Chapter 446
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Saleen laughed smugly, no one was able to replicate what he had done . This was because even though quite a number of mages knew how to use the current cutter, he was the only mage that had the Shenhe . The current cutter within that calabash only required his focus to control it and did not require any magic chords . Even though it might be a little slow in combat, it was the strongest when it came to cutting anything .
Even though a level-4 magic could not be considered indestructible, it was hard for something to not be able to be cut in this world . So long as Saleen cut it repeatedly, even gold and silver could be crushed by the current .
"Let's talk here, no one will find out . " Saleen did not stock up on many lifestyle products in this giant warehouse . He had already prepared a table and chairs, though, and he let Lex sit down .
"You trained the soldiers to prepare them for war?" Lex sat down and asked Saleen a question first .
"Yes, the Eastern Sea Allied Army killed over a hundred of my swordsmen and sealed the sea, making this city cut off from the outside world . I intend to harass Lianyun City, using the advantage of the combat vessels to create trouble for them . "
"Saleen, you are wrong . "
"Oh? Why?"
"If you are at the peak, you shouldn't put such things to heart . What you need to do most importantly right now is to protect this city . The Eastern Sea Allied Army will be defeated by Holy Rock City in no time . Once the war puppets are transferred over, they will become a joke . Do you think they can take down the entire Qin Empire with three-hundred combat vessels? If that was the case, Cloudflow Empire would have conquered the entire mainland and would not be struggling to survive . The wealthy are waiting to watch a scene right now, reminiscing on the events of the Fourth Dynasty to fill the emptiness in their hearts . Qin Empire's problems are because of its internal affairs, this is something we both cannot solve . What we need to do right now is increase our powers and wait for opportunities to come . "
"Increase our powers?" Saleen gave a rare bitter laugh and said, "I have had a lot of chance encounters, but I have been stuck at grade-5 recently . I think it will be hard to break this barrier in the next decade . I can already taste what it is like to be a sorcerer, but I am nowhere close to being grade-6 . There really isn't any shortcut when it comes to magic training . "
"Sorcerer? I mean combat powers . Let me ask you, with the two of us, are you confident we can kill a grade-7 sorcerer?"
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Saleen thought for a while before saying, "Yes, if the environment is in our favor . "
"That's right, we have so many soldiers, they are a form of power too . "
"Talking about powers, I need to tell you something . " Saleen immediately told Lex about the rough stone . She was shocked by the news too .
She said slowly, "If that is the case, we need to do my plan . "
"Your plan?"
"Yes, there are many secret rumors floating around about the Grukos royal family . In the family history, there is something about a unified dynasty on the mainland . I will not analyze the complicated parts of it . A conclusion that I have gotten over the many years is that from the first to the fourth dynasty, the ruler didn't use any high-end powers to defend the huge country but rather, used magic techniques . "
"Magic techniques?"
"Of course, the war puppets were passed down from then along with the Sky City, magic cannon, magic chariot, combat vessels, and flying puppets that could carry people . With these things, humans who were weaker in terms of strength could possess huge amount of power . The humans back then called magic a technique . "
"Many people thought that the decline of magic would bring about a rise in alchemy, but that didn't happen . Alchemy then cannot be compared with alchemy now . "
"That is natural . " Saleen nodded in agreement . Humans then could cross over dimensions, so they could gather many things that could not be found on the Myers Mainland . It was rumored that the real war puppet was controlled by giants, they were hundreds of meters tall and could smash any city with a single step .
Even though the war puppets now were strong, they needed many mages to control them at the same time . A mage was physically weaker than a giant and could not let the war puppets unleash their original powers . Some of them even had to modify these war puppets for them to be suitable for humans to control .
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"Do you remember back then when I gave you teacher's Heart of the Sky?"
"Yes . "
"The blueprint of the Sky City too? I had gotten all of them from the temple of the Myers Goddess . You had also received the drawings of the twenty-five magic arrays, the one given to Joey . Those were taken from the temple of the Myers Goddess too . I am thinking, techniques from the ancient times might still be preserved in the temple . So long as we gather all of them, we would grasp the secrets of the Fourth Dynasty . "
Saleen furrowed his brows and said, "You want to find the remaining temple? According to my analysis, we might have found one each . There are still at least twenty-two temples hidden away somewhere though . By the time we find all of them, we will be old and it might even affect our magic training . "
"You said it yourself too, the mages from Sregl Island will take at least two years to come here, we cannot build the magic towers now . In this time, we still have a chance to go elsewhere . "
"Only one place? You don't mean the Purgatory Desert, do you?" Saleen's face turned pale .
