The entire healing process concluded within a mere three minutes, and by the time Dewade stood up again, his injuries had completely healed.
Edwell himself had experienced this eerie Immortal Fire outside the harbor town, and the intelligence passed from the kingdom also emphasized that the enemy used this to annihilate tens of thousands of the kingdom’s elite troops…
Since he personally led the army this time, he naturally came prepared!
"Thank you, Lord Edwell…" Dewade said gratefully, his expression filled with immense shame.
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In doing so, the upcoming war could see fewer casualties, but who would have thought that not only would the enemy manage to destroy themselves successfully, but it also resulted in over a dozen Griffin Knights losing their lives…
Dewade was filled with regret. If it weren’t for his desire to capture the enemy alive, they could have used Divine Arts to directly destroy that alchemical creation.
"As punishment for the failure of this mission, from now on, whenever the Griffin Knight Order is deployed, you must charge to the front to meet the enemy, until I give the order to retreat, the enemy is routed, or… until death!"
Edwell’s indifferent words rang in Dewade’s ears; the death of over a dozen Griffin Knights was the cost of destroying a single skyship, an outcome that Edwell found unacceptable.
A Griffin Knight is typically selected from the empire’s elite troops or even the Divine Punishment Army, and with the tacit nurturing and combat training, it takes several years to form up, not to mention the cost of raising and training a griffin from a young age.
It could be said that just training a squadron of Griffin Knights would be enough to bankrupt a wealthy Duke’s domain, and yet here they lay dead!
If it weren’t for the imminent war, where every bit of strength was especially precious, Dewade would probably have been taken back to face the Judgement Court’s arbitration!
"I swear by the name of God, from this day forward I shall be the first to charge, until death!" Dewade swore fervently.
Edwell nodded his head in approval while at the same moment, the remaining Griffin Knights flew in, bringing back the bodies of their comrades!
The deaths of these men were more horrific than the last; some died from explosions with mutilated bodies, others had pits and cavities eaten away by White Phosphorus Fire, flames still burning persistently…
For returning their comrades’ bodies, the surviving Griffin Knights had also suffered greatly. Due to the lack of intelligence, many of them were contaminated with this terrifying flame.
Without waiting for Edwell to act, the other bishops began to heal these men in the same fashion.
This peculiar hellfire was very tricky to extinguish, but once the method to counteract it had been learned, even a bishop could handle it.
After giving a few instructions, Edwell moved toward two bodies covered in frost, extending his hand to sense them. Despite not truly touching them, the temperatures below minus one hundred degrees still caused his palm to have a vaguely freezing sensation.
Such a terrible chill...
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Edwell’s expression grew solemn; it was yet another troublesome magic, and what concerned him even more was that according to Dewade’s report, the gigantic alchemical creation was operated by ordinary people with no magic abilities, yet by leveraging alchemical and magical creations, they had caused considerable casualties to the empire’s elite Griffin Knight Order…
Musing, Edwell suddenly turned his head as if he sensed something, and looked towards the direction of the distant sky.
Four kilometers aloft, another airship was speeding towards the direction of Iyeta. Alec, acting as the captain, was observing the enemy situation through a telescope. When he suddenly saw Edwell turn his head in their direction, Alec was startled.
"To spot us from such a distance..." Alec involuntarily took a sharp breath, feeling his legs weaken slightly.
The airships that patrolled an area always operated in pairs, spaced three to five kilometers apart. Firstly, it allowed mutual support in case of an emergency, and secondly, to prevent someone from using powerful Divine Arts to shoot down an airship and then silently invade the kingdom’s territory.
Initially, Alec had intended to rush to the rescue when he saw the airship where Hammy was stationed being attacked. But to his dismay, within just a few minutes, they witnessed the airship surrounded by Griffin Knights and ultimately self-destructing into a ball of fire...
Alec instantly realized it was too late, promptly abandoned the rescue plan, and steered his airship to flee at full speed.
Now, the most crucial task was to bring back all the intelligence from this place intact!
...
In Greenrill City, within the Corona Tower of the Sky Realm.
More than a hundred council members were gathered in the meeting room, continuously sharing the intelligence sent from Iyeta.
"It seems war has come much faster than we anticipated..." Rafael murmured to himself after reading the letter in his hand, then turned to give Lynn a look, sighing as he said, "You have a group of fine pilots... Master Lynn."
The other council members nodded in agreement. Five civilians, unable to use magic, had sacrificed their lives to take down more than ten Griffin Knights; in a sense, their deaths were very valuable...
The selling price of the latest model airship was only two thousand magic Gold Coins, with production costs being even lower...
Lynn, however, felt quite sorry for Hammy and the others. In his view, five skilled pilots were far more precious than killing a few Griffin Knights.
Now, the production speed of airships in the workshops of Iyeta was quite fast, but the scarcity of pilots was very significant, and they were not easy to train.
"I just read in the intelligence report that the Holy Court seems to have found a way to counteract the Immortal Fire..." one council member hesitantly said.
Upon hearing this, all eyes in the room turned to Lynn.
Due to the council’s publicity and various rumors circulating among the common folk, they were very familiar with the legendary exploits of this star of magic and naturally understood that he could create a kind of undying hellfire.
Back when Lynn was only a third-ring Wizard, he used it to destroy half a town and also employed it not long ago to defeat the kingdom’s elite troops. These two annihilation-level victories were undoubtedly very impressive, making the unique fire practically a hallmark of this star of magic!
Rumors said that Lynn had summoned this substance from the endless depths of perdition. The fire would burn and devour a person’s skin and flesh, and even a small touch meant an inescapable fate of death.
This time, the sacrifice of Hammy and the others led to such favorable battle results, noteworthy was Lynn’s invention of the White Phosphorus Fire grenade.
Rafael, of course, did not believe in so-called hellfire, but he also didn’t expect the Holy Court to find a countermeasure so quickly...