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None of these artifacts were lower than level-16. Level-13 was the starting point for activating a miracle. If the nine Mages worked together, with the help of their equipment, they could barely use any of the artifacts.
If they reached level-16, they could use six artifacts at the same time.
The six artifacts were: Gaia Gaia, Starry Well, Dimensional Staff, Blaze, Dark Night, and Tear of Light.
Dark Night was the core of the six artifacts. It represented the power of the dark element and was the most powerful. However, to deal with an enemy, one had to look at the environment. Dark Night was the most suitable to fight in the sky. Now that everyone was deep underground, the earth element was extremely rich, and the power of Gaia Gaia could be unleashed even more.
Salin's attacks were exceptionally sharp. Without the floating city, he was just as unstoppable. With the magic booster, Salin, a level-11 Mage, was almost invincible. The consumption of magic strings was almost negligible. When he was very low-level, he had done long-term training to break magic with magic.
Now, Salin's Elemental Eyes could clearly see the enemy's weaknesses. Attacking a level-9 Mage didn't necessarily require level-9 spells.
Salin finally understood why equipment was the only way to make up for a huge difference in rank. It was impossible to rely on one's own strength.
A level-9 Mage died in front of Salin. The Mage had put up a Ring of Resistance, but was burned to ashes by Salin's fireball.
Salin's fireball was a mutated spell, but it was only a level-4 skill. At least from the consumption of magic strings, there was no problem.
A level-4 mutated spell consumed two level-4 spells, but killed a level-9 Magic Shooter.
For a mage, this kind of consumption was already at the lowest level. Of course, there was also the power of Salin's lightning domain.
The lightning domain was different from other Mages' domains. Most Mages cultivated to level-11, and the pressure of the domain was abnormally strong. A level-9 Mage couldn't even move a finger.
Salin's lightning domain didn't seem to have such a strong pressure, but the area it could control was too outrageous. Without the Magic Amplification Device, the Lightning Domain's radius of control was 60 miles. With the Magic Amplification Device, the Lightning Domain could directly expand to 100 miles.
Even the largest battlefield could not compare to this. Salin had single-handedly weakened all of the Mage Towers in the Mage Castle. In comparison, his Lightning Domain was not just weak, it was simply too powerful.
Of course, if Salin shrunk the lightning domain to a hundred meters or so, it would be very different. Anyone who entered would suffer terrifying lightning attacks.
Those tiny electric currents would become a fatal trump card. It would not matter if a person was bitten by an ant, but if hundreds of thousands of Demonic Ants pounced on him, even the Behemoth would not be able to withstand it.
Mages even had a combined spell called the Demonic Ant Spell. As long as there were tens of thousands of Mages casting the Demonic Ant Spell at the same time, they could easily kill a Mage of around the tenth level. The Demonic Ant Spell was a level-one spell.
This was a theoretical spell. Even with Salin's Magic Net, it would be difficult to achieve.
Without much effort, Salin led the army to carve out a bloody path in the mage castle, splitting the mage castle in the middle. The forces in his hands were the strongest on the continent. Alchemy City was also strong, but the Mages in Alchemy City were too scattered. Salin's command system was provided by Sephiroth. His own army was fully equipped with magic equipment, and his orders could be given to every soldier.
This efficiency was much better than the Mages in Boder's Gate.
Boder's Gate originally had this effect, but to save energy, the Elemental Hand had not been developed immediately. If all the Mages wanted to use this function, it would take at least three months.
The Elemental Hand was eager to let Boder's Gate move freely, but they had forgotten that they could also be attacked and faced enemies.
This was the pride that Alchemy City had cultivated for a long time. They had lost last time, but they did not lose badly enough. They had retreated first, so they still felt that they had an advantage.
It was rare for a single Mage to do such a thing, but the group effect was something that these Mages could not detect.
They had been so powerful on the continent for so long that they had forgotten that Mages were also human. There were powerful Mages outside Alchemy City.
The timing of Salin's attack was too annoying. It was just before the combat power of Boder's Gate was about to be developed. If Salin had come a few months later, they would have lost at least four to five times more men.
Salin fought his way to the center of the Mage Castle. Looking at the huge black building in front of him, he was a little surprised. The style of the building was similar to that of Holy Rock City, but the whole building was made of black metal.
There were no traces of connection, even if it was an Alchemist's Smelting Technique.
