Chapter 1359: Chapter 1359
Chapter 1359: Lightning Armament (Part 2)
There was nothing Saleen could have done about Raphael’s Crystal Ring . He went to work on the Thunder Dragon Blaster . The weapon was of far better quality than the Thunder Dragon Bangle . After all, the bangle was created using fully intact bones of the most powerful thunder dragons .
The difference was that the bones lacked flesh and blood . To complete the weapon, Saleen merged the golden liquid into the Thunder Dragon Blaster .
His mental powers expanded again after he had merged his soul with his body . The extent of the expansion was beyond his comprehension . At the very least, he was now able to see everything within a 100-kilometer radius without having to use the Elemental Eye .
That was not due to his mental powers but to the power of his soul .
It was said that mages were only able to access the powers of their soul when they reached level-13 . Saleen had already gained such powerful abilities before he had even gotten to level- 11 . His speed at learning magic would have no longer been a slog that it used to be .
He would have only needed to master the rules of the magic to be learned, looking them over just once to get a roughcasting . Practicing this magic hundreds of times would have resulted in near mastery .
The power of the soul was thousands of times more condensed than mental powers . Saleen found it over a thousand times easier to work on the Thunder Dragon Blaster . Because he no longer had to worry about errors, his speed at re-crafting the Thunder Dragon Blaster was considerably quicker than it used to be .
After absorbing ample amounts of golden liquid, the weapon gained some size and weight but was still just slightly longer than his forearm . He embedded the weapon with the divine persona of the water elemental god .
That was the most precious item in his possession . Without it, the weapon would have been substantially slower at conjuring lightning icicles: its ability to fire continuously would have been limited .
The weapon’s appearance hardly changed even after absorbing the liquid . While it looked somewhat larger, the internal changes were enormous and now were like those of true thunder dragons .
The place where the magic nucleus was embedded was relocated inside the weapon—the stomach of thunder dragons .
To put it more accurately, that was no longer embedding . Saleen only needed to throw a magic nucleus into the mouth of the Thunder Dragon Blaster and it would have swallowed it on its own . As for the divine persona of the water elemental god, it was wrapped in golden granules, becoming the heart of the weapon .
The Thunder Dragon Blaster became a miniaturized version of a real, living thunder dragon . Such crafting techniques were, however, found only in the secret arts . Saleen probed with his power of the soul after finishing the modifications .
The number of lightning icicles capable of being fired by the weapon increased to 12 at a time while recharging time was halved .
The weapon thus allowed him to fire 12 lightning icicles within half an hour . The Thunder Dragon Blaster became Saleen’s main assault weapon from then on: no other equipment was able to recharge as quickly .
Saleen was very, very pleased with himself . He never had high expectations of the changes to the Thunder Dragon Blaster, to begin with, as he had not added much to its design in the first place . Most of it was done by replicating Hogina’s Gun .
The genius girl at alchemy was unable to craft something exceeding limitations, despite her designs being exceedingly wondrous .
Saleen then moved to the main target of the crafting session at that time—the magic amplifier .
He used too many secret arts from another crystal wall system for crafting it . He poured a huge quantity of the golden liquid into it and then threw in the dagger made from the purified bones of the Heretic God .
The black necklace transformed into a ring, hovering behind Saleen . The black ring had 24 sections to it that used to house the thunder dragons . With them no longer inside, he added the golden liquid and had the sections coalesce into something resembling lightning beads .
The golden beads, however, were not something that could have been replenished on their own when used . Saleen had no intention of using them in battle . He was too low a level and unable to bring the original powers of the beads to bear .
As such, he was only storing the golden granules using such a method that let them be continuously tempered with lightning, thereby upgrading their quality .
The golden dagger remained resistant to the workings of the Water Flame . A layer of thin golden colors were coated onto the black ring . The dagger zipped in and out of the faint golden ring, intending to escape .
Saleen began chanting Thundering Explosions at the dagger . Despite not having a weapon spirit, the weapon nonetheless seemed to possess a will of its own . It began to tremble as Saleen continuously attacked it using a thundering sound within the ring .
But the rules of the plane simply didn’t allow something like that to become a weapon spirit . Even if the bone of the Heretic God had been purified, it was still being rejected by Myers Mainland . If that thing were to be made into a weapon spirit, the Heretic God would have had to do it personally .
The faint will on it was gradually scraped away by Saleen’s thundering sound . It quieted down only after being bombarded by tens of thousands of thundering chants, hovering in the middle of the ring without making a sound . Saleen pointed his finger and sent forth a bloody mist that fused with the golden dagger .
Lightning magic patterns filled the internal parts of the golden dagger, developing 64 ancient, plain characters .
Saleen felt as if his soul had developed a link with the magic amplifier and the metal dagger . That was one of his secret arts used for crafting . He had no idea why such an outcome was yielded, but he nonetheless deemed it a satisfying one . He tried to take control of the golden dagger and make it fly .
That golden dagger developed limbs, and Saleen could make it move any way he wished simply by directing it with nothing more than a single thought .
