Badge in Azure Chapter 525 - Walking to the left, walking to the right (Part 2)

Chapter 525: Walking to the left, walking to the right (Part 2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
As Saleen saw the monsters approaching him, he immediately regretted allowing Lex to have Su.
This newly recruited follower might not be as powerful as Nailisi and Sika combined and he might not even be able to defeat Sika, but a grand swordmaster was the best person to deal with this monster who was right before Saleen now.
It was a Stone Statue Soldier, a creature from the subcontinent plane.
Unlike a Stone Statue Ghost, a Stone Statue Soldier possessed extremely high magic resistance. It had a sturdy body and lived in groups. In a group of Stone Statue Soldiers, there was only one of them who had a higher level of intelligence. As long as this soldier, who was the leader, did not die, the rest of the Stone Statue Soldiers could be resurrected.
On the subcontinent plane, this creature was rumored to have originated from hell. Even a demon would remain dead once they got killed, there was zero chance of resurrection. If a Stone Statue Soldier got crushed, it could quickly transform into a complete entity again.
The method to deal with the Stone Statue Soldiers would be to kill them swiftly and locate the leader. As the leader was weaker, the Stone Statue Soldiers could no longer be resurrected once the leader got killed.
As the skills of a Silver Grand Swordmaster were refined, they could slash the Stone Statue Soldiers into shreds. The resurrection process would be fraught with difficulty and take a long time. In Saleen’s group, other than the demon Luola, the rest of the people did not have intricate skills. Luola’s weapon was the horse-killing sword.
The horse-killing sword and Aiwa’s meteor hammer were considered heavy weapons. They were definitely effective against human soldiers, but they would be pretty taxing on strength in the face of these Stone Statue Soldiers who could not feel pain.
Sika would do fine because her weapon advantage was obvious. Nailisi only had the Dragon’s Tooth Dagger, it was almost impossible for her to crush a Stone Statue Soldier. If Su or Jola were around, their Qin Eight-sided Swords would be able to handle dozens of Stone Statue Soldiers simultaneously.
Having a two-yard height and a green body, the Stone Statue Soldiers looked like cloud rocks.
“Help me hold the fort for five minutes, I will calculate the position of their leader.” After Saleen finished his sentence, he stopped attacking the Stone Statue Soldiers. He began calculating on the spot.
The space was humongous, so it was likely that there were about one-thousand Stone Statue Soldiers. In order for the leader to control the offensive of the Stone Statue Soldiers, there had to be some form of pattern. By using their attacking speed, attacking angle, time between attacks, order of recovery, and many other factors; the rough position of the leader could be determined.
Saleen would only calculate during battle because he possessed powerful calculation abilities. In most circumstances, such events would only occur in a large scale battle. There had to be at least hundreds of mages calculating at the same time in order to identify the weakness of the enemy’s formation.
Sika stood the front. Swinging the cudgel in her hand, she smashed a Stone Statue Soldier with every attack. After destroying more than thirty Stone Statue Soldiers, Sika already noticed some patterns, so she could conserve her strength. The sharp thorn had long appeared at the end of her club, the bulky bodies of those Stone Statue Soldiers had no way of resisting it at all. Every attack Sika launched would smash a Stone Statue Soldier into twenty-four pieces.
This degree of attack could conserve the most strength. The Stone Statue Soldiers would require more than two seconds to be resurrected.
Aiwa did not exert much strength either. Even though the Stone Statue Soldiers were annoying, he was not fearful at all. Wielding a large shield in his left hand, every attack he executed would send a Stone Statue Soldier flying apart. Even though the meteor hammer in his right hand was not moving too quickly, a Stone Statue Soldier would be smashed into two-hundred over pieces if it got struck.
Incessant thunderous booms filled the air, as stone fragments spewed in all directions. Aiwa unleashed his might, fully utilizing the advantage of his strength.
