Chapter 297: Mage’s Anger (Part 2)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
"Let's go . " Banchajanna twisted his body, showing his true form . Grabbing Daniel in one hand, he stepped into the sky and flew off . Judikaka shook his head, afraid that trouble would be caused .
Besides searching for leads on the scepter in the past few days, Judikaka also gained a comprehension of the current situation from the mages of Sregl Island . He knew this place was away from the four empires in this dimension . It was indeed a good place to stop . If there were no incidents, Judikaka intended to help Saleen build up the city and hide inside . It would definitely not raise any eyebrows .
If they really did kill the disciples of the gods, it would be hard not to draw any attention .
Daniel was held in Banchajanna's hands . He was over eight meters long with a tail that was over ten meters, making him enormous in the sky . The mages from Sregl Island brought with them two-hundred swordsmen . Moving north by land, they were quickly overtaken by Banchajanna in the air .
Daniel used the death flames to envelope his body, Banchajanna was flying incredibly fast and the cold wind bit into him like a knife . Without the protection of the death flames Daniel would have frozen to death within minutes . The Pikoosi hid inside the death flames in Banchajanna's hands . It did not even dare show its face .
The Pikoosi already had the absolute powers of grade-6 . He was recovering incredibly quickly but that made him even more afraid of the death king .
The mages from Sregl Island saw Banchajanna flying past and were a little relieved . They were well aware of Saleen's powers . If he was asking for help, he must have met an enemy that was hard to shake off . If not, with Saleen's powers, he would be able to defeat a grade-5 professional easily .
These mages had been ordered by Jason to protect Saleen . If anything happened to him, they would not be able to go back to Sregl Island .
Saleen was face to face with the black deacon . They had not made any other moves yet . Standing over forty meters apart, they were at the optimal distance for any magic or divine spells .
As the black deacon saw it, the tribunal would win the battle on the ground . The combat powers of the puppet were not incredibly strong, but these two combat puppets were tough indeed . The stronger their defenses were, the faster they would use up their magic chords though .
He could afford to wait . There were at most another two or three more enemies in the forest . He had over a hundred men at his command, so it was impossible that they would lose .
Saleen was not in a rush either . These fully constructed puppets were driven by dragonshards . What was a hundred enemies to them? Even if there were thousands of people on the battleground they would not stop working from a lack of energy .
"Mage, if you surrender now I will consider asking the cardinal to let you go . How about that?" The black deacon had a change in tone, obviously trying to stall for time .
Saleen knew his intentions and could not help but shudder . There was a black bishop here . It seemed like the scale of this hunt was bigger than he had expected . The Holy See had sent so many people for this and he had run into them . Was he really a natural enemy of the Holy See?
He had run into them when they were looking for the ruins of the Second Dynasty . When they were after Daniel he had run into them again . Now that he was in the barren North, he had run into their secret operations . Even an astrologer could not predict something so coincidental .
"Didn't you want to burn me alive?" Saleen asked in a cold voice . The black deacon was stalling for time but so was he . The black deacon was afraid that if he flew too quickly, he would not be able to catch up . He had trapped him by threatening him, preventing him from deserting the rest and escaping .
Saleen was stalling for time too . When the three kings arrived, they would be able to decimate the people here .
As for the black deacon, so long as he returned to the base of his city, he would not be afraid of any bishop . By the time the Holy See reacted, Lex and the rest would have arrived . By then, there would be dozens of grand mages there . If the three kings did not leave, he would not be afraid of the Holy See's next move .
Saleen did not want to sacrifice Conan, he knew what the Holy See were doing . There were not many barbarians left in the north and he could keep Conan by his side . He could make use of the hatred between the barbarians and the Holy See to his advantage .
"You want to know what we have been capturing the barbarians for, don't you?" The black deacon's face seemed incredibly savage in the red light .
"I don't want to know," Saleen replied coldly .
The black deacon could not care less either as he continued saying, "They do indeed have superior bodies . The tribunal wants to create blood knights and they would be the best ingredients for it . Once we have gathered over ten thousand blood knights, the light of God will be spread to every corner of the mainland . "
"Blood knights?!" Saleen's eye started twitching . They had appeared over a thousand years ago . Back then, the mainland was in chaos and black mages were everywhere . All the empires were finding a solution to deal with them .
The Tanggulasi Empire that the land Holy See controlled was doing so too, but the Holy See back then had been fighting for a long time and had suffered huge losses . To replace the dead knights, the tribunal had created the first batch of blood knights . Strictly speaking, they were no different from the black puppets that the black mages created, but the puppets that the black mages created would eventually be sacrificed to the devils .
