Badge in Azure

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

As Saleen sighed, the six meter long green current had already disappeared completely into the wall. This wall was over twenty meters thick and its thickness was not the same all the way throughout. The outside of the wall was as flat as a mirror while inside it was uneven. At the thinnest part, it was around twenty-four meters while the thickest part was nearly thirty meters.

With the wall being this thick, even if it was not built from the metallized steel rocks, it would not be able to be destroyed by the metal hammer. Bifano did not have any powerful mages among his men and they could not measure the thickness of the wall.

Saleen was overjoyed, even if he directly used the metallized steel rocks to shape shields, he would become rich immediately. The constructions of all the Myers Temples were different, but the similarity was that they all used precious materials. These materials were common a long time ago, but humans now could no longer cross dimensions freely and their value had become higher immediately.

It seemed like if time permitted, he should really find the location of all twenty-four Myers Temples. Once the mages from Sregl Island arrived, he would be able to find the remaining locations through vast calculations.

Getting all the mages to do the same thing for a long period of time was not realistic, however, he could wait. Even if it took a year to calculate the position of the temples, it was worth it.

He had a large number of magic array drawings and they were of huge value. Without the appropriate materials, these magic array drawings would not be able to be replicated even by the analysis of mages that were good with magic arrays.

Saleen took ten minutes to cut out a square meter of metalized steel rock out. This was much slower than cutting the white stone for Metatrin City. With this speed, he would only be able to form a tunnel of one square meter at the thinnest part.

Putting the material in the Demon Ring casually, Saleen called Bifano to his side and explained his judgement.

Bifano stroked his chin, he had not shaved in the past few days and there were black patches of hair all over his face. After preparing for so long, another day or two would not make much of a difference.

"Mage Saleen, the people in there must be overconfident that we can't open the door and are very sure of their wall. Why don't you dig a one square meter tunnel, but do not break it through all the way. I want them to know that we can enter from the wall. They will definitely open the door then and fight until the end with us. If they continue defending, we will have no choice but to waste more time for you to expand the tunnel for the cavalry to enter and to dig through the last meter."

Bifano's and Saleen happened to share the same view. If the pink army realized their wall was not reliable, they would very likely open the doors and charge out to attack. If that was the case, he would not need to waste so much time.

"Let's go with your idea then." Saleen laughed as he continued his job.

Within the temple, the pink army bandits were staring anxiously at the door, there had not been any impact noises on the door for a long time. These bandits had joined the pink army at a later time and the early followers had long died in battle.

Even for those that joined the pink army when it first started, their feelings for it had long faded over the years. After the marquis had disappeared, many of them followed his wife to where the marquis had found the ruins. After many years, the pink army was still struggling to survive and had not become stronger.

"Do you think the Titan Army will get in?" A swordsman in leather armor asked his partner beside him.

"Who knows, if we need we will surrender."

"Shh! Are you tired of living?" This person looked around cautiously and realized all the soldiers were listless, resting in various spots. Some of the older soldiers had even taken out their cigarette paper. Crushing some tobacco, they filled it and started smoking.

The north of Titan was suitable to grow such tobacco and they had the best tobacco leaves. The tobacco that the soldiers were smoking might not be any less quality than the tobacco of the Tanggulasi wealthy. A low-grade leader walked in the door. Seeing the soldiers smoking, he shook his head, but did not bother. It was not that the pink army did not have the ability to retaliate, the leader had prevented them from going out to battle and kept them in the temple to defend.

This had lowered the morale of the soldiers, they were already incredibly undisciplined and had no regard for the safety of the temple. When the enemy charged in, they would definitely not fight to their deaths.

At the center of the entire temple, there was a huge palace. The core members of the pink army were gathered inside the temple. Most of them were beautiful women that were around thirty years old. There were some youths too and a few gray-robed mages.

The leader was the female mage that Bain had injured.

"Sister, why don't we fight to the death with them?!" A female warrior in magic armor asked loudly. She was another core leader of the pink army, one of the other wives of the marquis. From her looks, she was barely thirty and was at the period where a woman was at her most mature and pretty. She gave off an explosive energy from top to bottom and on the table in front of her was her weapon; an incredibly long sword. The blade itself was over two meters long.

