Chapter 609
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Saleen could not afford to care about maintaining the transformation of the elements around the phoenix . He pushed Narnia into the metal barrack and he entered quickly after her before Su entered last . Su latched the door and Saleen immediately cast a spell to completely seal up the metal door .
"Narnia, use some earth-element spells!"
Saleen knew that his water-element spells would not be effective . Narnia nodded and produced yellow-colored crystallizations of the earth element to change the door into a wall without any gaps .
When this metal barrack was constructed, it was rectangular in shape and could only fit fifty people . Now that it was being used as a temporary hideout for two-hundred people, it was a tight squeeze . Narnia took out a small case . There were two wind-element magic arrays on top of it along with a low-level magic nucleus .
Even though it was powered by a low-level magic nucleus, this case was something used by Qin combat vessels to supply air . In the beginning when Qin was still studying and building submarines, they were built with plenty of this magic equipment . Without them, the crews would have perished without a sufficient air supply .
Saleen had only just entered the metal barrack when Green Dragon Stone became a sea of flames . This huge inferno burned rapidly and the sky was painted red . Even if the reinforcements from Northtown had not used any signalling flares, Northtown should have realized by now that something had cropped up .
Under the influence of divine spells, water elements would break down into even smaller components and burn rapidly at terrifying temperatures . Saleen and Narnia hid in the metal barrack nervously and cast one spell after another through the thick metal walls .
The spells cast by Saleen and Narnia were sticky traps which possessed an area effect . Once the spells had been cast, a thick layer of sticky substance formed around the metal barrack . This kind of substance was hard to burn off and was even more durable than solid ice .
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All the white fog around Green Dragon Stone floated towards the room in which Saleen and the rest were hiding . They acted as fuel for the fire and the attack persisted .
The sticky trap could not last long but fortunately it was a low-level spell so Saleen and Narnia could cast it over and over again without exhausting too much mental strength or magic chords . To a grand mage, he would not even have to consider these two factors at all . Narnia had just cast a modified Phoenix spell so she was not able to help Saleen for too long .
Fellet chuckled and took over Narnia's position . The sticky trap was a spell that he was not familiar with . Since this spell was only used to act as a buffer against the burning flames, he only needed to make sure he was in sync with Saleen .
After half an hour, the temperature within the metal room inevitably rose . If this continued, the temperature in the room would reach boiling point or even beyond . The people in the room would all become cooked like vegetables that had been put into a steamer .
This was when the men of the royal swordsmen camp finally revealed their horror . Their magic armor could certainly last for half an hour under the attack of flames . In this case, they could feel the effects even though spells had been cast to protect them from the direct impact of the flames . They began to doubt if their armor would be able to protect them .
"Don't worry, it is just a high temperature," Saleen tried to assure them even as he changed the spell that he was casting at the same time . In his hands appeared a sphere of green water flames . They burned cleanly and both Tornado and Snowkill appeared outside of the metal barrack .
Snowkill was a spell with an abnormally low temperature that had a freezing effect . Saleen had no intentions of using this spell to extinguish the flames . The snowflakes that were formed from the water elements floated in the air like razor and danced in the midst of the tornado . The wind elements buffered the burning of the flames, but not the lowering of temperature due to the freezing .
The sticky substance that covered the metal barrack was now quickly transforming into ice and the entire barrack had turned into a gigantic ice block .
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Saleen's only objective now was to lower the temperature within the barrack . Green Dragon Stone did not burn completely as there was still plenty of white fog everywhere . As long as no outsiders destroyed the formation of the divine spell, it could remain functional for an entire day .
Even a sorcerer would not be able to withstand an entire day of high-temperature attack .
When the red Bishop noticed the ice blocks appearing on the barrack that the mage had constructed, he immediately knew that things were not going according to plan . If this went on, more heavy-armored soldiers from north town would be sent over and he would fail to kill his original targets . His objective was to capture the envoy of Bitter Water Prefecture alive, hence he resorted to using a pressing method such as this instead of a more destructive skill .
This kind of area attack would not be fatal to a grand mage . As long as the time factor was well-controlled and the grand mage was thoroughly exhausted, he could still be captured alive . No one imagined that there would be three instead of one grand mage . Due to a godly item that he had brought along that was effective in countering spirits of the dead, the death mage was not an important consideration . Amongst the Holy See equipment, there were few that could effectively counter spirits of the dead . Without it, the death mage would have been much harder to handle .
The red Bishop realized that things might be getting out of hand . He flipped to the end of the book and began to chant a new prayer .
