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With Eleanor's interference, Salin naturally couldn't do what he wanted to do. But Eleanor had done it in time. The people of Yun Liu were good at raising all kinds of low-level magic beasts. These Golden-Eyed Fire Ravens were extremely intelligent. After training, they could even communicate with mages.
If these Golden-Eyed Fire Ravens were allowed to fly above the city, there wouldn't be many secrets left.
The army outside the city could deploy troops based on intelligence and attack the weakest link in Daliang City.
It was said that Golden-Eyed Fire Ravens could fly up to five thousand meters in the air. The most common ones were around a thousand meters. Apart from alchemy crossbows, ordinary heavy crossbows couldn't shoot them.
"Grace, let's go up and take a look." Salin knew that ordinary archers could only deal with the resting Golden-Eyed Fire Ravens. Those circling in the air could only be hit by crossbows and sniper crossbows. That depended on luck. Only magic could accurately kill Golden-Eyed Fire Ravens.
Level-Two and three magic beasts weren't that easy to kill either. Ordinary arrows could be blown away by a Wind Whirl.
"Call Nicholas." Rex had just advanced and couldn't use the strength of a level-seven Magic Shooter. Eleanor had met an enemy Magic Shooter outside the city. Rex didn't want to take the risk.
"I know. Call Trish too."
After discussing, the two went down to the sixth floor of the Magic Tower and told the mages to guard the Magic Tower well and pay attention to communication with other Magic Towers.
The no-fly zone wouldn't be activated at any time. It would only be activated when the Magic Tower outside the city sounded the alarm.
It wasn't long before Trish and Nicholas arrived. Rex showed the carcass of the Golden-Eyed Fire Raven to them. Trish and Nicholas both smiled. "Master, this is just a level-two magic beast. You don't have to go up. Leave it to us."
Nicholas was a fallen priest, and Triss was a great demon. Both of them had the ability to attack the soul, and it was a ranged attack. The Golden-Eyed Fire Raven's flying speed was simply too fast. If one encountered it in the air, the best way to hunt it down would be to have the demons use intimidation and other abilities. As for Nicholas, he used Fallen Radiance, and everything within a thousand meters was within his attack range.
This kind of low-level magical beast would definitely be strongly affected.
Salin, however, said, "Rex and I don't have much experience in aerial combat. The two of you will be responsible for the perimeter. We'll be responsible for the top of the palace. We won't leave the city."
Nicholas thought for a moment and said, "I think the enemy released so many Golden-Eyed Fire Crows on purpose. My Lord, Your Highness, you have to pay attention to the altitude and range of your flight. I will instruct the watchtowers on the city walls to prepare the alchemy crossbows. If you are ambushed, fly towards the palace walls."
Nicholas was already dead set on following Salin. He was really afraid that something would happen to Salin. Of course, Trish was more afraid. He was afraid of Neris' methods. It was necessary to be cautious. Salin only smiled and nodded in agreement. He had the Elemental Eye and could see hundreds of miles in the air. Unless the enemy had the ability to cross space, he wouldn't encounter any danger as long as he didn't leave the city.
An ordinary Mage could see more than ten miles away when using a skill, and the duration of a skill was very short. Salin's Elemental Eye was a solidified skill. It only consumed mental strength and not magic strings. This skill was like breathing. It was an instinct. Furthermore, Salin could control this skill, and it didn't consume any energy.
There were too few Mages who had a skill like this. Salin's Elemental Eye was originally a skill that Magic Shooters could use. It could only be maintained for less than three minutes, and he could only see more than ten miles away.
Seeing that Salin insisted on hunting the magical beasts himself, Nicholas and Trish had no choice but to fly towards the sky above the city. Nicholas' flying ability was different from that of Mages. There were no elemental waves around his body. There was only a layer of faint gray light around him, and he instantly rose more than a hundred meters.
Trish simply summoned her Demon God Armor, and her body also turned into an eight-meter-tall Demon. She spread her huge wings and soared into the sky. Her form was completely unaffected by the domain that forbade flying.
Both of them had the solidified magic mark on them. Naturally, the alchemy crossbows in the watchtowers wouldn't shoot randomly, and the magic alarm didn't react either. There was only a yellow warning light in the surveillance magic array. Nicholas and Trish flew one round around the palace. All the watchtowers were on alert, and Nicholas' voice also spread to all the watchtowers, asking everyone to pay attention to the flying magical beasts.
Golden-eyed Fire Ravens were only magical beasts responsible for scouting. On Cloud Flow's warship, there were magical beasts that could carry people. There was no need for anything else. They only needed to throw burning kerosene bags on these magical beasts to cause a fire. Spring was the season for fires. The buildings in Great Liang City weren't like those in Metatlin City. There were still many wooden houses on the ground, so they had to be careful.
Salin looked at Rex. He slowly released the Cloud Walking Spell, and the clouds enveloped both of them, covering the entire courtyard. Then, under the effect of the water element, both Salin and Rex flew up at the same time.
Rex only cast a Levitation Spell on herself, and let Salin slowly bring her to a high altitude.
