"What about me, Salin?" Eleanor hadn't received Salin's arrangement, and she was a little puzzled.
"You and Qin Yin, wait for my order. Attack whoever I tell you to. Don't expose your strength," Salin instructed, then left the floating city with Zola and Nicholas. Beside him were four level-ten Mages, who had been subdued from the Devil's Horn.
Salin brought ten thousand insect angel warriors, ten thousand star puppets, and ten thousand demons to a fortress in the east of Plateau City. This small fortress couldn't accommodate thirty thousand soldiers. However, Salin wasn't worried. He summoned Lightning Stars and the elemental creatures in the Elemental Badge, and began to build a larger fortress.
The building materials were ready-made. Before coming, Salin had already expected that Faka wouldn't set up too many lines of defense. He had to rely on himself. Faka wasn't like him, who had equipment like Lightning Stars. Hundreds of thousands of lightning warriors were all extremely powerful and could build standard magic fortifications at any time.
A one kilometer wide fortification was built. This one kilometer wide fortification had a depth of more than three hundred meters. In front of Salin's fortification was a ten-meter-thick stone wall. Behind the stone wall was a metal tower. On both sides were four ten-story Magic Towers, and behind it was a diamond-shaped fortress.
There was nothing special about this line of defense. If it weren't for the fact that there were two underground levels where soldiers could be hidden, this would be Qin Yin's most common defense facility.
It was just an ordinary defense, and on both sides were six-story Magic Towers, not ten-story ones.
Salin's arrangement also had a deeper meaning. Because the Vatican's soldiers wouldn't react well after seeing a ten-story Magic Tower. Although they were fighting against demons, this was also a serious act of blasphemy.
Faka definitely wouldn't protest and let Salin reduce the number of floors of the Magic Tower. After this matter was over, the news of Faka and the blasphemers working together could no longer be hidden. At that time, Faka wouldn't have any room to maneuver.
Salin wasn't stupid enough to let Faka do whatever he wanted. He had his own ideas, and his identity as the Iron Blood Duke naturally couldn't be hidden. However, Faka also gathered some people to help. He didn't ask. Both sides guarded two directions, as long as the demons didn't attack Plateau City.
Plateau City lived up to its name. It was built on a high ground. It produced medicinal herbs and a rare type of tree that could be used to refine magic staffs. These were low-grade resources, so there hadn't been any experts guarding the city. When Faka came, he took over the city and evacuated the people, turning it into a suitable battlefield.
Although the gods were hypocritical, they would always let their believers do this kind of superficial work meticulously. Faka was going to become a god himself, so he would do his best to protect ordinary humans.
There were no ordinary residents within five hundred miles of Highland City. The rest of them were retired soldiers or professionals with combat abilities.
Of the five hundred li battlefield, the crucial point was the one hundred li in the center.
After Sarin finished setting up the defensive line, he began to distribute the Stone Statue Army that he had personally refined to the mages.
The Stone Golem Army was not as strong as the Elemental Stone Golem Army, but this kind of composite summoning magic did not consume much of the mage's Spiritual Power.
The next day after the defense line was set up, the people at the front had almost retreated. That was Faka's power. Then, Salin's floating city began to take over the defense.
East of Plateau City, the 60,000 Insect Angels and the 50,000 Devil Legion were lined up, waiting in formation.
In the center of Plateau City, devils would charge out of the huge spatial passage from time to time. These devils were first attacked by the surrounding fortresses. By the time the devils found a way out and rushed out of the encirclement, more than 60% of them had been lost. This was the moment when the Insect Angels launched their attack.
The floating city was too low. After the devils rushed out, they could not fly high, so they could only break through on land. This way, the pressure on the fortresses was reduced by more than half. In the blink of an eye, the spatial passage expanded to about five hundred meters in diameter. More and more powerful devils appeared, and the soldiers and mages in the fortresses still maintained vigorous combat power.
It was the magic cores that Faka had purchased from Salin that played a role. Faka used divine crystals to exchange for low-quality magic cores with high-quality materials, and the number of magic cores he could exchange for was enormous. This way, the mages could continue fighting for a longer time.
The quality of the magic cores was about the same for mages, unless they were used on magic arrays. The main function of divine crystals was to restore mental power, or they could be used on magic arrays and equipment. Ordinary mages could not use them to restore magic strings.
On the third day of the new year, there were already level-nine devils appearing in the five-hundred-meter-wide spatial passage. At this time, the mages in the fortresses no longer dared to attack wantonly. They only let the fortresses protect themselves, lest the devils move too fast.
