928 Demonic Stampede Part 1 (1/2)

The atmosphere within Lonestar City was one of singing and dancing and seemed disconnected from their current situation of being surrounded. There were only 200,000 soldiers in the city and more than 500,000 spirits of the dead. The strange design of the city had allowed the spirits to take up more responsibility for the city's defense.

Plenty of huge equipment was lined up along the top of the three towering castles, without any defensive loopholes in sight. The city was built into the mountains with only one side with a wall. It would not be possible to take the city down by attacking from the front and rear.

There were more than 200 death mages in the city, but in actual fact, they would not be able to control all the spirits of the dead. In the middle of the city and in front of an eight story magic tower was a 100 yard tall tree. There was a death aura about the tree, and instead of growing leaves, it grew thin gray threads that swayed in the wind.

Amongst the gray threads, spirits of the dead that were a gory mass of flesh and blood would appear once in a while. It was a powerful creature that Aini had summoned.

Death mages were different from elemental mages. When the former had reached the level of a sorcerer, his own combat abilities would not improve quickly, but his ability to summon creatures would improve by leaps and bounds. Aini combined his flesh spirits and plant spirits into a gigantic spirit space that could summon spirits continuously. It was just like a gigantic summoning array that was connected to the spirit space and within this summoning array were plenty of coordinates of the death dimension.

Plant spirits were extremely rare, and on the death dimension, even the spirit kings might not be able to get their hands on them. The crown of the 100 yard tall plant spirit blocked out the entire magic tower and there was a gigantic face on its thick branches.

On the terrifying-looking face, the plant spirit's mouth spat out items one after another. Some of them were materials from the death dimension and others were simply low-grade spirits. Simultaneously, the plant spirit was also spitting out spirit power. With the magic tower as the core, these spirit power dissipated into the sky, so that it could be absorbed by the spirits on the top of the city wall.

The tens of thousands of spirits of the dead depended on the spirit power to keep going.

Aini was not in the death magic tower. Instead, he was at the rear of the city, deep in the valleys of the mountains, where he was touching up a magic tower for elemental mages. The magic tower was built by Lex on short notice. It was nine stories tall and was able to monitor the surrounding areas of the mountains. As a result, it was impossible for the Sikeqinyans to try and enter the city from the sky.

Aini was in Lex's magic tower. She handed him the letter that Nailisi had sent over.

Aini took a glance at the letter and said, ”Metatrin City will not be sending an army?”

”Hmm, only a battalion.” Lex looked at Aini and said, ”Officially, I know that you are Saleen's subordinate, but I also know that you are his friend.”

Aini laughed drily and did not reply. He knew the reason behind what Saleen had asked of him.

Aini agreed with Saleen's decision. Going along with Holy Rock City all the time was not a long-term solution. The situation on the Mainland had changed and Qin had suddenly found itself isolated from the others, just like Saleen had predicted.

The Qins were an arrogant and egoistic group of people and the Cloudflows and Sikeqinyans had been unhappy for a long time. It took them a few years to turn on the Qins because of the powerful Qin armies and the power of Alchemy City. Since Alchemy City had chosen not to interfere with the Cloudflows' attacks, that had encouraged the Sikeqinyans greatly.

”Aini, prepare to receive Nailisi into the city.” Lex laughed deeply and Aini did not know what to make of it.

”Your Highness, you…”

”If Saleen sent Nailisi, then we are definitely receiving more than a battalion's worth of power. Bring her in first. Don't let the enemy sense that we are receiving a powerful group of people, do you understand?”

”At what cost?”

”At all cost,” Lex replied. Saleen had included some secret codes in Nailisi's letter that only Lex would understand. Lex knew that the battalion that Saleen had sent over included 24 grade-9 warriors amongst them. The warriors might not be as powerful as Jola, but the difference in grades was huge.

If Lex led the 24 grade-9 warriors herself, they could easily break through the siege. They might even be able to kill many of their enemies, even the most powerful amongst them.

Saleen was asking Lex what decision she was going to make. If Holy Rock City still meant something to her, then she should make use of the 24 warriors to defeat the Sikeqinyans. In that case, the Tanggulasi Empire would be forced to withdraw its troops immediately.

Aini shook his head helplessly and replied to Nailisi's letter. There might be quite a number of powerful enemies outside the city, but they were not powerful enough to stop a teleportation portal like that.

Nailisi's response was simple and only contained one word, 'Okay'.

Aini left Lex's magic tower to prepare to receive Nailisi. Nailisi was currently in a castle that was more than 200 yards away from the north of Lonestar City.