send out was comparatively important intelligence. Lex had not even informed the army of her departure, and as such, the low-level spies knew nothing about it at all.

Even if the pope was to send a force to sack the city, they would not have found Lex anywhere. That was because Lex had entered the Hell of God's Punishment. Thirty-six sorcerers created the inter-dimensional teleportation portal, arriving accurately outside Raphael's magic tower using Lex's God's ring.

Lex brought massive relevant materials with her, creating a large-scale teleportation portal outside Raphael's tower.

Inter-dimensional travel was not a difficult feat so long one was willing to pay the price, or else summoning magic would be something impossible. In theory, inter-dimensional teleportation hardly cost any more than teleportation on the same plane. This was because teleportation on the same plane had one teleport through space more than twice. Inter-dimensional teleportation only had one teleport through said space once.

Of course, if the inter-dimensional teleportation concerned had planes being very far from each other and coordinates being unclear, the massive cost to it would not have been something seen in teleportation within the same plane.

Lex teleported herself back to the magic array beneath the temple after creating a detailed coordinate. She intended to take six mages with her. Without the god's ring, the danger posed to the mages traveling between dimensions would have surpassed the danger of flying in thunderstorms.

The reason why Jason was willing to work with her before she married Saleen was because she possessed the God ring. It enabled her to teleport between dimensions safely.

Lex had no choice but to seek Jason's help. There was no way she was able to gather so many sorcerers. While the Grukos might have been able to provide her with such, and she would have been able to do so with the Seal of the Six-Winged Flying Snake, doing so would have resulted in her falling on bad terms with Saleen. She ended up getting nothing out of it.

According to the traditions of her house, Lex would have been able to get twenty percent out of said earnings at most.

”Teacher, will you not accompany me there?”, Lex rubbed at the God's ring. Even with such a Godly Item equipped, one was only able to provide protection for six at most. With the number of times doing so being limited, transport of all thirty-six sorcerers would have taken two or three years. Something good came out of it nonetheless. Metatrin City could not be left defenseless after all.

”I'm not going,” Jason smiled, ”I'm hoping to advance using my own powers.”