Chapter 1318: Chapter 1318
Chapter 1318: Taking on the Abominations (Part 2)
“What about me, Saleen?” Eleanor felt weird that she was not included in Saleen’s arrangements .
“You and Qin shall await my orders,” Saleen said . “I point, you shoot . There’s no need to expose what you’re capable of for now . ”
After giving his last order, he took Jola and Nicholas away from the Floating City . The four level 10 mage trainers, whom he had brought from Devil’s Horn, were by his side .
Saleen brought 10,000 Bug Angel Warriors and 10,000 star figures, as well as 10,000 demons to a fortress east of Highland City . The 30,000-strong army was incapable of being stationed in the small fortresses, but he did not worry about that . He cast Lightning Constellation and summoned elemental creatures from his elemental badge before beginning to build a larger fortress .
The materials were picked on the spot . Prior to arriving, Saleen had already figured it that Fycro would not have laid out too many lines of defense . He still needed to depend on himself . Fycro was not someone like Saleen, who possessed a piece of equipment like the Lightning Constellation . The hundreds of thousands of lightning warriors within were all very strong and capable of building standard magic constructions any time .
Construction spanning over a mile in length commenced . The depth of the construction had a width spanning over 600 feet . The front of the construction was a 32-foot-thick stone wall . Metal towers were built behind the wall . It was flanked by four 10-floored magic towers . A wedge-shaped fortress was built at the rear .
Nothing about the line of defense looked extraordinary . If it had not been for the two basement floors below, which enabled him to keep his troops around, such a layout would have been a commonly seen defensive structure in Qin . However, such a conventional layout usually had six-floored magic towers at the sides instead of 10-floored ones .
Saleen had his reasons for laying the place out like that . The Holy See troops would have been unnerved seeing 10-floored magic towers around . While they were dealing with abominations at the moment, it was still a severely blasphemous act .
Fycro would not have objected to it, so Saleen was able to cut down on the number of floors of the towers . When the battle was over, the news of Fycro allying with a blasphemer would be known everywhere . Fycro would be at the point of no return by then .
Saleen was not stupid enough to let Fycro do as he pleased . He had his own ideas and principles . Grand Duke Iron Blood’s identity was no secret, but he still refrained from sticking his nose at who Fycro recruited for help . Both parties defended two directions respectively . It would suffice so long as the abominations were contained within Highland City .
Highland City, per its namesake, was built at a high place . The area produced herbs and a rarely seen type of wood, which could be used to craft magic staffs . It was all low-level materials, so there had been few powerful professionals around . Fycro took over the city as soon as he showed up . He dispersed the people and made the place a suitable battlefield .
While the gods were pretentious and fake, they would have had such surface actions done properly by believers . Fycro was to become a god, so he did his best to protect common people .
There were hardly any residents left within 500 miles from the Highland City . All who remained were retired soldiers or professionals still capable of fighting . The 500-mile battlefield’s focus was on the 100th mile at the center .
Saleen began to distribute armies of Stone Statue Soldiers, which he crafted on his own, to the mages as soon as he was done laying the line of defense . The army was not as powerful as the Elemental Stone Statue Soldiers in battle, but such compound summoning magic spells would not put a huge strain on the mages’ mental powers .
On the second day after the line of defense was laid out, the ones at the front—Fycro’s forces—had almost finished retreating . Saleen began to take over matters concerning defense of the Floating City . There were an army of bug angels of 60,000-strong assigned east of Highland City . A 50,000-strong demon army was waiting to fight .
The center of Highland City was the location of the huge portal . Abominations were continuously emerging . The abominations were first dealt with by the surrounding fortresses . When the ones remaining managed to find their way out of the barricade, more than 60 percent of the ones emerging still ended up dead . That was when the army of bug angels strike .
The Floating City’s altitude was too low . The abominations were unable to fly as soon as they emerged, so they were only able to strike on land . The pressure on the group of fortresses were halved . The new year came, and the portal expanded to a radius of about 1,640 feet . More and more powerful abominations emerged . The soldiers and mages in the fortresses continued to keep fighting with high spirits .
The magic nuclei that Fycro bought from Saleen had proven their worth . Fycro traded for the magic nuclei using divine crystals . By trading for low-quality magic nuclei using high quality supplies, he had been able to acquire large numbers of magic nuclei . Doing so enabled the mages to keep fighting for longer periods of time .
The quality of magic nuclei used hardly made a difference to mages, unless they were used on magic arrays . The main usage of divine crystals was to replenish mental powers or used them on magic arrays or equipment . Common mages were incapable of using them to restore magic chords .
On the third of the new year, there were already level nine abominations showing up at the 1,640-foot-wide portal . The mages at the fortresses no longer attacked without a care . They simply hunkered down at the fortresses to prevent the abominations from moving out too quickly .
The creatures that emerged from the abomination plane were incredibly ferocious, but they were not quite as big as demons . Most of them were only around 6 feet tall . Only abominations above level six began to wear clothing and armor, as well as wielded weapons .
