At Kayden's words, they jumped at the back of the dragon warriors and flying beast men to quickly engage in an attack.
"Let's do our part as well. While they were not yet seeing the truth of the illusion." Carefully knowing that the illusion is still effective, Gabriel and Abaddon ordered their allies to also subdue the enemy.
Without delaying any further, their men unsheathed their swords and began attacking the rest in the temple square.
The once blood-boiling temple square has now become a bloody battlefield. The troops who were in perfect order a few moments ago were now in a state of panic and chaos!
Shing!
Clash!
With every swing of the sword from Gabriel and Abaddon's men, there would be a corrupted temple knight that would perish. Paired with the mighty attacks from Prince Nalu and his party, the start of the battle seemed to be favorable on their side.
Their goal was to eliminate as many soldiers as possible before the enemy side had already adjusted.
After all, even with the two parties combined, the enemy was still a force that was several times larger than theirs.
"D*mn where did these enemies come from?!" The corrupted knights were in panic. That was because they slowly realized that their comrades were dying out of nowhere.
In their point of view, their men would just suddenly drop dead with injuries but when they turned around there was no other enemy than the folks from the Green Wave Continent.
"Cardinal…let's go to safety!" Not bothering their own troops' predicament, Uriel and the rest of the captains immediately went on the Cardinal and the High Priest's side.
As the captain of the temple knights, it is their responsibility to protect the priests and the officials of the temple. So they all went on their side and tried their best to protect them at all costs.
But the problem is, they could not go anywhere at all!
Gabriel and Abaddon very naturally blended into the knights, after all it would be too eye-catching if they were not seen in action. On the other hand, they also had a mission to do.
While Kayden's party keeps everyone busy… they have to also stay close to the Cardinal and the rest to give Eli and the others a chance to infiltrate the underground laboratory and help everyone escape.
In the inner temple, Eli was joined by the folks from the Green Wave continent to infiltrate the underground laboratory.
Since Abaddon and Gabriel had already divulged the information on how to bypass all securities and head straight to the laboratory, they successfully arrived at the underground entrance.
Before they entered, they threw a few canisters of sleeping gas in the first level to minimize their delay by confronting the people inside.
Fortunately, the potent sleeping gas developed by Kayden immediately worked, most especially because he already had an idea about the capabilities of the people working on the first floor.
"Everyone wear your masks, then let's go." After waiting for a few minutes, Eli immediately instructed the warriors and then signaled for them to enter.
"Heavens! There are actually so many curse beasts here!" The warriors exclaimed as the first thing they saw were the cursed beast puppets that were stored in the glass aquariums.
What was more hair-raising was that their numbers went over a hundred!
"We shall quickly do our mission and escape, we do not know if these puppets would wake up out of the enemy's desperation. When that happens, we would be cornered." Eli warned once again.
Very quickly she spread her earth fairies to keep spreading the sleeping potion all over the place and the next level underground.
Their priority was to rescue the caged people on the second level.
"Eli chan… how about our own agenda?" Wisey reminded Eli.
They went there because they wanted to see the secret behind the Spectre's obsession with the asanis. Unfortunately, even after successfully infiltrating the underground laboratory, they weren't able to reach the forbidden layers of the laboratory.
"Let's do that after we reach the third floor… the men were already informed anyway," Eli replied.
Very quickly they arrived at the second floor. The stench of the place that was mixed with blood, urine, and feces assaulted their noses quickly.
But more than that, the one that struck the warriors the most was the miserable state of the people around them.
"These d*man bastards! How could they do this to our people!" The warriors shouted in anger.
"My friends, let us not be emotional here. We are racing against time. Let's rescue the poor men first before we figure out what more atrocities the temple has done to the Prasinons."
Eli did not let them wallow in their anger and immediately reminded them.
Upon hearing her words, the warriors could only swallow their anger and nod at her, recognizing that her warning made sense.
For the next few minutes, they all went from cage to cage, opening them up and putting them in the birdcage.
Eli gave them Leon's birdcage paper spells so that it would be more convenient for them to transport a lot of people. With this it would also be easy for them to fight should there be enemies around.
But reality hit them as the number of cages on the second floor was really overwhelming.
"So many people… an hour is not enough for us to take them out…" One of the men said in nervousness.
"Let's not give up and do our best. The spies outside will inform us anyways should there be any movements."
"You are right…" The rest agreed.
Eli was also doing her best to cut open the cages and help the rest escape.
"One should take the full bird cages and run to safety, that way it will increase the chance for us to rescue more." She suggested as she also noticed the difficulty of the task.
A warrior from the cheetah beast men volunteered himself, he took ten bird cages at once and ran out of the underground laboratory.
With this, the speed of the evacuation also increased. The rest of the warriors concentrated only on tearing open the cages while the fastest among them, the cheetah clan, took the bird cages out to safety.
"Success!" They all smiled as they filled the last birdcage and emptied the second floor.
"Let's quickly escape my lady!" They looked at Eli and waited for her to go out.
But Eli shook her head and told them, "I have my own mission to carry out. Your mission now is done, so go and take them to safety before joining the rest in the battle."
"This…" The warriors frowned upon hearing Eli's reply. Only by hearing Eli's words were they reminded of the fact that Eli and Kayden came here for a different purpose.
"We have to protect you, My lady." The warriors insisted.
But Eli shook her head and said,
"My mission might be dangerous, but the battle on the surface is just as dangerous as well.
Don't worry I have my own means to escape when the situation becomes dangerous. But to do this more easily, we must help our comrades upstairs to hold the enemy back."
Seeing the reason in Eli's words and the determination in her eyes, the warriors could only reluctantly comply.
Although they knew that Eli had her own means to escape, they were still worried because she would explore the laboratory alone.
"Then miss… can you at least allow us to station some to wait near the entrance of the laboratory, only then will we be at ease to join the battle upstairs."
"Alright… I thank you for this arrangement." Eli no longer rejected their goodwill and parted ways with the warriors.
This time Wisely and Baobao were already beside her, ready to accompany her all the way. From this point onwards, she and her contracted beast would carry out the mission.
"We're moving to the 3rd level," Eli said as she opened the passageway.
"Eli chan~ the fairies said that the people downstairs were already sleeping soundly. Let's go quickly!" Wisey informed Eli.
While they were busy rescuing the people on the 2nd level, the earth fairies were sent to drug the people downstairs.
"Ok, let's go then!" Eli continued her travel downstairs and immediately took something from her space pouch.
It was none other than the Pope's token!
"Hahaha! Up until now, I cannot thank the spatial king enough for giving us this great convenience. Who would have known that his playful prank would give us this advantage?!" Wisey rejoiced inside.
"Indeed, the spatial king is really quick-witted! He really did us a lot of favors!" Baobao chimed in. Even when he was with Little Han these days, he was informed of the things that transpired with Wisey and Eli.
They arrived at the third floor downstairs and saw the quietness of the formerly bustling laboratory.
"The earth fairies did not manage to see any more entrances other than that door mechanism to the west. Let's take a look." Eli looked in a certain direction and her eyes squinted a hint of seriousness.
But just as she was about to head over to the area, the entire underground laboratory shuddered violently.
"This is bad!"
Eli and the rest suddenly went nervous, the shaking of the underground facility is not a good premonition!
