What Salin was doing was crazy and dangerous. Raphael couldn't stop him, so he let Salin do what he wanted.
The floating city continued to fly toward the City of Nature. At this moment, all kinds of information was gathered. The troops of the Holy Church had reached the border of the Qin Yin Empire.
However, Rex had just become the emperor, and the morale of the Qin Yin Empire had increased a lot. On the other hand, many nobles in the north were affiliated with the Druidic Church. Not only did they have mages, but they also had mages from the Druidic Church.
The healing abilities of the mages from the Druidic Church were even better than the mages from the Holy Church. The situation on the border was in a stalemate. Salin immediately ordered the troops at the border to retreat as much as possible.
The goal of the Holy Church was to destroy the empire.
Salin had a feeling that the Holy Church was more prepared than before. The troops at the border were only the vanguard. If they couldn't break through the border, they would send powerful mages to destroy the most elite troops at the border.
This kind of sacrifice wasn't worth it. Salin ordered the elite troops to retreat to the area that the City of Nature could protect and not fight with the troops of the Holy Church.
After giving the order to retreat, Salin started to transport equipment to the frontline. Most of them were single-use items such as low-quality alchemy arrows and low-level magic scrolls.
These items were also lethal to the troops of the Holy Church, but they didn't cost much. In fact, if no powerful mages appeared, these single-use items could easily affect the outcome of a battle.
After Salin dropped off part of the demon legion, he turned around and headed toward the border to pick up the retreating troops. The floating city stopped more than eight hundred kilometers away from the border.
Close to 80,000 soldiers of the Qin Yin Empire were retreating from the border. These soldiers were all veterans. Due to the corruption in the north, the nobles were homeless, and these soldiers were recruited by Salin into the Knight Legion of the Nature Palace. However, they weren't knights; they were subordinates of the Knight Legion.
Salin had subdued more than three hundred thousand of such troops in the north. Some of the nobles died in battle, and some escaped. These professional soldiers benefited Salin.
These elite soldiers had average skills outside of combat, and they couldn't compare to farmers in farming. They couldn't compete with merchants in business, and even mercenaries weren't as useful as professional mercenaries. Their only use was to go onto the battlefield and kill the enemy.
Moreover, these Qin Yin people would not surrender. If the army collapsed and no one took them in, they would become bandits in the areas occupied by the enemy, destroying everything the enemy had.
Now that there were mages from the Druidic Order in these armies, it was easy for Salin to contact them. After summoning the mages to the floating city, Salin inquired about the situation of the battle. The battle was not very intense.
Qin Yin's borders were originally divided according to the terrain, and there were not many places that could be attacked. The fortresses at the borders were rebuilt when the Tanggulas people attacked last time, and they were all very sturdy.
The vanguard of the Church's army numbered less than three hundred thousand, but they had over a hundred thousand Blood Knights. These blood esquires would display great power once they entered Qin Yin's plains.
Now, however, they didn't have to worry about that. On the plains, these Blood Esquires couldn't escape Salin's floating city's pursuit.
Salin told the mages to return to the army and put his mind at ease. The main force of the Church was still gathering in the Duchy of Divine Grace. It would take at least half a month to pass through Jialou Lan.
These troops that he had taken in wouldn't be a problem. Even the stragglers might not be too dangerous.
The Church's way of advancing was to advance step by step. As long as you retreated, you wouldn't be pursued. Salin thought for a moment. Now that he was occupying the west of Qin Yin's north, there would definitely be conflict with the Church. Right now, Rex was probably at odds with the Golden Plains. Should he advance or retreat?
If he stopped here, he would have to wait for the Church's army to arrive before the vanguard would advance into Qin Yin's territory. It would take a long time. If he waited here, it would be equivalent to taking over the important task of war.
If he retreated, the Golden Plains would send troops.
Forget it. I'll defend the City of Nature and solve the problem of my two children first. I'll think about how to deal with the Golden Plains in the future. Thinking of this, Salin stopped the floating city and urged the troops below to move closer to the City of Nature.
Salin made up his mind not to fight the Church this time. He wanted to find his children first.
However, he wasn't completely unprepared. On the way to the Northern Plains, there were still a few passes that were relatively wide. They couldn't completely block the enemy's way, but they could set up ambushes.
