1498 Bloody Nailisi Part 1 (1/2)

The number of troops did not grow within Jason's line of defense. News from the frontlines had, of course, been delivered to Jason as well. They owed him that much for the large number of weapons he had supplied.

Jason had supplied them with a large number of arrows and bolts.

Those projectiles of the Kingdom of Metatrin were explicitly crafted to take on good creatures. There was all manner of poisons on them that would critically injure the enemy even if they did not manage to kill them outright. Furthermore, it was far more challenging to deal with such injuries than to simply resurrect a dead god creature.

Saleen had also gained control of Alchemy City in secret, and mages from Alchemy City rushed to their side in droves. Being able to fight god creatures was an opportunity like no other for mages.

Everything on the gods could have been used to make magical materials. Both the Cloudflow Empire and the Kingdom of Metatrin gave silent consent to the mages, allowing them to take remains of god creatures for their own. The Kingdom of Metatrin had no intention of sacrificing too many people in early battles. Since the mages from Alchemy City were so greedy, they were the ones sent out instead.

Mages from Alchemy City were by no means weak after all, and they commanded a huge number of puppets. They had also brought large numbers of warriors with them as well.

Jason did not like the odds. A divine kingdom had god creatures numbering in the tens of billions, with over half of them capable of combat. That was a number that greatly exceeded that of warriors found in the entire Myers Mainland.

Regardless of how favorable the casualty ratio was to the humans, Myers Mainland would not be able to hold until the very end.

The only way to truly turn the tide was to charge into the divine kingdom and start tearing down the place.

That would have been dangerous but worth doing. Jason was already a level 15 mage, and there might have been level 15 gods found within that divine kingdom. Fighting someone at his level would have been one of the most brilliant moments of his life.

However, he could not simply just charge inside. Jason was not the kind who would forsake everything and everyone on his side for his own gain.

His students entrusted the entire nation to him, and he was not about to let Metatrin City fall. He saw fit to first wear down the divine kingdom's forces at the outer fringes before doing anything else. The vanguards of the divine kingdom were too weak, and they were totally disproportionate to the legends told about them.

Jason, however, did not know that it was actually a result of the Lord of Glory's misjudgment of Myers Mainland's powers.

The levels at Myers Mainland had been growing too quickly, so the Lord of Glory assumed that there would not have possibly been any level 15 beings appearing in the mainland. The Lord of Glory thought that the professionals of the mainland would have stayed around level 12, given the short span of time they were allowed to grow.

He had believed that there would not have been more than ten professionals getting past level 13.

As such, there were no very powerful beings among the ranks of the divine kingdom's army, so much so that even the angels were beings below level nine. That was not the case with the human armies.

Soldiers wearing magic armor would have sported level five combat prowess at the very least. Captains were definitely over level seven. Leaders above that rank, who commanded companies over 200 men, were at least at level eight, and there were also ones who were at level nine.

There would have been one golden grand swordmaster in a group of 1000 people or more.

The rising of powers across Myers Mainland had allowed too many talented people to advance quickly. Given how the likes of Saleen was able to get to level 14, warriors and mages who were far above him in regards of talents had an even easier time advancing.

A team of Bug Angel Warriors flew past every hour in the sky to patrol the battlefield. There were angels among the enemy, and while they were not particularly powerful, their flight abilities made them difficult to deal with.

Those Bug Angel Warriors were present specifically to intercept the angels. Alchemy factories of the Kingdom of Metatrin had to restart the production of Bug Angel Armors, whether they liked it or not. Saleen had initially intended to retire the armors, yet given the need for massive flying units, he had to begin making them again.

The Kingdom of Metatrin was capable of summoning huge numbers of demons and imps. Even demonic spirits were able to wear the Bug Angel Armors and fly with them.

Saleen's last hunting trip had brought massive amounts of magic nuclei, which were then supplied to the Bug Angel Warriors for sustained flight. That was hardly surprising, as Saleen had planned things out before.

Wars were ugly and brutal. The million that the Lord of Glory had just deployed were but vanguards. He, too, knew that there were nearly a billion people that lived on Myers Mainland. He had to field a good number of god creatures if he were to kill all of them.

The ones who entered the mainland at the very beginning were only believers. Unless they had contributed in a very significant way, they would have been able to earn titles and bloodlines comparable to that of god creatures. That war was but an activity for breakneck advancement for those believers.

They could have been converted to god creatures by killing ample numbers of enemies. Those believers did not care if they had been humans or magic beasts before. They lived only to serve their god, who was everything to them.

Jason had initially intended to prolong the fight for a bit in order to let Metatrin City, Floating City, and several other locations with massive alchemical production capacities craft ample equipment for resupply. However, Grand Duke Platinum's plans ruined Jason's plans.

Grand Duke Platinum rode into battle personally with his army, charging straight into enemy territory. There were thousands of mages from Alchemy City working with Grand Duke Platinum as well. The mages were the leading force in that fight. The Alchemy City mages burned through about 100 thousand scrolls in a battle that lasted little more than three hours.

The million-strong enemy force was destroyed outright. Such was the power of magic.

As for the staggering amount of 100 thousand scrolls, it was worth noting that before the war broke out, no one would have wanted to use the scrolls like that. Every single scroll cost over 200 gold coins, and burning through 100 thousand scrolls would have equated to tens of millions of gold coins being burned. Worse still, that was calculating it conservatively.

That was not to say that the Alchemy City mages were stupid. The mages were at least able to tell just how massive the amount of god creatures there were running around out there, and they saw no need to be conservative with equipment. Their main priority was simply to keep human casualties as low as they were able to.

However, that attack had been launched too early. The divine kingdom had appeared too suddenly. While Grand Duke Platinum had been able to organize a line of defense due to his reputation, the Cloudflow Empire, in general, had not been adequately prepared for war.

The nobles had only begun to finish giving the orders to mobilize at that time.