Chapter 1297: 1297
Grand Duke Iron Blood’s rainbow giant dragon was not willing to enter the cave, so Grand Duke Iron Blood could only stand guard outside .
Inbosa controlled the 12 Iron Blood warriors and followed to enter the warehouse . Saleen looked around . The people close to him were not around . He summoned a star figure to follow him . Only then did he leap into the cave .
The first floor was entirely filled with piles of space boxes . Inbosa saw that Saleen had followed him . “Each person will take half . ”
“Alright, each person will take half . ” Saleen summoned hundreds of lightning puppets .
Inbosa saw the lightning puppets and felt envious . Iron Blood warriors jumped into the cave . The Iron Blood warriors helped Inbosa move the space boxes that had been placed far away, and Inbosa used his spatial equipment to collect them . The benefits of the space boxes were immense . The space boxes without a compressed space could be placed in a piece of spatial equipment .
The space boxes had all been piled together . The Iron Blood warriors and lightning puppets did not interfere with one another . With a line in the middle as the divider, they gathered the space boxes for Saleen and Inbosa .
Inbosa spread open the third Dissolution Spell scroll, dissolving the ground halfway, and poured in a bottle of metallic poison . Saleen saw all of it and engraved the method into his memory .
Of course, it was not just the pouring of a poisonous liquid . Inbosa still had to control it to corrode the magic array on the mezzanine .
No matter how tough the magic array was, it was still just a lifeless object . The metallic poison did not have any energy waves, and it was extremely easy for it to penetrate the layer of energy of the protective magic array . As for the magic patterns refined onto the base, they were sturdy but could not bear the toxins that had been extracted .
The metallic poison was originally meant for etching out magic arrays . Mages had to be very careful . If they lost the slightest bit of control, they would have corroded too much of the valuable materials, causing the entire magic array to be ruined .
Inbosa had not thought of that beforehand; the plan had been devised at the last minute . That was what Saleen admired . When he encountered a magic array for which strong attacks were ineffective, he would use even stronger methods . Inbosa used indirect methods to resolve the issue from the root .
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The magic array had mostly been formed by metallic poison corrosion . After encountering an even purer metallic poison, it resisted for an extremely short period of time before being destroyed .
The magic arrays even had a self-restoring function, but Inbosa took advantage of the split-second when the magic array was corroded to use the Dissolution Spell to completely destroy the magic array . The method was extremely intricate and could not be conceived by an average mage at the last minute .
Inbosa had just taken it as Saleen testing him . He assumed that Saleen could not bear to extract the metallic poison, so he had only given him the Dissolution Spell scroll . He did not know that Saleen had relied purely on brute force to destroy the magic array .
Inbosa did not at all feel that Saleen’s ball of lightning could penetrate this type of magic array, let alone destroy it . The ball of lightning did not look anything ‘lightning’ . It seemed to be a type of high-energy magic ball .
Inbosa allowed two Iron Blood warriors to go down first, and followed behind, following the cave path to enter the warehouse one floor below .
They had just entered the warehouse and a puppet rushed in front of Inbosa . The puppet had six legs and three arms . It brandished three iron whips, intending to whip Inbosa into pieces .
The two Iron Blood warriors that Inbosa had dispatched to come along with him had already collapsed and were not getting up . Inbosa did not panic and effortlessly moved to one side . He also had six legs and a long metal tail .
Compared to the puppet, he was more like a monster .
Saleen caught up . The puppet was unable to distinguish who its foes were . As long as it was a moving target, it would attack . Inbosa had hidden and immediately entered a state of still quiet, so Saleen became the target of attack .
The three iron whips formed a triangle and swung towards Saleen . Saleen had come down first, but his descent had been very quick and he easily avoided the three whips’ pincer attack . The star figures also jumped down . In the star figures’ hands was the equipment that Saleen specialized in refining – the magic epee .
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The sword was two and a half meters long and weighed 180 kilograms . Its surface was covered with magic patterns . One side of the sword was a serrated blade, and the other side was curved .
A level 9 magic nucleus was mounted within the epee’s magic array and could emit level 9 magic power .
However, Saleen had only added a level 9 Sharpening spell to the epee . The star figures did not need elemental magic spells and could release long range attacks all the same .
“Inbosa!” Saleen saw that his star figures had forced back the puppet with a stroke of the sword, yet Inbosa still had not acted . He was angry . It was paramount that they make the most of their time to share in the spoils .
Inbosa pointed . Only then did Saleen use his Elemental Eye to look at the surroundings . Within the pitch-black warehouse, about 1,000 puppets were neatly lined up . The puppets all had four eyes, and the magic array between the eyes rotated lightly, releasing waves of energy .