Salin left thirty thousand insect angel soldiers in these three places. These insect angel warriors were all imps. Inside the insect angel armor, the imps were in a deep sleep and buried on the hillside. After the demons fell asleep, there were almost no signs of life. In addition, Salin had refined a layer of golden crystals that he obtained from the black vortex of purification outside the insect angel armor. This golden crystal was an elemental substance that covered all the aura inside the insect angel armor.
If no one summoned these thirty thousand insect angel warriors, they wouldn't wake up for a year. Salin's arrangement here was a foreshadowing. This was already the most elite soldiers that Salin could mobilize. These thirty thousand sets of insect angel armor were also the latest and last batch that he had refined.
From now on, he would refine Tainted Blood Armor for human warriors and demons.
After doing all this, Salin still felt that it wasn't enough. He sent people to pack up the equipment that his army had replaced and give it to the Qin Yin troops fighting at the border.
The equipment wasn't too bad. It was just that Salin wanted to unify the configuration of his army with new equipment. He had to recycle all kinds of messy weapons in the past to improve the combat ability of the army.
If these equipment were sent out, the combat ability of the Qin Yin troops at the border would be greatly improved. It would be good for the Church to lose more people. The equipment that Salin casually gave out was very valuable. However, Salin didn't lack resources at the moment. It would take a lot of Mage's time to destroy and recycle these things, so Salin was so generous.
He didn't expect that because of this, his reputation in the Qin Yin troops would improve. The soldiers all knew that the prince of Rex had given out a lot of high-level equipment for free. Not only was it free, but it also allowed the soldiers to write their names on the equipment after the war as an heirloom.
Although magic equipment wasn't rare at all in Qin Yin, the equipment that Salin made was too expensive for the soldiers. If a soldier relied on himself, there was no way he could gather such a full set of armor and seven standard equipment.
In order to increase the casualties of the Church's troops, Salin even gave out a large number of level-one scrolls.
These scrolls were left behind when magic apprentices advanced to official Mages. Salin had too many level-three and level-four scrolls. These level-one scrolls were all saved up when they weren't used on the battlefield. Salin gave out more than fifty thousand scrolls at once. These were all scrolls that magic apprentices could use. In the Qin Yin troops, not only Mages could use them.
At close range, level-one spells were much more powerful than crossbows. Back then, Salin's level-one Icicle Spell could pierce a deep hole in a hard stone wall. On the battlefield, being hit by a level-one spell at close range was extremely dangerous. Without magic armor, one was pretty much dead. Even if one had magic armor, the armor of an ordinary soldier wasn't completely sealed. Hitting a weak point would still result in death.
On the battlefield, even a minor injury could be fatal. Thus, these level-one scrolls were very popular.
Salin didn't know that his actions had bought people's hearts. After he finished, the Mana Controllers had already finished calculating the data of the Space Tunnel and were testing it.
This testing process was also very complicated. It was equivalent to simulating a Space Tunnel and then using Salin as a complete set of data to check if Salin would be disintegrated into elemental particles after entering the Space Tunnel.
If he did, they would have to revise the data and even calculate a new Space Tunnel.
This was the most important part. All the Mana Controllers put down all their work to calculate this for Salin. Salin himself also joined in the calculations, but he used astrology.
The results of astrology were still blurry, and Salin couldn't see his fate.
Even so, Salin made up his mind to go to the Demiplane. Because this result was exactly the same as what he had calculated for his two children.
If it meant death, Salin didn't mind going on a journey to death.
Tens of millions of data flowed through the simulated image. A shadow of Salin passed through the Space Tunnel. Just as he was about to leave, the image of the Space Tunnel shook and disappeared.
"How is it!" The one in charge of the calculations was a Great Demon. Among the Mana Controllers, there were very few Great Demons. These Great Demons had reached the pinnacle of mental power and could cast level-ten spells without any repercussions.
Salin looked at the dissipating image and said, "People can go over, but after they go over, this Space Tunnel will be almost useless."
The Great Demon had placed his life on Salin. He asked cautiously, "Your Highness, will you be in danger?"
"I won't die. At most, I won't be able to come back for a while."
The Great Demon was speechless. Salin patted Nelis, who was waiting for the results, and said, "I'll go to the Demiplane now, with Raphael. Only the two of us can go, and the metal angel can't slack off. You … will know if I'm safe. If I die, the floating city will belong to you from now on. You take the demons and kill your way back to the Demonic Plane when you have the chance. Be your Demon God. If I don't die … "
Before Salin could finish his words, Neris had already burst into tears. Her tears spurted far away.
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