Most abominations were capable of flight . Their ferocious, monstrous faces seemed to have stains of blood accumulated over thousands of years on them . The stench spreading out was so pungent that not even the mages’ Cleaning spell had been of any use .
As soon as abominations took flight, the Floating City above quickly shot them down . Magic spells rained down on the front of the portal like they cost nothing . Most abominations were wiped out before they were even able to see what Myers Mainland was actually like .
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Still, thousands of abominations managed to escape the fortresses and enter the city . That was due to a problem with Highland City’s terrain . Although it was huge, there were few places actually considered habitable . The tall hills and boulders became garrisons .
Bug Angel Warriors were capable of flight, and the demons surrounded their enemies on the ground . The fighting was more intense than Saleen had imagined .
He stayed at the rear and did not venture outside to do battle . He was busy calculating the combat capacity of the abominations and casualties of his own army . Due to being clad in high-level armor, casualties were kept incredibly low in his army, rating at less than 100 per day . It was incredibly common for his units to sustain injuries . The nails of the abominations were sharper than many magic blades . The Bug Angel Armor was unable to sustain many blows before breaking .
In such situations, wealth became the key . The magic nuclei left on the Bug Angel Armor enabled the armor to be repaired . Saleen had to rotate the Bug Angel Warriors and demons every day, replacing 10,000 units about every eight hours . The armor of the 10,000 who were recalled suffered damage in various areas . The number of magic nuclei consumed exceeded what had incurred in any battle that Saleen had fought .
While the abominations were never able to actually break the lines of defenses laid out everywhere, Saleen knew that it was just the beginning . When level 10 abominations began to show, his lines of defenses were truly tested .
“My liege, I don’t think we’ll see the end just killing them like that,” Jola said .
He had paid close attention to Saleen’s magic array . There was a myriad of projections shown in the magic arrays . All of them depicted the battles between Saleen’s warriors and the abominations .
“Any thoughts?” Saleen asked .
“The abominations’ bodies would have made good alchemical materials,” Jola said . “Don’t we already have a mercenary system in place? If we were to use magic nuclei to buy the bodies of the abominations, we’d have the pressure lifted off our shoulders considerably . ”
“That matter with the abyssal creatures isn’t over yet,” Saleen said .
“Just recruit at Qin then . We have nothing to lose anyway,” Jola said, reminding Saleen that other than Pompeii City, there had been nowhere else south of Qin caught in wars .
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There were many mages to the south . Professionals were abundant . Most professionals were not able to find anyone who would hire them, so their days were rather hard . If there were to be high-paying battles, it would attract many professionals who had plenty of time to kill . Saleen could probably easily hire over 100,000 of them .
Saleen pondered Jola’s words for a bit . Even though he had not been bringing many of his troops to the battle, all of them were elites . Those who died lacked training . They were there to train in the first place, so any who could remain alive would have a great future ahead of them .
“Forget it . I don’t want to share the loot with others,” he finally said .
The imps and demons were creatures from demon plane . Only through fighting alongside him would he have been made a central figure in their minds, making them take him seriously as their lord and master .
When powerful ones from the abomination plane showed up, Saleen would not have let the bug angels and demons take them on . He would lead a group of professionals to take those figures on to personally find out just how powerful those figures were . With the Floating City around, he could advance and retreat any time .
“Nicholas, how are things at Fycro’s side?” Saleen asked .
“No noteworthy dangers around,” Nicholas said . “As for the abominations… It’s just numbers for the time being . The group of fortresses that Fycro built were mainly meant to hold back the rate of emergence and numbers . It works well . The armies at the outer fringes are more than enough to kill any abominations able to make it out . The Floating City ensured that no abominations took flight . ”
“It seems like Fycro has done his calculations well,” Saleen said . “If it hadn’t been for the Floating City, fighting would have looked very different here . What about Grand Duke Iron Blood?”
That last sentence was meant for Jola .
“No signs of danger,” Jola said . “My liege, the invasion from the abomination kind of looks…”
He did not really know how to word it .
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Saleen nodded and said, “Too weak . It shouldn’t have alerted Fycro so much to begin with . Then again, Jola, the portal was sealed by Fycro using divine arts . It would have turned out to be a huge energy maelstrom with a diameter over a mile otherwise . The rate at which the abominations emerged could have only been seen clearly by high-level mages . ”
The ground right outside the portal had already been stained by blood while Saleen was still analyzing how things were .
The abominations spoke in an extremely high tempo . The communications between them sounded like high-pitched screeches, which was deafening . With the Floating City looming over the battlefield, the entire place was dark, eerie, and filled with dead bodies, which were decomposing at a very high rate . Venomous bugs emerged from the dead bodies and flew about .
“Myers Mainland! Why isn’t the portal opened yet?”
A cold voice was heard roaring from the other side of the portal . A huge palm shot out and grabbed at a tower in front . The tower was made of pure steel, yet it was snapped right there and then by that hand .
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