Chapter 607
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The fog in Green Dragon Stone was getting increasingly larger and increasingly concentrated . Saleen's Elemental Eye was adversely affected, it could no longer differentiate between the things within the fog . It could only identify living targets or moving things . Be that as it may, Saleen and company appeared extremely composed .
Especially Cuisi . In the demonic plane, there were many environments like this . Many demons had already grown accustomed to hunting without any visibility, some even developed abilities which were superior to vision . Many demons had a pair of long horns . Besides acting as a fearsome weapon, these horns also possessed sensitive perception abilities .
Unlike humans, a demon's sensory organs were separated into two categories . One of which were horns and scales, these two types of organs did not contain any pain receptors and they could also regenerate . Even if the whole piece was gone, it could still grow out again .
Cuisi had already advanced to a supreme demon . His horns possessed extremely sensitive perception, they could identify all targets within a hundred yards . If Cuisi controlled his horns intentionally, they could even release perception like what a mage usually did . That extended his sensory distance .
As for Su, his ability to evaluate danger originated from an ability of a Silver Grand Swordmaster; prediction .
In the instant before danger occurred, Su would receive a soulish warning, and thus he could accurately determine how to deal with it . This was the mightiest aspect of a Silver Grand Swordmaster . For a Golden Grand Swordmaster however, they could even possess predictive abilities like the ones brought about by astrology . For example, if a person tried to assassinate Safilos, Safilos could even determine when it would take place . He would not know which direction the danger would come from though .
With regards to a swordmaster's judgment about danger, the accuracy would be increased the closer it was to the timing of the occurrence .
As for Aini, he was a death mage, so he could use skills like the Eye of the Dead to observe all targets within the fog . The skeletons under his control were not affected . In fact, he was ready to release the green-bronze zombies anytime .
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Within the white fog, the white-robed warriors from the Holy See tiptoed over, trying to execute a sneak attack . Aini pretended to see nothing allowing a dozen white-robed warriors to creep past the spaces between the skeletons . When the warriors were fifty yards away Aini then released a bone hammer he had prepared beforehand smashing them to the ground one by one .
The Holy See's warriors were smashed into pulp as blood gushed out furiously . They collapsed to the ground, then seeped into the ground silently . Even though the Green Dragon Stone was small its ground was paved with tough green stones . To date, the magic adhesives added in the past had not lost effect yet, so not even one crevice could be found in the ground . This allowed huge chariots carrying military equipment to travel on it swiftly .
Fresh blood seeped directly into the stone causing the white fog to be even more concentrated . The divine spell called life conversion had its sinister aspects . The flesh of Holy See's warriors was used to reinforce the array installed in Green Dragon Stone . The more people Saleen and his team slaughtered, the mightier this array would get .
"Something is wrong!" Saleen's perception towards the elements was the most sensitive, his eyes could already observe all the minute changes taking place . He realized that the water element in Green Dragon Stone was in imbalance . While the presence of the other five elements was vague, they were on the verge of disappearing already .
The white-robed warriors emerged endlessly and some soldiers from the imperial swordsman's camp were starting to get injured . The armor worn by the soldiers provided dense protection . The injured soldiers immediately retreated to the inner side of the formation as Narnia cast magic to treat them . This cycle continued . By the time more than three-hundred Holy See's warriors were killed, Saleen's team still had not suffered one fatality .
The magic beasts transformed from the tiles had completely disappeared by now . Saleen estimated that around three-thousand men could conceal themselves in Green Dragon Stone . If this went on, the enemies lying in ambush would be wiped out in at most two hours . "The enemy's holy masters hadn't taken action, while I have mages helping to hold the fort . Even though my vision is slightly restricted, the difference in powers is just too big . Such a sneak attack will be meaningless . "
Outside Green Dragon Stone, an emblem group of cavalrymen were quickly approaching . They noticed that at the end of the road ahead Green Dragon Stone had disappeared and in its place was a gigantic fog . This fog had a radius of several miles . The strangest thing was that the white fog had formed a three-dimensional shape of a castle . It was fluttering constantly in the frigid winds .
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"Shieldmen, protect the mages . Heavy armor brigade, charge!" The commander of the emblem group gave his order without any hesitation . All the soldiers pulled down the mask hidden in their helmets, sealing ventilation . Their armor was different from the ones used by the imperial swordsman's camp . A filtration device had been installed at the breathing vents . They could battle in poison fog for a longer time, but the armor was not totally sealed, they could not go underwater .
The armor donned by the imperial swordsman's camp was too expensive, only the commanders of the armies from the four towns possessed similar equipment .
On the metal masks of these soldiers, the eye regions were still fitted with polished crystals, allowing them to observe dozens of yards ahead in the fog . The white fog slowly produced soldiers one by one and these soldiers charged at the Qin troops .
Most of the Qin troops wielded spears, some also had custom made long knives suitable for horse battles . As the knives and spears slashed at the bodies of soldiers produced from the white fog the feeling was like hacking a puppet made from leather . These elite Qin troops possessed sufficient strength, thus killing the white fog soldiers in one hit . The dispersed white fog swiftly converged though . A minute or two later another soldier would appear .
