1019 Sikas Retaliation Part 1 (2/2)

She also needed help from Lex to get it done. It would simply be too difficult for her to crush the army on her own. Sika hoped to obliterate the entire army sent by the tribunal.

The completed letter reached the Magical Element Tower located in Ceylon City through the teleportation portal inside the tower. Saleen looked very troubled reading the letter.

”The Holy See dared attack my kids!” His anger was unquenchable, so much so that he had wanted to take his tower right there right then, to the Tanggulasi Empire and go on a killing spree. He suppressed his urges however. Emperor Chanake had been very powerful back in the day, and he a had great number of troops as well as high-level equipment at his disposal; he ended up being ambushed by the Holy See and died in the battlefield all the same.

What the Holy See had done was probably a means to incite him, leading him to make careless mistakes.

Once he made it into the Tanggulasi Empire, the huge number of adherents there would provide the holy masters with unlimited power.

Sika's plans were feasible in comparison. Things in Qin looked very messy. Armies on both sides went at each other's throats throughout the entire northern region. The Qin nobles retained control of large cities and had help from Alchemy City mages. What they had lost for that moment was simply their land at the countryside. Any Qin city would have large warehouses for stockpiling food though.

Every city would be capable of holding out for a dozen years without starving.

Such circumstances put the Holy See under tremendous pressure. Sika's assault had a 90 percent chance of success. The Holy See had been bold with their actions in Metatrin City, simply because they did not anticipate the city's retaliation.

Saleen wanted to participate in the plan very badly, but it would have been a bad time to leave Ceylon City. The joined forces of both the Holy See and the Sikeqinya Empire would be around soon. There were also the Holy See fleets to deal with, and that meant Saleen simply was not able to spare the manpower.

He replied to Sika, telling her that he intended to ask for Lex's help personally. The reason Sika had written to him was precisely because she did not want to go ask for Lex's help herself. The incident happened to his own children, and Saleen simply could not allow Sika to ask for such favors herself.

Sika needed Lex's metal titan, as it was imperative to take out the enemy's large scale equipment when one struck at enemy forces. One would suffer heavy losses when done otherwise. The metal titan was assigned to mining work at the northern wilderness north of Kingdom of Metatrin, and it was something only Lex's mages would be able to use.

The metallic life form devoured large quantities of ore every day, releasing extremely refined metals. Such a smelting process was an incredibly quick one, and the quantity of produced material easily surpassed any other mine. While mages were very capable of crafting metals, the rate of production paled in comparison to what the metal titan was capable of.

Almost all of the high-level metal materials found in the Kingdom of Metatrin and Bitterwater Prefecture were produced by that very titan.

Lex took Saleen's letter and read it carefully twice, and then wrote three letters in reply. One was for Saleen himself, elaborating on her worries. The Holy See seemed to have gained even greater powers, and that was why they grew increasingly bold with their actions. The lesson at Ironwall City seemed inadequate to stave off the Holy See.

One of the remaining two was meant for Sika. It was containing only orders to her own sorcerers, having them hand the metal titan over to Sika. She had to help in the situation. According to Qin's laws and traditions, if she were to not bear children in the future, Saleen's children would be eligible to succeed the throne of the Bitterwater Prefecture.

What the Holy See did was equivalent to moving against the heirs of Bitterwater Prefecture.

The third letter was meant for the general of Guderian City. She, as a member of the Grukos royal family, requested to have a portion of the city's army be allocated to Sika, to serve as the force to obliterate the tribunal army.

That was not an order, but it did not make it any easier to refuse. While the Kingdom of Metatrin indeed to take over all of Phoenix, the king nonetheless shared a marital bond with a member of the royal family, which meant it was family business. The Kingdom of Metatrin swore to never send its armies into Qin territory. Regardless of how reluctant the general would feel about the whole deal, they had to do a member of the Grukos a favor.

Worse still, with the entire northern region being a mess, Guderian City was reduced to an isolated city. As the location was simply too difficult to attack, the Holy See army had no choice but to cross the place off their list for the moment.

If things were to be laid out plainly, if Guderian City refused to help out, and if the day came where the Holy See finally had some spare force for attacking the city, and then the Kingdom of Metatrin was to refuse allowing the city's army to retreat when the city was breached, it would be the end of the city's army by then.

As such, it was a good thing for Guderian City to make friends with the Kingdom of Metatrin.

Seeing everything being taken care of, Sika sent someone to the northern mines immediately and asked for the metal titan. She had also deployed two temple guard forces, one main force consisted of 30,000 elite troops backed by 30,000 auxiliary troops, to make for the border of Phoenix—the city built by Duchess Guya.

There was a narrow valley between that city and Guderian City, which was an important route linking Phoenix and Qin.