Badge in Azure

If Lex did not lose two grade-5 mages, her mood would not have been so foul. Now that she had a stable source of magic nuclei and the Metatrin City was developed well, she would be able to enter the hell of the God’s Punishment as long as the mages from the Sregl Island arrived and set up a teleportation portal. Her teacher would definitely be the first batch of mages to enter that place. In a year or two, her teacher could advance to a grade-9 sorcerer, prolonging his life to more than twelve-hundred years. If there were no accidents, he could live for at least another seven-hundred or eight-hundred years.

“I will gather all my grade-6 mages and quickly promote them to grade-7 sorcerers. Very soon, they will also have the right to enter the Six Elements’ Space. With a large number of grade-9 sorcerers as backup, the mission of destroying the Holy See would be plausible already.”

Saleen needed sixty-four level-8 magic nucleuses, but he only had a dozen segmented ones on hand at the moment. Luckily, Nailisi was a demon with teeth which could segment magic nuclei, so this task actually became very easy.

After putting everything away, Lex’s and Saleen’s team began the journey. As expected, there was a large number of magic beasts in the plains up ahead obstructing their way. Fortunately, these magic beasts were not under the control of a god yet, they had not formed a horde. Nevertheless, the number of magic beasts present was horrifying. More than a thousand magic wolves creeped up from behind, while there were many more swarms of magic beasts up ahead.

Luckily Lex and Saleen were in the goddess’ space, so certain rules were similar to the ones in the outside world. Since the magic beasts appeared in huge numbers, it meant that their individual power wouldn’t be too strong. The mightiest magic wolf would not exceed grade-5, while those anonymous magic beasts never reached grade-7. Moreover, whenever a magic beast died, the other magic beasts in the vicinity would vie for their corpses.

Saleen did not take out the magic war chariots. All the mages rode on the skeletal warhorses, sprinting across the land desperately.

Magic beasts were aplenty on the mountains and the plains, but only a few hundred of them could get close to Saleen and Lex.

Sika and Wild Bear led the team. As Sika was riding atop her magic beast skeleton and charging forward, even a grade-5 magic beast would be killed when her skeleton rammed into it. As long as there were no grade-7 magic beasts, Sika did not even need to take any action. Furthermore, that magic beast skeleton gave off an air of dominance, and with the herding ability of a Caucasus priest, only a few magic beasts stood in Sika’s way.

Wild Bear wielded his gigantic poleaxe, helping Sika to slaughter those outliers. Since the team also had a strong assassin like Bain guarding the rear, they were traveling at a speed of more than forty miles an hour. Both sides of the team were flanked by the four-legged puppets, and these puppets had absorbed all the magic attacks by the magic beasts. Within three days, after sacrificing all her low grade puppets, Lex led the team to a river.

In most situations, Lex would require at least a fully composed swordsman’s camp to penetrate a herd of magic beasts. Including the depletion of magic nucleuses, the consumption by those puppets would expend at least a million gold coins if all their materials were purchased from the market and not made by Lex.

Most of the puppets were captured by the magic beasts, Lex could not even recover their metal materials.

At the riverside, everyone knew that they had to rely on Saleen. The original plan was to use the branches of the divine trees to craft a boat, they would have surely made it across. However, Saleen didn’t have so much time, he simply casted a spell and transported everyone over. From the shore to the far bank, there was not even one magic beast at all.

Saleen was the last to cross the river. Observing such a situation, he got a little frustrated. There were no magic beasts here because the magic beasts in the goddess’ space only appeared due to the influence of the gods who had not been born yet, these creatures were not the creations of the goddess. The lives produced by the new gods couldn’t cross the River of Nothingness, so they were temporarily trapped in this space.

Tourmaline, who had sleeping on Saleen’s shoulder, opened its eye at this moment. As Tourmaline looked at the river behind, it appeared a little reluctant. Saleen took it down from his shoulder, and then embraced it. Tourmaline shrieked for a while before giving up, then it continued sleeping in Saleen’s pocket.

Tourmaline could enter the goddess’ necklace too, but the Lightning Dragons had occupied the space inside. As Tourmaline was still too weak, it might be devoured by the Lightning Dragons after entering the necklace.

Without any disturbances from any magic beast, everyone decided to rest beside the river to fully recharge themselves. Thereafter, they would continue the journey, striding towards the gates of this space.

As the goddess’ envoys had left and the magic beasts hadn’t grown up yet, Saleen and the rest had an easy life. The expedition this time round was the smoothest one ever since Saleen became a mage. If he wanted to enter this temple in the future, there would be much trouble. The magic beasts in the temple would continue to evolve, deriving new races, before finally dominating the entire space.

By then, there would definitely be grade-9 magic beasts, the intelligence of these creatures would also be greatly increased. In order for the temple to accommodate humans and allow the believers to occupy this space, all the gods born in this space would have to be extirpated.

This matter should be accomplished early. If Saleen waited for a few hundred years, all the gods might have been awakened already. After a god was birthed, they would usually hibernate for some time. This period was very brief, measuring about one-hundred years. Saleen had to exterminate all of them before they awaken, otherwise he would have to face a group of beings who possessed the abilities of a demigod.

If Saleen waited for one-thousand years, these gods would possess complete divine powers. By then, Saleen could only dream of killing them already.

Even though he knew the progression of things, Saleen still had to act systematically. The moment the team reached the exit of the temple, everyone felt relieved. The Purgatory Desert might be dangerous, but as long as they avoided the sandstorms, they could still exit it swiftly by utilizing the advantage of their equipment.