The creatures of this plane of devils were all extremely ferocious. They were not as big as the devils, and most of them were more than two meters tall. Only devils above level-six began to have clothes, armor, and weapons.
Most of the devils could fly, and their hideous faces seemed to be coagulated with thousands of years of blood that had never been washed. A fishy smell filled the air, and the mages' Cleaning spells were useless.
But as soon as a devil flew up, the floating city in the sky would immediately launch an attack. Chain spells poured in front of the spatial passage as if they were free, and most of the devils were killed before they could see clearly what the Myers Continent looked like.
But there were still thousands of devils rushing out of the fortresses and entering the city.
Because of the terrain, this highland city was built extremely large, but there were not many places for people to live. Now, those tall hills and boulders had all become garrisons for the army.
The insect angel warriors could fly, and the devils besieged them on the ground. The battle situation was much more intense than Salin had imagined.
Salin stayed in the rear and did not participate in the battle. Every day, he calculated the combat power of these devils and the casualties of his army. With all kinds of high-level armor, Salin's army had very few casualties, less than a hundred a day. But it was very common for the army to be injured. The devil's nails were sharper than magic sabers, and the insect angel armor could not withstand a few attacks and was about to break.
In this situation, it was a battle of wealth. The magic cores left in the insect angel armor could repair the armor. Every day, Salin had the insect angel warriors and devils change defense. About eight hours, he would withdraw 10,000 people and replace them with 10,000 people. The 10,000 people who were withdrawn had more than a hundred basic armor damaged, and the number of magic cores consumed had exceeded that of any of Salin's previous battles.
Although the devils had been unable to break through the siege, Salin knew that this was just the beginning.
When the level-ten devils appeared, his defense line would really begin to bear the test.
"My Lord, there seems to be no end to this killing." Zola was constantly paying attention to Salin's magic array. There were many images in the array, all of which were scenes of Salin's warriors fighting against the devils.
"What do you want?"
"This devil's body is also a very good alchemy material. Don't we already have the mercenary system? We can use magic cores to buy devil corpses, and the pressure will be much less. "
"The matter of the abyssal creatures has not been resolved …"
"Go to Qinyin and issue a mission. We won't lose money anyway," Zola reminded Salin. Qinyin was in the south. Apart from Pang Peicheng, no other place had encountered the flames of war. There were many mages in the south, and there were many professionals as well. Most of them could not even find anyone to recruit them, and their lives were ordinary. If there was a high-income battle, it would definitely attract many idle professionals. This number would easily exceed a hundred thousand.
"Forget it, I don't want to give this benefit to others."
Salin thought about Zola's words. He felt that although the soldiers he brought were few, they were all elites. Those who died were all soldiers who were inadequately trained. They were here to train, and those who could survive would have a bright future.
Imps, demons, and these creatures from the Demonic Plane would only form a cohesive force after following him to fight. Only then would they treat him as a true master and master.
When the experts from the Demonic Plane appeared, Salin would not let the insect angels and demons charge. He would personally lead the professionals to fight and see how powerful the Demonic Plane was. With the floating city, he could advance and retreat at will.
"Nicholas, how's the battle on Faka's side?"
"There's no danger yet. The devils … are just large in number now. The fortress group built by Faka is mainly to slow down the speed and number of devils surging out. It's very successful. The army on the periphery is enough to destroy the devils that rush out. The floating city's function is to prevent the devils from flying. "
"It seems that Faka has long planned this. Without the floating city, this kind of battle wouldn't work. What about the Iron Blood Grand Duke?"
This question was directed at Zola.
"There are no signs of danger. Master, this invasion from the Demonic Plane is a bit too …" Zola didn't know what to say.
Salin nodded. "It's too weak. It shouldn't make Faka so nervous. But Zola, this spatial passage was sealed by Faka with divine spells. Normally, it's a huge energy vortex with a diameter of more than a mile. Only the advanced Mages can see the speed at which those devils are rushing out. "
Salin judged the situation here. Outside the spatial passage, the entire ground was already soaked in blood.
The rhythm of the devils' language was extremely fast, and the communication between them was like sharp howls. This sound was extremely ear-piercing. With the floating city in the sky pressing down, the entire battle area was dark and terrifying. There were corpses everywhere, and these corpses were still rapidly decaying. Poisonous insects grew out of the corpses and flew everywhere.
"Myers Continent! Why hasn't the passage been opened yet! "
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