The blood knights were essentially sacrificing the souls of knights to the God of Light . They would eventually go to heaven . Before that, they had to go through immense pain . Similarly, they would gain incredible combat powers .
They were created by divine spells and naturally had the blood sword aura . In other words, the blood knights that were created had not gone through any training to attain the powers of a beginner swordmaster .
If a team was created entirely by swordsmen, it would be considered incredibly elite . The Holy See used this to create a group of knights that were made up of swordsmen . With this group they controlled the entire west of the mainland . Even though the black mages could create a large number of black puppets, the blood knights were created incredibly quickly too . With the gods supporting from behind, no one could criticise the Holy See's actions .
Despite that, creating blood knights was not something to rejoice . The people that had been turned into blood knights would have their lives shortened tremendously, at most living until thirty-five . Once they became blood knights, they would no longer have any conscious and needed to listen to the commands of the holy master .
Many blood knights were captured forcefully and were not willing . Even more had been prisoners of the other empires . When the black mages were defeated it caused non-stop chaos on the mainland .
Eventually, under the pressure of the other three empires, the Holy See had to promise to give up creating blood knights .
If the Qin Empire had not been so strong back then, causing the Cloudflow and Sikeqinya Empire to be worried, the three empires might have joined forces against the Tanggulasi Empire .
Now that the Holy See was back to creating blood knights it meant that they were confident of going up against the other three empires . The black deacon did not deny this, leaving Saleen shocked and angered .
According to Conan's few words, Saleen gathered that thousands of barbarians had been captured in the north . A group of knights was ten-thousand people, these barbarians alone could form a few groups of them . With tens of thousands of blood knights all at least the level of a swordmaster, this was a worrying amount of power .
When Saleen was little he had heard the rumors in his hometown that the Tanggulasi Empire was involved in the business of human trafficking . They did not need slaves, or at the very least they did not need to buy from the other empires . Finding a connection, Saleen realized that the Holy See must have been planning this for a long time .
Turning a living human into an existence similar to a puppet and sacrificing its soul to the gods was something no mage could swallow . This world was balanced . Anything given to the gods could never be returned to this world .
The Nature Goddess was the god of this dimension, and this problem did not exist . However, the God of Light was from another dimension . Whatever it took away would leave the Myers Mainland dimension forever .
"Mage, consider surrendering . " The black deacon laughed . From afar, a bright light shot across . Saleen knew it must have been from a high-grade holy master flying .
"Why haven't the three kings arrived?" Saleen furrowed his brows . He suddenly commanded the cloud of mist around him to pounce towards the black deacon .
He was incredibly shocked, even though his sword aura was not revolving as he wanted while he was flying close combat was not the strength of mages . No matter how slow he was he would be faster than a flying mage .
Saleen took advantage of his hesitation and released the scrolls in his hands consecutively . More ice blades appeared silently within the cloud of mist . This time, the ice blades that Saleen released were something he could control . Every time he opened a scroll, it was not finished . These ice blades were released but did not shoot out . Hundreds of them gathered and revolved around in the cloud of mist .
This saved a large amount of magic chords . As for focus, Saleen's focus was reaching the level of Lex's . Some grade-6 mages did not even have the focus he had . Saleen was not concerned about using up his focus, it could be quickly replenished unlike his magic chords .
The black deacon was incredibly shocked, his enemy was only a grade-4 mage yet had incredible attacking power . He was slightly slower when it came to flying and it was impossible for him to escape . He was slightly regretful of facing off against Saleen in the air . At that moment the red light on his body shone brightly as hundreds of holy prose shot out from his long robes .
These holy proses gave off a golden light as every ice blade slashed against them slowing them all . The holy proses were easily shattered by the ice blades, but they quickly condensed and reformed .
The black deacon quickly retreated and Saleen gave chase . The cloud of mist around his body expanded until it was almost a hundred meters in radius . The black deacon was completely surrounded in the cloud of mist . Saleen released scrolls almost as if they were free the powers from the scrolls surpassed that of a sorcerer .
Because very few mages had as many scrolls as Saleen they needed to repeatedly practice their technique when it came to releasing scrolls . For Saleen, releasing low-level scrolls was as quick for him as releasing a spell himself .
Ice blades, ice arrows, icicles, poisonous fog; dozens of low-level magic surrounded the black deacon . He quickly turned the pages of his book trying to recite a prayer . Saleen did not give him any chance to retaliate . The water current that was wrapping around his body silently flew out, breaking through the defences formed by the holy proses and wrapping itself around the black deacon's neck .