Outside the Purgatory Desert, the army from the Holy See awaiting Lex’s return had long been withdrawn. There was no information for six months, so everyone thought that Lex had died in the desert. Such a thought was very normal as no one knew that Lex had brought along a vast amount of resources. On this expedition, the amount of materials depleted by Lex and Saleen was sufficient to form a one-hundred-thousand man army already.

If it was not for that small error which resulted in the deaths of two grade-5 mages, Lex would have created a miracle.

Of course, the creation of this miracle was not totally unrelated to the escape of the Dark Sky Devil and the goddess’ envoys leaving the temple. If Lex ran into the Dark Sky Devil, she would have no choice but to use the God’s Ring to flee. It would be hard to say how many people she could escape with, not to mention entering the temple and facing the two envoys.

The team managed to avoid a dozen sandstorms before finally making it out of the desert with much difficulty. They then arrived at the eastern region of the Purgatory Desert, a canyon-shaped exit. This was the border shared by Loulan and Titan Duchy. Actually, there were more than four-thousand soldiers from the inquisition, however, the Holy See had deployed all the main forces to Qin’s borders due to the collapse of Loulan.

Only about a hundred of the Holy See’s knights were stationed at the canyon-shaped exit, there wasn’t even a holy master around.

Lex and company charged out of the canyon, and in less than half an hour, they had slaughtered all these knights. Lex’s horse carried on sprinting, dashing for more than one-hundred miles. After finally exiting the region of the Purgatory Desert, she immediately built a teleportation portal.

This group of thirty-two people required the portal to be used eight times, it was not possible to build a one-time teleportation portal. This teleportation portal could not be left behind either, otherwise people from the Holy See could use it to infiltrate Metatrin City.

After using this teleportation portal, they still had to destroy it. It was really prodigal, but there was no other way. One could not assign people to watch over a teleportation portal twenty-four hours a day, thus a teleportation portal was never built between two cities belonging to different nations, even if this portal could only transport one person.

During wartime, a one-man magic array could lead to massive trouble too. Just take Bain for example, if an assassin like him had entered the enemy’s city to kill the commanders, even a grade-8 sorcerer would find it hard to capture him.

In order to ensure the safety of a city, one had to fulfill two criterions. Firstly, the coordinates of their teleportation portal could not be leaked. Secondly, one should never build a teleportation portal between two cities.

If the coordinates got exposed, and the enemy possessed powerful mages, the enemy would be able to identify the loopholes and create a special portal, then they would try various means to send their experts into the city. This was much simpler than using flying magic to get over the city walls. No expert could ever fly over the Holy Rock City’s city walls, not even a grade-9 sorcerer.

The production of a restricted airspace wasn’t difficult at all, it consumed more resources, but it was the nightmare for every person who could fly. As a result, in most invasions, mages weren’t willing to fly above the enemy’s city to mount an offensive. If they reached a high altitude and lost their flying ability, they would fall to their deaths. If they flew too low, they would be shot by the heavy alchemical crossbows, even a grade-9 sorcerer would be vexed.

Hence, the most reliable method to invade a city would be to use the normal soldiers to scale the walls, while the mages who could fly would strike fear into the enemy from afar. When the enemy activated a restricted airspace, it was detrimental to one’s own defenses too. Only lifeless things could fly in the skies above both parties, like a flying puppet. Or a magic beast who used its own flesh to fly.

In this case, a magic beast had to have wings, its flying ability could not be dependent on the control of elements.

A teleportation portal with over fifty yards in diameter was established. Thousands of magic lines were carved into this colossal portal, this figure was equivalent to that after connecting dozens of magic arrays together. At the same time, a miniature magic array was built. This magic array couldn’t transport life, it could only transport small items.

Lex contacted Metatrin City, obtaining the accurate coordinates of the teleportation portal. In a day, the large teleportation portal was then fully built. At this moment, Saleen then realized that he had to deplete an extra thirty over intermediate level magic nucleuses atop of the eight high level magic nucleuses for each trip in order to ensure the stability of the portal,.

Previously, Viscount Gugger had used magic nucleuses to bribe Saleen, he had only given Saleen five-thousand gold coins and ten level-3 magic nucleuses. However, this time round, the value of magic nucleuses Saleen would deplete could no longer be calculated in terms of gold coins anymore.

The first few people to be sent back were Sika, Eleanor and the two Silver Grand Swordmasters. This team was very powerful. Even if there were any unforeseen circumstances on the other side of the portal, the four of them would be able to hold the fort for a while given their abilities.

After experiencing a moment of dizziness, Sika had appeared in a large teleportation portal in Metatrin City. The magic light had not been dispersed yet, the four of them were definitely safe. They were in a sealed hall, where soldiers were standing guard all around the teleportation portal. There were also several metal houses in the hall, each of them had a fully metal structure with a few holes for shooting. If the people inside wanted to leave, they would have to walk through an underground passageway.

“Daniel, you are looking great!” Sika waited for the vibrations from the magic array to cease completely before walking towards Daniel, who was standing outside the magic array. Daniel looked refreshed and his face was flushed, he did not even look like a death mage at all. He was extremely exhilarated that Saleen was going to return. He had stopped everything he was doing and led his most trusted soldiers to welcome Saleen personally.

The Daniel of today controlled thousands of soldiers, the mages from the Sreeger Island were also under his purview. Throughout this one year of cultivation, his demeanor had transformed into that of an important figure already.