If Aiwa was here alone, it was a matter of time before he got killed by the Stone Statue Soldiers. The Stone Statue Soldiers could recover at lightning speed. Even if they were smashed into two-hundred pieces, they would recover in just a dozen seconds.
On the subcontinent plane, a group of Stone Statue Soldiers had less than one-hundred members. There were almost a thousand of them right now though. Their leader must have evolved, that was why their recovery speed was so horrifying.
Luola was struggling a little. Since his horse-killing sword was very long, it could seal an area when it was swung about. All Stone Statue Soldiers who got slashed by the horse-killing sword would break into five pieces from the core, they were very equal.
Upset, Nailisi took out a rarely used weapon from the bangle, a blood red machete. The blood color on this machete was dynamic, the blood was really dripping onto the ground. The machete contained the scent of massacre, even the Stone Statue Soldiers could feel it. Every Stone Statue Soldier who got struck by Nailisi’s machete required more than five seconds to recover even if they only broke into two pieces.
Even though Saleen regretted not keeping Su by his side, the people around him were accustomed to violence, so they could resist the frantic offensive by the Stone Statue Soldiers. Saleen concentrated on observation. After grasping the attack frequency of the Stone Statue Soldiers, he immediately deduced the timing of the second round of assault. In a minute, Saleen had already deciphered the sequence of attack of the Stone Statue Soldiers.
A Stone Statue Soldier enjoyed high defense, but it could not move fast. Even Luola’s horse-killing sword could handle dozens of them in one go. In less than five minutes, Saleen had calculated the position of the leader of the Stone Statue Soldiers.
The leader was right in front, about twenty yards from Sika. The leader felt that he was cunning, so he did not hide at a faraway location. He never expected that there was a mage among the humans who could calculate his exact position.
Saleen had discovered the rough position of the leader, but he could not identify which Stone Statue Soldier it was. Afraid that the information would be leaked because of the variety of languages spoken in the subcontinent plane, Saleen used the unfamiliar Caucasus language, telling Sika, “Twenty yards ahead, six targets.”
The Caucasus people were the oldest humans on the Myers mainland, but they had never left this plane, so it was impossible for their language to appear on other planes. Upon hearing Saleen say that, Sika understood his intention in that instant. Laughing boisterously, she called out, “Nailisi, follow me.”
Speaking, Sika leaped into the air, this leap of hers covered more than twenty yards. Nailisi followed Sika like a shadow, but she had actually burst out from a crowd of Stone Statue Soldiers. The two demons stood on either side of Saleen, protecting him. At this moment, Saleen released the Water Shield, causing three gigantic bubbles to appear. As the Stone Statue Soldiers wielded weapons like stone axes and stone pillars, they either bounced off or slid away when they hit the bubbles.
Saleen had depleted quite a bit of mental strength in this round of calculation. He was too lazy to attack, so he only used a defensive spell to protect himself and the two demons while waiting for Sika to do her job.
Nailisi’s machete was as fast as lightning. A flurry of slashes descended on the target area selected by Sika. The Stone Statue Soldiers had poor combat skills, so each slash could hit them. The moment the Stone Statue Soldiers were hit, it meant that there was a five-second safe duration.
On the other hand, Sika used her cudgel to smash the enemy. Saleen did not tell her the exact target, but her hunch was much stronger than that of Saleen’s. A warrior priest could identify the differences in the enemy. The leader of the Stone Statue Soldiers might look like his men, but his mental strength and degree of flexibility were hundreds of times mightier.
These two people were cooperating for the first team, yet they were flawless. Nailisi had exterminated the surrounding Stone Statue Soldiers, while Sika had killed the leader in one hit.
A Stone Statue Soldier was a grade-4 creature, unfortunately, this grading was only reflected in their defensive power. If the Stone Statue Soldiers had faced any other opponent, they would have worn out their adversary.
