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Making magic armor was relatively easy . Saleen's manipulation of the water flame was getting more skilful and Lex brought along a huge amount of blueprints . He did not have to design them himself anymore and he did not need to take a roundabout way to make them according to the blueprints straightaway . Lex's magic armor blueprint was a secret among the Grukos royals .
Summoning a mechanical soul was very troublesome, but the three Kings did not reject and they hated Saleen to bones . If the mechanical soul could cause a disaster in the Myers Mainland, they would be even happier .
Metatrin City would turn into chaos because there were another dozen thousand people . Even if the city took in another million people, it would not be too crowded . These people came there in a rush and they were nobles from different regimes though . The nobles brought along large amounts of assets and everything around that could be used over to Saleen's city . It was extremely beneficial to the city building . At the beginning, there must be communication difficulty that lead to conflict .
Luckily Lex's people could suppress them and there was no trouble .
Such situation continued for over a month before Metatrin city regained its tranquility . Then, there was news that made Saleen slightly unhappy . The battle in Lianyun City had its initial result . Holy Rock City sent five elite swordsmen's camps and brought along war puppets . At Clarke Plain in the south of Lianyun city, they fought a battle with the eastern sea expeditionary force and killed half of the enemy .
The mainland shook . Although Safilos exposed the true power of the war puppets, he got some benefits too . They fought close to the border of Kroraina originally . The Tanggulasi army, that was almost entering the empire, held their steps back and stopped going forward .
Safilos continued to deploy his army and wiped out the turmoil that took place in the south, then the empire temporarily quieted down . The expeditionary force was forced to retreat to Lianyun City and guard against trouble with the sea on their back . The situation would not last for too long . The army from the island nations in the eastern sea did not bring enough food . Although they managed to plunder the Myers Mainland, the nobles from the Qin Empire were very stubborn . If their city were to be destroyed, they would burn all their food too .
The food that the expeditionary force from eastern sea managed to carry off could barely feed them . They could not waste because there were rumours saying alchemy city had sent out warships and prepared to help Holy Rock City to sweep the sea .
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Originally, if Alchemy City were to control Lianyun City, it would be even harder to be deal with compared to the eastern sea fleet . Saleen knew that the eastern sea fleet would attack Lex's ship, but Alchemy City's would not attack hers .
Even if Lex and Safilos were to get to the term where they needed to meet at the battlefield, Alchemy City had to take Lex's identity into consideration . To fight against the royals, would get the Holy Rock City's guards up . Unless Alchemy City had already decided to expand its strength to control the entire mainland that was . Lex's business would not be affected anymore and the sea route could be considered as opened up otherwise .
They were kept busy until July . When even Saleen got a little anxious, Lex was finally done with all the preparation and ready to depart .
Saleen made Daniel stay back to take care of the temple while there would be someone to take care of Lex's Bitter Water Army . Her prefecture related business had been handed over to Hu An to manage . Saleen admired Lex's skills . Hu An was not considered as a strong mage . He had some power by Lex's side, but was not powerful enough to suppress everyone . To let him act for internal affairs, Hu An would not be able to play any tricks .
Hu An was an ambitious person . He could not play any trick, he would take care of all the tasks with full cautious and conscientious, so that no one had anything against him . This was called making the best possible use of men and property .
To use a person's specialty was a great thing . To use a person's characteristics would be an emperor's skill and that was someone capable enough to run a country .
Two young Caucasus people wanted to follow Sika regardless, but Sika hushed them back solemnly . The two Caucasus had great capabilities, they were almost the strongest fighting force on Sika's side . They were normally responsible for Sika's troops of bodyguards .
Before leaving, Saleen saw Aini privately and spoke in secret for half the night . The second day, a troop left Metatrin city in silence .
There were four carriages in the troop and all of them were pulled by skeleton warhorses . The two carriages in the middle were transformed from magic chariots . The four skeleton warhorses looked slightly weird and their bones were obviously way thicker, there were also no soul flames dancing in their eyes .
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The four skeleton warhorses were mutated from the mechanical soul . There was a sharp spike on each of their foreheads, just like a death unicorn .
The space in a magic chariot was much bigger than a normal carriage . The other two carriages for transporting goods were normal carriages and they carried some goods just for show . Saleen and Lex had huge magic space and in actual fact, they did not need another two carriages .
That trip was to do something deceiving to the public after all . Metatrin city would not have any secret agents as of then . Going through Phoenix would still draw Holy Rock City's attention .
Lex and Saleen both wore brocade robes from the Cloudflow Empire, instead of their magic robes . Lex's colorful magic robe was too eye-catching . Saleen did not need any magic robe as his demon magic robe was changeable .
