1248 Clipping Wings Part 1 (2/2)

The magic cannons were not a high level, and they were only capable of level nine attacks. However, every single shot carried the power of many level nine spells attacking at the same time.

With the magic cannons added to the fray, Theisio felt the power within his God Grace Staff being depleted at a far quicker rate. While the cannons would eventually get busted, it would only happened hundreds of shots later.

Over 100 magic cannons meant that tens of thousands of attacks could be cast, and that made them all the more terrifying compared to level nine scrolls.

”Lord Pope, just leave. Saleen won't be able to do anything to you!” the remaining level ten red-robed bishops said. All of them sustained severe injuries and were incapable of using any skills, so they figured that they would meet their doom in the cemetery.

The only unknown factor was if their souls would be able to enter heaven after dying in a place like that.

Theisio was even more unwilling to give up his people after hearing the red-robed bishops. Furthermore, he was still getting power from the bishops to sustain his defense. If he ran away alone, he would lose the use of all the powers.

”I'm absolutely not giving up on you!”

”Oh please, Theisio. If I were able to kill you right here, right now, would you still choose to defend your people instead of running? I know you have skills for escape and you've got them prepped, am I right?”

”Quit your prattling, Saleen.”

”Why, I'm having fun prattling, Theisio. I didn't expect you to shirk from my challenge despite having advanced to level 11. When I've gotten to a level as high as yours, I wonder if you'll turn and run like a dog when you see me.”

Saleen no longer sounded like a mage; he did not even sound like a noble or royalty anymore. Such crass words made him sound like a Sikeqinyan merchant instead.

Theisio got truly angry. How did I get so screwed up at the hands of someone like that?

Saleen's lightning icicles were not restored yet. There was no need to use level ten or level 11 scrolls for ranged attacks. He had more level nine scrolls to spare, with some even gotten from the Grandmaster.

In Grandmaster's perspective, level nine scrolls were bestowed to his troops. One could only imagine how large his stock of such scrolls was.

He was in charge of the entire rear end of the army, and one distribution to a regiment at the rear cost him tens of thousands of scrolls. Consumption of scrolls was extremely huge when the armies went to war in other planes.

Theisio's party continued to dwindle in number. Nailisi had Sul attack while she held onto the Grey Memory, on guard against hidden powerful ones among the knights.

The other two teams behaved in a similar manner. The ones with comparative low level commanded their troops to hunt the knights, while the ones of high levels supported them from behind, to ensure that nothing would go wrong.

Theisio shrunk the size of his territory to the minimum, protecting only the holy masters. The knights were in deep trouble.

Anyone who encountered such predicaments would be very frustrated. Theisio had powerful godly items and his level was even higher than Saleen, but his skills enabled him to ignore level differences. That one shot from the Crystal Finger was something that Theisio never wanted a taste of ever again.

However, Saleen simply caused Theisio to waste his power with scrolls after he refused Saleen's challenge.

Saleen was right in saying that he was an upstart and that he was in a match with Theisio to see how among them was more wealthy.

”Theisio, you fail at being a qualified enemy.” Saleen continued, ”I found how easy it is for me to take care of your people. There is a saying among the Sikeqinyans that goes, 'any trouble that can be solved with money is no trouble at all'.”

Saleen began to boast with impunity. He discovered that using the movement skills that he learned from Jalin was effortless when he was under the Puppet Constellation. While his control was not as fine as Jalin, he was able to use it unparalleled when running away.

Theisio was utterly incapable of keeping up with him, and was only able to use ranged divine spells for attack. Saleen's Thundering Sound skills also made him virtually immune to Theisio's prophecy spells.

”My lord, leave us. It would suffice if you were able to escape, Mobilize the oracles to destroy Metatrin City to avenge us!” The holy masters tried Theisio again.

Theisio was actually troubled. He wanted to escape, but the Magical Element Tower blocked the exit and he needed sacrifices from his people to move the tower aside.

However, there was no way he could ask for such a thing. He only deemed it necessary to sacrifice the holy masters when things were dire.

The Flower of Evil continued to spin, and no one dared to stop them from the front, so Nailisi and the others resorted to tail from the rear. If Theisio had been able to thoroughly utilize the power of the Flower of Evil itself, Saleen would have run into the energy barrier a long time ago.

The hunt was difficult for the side that hunted as well. The knights were organized in a squadron of 40 units, and every one of them was able to enhance their powers by one whole level all of a sudden. There were over 1000 demons dead so far.

All of the demons were painstakingly selected and were all clad in devil flying armor. They were a step away from grand swordmasters in terms of combat capacity.

However, when such demons had to face knights using Heaven Knight skills, one thrust of the spear was all it took to take them out. The knights were giving up their lives but nobody cared, as they would enter heaven after death anyway.