Sika’s cudgel came crashing down, and the leader wanted to dodge that attack. At the same time, Sika’s cudgel shone with a pale black light, engulfing the leader. Thereafter, there was a clang.
The leader of the Stone Statue Soldiers was utterly smashed. Sika bellowed loudly, and with a turn of her wrist, she rode on the momentum and crushed another five Stone Statue Soldiers in the vicinity.
“Saleen, it’s done!”
Seeing that the Stone Statue Soldiers were no longer resurrecting, Saleen said, “Aiwa, protect me. You all split up.”
Aiwa sniggered. The Water Shield on his body had disappeared. He gripped the large shield, and with a great leap, he went to defend Saleen. Sika and the rest charged into the midst of the Stone Statue Soldiers, carrying out the last of the killings.
Saleen was astounded. This battle was extremely abrupt, it even seemed very straightforward. If his team did not have such a composition, a two-hundred man elite army would have been needed to take out these enemies.
Spells below level-3 were useless against the Stone Statue Soldier, even Saleen could not be bothered to use magic to attack those monsters.
Sika and the rest began clearing the remaining Stone Statue Soldiers furiously. Even without their leader, the remaining Stone Statue Soldiers were only extirpated after dozens of minutes.
If must be noted that Sika, Nailisi, or Luola never needed a second hit to take out a Stone Statue Soldier.
Saleen arrived at the position where the leader of the Stone Statue Soldiers had died, then he began collecting all the fragments. All the Stone Statue Soldiers here were considered to be half-spirits. After storing the fragments into the Green Spirit, Saleen could indeed feel that the fragments were slowly fusing with one another, there were signs of recovery.
A Green Spirit rock could provide treatment for spirit-type beings. Saleen was secretly overjoyed, “If all the creatures in Lorga City are like that, I can use the same method to subdue them all.”
When a normal spirit got killed, it would actually return to the death dimension. For these half-spirits, they had nowhere to go, they would thus start to disperse gradually. “I can finally be like a death mage, having thousands of soldiers and horses at my disposal.”
As long as the leader of the Stone Statue Soldiers could be revived, the rest of the Stone Statue Soldiers would also be revived. As for how to control the leader, a mage would have many ideas. A Stone Statue Soldier did not have high intelligence, but their leader could communicate. A mage could even control illiterate magic beasts, not to mention these Stone Statue Soldiers who had their own language.
After destroying all the Stone Statue Soldiers, Sika and Nailisi were coping well, but the two demons were extremely fatigued. Nailisi had zero sympathy, she immediately instructed the two demons to start collecting the fragments of the Stone Statue Soldiers. The moment she saw Saleen using the Green Spirit to collect the leader of the Stone Statue Soldiers, she already had an inkling of Saleen’s motive.
“Saleen, why are you collecting this?” Sika was puzzled, as the Stone Statue Soldiers were so weak in her hands. If they were used to protect Saleen, they would be useless in the face of an expert. An expert could leap over these Stone Statue Soldiers and make a beeline for Saleen.
“To defend the city of course, do you really want me to recruit soldiers and buy warhorses? At most, these Stone Statue Soldiers will feed on mineral slag, they won’t even consume any magic nuclei.”
“Master, how do we leave?” Nailisi felt that something was amiss. This space was about one mile long horizontally and vertically. Since the Stone Statue Soldiers had been exterminated, an exit should have appeared, but the space remained sealed, there were no signs of change at all.
“It will not be so simple, the Stone Statue Soldiers are just the beginning. The real trouble hasn’t appeared yet.” As Saleen spoke, he blessed everyone with the Water Shield. This time around, the Water Shield pasted tightly on the surface of their bodies. Even though there was less impact absorption, it would not affect the attack movements.
Before Saleen could finish his sentence, a shadow was slowly emerging from the ground at the center of the square.
“So you all are humans, not bad, are you guys believers?” This shadow, who was getting increasingly clearer, turned around, revealing his face as he stared at Saleen and company.