1398 The Elemental Hands Brutality Part 3 (2/2)

Even though they called Safilos their liege, they considered him family.

When Safilos was young and his bloodline had yet to awaken, there was still hope for him to become emperor. Those two mages were the last candidates chosen for protecting Safilos.

Chanake's bloodline awakened before Safilos's; the former's was pure to the point where he could inherit the most powerful of secret arts of their family. By contrast, Safilos was made a prince right there and then was prevented from becoming emperor.

Safilos only began to take control of the army when Chanake came to the throne. The two old mages stayed at his side the whole time. Most mages who served in Safilos's army had been recruited by the two of them.

The two old mages only retreated behind the scene after the number of powerful mages close to Safilos expanded and he began to focus on their own training. That was the reason for their training delay.

Safilos respected both of them very much; out of loyalty, the two mages couldn't bring themselves to betray him.

”I have a lot of followers and can relate to how you might be feeling. I'm only offering assistance out of respect to you two,” Saleen said while taking out magic nuclei and scrolls and handing them to the mages in Safilos's presence.

”Take them. We'll need Saleen's help rebuilding our kingdom.” Safilos didn't ask the mages to refuse. They had given a lot for his sake. If they were to advance further, the least Safilos could do was not stand in the way of their training.

With the most powerful of mages killed by Saleen, Rafel would take care of the rest. Plus, the Violet Angel was a powerful being on its own.

Saleen was confident in his ability to crush Alchemy City's power. The key was that he didn't want his name attached to the effort.

Alchemy City, at present, probably no longer cared about its reputation because it had never acquired sufficient power to be a major player.

Saleen did not want to clash head-on with Alchemy City; instead, he wanted to borrow Safilos's name in doing so. However, Safilos's forces were all stationed at Holy Rock City. There were also pathetically few mages around.

Saleen wanted to talk about deploying troops with Safilos next.

If he had not been Lex's husband, that would have been a sensitive topic of conversation. But since Saleen was currently a prince of the empire, no one would have said anything regardless of what he was doing with Safilos.

Saleen realized from what he saw in the trajectory of fate that reputation still mattered a lot, especially when he was trying to expand the Nature Faith. He needed to first ensure that people were okay with this.

If everyone had doubts and kept their guard up, the expansion of Nature Faith wouldn't happen.

Saleen had no time to wait. The millennium-long promise would have been up before he realized it.

Regardless of how kind the Goddess of Nature was, he would have been punished if he violated the contract. There had probably been a good number of people who had entered the temples and acquired power left behind by the goddess.

There was no doubt one needed to pay for the power acquired.

Saleen did not want to see himself advancing to the very last stages and losing his life because of a puny contract like that.

The sooner the goddess was resurrected the better. Saleen was most afraid of the goddess leaving some measures behind that allowed her to grow too powerful when she was resurrected. If that happened, he'd lose control of the Nature Faith.

Safilos's hatred of Alchemy City had reached a critical point. He didn't really resent Saleen, as the location of his kingdom was probably not that far from where the mages of Alchemy City were hiding. It was only a matter of time before he became Alchemy City's target.

Those mages needed to find shelter since they couldn't return to their city. Safilos's kingdom was at the border of the mainland and the environment was semi-enclosed, making the region a perfect spot for the mages to live.

Safilos then asked, ”Saleen, you said you'd provide me with a fleet and mages too. I want them now. When can you get them to me?”

”Right away,” Saleen smiled and answered.

”Right away?”

”Yes. I came with the Floating City. There are tens of thousands of construction puppets on it, so the cities can be repaired in no time. They can also start digging out deep-water ports. I'm going to provide you with 10,000 enchanters to make sure this never happens again unless it's god coming down personally,” Saleen replied.

Safilos somehow managed to keep pent-up rage under control and said, ”Very well. I'm going to hit Alchemy City personally. I want to chop off the heads of those mages one by one.”

”Rest assured. I'll join you. Those mages...” Saleen didn't finish his sentence. It was too late for words. A great number of Safilos's subjects died and he couldn't replenish his resources in such a short period of time.

Saleen did make good on his word right away, though, leaving the place with Safilos and taking to the air before unleashing the Floating City.

The entire city was covered as soon as the Floating City appeared. The area turned dark as night. Saleen had the enchanters unleash magic powers to shine light onto the city. Tens of thousands of construction puppets were sent below to help Safilos with the building project.

Other than those construction puppets, there were demons helping to deepen the ports. The details were seen to by the enchanters. They sucked the dirt at the bottom up using vortexes and used Dissolution to deal with the coral and rocks.

After excavation, they turned to Fossilization to stabilize the undersea terrain. The area under excavation was vast. Saleen lost a good number of magic nuclei getting the project going. The enchanters used the stores of the Floating City for casting magic.

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