Chapter 1439: Chapter 1439
Chapter 1439: Training Hard for a Thousand Years (Part 1)
Saleen was very polite to the general due to his gratitude for him .
The general placed Nailisi’s crystal coffin right next to his own . He opened the coffin and set the crystal ball in Nailisi’s mouth . The general shrouded Saleen with his own territory and felt something minute shaking in his body . It took only a split second for the general to read everything in the contract between him and Nailisi, which was housed in his soul .
If the general wanted to, he could peer into all of Saleen’s secrets, including his family badge and three weapon spirits .
The general did not do any of that . He simply siphoned power into Nailisi’s body, after getting to know Nailisi’s soul brand better, to repair her soul and heart . The actions were done in tandem, as neither was particularly difficult to a level 18 professional .
The main thing about the ordeal was how peculiar Nailisi’s soul was . Only one-eighth of her soul was actually harmed by the double of the Lord of Glory . If Saleen were capable of repairing Nailisi’s heart, there would not be any problem with Nailisi resurrecting .
However, like the general told Saleen before, Nailisi would never be able to evolve into a luoluokaluo of a higher level if he did so .
Saleen learned the repair methods used by the general, which used energy to reconstruct Nailisi’s heart . The method came with a great cost, and the general had probably used a part of the power he had acquired from the broken divine persona to do it . While he was able to retain his combat prowess as a heroic spirit, he had almost lost all of his abilities to heal .
Not even the grandmaster was able to guarantee resurrecting Nailisi . It all depended on the power left by the god .
After he was done repairing parts of her heart, the general took out the double of the Lord of Glory’s heart, installing it into Nailisi’s chest cavity . The heart was very small and white . It gradually turned red after connecting to her blood vessels, and then purple .
Saleen was surprised . That’s all?
The general smiled . “The most difficult thing about it is to have her soul merge with her body . While your power of soul makes you invincible to anyone below level 13, you still wouldn’t be able to do all of that with your current level of powers .
Saleen acknowledged his lack of powers silently . He understood it very well at the moment .
“The god cursed you right before he died . I think the Holy See will give the divine decree to have you eliminated by the time you return to Myers Mainland . You won’t be able to do much against it with your equipment alone, Saleen . You need to keep advancing, at the very least, until the permissible limit of this plane . ”
Saleen smiled bitterly . “General, I’m just as anxious in the matter of advancement, but…”
The general interrupted Saleen . “There is a Hall of Gods in the royal palace at the center of the imperial city . It was built using the remains of the 18 gods I killed . If you placed enough magic nuclei there, you would be able to adjust the passage of time to be different from outside . Go . ”
The general gave Saleen a silver badge with a dragon head emblem . The top corner of the badge had a complex magic array written using magic language .
“I have synchronized your soul vibrations with the badge . You can enter holding the badge and be spared from attacks from the royal palace . ”
“What about her?” Saleen pointed to Nailisi .
“Her injuries will heal in a month . You can stay within the Hall of Gods for a month . ”
Saleen nodded . He took Nicholas and Rafel to the royal palace of the city .
The royal palace was towards the north . Rafel was a lot more active after she was saved . She looked at the statues along the way . “My lord, we should take the statues back with us . ”
“What for?”
“You can decorate the city with them . They can be made into powerful weapons with just a bit of modification . ”
“You’ve made up your mind, Rafel?” Nicholas interjected from the side .
“What do you mean?”
“You’re not thinking about leaving anymore?”
“I’m not leaving . There is little else for me to do if I leave . There are always accidents with Lord Saleen around . It’s far more fun to just stick around than to look for something to do out there . ”
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Saleen smiled . Rafel was the strongest warrior serving him . As both of them had gone through life and death situations together, Saleen had an easier time trusting her . He had to be wary of the combat angel in the past, and he deemed such caution no longer necessary .
The walls of the royal palace were still in one piece . The royal palace was akin to Saleen’s Floating City, only somewhat smaller . The length of the walls were about 20 kilometers long .
Despite having the general’s badge, Saleen still dared not to scale the walls . The royal palace should be filled with all kinds of danger .
He entered from the gates at the side . There were still huge magic arrays on the gates watching what was going on below . Saleen held the general’s badge high . The magic array flickered for a bit before snuffing out the magic light around .
It was Saleen’s first time encountering a magic array capable of operating only when presence was detected . Black rocks lined both sides of the space within the gate . The rocks were carved to be tightly packed spikes . If they pressed together, no living beings would be able to run .
