Chapter 470
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The darkness weighed onto Jola and he used his immense sword aura to fight back . This building was essentially a modified magic tower . Even though it was not as powerful as the magic chariot, there were dozens of magic arrays inscribed on it and it was pretty powerful itself .
If the mages in this building were to fight in the normal way, just a few of them would be able to cause massive destruction to Bifano's army . Lex's mages could not control every area .
The mages were hiding inside and commanding the stone statue ghosts to attack . The strongest few grade-4 mages were hiding inside the darkness screen and defending to the end .
Within the level-7 darkness screen, these grade-4 mages could not release any magic themselves and could only control the magic array to continue the attack . The darkness screen could not kill their enemies, they could only watch as their enemies killed them .
They were being trapped in their own trap, Jola slowly lifted his long sword . The sword aura was hesitant as it pierced through the chest of the mages in front . He could now see the long sword piercing through between the bones of the skeleton and sliding cleanly into the heart .
Jola had not expected it to be this easy to kill a mage .
Lex opened another scroll, this was a light magic; the Glitter Spell . With three mages dead, the darkness screen could only count on the magic array to continue working and could no longer subdue Lex and Jola actively . A low-level spell like the Glitter spell was enough to momentarily cause disruption to the core of the magic array .
Ka…
A crack formed on the ground below as the magic array that even Jola's long sword could not destroy split apart by itself .
There had never been a light type magic emerging from the core of a dark type magic before and this elemental clash was incredibly intense . Lex did not expect it herself . She immediately retreated and grabbed Jola with her . Jola and Lex retreated to the window . Lex did not even turn back as she jumped down with Jola behind, they both flipped down .
"Crap, it's going to explode!" Saleen saw something was wrong as a chirping noise sounded from the top of the tower and it started shaking . A terrifying aura seeped out and the few war horses laid flat on the ground with foam at their mouths .
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There were hundreds of stone statue ghosts frozen in the air as they all dropped onto the ground .
Saleen threw the fully constructed puppet off the chariot to chop the reins, the two fully constructed puppets dragged the two chariots and fled towards the east desperately . Saleen released two scrolls consecutively, they were the water shields he had created . They were a little too big and directly encased the two chariots entirely in a bubble .
Lex flew towards the east, but she did not forget to give Jola a Windspeed spell . Jola fell from over twenty meters, but bounced back up like a balloon . His body was surrounded by a flow of air current . Seeing Saleen and Lex escaping, he did not dare stay there .
Jola was not slow to begin with and with the Windspeed spell, he ran for over a thousand meters to the edge of the castle before stopping .
Bifano's face was pale as he ran together with his horse behind Saleen's chariot, that was being pulled further away .
Less than three-hundred of Bifano's bodyguards managed to run out too, there were still around two-hundred of them that were battling it out at the center of the castle . The building vibrated and exploded without any warning . The ground shook with it as countless pieces of shrapnel flew up and shot out everywhere . Bifano could not help but curse as he laid against his horse's back, not daring to even to lift his head .
The intense air current blew away anything that was near the building, the roofs of all the houses nearby were stripped away . Half of the six storey building had disappeared, almost as if countless trebuchets had fired at it at the same time . The pieces of rocks shot everywhere from the center of the castle .
The intense air current formed a five-hundred meter radius where everything was destroyed . All the soldiers there lost their lives and many soldiers that were outside the radius were struck to death by the flying rocks too .
Bifano did not stop cursing, but he did not direct his curses towards anyone . He did not dare scold Lex . This disaster was caused by her, but he finally knew how scary a mage was . Not only scary, but troublesome too .
This explosion directly destroyed all the defences of the Stone Statue Castle and Earl Wynner would not be able to form up such a counterattack again . Many of Bifano's men had perished too and even more had died from the mutiny . More than two-hundred of his personal bodyguards had died and he felt the loss in his heart, but he could not say anything bad about Lex .
It was a battle and there was the danger of death . At least Saleen managed to bring the slain warriors with him when he escaped . Many of them had been injured by the attacks of the stone statue ghosts, but because Saleen was quick . Only three of them were crushed by the huge rocks . The rest managed to escape with injuries only .
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The soldiers that were a little smarter hid at the pillar of the wall, avoiding being crushed by the stone pieces that rained from above . Some of them landed on top of the magic chariot and were deflected by the bubble .
These stone pieces were not from a honing magic and using the water shield to defend against them was just right .
Lex flew incredibly quickly in the air and she had flown above five-hundred meters before she looked down and saw a huge empty spot at the center of the castle . The chaotic elements had formed an elemental storm and it was preparing for the next explosion .
