Chapter 735 - Darkness Falls (II) (1/2)

Chapter 735: Darkness Falls (II)

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Cullen stared at the crystal ball before him, where he clearly saw the battle between the fire and water elements. The inherent confrontations made the fire elemental creatures almost unwilling to listen to his commands. Cullen was no longer furious about the chaotic nature of the fire elemental creatures. Instead, he felt incredibly shocked.

The enemy is so prepared?!

Cullen was mentally prepared for the enemy to retaliate correspondingly after the Fantasy Key to the Fiery Plain was stolen. After all, it proved that the enemy knew what they were doing to activate the summoning stone to create some trouble for him before stealing the Fantasy Key. Moreover, Cullen had considered the high possibility that the enemy had stolen the Fantasy Key in order to deal with the fire elemental creatures from the Fiery Plain. But back then, he only expected the enemy to increase the number of elemental Mages to set up counteractive spells or summon fire elemental creatures in response. However, never did he expect the enemy to hold the Fantasy Key to the water plane of existence!

Come to think of it, since the enemy was aware of the elemental teleportation door, it wasn’t surprising that they also had a Fantasy Key. But how did they summon that many water elemental creatures in such a short time? Cullen knew how difficult it was to establish and expand the elemental channels. But now, judging from the water elemental creatures darting out of the surging waves shown inside the crystal ball, the enemy’s elemental channel wasn’t only stable, but also high in level. This left Cullen baffled because in the previous battle, there were neither reports of the enemy holding onto the Fantasy Key to Silver Ocean nor mentions about them summoning water elemental creatures. On the other hand, they heard that there was a fox-eared young lady who held formidable fire elemental powers, which prompted Cullen to activate the Fantasy Key that led to the Fiery Plain. If the enemy had a Fantasy Key, they should have summoned the water elemental creatures. If he knew that it was the Fantasy Key belonging to the Silver Ocean, he wouldn’t have done something so foolish!

Could it be that the enemies built the teleportation door that linked to Silver Ocean after the previous battle? Are you kidding me?! Establishing the channel required a lot of time and it had tougher requirements for high-level ones. This was why Cullen chose to use quantity to make up for quality. If it was possible, he wished to build teleportation doors of the highest level continuously and simply end the war by summoning the ultimate Flame Demon.

But the prerequisite was that the enemy must be patient enough to give him five to ten years to build them and it was obviously impossible.

“What’s going on!”

Cullen scanned the crystal ball. After a few moments, he turned to the panicky Schrodinger with a gloomy expression. Schrodinger shuddered in an ashen expression as he sensed the wrath and murderous intent exuding from Cullen’s eyes. Schrodinger was equally puzzled over this situation.

“I-I don’t know anything, Sir Cullen. I swear that the enemy didn’t summon any water elemental creatures in the previous battle. General Vidal and Commander Saiborn can testify it!”

“Hmph! Are you trying to say that the enemy managed to get their hands on such a high-level teleportation door in just a few days?”

Cullen let out a grunt. It seemed that it was meaningless finding trouble with this useless bastard any longer. The advantages and disadvantages in battles were largely due to the collection of intelligence. However, the results of Cullen’s intelligence gathering had been terrible. All the scouts, including his Corpse Slave that he sent out, were eliminated. There were also no news from Nell, the group of black-skinned fallen ones, so Cullen supposed that they were murdered. Moreover, there was a dense, extraordinary holy aura in the enemy territory, which kept them away from the fortress. Therefore, the intelligence that he gathered up until this point was all from Simon’s battle. Cullen didn’t believe that the enemy could come up with huge changes to their forces in a short period of time, but it seemed that he was too naive.

Although both sides seemed to be evenly matched, Cullen was aware that if this continued, the fire elemental creatures on his side would be worn out. Moreover, the distance was also a big problem. The water elemental creatures fought from their doorsteps while the fire elemental summoning door was a distance away from the battlefield. Even if he increased the number of fire elemental creatures summoned, they still wouldn’t match up to the water elemental creatures. Cullen had initially planned to use the fire elemental creatures’ self-explosion and igniting properties to catch the enemy off guard. But he didn’t expect to receive this severe blow from them. If he continued this battle, perhaps his fire elemental summoning door would shut down due to over-exhaustion before he broke the ice barrier.

However, as a military commander, he had to always have the ability to adapt. Otherwise, Undead Creatures wouldn’t be this powerful.

“Order the fire elemental creatures to back down and regroup. First, Third, and Fifth legion! Get ready for battle!”

Cullen commanded.

The chaotic battle instantly ended.

The fire elemental creatures suddenly turned around and headed off in the opposite direction. In the blink of an eye, the violent sparks vanished and the dusky, scarlet creatures retreated and left the attacking range of the fortress. On the other hand, Rhode gestured and the water elemental creatures abandoned the thought of giving chase, which was closely tied to their personalities. Water elemental creatures were mostly calm and submissive while fire elemental creatures were rowdy and hot-tempered. Shortly after, the chilly wind swept the fog along and revealed the traces of explosions, burns, and presence of the shimmering Phantom Beasts and Batfishes.

The whole city walls was in complete silence. The soldiers were dumbfounded. They had never expected to witness such a fantasy-like battle. After the fire elemental creatures retreated into the distance, the soldiers broke into loud cheers. Although they weren’t involved in the battle, they were fired up by the magnificent scene.Read more chapter on our novelhall.com

However, Rhode wasn’t as delightful as them. He gazed forward coldly.

“Lize, order the Clerics to cast the defensive barrier. Now!”

“Yes, Mr. Rhode!”