1021 Golden Plains Part 1 (1/2)

Complete obliteration?

Sauron felt it was rather risky to take the magic cannon after hearing Sika's words. Defeating and obliterating an army were completely different concepts, and the cost for executing them differed greatly as well.

”Relax, you see that big guy over there?” Sika pointed at the Metal Titan.

Sauron nodded. He envied it for being able to transport such huge equipment.

”It is not for pulling carts. The Metal Titan is a heavy piece of equipment for crushing the enemy.”

While Sauron was a warrior, he had made impressions of Metal Titans. The reason Qin created war puppets was because humanity ordered Metal Titans around to battle, and it was a concept that had survived the ages. The shortcoming of the Metal Titan was that it was incapable of transformations, unlike the Mechanical Soul. If the Mechanical Soul were there, it could have transformed into a mobile turret, carrying the huge magic cannon and running around with it.

”Rest assured, general, I've brought enough poison and warriors with me. The metal flyers will be here in two days as well,” Sika consoled Sauron. Obliterating enemies cost a lot, but she had brought ample equipment for guerrilla with her, so the soldiers were there to kill any defeated and scattered enemy troops.

Sauron became alert when he heard 'metal flyers'. That was something that had brought indisputable, brutal might to bear on the battle of Ironwall City during the assault. He cautiously asked, ”umm, Your Highness, can you sell the metal flyers to me? I don't need schematics, and you can install self-destruct mechanisms in them. If I dare to look into them, you're welcomed to render all of them scraps.”

Sika smiled. ”General, they're are not something you're able to use, unless...”

”Unless?”

”Unless you're able to suppress the sorcerers in the enemy ranks, even the ones in magic towers.”

Sauron was speechless. He never expected the requirement to be something so steep. Everyone knew that Saleen had assaulted Ironwall City and destroyed it, but no one knew of the details of the battle. Sauron was able to gather from Sika's words that Saleen's army had suppressed all nine magic towers within Ironwall City before sending in the metal flyers for assault.

If someone were to possess power capable of suppressing nine magic towers, they would be able to take down Ironwall City even without the metal flyers. How Saleen did it was different: he reduced Ironwall City to ashes, and the price he paid was small in comparison.

”And furthermore, General, the metal flyers' survivability isn't as high as you think them to be. Once they're broken, they're worth little more than scrap metal.”

”Your Highness, forgive me for...”

”You're not being delusional. If that thing didn't have that many weaknesses, Qin's capabilities and resources would be enough to develop things like that.”

Sika was telling the truth. Qin had mages in abundance, and many were versed in alchemy. It was not a difficult task to develop equipment of that sort. But what use would such it be?

A level six grand mage would be more than capable of taking down the flyers, and just how many level six mages are there in Qin? Every big city has them, and every city has more than one.

The Sikeqinyans had been aggressive in their assault of Ceylon City, yet the casualties suffered by both sides remained low. Saleen had sturdy walls to rely on, and the countless metal towers were capable of shooting arrows like they cost nothing.

The Sikeqinyans, on the other hand, relied heavily on low level puppets to serve as the main attack force. Saleen had never anticipated it. There was a lack of mages in Sikeqinya and the low level puppets could be made without powerful alchemy. In fact, most puppet parts were things that even common smiths were capable of crafting. The puppets only needed mages to craft their cores.

Furthermore, the low level puppets' main purpose was to block arrows for the invading troops. The Sikeqinyans never bothered with ramming gates or scaling walls. They tried lean, large-scale equipment that was pieced together in haste as close to the walls as possible, intending to use heavy attack weapons to tear down sections of the walls.

Saleen had not anticipated the enemy to be equipped with such large-scale equipment, but he was hardly fettered. He sent six Elemental Stone Statue Soldiers to fetch a large magic cannon from the harbor and fired three times at the Sikeqinyans' giant catapults.

The sorcerers among the ranks of the invading army were not able to do anything but see the catapults destroyed. Saleen never bothered to attack the enemy troops with the magic cannon. The Sikeqinyan sorcerers were confused as to why Saleen stopped, but they did not dare charge and destroy the fearsome weapon that Saleen had.

The battles turned steady. Small catapults continued to hurl rocks at the city walls, and Saleen let the level nine Elemental Stone Statue Soldiers stand guard at the walls, swatting the incoming rocks away. There was no way common rocks were able to get near to the Elemental Stone Statue Soldiers.

Saleen turned around and returned to the Magical Element Tower when he saw that there was nothing harrowing taking place. He took out a map of the mainland and released magic images, before beginning to ponder things.

There were many dots all over the map.

Metatrin City, Lianyun City, Alchemy City, Dragon Island, Holy Rock City, Principality of Bitterwater, Daliang City, Sanlian City, Purgatory Desert, Holy City, the Tanggulasian Imperial City, Glorious City, Ceylon City, Sikeqinyan Imperial City, Royal Harbor, Didypus, Chaotic Swamp, Lonestar City...