Chapter 468: 468
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It was a pity no matter how outstanding Bifano was, he was not even a tenth of Lex . Lex was the one who wanted to take down the castle, but now it became Bifano who was pleading with her .
One must know that when Lex returned, she would need to cross the Chishui River . That was the fastest route and there were many uncertainties downstream . Destroying the stone statue castle, she would be able to obtain the alchemy mould in it . She could clear the obstacles and make Bifano pay for it .
No matter how one thought of it, this deal was a win .
The warehouse in the two cities would have a large number of rations . Once a war broke out, they would be hard to buy . It was still alright in Bitter Water Prefecture, it was in a remote area and the war would not reach there . It could count on the surrounding land to feed itself . Metatrin City, however, could not . It was a deserted land all around and to grow suitable crops, one would need to take two or three years .
"Give me fifty slain warriors . " Lex looked at the drawing and made a request of Bifano . He did not hesitate and nodded in agreement .
"Let the war horses and soldiers change into heavy armor . When I break open the castle gates, they will charge in . These fifty slain warriors will protect the chariot and attack from here . " Lex pointed at the center of the stone statue castle . There was a great structure there and all the mages and stone statue ghosts were gathered there . Even though it was not a grade-6 mage level yet . Lex did not know how many stone statue ghosts were there and she needed the slain warriors to pave a way for her mages .
Only by killing the mage that were controlling these ghosts could one make them stop . This structure was Lex's goal and there was a tunnel under it that led to the old castle . The alchemy laboratory was underneath it .
Bifano knew what Lex wanted the slain warriors for, he immediately transferred fifty warriors holding shields . Lex took out the armor and let them change into it . These were the armors that she had gotten from Dragon Tooth Town . They had been soaked in dragon's blood and they could be considered a magic armor . Their defensive abilities were shocking .
Every one of them took one of the machetes that Saleen had fashioned . They had saw like teeth on them and were the best weapon to deal with mages . The shields that they were carrying were changed too as Lex handed over a rectangle shield to all of them . When they touched the ground, only the head of the soldier could be seen . When a dozen of them joined together, they could seal off a narrow street .
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The castle was hard to take down, but its weakness was too obvious; the wooden castle gates…
After arranging the slain warriors and getting them familiar with the equipment, Lex started taking out materials from the Gods Ring and assembling a giant chariot .
This chariot was like a low-grade magic beast, it had a sharp tip and its entire body was a steel shell . It had eight wheels that were incredibly wide . It was thick and heavy with a small sealed cabin . Only one person was concealed inside; Wild Bear .
This chariot was meant to take down city gates, but it was meant for small towns . Big cities would not have a castle with a wooden gate . Wrapping steel around the city gates was something all the countries on the mainland were used to doing . A steel wrapped-wooden door could prevent enemies from attacking with fire and even a magic attack would be severely limited .
"My people will take down the door while yours will rush in, clearing the area in front of the castle gates . Many war chariot will then enter and take down the ghosts . They do not have any high-grade mages any way, it will be easier .
Lex's words left Bifano dejected . If he had a suitable equipment, he would only need two-thousand people to take down this castle . He did not have anything and the infantry troops were stuck from advancing there, however . He had no choice but to count on Lex for help .
Lex had learnt this plan from Daniel . Even though it was brutal, it was effective . The defence troops in the castle were not united at all . Besides the one-thousand men from the duke, the remaining five regiments all leaned towards the Agares family .
If the castle gates did not fall, these five-thousand people were their enemies . Once it fell, they would immediately lose their will to fight . Lex was very clear on how the wealthy controlled their army . Even though Titan Duchy was not a match for Cloudflow, if Emperor Jupiter wanted to control everything, he would still need a long time and this was why she dared to stay there .
Of course, Lex had not finished setting up, she took out a large number of weapons and asked Bifano to hand them down . They were used to destroy the archer towers and the trebuchets . The trebuchets were still alright . Once they rushed into the castle, they would not be a threat to Bifano's army, but the archer towers could fire from any angle . It was a killer force that might hamper Bifano's army .
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At last, Lex took out two fully constructed puppets and said to Saleen; "You shall command theses two . The archer towers won't be chopped down that easily, let the force of the puppets do the job . "
Saleen nodded, the bottom of the archer towers only had a little metal on them . In actual fact, Sika could go up and push it down . That was a risk and Saleen had no intention of taking, however .
Seeing Lex's chariot and equipped puppets, Bifano was incredibly jealous . Titan had war horses while the Qin Empire had mages . Looking at his magic equipment against Lex's, he would never be able to compare with her .
