922 Death of the Mythical Beast Part 1 (1/2)

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Lex wracked her brain on how to infiltrate the Sikenqinyan Empire, locating Bain with her hidden arts. Bain was had serious injuries, and he had only six of his men left with him. Lex snatched the seven assassins away from the surrounding mercenaries and ran nonstop until they reached Didypus.

The march of an all-magic army was incredibly fast, and reactions of the likes of mercenaries could have never hoped to catch up to Lex's forces.

Unfortunately, the regular army of the Sikenqinyan Empire was deployed. The army was even split into two groups and made their way straight for the Kingdom of Metatrin. Lex was soon caught in a pincer maneuver as soon as she got out of the Chaotic Swamp. It was fortunate that Aini was building a city there, which deployed an army to take Lex back.

As Sikenqinya had truly formed an alliance with the Holy See, the regular army deployed was over three-hundred-thousand strong, and more mercenaries joined the fray. An army of a size close to one-million surrounded Lonestar City.

Worse still, the attack was backed with support from the Tanggulasi Empire, the army of which broke through the gap between the territories of Bitterwater Prefecture and the Qin Empire. The army divided the land controlled by two states and went straight for the borders of Qin. The balance of forces at Kroraina was once again broken.Find authorized novels in Webnovel,faster updates, better experience,Please clickfor visiting.

The army deployed by the Tanggulasi Empire was of a never before seen size. The Qin Empire was not even able to calculate how large of a force they were expected to fight. They were hardly able to do anything but receive news delivered using magic. One city after another of theirs fell. The Tanggulasi Empire pushed on regardless of casualties suffered. Such manner of attack would not last in general, yet the Tanggulasi forces were able to push all three fronts to places just less than a hundred miles away from the Qin border.

The northern nobles were terrified, as the bulk of their armies were still inside Kroraina. The Tanggulasi army kept outflanking their enemies, separating the expeditionary forces the northern nobles sent into Kroraina. They trapped and isolated forces.

As if things could not have gotten any worse, in the eastern seas, Alchemy City's line of defense finally fell. Cloudflow warships entered the Qin Empire's eastern waters and kept harassing the shores. Holy Rock City deployed over one-hundred-thousand hastily to defend Lianyun City. Under such a situation, Metatrin City was unable to even trade, and was unable to deploy much to help Lonestar City.

The Holy See had finally gathered the forces of three empires to launch a general offensive against Qin.

Sika was in charge of Metatrin City, and she was unsure if the Sikenqinyans were simply feinting it. If she were to deploy forces to reinforce Lonestar City, Metatrin City would be deemed ripe for picking, even with thirty-six sorcerers holding the fort at Metatrin City.

There was hardly any point of deploying forces to Lonestar City if no sorcerers were deployed as well. The Sikenqinyan army had large numbers of mages among them. It seemed like Emperor Danny deployed every mage he was able to find in his place.

In the middle of April, the Ancient appeared near the waters of Metatrin City. The port encased in dread was suddenly bustling with noise and excitement. The few boats left at port that went out to receive the giant ship all had their crew rendered mute from the sheer size of the Ancient.

There were no other sounds to be heard other than the waves and the wind. The soldiers were astounded; they had their mouths gaping wide open at the miracle of a time long past.

The Ancient would have been able to park at the city's port, but Saleen had the warship anchored at sea nonetheless. It was ready for attacks from Cloudflow at a moment's notice. When Saleen and the entourage of mages and soldiers taken with him to hone their mettle walked down the Dragon Skeleton Combat Vessel, and saw the empty port, he did nothing but curse at Alchemy City under his breath.

Qin merchants did not dare venture between Metatrin City and Lianyun City. Ports further down south did not even have ships going out to sea. The port at Metatrin City was left with only a handful of warships.

The bone warships were all destroyed in the battle of the Separation Sea. Metatrin's navy currently consisted only of the dozen or so ships that Saleen took with him to the oceanic ice block. The small-sized warships were adequate to handle pirates but were completely useless against the Cloudflow fleet.

Saleen still had several islands at sea that did not have much development from the get go, and as such, served only as supply points for warships. If the islands were to be attacked, the forces stationed there would prove too weak to do much, and they would fall quickly.

The pan's turtle alchemical boat went into the underwater boathouse while the Dragon Skeleton Combat Vessel parked at shore. The soldiers at shore were relieved at their return. With the return of the main forces of their fleet, defense of the shoreline would be a lot easier. While the soldiers were no mages, they were nonetheless able to tell that the Dragon Skeleton Combat Vessel was very powerful. Warships crafted from the bones of dragons had initially only been deemed the stuff of legends.

Saleen did not make an extravagant entrance and simply made his way quietly back to the temple. He went to see his teacher, Jason, first. His teacher did not let him stay for long though, sending him off to see his children instead. Saleen had Nailisi and Soldier return to their quarters, then he went to see Sika.

It was noon and Sika was not around. The two children were playing with a small animal under the watchful eyes of the Caucasus warriors.

Seeing the animal his children were playing with had Saleen's expressions looking very nasty. The animal was smaller than Saleen's palm. It had tiny scales, a thin, long tail, and horns like toothpicks. It was but an extremely weak grade-0 magic beast from the first look, but Saleen was able to tell that that was the mythical beast brought out from the goddess' temple.

”Shouldn't the mythical beast be sleeping? Why has it awakened?” It was without a doubt that letting his children play with the mythical beast was very dangerous. Even if it was one that had just hatched, it still possessed skills enough to cause lethal damage after all.

As soon as the children saw Saleen, they turned around and ran in his direction. Saleen bent and picked up both of his children.

”Papa!” their childish voices filled his heart with limitless warmth. He spoke to the Caucasus warriors in anger nonetheless, ”How could you let the children play with something like that?”

Saleen was busy being angry and failed to take note that his children were just eighteen months old. It was a wonder that they were still able to recognize him with him being away for so long. That would have surprised Saleen initially, but he was burning with rage at the moment seeing his children in danger. He had not been able to take in the wondrous fact of it.