Chapter 1455: 1455
Chapter 1455: Black Dungeon City (Part 1)
Of course, there was no way for every demon serving Saleen to be of level-9 . Only the supreme demons and a handful of demons had reached this level . Level-10 demons were fewer in number . The amplification of their combat prowess was due to the Devil Possession Armors .
At first, the demons were in awe . Then they cackled, saying, “The head warden was right . This place is going to be invaded . Now we can use all those contraptions laid beforehand . ”
The leading holy master gave the order .
“Yes, sir!”
The wardens acknowledged him and activated the divine-rune charm arrays at the beach .
As gray light burst from the arrays, all 10,000 demons were struck by the beams . But…
None of them fell .
The holy masters were baffled by what they saw with their very eyes . How could that be? The Great Prophecy Spell Arrays were the only divine-rune charm arrays in the Holy See capable of using prophecy spells in a concentrated manner . They could only be used in a special environment like the Black Dungeon Island with a 30 percent success rate .
Such high prophetic abilities! According to conventional calculations, even if all 10,000 of those invaders were extremely lucky, at least 3,000 or so would have perished .
Suddenly they were struck by silver beams . Roar! None of the demons was felled by the curses being hurled at them . The armor they were wearing had been crafted by Saleen . That was, of course, referring to the lightning-magic patterns on the armor .
Saleen discovered that those patterns were probably the best method for defending against prophecy spells .
If the level of the spell was the same as the target, the prophecy spells would have been nullified by the lightning-magic patterns . All demons wore level-9 magic armor . Be it the prophecy spells or the curses, they were only at about level-7 because of the multiple-target spells fired from arrays .
While those spells were terrifying, it was still impossible for them to break the lightning-magic patterns’ protection .
Saleen had done detailed research into Tribunal tactics . For every bit of information he gathered, he had more than 100 thousand enchanters do calculations on them over and over . Saleen had long been prepared to deal with such attacks .
It was usually challenging to place arrays of any kind in the sand, which would have caused them to break easily . But Saleen caught sight of the divine-rune charm array embedded in the soil for prolonged periods in that divine smith’s compound .
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Although the soil was less shifty, its stability was even poorer than sand .
Saleen had prepared mightily . He first let the high-level demons storm the beach wearing Devil Possession Armors, triggering attacks from the divine-rune charm arrays before sending in the star figures and ancient warriors .
As for the ancient warriors, he saw them in a different light and was no longer concerned about their loss . Those people had died a long time ago and their souls were in fragments . The combined powers of the ancient warriors would have far exceeded those of golden grand swordmasters .
Those people were little more than level-9 beings, after all .
Although Saleen had sympathy for them, he had to use whatever means were available to him . He presented the Black Dungeon Island as the final battlefield after discovering that he had no way of saving their souls .
Black clouds hovered above the island . Untold numbers of flying magic beasts were inside but all were illusions . The large illusion originated from the core of the Black Dungeon Island, an extinct volcano .
The power emanating from that location was more potent than Saleen’s family badge . What was even more terrifying was that the power was controlled by others . Despite being illusions, those beings in the sky were capable of solid attacks .
If Saleen had brought the Floating City there, the place would have been attacked .
He had been observing the many changes to the Black Dungeon Island, due to having possessed a plane map . That was why he brought the Baldur’s Gate and attacked from the waters instead .
Be it divine or magic spells, once the battle was taken to the ground, it would be a matter of personal strength, with combatants clashing head-on with each other .
The demon army marched forward and took the entire beach . They laid down a line of defense and stopped advancing, waiting for the forces from the rear .
Saleen was surprised that the wardens did not emerge to stop them, which meant that he would have had an easier time initiating the battle .
Riding on the Violet Angel, he and Rafel disembarked at the forefront of the battlefield .
“Rafel, you’re in charge of the fighting now,” Saleen said and took off . He hovered high in the sky and looked down on the battlefield . He was simply keeping a close eye on enemy movements . If the head warden showed up, he would have had to take him out personally; no one else was capable of doing that .
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“Yes, my lord,” Rafel was behaving unusually respectfully toward Saleen . She was born with a mission to fight wars . She had great respect for the act of combat .
The Violet Angel’s golden dragon form stood instead of lying prostrate, its head held high, proudly looking at the ridges in the distance . A group of holy masters was there too, but none dared to come near the dragon .
The forces behind the demons arrived soon enough, consisting of Bug Angel Warriors and some low-level elemental creatures .
After different troops mixed with the demon army and reorganized, Rafel summoned someone to her side—Gusion, who hardly spent any time with Saleen .
Because of talent or advancing too late, he was only at level-11 of powers at present . But that was more than enough . As a military officer, level 11-beings were capable of leading 1,000 people even in ancient times .
The ones serving Gusion were not from the Dragonslayer Army but were an army of puppets assigned by Saleen .