"To the mightiest God, there are lost souls on earth that are not able to return to the right path . They are not innocent . I seek the flame of hell to purify these heresies . Nevertheless, this goes against my religion . Your forgiveness has also made me doubtful and lost…"
This prayer was three pages long . In a battle between two people, the other party would never allow him to complete the entire prayer . In other words, this divine spell could never be used in the heat of a battle . It could only be used to control or force certain situations .
One of the regiments of Northtown has been trapped within the white fog traps . They were still charging and attacking left and right and had killed a large number of fog men . All of a sudden, the speed at which the fog men were attacking and their numbers increased tremendously . Half of the white fog in Green Dragon Stone began to transform into all sorts of creatures and attacked the soldiers of Northtown .
The creatures formed from the white fog were not shaped like humans and were of all sorts of shapes and sizes . Although all the Northtown soldiers were elite, the magic medicine that they brought along was limited and they did not have any grand mages in their group . Their spatial equipment was pathetically small so there was no way to carry more resources .
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"We have been trapped! What do we do?!" shouted the officer that had been commanding the soldiers on the exterior . The amount of white fog has diminished but the number of weird creatures increased . The fight was even . The soldiers relied on the last row of crossbow arrows to hold their defence . The moment their formation was broken through, it would be even harder to defend .
The two white-robed mages went pale . They had thought that this was just a small mission where they would then receive three months' worth of magic nuclei in exchange . They never imagined that they would be involved in a trap that they could not handle .
A grade-3 mage's senses should already be very sharp, yet they could not pinpoint any weaknesses in this array . Typically, every array had its weaknesses . Those within the array would not be able to counter against these weaknesses, but those outside would be able to do so much more easily .
The two grade-3 mages could not even begin to understand this array, much less think of how to find its loophole .
The regiment captain heard his subordinates' desperate pleas, but there was nothing he could do . Any magic or divine spell must have its limits . An army officer of his grade only received monthly training from experienced mages who would share with them what to expect on the battlefield .
Therefore, the captain understood that this array was beyond what his army could endure . In other words, his army would collapse first before the array could be put to a stop .
"Protect the mages . Use your heavy swords to draw straight lines on the ground . We will attempt to break through," The captain's voice was calm, but there was zero confidence in his heart .
The soldiers tried their best to protect the mage . Any creatures made up of the white fog that tried to get close would be attacked . The two mages did not join in the fight . Instead they prepared restorative water again and again to heal the soldiers .
"Ah!"
There was a loud but short shout . A huge white snake that was more than ten yards long bit a soldier on the waist and dragged him into the white fog . This soldier was a middle-level swordsman, which was the weakest level in the entire regiment . After battling for half an hour, he was fatigued and in a moment of carelessness, he was taken by a creature formed from the white fog . The people around him could not react in time to save him .
The soldier's armor was the weakest in the entire regiment, but the white snake still did not manage to bite through it . After being dragged into the white fog, his nose and mouth were stuck by sticky substances, causing him to be unable to breathe or make any sounds . He became quiet very quickly and soon fell into a coma .
The soldier's faceguard was lifted so his face torn apart very quickly and soon turned into a bloody mess .
The red Bishop witnessed all this . His expression was sullen and he bowed his head as if in a prayer . He was not a zealot and never favored using such methods to spread God's faith . Unfortunately, the situation that he was in now did not afford him the luxury of thinking about other alternatives .
More and more Northtown soldiers were dragged into the white fog . Many of the soldiers that arrived later had all pushed up their faceguards, but the magic nuclei on their magic armor could not sustain for long . Within about ten minutes all the soldiers that had been dragged into the white fog began to find it hard to breathe . As the white fog was still able to decompose the weaker parts of the metal armor, the magic array on the armor began to be activated . By trying to seal up the armor, more magic nuclei were used up instead .
Once the magic nuclei was completely used up, the soldiers would die sooner or later .
These dead soldiers suddenly stood up again one by one . They began to behave strangely . They started to swallow the white fog around them and every time they swallowed, their bodies would swell up . The more white fog they swallowed, the bigger their bodies became .
These were not undead soldiers created from death magic . The weapons in their hands grew bigger as well . This unbelievable transformation stunned the soldiers that were still alive . They were soon surrounded by more than one-hundred giants that stood as tall as twenty yards . These giants were all once their fellow comrades .
These one-hundred giants joined in the attack . They reached out their gigantic hands and began to grab the surrounding soldiers .