Theater 16

Two months later, at the edge of the 16th warzone, a legion of low-ranked knights and a large number of slave creatures were inspected by two Earthly Knights.

The two Earthly Knights weren't in a hurry to see the knights and slaves. Instead, they turned to the other side and walked towards the Sanctum's casters.

"Are you Master Ella?" One of the two Earthly Knights, a white-armored knight, asked.

"Yes." A middle-aged female caster in a crimson robe replied in a cold voice.

"Greetings, I'm Gantome. Lord Savaron is currently fighting a sprite in this warzone. He can't meet with you for the time being. Please forgive him!" Gantome said.

"It's alright. In that case, we'll go straight to the next warzone," Ella replied.

Given that the two Earthly Knights were so respectful towards her, this female caster, Ella, was undoubtedly a level-three great caster.

Without the slightest delay, the legion of slaves followed close to a thousand casters towards the 17th warzone adjacent to the 16th.

Ninety percent of these casters were Level 1 Lehrlings. There were less than a hundred who were strong enough to become official casters, and there was only one level-three great caster.

But it was these few people who were in charge of an entire warzone. It wasn't that the Sanctum casters were dragging their feet, but that they had the confidence to do so.

As long as there were enough slave cannon fodder at the front, the casters could make all the creatures in the other planes feel a deep sense of fear from them.

Two-thirds of the thirty thousand slaves on the ground followed the casters forward.

The Sanctum had always been synonymous with wealth in the Three Western Isles. In this interplanar war, the Sanctum had invested more than a million slaves, and the Sanctum had provided two-thirds of them. Coupled with the subsequent reinforcements, the casters had nearly three-quarters of the total number of slaves.

In addition, the casters were more adept at controlling the soul imprints of the slaves. In the interplanar war, the casters actually caused more damage to the creatures of other planes.

"Did you hear, Lauren? It's said that Lord Argus was ambushed by those sprites and seriously injured! " Locke, who was mixed in with the group of casters, heard the conversation between two level-one knights not far from him.

It was funny how a knight like Locke had managed to sneak into a crowd of thousands of casters without the Hall of Knights noticing.

The thousands of mages didn't have to do anything. Just the subtle magic power surging on the surface of their bodies was enough to conceal any kind of strange energy. Even a formal knight would have a hard time discovering them.

"Why haven't I heard of it? I heard that Lord Eugen was among those who went to rescue Lord Argus!" Knight Lauren revealed the information he had obtained.

"Ah? Really? Hasn't Lord Eugen always been at odds with Lord Argus? "The other person was very surprised.

"Who knows? After all, he's a comrade from the same dimension. Lord Eugen can't just watch him die, right? "Lauren voiced out his speculation.

"I didn't expect there to be a creature in this plane that could hurt Lord Argus." The knight said with a lingering fear in his heart. It seemed that those animated fairies were not as weak as they had imagined.

"A few days ago, an animated fairy suspected to be a level-3 creature appeared in our theater of operations. Didn't Sir Savallon go to investigate it?" Lauren said.

"Oh right, Boko, are you going to patrol your team tomorrow?" Lawrence seemed to have thought of something and asked.

"Yes!" Boko's face was bitter. Capturing animated fairies was originally a good job for level-1 knights. However, as more and more animated fairies appeared, there were more casualties among the high-ranking knights.

This was especially so for Level-1 knights. Level-2 knights were still fine as they could usually wait for reinforcements from other Earthly knights or radiant knights. However, it was a different story for Level-1 knights. If it was a level-2 animated fairy, they could still form a battle formation and block it. However, once a level-3 animated fairy appeared, they would definitely die.

"Be content. It's still alright now. It's just a patrol mission. You're already lucky that I didn't ask you to explore a new theater of operations!" Lauren pouted.

The sixteenth theater of operations had basically been infiltrated by the Hall of Knights' main forces. Only the last third had yet to set foot in it.

There, a level-3 radiant knight, Savallon, was leading a level-1 and level-2 knights on an expedition. Meanwhile, the knight corps made up of high-rank Knechts were capturing animated fairies in the infiltrated areas.

Each low-rank animated fairy represented a milligram to tens of milligrams of activated essence.

In the absence of a portable extractor, the only way to maximize their value was to capture the animated sprites and lock them up in a certain place so that the animated sprites could be extracted together.

Fortunately, there were almost no level-1 animated fairies in the areas that had been plowed by the Ritter corps. Even low-rank animated fairies that were close to level-1 were few and far between. This meant that only twenty percent of the high-rank Knechts had been killed so far, which was much lower than the Hall of Knights' expectations.

Listening to the conversations of the Ritters around him, Locke was mentally prepared for the upcoming war.

Many level-1 and level-2 casters came to the Sanctum's Lehrlings to educate them the day before they set off for this theater of operations.

Locke, as a Ritter, was among them and listened in.

The theater of operations that the Hall of Knights was in charge of mainly relied on the low-rank Knechts, who were responsible for a larger number of low-rank animated fairies.

The Sanctum casters had a slight advantage over the knights of the Hall of Knights in planar wars. They could have a large number of slaves to act as meat shields for them.

"Stay closer to me tomorrow," Locke whispered to Angelina and Daenie who were next to him in the crowd.

Although the two girls were now apprentices of a level-1 Magister, it was unlikely that Grandmeisterin and Angelina's mentor, Kayla, would have the time to look after them in battle.

After all, there were also battles between level-1 Magisters.

"Okay." Angelina knew the pros and cons. In terms of strength, Locke was slightly stronger than her and Daenie.

As a high-rank Knecht, Locke and Angelina formed a team of three. As long as they didn't go to any dangerous areas, they would have no problem completing normal tasks.

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