The more flawless a plan was, the more irreparable it would be when something went wrong. Faka had gone to do something very important and left temporarily. This caused the mages to lose their backbone. If Salin left Metatlin, there was still Jason to command. When Jason wasn't around, Scica could also command the battle.
Without both of them, Daniel could maintain the operation of the city, and the nobles could also maintain the operation of the city. Each had their own duties. But Faka was the core of the emissaries. Without him, the plan would change, and everyone wouldn't know what to do.
The finger bone was close to a meter long and was ash-gray in color. It looked no different from ordinary decaying bones, but with Salin's [Elemental Eye], he could see layers of energy on the finger bone, and even different spatial divisions. Even a 10th-tier mage could barely operate such a small-scale space division technique. However, it was impossible for a 10th-tier mage to arrange tens of thousands of layers of space on this finger bone.
Salin couldn't do it either. His understanding of Dark Space wasn't any weaker than this finger bone. However, Salin could only set up similar methods on the toughest materials. If the material was ordinary, it would be destroyed along with the equipment. Not to mention that the layers of space on the finger bone were all suspended outside the finger bone.
There was nothing on the finger bone. It was clean.
Salin paid attention to the broken part of the finger bone. It had been cut by a sharp weapon. At the broken part, Salin saw the hole in the finger bone. The flowing liquid emitted an evil aura. This aura was unstoppable. Salin shouted and released more than twenty Water Pattern Shields in a row, completely covering himself. Level-11 Endless Night was also released from his magic robe.
The finger bone exploded soundlessly, and black liquid splashed out for over a mile away. The black liquid passed through the lightning cage. Most of it was blocked by the electric current, but it still contaminated everything within a mile with an evil aura. Salin's position was the furthest back from the explosion, but before it happened, he blocked in front of Zola.
Salin knew that even Zola couldn't avoid this explosion. The black liquid was densely packed and splashed in all directions. The finger bone was less than a meter long, but it seemed to contain tens of thousands of kilograms of black liquid.
The twenty-four Water Pattern Shields shattered one after another. Even the lightning patterns on them couldn't stop the black liquid from penetrating them. The Endless Night disappeared. The dark elemental defense could not withstand this explosion.
Salin's spells were cast instantaneously. The Water Shield gave him time to unfurl a scroll. This scroll erected a six-meter-thick wall of water elemental crystals in front of him. The six-meter water elemental crystal did not block the shockwave of the explosion.
The Water Elemental Crystal shattered, and the Destiny Puppet in Salin's body withered instantly.
Salin's expression was rather unsightly. He immediately swallowed a large bottle of medicine, allowing his mental energy and magic strings to recover by more than half. The Destiny Puppet suffered another fatal injury, and Salin's Star Pattern Magic Robe was also damaged.
"Disperse!" Raphael had switched to a spear at some point. She pointed her spear at Salin's back, and the black mist in front of Salin disappeared. Salin hurriedly retreated, and once again released the Water Pattern Shield.
The aftermath of the explosion ended. The Water Pattern Shield blocked the black weapon outside and protected Zola at the same time.
Zola was ashamed and resentful. He was a follower, but he had to let Salin take an attack for him. If Salin did not have the Destiny Puppet, he would be dead by now.
"Master!" Zola pulled out his sword. The longsword had a face. This was a gift from Salin, and it had the attribute of fortitude. His face was completely red, and all the blood rushed to his head.
Salin waved his hand and said, "Go inform the Iron Blood Grand Duke. We're retreating."
As Salin spoke, he released the Thunder Warrior and collected the scattered phalanx fragments on the ground. The phalanx fragments themselves could not harm the Thunder Warrior.
In the explosion, the Thunder Cage was not damaged. The black liquid on it was also washed away by the electric current, disappearing without a trace.
Salin put away his equipment and felt that Ping was extremely tired. Just now, defending against the explosion and continuously casting high-level spells had completely used up his magic strings and mental energy. If not for the magic amplification device, he would not have been able to protect Zola.
This was not Zola's fault. It was his own fault for being too confident and challenging Faka's trap.
"Master, go kill Faka!" Zola pressed down on his sword, unwilling to accept the order to send a message.
"Zola!" Salin's intimidating voice directly hit Zola. Only then did Zola come to his senses. Although he was not hit by the explosion, he was affected by the evil aura. At that moment, he was so embarrassed and angry that he almost stabbed Salin with his longsword. If he hadn't followed Salin for a long time and his body had formed a reaction to protect Salin, Salin would probably have been seriously injured with that stab.
Zola leaped and disappeared hundreds of meters away. He knew that Salin's choice was right. Although Salin had been attacked, it was not what Faka had expected. It was not too late to leave now.
