876 Pest Part 1 (2/2)

Vermillion Knights, Angels of Brightness, and Midnight Fangs were three creatures that were even more powerful than stone statue soldiers. Saleen finally understood what Gloria was trying to say. Gloria did not mention wind-element creatures, which meant they would not be effective against the pests either.

It was best to use spells of the elements of fire, light, or darkness to kill the pests.

Saleen did not know much about light-element spells while dark-element spells were mostly of a manipulative nature or situational. He was most proficient in water-element spells, and considering the conversion of elements, he used fire-element spells quite often too.

The pests were made up of dirt and dust and were able to move very quickly at the bottom of the sea, where ground elements were rich. While Saleen and Gloria were conversing, hundreds of pests had already reached the crystal tower. Saleen could not tell how powerful the pests were. The core of the pests were soul shards. If Nicholas was there the pests were natural ingredients to be made into soul beads. To a fallen Holy Master, it was relatively easy to deal with soul shards.

Nailisi stood beside Saleen and started jealousy at Gloria, who was floating by her side. Nailisi would not be able to fly if she did not use her wings. At that thought, Nailisi transformed into spirit form. Gloria was confused by the appearance of the three-faced bone demon.

”Master?” Gloria pointed at Nailisi, not understanding how a creature of flesh and blood could suddenly transform into a spirit of the dead.

”Don't bother.” Saleen retrieved Gloria and left the window to release Vinny.

”Vinny, the pests are coming. Ask your subordinates to protect me.” Saleen did not say too much before releasing thirty-six elemental stone statue soldiers and placing twelve of them on each level. The stone statue soldiers were twenty yards tall and that was the size at which they would be most agile. On the other hand, one-hundred yard tall stone statue soldiers would be suitable for charging into battle. Although the crystal tower was broad and open, it would not allow for one-hundred yard tall creatures to gather together and fight.

There was no use being afraid. There were tens of thousands of pests outside. Even the ancient humans had to form up soldiers to eliminate the pests, so they had to be hard to deal with. Saleen searched for the magic staffs in his hands and chose twenty-two of them. The spells within these twenty-two magic staffs were of light, dark, and fire elements.

As a grade-8 sorcerer, Saleen could cast around twenty-four grade-8 spells consecutively. After that, he would not have too many magic chords left. He must still save some magic chords in order to unleash the spells that had been stored in his magic staffs or scrolls.

Saleen would be able to cast twelve more grade-7 spells compared to grade-8 spells. That would still only amount to about two-hundred and eighty-eight grade-7 spells. That would not be enough to deal with the tens of thousands of pests. On the other hand, how much damage would grade-6 spells deal on those pests? Saleen was not confident at all.

Right then, he would still have to depend heavily on the water-element and ground element elemental badges. Each of the twenty-two magic staffs contained two grade-9 spells and they would only be used for Saleen's self-protection.

Both Nailisi and Rossen were very capably helpers. At least Nailisi's spirit form would be effective in killing the pests. On the other hand, the water puppet's spells were created by the resonance of elements in his body rather than magic chords. That method would allow the water puppet to cast more spells than Saleen.

Although the water puppet possessed intelligence, he did not possess Saleen's ability to plan and estimate. Saleen's familiarity with the Figaro Magic Formula surpassed most grade-9 sorcerers, but the water puppet's ability to plan and estimate was not even one percent of Saleen's ability.

The most important difference between mages of the same grade was intelligence and not the number of magic chords.

Bang bang bang…

The knocking sounds kept coming and almost immediately, the pests dismantled their bodies to burrow through the gaps in the door to enter the crystal tower. The magic arrays in the tower only prevented sea water from entering, but not pests. Saleen was rendered speechless by such a design. If that was his own military depot, he would definitely have magic arrays in place that would initiate attacks.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.

Saleen was quickly amused by his own thoughts. If that had been the case, there was no way he would have been able to enter the crystal tower.

There were twelve elemental stone statue soldiers in one level. Tens of pests entered the tower in the blink of an eye. The pests were smaller than the elemental stone statue soldiers. The stone statue soldiers swung their war hammers and smashed the pests into pieces.

The floors of the crystal tower were smashed into pieces by the elemental stone statue soldiers. The pests were also smashed into dirt and dust, but after about ten seconds, they merged together again. Two of the pests pounced onto the elemental stone statue soldier and bit onto it. Due to the difference in grades, their attack was not very effective or obvious.

The scratches on the bodies of the elemental stone statue soldiers healed very quickly, but the number of pests entering the first level of the tower was increasing. There were no soul flames in the places where the head and eyes of the pests should have been. There were just black bottomless pits.

If the location of the pests' soul shards remained unknown, the stone statue soldiers' war hammers would only cause physical damage and not destroy the soul shards. At that rate, they would need about thirty to fifty attempts before they could kill a pest successfully.

Even though the elemental stone statue soldiers were many grades higher than the pests, they were still unable to destroy them quickly. It was a matter of attributes. The elemental stone statue soldiers focused too much on physical attacks, but they were not effective against the pests.

More than ten pests reached the second level of the tower. Nailisi, who was guarding the second level, saw the pests and immediately all three of her mouths and let out a sharp scream.

It was Wail of the Spirit! That was a grade-6 death magic spell. Nailisi was smarter than the water puppet. She chose to cast a powerful grade-6 death magic spell first to see if middle-level spells were effective against the pests. If so, there would be no need for her to use high-level spells. Even though she had absorbed the soul flames of two of the Three Kings, she could not possibly keep casting death magic spells without any limits.