Chapter 1325: Chapter 1325
Chapter 1325: Purification (Part 1)
A weak voice said, “Master…”
Saleen looked and saw the Violet Angel . He had no idea when it had sneaked into his Lightning Constellation . It still held onto the War Drum of Fear .
The Violet Angel looked at Saleen in fright . One of its hand was holding the bone hammer .
That thing was very good at running, but that was hardly surprising . It was a puppet controlled by Saleen . If he felt danger, it would also feel lit . It had quickly run before the explosion took place .
Saleen was unable to bring himself to berate the puppet . Furthermore, it had brought back the War Drum of Fear . Although the drum was powerful, if it was caught in the blast, it would have likely been destroyed .
He was not in a mood to console the puppet . He commanded the Floating City to attack in all directions .
The Oracle Corps suffered heavy losses . The targets Saleen attacked were all where level 10 holy masters . He had over 1,000 enchanters using level 10 magic attacks on the holy masters .
After several waves of attacks, the six level 10 holy masters were wiped out, and 6,000 enchanters were in a coma .
Highland City was in shambles . With more than 1,000 magic spells thrown below, even the ground itself was razed . With powerful volleys of fire magic being cast below, half of Highland City was burning .
There was no soldier capable of surviving the burning elemental fires . Only high level holy masters were left . They were struggling to hold on
Saleen possessed the Elemental Eye, which enabled him to locate holy masters who survived the fire . He had enchanters bombard any left above level eight . Not even he would have been able to withstand getting bombarded like that .
The lines of defense at the north and west were completely obliterated by the Floating City . Over 20,000 enchanters lost combat capacity . Not even a single mid-level magic nuclei was left on the Floating City .
Seeing that Grand Duke Iron Blood had retreated, Saleen took out the mid-level magic nuclei he had and threw it into the magic power furnaces . He brought the Floating City up to an altitude of 60,000 feet and headed east .
After that, Saleen began to check on his own internal parts . The Figure of Fate was completely shriveled . He became somewhat fearful . He hadn’t thought he could be killed back then, so he had stood before Jola .
The Figure of Fate had limits of how much damage it could take . When the damage caused exceeded the capacity of absorption, he would have been damaged .
He wondered what kind of god that finger bone belonged to since it exploded with such a force .
“Master…” The Violet Angel called out again .
“What is it?” Saleen asked .
“Finger bone of the Heretic God,” the Violet Angel said .
“What do you mean?” Saleen asked .
“Abominations, the Heretic God, ancient wars…” The Violet Angel began to think after blurting several terms . It had no memories of anything until it saw that finger bone of the Heretic God . The item managed to shake something out of its mind .
Saleen was reminded that the Violet Angel’s existence was related to the angel of fear . That face at the abdomen of the angel of fear was seen on the armor of the abominations . It seemed that was the appearance of the Heretic God .
His astrology managed to do its calculations without any trouble . That face had indeed belonged to the Heretic God, but there were no records of the Heretic God . Saleen had no way to continue doing his calculations . His level of astrology was too low .
At level 10, it was almost impossible to acquire information of some powerful being like that . Saleen had no intentions of continuing to train in astrology even though he was unable to calculate anything further . Still, the Heretic God was unable to make it to their plane . One finger bone was already terrifying .
If the Heretic God had made it to Myers Mainland, Saleen would have been killed right away . His intuition told him that since the Heretic God was unable to get to their plane, he was more or less done there . The Oracle Corps was totally unprepared . With six level 10 holy masters gone, Fycro had to have suffered quite a heartache .
The intense attack ended up exhausting all mid-level magic nuclei supplies on the Floating City . It caused over 20,000 enchanters to fall into comas and killed more than 100,000 Hole See warriors .
The over a million-strong army of the Oracle Corps was almost obliterated by Saleen . None actually dared to pursue him after his Floating City fled . The surviving holy masters were busy fleeing themselves . With Fycro absent, there was no one capable of stopping the taint of the Heretic God .
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The Floating City did not return to Metatrin City . Instead, it headed straight for Nature City . Metatrin City was an impregnable fortress . Even if Fycro was extremely pissed, he would have dared to fight Jason .
The reason Saleen chose to return to Nature City was because he was afraid that Fycro would destroy that city . It was worth noting that Nature City was the key to Saleen’s efforts in resurrecting the Goddess of Myers .
Although Nature City’s construction had been comprehensive, there were too few powerful ones around . Myers the Water Fox’s level dropped due to having to save Nailisi . She was only a level 10 and unable to take on Fycro .
As for Daliang City, it had reached an agreement with Golden Plains that Arbola was to support Lex to ascend the throne and become empress . If Fycro were to look for trouble with Lex, Arbola would deal with him . Lex was also a level 10 mage and had God’s Ring . As such, Fycro would not have been able to kill her .