Salin took Raphael and flew directly into the sky. He withdrew his Thunder Warrior, but the Star Puppets, insect angels, and elite demons were all killed in the explosion.
At the location of the explosion, there was a huge cave more than five hundred meters deep.
When the explosion occurred, the floating city had already flown more than twenty thousand meters away, but it was not affected. When Salin flew up, a large number of mages immediately rushed over, wanting to intercept him.
Salin was furious and said to Raphael, "Kill them all!"
Raphael nodded. She could not understand Salin's feelings, but she would carry out Salin's orders. In Raphael's opinion, Salin's followers and close mages were the most important. The casualties of the soldiers did not matter.
At the edge of the formation, in the four Magic Towers, the level-ten mages put up magic shields in a sorry state and followed Salin to the floating city. They could no longer fight in this environment. The evil aura could not be resisted by the level-ten mages.
The aura was still spreading, and the entire plateau city could be considered destroyed.
Raphael's body flashed and she had already rushed into the group of mages. These mages were interrupted before they could prepare their divine spells. Countless tiny metal threads appeared around Raphael's body. These metal threads trembled violently, tearing apart the surrounding space.
Nearly a hundred senior mages were all killed by one of Raphael's skills. The corpses were cut into thousands of pieces. They fell to the ground. After doing this, Raphael followed Salin and rushed into the floating city.
Metal Storm, this was Raphael's unique skill. Very few angels had similar abilities. The god she served was rather strange among the gods. Whether it was long-range or close-range combat, she was extremely fierce. After the fall of the god, Raphael advanced and automatically obtained a series of skills. She tested it today, and the results were very ideal.
Zola came to the Ironblood Duke as fast as he could and said only one sentence: My Lord wants you to retreat immediately.
After saying this, he looked at the Vatican's army in the other two directions, suppressed his anger, and rushed into the sky, flying towards the floating city.
The Ironblood Duke gave the order without hesitation. His army had just engaged the demons when there was a violent explosion in the east. A black aura spread outwards, killing everything it touched.
Fortunately, the Ironblood Duke had also ordered insect angel armor, so all the soldiers could fly into the sky. The speed at which the black fog spread in all directions was extremely fast, but it was very slow to spread upwards.
As soon as the Ironblood Duke's army retreated, the spread of the demons couldn't be stopped. The demons were also extremely afraid of this black mist, and most of them fled west, not even daring to tangle with the remaining troops on the ground.
There were still many Mages and Warriors in the central fortress group. The explosion just now didn't affect them, but seeing the scene of the Ironblood Duke's 200,000 troops retreating, these people immediately knew that they couldn't hold on much longer.
All the professionals who could fly flew towards the floating city, and the Warriors who couldn't simply fled west, mixing with the demons.
The scene on the ground was very strange. The two sides that had been fighting to the death just now didn't attack, but instead fled in one direction.
On the floating city, there were now twenty-four large magic furnaces, all of which were now activated, ready to move quickly at any time. The black mist rose up, and some of the Ironblood Duke's soldiers still didn't escape.
Those insect angel warriors were corroded by the black mist in midair, melting with their armor and turning into a cloud of black mist.
Not many of Salin's soldiers escaped, and most of the Warriors he brought down were killed. This was the first time since the founding of the kingdom that Salin had suffered such a heavy loss.
The Insect Angel Army, the Devil Army, and the Star Puppets that he had brought with him were all powerful warriors. If these warriors were to surround and attack a level-9 powerhouse, they would be able to turn the level-9 powerhouse into minced meat in less than a minute.
Salin returned to the floating city and directly entered the Elemental Magic Tower to replace Lawson and command the Manipulators again.
Below the floating city, six magic arrays lit up, and the core of the magic arrays shot out a magic beam. The magic beam fell on the positions of the Vatican's defenses, and they were the six command camps.
"Attack!" Salin pressed the floating city down and forced it close to Plateau City. By now, the black mist had risen more than a mile high, and Salin's floating city launched a fatal attack a thousand meters away from the black weapons.
Magic cannons, level-nine spells, metal magic bullets, boulders, and large Hocina's Guns. The weapons Salin prepared for the powerful demons were all used on Faka's emissaries.
The Ironblood Duke and Inpos came to see Salin in a mess. The black mist had dissolved at least a third of their troops. This time, Salin wasn't the only one who suffered losses.
Moreover, the Ironblood Duke wasn't like Salin, who had slaughtered a large number of level-nine and level-ten demons at the beginning and obtained hundreds of thousands of Darkness Crystal Cores.
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