1304 Fear Me Part 2 (1/2)
Imposa felt his pores open and was unable to stop cold air from seeping into him. Saleen's bone hammer beat on the War Drum of Fear, but he was only able to feel that much because it was not targeted at him. He did not have a clear idea what the effects of the drum would be like.
”Kill!” Saleen's voice resonated throughout his territory. Every single lightning puppet's actions became several times faster. They crackled with electricity, but their actual combat capacity was not as strong as their appearances suggested. However, since they were within Saleen's territory while the drum was heard, all mages and warriors in Alchemy City were all frightened to the bone.
What they most feared appeared in their minds. The ones of lower levels succumbed to hallucinations right away, and some even attacked the ones around them.
They crashed through the barricade and with Imposa's metal cog still spinning, and it felt like nothing was standing in their way.
Doom, doom, doom...
Imposa's heart beat alongside the rhythm of the War Drum of Fear without him realizing it. He did not resist it and intentionally followed Saleen's rhythm, learning the sound wave attack as he went.
Saleen had a breeze controlling the drum. After he advanced to level ten, he began able to control some of the War Drum of Fear's skills. Grand Duke Iron Blood followed right behind, surrounded by 200 of his most elite Bug Angel Warriors.
The warriors began to sing old war songs along Saleen's beat. Their might looked magnificent.
It was unfortunate that the bug angels' appearances were nothing like humans. The large bug-like warriors looked hilarious from Saleen's perspective.
While the bug angels did look hilarious, their combat capacity was considerably enhanced. Attacks from the surrounding towers became scarce and were no longer anything worthy of consideration.
Saleen's party had Imposa and his 12 Iron Blood Warriors in the lead. Under Saleen's leadership, all of them flew straight for the west side of the city.
The Floating City was over 20,000 meters in the air and Alchemy City's attacks were no longer able to affect it. The Floating City, on the other hand, kept throwing huge rocks.
The rocks cost next to nothing, the only cost being the transportation from the bottom of the city, where they were stored. The rocks were picked from everywhere without regard of type, so long as they were hard enough.
The Elemental Hand ran into further trouble. The team at the southeast side of the city had broken the city's defenses. The archangel in the north took the metal angels around, destroying nearly 100 magic towers.
The Elemental Hand was forced to take new measures. At the northeast side of the city, in a huge ring-shaped group of buildings, a magic array formed out of six level 10 magic towers was invoked. A faint green aura emerged from the summoning magic array.
However, with Saleen's War Drum of Fear playing, the magic towers of the southwest were unable to form decent defense and were broken though by Imposa. His skills were incredibly ferocious and the huge metal cog shot smaller cogs at frightening speed, invoking sonic booms as they cut through the air.
Anyone below the levels of grand swordmasters perished as soon as they touched the cogs. The weapon was akin to a magic shooter of sorts. The metal cogs were far more powerful than bolts shot from alchemy crossbows.
The purple-gold dragon shot dragon's breath at key moments, dissolving any incoming dangers.
They did not kill many powerful enemies as they traveled. The party met up with the bug angel army at the edge of the city. They picked up teams and platoons along the way until an army of over 30,000 units followed behind Imposa.
However, the sound of over 30000 bug angel wings was still unable to suppress the sound from the War Drum of Fear.
Without the archangel holding the enemy, Saleen and the rest would not be able to escape smoothly. The city's territory grew increasingly strong, but the power originated from the center of the city, spreading outwards.
The speed of the power's increase only occurred only after the magic amplifier was restored.
Saleen contacted Rossen, and the Floating City cast a huge swath of magic flames from above. The teams that were harassing the enemy at the docks retreated immediately, letting the puppets taking care of things. Magic cannons continued to fire, and warriors continued to retreat back to the Ancient.
The one that left the earliest after the signal to retreat was given was the Pan Turtle Alchemy Ship.
The Elemental Hand was totally pissed off when they saw the people invading Alchemy City retreat, but the archangel continued to wreak havoc with the metal angels. If they sent men to pursue Saleen's party, all magic towers within the city except the level ten ones would be destroyed.
While both Saleen and the Grand Duke felt pained for the tens of thousands of their men left behind in the city, they dared not turn around to rescue them. They brought the thousands at the edge of the city and met up with the army outside, about 50,000 of them leaving.
The bug angel army of 220,000 strong was reduced to meager numbers. Grand Duke Iron Blood suffered quite a loss.
Saleen's bug angel army consisted of only 20,000 units, losing about 3000 at the very last minute, with the final numbers about 16,000. The result of the battle looked fairly good.
Grand Duke Iron Blood and the others dared not hold themselves back when they were at the edge of the city. Imposa took out a magic metal shell of a diameter of over ten meters and stuffed it in the walls, letting a puppet detonate it.
One magic metal shell cost the same as making hundreds of scrolls. However, it was extremely difficult for hundreds of scrolls to be used at once, unless they were used inside a magic net and commanded by a single person.
The 50,000 people fought all the way from inside the city and destroy a section of the city wall, opening the path for the Bug Angel Warriors that were injured and incapable of flight.