Chapter 297 Mage s Anger Part 2 Translator Nyoi Bo Studio Editor Nyoi Bo Studio Let s go . Banchajanna twisted his body, showing his true form . Grabbing Daniel in one hand, he stepped into the sky and flew off . Judikaka shook his head, afraid that trouble would be caused . Besides searching for leads on the scepter in the past few days, Judikaka also gained a comprehension of the current situation from the mages of Sregl Island . He knew this place was away from the four empires in this dimension . It was indeed a good place to stop . If there were no incidents, Judikaka intended to help Saleen build up the city and hide inside . It would definitely not raise any eyebrows . If they really did kill the disciples of the gods, it would be hard not to draw any attention . Daniel was held in Banchajanna s hands . He was over eight meters long with a tail that was over ten meters, making him enormous in the sky . The mages from Sregl Island brought with them two hundred swordsmen . Moving north by land, they were quickly overtaken by Banchajanna in the air . Daniel used the death flames to envelope his body, Banchajanna was flying incredibly fast and the cold wind bit into him like a knife . Without the protection of the death flames Daniel would have frozen to death within minutes . The Pikoosi hid inside the death flames in Banchajanna s hands . It did not even dare show its face . The Pikoosi already had the absolute powers of grade 6 . He was recovering incredibly quickly but that made him even more afraid of the death king . The mages from Sregl Island saw Banchajanna flying past and were a little relieved . They were well aware of Saleen s powers . If he was asking for help, he must have met an enemy that was hard to shake off . If not, with Saleen s powers, he would be able to defeat a grade 5 professional easily . These mages had been ordered by Jason to protect Saleen . If anything happened to him, they would not be able to go back to Sregl Island . Saleen was face to face with the black deacon . They had not made any other moves yet . Standing over forty meters apart, they were at the optimal distance for any magic or divine spells . As the black deacon saw it, the tribunal would win the battle on the ground . The combat powers of the puppet were not incredibly strong, but these two combat puppets were tough indeed . The stronger their defenses were, the faster they would use up their magic chords though . He could afford to wait . There were at most another two or three more enemies in the forest . He had over a hundred men at his command, so it was impossible that they would lose . Saleen was not in a rush either . These fully constructed puppets were driven by dragonshards . What was a hundred enemies to them Even if there were thousands of people on the battleground they would not stop working from a lack of energy . Mage, if you surrender now I will consider asking the cardinal to let you go . How about that The black deacon had a change in tone, obviously trying to stall for time . Saleen knew his intentions and could not help but shudder . There was a black bishop here . It seemed like the scale of this hunt was bigger than he had expected . The Holy See had sent so many people for this and he had run into them . Was he really a natural enemy of the Holy See He had run into them when they were looking for the ruins of the Second Dynasty . When they were after Daniel he had run into them again . Now that he was in the barren North, he had run into their secret operations . Even an astrologer could not predict something so coincidental . Didn t you want to burn me alive Saleen asked in a cold voice . The black deacon was stalling for time but so was he . The black deacon was afraid that if he flew too quickly, he would not be able to catch up . He had trapped him by threatening him, preventing him from deserting the rest and escaping . Saleen was stalling for time too . When the three kings arrived, they would be able to decimate the people here . As for the black deacon, so long as he returned to the base of his city, he would not be afraid of any bishop . By the time the Holy See reacted, Lex and the rest would have arrived . By then, there would be dozens of grand mages there . If the three kings did not leave, he would not be afraid of the Holy See s next move . Saleen did not want to sacrifice Conan, he knew what the Holy See were doing . There were not many barbarians left in the north and he could keep Conan by his side . He could make use of the hatred between the barbarians and the Holy See to his advantage . You want to know what we have been capturing the barbarians for, don t you The black deacon s face seemed incredibly savage in the red light . I don t want to know, Saleen replied coldly . The black deacon could not care less either as he continued saying, They do indeed have superior bodies . The tribunal wants to create blood knights and they would be the best ingredients for it . Once we have gathered over ten thousand blood knights, the light of God will be spread to every corner of the mainland . Blood knights Saleen s eye started twitching . They had appeared over a thousand years ago . Back then, the mainland was in chaos and black mages were everywhere . All the empires were finding a solution to deal with them . The Tanggulasi Empire that the land Holy See controlled was doing so too, but the Holy See back then had been fighting for a long time and had suffered huge losses . To replace the dead knights, the tribunal had created the first batch of blood knights . Strictly speaking, they were no different from the black puppets that the black mages created, but the puppets that the black mages created would eventually be sacrificed to the devils . The blood