[The third chapter, tomorrow's fourth chapter. There's a bug in the chapter two days ago. I'll fix it. Sorry.]
Salin didn't feel happy at all. He was a bit nervous. Under his command, the Magic Shooters took turns attacking the nine Magic Towers in the city. The nine Magic Towers were concentrated in the center of the city. This was an ancient design. The Scochenians hadn't changed it. If his Elemental Magic Tower lowered its altitude, it would suffer a fatal attack.
On the first floor of the Magic Tower, the Scochenian nobles were scared shitless. The Elemental Magic Tower attacked Iron Wall City from the sky. The scene was too spectacular. In the center of Iron Wall City, the Elemental Stone Soldiers were destroying buildings, while the Orange Knights were setting fire.
In Iron Wall City, the sound of buildings collapsing was so loud that it was shocking when it reached the sky. Salin sent the sound clearly into the Magic Tower to scare the nobles.
Viscount Guge was right. These nobles had lived there for dozens of generations and had complete control over their subjects. It wasn't right to kill them all. It was best to let them surrender. After this battle, Salin believed that these minor nobles did not have much of a choice.
Of course, there were troops in the city, but even if there were experts in the army, they were not willing to intercept the Orange Knight and the Elemental Stone Soldiers. The hundred-meter-tall guys, even a punch was a fatal attack. Cavalry and infantry were the same to elemental creatures. They could be stomped to death.
Salin didn't care anymore. He simply used the elemental creatures to attract the Magic Towers' attention so that they couldn't fight back. Attacking from above and below, the nine Magic Towers were pinned down.
In terms of strength, Salin was slightly stronger. It was just that the nine Magic Towers were spread out over an area of one mile. It took him a lot of effort to suppress them all. Fortunately, Salin had brought thirty-six Magic Shooters with him. They were more than the Magic Shooters in Iron Wall City. They took turns to cast spells and the Magic Towers couldn't fight back. The elemental creatures attracted a few more Magic Shooters to attack. Salin's side was even more relaxed.
There were two level-eight mercenary groups in the city. When they saw the thousand-meter-tall phantom in the sky, they immediately knew something was wrong. They gathered their troops and protected their families. The city couldn't be defended. The enemy didn't care about the lives of ordinary people. Those spells wouldn't avoid the residential areas either. They were completely aimlessly thrown down, destroying the buildings.
The credibility of mercenaries was built on the foundation of survival. The families of these mercenaries were all in Iron Wall City. Originally, they would defend it to the death. Seeing this situation, the mercenaries were the first to waver. The two ten-thousand-strong mercenary groups organized a retreat. One of them broke through the southern city gate and escorted the family members away.
Salin saw it clearly from the air. He had the orange knight go around the small city gate and let the mercenary group go. The other mage in the mercenary group saw it clearly and immediately reported the situation to the leader. The leader didn't dare to hesitate and also killed his way to the small gate. He simply ordered the mage to burn down the gate and took his soldiers and their families out of Iron Wall City.
Seeing that these mercenaries were tactful, Salin let them live. With these mercenaries as a demonstration, the people near the city gate began to flee. The army that came to stop them was stopped by the orange knight. The gate had been destroyed, and there was no river outside Iron Wall City. More and more people escaped, but compared to the entire city, the number of people who escaped was too small.
There was a loud metal roar in the sky. Hundreds of metal flying machines arrived above Iron Wall City and began to throw magic fire bombs. These magic fire bombs were filled with kerosene and wrapped in ordinary magic materials. As long as they fell to the ground, the magic materials would shatter and come into contact with the air. Only then would the magic potion inside burn.
This magic fire bomb was probably in the category of level-one magic equipment. Its lethality was terrifying. When the magic fire bomb exploded on contact, it would spray out sticky kerosene that could stick to anything and burn. Even falling into a puddle was no exception. Nothing but magic could temporarily suppress this kind of fire.
The end of Iron Wall City had arrived. The mages in the city gathered in the magic tower. When the elemental creatures appeared, the mages outside the tower desperately rushed inside.
When the metal flying machines arrived, there were no mages left in the city. All the mages had gathered in the magic tower to defend against the attacks from the sky.
The metal flying machines were not low, but to throw magic fire bombs, they had to descend to about 500 meters. The metal flying machines did not rely on the wind element to fly. Instead, they used their metal wings to generate buoyancy. They had to maintain a high speed so that they would not fall to the ground.
Because of this, Salin desperately suppressed the magic tower in the city. It was not safe to fly at a height of 500 meters. A nine-story magic tower's attack range was 1,000 to 2,000 meters. The metal flying machines had very low defense. If they were hit by a magic tower above level-five, they would be destroyed immediately.