The lowest rank of a general commanding Qin's emblem groups was also a viscount, there were no imbeciles . Whenever they noticed such a situation they would immediately strike their personal war drum and disseminate orders .
The soldiers got into a formation made up of three layers . The outermost layer of soldiers used their spears to destroy the white fog soldiers, the middle layer was in charge of providing warning and assistance, and the innermost layer removed a leather pouch from their saddle . The appearance of this pouch was strange, it had a metal seal and there were grooves on this seal . The soldiers would place their razor sharp blades in the grooves . With a tug the magic powder within the grooves would seep into the blade of the weapon .
After the innermost soldiers had done all this, they swapped places with the ones at the outermost layer, using their powder-infused weapons to kill the white fog soldiers . The effect was pretty good . After the troops which were condensed from the white fog were struck by these weapons they could no longer be reassembled again .
The elite armies of Qin would carry magic-countering powder . It was dirt cheap, but it would greatly erode a weapon . Only in situations like the current one would the commander give an order for the soldiers to put this powder on their weapons . Basically, weapons which were dabbed in the magic-countering powder would be corroded into a heap of waste metal within two or three days . After several hours of usage the weapons would not be as sharp as before .
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A regular Qin army would carry five weapons, while an elite squad would usually carry seven . These weapons all had a spot reserved for smearing powder . In front of these well-trained Qin soldiers the fog people produced by the divine spell did not stand a chance .
The commander of the emblem group altered the rhythm of drumming, then the two white-robed mages which were being protected removed a large leather pouch from the back of their warhorses . It was such a huge spatial equipment, but the real space inside was less than one cubic yard . This was a special equipment belonging to the Qin army specially crafted for low grade mages .
The two white-robed mages took out four shiny black objects from the leather pouches, these items resembled gigantic apples made from steel . The white-robed mages handed the steel apples to the warriors beside them . Eight warriors holding onto the steel apples carefully approached the center position of a squad, then they leaped off their warhorses . Hanging rubber bands on the squad's warhorses they then swiftly launched the eight steel apples forward .
Such simple catapults could only be utilized in alley fights, the flinging distance was only a few hundred yards . Their largest function was tossing magic bombs .
As the eight steel apples were flying in mid-air the two white-robed mages quickly released their spells which had been prepared beforehand . The magic arrays in the eight steel apples got stimulated, then they exploded with a thunderous boom .
Special flammable powder was hidden inside tiny metal balls within the steel apples and there were holes all over these metal balls . Once the magic array got stimulated and the magic powder began burning . These tiny metal balls would thus become mini fireballs and they could burn for an extended period of time .
Almost one-thousand tiny metal balls were spurting flames as they spread throughout the white fog . Wherever they rolled past the white fog would be extirpated by the magic flames . The two white-robed mages were only at the standard of grade-3, yet they had used a low level magic equipment to open a colossal sanctuary for an entire emblem group of soldiers .
As the white fog was corrosive, no one knew whether the soldiers' armor could endure being inside the white fog for a protracted duration . The soldiers charged forward into the cleansed area, then began inspecting their armor .
There were Black Metal Grand Swordmasters and professional assassins hidden in this emblem group, but the enemy's holy masters did not emerge . The grand swordmasters and assassins could not unleash their might . The emblem group commander realized that this mission was more troublesome than usual, so he decided to strike his war drum once again .
The white-robed mages took out firework signals, handing them to the soldiers for launch . This time around, the equipment had malfunctioned . As the fireworks were launched to an altitude of over thirty yards, they suddenly exploded . The signals could not be relayed to Northtown .
The atmosphere was horrifyingly quiet . Everyone was sealed in their armor, even the mages were protected by the Invisible Shield . They could not communicate via talking . The worst thing was that they had followed the pre-calculations and charged into Green Dragon Stone . Until now, be it the grand swordmasters or mages, no one had discovered any traces of the imperial swordsman's camp .
The armor of both parties contained magic telepathy . If there were allies nearby the mages would surely know . In an environment where friendly fire was prone to happening, the soldiers from the imperial swordsman's camp would definitely not conceal the telepathic ability of their armor .
Safilos' plan had been ruined by a large spell array by the Holy See . The elite soldiers from Northtown could not locate the warriors from the imperial swordsman's camp . They could only kill the fog soldiers aimlessly, they could not even orientate themselves . Fortunately, that intense fire element had dispersed a portion of the fog, so these one-thousand soldiers would not need to fret about their breathing and equipment for the time being .
The military might of Qin was the strongest precisely because the main forces possessed ample magic equipment to deal with all sorts of environments .
The emblem group commander pulled his mask aside, then yelled, "All of you don't have to worry . Even though we are trapped, Northtown will send reinforcements if they do not receive any information from us within an hour . By then, grand mages will come and destroy this array . "
Even if he did not say that the morale of the troops would not waver . This emblem group commander possessed vast experience . That shout from him totally changed the moods of his soldiers . Tens of thousands of troops were stationed in Northtown, there were also dozens of grand mages and sorcerers . Northtown was less than one-hundred miles from Green Dragon Stone . The moment reinforcements were deployed, any kind of trouble could be resolved already .
The emblem group commander was in the foulest mood, "Where is Viscountess Lex's envoy?"