Rafel was rather frightened . “My lord, the rocks…”
“Were crafted from the core of meteorites . Relax, we’re not here to stir up trouble . ” Saleen was not saying that to console Rafel; he was doing so to console himself .
Regardless of how fast he could move, he had no idea what he should do if he was crushed by the spikes in such a narrow place .
Saleen and his party were right about their speculations . The rocks were indeed capable of being pressed together at very high speeds . Even a puppet made of pure metal would be crushed to pieces .
No one knew how many powerful professionals were killed by similar devices when humans conquered planes in ancient times .
The rough-looking rocks were made from cores of meteorites, and their weight alone was frightening . The only way to break them was through sheer brute force, which took time .
After walking through the long tunnel, they went into the barbican of the royal palace . There were still soldiers standing guard along the walls, all wearing rock-like armor .
Saleen held the badge high and walked further into the barbican’s gates, finding a small plaza . Plazas behind the city gates were used for gathering troops . There were many towers and residential buildings past the plaza, that remained standing, which meant the magic arrays of the royal palace were still working and were very effective .
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Saleen took a detour around the straight path in the center of the royal palace according to pointers given by the general, coming before a tall building .
The building looked blocky and was surrounded by pillars . It bore a striking resemblance to Metatrin City’s temple, but it was taller and the outer parts looked more ornate and colorful . The materials used to build it were not geared for resilience or sturdiness .
Saleen saw the colors outside the Hall of Gods and a lot came to his mind . His Metatrin City looked too much like a fortress, and it seemed that the residents felt restrained and frustrated . He had not been aware of any of it, but it was clear the negativity did not facilitate growth of souls .
The buildings in the Imperial City of the Abyss were different . The stone was colorful and the carvings on the walls were all done according to the patterns and colors of the materials . It was art .
Art had the ability to soothe souls . Saleen had never looked into it before . The beauty in Nature City had been done out of Sallen’s intention to placate believers’ emotions and concerns about the Goddess of Myers . All of his other cities basically looked like steel fortresses .
Anything that clashed was reduced to dust .
“My liege, how do we get inside?” Nicholas was unable to see any door . Saleen scanned the building with his Eye of Souls and saw four entrances . All four of them were extremely intricately built . The magic arrays on them were difficult to notice regardless of angles used to observe them .
The general said that the Hall of Gods was used by royal members as training grounds . He was a royal member, so he was allowed to get near . Saleen thought about it for a bit and decided to let Rafel and Nicholas return to his magic amplifier, and walked to one of the entrances alone .
There was a huge statue at the entrance which resembled a human military officer . Saleen inserted the general’s badge into the slot found on the statue’s chest and pressed . A colorful wall opened, revealing a small doorway .
Saleen walked inside and found a huge hall .
The door closed behind him without making a sound . Weak natural light emanated from the rocks in the walls themselves .
The hall made it feel like time had stopped . Saleen walked to the center of the wall and found a magic array on the floor .
There was a place on the magic array where magic nucleus could be embedded . It was surrounded by a ring, and there were markings showing the time on the floor . Saleen thought for a bit, thinking about how long he would want to train there .
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Level 12 was probably not enough . If the Lord of Glory showed up again and ambushed him, there would be no chance for him to run anymore .
He deemed it necessary to advance to level 13 before he had a chance to resist even a single strike from a double of the Lord of Glory .
Saleen took the divine persona of the water element god off of his Thunder Dragon Blaster . Even if the powers of his Thunder Dragon Blaster were weaker, there was no way he could avoid by paying the price of a divine persona .
He embedded the divine persona in the slot in the magic array on the ground . Intense light shot out from the divine persona, lighting up the entire hall .
Saleen looked at the markings on the ring around the slot . They all lit up with changing colors, until finally stopping on a dark red color .
It would be great to have a similar magic array in Metatrin City . However, he knew that it was impossible . The rules in the Hall of Gods were unleashed by the remains of 18 gods . There was he could take away even a single one of the gods’ remains, as they had all been fused together .
Crafting abilities of ancient humans might not have been as intricate and detailed as the contemporary humans, but they were able to tap into sources . There was no way Saleen would be able to destroy anything, given his lack of power .
The passage of time became very different from the outside world . Saleen took out a magic clock and placed in front of him . He scanned with his power of the soul, finding that time there passed 10,000 times more quickly than the outside world .
Power of a divine persona indeed! Even if Saleen embedded a high level magic nucleus, even level 16, he would never be able to achieve such an effect .
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