Badge in Azure

After putting away the red flame magic bugs, Nailisi was bored while waiting for the ten-thousand demons to enter the twelve Notes of Purgatory. When they had finally all entered, that was when she put away the equipment, bade farewell to the four magic beast swordsmen, and flew back to Metatrin City.

The coordinates between Metatrin City and Bitter Water Prefecture were accurate, so it only took two or three days to build a teleportation portal. There were many mages on both sides, and there were also plenty of resources. Once the decision to build a large teleportation portal had been made, both cities began to get busy simultaneously.

At the same time, Nailisi kept herself in the temple and entered the twelve Notes of the Purgatory to train the demons there. The demons’ lack of intelligence might not be such a bad thing after all. A normal creature’s mental state would have been subjected to a lot of pressure upon entering the Purgatory of Darkness. The demons barely knew what was going on except in battle, so they were not badly affected.

Nailisi only repaired the Purgatory of Darkness, which was not too small for containing the ten-thousand demons. Night vision was a skill that all demons possessed, otherwise they would not be able to survive in the demon dimension. Nevertheless, the Purgatory of Darkness was slightly unique and different. The demons’ vision was still severely weakened.

Sika had also prepared her treasures for Nailisi to choose from. Nailisi was about to set off on an expedition, so the items she chose must be suitable for battling against the Holy See.

Nailisi looked through the items but did not find anything suitable. Sika’s treasures were all given to her by Saleen, and they mostly consisted of valuable gemstones, ores, magic nuclei, materials that Nailisi did not recognize, and some weapons that ordinary people would not be able to wield. Although Sika possessed powerful mental strength, she was unable to use scrolls, so there were none of those amongst her treasures.

Nailisi had planned to choose two rare scrolls, but after looking through Sika’s items, she did not know whether to laugh or cry. The items were very valuable, but Nailisi did not lack gold coins.

There was a lance that was almost thirty yards long, bronze in color, and did not have any designs on it. After testing how strong it was, she felt that it would not break even if she used it to kill a giant dragon, so she took the bronze lance. She would be able to use the weapon when she was in her devil form.

Then, Nailisi chose a set of magic stone artillery that was refined from metallic steel rocks. This magic stone artillery was less than five yards long but was heavier than ten-thousand pounds. Nailisi would only be able to carry it when she was in her devil form.

The magic stone artillery was quite interesting as it was a failed product of alchemy.

Its range was eight miles, and the damage it could cause was four to five times that of an ordinary magic stone artillery. The cooldown of the magic array was only half a minute. If a few hundred sets of the magic stone artillery were to be placed on top of the city wall, the majority of the enemy armies would be blasted to death. That included the enemy’s war puppets, magic warriors, and some large magic beasts.

The problem was that that type of weapon used high-level magic nuclei and it cost more than two-hundred-thousand gold coins to build one. The cost of maintenance was more than ten-thousand gold coins per session. Just based on its attacking abilities on a single target, this type of magic stone artillery was not as good as scrolls or heavy alchemy crossbows.

Heavy alchemy crossbows were fatal even for grade-8 mages if one was fortunate enough to land a hit on them. As for this type of magic stone artillery, it posed little threat to sorcerers. Even if its accuracy was high, it would not be part of an army’s equipment.

Yet Nailisi was still very fond of the stone artillery. She had broken pieces of dragonshards, so she was not concerned about the usage of high-level magic nuclei. Instead of shooting once every half a minute, she could also change it to shooting once every six seconds, at the expense of causing lower damage and at a lower range of about a mile. She had no intentions of using the stone artillery for shooting long ranges. If she used it for close-range attacks, by shooting with even the weakest type of magic array, it would be able to kill most mages and perhaps even sorcerers.

Magic stone artilleries usually used up a lot of energy, but it was still a very powerful weapon when shot within tens of yards.

“I will take this!” Nailisi pointed at the magic stone artillery and said to Sika, “Sister Sika, please ask all the alchemy factories to focus on creating magic stone shells after I leave.”

“This… is quite useless, right?” Sika was confused.

Nailisi smiled and replied, “Sister Sika, just listen to me. This time around, the enemy is the Holy See. You know how scary they are. I have thought of a solution that will be able to deal with those disciples that do not fear death.”

Sika thought to herself, “Since you like it so much, what more can I say?” Saleen did not intend for her to let the items go to waste when he put them under her care. Nailisi wanting this item was better than taking away a bunch of magic nuclei.

The teleportation portal was completed within three days, and Nailisi led the demons to Bitter Water Prefecture. Six grade-8 magic nuclei were used up and were now useless except for being used as ornaments.

Bitter Water Prefecture also used up six grade-8 magic nuclei in order to teleport Nailisi over. Not even the combination of Metatrin City and Alchemy City would have been able to handle the number of magic nuclei if they had wanted to teleport thousands of soldiers and horses.

When the people in Bitter Water Prefecture saw only Nailisi appear, they were a little disappointed. They had used up six grade-8 magic nuclei just to teleport a small and frail woman over. The mages around Lex that were familiar with Nailisi had all gone to Daliang City, so those that were looking after the teleportation portal did not recognize her and their expressions were less than pleased.

