"It's really starting!" Salin was also monitoring the central fortresses. When he saw the silver-armored devils rushing out and destroying the fortresses, Salin immediately ordered his soldiers to split up and use long-range attacks to deal with these devils. They weren't to forcefully stop them.
The floating city in the sky also began to attack the ground with level-nine spells.
It seemed that Faka wanted to deal with him! Seeing that the devils were only heading east, Salin knew what Faka was thinking.
Trying to get his floating city? What a joke.
The floating city already had an artifact spirit. Salin still called it Dante to commemorate the big guy who had died. The artifact spirit was completely controlled by him, so it was impossible to seize the floating city. Even if he died, he would give the artifact spirit to Faka. The floating city still had a master.
Huge stones fell from the floating city. This time, they weren't attacking the devils. Instead, they piled up huge stones into stone walls inside the city. These stone walls were also irregular. Like a natural stone forest, they turned all the streets into twists and turns. There was no direct path outside.
Salin then ordered the soldiers to climb the high wall and prepare for battle.
There were a lot of devils, but Salin didn't see why they were afraid of death. Logically speaking, the more advanced an intelligent being was, the more afraid they were of death. For example, gods would spend their entire lives thinking about how to survive.
The armor created by these Devils was at least an Advanced piece of equipment. The lifeforms that could create Advanced pieces of equipment didn't have words, only symbols that could be comprehended through perception. When these symbols were cast on the armor, they could play the same role as runes or magic arrays.
These devils were even more primitive and stubborn than Caucasians.
It was also annoying that they weren't afraid of death. The devils in front had already rushed to the high wall. Only Nicholas and Zola were next to Salin, but he was very calm. He didn't have the previous sense of crisis.
Now, Salin didn't need anyone's protection.
There were four Magic Towers on both sides, and they didn't join in the attack. The ones attacking the devils were the elemental stone soldiers standing on the city walls. These elemental stone soldiers were summoned by Salin and used magic cannons to attack.
The magic cannons in Salin's hands were relatively powerful, and the firing rate was as high as twelve shots per minute, which meant that they could fire one shot every five seconds.
At this rate, the magic cannons wouldn't collapse even after three minutes of continuous firing.
The demons didn't know how to circle around the wall that was more than a kilometer wide. Instead, they directly attacked the front, and Salin's position happened to be the center of the demons' attack. In the sky, Manipulators were casting 9th-tier spells to cleanse the devils along the way. On the high walls, magic cannons were firing in three waves. Almost none of the devils were able to get too close. They were completely obliterated by the magic and energy blasts from 300 meters away.
Level-9 demons weren't easy to kill, but Salin's attack frequency was too frightening. There were ten thousand Manipulators in the sky dedicated to this task, and his magic cannons could sweep through a dozen or so demons with each shot.
The ten-meter-thick wall was only eight meters tall. This fortification did not look like a city wall at all, but more like a wide platform.
Salin did not make a move. His Elemental Eyes observed carefully, searching for the commander of the Devil Army. Then, he commanded the Elemental Stone Soldiers to deal with him. The leaders of the devils were all close to level-10 in strength. It was just that the attacks from the sky and the ground made it impossible for these level-10 devils to approach Salin's walls.
Such a battle scene was witnessed by the mages, and the shock in their hearts could not be any greater.
Salin's floating city was so powerful that even a level-9 Warrior could not destroy it. What they didn't know, however, was that to cast a level-9 spell, the floating city had to consume energy equivalent to a level-9 magic core.
Salin's Magic Furnace mostly used level-4 magic cores, and the highest was only level-6. To reach the energy level of a level-9 magic core, he had to accumulate them. Thousands of magic cores were thrown into the Magic Furnace to maintain the magic net of the floating city.
A level-9 magic core could only provide the magic net with the power to attack with twelve level-9 spells.
Now, there were ten thousand Manipulators casting level-9 spells. Although it was a fixed-point attack, the consumption was still incalculable. Salin's heart ached. Sometimes, the devils killed this way would not even have their bones left. They would not be able to recoup their losses.
If a low-level spell or control skill was used to kill a devil, there would still be a corpse left. Even if the muscles and armor of this devil could not match the value of a level-9 magic core, it was at least one-twelfth of it.