Nailisi was delighted to follow Saleen . Before leaving, that damn skeleton finally gave her the actual coordinates . Once she gathered things that she needed, she could start summoning demons . Summoning demons outside was not safe, Nailisi had no confidence of controlling them, but she could familiarize herself with the location of the coordinates and experiment constantly . Once she returned to Metatrin city, she could summon a strong demon and get the winged skeleton's aid to bring it under control .
Most importantly, leaving Metatrin City, she did not need to salvage sunken ships underwater for the winged skeleton anymore . The cold sea water in the deep sea nearly made Nailisi fall ill . She even took less showers now and only requested Saleen to cast a Cleaning spell on her .
What made Saleen worried did not happen . Although Sika was still intimate with him, she did not plan and prepare to be with child . He was worried that Sika would really get pregnant on the way, that would definitely affect the risky adventure .
Jola was happy and sad simultaneously . He was happy that there were five beautiful ladies, but he was said that he could not touch any of them .
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When the troops entered the middle of Phoenix, Saleen slightly relaxed . He then realized that there was a twenty-fifth person in the troop . The person was the mysterious assassin that was always by Lex's side . The power of the assassin obviously improved significantly compared to the last time they saw each other . The improvement was like a mage's promotion, the difference was vast .
Saleen's mental power was no different compared to a sorcerer . It took him so long to realize the existence of the assassin and that was sufficient to prove the assassin's power . Saleen also could sense the assassin because he was too familiar with the assassin . The assassin once fooled him with mental strength .
With the existence of such a powerful assassin, a normal enemy could not threaten Saleen's troop .
It was peaceful within Phoenix . The Solar City already gave in . The nobles in Phoenix found out about the appearance of war puppets and they surrendered . Maybe the resistance that they made at the beginning was just a show . Holy Rock City held the unknown baby in their hands and gave it the title of Grand Duke . Then, Phoenix would have any independence no more .
Even the local nobles understood that . Safilos won that time, but his trouble from that day onwards had just begun .
Saleen would not think about the situation in the Qin Empire, those were things that Lex should be worried about . His only concern was the seeds of the four godly trees .
The troop passed through along the west border of Phoenix . They stopped for a short while in Deep Forest Town . Baron Piac that was sent back was still alive . When he saw Saleen, he teared up with joy . Saleen comforted him and left him some gold coins and told him to stay for a little longer .
Holy Rock City wanted to seized control of Solar city . The small town on the border of the city was close to the magic beast forest . Besides troops of adventurers, no one would notice .
Baron Piac was helpless . His family members were all in Metatrin City, it was impossible not to listen to Saleen . If he knew that Safilos had not wiped out all the nobles, why would he seek refuge from Bitter Water Prefecture? Baron Piac regretted his actions .
Saleen came out with Lex's magic map that time and it was a way smoother journey . Even in the wild, Lex could find suitable spots to set camp and there were not any magic beasts that came to disturb them . The troop took a months time to pass through the entirety of Phoenix and got to Kroraina .
The army from the Tanggulasi Empire was at one hundred miles away from the border of Kroraina . It was awkward as they did not know to charge forward or to retreat . Holy Rock City had launched a general offensive against Lianyun city . Once the battle ended, they could deploy war puppets to Kroraina .
Saleen's troop passed through the one hundred mile wide gap, without leaving any traces in the Qin Empire, and departed to Titan Duchy directly .
Titan Duchy was a strong duchy affiliated with the Cloudflow Empire, it was almost two times bigger than Kroraina before collapsing . If it was not due to its terrible location, the capability of Titan Duchy was sufficient enough to build a mini empire . It was in the inner land and there were enemies on the other three sides . Titan Duchy dared not breakaway from the Cloudflow Empire .
The King of the Cloudflow Empire liked to keep up appearance . Even if it was just slight neglect verbally it would bring about attack from the army . The character of the people from Titan Duchy was complicated . On one hand, they were a very careful people . On the other hand, a crazy Titan would do something shocking disregarding everything else .
It was also a consequence of long term suppression . It made a country and people that were supposed to be strong into psychopaths .
The third location of the temple was within the border of Titan Duchy . The Purgatory Desert was just on the south-west of Titan Duchy . Lex and the others only needed to find the exact location of the third temple in Titan Duchy to be able to send the coordinates back to Metatrin City . The mages could calculate the exact coordinates of the main temple that way . They could enter the Purgatory Desert then .
Within the time frame, Saleen and the rest needed to stay in Titan Duchy for about three months time . Almost another year had passed by .