Looking from the inside out of the Cloud Walking Spell, the clouds were as transparent as glass, except that the light was a little dim. Rex felt the dense water element within a few hundred meters, and was a little surprised.
"Salin …" Once she opened her mouth, she realized that although they had already flown to an altitude of a thousand meters, the high altitude wind didn't affect the inside of the clouds.
"My magic isn't bad, right?" Salin said proudly. Although Rex had advanced, she still couldn't learn this Cloud Walking Spell. This required a complete mastery of the water element and a Water Elemental Body to be able to use this magic.
Moreover, this magic was created by Salin in the first place. If others learned it, they would only be able to learn its principles. When they used it, the effect would be greatly different.
Rex was originally worried that Salin would be discouraged because she advanced first, but she found it funny when she heard Salin's proud tone. She was really worried too much. Salin's will had long been trained to be extremely pure. Moreover, Salin's magic was not similar to other mages'. He had already opened up a new path.
A single Magic String made Salin put in six times the effort of an ordinary person, and at the same time, he reaped rich rewards.
This Cloud Walking Spell was not only a combination of attack and defense, but also extremely fast. Rex felt that if Salin flew at full speed, even a Magic Shooter like him wouldn't be able to catch up. Within the clouds, a water current that was more than six meters long was dancing. That was Salin's Water Slash. This was no longer magic, but a piece of equipment, just like Salin's Water Puppet.
The water current lurked in the clouds. Anyone who entered rashly would basically be dead once they were entangled, unless they were Magic Shooters above level-7. Even Magic Shooters had to break the water current to be safe. If they only relied on defense, this water current could cut anything into two if it repeatedly cut.
Salin's Elemental Eye observed the surroundings, and he didn't find any enemy magical beasts above the palace. He reckoned that the enemy magical beasts wouldn't go so deep as to worry about being attacked by his Magic Tower. Although mages rarely went to deal with such low-level magical beasts, if Rex gave the order, the Magic Tower would still do such a senseless thing.
The enemy's mages probably wouldn't dare to enter the city. Eleanor had also encountered a Magic Shooter outside the city. To be able to injure Eleanor, it had to be at least a level-8 Magic Shooter. Otherwise, if Eleanor had shot an arrow over, it wouldn't have been her who was injured.
After making sure that the city was safe, Salin used the Elemental Eye to observe into the distance. He discovered that there were at least three thousand flying birds in the sky outside Great Liang City, and there were even more that weren't magical beasts.
It was hard to tell, because birds had lived in human cities for tens of thousands of years. Humans wouldn't shoot these birds randomly, especially high-level magical beasts. This was especially true for high-level magical beasts, which would specifically prey on some hateful insects. In the winter when food was scarce, farmers would even leave some food for these magical beasts to survive the winter.
More than six hundred years ago, the Emperor of the Tanggulas Empire once ordered the hunting of a level-two Sharp-tailed Swift to make a gorgeous cloak for him. For this cloak, as long as there was some fluff in the middle of the swift's tail, hundreds of thousands of Sharp-tailed Swifts were hunted and killed. As a result, for three years in a row, the southern part of the Tanggulas Empire experienced a disaster of demon locusts.
Billions of demon locusts swept through the southern part of the empire. The Vatican sent countless mages, but they couldn't completely suppress them. In those three years, millions of people in the Tanggulas Empire starved to death.
The Cloud Flow people guarded the border and mobilized a large number of raised magical beasts. The plague of locusts was isolated at the border, and the Cloud Flow people paid a price of tens of millions of gold coins to prevent the plague of locusts from moving south.
Therefore, on the Myers Continent, no one was willing to hunt these bird-type magical beasts. The Cloud Flow people used Golden-Eyed Fire Crows as scouting weapons, and the effect was very obvious. After all, there were too many of these things in the south, and you couldn't tell whether they were wild or raised by humans. Golden-Eyed Fire Crows ate voles, which were also beneficial. Sometimes, they would destroy some fruit trees, and humans tolerated it.
Salin saw that there were no such magical beasts in the city, so he glanced around and started talking with Rex again.
"Lace, your flying skill should have advanced, right?"
"Yes." Rex agreed. Knowing that Salin wanted to familiarize himself with her skills, she took out her magic staff. Her magic staff was made for her by Joey, and it stored three level-eight spells. Flying in the air was not easy to control the release of magic when one had just advanced. Therefore, using scrolls and magic staffs became the mages' first choice.
Then, the surface of Rex's body started to emit an orange-red glow. A layer of fire elements covered her colorful magic robe, and behind Rex, a pair of huge flame wings started to burn.
It was actually a rare flying skill of the fire element. This flying skill was much faster than Wind Walking, and was comparable to the level-eight Wind Dragon.
The one who was surprised wasn't Salin, but Rex. That was because she immediately felt the change in the Cloud Traversal after she spread her flame wings. The part of the water element that Salin controlled that surrounded her body actually turned into fire element automatically. This process wasn't instantaneous, but it was rather fast.
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