Chapter 748
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Eleanor stood on the top floor, gazing at Saleen and Lex who sat under the fragrant tree . The singing had stopped, but the aftermath lingered on . Not only Saleen and Lex heard it, the soldiers downstairs, the swordsmen in the palace, and the mages also heard Eleanor's song . The area sunk into a faint melancholic atmosphere .
Eleanor was homesick, very homesick . She thought that an elf could forget the past events and was adaptive, just like the elders had said .
It did not turn out like that . When Eleanor gazed at Saleen's and Lex's silhouettes, she was not thinking of the marquis, she was actually pining for her first lover in the elvish plane . The marquis' fatal attraction had become a faint shadow, it was almost gone already . Her oldest memory had become increasingly clearer .
"Eleanor is thinking about home . " Saleen broke the silence, but was still holding onto Lex's hand .
"You cannot go and console her on your own!" Lex wrinkled her nose, using a small girl's voice to warn Saleen .
Saleen simply laughed it off, as he thought to himself, "There is nothing to worry about, I don't have such feelings towards her . Even if I did, Eleanor would never agree to be with me . She is homesick and I cannot help her to ease such feelings . "
"You are laughing so smugly, what are you thinking of?"
"I am thinking of something very troublesome," Saleen replied solemnly .
"What is it?"
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"I heard that once a mage advances to a sorcerer, it will be more challenging to have offspring . Can you pause your advancement for the time being?"
A fireball appeared in Lex's hand immediately, but was immediately snuffed out . She rebutted, "Don't you and Sika already have a child? We are mages…"
"You will be empress in the future!" Saleen interrupted Lex and said, "An empress must have a successor . "
Lex's face became redder than the fireball . She was at a loss for words, eventually she gave up and only glared ferociously at Saleen . If Lex discussed this topic with others, she would not blush because she was a grade-6 mage, she would only regard it as a technical problem .
Now all she could think of was that she had to engage in intercourse with Saleen after marrying him .
"Since Saleen is broaching this topic now, it seems like he wants to do it right away . " Lex tried to break away from Saleen, but Saleen gripped her hand tightly . Saleen was stronger than Lex, she could not break free . Lex wanted to berate Saleen, but was worried that Saleen would get angry, "I cannot do this, he has finally expressed his feelings after much difficulty . If I behave coldly, he will be hurt . "
"Lex, I am trying to say that Sika can create a medicine which can solve this problem, what are you doing?"
This time around, a fireball appeared in Lex's hand, almost on the verge of hitting Saleen . Saleen giggled, as a tiny icicle appeared atop his fingertip, destroying that fireball .
"Aye, forget it . " Lex decided to lean half her body against Saleen . Tilting her head slightly to look at Eleanor's silhouette under the moonlight, she muttered, "You are right, I have to think about the future . "
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"This medicine isn't expensive, Sika has concocted some and it costs eight-hundred-thousand gold coins . " Saleen mentally prepared Lex first, in case she got caught off guard .
"Ah! That's fine…" Lex almost spouted something which embarrassed herself . She quickly changed the topic, "Saleen, is Eleanor…"
"There is no use, it cannot be resolved easily . I think we would need godlike powers to truly fix her problems . " Saleen had no idea how to help resolve Eleanor's trouble . To let her return home, the planar passageway between the elvish plane and Myers mainland had to be opened, this was neither the demonic plane nor the death plane . The spaces between these two planes and the Myers mainland were not stable, but there were precise coordinates available .
On the other hand, the elvish plane was very far away . The elves betrayed the humans in the past, so the human experts who were mightier than the gods had sealed all the available passageways .
Given Lex's intelligence, she could easily guess Eleanor's identity, but she was helpless to do anything . She and Saleen would have to advance past the limits of grade-9 to help, or perhaps even grade-10 would not suffice . They might have to at least be above grade-18 in order to possess the ability to alter planar rules and reopen the channel to the elvish plane .
On the entire Myers mainland the number of grade-10 professionals could be counted on one hand . Grade-18 experts only existed in myths, neither Saleen nor Lex had ever thought of progressing to this grade . Advancing to grade-10 was a practical goal . It would be daydreaming to want to advance to grade-18 .
In one of the sewers in Daliang City, Tyrant sat up . It was already the end of December . He still could not control this body thoroughly . Using a ghost's perception to judge, his current powers were only two-thirds of the power he had when he used the dwarf's body . This current body was more perfect than the dwarf's, but most of a ghost's abilities did not rely on a physical body, there was no obscurity like that of a dwarf .
Tyrant woke up from his deep slumber having heard Eleanor's singing in the depths of his mind .
The voice of an elf could stimulate a ghost deeply . Eleanor's depression caused Tyrant to be unable to sleep . Tyrant paced about his hideout with his bloodshot eyes, unable to compose himself .
