Badge in Azure

On the eighth story of the magic tower, a person was now beside Lex.

This person was Bain, who had not appeared for a long time. Bain looked much older now. His hair was trimmed short and was completely white.

“Princess, I have returned.”

“How is your daughter?” Lex asked with concern.

“Everything has been arranged. Your teacher is willing to teach her magic.” Bain was a little emotional. Although Lex’s teacher was not a grade-99 sorcerer, his abilities were almost on par with one and he was also the most powerful mage in Bitter Water Prefecture. Bain was more than content for his daughter to become his student.

“Bain, I need your help now.” Lex remained seated and her tone was solemn.

Bain smiled and said, “Princess, I do not have too long to live even without this task. Being an assassin is a helpless thing, but I am fortunate enough to be able to follow you, so I have lived a peaceful life thus far. I will go and gather the people you need to complete the task you have in mind. Princess, please give the order.”

Bain’s expression became serious after what he said.

“Bain, the Tanggulasi Empire made use of their envoy to initiate this assassination attempt. I’m sure you saw it when you entered the city?”

“Yes, Princess. I came too late.”

“Not at all. The assassination attempt was horrifying and I count myself lucky to still be sitting here. Bain, although you are an assassin, you should know that assassinations should not be carried out like that. The Tanggulasi Empire has gone too far. I have decided to reciprocate in kind.”

“Princess, what do you hope to achieve?” Bain went straight to the objective of the task.

“I want the heads of at least twelve high priests of red Bishop level. You can kill them in any way you want. Also, I want at least a hundred members of Tanggulasi noble families to accompany them in their deaths.”

“A Bloody Impact? Princess…”

“I understand that assassinating a large number of noble families is not allowed,” Lex said coldly, “But the people of the Tanggulasi Empire must pay a heavy price for what they have done. You can do whatever you wish. I will not set any moral boundaries.”

“What about the city?”

“You need not worry about the things in the city. Bloody Impact must come to fruition as soon as possible. Do you need any reinforcement?”

“I need some poison that can only be refined by His Highness, Saleen, and his water flame technique,” Bain replied calmly. He might not be able to return again after leaving Lex this time. It would not be an easy task assassinating high priests of the level of red Bishop.

In Tanggulasi, high priests of that level always traveled in groups, which was why assassins had a low chance of success in such scenarios.

Nevertheless, Lex had allowed him to do complete the task in any way he wished, so that made things simpler. He would kill the noble families first, then the high priests, and most likely many innocent people would also be embroiled into it.

Lex did not even give him a list of names. She only gave him numbers, so that showed that she was upset beyond her usual tolerance level.

“Don’t you need any other help?”

“Princess, no. I have one-hundred and six assassins under me, so there is enough help to complete this task.”

“I don’t know if they will be able to come back alive, but you, on the other hand, must.” Lex was very serious. She took out a gray dagger and handed it to Bain.

Bain took the dagger, then Lex took out a leather armor and said to him, “This was given to me by Saleen. I think it will suit you.”

This was a seamless leather armor and it was covered with magic patterns. There was an aura of sorrow emitting from the thick and solid leather armor. Bain took the armor and realized how light it was. It was as if he was just holding onto a piece of paper.

“This was previously worn by a grade-10 assassin. Saleen and I had conducted experiments on it. Middle-level spells and divine spells will have no effects on this armor,” Lex explained to Bain.

“Princess!”

“Only by wearing this will you have a chance of coming back alive. I don’t want Adela to be disappointed. You…” Lex did not continue. She knew that this was the most dangerous task that Bain had ever undertaken. Only by wearing the armor would he have a chance of coming back alive.

That was only a chance.

This was almost a suicide mission and Bain would definitely complete it thoroughly.

A Bloody Impact was commonly seen about a thousand years ago. It involved a noble family taking their revenge on another noble family by any means necessary and one of its trademark was that a hundred of the noble family’s relatives would also be killed.

Lex never imagined that she would one day resort to it. The Holy See’s assassination attempt made her realize that she would be their target no matter where she was. She would not be safe even if she was in her own city.

She could not tolerate this, so she decided to use an extreme tactic. She would make the Tanggulasi Empire bleed until they were cowering in fear.

Even if Bain succeeded, she still planned to launch her next wave of attack against the Holy See. She had no intentions of sticking to conventional tactics. When the Sregl Island mages arrived, thirty-six sorcerers would open up the Hell of God’s Punishment and she would quickly become a grade-9 sorcerer. By then, she would be able to use up to ten percent of the God’s Ring and would no longer have to worry about such things.

