Badge in Azure

“Viscountess, can you come out for a while?” Bifano asked as softly as he could from outside the magic chariot. He did not want to enter the chariot and be angered by Saleen, but he did not want to speak with Lex from outside the chariot either.

“Okay, wait a minute.” Lex did not go out immediately, instead she glared at Saleen. Bifano was already angered by Saleen. From her perspective, if they had not taken action, they should be living harmoniously. Saleen had kept this in mind for so long, but he was not as able to endure as before.

Saleen snickered and opened the door for Lex.

Bifano did not use any of the speech that he had prepared upon seeing Lex. He bit his lip silently. He had no idea what magic Lex had used to make him unable to speak.

“Vi…Viscountess.”

Titan Duchy had already been dismembered when the Tanggulasi and Cloudflow Empires moved off. Bifano’s title as a small duke no longer existed in theory and Lex had appropriately gave off her higher-ranking aura. Standing at the side of the magic chariot, she lowered her head and looked at Bifano before asking, “Small duke, what is it?”

“I have found the Temple’s door, but I can’t open it.”

“There are many enemies?”

“There are none at all. The door’s magic seems almost immune to everything, even the huge metal hammer has nothing to it.”

“Magic immunity? Hmm, this is interesting, but…”

“Viscountess, what requests do you have? Please state them.”

“Small duke, we are friends, that is too polite of you. I do want to stay up to a month in this temple.”

“Alright, how much space do you need?”

“Two areas. There should be twenty-four temple halls here, you can arrange for your men to stay there too.”

Lex wanted to stay a month there to wait for news from Metatrin City. Once she got the precise coordinates, she could send the information back there and let the mages in Metatrin City calculate the general location of the main Myers Temple. Such calculations were not complicated, but they required much energy and needed hundreds of mages to do. It could take up to a month for the coordinates of the main Myers Temple to be calculated.

During this period, she did not want to run around Titan Duchy. It was wartime now and it would not be easy to deal with any armies from Cloudflow or the Tanggulasi Empire.

Of course, Lex definitely did not just want to simply stay there for a month, the temple belonged to Bifano. Even though the things inside had long been wiped clean by the Pink Army, Lex believed that there were some hidden places that others would not be able to find. She had the Gods Ring and should be able to find some of its hidden secrets.

Nailisi listened to Lex’s request in the chariot and was overjoyed. She suddenly opened her mouth and said, “Lex, I want a place for myself too.”

“Alright, then we would want three areas.” Lex promised casually and Bifano almost lost his temper. How could a maidservant could afford to be this cocky? He decided that he needed to find some way to get rid of Saleen. It seemed like his relationship with Lex was incredibly close, even his maidservant could call her Lex. This was what all the seniors around her addressed her as, all the new followers called her Viscountess or Her Highness Lex.

Lex said a few words to a black metal grand swordmaster and he turned around to go to the side of the other magic chariot, passing on Lex’s words. Lex could not let both magic chariots enter the tunnel, it would not be able to sustain one for long. If something happened, it would be easier to escape if there was only one chariot inside.

Lex released the two fully constructed puppets and walked to the front of the chariot. Only Wild Bear and Jola were by the side, they were able to get along perfectly now. With Jola doing things half-heartedly and Wild Bear being simple there would not be any conflicts.

Nailisi could not help but lick her lips, she wanted one area of the temple to summon her demon. The temple was almost cut off from the outside world and summoning the demon would not cause any trouble anywhere else.

Summoning a demon required a sacrifice. Back when humans captured demons, they needed to feed and nurture them. Demons that were incredibly intelligent would not follow blindly and they needed something in exchange to being summoned.

Bifano had five-thousand soldiers and they were a good sacrifice. She had to do such things in secret. If she was found out from the start, Saleen would stop her. Feeding humans to demons would cause chaos after all. Before this, she needed to instigate some trouble between Bifano and his soldiers to force him to take action.

Nailisi had made up her mind, but was afraid that Saleen would notice something so she started talking to Sika. Sika was bored too. Since she started a relationship with Saleen, Saleen would not let her do anything dangerous in battle. She did not like to speak to Lex and Nailisi was someone who knew her intimately after all. Now that she went up to talk to her of her own accord, Sika did not give Nailisi any disrespect.

Lex’s magic chariot entered the tunnel, she and Saleen felt the change in the space coordinates at the same time. This was because Lex had the powers of the Gods Ring while Saleen’s focus had already reached that of a sorcerer and was incredibly sensitive to space.

The mile-long tunnel was actually linking two places that were hundreds of miles apart.

Before long, Lex saw the huge door of the Myers Temple, she held back the excitement in her heart. The patterns on the door were different from any magic pattern that she already knew. They were probably left behind by the Second Dynasty. If the holy prose and the magic patterns could be combined together, it could eliminate any effects from a magic attack.