What an amazing reaction, by releasing a light type magic within the center of the magic array together with the powerful dark magic, this is what would happen .
Lex thought for a while and understood what had happened . Such things did not come about easily as at the center of the dark magic, every other element would be suppressed . With this magic robe created by Joey and the Gods Ring, it formed an independent elemental space to release the light type magic .
If not for her own grade, she would not have been able to see anything within the darkness screen, much less release the light type magic .
Why did the Icy light spear at the start not produce such an intense reactions? Lex thought hard .
"Lex is amazing!" Nailisi stuck out her tongue and thought back to how she wanted to go in to kill earlier on . Luckily, she did not leave the magic chariot, when Saleen felt danger, she realized there was danger too due to Saleen's soul vibrations . If she was within the building, the explosion might have happened even before she could run out .
"Saleen, what happened just now?" Viscountess…" Narnia looked at Saleen, her soul had not settled . If she was not in the magic chariot, she would not have escaped too . The two fully constructed puppets managed to drag the chariot away before the explosion happened, it was faster than even a Windspeed spell .
Saleen was deep in thought too, he could vaguely feel something had happened in the building, but this was illogical . It was just two spells with differing properties, how could such an intense reaction have taken place?
Light and dark elements were not entirely incompatible . In level-7 magic and above, there are ways to use these two types of magic together .
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The other female mage looked at Saleen too before he reacted . He lifted his head and looked at the top of the chariot, his gaze pierced though it and he found Lex floating above in the air .
She was deep in thought too, evidently mystified with what had just happened .
"Lex is alright, she is above . " Saleen pointed to the sky .
Bifano rode his horse over to Saleen, Saleen did not allow him to say a word as he said, "Ask your soldiers to leave the castle for now, there is still some trouble and normal soldiers cannot handle it . "
Bifano immediately stopped bothering Saleen as he commanded the remaining soldiers to leave the Stone Statue Castle . Hiding themselves at the corners of the castle walls .
At the center of the Stone Statue Castle, an elemental storm had formed and was expanding outwards silently .
Everywhere it went, everything turned to dust . Whether it was stone, wood, metal, or ceramics; they all seemed to have gone through thousands of years of degredation and had become ashes .
Lex flew even further into the sky, she took out her alchemy telescope and upon seeing this scene, she was relieved . The elemental storm now was clamping down and its properties were that of the dark type magic . It would disappear quickly .
Lex did not think of the soldiers and commoners at this point, there was no use too . Within the castle, a one-thousand meter radius of empty space had formed and such an elemental storm moved incredibly slowly . All the people around the edges had escaped and those inside were all dead .
At the west of the castle, a group of people rushed out, two-hundred soldiers protected one person and ran towards the west . Lex took in the scene, but did not give chase . That must have been Earl Wynner and there was no point killing him .
Earl Wynner was already scared out of his wits and he had no idea what happened at the center of the castle . After the explosion, he was brought away by a mage to escape the danger zone .
Among these two-hundred soldiers, only a handful of them were his bodyguards . The rest of them were scared shitless too and had no intentions of defecting . To them, such things were unimaginable .
Most of the army had seen mages and observed them releasing magic from close up . Those that could perform for them and be trained to adapt were grade-3 mages and below . Something like this that baffled even Saleen and Lex was even more illogical to them .
In the eyes of the common soldier, a mage could only release a fireball or some acid .
After more than an hour, the elemental storm finally subsided and Lex landed on the ground . Bifano, under the protection of his bodyguard, walked towards Lex while suppressing the fear in him .
"The castle is destroyed, we can cross the river now . " Lex said calmly, almost as if the thing that had happened had nothing to do with her .
"Viscountess!" Bifano raised his voice .
Lex looked at him coldly and said, "You didn't mention this magic building in the castle . If you had told me it was there and given me more benefits, I would have entered . If there was a grade-6 mage in the house today, not all of us would have escaped . "
"I…" Bifano looked left and right in defeat . His bodyguard all looked horrified, not a single one opposed Lex's words . He knew that these soldiers might no longer dare to do anything to Lex in the future .
"Magic! One of these days, I must possess such powers too . " Bifano screamed in his heart, his face was calm by now .
"Viscountess, this castle must still have some undestroyed warehouses, besides, I want to go in and tidy up the corpses . "
"Alright, but let's wait another six hours, the castle still isn't suitable to enter . " Lex turned towards the magic chariot upon seeing Bifano giving up any intentions to pursue the matter . She was a little scared too, if she left too late just now, she would have to use the powers of the Gods Ring or else she would have definitely died .