1006 Slow Revenge Part 2 (1/2)

Nailisi thought it was interesting to hear her master wanting to rope Sikeqinyan mages in. There would have definitely been a lot of coaxing involved, the easy way or the hard way.

The king of Metatrin managed more than just the nobles; he managed the mages of the mainland as well. It was a concept that Saleen had decided for himself. He wanted to become the greatest king in all of the mainland, just like how it had been with the emperor of the First Dynasty.

There were few mages in Sikeqinya and they were of low levels, making them easy to buy over. Saleen intended to use the Sikeqinya Empire as his guinea pig, to prepare for the day when he would take Alchemy City for the sake of uniting the entire mainland.

There would definitely be people refusing to submit to him in Alchemy City. Master is no longer aimless. Nailisi grew to feel secure about her master and stopped feeling so homesick about the demon plane.

Nailisi headed for Yaoyang City the next day, replacing everyone in it with demonic spirits and added a demon, who was about to advance to become a supreme demon, disguised as Hu An.

Saleen contacted Royal Harbor and delivered the necklace to Lex using the teleportation portal as well as elaborating on his plans. Lex was pleased about how mature Saleen had become. He was no longer the boy he used to be. It made her feel a little sad, but then again, she was not the kind of woman who wallowed in such emotions. As such, she replied to Saleen immediately.

They exchanged information using the portal and after determining how they would go about dealing with the Sikeqinya Empire, Lex contacted Metatrin City, requesting them to send reinforcements to Daliang City.

Daliang City, at the moment, only had six magic towers, and Sul was the only one in charge of military affairs. Such arrangements would have been secure enough in the past, but that was no longer so. The Holy See seemed to have avoided the Principality of Bitterwater's territories, but the truth was the city was under constant threat of being assaulted.

The land that Daliang City sat on suffered few natural disasters, with Sanlian City in the west being the only place seemingly easy to defend. The lands in the north were filled with small cities. If the Holy See had wanted to attack them, they would have been able to do so at a moment's notice.

Lex had wanted to send reinforcements a long time ago, but the current predicament of being short of hands everywhere meant that despite having a great number of mages in Metatrin City, they needed to be assigned first to Royal Harbor and Ceylon City. With Lonestar City added to the list, Metatrin City was stretching itself thin.

Saleen's action meant that Lonestar City would be safe for the time being, and it was then possible to dispatch manpower to Daliang City without affecting existing plans, being able to handle any sudden turn of events to a certain extent. What was more intriguing was that Holy Rock City no longer had it took to take care of Phoenix, and the place ended up being taken over gradually by the three duchesses using soft methods, which meant that the Kingdom of Metatrin gained itself a huge swath of land that was easy to defend and difficult to take down.

The frontlines at Huoxing City was no longer a major point. The structure of the great Kingdom of Metatrin was finally completed, and it was safe enough for the nation to hold the lines at two mountain passes. The enemy would have had no choice but to attack Lonestar City by taking a great detour at the north. Doing so would be very costly, and even if the enemy had no intentions of going to war with the Kingdom of Metatrin, the terrible weather at the north would make the troops think twice before venturing further.

Lex's view of the greater picture had always been one notch above Saleen's. If there was anything that Saleen had that she lacked, it was luck. She was even quicker at advancement in magic than Saleen was. Seeing how Saleen's plans had turned the tables, Lex had no choice but to look into things within her home. If Daliang City were to fall, the Cloudflow people would be able to attack from the Separation Sea, and the secret passages in the mountains behind her Principality of Bitterwater would be exposed.

As such, she could not afford to lose Daliang City. Lex knew the stakes at play, so she wrote a letter to Jason without any regard of what others thought about her, requesting for him to send sorcerers to Daliang City.

At the moment, Jason had too many sorcerers who were of average potential. They were all sent to the Six Elements' Space to train and would have emerged as level nine sorcerers within the next few months. Those of greater potential were assigned to the temple to advance slowly, but they were still able to advance several times faster than they would have otherwise.

He had massive wealth at his disposal as well, and all of it was left over by his teacher. Jason's lineage of mages had had only one student and successor for the past several generations, which meant that the accumulated wealth was massive enough to keep people fed.

Even if he was unable to, he now had a student like Saleen.

Jason did not hesitate to send men when Lex asked. Jason chose six level nine sorcerers, according to the size of Daliang City, and had them lead about a hundred mages to Daliang City.

The Holy See knew without doubt that Daliang City was a key point. They were able to connect with the Cloudflow Empire as long as they were able to break through Separation Sea. Grand Duke Iron Blood's pompous and reckless actions made Pope Theisio realize that the pact between them and Cloudflow was an empty promise. The Cloudflow royalty was probably no longer able to keep the local nobles under control, which meant that they needed to include the Cloudflow people on their future list of enemies.

However, things were in chaos within Sikeqinya. Danny was completely frightened with the entire Ironwall City reduced to ashes. He no longer had any means of fighting projected warfare, and it went without saying that he had no means of allying with anyone to fight against Qin. If he were to attack Daliang City, not only would he have angered Saleen further, he would have made the Cloudflow people wary and they might have dissolved the alliance prematurely.

Regardless, Grand Duke Iron Blood's actions of dispatching troops without permission from Cloudflow royalty to take over Lianyun City had thrown northern Qin into chaos. Only the Holy See forces would have been able to make breakthroughs head on and make it into Qin territory.

From Theisio's perspective, it was unwise for Saleen to scatter his forces instead of keeping them together.

Theisio, however, had no idea that Saleen had the 12 Notes of First Purgatory at his disposal, enabling him to easily dispatch 100,000 demons anytime and anywhere on the mainland. From Saleen's perspective, nothing mattered more than keeping his home ground safe.