The equipment and scrolls were passed down and Bifano finally could heave a sigh of relief . Lex had invested heavily and such a chariot was incredibly sharp, it would definitely knock down the wooden gate . It was not only meant to attack the gates, it had many other uses too . Once it took down a city, it could not be used any longer .
Lex gave the mages over a hundred scrolls, giving Bifano much confidence . He was worried about the stone statue ghosts at first, but seeing Lex giving out that many scrolls, he knew they would not struggle too much unless there was a sorcerer hidden in the castle .
Making use of the remaining sunlight, Bifano commanded his army to follow behind Lex's chariot .
The chariot was dragged by four horses and it went straight along the road, moving towards the castle . There was a watchtower there and when they were two miles away, the enemies came within their sight .
The quality of an alchemy telescope varied and even though that one could see up to five miles away, the image was blurry . Only when they were a mile apart could they make out what it was .
Titan Duchy did not have such a thing, the chariot was made from a lot of metal and it was stunningly heavy . Without a high-grade Alchemy spell, it could not be fashioned out . Even if it did, a war horse could not pull it .
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It started charging when it was eight-hundred meters away . The four war horses pulled along the war chariot that weighed hundreds of tons and charged towards the gate . Before this they had already started accelerating from a mile away for it to reach its top speed .
The magic array within it revolved in a stable manner and the magic nucleus inlaid in it was quickly used up . Without the magic array, the four war horses would not be able to pull such a heavy load .
Wearing an eye patch, the war horses that had been powered by magic knocked against the city gate . With a loud boom, the chariot behind crushed the castle gate and the four horses into pieces . The six-meter-long chariot hit into the castle gates and the whole building vibrated .
From acceleration to striking against the castle gate, the chariot only took a little over a minute . The trebuchets in the castle did not even have time to react . Before the castle gate was destroyed and Bifano's cavalry appeared within their sight, the castle gates were already in pieces .
A shrill metal noise sounded and filled the entire castle . The chariot split from the center as the magic array spun according to how it was programmed . The body that had split apart wanted to roll from both sides to form a metal bridge that was four meters wide . The wheels had long been flung apart and now, even Wild Bear could not pull it away from the city gate .
Its design had long taken such things into consideration . The modified chariot would become a wide and steady metal bridge into the castle .
There was another door within the castle, but it was much weaker . Wild Bear jumped out from within the chariot, a hammer in his hand . He looked up before noticing that there was not any Broken Dragon Stone within . He immediately brought the metal hammer and raced towards the second door .
The castle was thrown into disarray as the five regiments within the defence group realized the one who attacked the castle was a small duke . How would they have any will to fight? As the castle gate was blown apart, they immediately dispersed, no one cared about the second door .
The hammer in Wild Bear hands flew out with a metal chain attached to it . It smashed into the hinges of the second door .
Such a wooden door did not have any magic added to it and for Wild Bear, it was no different than paper . The giant hammer smashed the hinges apart and Wild Bear went forward to give it a push and the entire door fell inwards .
He threw the hammer into the castle as he grabbed a giant shield and machete from behind his back, then he leapt forward .
If there were a large number of soldiers in front of the door, Wild Bear would be in for a tough battle . There were only a handful of them then and they were the personal soldiers of the earl . Half of them flew away after being struck by his shield . At a distance of two-hundred meters, Wild Bear took less than twenty seconds to make his way to below the archer tower .
He used his machete and started hacking at it . It was made from giant wood and as there was no one nearby distracting him, his knife worked hard at it and he chopped off a pillar . The remaining soldiers did not dare approach and took out their bows to prepare to shoot .
He placed his shield behind him and without even looking at the few soldiers, he continued dealing with the second pillar . The few soldiers had nowhere to aim and only a few arrows landed on his shield and ricocheted aside .
The city gates had fallen and Bifano's cavalry stepped over the metal bridge that was transformed from the chariot . They rushed into the castle .
The earl's henchmen were all controlling the trebuchet and archer towers, most of the defence troops had dispersed . Some of the remaining ones had even took down their badge and thrown it to the ground . Following behind Bifano's cavalry, they rushed to the center of the castle .
Saleen's magic chariot followed them . Upon seeing this scene, he finally understood why the emperor wanted to deal with the Agares family .
They were too influential to the local people . Just like the Phoenix family, the emperor could not allow such a family to be around when he was gathering all his forces .
These huge duchies were a deformed property . If the four empires had not signed a contract at the start, they would not be able to survive for thousands of years . When these huge duchies disappeared, it would be the start of a full on war between the four empires .