The fire in Iron Wall City was so intense that Salin's order was useless. He gave the soldiers on the metal flying machines a fixed place to drop the bombs. There would be gaps for people in the fire to escape. However, once the magic fire bombs started burning, they were more terrifying than Salin had imagined. The high temperature could burn anything that was flammable. Some substances would only become flammable at high temperatures.
The temperature of the kerosene was even higher than the flames produced by low-level magic. In less than half an hour, the center of the city had become a sea of fire. Only the nine Magic Towers were safe and sound, protecting a medium-sized area.
At this time, the people in the city finally thought of escaping, but it was too late. The second wave of metal flying machines had arrived, dropping countless magic fire bombs on the edge of the city.
Only a few metal flying machines crashed. They were the soldiers in the city. They had fired magic stone cannons into the air. The scattered magic stone bombs hit the metal flying machines. As long as the wings were destroyed, the metal flying machines could no longer fly and would plunge to the ground. The magic fire bombs carried by the metal flying machines exploded at the same time, causing even more casualties.
Salin had no time to worry. Although the metal flying machines were destroyed slowly, once he relaxed the suppression of the magic towers, all the metal flying machines above Iron Wall City would not be able to escape the magic attack. At this time, Salin had no other thoughts except to destroy everything the enemy had.
This was the essence of war: destruction.
Inside the Elemental Magic Tower, the 75 Scotia nobles completely collapsed. Iron Wall City was burned right in front of their eyes. The fire spread, and thick smoke rose. If the Gale Dragon had not been using wind magic to disperse the smoke and clouds, they would not have been able to see anything.
Was this still war? If future wars became like this, the glory of the nobles would no longer exist. Who could withstand the threat of powerful mages joining the war and destroying the enemy's city?
The third wave of flying machines arrived, and they continued to throw magic firebombs into Iron Wall City. The city's defenses completely collapsed. Aside from the Mage Tower, no one else tried to resist. Everyone was running out of the city, including the soldiers guarding the city walls.
Other than Nelis, everyone's heart was heavy, including the 36 Magic Shooters. Everyone felt that this attack was too cruel.
Salin's voice sounded in the magic tower. "I know you can't bear to see this, but we don't have much time. The Church's army will soon break through Qinyin's border defense. The Cloud Flow people will take down Lianyun City. Many of the southern nobles want independence. If Qinyin is left with only the north, it will no longer be able to resist the joint attack of the three empires. This is a warning to let the Scotia people understand that the Metatlin Kingdom is not to be touched. When the three empires sign a real treaty, our attack will not scare them. We really don't have time … "
Salin's voice was a bit tired. He could not watch this kind of war anymore. It was too different from what he had expected. Other than the army, there were less than 100,000 people who escaped.
Rex was the one who came up with this idea, but didn't he have any responsibility? He encouraged the Magic Shooters and comforted them, but he was under a lot of pressure. Salin could kill hundreds of people without any qualms, but killing millions of people was not something a level-9 Magic Shooter like him could bear.
There was always a big difference between reality and imagination. Salin thought he could ignore all this, but he really wanted to fly away now and never look at this damned land again.
"Master, people will die eventually. We demons don't think about these messy things." Nelis comforted Salin. She could feel how bad Salin's mood was.
"Nelis, you don't understand."
"How can I not understand? Humans are more cruel than demons. Otherwise, why would demons follow humans and kill everywhere? Conquering other planes sounds heroic, but in fact, the number of people who died in each plane was a hundred times more than today. Master, those who were killed were also humans, not monsters. "
Seeing that Salin did not speak, Nelis said, "Master, you remember the Grand Master, right? Look at him, did he treat you as one of his kind?"
Salin suddenly understood. Yes, the Grand Master never treated him as one of his kind. If he could leave that tomb, he would probably be willing to kill everyone on the Myers Continent.
Humans and gods were essentially the same.
"Nelis, this is not an excuse for me to kill." Salin's mood was better, but he could not let it go.
"Master, in my opinion, it's normal for you to feel bad. Just reflect on it. When you advance to the level beyond gods, you will never feel like this again."
Nicholas said from the side, "Master, Nelis is right. The gods are the same. They treat selfless believers as lambs. One day, when we reach that level, we will become like that too. Today, let everyone grieve together. "
Nicholas was more thorough than Nelis. What Salin was most upset about now was the contradiction, the inner contradiction.
Because if he wanted to conquer the continent, he might have to do it again, but he did not want to do it again.
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