1017 Interrogation Part 1 (1/2)
Sika hated the assassin to such an extreme that she refused to let him die. As such, the assassin was not even allowed to kill himself. Sika returned to her children's side and had several demons protect them with their bodies. The demons were, in turn, surrounded by Caucasian warriors. Sika took up her staff and looked around.
The distance between the harbor and the temple was over three miles. The enemy must have had someone planted on Sika and Saleen's side to enable such an attack. The enemy would not have learned her routine otherwise. However, the mole would have been one of a very low level, or they would have learned of the magic cannon installed at the White Rock Mountain. The magic cannon's attack forced the assassin to use a precious teleportation scroll to make it onto shore.
When the assassins were in the water, Sika did not realize that someone powerful was among them.
The green aura seeped into the assassin's body, burrowing right into his lungs and sprouting there, becoming a green plant. The assassin felt breathing to be very difficult. His heartbeat slowed and was unable to keep the sword aura going. His body turned limp after that.
A Caucasian warrior lifted his hair. The assassin's limbs were all torn and the wounds were scarred over. The scars were dark brown and resembled the bark of a tree. The team moved slowly. The magic power furnace was in operation on White Rock Mountain. Two mages and two Caucasian warriors operated the huge cannon and turned the barrel towards the city, looking for suspicious targets with alchemy binoculars.
The magic alarm was sent into the magic tower. There were two magic towers near the harbor and every tower had a level nine sorcerer.
When Saleen's children were attacked, all 36 magic towers were activated, locking down Metatrin City.
It became impossible for anyone to leave the city. The layout of the magic towers ensured that at least six towers would be capable of coordinated attacks within any given region.
Metatrin City was hardly larger than Daliang City, yet it had four times the number of magic towers. As such, it was impossible for the enemy to take out all of the towers. Furthermore, the walls of Metatrin City were magical construction. White stones, stacked according to Dante's Sequence, amplified the power of magic towers within the city to horrifying levels.
When compared to Holy Rock City, all Metatrin City lacked was a set of large scale magic amplifiers.
Sika did not dare let her guard down, despite being under layers of protection. The fact that the Holy See had teleportation scrolls with them was terrifying. It had actually enabled a person to teleport onto a general coordinate when the magic towers were not in defense mode.
The ground at the center between the harbor and the temple shook violently all of a sudden. Six magic towers locked down on the position. There was someone intending to infiltrate the temple through the sewers, an action that triggered the magic arrays in place.
There were secret passages from the temple leading straight to the harbor with tens of checkpoints, all of which were laid using high level magic arrays. Saleen's diving combat vessels were all launched from underwater and would never float on the surface. There were three passages. The one that Saleen used was incredibly deep and no one knew of its existence. The remaining two were connected to the barracks of the temple guards, so there were more who knew of them.
The trembling came from one of the passages, 50 meters below ground. A middle-aged man of average build was all curled up in a concave space cut out by a weapon. The passage was constructed using white stones. He was only able to make a place he could curl up in using all of his might.
The passage was filled with poisonous gas and magic beams shot indiscriminately, trapping him where he was. The assassin wore soft magic armor and held a very small sharpened targe.
The assassin's face was pale. He was unaware of a trap being laid when he passed by a magic array, breaking the surface layer of the array and triggering the true attack. His leg was injured as a result. His speed, the most important aspect at being an assassin, was severely limited. He had no idea of how to leave. There were no branches to be found and the place was filled with powerful magic arrays. The intel he had gotten turned out to be completely false. The passage was a lethal impasse.
The assassin was hesitating on whether to move forward or go back to where he came from, but a bunch of huge bugs shimmering with blue light were coming in from in front. The poisonous gas that filled the place came from the bugs.
The assassin leapt out of his hiding place without hesitation. His sharpened targe hit the wall across where he stood. He turned around and dodged the wind blades shooting furiously from below.
The passages that Saleen had built were intended to serve as foundations for building an underground city. However, the environment turned out to be extremely weird. The entire city was sitting on top of an enormous white rock. The white rock was harder than steel, and it was beyond Saleen's capabilities to carve out spaces to serve as an underground city. All he was able to do was carve out spaces to serve as warehouses and pipelines for both water supply and sewage.
Out of the three passages, only the deepest one was used for transporting troops. Saleen did not have sorcerers at his disposal in the beginning and Metatrin City was very vulnerable. Only the temple was operated and maintained painstakingly, which made it a necessity to keep the passage between it and the harbor smooth and free of obstacles, enabling the use of Pan Turtle Alchemy Ship for escape any time.
The two passages above were ones that only people with temple badges were able to pass through unharmed. The magic arrays that were connected to the magic towers would easily become lethal traps. The intel that the assassin had gathered was outdated. With 36 level nine sorcerers helping to defend the city, its defenses were extended to outside the city. The two passages were made obsolete and the defenses were activated all the time, as they only served to transport secret goods in the future.
The temple guard's demons did not bother searching the place even when they found the enemy. They simply released magic bugs instead. The bugs were combat types and all of them bore the mark of the temple guard, preventing them from triggering the magic array and magic towers. The demons' crude and savage way of dealing with the threat proved to be the best method. The assassin became surrounded by thousands of huge bugs in no time. The concentration of the poisonous gas within the passage reached the point where it was able to corrode skin directly. The assassin did not have any respiratory equipment. It was only a matter of time before he ended up dead.
The assassins of the Holy See appeared at Metatrin City at the same time, infiltrating with different methods, yet none of them was able to reach the temple, as they had no idea how the core of the city worked. The attack was orchestrated from varying angles, in order to box Sika and her children in at the harbor.