"Fourth sister, we have fought with them head on before, not a single one of the two-hundred double-face strong cavalrymen made it back alive." The female mage had a dark expression. She had tried her best, but the Tanggulasi Empire had invaded at the time and all the powers that she had set up were not put to use. This was not a lapse in her judgement, no one could have calculated the movement of the Tanggulasi Empire.

Even the Tanggulasi wealthy that had dealings with them secretly did not give any appropriate information. She could only blame her luck.

"They will break down the door sooner or later. Our cavalries can't be of any use here, the infantry troops definitely wouldn't be as good as them." A shrewd looking woman said worryingly.

"The Agares family does not have that much time. Not only has the Tangglasi Empire invaded, Cloudflow is entering Titan from the south too. At most in a month, Bifano will pull back. If not he will not be able to hold Fire Dance City." The female mage said confidently.

"Aunt Eleanor, I don't think so. Bifano has connections with people from the Qin Empire and has brought with him many powerful mages. They will definitely have some idea of how to break down the door rapidly. You even said they couldn't open the tunnel, but aren't they in it now?" A youth in white magic robes contradicted the female mage.

"That's right, Aunt Eleanor, father has been gone for so long. You should tell everyone what his secret is. Please Do not say that we shouldn't know." Another mage added.

"The two of you, what attitude is that?!" An even younger swordsman pointed at the two youths with his short sword.

"What attitude? Brother, did Aunt Eleanor leave all the good things to you?" Father was good at both magic and swordsmanship, why can't we be as well? You, mother and son, have been dominating the army. What ideas do you both have?"

"I haven't hidden anything that father left behind." Upon hearing the excessive words from the younger generation, the female mage raised her eyebrows. She said angrily, "Was it you mother's wish that you would say such things?"

"Big sister, I would not dare. What do you all say?"

The females around the table stuck close to the female warrior in magic armor. They threw the female mage ,Eleanor, a cold look. Besides her son, the rest looked at her questioningly.

Sister ties, blood relationships; they were all fake at the end of the day. When trouble came, these people only thought about how they could get any benefits, not one really wanted to keep their foundation.

The hall was incredibly noisy at that moment. The women that had a shrewd look stopped the commotion and eased the tension. She said to the female mage, "Big sister, we still have three-thousand cavalrymen, we can choose to look to anyone for support, why wait here for our death?"

"This is My husband's life's work." Eleanor replied sadly.

"If that is the case, why aren't his secrets of both magic and swordsmanship here? Big sister, if that is the case, you are treating us as outsiders. How do you want us to command the army to battle?"

"My husband… even if you found the secret that he has left behind, do you think we can become who he was immediately?"

"There is still a hope, you made so many people follow you. There can't be no results at the end of the day. The eldest child is already a high-grade swordmaster, another step and he will be a grand swordmaster. Such talents are hard to find even in the empire. If he doesn't get the secrets of both magic and swordsmanship and become a mage, what hopes are there left?"

"You all assume that I have taken my husband's secrets for myself, but have you seen me practice any swordsmanship? I can't touch the legacy that he has left behind. Why else would I be willing to hide away here?" The female mage said calmly. She was the marquis' formal wife. When he was alive, everyone lived harmoniously. Now, these women had different ideas and wanted to force her hand. Even though she was calm on the surface, she was hurting inside.

"That is hard to say, our husband had created so many secret magic medicines, surely one of them can let one learn both magic and swordsmanship? Our fourth Son is still small, but he is already a swordmaster. Is this not the work of these secret magic medicines? Since they can accelerate one's swordsmanship training, why can they not form magic chords as well?

"Stop this!" The female mage was furious. The marquis did leave behind many magic medicines, if not all his children would not be geniuses and have decent abilities now. She really had no idea about any magic medicine that could allow one to be good at both magic and swordsmanship. If there was such a thing, why would she be stingy? The marquis had left behind the prescription for these medicines. She was a grand mage and she could easily create more.

At this moment, a bandit rushed in, knelt and exclaimed, "Master, they are digging through the wall!"

"Let them." A female swordsman was just about to scold the bandit when another bandit rushed in and said, "Master, they have almost dug through!"

"What?" The female mage stood up in disbelief, that metalized steel rock could not be dug through within a year and a half with a magic machinery. How could anyone outside do that?