“Damn it, it’s a puppet army!” Saleen could not help but swear .
The ancient humans had once created a puppet army . There was a type of puppet army which did not require a human to direct it . Its power was immense, and it demanded almost nothing of its environment . However, it often went out of control . Typically, humans used this type of puppet army to eliminate enemies that were sealed in an area .
More than 1,000 puppets were just like one body . They needed to be destroyed with a true level 9 magic spell .
What troubled Saleen was that he had seen the magic array between the puppets’ four eyes . It was the mark from the legends .
Mages all believed in the conservation of energy . Even a magic array was at equilibrium, it was really just that its consumption was slow, and there were abilities for the automatic replenishment of energy . Such abilities would also slowly vanish with the passage of time and the ageing of materials . Even if you used a divine persona as material, there would still come a day when the divine persona would be destroyed .
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However, the ancient humans had once manufactured a type of magic array that could allow energy to circulate repeatedly . It relied on elemental power absorbed from the air to support the revolutions of the magic array as much as possible and could support a huge amount of consumption .
It was the famous magic perpetual-motion engine found within the Paradoxes of magic .
Of course, the magic perpetual-motion engine did not exist, but it was a type of magic array that could endlessly absorb magic to refill the magic nuclei or crystals in the magic array .
In the ancient times, it had taken hundreds of years for the secret to be discovered by humans . However, because the magic array was not a method to initiate control, the puppets created were unable to distinguish between friend and foe .
Later on, humans researched and found the simplest method for control . They made a magic switch, using it to cut off the perception of this type of puppet . The puppets’ four eyes worked independently, and were the only part with which the puppets could perceive .
“Each person will take half!” Saleen saw that Inbosa was not moving, so he retrieved a large net, directly trapping a puppet in it, and used a sealing scroll to contain it .
Inbosa saw that Saleen was not afraid of the puppets . He was unable to distinguish between truths and falsehoods with his intuition . He could only use his own means and begin his own battle .
Saleen’s combat style was simple . He summoned two types of elemental creatures, the elemental stone statue soldiers and the blue ice maiden, to protect himself . Then, he used a large net to capture them one by one .
The puppet troops contained magic perpetual-motion engines within them . Too few of such mechanisms had been preserved as its materials were hard to find . The core of the magic perpetual-motion engine had been refined with the body of a special godly race, which originated from the metal plane .
Inbosa’s method of capturing the puppets was more violent . He retrieved a gigantic metal gear and stood on it . The metal gear rotated and dashed about wildly, causing all of the puppets to be knocked off their feet .
Inbosa did not want the puppet army, but he felt expectant about the magic perpetual-motion engines in the puppets . After the release of the earliest batch of magic perpetual-motion engines, the imitation engines were much worse . The metal divine kingdom had been destroyed and not much of it was left behind . There was no longer the same godly race for humans to capture .
For the sake of the magic perpetual-motion engine, it was worth wasting a little time .
Saleen had keen eyes . He saw that amidst the puppet army, there were 100 whose armor was slightly different . The difference could only be identified using his Elemental Eye . it was a difference of material quality . The materials used for the magic patterns did not have any similarity .
He immediately summoned all of his elemental creatures to block off the 100 puppets to one side and used the large net to capture them . The puppets had no soul, so it was easier to seal them away . After trapping them in the large net, Saleen used a Frozen spell to make the puppets unable to move for a split-second to easily seal them away .
Although Inbosa’s alchemy was strong, in the intense battle, he had not identified the differences among the puppet army . After Saleen had secretly captured 100 powerful puppets, he no longer took things seriously .
The elemental creatures’ numbers were sufficient . The scale of the puppet army was too small, and Saleen continuously held the absolute initiative of the battle . The outermost parts of the puppet army had probably already been taken apart, otherwise they would not have been weak . Alchemy City had preserved the puppet’s core for the sake of future research .
The outer armor and weapons were the truly fatal pieces of equipment of the puppets . If it had been Saleen, he would have separated the outer part and the core of the puppets . The puppets were even difficult for the ancient humans to control . Of course it was the best course of action to take away the puppets’ weapons .
They wasted about an hour downstairs . Most of the time had been spent on sealing the puppets . Between the puppets and the mages, no direct combat had taken place at all . Inbosa’s metal gears flew about, and the puppets could not approach him at all .
“Inbosa, let’s go,” Saleen said impatiently . He had already taken what he wanted and was unwilling to waste time . It had been an hour, and they did not know what had taken place outside . Had Alchemy City taken control of the archangel? If it had been controlled, they could make it in time if they escaped now .
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