Badge in Azure

“Pitiful?” Lex laughed coldly and said, “The pink army was only built for twenty years. Between God Grace and Titan, they killed almost a dozen thousand people. These women are wicked and merciless. They slaughtered an entire village just for a baby in the village.

“What did they want the baby for?!” Saleen had a bad feeling about this.

“Of course to train for the army in the future.” Lex sounded like she was shivering.

“The two empires actually didn’t care?”

“Of course they did, but the pink army is hidden in a spot that is too secretive. The area where they moved around is the gap between the two empires and they were afraid that it might lead to war for them to send large scale army.”

Saleen blinked his eyes quickly and asked. “The place where they hide, could it be…”

“It is our first target this time.”

Saleen was suddenly relaxed. The genius turned out to have received treasure that the Goddess of Myers had left behind and he got such an encounter. It’s a pity that the person’s mind was not good and he could not practice in peace. The man had finally died and his soul disappeared.

Did he not view himself as genius too? Before reaching twenty years old, he was already a grade-5 grand mage. The entirety of that was derived from the favor of the goddess though. If he did not get the Ring of Gifts, he would have died in the Chaotic Swamp.

The location of the temples that the Goddess of Myers left behind were all extremely secretive and they required the key that goddess left behind to open them. The two empires could not send large scale troops to search so the pink army being able to live was not something strange.

If he were to have nowhere to escape to, he could also go into the temple and close it. Unless there was really a God that had fallen into this world that would stop him, there would not be anyone that could find him.

“The pink army do it over and over again and are not only relying on concealing their tracks, right?” Saleen asked another crucial question.

“Yes. In the beginning, the pink army was very arrogant, but they ran into a few troubles and started to rein themselves in. The man that was struck dead by lightning left many magical things behind. The double faced strong cavalry was improvised by him. The power was much stronger than the original double faced strong cavalry. The pink army then formed their gang directly and passed all the messy things for the gang to deal with them while they only take charge of fighting.”

“If so, does it mean that we have to destroy the pink army to get to our destination?”

“I’m afraid it’s so. In the first destination, I’m afraid there won’t be many valuable items, but the coordinates had to be exhaustive. There might be deviation in our calculation otherwise.”

Saleen nodded to express his understanding. If the main temple was not at the Purgatory Desert, deviation was acceptable. In the Purgatory Desert, a small mistake could take one’s life.

“The leader of the pink army was the man’s wife. Both of my black metal swordmasters didn’t manage to make her stay even for a moment. If you were to run into her alone, it would be very troublesome. From today onwards, don’t be too far away from me.” Lex did not put her cards on the table, but Saleen understood. If the two black metal swordmasters were to keep the leader of pink army for a few seconds to let the assassin by Lex’s side rush over, the assassin would not only hurt her.

Lex did not let the assassin go far away to prevent that woman from hurting her.

“You don’t have be too anxious. She was hurt by Bain and he remembers her scent. If she wants to get close to us, it won’t be as easy anymore.” Lex looked at Saleen’s stern expression and immediately comforted him.

Saleen smiled. He was anxious because he knew how strong the assassin by Lex’s side was. The assassin tried his best to attack, but he did not manage to keep the woman so that woman was definitely someone that he could not deal with. The assasin remembering her scent would definitely make it difficult for the woman to get close to Lex though.

“Are we still going to the the Princess Castle?” Saleen thought Lex took the route to lure the pink army to launch an attack. Now that the two-hundred double faced strong cavalry was wiped out, it would be safer to go to the south. Any further west, they would be too close to the Tanggulasi Empire. Saleen was afraid of Holy See.

“Of course. We are not going to stop there long. I am only leaving some money to buy some wine maker and have them go to Bitter Water Prefecture. Then, there will be people that send them to Metatrin city naturally.

“Buy?”

“Heh, not as slaves. Winemakers normally have to follow some nobles for life so it would be difficult to hire one. I might as well buy some from the nobles and sign a contract.”

“Your Highness, we can go now.” the swordsmen outside were done cleaning the dead bodies up, but they did not find any useful clues.

“Let’s go.” Lex knocked on the carriage window, but the one driving the cart was her war puppet. The puppet already lassoed the carriage with the horse. When it heard Lex’s order, it raised the horse whip and it made a clear whipping sound.

It was also an advantage of the magic chariot. When a mage controlled a puppet in the magic chariot, the expense of mental strength was low. Such low level puppets were close to zero expense.

The four carriages slowly left the Red Earth Ridge. On the faraway mountain, there was a short figure laid out in the lowland to look down the mountain with an alchemy telescope. She used red silk to cover her face and she was dressed in red too. Only her stomach had a patch of dark purplish color, fresh blood had soaked through there.