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The golden dagger circled around Saleen’s body as it flew, while the ring hovered behind him . Its flight became increasingly quick and gradually turned into a beam of golden light, zipping in and out of the Water Flame .
Saleen was finally able to craft the golden dagger using Water Flame . Its colors began to dim until they became transparent . The lightning magic patterns within were no longer around .
“Rafel!” Saleen gestured for Rafel to make a move . She knew what he wanted of her and brandished a blade that he had crafted from heavy crystals . Its outer layer was made of gorilla metal, which was known for its hardness .
The magic blade was swung at Saleen . The wind whipped up by the blade cut like Wind Blades .
The wind produced a vacuum in front of Saleen before the blade had even reached him .
The cutting wind from the blade disappeared without a trace . A golden dagger came right before Rafel and flashed before appearing on the other side of the tower . Such speed of movement would have been possible to withstand by the constitution of a level-13 angel like her .
Still, she was startled .
The magic blade in her hand had nothing but the hilt left, an outcome resulting from being hit over 1000 times by that golden dagger and reduced to dust .
“It’s finally done!” Saleen felt pleased with the weapon he had just crafted . There was no need to say much about the range of its attack because it exceeded even that of the Thunder Dragon Blaster .
More important, the dagger’s unparalleled sharpness would have only become evident when attacking .
It was a dagger capable of turning invisible . It was as if Saleen had crafted something using secret arts in the realm of assassins so that he could sneak up on his enemies .
It was a given, however, that such an enemy could not be too powerful: If its power of the soul exceeded Saleen’s, the dagger’s invisibility effect would have been broken .
On the other hand, the dagger’s range of attack was frighteningly long . Anywhere that Saleen’s territory could have reached, that dagger would have had no problem traveling to .
Even after compression, the radius of Saleen’s territory could have still reached over 60 kilometers, a distance the dagger could easily fly .
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Mages also had similar control abilities, but the weapons they were able to control were usually thin and very fragile . That golden dagger’s weight surpassed that of any weapon Saleen had ever seen .
In addition, it was unusually sharp . It would have been able to pierce a mage’s shield right away even if it was merely tossed .
The most important thing was that Saleen was then using the power of the soul to control the dagger, which was of a higher grade than mental powers and cost even less . It was also easier to replenish .
Saleen’s expression was calm as he said to Rafel, “Continue!”
Rafel switched to a huge shield over four meters high originally meant to be used by supreme demons . The one Saleen gave her was the best he had at that time . Rafel’s body grew in size and charged at Saleen with the shield .
With nine pointy spikes, the shield was intended to be used in formations . If such huge shields were meant to be used by demons in a formation and pushed forward, no unit types could have punched through them, be they infantry or cavalry .
The sword in Rafel’s hand was about six meters long and definitely not meant for humans . Rafel had been attacked by the golden dagger once .
She focused her mental powers and was more or less capable of telling where the invisible dagger would appear . Saleen’s dagger flew about in the air and attacked repeatedly . All those blows were repelled by Rafel and her huge shield .
It was not that the shield was so durable but rather that Rafel was repelling it with unusual finesse . The dagger never actually clashed with the shield head-on .
A warrior’s experience was usually measured by the number of battles fought; that number was typically in the hundreds . Rafel had fought over 10,000 battles throughout her lifetime . In every single battle, she would have needed to repel over 100 enemies at a time .
Millions would have died: Rafel’s combat skills were honed to perfection through repeated life-and-death battles . Combat weapons required tempering in the battlefield, and Rafel was as tempered and polished as a living weapon could be .
The golden dagger eventually punched through the shield with the sound of a foot stepping in mud . Rafel’s sword was also right on top of Saleen’s head, and it was met with the magic amplifier getting in the way .
Rafel halted her blade . She was afraid of damaging Saleen’s equipment and, at the same time, didn’t want her skin to get scratched .
That thing was really creepy . Rafel disappeared yet again . When she returned, that golden dagger had already punched through her shield and came right in front of her face .
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Saleen’s dagger-manipulating techniques had become increasingly refined . He already knew how to make the dagger go where it wanted it to appear .
Rafel dropped her weapons with a clang and said, “That’s it, my lord . ”
“Why?”
“If I were to defeat you, I’d have needed to come at you with intentions of killing you . ”
Rafel’s words were direct . Unless she was giving her all and attacked Saleen like a target she must kill using all of her powers in the fight, the duel with that golden dagger would have only ended up in a draw despite her best efforts .
Saleen chuckled and took the family badge that Rafel returned to him, saying, “You’d be able to stop the dagger if you used godly items . But then again, even though it’s easy for me to repair the dagger, the same couldn’t be said with your godly item . I don’t actually mind clashing head-on though . ”
Rafel didn’t answer . She had many ways to kill Saleen, but none would have allowed her to come out unscathed . She had seen personally what Saleen’s equipment and skills were capable of, especially that finger attack which seemed to be intended specifically for dealing with gods .
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