For Salin, fighting was spending money. The floating city's Magic Net was now fully displaying its formidable combat power. Salin no longer needed to painstakingly nurture mages. In a few months, he would be able to nurture a batch of little demons or familiars. If it were a human, it would take at most a year to nurture them into a controller.
There was a big disadvantage of using humans. Because of their short lifespans, as Manipulators, they might not live past sixty years of age if they fought for a long time. This was equivalent to halving a Manipulator's lifespan. Also, humans' mental power was naturally inferior to that of demons. It was consumed too quickly, which was not good for long-term battles.
Repeated recovery of mental energy during intense battles would consume materials such as Divine Crystals, which was another expense. That was why Salin's magic net was made up of creatures with demonic bloodlines.
Many imps and familiars had natural lifespans. They could not survive in the Demonic Plane because they would be eaten by demons and great demons, or even die before they reached adulthood. Under Salin's hands, these imps and familiars could live to the end of their lives. If they did not encounter danger, they could always live for five or six hundred years.
The reason why Salin divided the 120,000 Manipulators into six shifts to fight was because he could not afford to let the magic net open completely.
"Master, look!" Zola pointed at the place where the demon had been killed. On the ground, black fog appeared. The black fog condensed. Salin's Elemental Eyes looked and found that it was tiny crystals emitting black fog that enveloped the ground.
The Elemental Eyes quickly analyzed. These tiny black crystals were not poisonous. The black fog was actually the materialized state of energy.
This demon did not have a magic core, but something similar, or even better!
Salin was excited. Only a level-nine demon would have such a thing, and it was not afraid of level-nine magic attacks. It could even survive. This time, he did not have to worry about not being able to recover.
This time, Salin did not hesitate. He immediately released Lightning Stars and summoned Thunder Warriors at the same time to fight for these tiny black crystals.
There were also pests among the Thunder Warriors. These pests could not harm a level-nine demon, so it was very effective for them to swallow the tiny black particles.
Most importantly, these pests would not absorb the black particles. They could only be sent back to Salin's War Drum of Fear. The War Drum of Fear was still effective against level-nine demons, but Salin no longer wasted energy. Instead, he beat it every half a minute to slow down the demons' advance.
Faka wanted his floating city, so Salin had to keep his last resort to deal with this great enemy. With the level-thirteen Raphael by his side, Salin was not worried about any unexpected situations. Raphael might not be able to kill Faka, but he was definitely not weaker than Faka. It was impossible for him to not be able to protect himself.
Raphael had almost nothing to do by Salin's side, because no demon could charge up the high wall. Those demons could probably jump up the eight-meter high wall in one step, but under the attacks of the floating city, there was only a distance of three hundred meters between them and the wall.
The black crystals were snatched back. Salin held the demon crystal in his hand, looked at it, and handed it to Raphael. "What is this?"
"Pure dark energy, but it's combined in a way you don't understand. This thing is somewhat dangerous and can make people crazy. It can't be used to restore magic strings," Raphael replied.
"How about embedding it in a magic formation?"
"Why don't you try it in the magic furnace? In the magic formation, the dark crystal can't exert much power. Most of the energy is consumed in the conversion method."
"Mana Furnace, huh …"
Salin thought for a moment, then stepped back and gave the command of the battle to Nicholas. This old mage's mental power was also very high. There was also a powerful existence sealed in the Fallen Scepter. He could control the battlefield of a mile without missing anything.
Seeing Salin take out a miniature magic furnace to conduct magic experiments, even Zolasc felt that it was a bit outrageous. In such an intense battle, even if Salin had the advantage, he shouldn't withdraw from command!
Salin, however, didn't think so. The real battle hadn't come yet. While the powerful demons hadn't appeared, he had to grasp some of these demons' attributes first. If these crystals were useless, he would only be constantly weakening his strength in the battle. Even if there were endless magic cores in the Frozen Sea, he didn't have that much time to hunt.
Moreover, the attacks of the floating city were using magic cores like burning firewood. The hunting speed might not be enough for the floating city.
The miniature magic furnace was recently developed by Salin and Jason. They added a bit of the theory of perpetual motion. The consumption of magic cores was half that of a normal magic furnace, but it was still not stable.
Perpetual motion was in itself an immature thing.
This miniature magic furnace was embedded in the body of a puppet. Salin then threw a black dark crystal into the miniature magic furnace.
The miniature magic furnace immediately operated, decomposing the finger-sized black crystal and liquefying it.
So easy?
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