“By Lex’s side, there is such a strong assassin. No wonder she dared to come to such a place.” The masked woman was talking to herself. She finally sighed a breath of relief when she saw that the four carriages had left. She took down her face cloth and revealed a delicate and pretty face. The face did not show a trace of her actual age. If one ignored the hardship in her eyes, but looked at her skin they would think that she was just a young girl.

The woman sat down on the spot and took out a medicine bottle. She poured all the pills into her mouth and regulated her breathing there and then. Her brain only faintly felt like it was being stabbed and her stomach hurt.

The wound did not bleed anymore. The lady closed her black eyes slowly and went into a meditation-like state.

After Saleen’s troop took off, they went forward full force. Although the roads were not like in the Qin Empire, they were about two cars wide. It did not even affect their speed when they were rushing.

It was great when a normal carriage could hit the speed of twenty miles. A specially made chariot could go more than thirty miles. As for magic chariots, they could even reach the speed of fifty miles, but it bound down to the type of horses that were pulling the carriages too.

If it was skeleton warhorses, it was nothing to hit the speed of fifty miles. If Saleen was to change into normal inferior horses, although the horses were tall and strong, their bloodline would not work. Running wild for the entire journey, their bodies would be damaged. When they got to the Princess Castle, even if they did not die, they would not be able to pull the carriage anymore.

This was not the time to cherish the horses, the first attack of the pink army failed. If Saleen’s troops were to slow down, the other party could calmly set up another trap on the way. The second trap would aim directly at the warriors and the carriages. If the enemy was strong, take away its wing, everyone understood that theory.

During the journey, Lex explained more about the pink army. The formation of the pink army was complicated. Most of the time, the entire army was more than ten thousand soldiers. Half of them were private soldiers from the Marquis Residence. The ability of the man who was struck dead by lightning to befog the minds of the people was quite strong. He fled from the Tanggulasi Empire and his underlinings followed his footstep and got to God Grace Duchy to follow him one after another. Later on, as he was struck dead by lightning, the underlinings followed his wife and continued to fight.

That was the foundation of the pink army. Leaving God Grace for almost ten years time, the pink army had blocked off the entire juncture of the Tanggulasi Empire and the Cloudflow Empire.

The pink army had all kinds of talent. There were a lot of them that snuck into each country to continue their business before and supported the pink army in secret. There was another bunch that recruited robbers nearby to expand the scale of the gang to control the business in the area entirely.

“I reckon Bitter Water Prefecture had a spy from the pink army. This time I brought only my senior underlinings to Metatrin. Even so, they discovered my whereabouts.”

“It’s okay. I brought the magic scrolls. No matter how many more people there are, they can’t fight against our magic.” Saleen heard Lex’s introduction and he felt at ease.

The pink army was actually a gang of strong gangsters that took control of the area that was within nobody’s jurisdiction. Seizing the existence of a tense relationship between Tanggulasi and Cloudflow. If Tanggulasi and Cloudflow were on good terms and both parties sent out soldiers to hem them up the pink army would not stand a chance. It was only a ten-thousand person army, how could they withstand the pressing of two empires?

God Grace Duchy was the one having dealings with the pink army all year round so God Grace Duchy would not be willing to wipe out the pink army. With their existence, it was like a warning magic symbol, they could keep an eye on Tanggulasi Empire’s movement. The pink army would also only commit crimes far from the Princess Castle. The scale of the gang was controlled within five-hundred people so the Grand Duke of God Grace Duchy was confident.

“Huh…” Lex was smiling faintly. She looked at Saleen and said, “We will be safe after we get to the Princess Castle. I am friends with the small Duke. No one else know about this yet.”

“Small Duke?”

Saleen knew that the peerage system in Cloudflow was different to the Qin Empire. For the nobles in the Qin Empire, even if one were a Duke, one’s son would be given the title of nobility. Before inheriting the father’s nobility, they could only be called a baron. In Cloudflow, the noble’s pomp was much bigger. For instance, the son of a Grand Duke of Titan, could be called a small Duke directly. In the Qin Empire, that was law breaking.

Lex was friends with the small Duke of Titan Duchy. Was she not practicing magic in Bitter Water Prefecture all this while? How could she know people from Titan Duchy?

Lex creased her eyebrows and said girlishly, “Don’t think you are my only friend. I know the small Duke well too. Wait until you see the Princess Castle then you’ll know. He is quite capable. I’ve heard that the King of Cloudflow wanted to marry his princess to him, I reckon he is going crazy, ha…”

“What’s bad about marrying a princess?” Saleen asked in shock.

Lex blushed, but she immediately concealed the reaction and said, “What’s good about it? A princess is equal to a secret spy that cannot be expelled. No matter what happened around him in the future, it would be reported to the palace of Cloudflow in full detail by her.”