Birth of the Demonic Sword - Chapter 842

Chapter 842
The remains of the army eventually decided to build an encampment around the stele .

It wasn't just a matter of studying the trace left by a divine entity . The cultivators with a water aptitude wanted to use that structure to improve their understanding of their element and solidify their individuality .

A large number of heroic cultivators moved from the domains of the three nations to join the army that had discovered that incredible structure . After all, water cultivators were quite ordinary in the world, and all of them requested to see the stele .

Meanwhile, the rank 5 cultivators made a point of their situation .

They hadn't expected the Empire to lay such a trap, and they paid the price for underestimating it . Only the Hive counted more than ten casualties among the assets in the fourth rank, which was quite depressing considering that it had deployed only twenty-five of them for that battle .

The rest of them were all injured, with some of them so severely that they had to return to the southwestern coast to receive specialized treatments .

The Elders in the fifth rank were relatively fine . Elder Austin, Elder Justin, Daniel, and Amos had touched the multicolored light, but it only caused a few burns on their skin .

As for the human assets, the losses were simply uncountable .



"Years of accumulation and growth wasted because of a paranoid god!" Elder Austin exclaimed as he gulped a cup of wine before smearing some Primordial Ice on the burns on his legs . "Who even sets a self-destruct mechanism that doesn't spoil the resource of a land? I could almost think that the Empire was expecting something like this to happen . "

All the rank 5 Elders of the Hive had gathered in an inscribed tent to discuss their next move, but they had ended up expressing their annoyance toward that sly organization .

"The other forces lost far more than us," Daniel said as he swept his cup with his aura before drinking from it . "I guess we are lucky to have deployed fewer troops than them . "

He was injured too . His right arm was completely charred, but a thick layer of Primordial Ice covered that limb and was already quickening its recovery . The Elbas family had provided that resource freely after the explosion, so all the injured were using it .

Elder Austin snorted before refilling his cup with some wine and drinking it all in one gulp . Then, he complained in a loud voice again . "The luck of the underdog! We have lost decades of progress in a single battle, and you talk about luck . There is no victory in losing less than your enemies . The real victory is in the gains that we manage to reap thanks to those losses . "

Daniel could only nod at his words .

Casualties were inevitable, especially when facing a nation that had been at the peak of those Mortal Land for millennia . Yet, if the invaders managed to gain something that would boost their growth as organizations, they would see those losses as a fair price to pay .




Noah remained silent as they conversed . The Elders didn't treat Daniel or Amos coldly anymore, but they were starting to show some trust toward those two nobles .

It would take time for the Udye family to become a part of the Hive . However, the Elders had already changed their behavior toward them .

Daniel and Amos had fought together with them in the end . The world would label them as actual members of the Hive now that they had worn its robes in front of the other nations . There was no turning back from that .

"It was worth it," Noah said as he stood up from the couch where he was sitting . "With the stele and the lava lake, we will groom stronger heroic assets and increase the number of our elites . Also, we have the living weapons, and the hybrids should provide more assistance once their mental instabilities are fixed . "

Then, he left the tent to return to a cave that he had previously dug to cultivate .

They had already discussed anything important, so there was no point for him to remain there . His free time had to be dedicated to his training and projects, and he didn't feel like wasting it to analyze the data of the last battle .



Their allies had lost more than them, and the Empire had surpassed all three of them in that field . Elder Julia had calculated that at least eight cultivators in the fifth rank had died on the defending side, and Noah had filled two of those spots .

The Empire had simply lost too much, and dozens of rank 4 cultivators couldn't make up for the deaths of its elites .

Elder Julia had warned Noah on that part . The fact that he could be a threat to cultivators on his level would force the Empire to deploy equal experts against him .

They wouldn't rely on tactics to beat him . Their only weapons would be their experience and individuality, which would give birth to battles a bit more complicated than his previous ones . If strategies didn't work, the Empire would just make him face its best existences in the gaseous stage of the fifth rank .

Noah didn't know how much it would take to the three factions to reorganize, but that break gave him the chance to start experimenting in one of his projects . He resumed forging living weapons in that period of peace . After all, there was an abundance of magical beasts' corpses due to the cleaning operations on the northeastern coast .

His choice wasn't random . He would need decades to complete his other projects, and he didn't want to be interrupted when he was preparing for his next series of experiments .

Seclusion and long periods of meditation were usually the best approaches for entities on his level, but gathering experiences had the priority since he could express his individuality freely . That was in line with the requirements to advance once reached the fifth rank, and Noah had long felt that his dantian was improving .

Noah began to forge living weapons again, even if there weren't rank 4 cultivators available for their purchase . The recent losses had left a lot of living weapons behind, but very few cultivators able to wield them .

It was finally his turn with the sixth Kesier rune at some point, and his days suddenly became hectic . He couldn't waste that opportunity to improve his mental sphere as much as he could, especially with the breakthrough of his body drawing close .

A bit more than a year passed in that situation .

The territory with the stele had become quite crowded in that short period . The arrival of the new troops helped their armies to reform, but they had to summon human cultivators personally since they couldn't travel alone through the new continent .

Also, the cultivators of the Elbas family were developing an item that could block eventual explosions of buildings in the future .

The war was about to start again, and the invaders wouldn't stop until the Empire didn't have any domain left in the new continent at that time .