Even though the value of these patterns were huge, what was more valuable was the two doors. Not every material could have these patterns inscribed on them and produce the same effect.

Saleen also saw the two doors through the crystal, he immediately had the intention to strip them down. The defences of his temple would increase tremendously by installing these doors onto it.

Nailisi could sense Saleen’s emotions acutely, she was overjoyed. It was good that master remembered to think about these things. when she went overboard, master would then think she must have her reasons too. Humans needed excuses for anything that they did. Demons, on the other hand,would fight for anything they wanted directly unless their enemies’ power surpassed their own.

“I can’t get past this door.” Lex looked at the door that was still slowly self-restoring as she broke the terrible news to Bifano.

“That is impossible, Viscountess, I know you have your ways. Whatever your request is, I will agree to it. Please open this door!” Bifano was a little flustered, if this door could not be opened, would he really need to defend Fire Dance City? Fire Dance City did not have any strong mages. Its magic tower would not be able to unleash its greatest effect and when a huge army arrived, it was a matter of time before the city was taken down.

Lex smiled and said, “Small duke, do not worry, we can still focus on the walls at the two sides.”

“Walls?” Bifano looked at the black tall walls. It was an enclosed space, the walls were linked to the tip of it and it seemed there was no way one could get through them. The black walls were created from steel rocks and no matter how he looked at it, they seemed harder to deal with than the door. It was not that he had not tried it, but when the huge metal hammer knocked against the steel rocks, not a single piece broke off.

Lex ignored Bifano as she walked over to the walls, feeling them with her hands. As expected, the steel rocks had been solidified with magic and were one single piece. Unlike the doors, the steel rocks did not have any magic immunity though.

“Saleen, it seems like you need to do something,” Lex said as Saleen got down from the magic chariot.

Saleen came to the edge of the wall and placed his hands on it, letting his senses run deep. He quickly found the secret of this wall. The steel rocks had been turned into a metal through some immense powers. They were not only tough, but had become a single entity. These walls seemed to have been formed from pouring molten metal into a mold. Forget about a huge metal hammer, even a magic fortress hammer would be useless against them.

The palace ahead of him seemed to be almost two miles wide, there was a mile-long wall like this on both sides of the door. If it were one meter high, Saleen could do it. To process something this huge at once, only humans from ancient times would be able to do that.

“I can open the wall, but I have a request.”

“Say it.”

“I want both the walls and door to take back. Don’t be annoyed without me, even a sorcerer could only use water to grind the stones away and slowly excavate.”

“Then please, do what you can.” Bifano did not want to argue any longer. After he killed Saleen, it would still belong to him after all.

“Let the soldiers rest for four hours, this wall is too thick and I will need some time,” Saleen said calmly as he sensed Bifano’s evil intentions. He had only recently gained such powers and it seemed like he was on the edge of advancing again.

The soldiers took a rest on the spot and Saleen tapped the calabash at his waist, releasing the six meter long green current. The steel rocks that had been turned to metal were harder to deal with than the white stone materials in Metatrin City. They did not have any magic immunity and Saleen’s current cutter did not use up any magic chords. He could slowly deal with the wall.

All the stone materials of the city walls in Metatrin City had been excavated by Saleen, his current cutter skills were already incredible.

The weight of the metallized steel rock was unchanged, what changed was only its properties. Such materials were much better at creating armor than metal. The weight of this steel rock was only a fifth that of steel. In other words, if this material was used to create the armor of the heavy cavalrymen, the armor could be five times thicker without changing the load.

Such characteristics were not special to a cavalry troops, but they were even more important for an infantry trooper. Infantry troops could not take as much weight as cavalry troops and the strongest heavy infantry soldiers in the Qin Empire could take a load of over fifty kilograms. The price to pay was slower movement speed. If the load of the heavy infantry troops was to be reduced to a fifth, its mobility would be horrifying.

Now, Saleen could only hope that this wall would be thicker. If he had a huge amount of this precious material, it would be enough for him to form a few swordsmen camps.

The green current cutter slowly drilled a small hole in the stone. The current spun rapidly and rubbed intensely, yet it did not produce any noise as it slowly entered the wall. Once he started, Saleen knew that he was not wrong to let the soldiers rest for four hours. Even though this metallized steel rock did not have any magic immunity, the current was still used up quickly. With his speed now, the current would need to return to the calabash to rest for thirty minutes after cutting for an hour, four hours might not be enough time to cut through the wall.

The pink army’s hideout was indeed an impregnable bastion of steel. If there was a magic tower at the front of the temple’s door, not many people would be able to forcefully attack their way in.