How's the preparations coming along?" Outside the city, the caster troops were already in formation while the slaves were ready to attack.
"We're almost done, but there are still a few apprentices who haven't adjusted themselves," said a black-haired apprentice to the Magister beside him.
There were a total of five magi in the group. Parlina was appointed by Master Jiela, but other than Keira and Ashar, the other two magi didn't really listen to Parlina.
The magus named Bosh was one of them. Perhaps due to gender repulsion, Bosh and another magus named Leonar didn't usually talk to Parlina and the others.
It was the same for this battle. Bosh and Leonar, who were proud of their strength, each requested to be in charge of one side of the city wall, as if trying to put Parlina in her place.
There was competition among the Magisters as well. Parlina, Asha and Keira's rooms were all ranked above the seventieth floor, which annoyed Bosh who lived on the 69th floor.
Fortunately, he didn't know Asha's room was on the 82nd floor, or he would've been even more upset.
The floor a Magister lived on was usually linked to their strength. Of course, there were also other factors that contributed to their success. For example, there were some alchemists who weren't particularly strong, but were able to use their alchemy skills to gain the right to live on a higher floor.
Bosh obviously thought the three female Magisters had used some special method to increase their residences.
Sometimes, mages who claimed to be knowledgeable were actually very narrow-minded. This applied to male mages as well as female mages.
Bosh and Leonar's information network was lacking. Apart from not finding out Asha's floor, they also didn't know who Keira's master was. Her famous senior was well-known even among the apprentices in the Sanctum.
Parlina, who had lived for centuries, knew what Bosh and Leonar were thinking. If they wanted to show off, then let them be. It had nothing to do with an old woman like her.
With that in mind, Parlina agreed to both of their demands. Each of them would lead twenty apprentices and two hundred slaves to attack a city gate.
Not far away from Bosh's troops, Locke looked enviously at the slave creature. It was a black beast that was as tall as an iron tower.
It was a slave with the strength of a base-rank major monster. He didn't know which plane it came from, but he'd taken a liking to it when he first saw it.
Originally, he was thinking of secretly bringing the slave creature closer to him, Angelina, and the others, but he didn't expect it to be moved away by the Magister.
But it didn't matter. Locke believed that there wouldn't be any danger in this battle.
"The siege begins in two hourglasses," said Parlina as she stepped out of the carriage. Locke had to break his leg to deliver the message.
Magi were fond of using hourglasses to measure time. The older they were, the more they used this ancient method. Parlina was one of them.
Two hourglasses were about four minutes. After Locke made up his mind, he went to report.
He only needed to convey the message to the Lehrlings. He didn't need to worry about the slave creatures. With the Magister's soul imprints controlling them, the slaves were even more ferocious than expected.
A team of a thousand Mages and slave creatures had surrounded a city with ten thousand animated fairies. It sounded ridiculous, but it was the truth.
The Animated Fairies were weaker than ordinary humans, and they were not good at fighting in the first place. When they encountered slave creatures that were at least mid-level magical beasts and hundreds of powerful magic attacks, it could only be a one-sided massacre.
After Locke followed the Sanctum's troops to warzone 17, he'd participated in many battles against animated fairies. Most of the battles were one-sided. While the high-level combatants were held back by the strongest of their forces, as long as he could get rid of the few animated fairy guards and soldiers, he could easily defeat the ordinary animated fairy civilians with a single punch.
There were close to ten thousand animated fairies, but there were less than a thousand of them that could fight the Sacred Tower's team, and that was an overstatement.
As for the top-notch animated fairies that could fight against the five Magister Magisters, based on past experience, there would only be one castellan in a city of animated fairies, which corresponded to a level-1 life form.
Of course, there was the possibility of other powerful beings.
But no matter how Locke looked at it, it was unlikely for the city to have more level-1 animated fairies, not to mention the more powerful level-2 animated fairy lord.
As a dazzling fireball rose into the sky, at around 4: 10 in the afternoon, outside Gray Cloud City, sounds of attacks coming from three different directions could be heard.
The slaves, whose souls were controlled by the Sanctum's Magister, put on a ferocious expression and bared their sharp fangs and claws. Amidst the trembling animated fairies, they charged at them.
Behind them, hundreds of magic surged. The animated fairies didn't know what magic was, but their instincts told them that it wasn't anything good.
While most of the Magister Apprentices were still chanting their magic, some of the more impatient ones had already used their own magic tools.
All kinds of spells were fired from the magic devices, including ice arrows, fireballs, and lightning spears. They were all aimed at the top of the city wall.
The Magister Apprentices' spoils of war after a battle were calculated according to their battle records. Their crystal balls would record everything during the battle, and with the images in the crystal balls, the Magister Apprentices could obtain all kinds of precious materials. Among them, the most popular item for exchange was the animated essence.
This kind of treasure, regardless of strength, could be used by Magisters and Knights of all levels.
When the countless spells were about to reach the gates of Grey Cloud City, two level-1 animated fairies flew into the air and blocked the wave of attacks.
The mixed attack of more than a hundred low-level spells was not easy to deal with. Under the joint efforts of the two level-1 animated fairies, the older apple-man animated fairy immediately lost one-fifth of its total energy.
As soon as the two level-1 animated fairies appeared, a total of four mental powers locked onto them.
Bosh and Leonar rushed towards the more powerful Mountain Bamboo Man animated fairy at the same time. This surprised Asha, who was ready to fight the Mountain Bamboo Man one-on-one, and she chose the apple-man as her opponent.
Keira saw this and retreated to the rear of the Magister Camp, only separating a bit of her mental power to keep an eye on the apple-man.
She knew her sister's strength, so she wasn't worried about Asha facing an animated fairy alone. Since she didn't like fighting and killing, she decided to stay at the back and 'take care of the situation' with Parlina.
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