This was a huge tower carved out of a whole piece of metal. The only reason for this was to reduce the strong metal's resistance to magic, so that the internal magic patterns would not obstruct the transfer of energy.
Salin immediately liked this design, but it was too difficult to make such a big piece of metal. This was probably not a metal smelted by humans, but an extraterrestrial core that was directly mined.
Salin couldn't rely on the Alchemy Factory of Floating-Space City to produce such powerful alchemy methods. Unless he and his teacher advanced to above Level-16, they could expand the Water Flame to cover the whole tower.
Salin was not in a hurry when he arrived at the bottom of the tower. Instead, he ordered his Warriors to attack from the two sides instead of going deeper into the Mage Castle.
The Qinyin Empire's army came up. Sephiroth stood beside Salin and looked at the tall metal tower. He said, "This is a star core. The Ancient Mages also smelted it for hundreds of years to create a tower like this."
"How do you know?"
"I'm a general. I'm interested in researching all kinds of methods of war. Back then, the Demon Mages of the Second Dynasty loved to make these huge war machines that carried them to various planes."
Hearing this, Salin thought to himself, Why did the humans of the past love war so much like the gods?
"Salin, how do you plan to attack this tower?"
"Let's do an experiment first." Salin released a Level-7 Icicle. This was the highest level of his Icicle Spell. With the existence of the lightning mageweath, this icicle's sharpness was no different from a Dimensional Blade.
It was just that this skill wasn't as versatile as a Dimensional Blade. In comparison, the Level-7 Icicle only consumed one percent of the mageweath of a Dimensional Blade.
The icicle was embedded into the wall of the metal tower with a crack. Salin was surprised. Although this ice hammer wasn't invincible, it was hard enough. Under normal circumstances, when it couldn't penetrate a certain material, the icicle would bounce off, and its sharpness wouldn't disappear. It could be picked up and mounted on a stick. It could even be used as a spear until the spell ended.
The icicle hit the wall of the metal tower. A shallow hole appeared in the wall. The icicle broke!
The hole expelled a small section of the icicle and slowly healed.
Salin released Thunderous Phantom. This Thunderous Phantom circled around the metal tower and transmitted the information it saw to Salin. The metal tower was vertical. There were only windows at a height of more than 30 meters.
There were no doors!
For someone like Salin, a height of 30 meters could be climbed with all his might. He didn't need to use any spells. However, the tower was so sturdy that there was no hope of breaking it with brute force.
This was fine. He wanted the entire Bode's Gate anyway. This equipment would be his sooner or later.
But Sephiroth frowned. He waved his hand, and the officer behind him walked over. Sephiroth ordered Qin Yin's soldiers to go around the tower and attack from the back.
Salin didn't stop Sephiroth. It was important to clear the other places. Otherwise, Salin wouldn't have asked Sephiroth to gather troops.
Alchemy City had a population of a million. Everyone had combat ability. Who knew how long it would take for Salin to defeat them one by one? With Qin Yin's army, Salin only needed to deal with the leader of the Elemental Hand.
Just as he was thinking about how to break the metal tower, brown mageweath suddenly appeared on the wall. The mageweath came so quickly. Even with Salin's fast reaction, he only had time to cast a Level-10 Water Pattern Shield on the people around him.
Salin advanced to Level-11, and the Level-10 Water Pattern Shield could be cast instantly.
After casting the Water Pattern Shield, Salin cast a Freeze on Sephiroth. This Freeze took effect slowly and wouldn't be completed immediately.
Sephiroth didn't move. He didn't dodge Salin's attack, nor did he try to break it.
The Water Pattern Shield was frozen. Then, with the metal tower as the center, the dark yellow light of the earth element spread out in a ring shape, spreading for thousands of meters.
Within this range, there was also Qin Yin's 30,000-strong army.
A terrifying scene appeared. Wherever the light of the earth element passed, everything was petrified. Moreover, it was an instant petrification. Only a few targets were unharmed.
They were his followers who had cast the shield in advance, the two Level-10 Magisters by Sephiroth's side, and some Gold Sword Saints and Zhenwu with powerful equipment.
The 30,000-strong army was almost completely annihilated.
Sephiroth's attack took effect at this time and penetrated the Water Pattern Shield. However, Freeze was a low-level spell and couldn't hurt Sephiroth. Instead, it weakened the Petrification Spell by more than ten times.
This time, the spell Salin released was too exquisite. It was almost at the peak of a Level-12 Magister.
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