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Raphael wanted to stir up Salin's emotions and understand more about this human. Salin's blue eyes didn't waver at all. He just smiled and didn't reply.
"Alright, the weapons that Raphael wants will be available in three days. We'll arrive at our destination in about a week. During this time, report everything that you need to me. Although we have the floating city to rely on for this battle, there are too many devils that can fly, so we won't have time to rest. All the resources that we need will be reported to me at three times the amount that we need."
Salin's words were not aimed at his followers. Every single one of his followers was extremely wealthy. This time, Salin also brought a few 10th-rank Magisters. They were distributed to various corners of the floating city as a means of defense.
There were also magic towers on the floating city. These 10th-rank Magisters could fill in the gaps in the defense when there was a gap in the Weave. Usually, these Magisters were in charge of local defense. Their subordinates were arranged by Salin.
The Magisters calculated the consumption of this battle according to Salin's requirements and reported the numbers to Salin. After seeing it, Salin also felt that the consumption of wealth in war was too great.
And it was meaningless.
In mid-December, Salin's floating city arrived at the border of Jialoulan and met up with the Ironblood Duke's army.
The Ironblood Duke's army had gathered a total of two hundred thousand people. Evidently, the Ironblood Duke didn't want his main force to be wasted here. Of these two hundred thousand people, only fifty thousand were Dragonblood Warriors. Although the remaining one hundred and fifty thousand were elites, they were the Duke's forces in the Cloud Flow Empire and not from Dragon Island.
Inbos also returned. Seeing Inbos again, Salin felt that Inbos' soul was much calmer than before. There was no restlessness that made his heart palpitate. It seemed that the problem of Inbos' soul was temporarily suppressed, and even showed signs of improvement. Salin used astrology to predict that Inbos wouldn't have any major problems for at least three to five years.
The floating city was huge, and it wouldn't be a problem to carry soldiers. Moreover, the number of devils living in Neris' Demon Purgatory was increasing. It was like a small half-plane.
The laws of the Demonic Plane were present in this purgatory. The laws of the Demonic Plane were also present in this purgatory.
Continental brought the Iron Blood Grand Duke's army and the Duke's Mages to Highland City at the end of December. All the residents of Plateau City had been evacuated, leaving behind only countless believers.
The appearance of Plateau City had changed. In the center of the city, a coordinate point was surrounded by more than ten fortresses. These fortresses were equipped with a large number of weapons. Salin was surprised to see quite a few Mages.
These mages, on the other hand, were hired locally. They were either from the Rhine Duchy or Scottynya.
When Salin arrived, the mages of Faka did not panic. The floating city gradually descended and stopped at an altitude of only 500 meters. Faka personally came to the floating city to meet Salin. At this time, there were 12 strange knights behind him.
In Salin's opinion, these twelve knights were all level-nine, but they all had the fighting strength of a level-ten knight. That was because of their armor. Salin already had the Tainted Blood Armor, so he was no longer interested in this kind of higher grade armor. It was not that Faka was hiding anything from him. The Insect Angel Armor could be used everywhere. These armors under Faka were specially made for his believers.
Moreover, these believers were all loyal to Faka. There were probably some secrets about spiritual power and souls among them.
Even if Faka gave this kind of armor to Salin, he would not let his subordinates wear it. Maybe after wearing it, his subordinates would become Faka's believers. Mages were extremely sensitive to divine spells, so they were very cautious.
"Some demons have appeared, but most of them were killed. I caught some," Faka said. He directly grabbed a demon from his space and placed it in front of everyone.
As soon as the demon appeared, it roared and wanted to hurt people. However, there was a white divine power confinement on its body. The demon's movements would only cause the divine power to burn it.
The demon's roar turned into a scream. Salin casually used a Silence Barrier to seal off the demon's noise.
Without the Iron Blood Grand Duke by his side, he did not want to meet Faka. Only Salin and his followers were here, so Salin spoke much more casually.
"Faka, this thing's strength is probably only at level five, right?" Salin looked at the demon in confusion.
The demon did not wear any equipment. It was only covered in thin scales and had straight horns on its head. Its face was like an ordinary beast on the Myers Continent, but its hands and feet were very similar to humans.
"This is a lamb from the Devil's Plane. When the demons invade, they will first graze and let the lambs forage for food. When the demon army comes, these lambs will still be food," Faka explained.