The night was clear and without any clouds. Giant magic beasts appeared in the sky. They were more than ten yards long and were carrying Cloudflow soldiers on their backs. They flew beyond the attack range of the arrow tower and over the city wall. Then, the soldiers tossed down burning leather skins from the backs of the magic beasts.

Saleen walked out of the magic tower and touched his clan badge. He could use it to attack again after it had absorbed the power of the heavenly angel.

Although the Holy See did not succeed in their assassination, they did succeed in spoiling their wedding night. Saleen could not do the same as Lex as he did not have so many assassins under his command. His goal was to kill one of the strongest Cloudflow opponents.

Someone must pay the price for destroying his house.

Saleen hid his true intentions. Fog began to rise around him and within two frames of time, he flew up into the sky. Now, he could ignore any difference in grades. He was confident of killing even grade-9 sorcerers.

The thick fog expanded to an area of one-hundred and fifty yards. Saleen’s control over water elements had become better. More than a hundred hurricanes spun around Saleen and within the range of the Quickcloud spell, pushed him forward. Within the blink of an eye, he was already up in the sky and searching for the magic beasts that were tossing down fire oil.

The tactic of using magic beasts to set fire in Daliang City was an annoying one. A bag of fire oil was worth little, yet could damage a number of buildings in the city.

On a night without any clouds, the magic beasts and sorcerers dared to fly above a thousand yards in the sky. Ever since Stephanie left the eighth story of the magic tower, the anti-flying zone in the city had shrunk and a height of more than a thousand yards beyond the zone.

By right, it was dangerous for Saleen to fly up on his own, but with his clan badge, he could easily take on two powerful opponents and still manage to escape. His flying speed was incredibly fast. If not for the fact that the angel was purely a body of energy and its speed could never be matched by humans, Saleen would not have needed the protection of Lex.

The Quickcloud spell was a spell that Saleen invented and its speed had already surpassed that of a grade-8 sorcerer. Lex would not have been able to match its speed.

Saleen found his first target very quickly. He controlled the fog and flew closer to the magic beast.

This was a huge beast with a twelve yard long pair of wings. It was still extremely valuable even though it was only grade-3. Due to the huge loss of resources, Cloudflow had no choice but to utilize the flying magic beasts on their combat vessels to attack Daliang City. Such a big magic beast was able to carry more than two soldiers along with a large amount of fire oil.

The magic beast was sharp enough to sense Saleen’s arrival, even though all it saw was a cluster of fog.

The magic beast made a strange noise which even the two Cloudflow soldiers on its back found strange. They looked around, but found no enemies.

They sensed danger from the fog that was approaching them so they took control of the magic beast to try and steer themselves away. Saleen’s fog managed to make a sharp turn and enclosed the entire flying magic beast completely.

The hurricanes in the fog began to produce snowflakes. These snowflakes were sharper than knives and by spinning so quickly with the hurricanes, the flying magic beast was instantaneously slashed into hundreds of pieces.

Blood poured down like rain.

At that moment, Saleen could appreciate the adrenaline rush of holding so much power. A grade-3 magic beast and two warriors of the level of swordmaster were helpless against his magic. Those two swordmasters had even brought along mini alchemy crossbows, but they were unable to aim at Saleen accurately. Only sorcerers of grade-8 and above would be able to determine his position within the fog.

Saleen opened his elemental eyes and was able to see everything within one-hundred miles. There were more than thirty gigantic flying magic beasts on top of Daliang City and they were tossing fire oil continuously. Without any hesitation, Saleen pounced at the nearest target. This time, he unleashed more than twenty wind blades two-hundred yards beyond the fog.

The transformation of elements evaporated water elements to form wind blades. The number of wind blades produced was ten times more than what ordinary mages could produce.

At three-hundred yards away, the second flying magic beast was shredded into pieces and the soldiers on its back screamed as they fell towards the ground.

The Cloudflows did not dare to fly at a lower height. This must mean that someone was looking out for the safety of the flying magic beasts. Saleen did not manage to detect any targets with his elemental eyes, which meant that his person was of a much higher grade than him.

More than ten fire crows were unleashed at the next target. The fire crows were even hotter than the Fireball spell. They burned into the flying magic beast’s body, leaving behind huge charred holes.

Saleen did not kill the soldiers on the flying magic beasts. He decided to let them fall to their deaths so that he could conserve his magic chords.

The fourth! Saleen controlled his fog and approached the fourth flying magic beast. This time, he unleashed a cluster of ice bombs. In fact, these ice bombs already carried the power of ground elements, so they were harder than ordinary water element ice spells.

The flying magic beast was punctured with hundreds of small holes in the air and blood filled the sky.

“Still not willing to come out?” Saleen smiled coldly and flew towards his fifth target. He refused to believe that this massacre would not lure out the enemy’s attack.