Badge in Azure

Making magic armor was relatively easy. Saleen’s manipulation of the water flame was getting more skilful and Lex brought along a huge amount of blueprints. He did not have to design them himself anymore and he did not need to take a roundabout way to make them according to the blueprints straightaway. Lex’s magic armor blueprint was a secret among the Grukos royals.

Summoning a mechanical soul was very troublesome, but the three Kings did not reject and they hated Saleen to bones. If the mechanical soul could cause a disaster in the Myers Mainland, they would be even happier.

Metatrin City would turn into chaos because there were another dozen thousand people. Even if the city took in another million people, it would not be too crowded. These people came there in a rush and they were nobles from different regimes though. The nobles brought along large amounts of assets and everything around that could be used over to Saleen’s city. It was extremely beneficial to the city building. At the beginning, there must be communication difficulty that lead to conflict.

Luckily Lex’s people could suppress them and there was no trouble.

Such situation continued for over a month before Metatrin city regained its tranquility. Then, there was news that made Saleen slightly unhappy. The battle in Lianyun City had its initial result. Holy Rock City sent five elite swordsmen’s camps and brought along war puppets. At Clarke Plain in the south of Lianyun city, they fought a battle with the eastern sea expeditionary force and killed half of the enemy.

The mainland shook. Although Safilos exposed the true power of the war puppets, he got some benefits too. They fought close to the border of Kroraina originally. The Tanggulasi army, that was almost entering the empire, held their steps back and stopped going forward.

Safilos continued to deploy his army and wiped out the turmoil that took place in the south, then the empire temporarily quieted down. The expeditionary force was forced to retreat to Lianyun City and guard against trouble with the sea on their back. The situation would not last for too long. The army from the island nations in the eastern sea did not bring enough food. Although they managed to plunder the Myers Mainland, the nobles from the Qin Empire were very stubborn. If their city were to be destroyed, they would burn all their food too.

The food that the expeditionary force from eastern sea managed to carry off could barely feed them. They could not waste because there were rumours saying alchemy city had sent out warships and prepared to help Holy Rock City to sweep the sea.

Originally, if Alchemy City were to control Lianyun City, it would be even harder to be deal with compared to the eastern sea fleet. Saleen knew that the eastern sea fleet would attack Lex’s ship, but Alchemy City’s would not attack hers.

Even if Lex and Safilos were to get to the term where they needed to meet at the battlefield, Alchemy City had to take Lex’s identity into consideration. To fight against the royals, would get the Holy Rock City’s guards up. Unless Alchemy City had already decided to expand its strength to control the entire mainland that was. Lex’s business would not be affected anymore and the sea route could be considered as opened up otherwise.

They were kept busy until July. When even Saleen got a little anxious, Lex was finally done with all the preparation and ready to depart.

Saleen made Daniel stay back to take care of the temple while there would be someone to take care of Lex’s Bitter Water Army. Her prefecture related business had been handed over to Hu An to manage. Saleen admired Lex’s skills. Hu An was not considered as a strong mage. He had some power by Lex’s side, but was not powerful enough to suppress everyone. To let him act for internal affairs, Hu An would not be able to play any tricks.

Hu An was an ambitious person. He could not play any trick, he would take care of all the tasks with full cautious and conscientious, so that no one had anything against him. This was called making the best possible use of men and property.

To use a person’s specialty was a great thing. To use a person’s characteristics would be an emperor’s skill and that was someone capable enough to run a country.

Two young Caucasus people wanted to follow Sika regardless, but Sika hushed them back solemnly. The two Caucasus had great capabilities, they were almost the strongest fighting force on Sika’s side. They were normally responsible for Sika’s troops of bodyguards.

Before leaving, Saleen saw Aini privately and spoke in secret for half the night. The second day, a troop left Metatrin city in silence.

There were four carriages in the troop and all of them were pulled by skeleton warhorses. The two carriages in the middle were transformed from magic chariots. The four skeleton warhorses looked slightly weird and their bones were obviously way thicker, there were also no soul flames dancing in their eyes.

The four skeleton warhorses were mutated from the mechanical soul. There was a sharp spike on each of their foreheads, just like a death unicorn.

The space in a magic chariot was much bigger than a normal carriage. The other two carriages for transporting goods were normal carriages and they carried some goods just for show. Saleen and Lex had huge magic space and in actual fact, they did not need another two carriages.

That trip was to do something deceiving to the public after all. Metatrin city would not have any secret agents as of then. Going through Phoenix would still draw Holy Rock City’s attention.

Lex and Saleen both wore brocade robes from the Cloudflow Empire, instead of their magic robes. Lex’s colorful magic robe was too eye-catching. Saleen did not need any magic robe as his demon magic robe was changeable.

