964 Meeting up with Lex Part 2 (1/2)

”Congratulations, master,” Nailisi's voice was heard outside.

”You're home.” Saleen opened the door with Wild Wind and saw Nailisi walking in. A group of dead-looking people followed right behind her. Some of those people were wearing their pajamas, obviously they had not gotten out of bed when they were taken in. Some wore hunting garb, they were obviously out hunting before. There was even one person who was wearing an apron, a noble who cooked personally.

”All seventy-six of the nobles are here, regardless of if they actually have their own territory,” Nailisi reported with glee. She had threatened to hang them at midnight for quite some time using Tempest Dragon-mights. Some of them soiled their pants, and a handful were barely able to maintain composure.

Saleen found the stink on them to be repulsive and cast a cleaning spell to clean up the awful smell about them.

Viscount Gugger began to believe Saleen's words. Nailisi did indeed bring them in, though they were scattered within a one-hundred miles radius from where they were, in less than half a day's time. He finally thought that maybe Saleen was indeed capable to tearing down Ironwall City.

”Come on,” Saleen called for Nicholas. He went outside the door, found himself a clearing, and took out a piece of dimension stone. He then summoned the Magical Element Tower right before their eyes. The massive tower appeared and Saleen ordered the Tempest Dragon-mights who had landed to stuff all the nobles inside the tower. He then brought the whole party into the seventeenth floor of the tower.

The magic power furnace was activated, and the huge tower took to the sky. The Magical Element Tower originally had its magic arrays broken. The mages of Sregl Island toiled for quite some time and were only capable of enabling the tower to take flight. If Saleen wanted to cast spells in flight, the energy drain would be astronomical. Saleen did not mind at all. It would have sufficed to have the tower cast spells when it was hovering. He would not be able to overpower the towers in Ironwall City otherwise.

The imperials within Ceylon City had all been taken care of. The magic tower flew from the city right to the ocean. Saleen found himself to not need to command the tower like he did warships. It was very easy to control the Magical Element Tower, even easier than riding a horse.

Saleen had it easy, as the seventy-six nobles taken in were all locked up at the bottommost floor. Saleen had easy turned on magic images, to enable the nobles to see the view outside.

The giant tower skimmed on the surface of the sea, flying at a very low altitude. With the surface of the sea to serve as a reference, the nobles knew very well how fast the tower was actually going. They were flying at speeds several times faster than running horses. If they were to collide with anything at sea, that might just have been the end of them.

A huge monster jumped from the sea before them, like a curse finally coming true. The monster sported smooth fleshy wings, which had a wingspan of one-hundred yards wide. The monster had a flat head, and it came right for them riding the wind.

Most nobles shut their eyes to await their deaths, while a handful of them with more guts stared right ahead.

The monster collided head on with the magic tower. The magic arrays onboard required the magic power furnace to be put idle before they could be used to cast powerful magic attacks. The monster was not one with a low level. Saleen did not bother wasting time and magic nuclei, and simply let the tower ram into the monster.

The tower shook violently for a moment, while the monster was thrown off by the tower. The monster's head turned to mush, and it fell into the sea.

Nailisi laughed her lungs out. The Magical Element Tower was made of elementite, a grade-18 material. If the opposing force did not use magic to look for openings before launching an attack at the tower, there was virtually nothing that would have been able to tear the tower apart.

The grandmaster had originally prepared the tower for his own use when he crafted it. Both elementite and dimension stones were incredibly precious materials. Sheer force alone would never be enough to bring down the tower.

Viscount Gugger had only became aware then, that they had made it to the outer sea. No monsters of such sizes would have been found in the inner seas, and the waves would not have been half as powerful.

After the Magical Element Tower threw off the unknown magic beast easily, there were no others nearby who dared challenge the tower. Saleen took the tower to the preset coordinates, making for his own fleet.

The flight speed of the Magical Element Tower proved inferior to Saleen's Quickcloud spell. Such a huge construct drew power only from the magic power furnace, and hardly relied on magic arrays for anything. As a result, its flight speed was only equal to that of a grade-7 sorcerer, or maybe a tad faster.

It was entirely possible to make the tower fly faster, but that would have exceeded Saleen's ability to control it. Even stopping alone would require time to prepare. Saleen had not known there would have been any grade-10 magic beasts appearing at sea, and as such, he was flying very carefully. His Elemental Eye was able to look more than a mile away. Any magic beasts intending to do the tower any harm would not be able to escape Saleen's notice.

Ceylon City laid at the northwestern side of Sikeqinya, which was more than five-thousand miles away in a straight line from Saleen's destination. The magic tower was only flying at about one-hundred miles per hour. During the two days in the air, it had thrown off a good number of magic beasts, before reaching the northern waters of Sikeqinya.

The sea in the north was named very simply as well; it was called the North Sea.

”Master, I seem to have forgotten to feed those people down there!”, Nailisi only told Saleen that when he saw the Ancient from a distance.

Having been busy familiarizing himself with the controls of the tower and having stopped for breaks more than a dozen times, just so that he could try casting spells with the tower, he had indeed forgotten all about the nobles down there. It had only been little more than two days since they last ate, and they would not have died of starvation yet.

”Get them something to eat. We are about to land on the Ancient.”