knights were essentially sacrificing the souls of knights to the God of Light . They would eventually go to heaven . Before that, they had to go through immense pain . Similarly, they would gain incredible combat powers . They were created by divine spells and naturally had the blood sword aura . In other words, the blood knights that were created had not gone through any training to attain the powers of a beginner swordmaster . If a team was created entirely by swordsmen, it would be considered incredibly elite . The Holy See used this to create a group of knights that were made up of swordsmen . With this group they controlled the entire west of the mainland . Even though the black mages could create a large number of black puppets, the blood knights were created incredibly quickly too . With the gods supporting from behind, no one could criticise the Holy See s actions . Despite that, creating blood knights was not something to rejoice . The people that had been turned into blood knights would have their lives shortened tremendously, at most living until thirty five . Once they became blood knights, they would no longer have any conscious and needed to listen to the commands of the holy master . Many blood knights were captured forcefully and were not willing . Even more had been prisoners of the other empires . When the black mages were defeated it caused non stop chaos on the mainland . Eventually, under the pressure of the other three empires, the Holy See had to promise to give up creating blood knights . If the Qin Empire had not been so strong back then, causing the Cloudflow and Sikeqinya Empire to be worried, the three empires might have joined forces against the Tanggulasi Empire . Now that the Holy See was back to creating blood knights it meant that they were confident of going up against the other three empires . The black deacon did not deny this, leaving Saleen shocked and angered . According to Conan s few words, Saleen gathered that thousands of barbarians had been captured in the north . A group of knights was ten thousand people, these barbarians alone could form a few groups of them . With tens of thousands of blood knights all at least the level of a swordmaster, this was a worrying amount of power . When Saleen was little he had heard the rumors in his hometown that the Tanggulasi Empire was involved in the business of human trafficking . They did not need slaves, or at the very least they did not need to buy from the other empires . Finding a connection, Saleen realized that the Holy See must have been planning this for a long time . Turning a living human into an existence similar to a puppet and sacrificing its soul to the gods was something no mage could swallow . This world was balanced . Anything given to the gods could never be returned to this world . The Nature Goddess was the god of this dimension, and this problem did not exist . However, the God of Light was from another dimension . Whatever it took away would leave the Myers Mainland dimension forever . Mage, consider surrendering . The black deacon laughed . From afar, a bright light shot across . Saleen knew it must have been from a high grade holy master flying . Why haven t the three kings arrived Saleen furrowed his brows . He suddenly commanded the cloud of mist around him to pounce towards the black deacon . He was incredibly shocked, even though his sword aura was not revolving as he wanted while he was flying close combat was not the strength of mages . No matter how slow he was he would be faster than a flying mage . Saleen took advantage of his hesitation and released the scrolls in his hands consecutively . More ice blades appeared silently within the cloud of mist . This time, the ice blades that Saleen released were something he could control . Every time he opened a scroll, it was not finished . These ice blades were released but did not shoot out . Hundreds of them gathered and revolved around in the cloud of mist . This saved a large amount of magic chords . As for focus, Saleen s focus was reaching the level of Lex s . Some grade 6 mages did not even have the focus he had . Saleen was not concerned about using up his focus, it could be quickly replenished unlike his magic chords . The black deacon was incredibly shocked, his enemy was only a grade 4 mage yet had incredible attacking power . He was slightly slower when it came to flying and it was impossible for him to escape . He was slightly regretful of facing off against Saleen in the air . At that moment the red light on his body shone brightly as hundreds of holy prose shot out from his long robes . These holy proses gave off a golden light as every ice blade slashed against them slowing them all . The holy proses were easily shattered by the ice blades, but they quickly condensed and reformed . The black deacon quickly retreated and Saleen gave chase . The cloud of mist around his body expanded until it was almost a hundred meters in radius . The black deacon was completely surrounded in the cloud of mist . Saleen released scrolls almost as if they were free the powers from the scrolls surpassed that of a sorcerer . Because very few mages had as many scrolls as Saleen they needed to repeatedly practice their technique when it came to releasing scrolls . For Saleen, releasing low level scrolls was as quick for him as releasing a spell himself . Ice blades, ice arrows, icicles, poisonous fog dozens of low level magic surrounded the black deacon . He quickly turned the pages of his book trying to recite a prayer . Saleen did not give him any chance to retaliate . The water current that was wrapping around his body silently flew out, breaking through the defences formed by the holy proses and wrapping itself around the black deacon s neck .