Fycro appeared in Highland City several hours after Saleen’s Floating City took off . His expression was grim . Highland City was shrouded by black mist . It continued to spread outside, yet it never got further than 15 miles in diameter .
There was almost nothing left of his army . Only a little more than 100 holy masters remained . They led about 100,000 Bug Angel Warriors to await his return .
“What happened here?” Fycro patiently asked .
The holy masters were relieved by his demeanor . While Fycro was overbearing, he was not someone who vented his anger on others . None of them had been responsible for the incident .
A level nine holy master described the situation to Fycro .
“It seems that this Saleen has far better luck than I do,” Fycro said with a smirk . “I was wrong for trying to take his Floating City . We’ll head back and summon the souls of those who died in battle . We’ll see if they can be preserved in the Divine Abyss . ”
The holy masters were exasperated and returned to the Chaotic Swamp with Fycro . The Battle of Highland City was over . No abominations had been able to escape alive, yet Highland City was corroded by evil aura . Any living beings near Highland City would gradually turn into abominations .
Fycro was unclear what would happen from then on out . Having failed to acquire the Floating City, he did not waste his powers to purify Highland City . It was fortunate that there was still the Pivotal Council . Their holy masters would take care of things .
It was exhausting to clean up the aura of the Heretic God, so much so that it would have affected the combat prowess of the one doing so . If one were to endure the process, it was a good way to enhance one’s level at divine arts .
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If there was no enemy around, Fycro would have stayed behind in Highland City, figuring ways to completely clean the place up . At the very least, he would have been able to raise his power by another level .
Fycro did not seek revenge from Saleen . He failed in setting him up, and a huge portion of his troops were obliterated . It was hardly about who was right and who was wrong since it was impossible for mages and believers to be friends in the first place .
However, Fycro did not know that Saleen had evaded the bone’s explosion and even bagged the bone’s fragments for further research . He thought Saleen had actually evaded the calamity by chance and did not know of the finger bone of the Heretic God .
Saleen invited Grand Duke Iron Blood to stay behind when he returned to Nature City . The Grand Duke refused . He had lost over half of his forces and needed to recuperate back at his place . Saleen did not ask any further . As soon as the Grand Duke left, he called the pope, the leader of the knights, and the oracles of Nature Faith .
Baudelaire, Don, and Myers the Water Fox came to the Floating City . Saleen showed them magic projections . Baudelaire told him that he did not know what the finger bone of the Heretic God was . Myers the Water Fox did not know either . Only Don seemed steeped in thought .
After seeing Saleen looking at him with inquisitive eyes, Don said, “My lord, the Heretic God is the enemy of all gods . That’s all I know . I’m unable to understand why Fycro possessed the finger bone of the Heretic God . ”
“Enemy of all gods?” Saleen asked .
“I saw that being written by a prisoner on the walls when I was jailed back then,” Don said .
Nailisi snickered . Don had no choice but to elaborate and say, “That prisoner had been pope for three days . No one outside knew of that . ”
“That means it isn’t nonsense then . Don, write down everything you’ve seen . ” Saleen realized the information was important .
“Alright . ” Don asked for a pen and paper and began to write down the contents of what he recalled .
Saleen sealed the magic tower and dismissed his level nine subordinates . He took out a piece of the bone’s fragments, which he had sealed within a piece of crystal . He etched layers of lightning magic patterns on the exterior of the crystal . Electricity glittered on it .
The grey-whitish bone fragment continued to emit an evil aura despite having been blocked off by lightning magic patterns, intending to taint the ones within the tower . Saleen cast his Lightning Territory and suppressed the bone’s aura using territorial powers .
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The energy of the bone fragment was exhausted in the explosion . It had no way of destroying Saleen’s territory with the power it had left . Finally, its aura was contained within the crystal .
Saleen breathed a sigh of relief . Over 100,000 lightning warriors were destroyed while collecting the fragments, requiring them to slowly recuperate . The fragment was able to taint anyone who touched it and would have gradually abominated those lightning warriors .
If it had not been for the fact that the Lightning Constellation had a powerful weapon spirit taking charge, those lightning warriors would have either died or turned into abominations .
The Water Fox and the others felt a chill run down their spines . It was lucky for them that Saleen was to contain that thing .
“Are any of you three capable of using Purification of the Goddess of Nature?” Saleen asked .
“We do!” All three of them nodded .
Saleen was pleased and said, “From here on out, leave the matters of propagating the faith to others . All three of you are to take turns purifying this piece of bone . ”
“As you wish . ” Baudelaire was the first among them to agree to it .
Doing so had great benefits to him . Every time he used Purification on the bone fragment, he would acquire more power . That was the power of rules . Purifying evil for their god would earn him rewards .
Purification was a simple divine spell . Baudelaire could acquire powers over 100 times faster by purifying the bone than training on divine arts the usual way . Furthermore, he had no intentions of training in the divine arts of the Goddess of Nature since he no longer had intentions of becoming believers of any god .
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