"Of course I meant the Purgatory Desert, it is rumored that that is where the Goddess had fallen . That must be the center of the Myers Mainland, I guess, the core temple must have been built there . "
Saleen kept quiet for a moment, he had said that there were twenty-four locations of the goddess temple . In actual fact he was intentionally avoiding the core temple, the twenty-fifth one . The location of this temple was definitely not a secret and many mages could deduce it too . No one dared to take the risk, it was already incredibly dangerous and on the fringes of the Purgatory Desert .
To try to find any treasures in such a huge desert, was not much different from seeking death .
The temperature there could go above seventy degrees in the day and under negative eighty at night . In such frigid weather, even a mage would quickly use up his magic chords and would not be able to release any magic to protect himself .
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"Lex, the Sikeqinya people have a saying; 'To get wealthy, one must take risks . ' You are already a viscountess though, is there a need for that?" Lex did not reply . Lex's words were direct, but finding the general location of the goddess temple required luck .
"I know what you are afraid of . " Lex smiled, looking relaxed . She took out a map then laid it on the table and said; "This is a map I got when I returned this time, it is the address of one of the temples . Let's go to this temple first and find its general location . "
Saleen understood in an instant, the distribution of the goddess temple was systematic and it could be precise up to a meter . If they could get the general location of three of the temples, they could repeatedly deduce the location of the one at the center using a magic formula .
He and Lex each had the coordinates of one of the temples . So long as they went to see the third one and placed the coordinates of it on the map, they could deduce the core temple .
If that was the case, they would not need to make any wrong turns in the Purgatory Desert . They could walk in a straight line until they reached the temple .
Even though such calculations were incredibly troublesome, Lex had brought over one-hundred mages with her this time and they could split up the job .
"Using my one-hundred mages, it will take around three months to calculate the position of the core temple . Are you coming along?" Lex looked at Saleen with a special gaze as he felt a gush of feeling welling up in his heart .
"I'll go, but what about the safety of this city?"
"I have brought an entire camp worth of soldiers, your city walls are decent . Even if one-hundred-thousand people were to attack, it could last up to half a year . What person would use half a year to attack a city that isn't of any use to them?"
Saleen immediately thought it through . He was constantly worried about his city being taken down before it was completed, but he had neglected something . Any country or power needed a motive to attack this city .
Attacking a city for no reason and using up half a year to send out hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses and not getting any benefits from taking the city down . Who would do something like that? Besides the sacred knights of the Holy See that was .
Even if the Holy See wanted to attack there, they did not have any combat vessels to go by the sea route . It was still early and when they could reach there, the mages from Sregl Island would have arrived . By then, the thirty-six magic towers would be up and running and even Alchemy City would not be able to do anything about their city .
"There's another thing, we both aren't sorcerers . When we enter the Purgatory Desert, we might need some powerful magic equipment . You have the Gods Ring but I don't have anything . "
"Don't you…" Lex took a look at Saleen's finger before she realized that the Ring of Gifts was gone .
Saleen gave an awkward laugh and said calmly, "I gave it to Sika, she has become a warrior priestess and can use her focus to open the space in the ring . She can't use any other spatial equipment . "
Lex said calmly, "The ring is yours, you can give it to whoever you like, its none of my business . If we want to enter the temple, I'm afraid we might still need it, however . "
"Then how did you enter the first time?"
Saleen thought back to when he first entered the Goddess Temple, it was indeed because of the Ring of Gifts . Lex should have one for herself too .
"I made use of the last of the god's powers in the Gods Ring, there isn't any left now that I have used it . " Lex did not hide it . Her Gods Ring was an important treasure in the Grukos family and it was given to the most important person when it was passed down to every generation . The ring had another purpose, it represented the position of the user in the Grukos family .
Emperor Chanake had given the Gods Ring to Lex which had enraged Safilos . Back then, he had incited the emperor of the Cloudflow Empire to ask for her hand in marriage because of this . If Lex married someone else in another royal family, she would have to give up the Gods Ring . To continue keeping it, Lex would either need to stay single forever or have the guy marry into her family . The child born would have to take the Grukos surname .
"This is troublesome . " Saleen had already given the ring to Sika and he would not ask it back no matter what . This ring was the key into the temple, though . The problem was that Saleen did not want to bring Sika into the Purgatory Desert, it was too dangerous there .
If it was in the past, it did not mean much if Sika were to risk her life with him . After having such relations with each other, Saleen started being overcautious .