Lambs had the strength of level five. Salin finally felt that Faka was not bluffing.
Lambs were just a metaphor, just like how tamed demons were food in the Devil's Plane. Tamed demons were also a type of demon, but their levels were relatively low.
"Faka, the space channel is still not completely opened. Are there many of these demons?"
"Almost a million have appeared. My army did not lose many people. They are all relying on large equipment. I have hired many mages. By the way, Salin, can you sell me some magic cores? "
"Sure. What level do you want?"
"Above level four, below level seven."
"Okay. Cost price." Salin did not waste time. He saw that there were many Magic Towers in those fortresses, and they were very close. This was the first front line of the demons' invasion. Although the mages were mercenaries, Salin did not want them to die before they could exert their strength. With enough Magic Cores, these mages would have a chance of surviving.
"Salin, thank you so much this time." Faka thanked him. Salin smiled and thought to himself, "Thank you too." My army needs training. Without training, how can we deal with more troublesome disasters in the future?
Salin brought a lot of people this time. 120,000 demons, 120,000 insect angels, and 120,000 manipulators.
The transaction between Faka and Salin didn't use gold coins, but divine crystals. Salin had a lot of divine crystals, but he would never complain about having too many. For mages, divine crystals were very pure things. They could be used as magic cores and could also be used to restore spiritual power.
After the transaction, Faka took out the map and discussed the defense with Salin.
Salin's floating city could provide support from above, but after the demons came out of the spatial passage, they would attack in all directions. The fortresses were not built very closely. The gaps in the middle were enough for more than half of the demons to escape.
There was nothing wrong with this. Instead, it would make the fortresses more useful. If the exits were blocked, the demons would desperately attack the fortresses until they were destroyed. If there were gaps, the demons would fight for the less dangerous paths.
Every creature had inertia, and the demons were no exception. The relatively easy breakthrough was always more attractive and more fatal.
"I'll guard the south and east. I don't want any demons to appear in Jia Loulan and Qin Yin," Salin said to Faka, pointing at two areas on the map.
"Okay. I'll have my people retreat in these two directions. Salin, I hope you can hold on this time."
Salin smiled. "Only the two of us? I think it's not the first time you've evacuated Plateau City. Hasn't anyone offered to help? "
"The bronze duke of Cloud Flow once said that he was willing to send 100,000 troops. The emperor of the Tanggulas Empire was also willing to send 200,000 troops. "
"You refused?"
"No, but their troops are still on the way."
"What about Scochenya?"
"Your Majesty, I can't afford a good price without appeal, so the nobles are not tempted."
Salin sighed. If the demons invaded the Myers Continent, Scochenya should be closer. At this time, the nobles of Scochenya still cared about the gains and losses of money. This country was rotten.
"Okay, Faka, this is a batch of war flags I made. If they are distributed to the army, there will be no accidental injuries. If your side can't hold on, I'll send people to support. If my side can't hold on … "
Faka took Salin's spatial equipment, put away the war flags, and said, "None of the people I gathered this time will retreat. The limit of our defense is 100 kilometers. "
"Radius or diameter?"
"Diameter," Faka answered solemnly. In other words, with the space channel as the origin, the battlefield was within a radius of 50 kilometers. If it exceeded this range, the interception would fail. At that time, it would be difficult to control the proliferation of demons on the Myers Continent.
Seeing Faka leave with the 12 knights, Nicholas said to Salin, "Those are the 12 Shrine Knights. Only the gods deserve to have them. Faka has indeed betrayed the gods. "
Such an important person like Faka betrayed the gods, but the gods didn't know? Salin vaguely understood that this spell card probably had some kind of special equipment that could hide it from the eyes of the gods.
The gods wouldn't care about the billions of ordinary believers, but they would spare a little time to look at the leaders of the evangelists in each plane occasionally.
Faka's position in the Vatican was very high, and the number of believers who were willing to follow him was abnormally large. The gods wouldn't be indifferent to such an important person.
"Whatever, set up the defense first. Wing Skeleton, don't summon the undead this time. Use your undead army for the last. "
"Yes, Master."
"Nelis, follow Faka and control the Alchemy City with Lawson."
"Yes, Master."
"Nicholas, you and Zola follow me with the Star Doll. We'll set up the defense here. The others act according to the plan."
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