They were weaker than usual, mainly because they had no magic perpetual-motion engines installed in them . That also prevented them from going crazy and taking out allies .
The puppet army was the last to get to shore and was put in front of the demon army . Gusion commanded them alone, wielding a Dragon Slaughtering War Flag over seven meters long .
A huge war drum appeared before Rafel . It was the War Drum of Fear .
She wielded the bone hammer and beat on the drum, signaling the start of the battle .
One beat on the drum resulted in massive casualties among the thousands of wardens laying in ambush in the woods . Most had gone crazy and attacked anyone around them they could find . Others cowered in fear, with those remaining running in fear . But were quickly slain by the wardens who went crazy .
Among the wardens were more than 100 black-robed holy masters . Although all possessed powerful equipment, they were unable to use it before having the weakest parts of their minds attacked directly by the drum .
“Attack according to plan,” Rafel shouted to Gusion . He nodded in response . He rode a steed himself, an earth dragon incapable of flight . It was also of a breed that was closely related to the true dragons, compliments of Saleen . The combat prowess of that earth dragon was comparable to that of Gusion himself .
Gusion waved the Dragon Slaughtering War Flag for a bit . The puppets behind him then marched with him .
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Saleen didn’t waste the wealth he had obtained in Alchemy City . He used it all in his army . Rearming and reorganizing his troops were shortcuts for mages to advance . Only during wartime did they get opportunities to practice their craft .
Crafting armors went without saying . The crafting of the puppet armies had been more than enough to enable the advancement of thousands of mages .
The Violet Angel held its head high and walked proudly while being ridden by Rafel as they headed toward the center of the Black Dungeon Island . The place was vast, its landmass spanning a radius of thousands of kilometers . If they had proceeded with their attacks just like that, they still wouldn’t have made it to the central region even after a fortnight .
Saleen saw the retreating enemy in the distant ridges . He smirked coldly . There were a few scouts out to see what his forces were capable of . He saw no need to let them leave alive .
The magic amplifier behind his back emerged . The Thunder Dragon Blaster fired lightning icicles from the core at the holy masters over a dozen kilometers away .
Seven icicles were fired once, and seven volleys were fired back . Saleen’s lightning icicles were no longer what they once were . He fired them quickly and in great numbers . Saleen easily killed any target near him .
Dozens of icicles appeared in an instant at the ridges and all hit their targets . Two holy masters repelled the first wave of attacks only to be killed by the second wave .
Those people were simply sent to observe and to trigger the divine-rune charm arrays, so they would not have been elites of any kind .
The Black Dungeon Island was run according to a strict hierarchy . None of those people even had the right to enter the core areas . They were laughing a few minutes ago; now they were dead . Those wardens who attempted to flee halted their steps .
That was because they saw a lone holy master surviving the attack . It was not due to that holy master’s power that their lives were spared but because they didn’t take a single step throughout the onslaught .
Saleen’s voice was heard over a dozen kilometers away, saying, “Stay where you are . If you take even half a step, I’ll kill half of you . If I see two of you move, I’ll kill all of you . ”
Saleen threatened them without continuing to attack . He was doing that because he realized that those holy masters were all lacking in levels . The magic nuclei needed to be expended just by firing the lightning icicles, which were once of far greater value than the targets those icicles hit . Saleen resorted to threats instead because he had to conserve ammunition .
None of the wardens dared to move after he finished saying what he said .
Because of high casualties, none of the holy masters was able to relay what they had seen back to their superiors .
Meanwhile, the puppet army advanced inland . The forces Saleen brought with him on that expedition hardly had any mages among their ranks . An all-magic force did not need aid from mages . Those Bug Angel Warriors were more than capable of shooting Wind Blades .
There was also the fact that Saleen had brought many forbidden curse scrolls on that expedition .
If magic spells were needed, he alone would have had the tactical edge the forces needed .
Crafting forbidden curse scrolls was considerably difficult . Even Saleen was inadequate in crafting them, so he had to ask Jason to do it . His teacher did not disappoint: He crafted 28 forbidden curse scrolls during the half-year that Saleen waited .
Making one scroll a week was like crafting common level-14 scrolls . Saleen was also fortunate in having a lot of starline cloth at his disposal . Level-14 forbidden curse scrolls had exceeded what the starline paper was able to handle . Only starline cloth, which was used for crafting high-level figures, was capable of handling the forbidden curse’s power .
Other than the 28 forbidden curse scrolls, hundreds of scrolls above level-12 were crafted . While multiple-target spells were not as powerful as forbidden curses and were even considerably weaker than single-target magic spells, in a war scenario those spells were the ones that killed the most people .
The Bug Angel Warriors finally took flight and spread out to the flanks . The Black Dungeon Island was of thousands of kilometers square and had a city in it . Saleen’s target was the largest city on Black Dungeon Island that also served as the largest prison—the Black Dungeon City .
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