Nailisi was delighted to follow Saleen. Before leaving, that damn skeleton finally gave her the actual coordinates. Once she gathered things that she needed, she could start summoning demons. Summoning demons outside was not safe, Nailisi had no confidence of controlling them, but she could familiarize herself with the location of the coordinates and experiment constantly. Once she returned to Metatrin city, she could summon a strong demon and get the winged skeleton’s aid to bring it under control.

Most importantly, leaving Metatrin City, she did not need to salvage sunken ships underwater for the winged skeleton anymore. The cold sea water in the deep sea nearly made Nailisi fall ill. She even took less showers now and only requested Saleen to cast a Cleaning spell on her.

What made Saleen worried did not happen. Although Sika was still intimate with him, she did not plan and prepare to be with child. He was worried that Sika would really get pregnant on the way, that would definitely affect the risky adventure.

Jola was happy and sad simultaneously. He was happy that there were five beautiful ladies, but he was said that he could not touch any of them.

When the troops entered the middle of Phoenix, Saleen slightly relaxed. He then realized that there was a twenty-fifth person in the troop. The person was the mysterious assassin that was always by Lex’s side. The power of the assassin obviously improved significantly compared to the last time they saw each other. The improvement was like a mage’s promotion, the difference was vast.

Saleen’s mental power was no different compared to a sorcerer. It took him so long to realize the existence of the assassin and that was sufficient to prove the assassin’s power. Saleen also could sense the assassin because he was too familiar with the assassin. The assassin once fooled him with mental strength.

With the existence of such a powerful assassin, a normal enemy could not threaten Saleen’s troop.

It was peaceful within Phoenix. The Solar City already gave in. The nobles in Phoenix found out about the appearance of war puppets and they surrendered. Maybe the resistance that they made at the beginning was just a show. Holy Rock City held the unknown baby in their hands and gave it the title of Grand Duke. Then, Phoenix would have any independence no more.

Even the local nobles understood that. Safilos won that time, but his trouble from that day onwards had just begun.

Saleen would not think about the situation in the Qin Empire, those were things that Lex should be worried about. His only concern was the seeds of the four godly trees.

The troop passed through along the west border of Phoenix. They stopped for a short while in Deep Forest Town. Baron Piac that was sent back was still alive. When he saw Saleen, he teared up with joy. Saleen comforted him and left him some gold coins and told him to stay for a little longer.

Holy Rock City wanted to seized control of Solar city. The small town on the border of the city was close to the magic beast forest. Besides troops of adventurers, no one would notice.

Baron Piac was helpless. His family members were all in Metatrin City, it was impossible not to listen to Saleen. If he knew that Safilos had not wiped out all the nobles, why would he seek refuge from Bitter Water Prefecture? Baron Piac regretted his actions.

Saleen came out with Lex’s magic map that time and it was a way smoother journey. Even in the wild, Lex could find suitable spots to set camp and there were not any magic beasts that came to disturb them. The troop took a months time to pass through the entirety of Phoenix and got to Kroraina.

The army from the Tanggulasi Empire was at one hundred miles away from the border of Kroraina. It was awkward as they did not know to charge forward or to retreat. Holy Rock City had launched a general offensive against Lianyun city. Once the battle ended, they could deploy war puppets to Kroraina.

Saleen’s troop passed through the one hundred mile wide gap, without leaving any traces in the Qin Empire, and departed to Titan Duchy directly.

Titan Duchy was a strong duchy affiliated with the Cloudflow Empire, it was almost two times bigger than Kroraina before collapsing. If it was not due to its terrible location, the capability of Titan Duchy was sufficient enough to build a mini empire. It was in the inner land and there were enemies on the other three sides. Titan Duchy dared not breakaway from the Cloudflow Empire.

The King of the Cloudflow Empire liked to keep up appearance. Even if it was just slight neglect verbally it would bring about attack from the army. The character of the people from Titan Duchy was complicated. On one hand, they were a very careful people. On the other hand, a crazy Titan would do something shocking disregarding everything else.

It was also a consequence of long term suppression. It made a country and people that were supposed to be strong into psychopaths.

The third location of the temple was within the border of Titan Duchy. The Purgatory Desert was just on the south-west of Titan Duchy. Lex and the others only needed to find the exact location of the third temple in Titan Duchy to be able to send the coordinates back to Metatrin City. The mages could calculate the exact coordinates of the main temple that way. They could enter the Purgatory Desert then.

Within the time frame, Saleen and the rest needed to stay in Titan Duchy for about three months time. Almost another year had passed by.