"That damned elf, that damned elf! I have to kill her, otherwise I cannot do anything in Daliang City . My powers have deteriorated a lot, it is too difficult to kill an elf who can counter my powers . "
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Tyrant kept pacing about as his hands rummaged through the leather pouch, inspecting his equipment .
"That elf will be accompanying the mage who knows how to cast the Mirroring spell . If I try to assassinate her, I will surely die! That mage's strange finger can even shatter my divine weapon . I cannot use the Soul-cutting spell now . If my original body gets hit one more time, I will lose my third and last chance of attaching to a human body . That damned elf, she took away more than six-hundred years of my life with her two arrows . Even if I die, I will drag her to hell with me!"
Unbeknownst to Tyrant, Eleanor did not release the Life Arrow with all her might because she took him as a human . Tyrant would have been killed in one hit otherwise . Pacing in the sewer for around an hour, Tyrant finally took out an equipment, it was a gray bead .
"The Soul Bead . I can only kill normal civilians to absorb power now, but I cannot do it in Daliang City . The mages in the magical tower will know if I do . Mm, I heard that the Cloudflow people have set up camp near the shore . I shall kill their scouts to lure out an army without any high grade mages, then I should be able to regain most of my abilities . "
Making this decision, Tyrant left for the south in a flash . All the mages in Daliang City originated from Qin . No matter their grades, they would not be deceived easily . Since Tyrant's powers had been reduced, he did not dare create trouble in Daliang City, so he turned his attention to the Cloudflow people .
Usually, people would never return once they left Daliang City . A ghost's hatred was too intense though . Tyrant's hatred for Eleanor had even exceeded his interest to assassinate Saleen .
In the blink of an eye, it was January . During the winter, Daliang City did not experience snow, so the temperature was maintained above freezing point . Listening to Saleen's suggestion, Lex reinforced Daliang City's defensive facilities .
The core of Daliang City was a small square-shaped city with a long history . At the moment, the three layers of walls surrounding Daliang City had been built by Lex .
Lex had many low grade mages serving her, so she decided to use magic to reinforce and raise the small city . Only four city gates were left behind to function as Lex's palace . Two of Lex's palace swordsmen camps were stationed in the palace . The three-layered walls at the periphery did not need to be raised, but they needed more large and intermediate-sized appliances .
Daliang City had a total of six city gates and each gate was fitted with metal battlements . The city gates were replaced with magic facilities coated with thick red copper . A passageway was dug out to connect the fortresses outside the city to the city tower, the fortresses no longer had any openings . Only archer holes were present, to allow soldiers to fire arrows out .
The winged skeleton had delivered all the remaining skeletal magic stone cannons over and installed them atop the city walls . These magic stone cannons had no effect against Cloudflow's warships, but it was lethal when dealing with infantrymen . Other than its high level of consumption, it was flawless .
Saleen did not worry about the consumption of magic nuclei, he was willing to spend any amount to extirpate the Cloudflow people .
Six regions were developed within Daliang City in preparation for building magical towers . The sewers in the city were reinforced again and many more magic barriers were installed . There was a river outside Daliang City, but the river did not cut through the city, so water was a problem . Fortunately, with mages around, a secret river was constructed deep underground and lead to the city's reservoir .
That way, if the city was besieged, the soldiers would not crumble and be rendered powerless due to a scarcity of water .
Lex could not replicate so many copies of equipment for Saleen's heavy infantrymen . She possessed sufficient manpower however . If work was sped up, she would be able to produce around six-thousand sets of equipment by April .
Saleen gave half of his trusted soldiers to Lex . These one-hundred soldiers were Saleen's mightiest troops who wielded the best equipment . The elvish alchemical crossbows could not be replicated because divinecherry wood was required . The swordsmen which Saleen gave to Lex were given purplish-gold liquid .
When this liquid, produced from purplish-gold sea urchins, was smeared onto a normal alchemical arrowhead, the arrowhead would be able to destroy magic easily . It was a pity that this item was disposable and purplish-gold sea urchins could not be bred . Once used, it would be gone .
Lex asked Saleen for all the metal ores from Metatrin City for the past few months . Her Metal Titan had not fully recovered yet from the grave injuries it had recieved . In order to let the Metal Titan act as Lex's main offensive force, it would have to keep devouring metals and magic nuclei .
If the Metal Titan could recover by April, Lex would be confident of quashing the Cloudflow people . At the very least, she would not need to worry about Cloudflow's large equipment . By releasing the Metal Titan, the Metal Titan could destroy the large appliances before the enemy's sorcerers got to it .
"The Cloudflow people will use the worst method to invade the city . Let their soldiers scale the walls using ladders . " Lex did not believe that her elites would not be able to defend Daliang City .