The teleportation portal was built within the magic tower in the Princess’ mansion, and the eighth story was where Lex’s teachers stayed. When Nailisi saw the expressions on the mages’ faces, she was irked, but she still gave her thanks before jumping out of the magic tower.

This was the seventh story of a magic tower. Typically, each story of a magic tower was six yards tall, and the entire tower was about forty yards tall. If one did not know how to fly, even high-level swordmasters would fall to their deaths. Nailisi managed to land gently on the ground, leaving the mages by the window staring in awe and shock. This was because Nailisi had begun to transform after she landed. In the blink of an eye, she had transformed into a devil that was more than twenty-yards tall and began to spread her wings to fly.

There were no magic arrays between Bitter Water Prefecture and Daliang City to teleport people as they would not be used unless during situations of great urgency.

Nailisi flew off while the mages continued to look on in shock. The demon armies were about to reveal themselves to humans, so she did not care that Lex’s people knew about her identity now.

The twelve Notes of Purgatory was not a suitable place for creatures to live in even if Nailisi did not launch any attacks. Nailisi did not wish to waste any time and flew straight to Daliang City.

It was already the fourth of April. Saleen and Lex’s wedding was in six days’ time. Nailisi had to reach Sanlian City by the eighth.

When Nailisi reached Daliang City, she descended a distance away as she did not wish to be shot by the arrow towers in Daliang City. Although devils were not afraid of ordinary weapons, the arrow towers of a city like Daliang City would definitely have heavy alchemy crossbows.

Although Daliang City was heavily guarded, the east city gate remained open. Someone was already there, waiting to welcome Nailisi. When the soldiers on sentry duties saw that even the palace mages had arrived, they could not help but salute Nailisi.

It was spring. The long green dress that Nailisi wore was flowing in the breeze as she floated past the soldiers without a sound.

When Nailisi was no longer within sight, the soldiers chattered, “Which important person was that?!”

“Even the mages came to welcome her!”

“And two-hundred palace swordmasters!”

“Stop gossiping. Make sure you carry out your sentry duties properly. It’s not easy to become part of the main army. If we have any disciplinary issues, we will no longer have the chance to serve.” The low-level officer in charge of guarding the city gate reprimanded the soldiers before they finally stopped.

Nailisi was brought to Lex’s magic tower in the palace of Daliang City. Now, Lex and Eleanor were staying in the magic tower while the small building was given to Saleen. Saleen was very fond of the small building. Although it did not possess the thick elemental power of the magic tower, there was an energy that he could not quite place.

The energy was weak, but continuous. It was only present around the small building and could not be felt in the magic tower that was tens of yards away. As Saleen had learned some abilities of rules, he was very sensitive towards any types of energies, and this allowed him to discover that secret.

Daliang City was an ancient city that belonged to a royal family during the beginning of the fourth dynasty. The small building was probably originally used for stargazing. Perhaps, the energy was something that only astrologers could control.

Saleen’s soul was able to detect Nailisi’s arrival, so he knew of her presence even before she entered the city.

When Saleen came to the magic tower and saw the disappointed expression on Lex’s face, he could not help but laugh and said, “Lex, Nailisi will not disappoint you. This time, she has brought along an army of demons. Although there are only ten-thousand of them, it is enough to hurt the Tanggulasis severely.”

“Ten-thousand demons?!” Lex was unaware of the plan. Even though she had already advanced into a sorcerer, she was still shocked to hear of so many demons.

It had always been very difficult to gauge the combat abilities of demons. An ordinary demon’s attacking abilities might only be comparable that of a human swordmaster of middle-level, but its endurance and explosiveness might surpass that of the same swordmaster. Demons possessed powerful life strength that was on par with spirits of the dead.

Demons could survive no matter how harsh the conditions were. This was because the environment in the demon dimension was already extremely harsh and the places that were most habitable had already been occupied by devils and supreme demons. Even those places were considered barren when compared to the Myers Mainland.

“Princess, in order to maintain the element of surprise, I will bring the demons to Sanlian City directly. I would like to ask you to give these ten-thousand demons badges, otherwise, the people of Sanlian City will be shocked to death.”

Nailisi thought to herself, “Marriage doesn’t mean anything. Humans’ marriages are not as firm as those of demons’.” By asking Lex to issue badges to Nailisi’s demon army, Lex would not be able to steer herself clear of the growing of demons in the future. If someone were to attack Saleen based on this point, Lex would have to involve herself as well.

Even if Lex knew that the humans of the Mainland were not fond of demons, she had no choice but to use Nailisi’s army. Sanlian City was simply too important. She did not think the same way as Nailisi. If someone were to attack Saleen over this, she would have stood by him without any hesitation anyway.

They were just demons after all. If they could emerge victorious across the entire Mainland, what issue was there even if they used creatures of darkness?

“Alright, Nailisi, you can rest here first while I ask someone to prepare the badges and mages. Can your army… be inspected?”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Nailisi gave a slight bow and was secretly pleased. From then on, her demon army would always be linked to the Grukos royal family. By the time humans could gradually accept this army, more and more of Nailisi’s demons would appear on the Mainland.