Chapter 1459: 1459
Chapter 1459: Test (Part 1)
The head warden looked at Saleen . He wasn’t planning to kill the mage before leaving the place . He was just thinking that Saleen, at level-13, would then be the most powerful mage on Myers Mainland .
Saleen took a look at the head warden, who had taken the form of a monster yet stood like a human . Clutching a sword, the monster was immersed in thought .
He also appeared to be oblivious to his changed appearance and the power he wielded . The head warden seemed able to command that magic beast, which was heading toward higher ground, crushing everything in his path .
Saleen noticed that the fire element in the lava did not match the flames on the head warden’s body . Those flames were absorbed then converted instead of being used as they were . What a relief . This conversion method might have been a higher-level skill, but it wouldn’t have allowed the head warden to attain higher speeds when acquiring elemental powers in battle .
What Saleen feared most was the head warden being armed with something like his own—the Figure of Fate . If he failed to kill the head warden on the first try, it would be futile to waste a level-18 scroll on a second attempt .
Both parties spent less than 30 seconds checking each other out . That was long enough for Saleen to understand that he wouldn’t be able to properly lock onto the head warden .
“Come up here yourself . It’s too hot down there,” Saleen said as he lifted his left arm . The Thunder Dragon Bangle split up, and 24 thunder dragons shot to the clouds, releasing countless bolts of lightning and triggering a downpour .
The water element became frighteningly dense . Rafel, who was next to Saleen, lifted her Inferno Spear and aimed it at the head warden . She was fearless against a level 14-enemy . Though the power difference between them was wide, she still had a good chance of knocking him off .
The head warden smirked coldly . Do you think you can weaken my fire-elemental powers with that water element? He found the basic move Saleen decided to use disappointing .
His flames were not conjured with common fire element but imbued with powerful rules . If they could be easily overpowered by the water element, there would be no need for him to train so hard or to twist his form into that of a monster . All at once, fireballs lit up under his feet . Stepping on them, he rose into the air to approach Saleen .
Saleen cursed him under his breath . You sly old fox .
The head warden was moving at a snail’s pace, and Saleen was powerless to do anything against him . His power of the soul didn’t target the head warden not only because the head warden had a higher power of the soul but also because he had godly items that deflected attacks .
The best way for Saleen to target him was to move faster . That would allow him to predict his trajectories of movement and calculate where he would be before casting an attack .
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That was easy to do . The head warden, however, chose to walk up one step at a time instead, messing up Saleen’s judgment .
Boom!
The rumble of thunder was heard in the sky once again, only this time it was not unleashed by the thunder dragon . Not even level-13 thunder dragons could cast lightning and thunder of such strength . Still, the rumble made the head warden falter .
This faltering would have gone unnoticed by most people, but not Saleen . Armed with the Eye of Souls, he fired seven lightning icicles without hesitating .
By then he was shrouded in a thin mist that grew so thick in a blink of an eye that no one could see him . In response, Saleen cast Quickcloud at full force, engulfing over 100 metal angels .
The head warden twisted his body . The seven lightning icicles missed their target . At the same time, he lost track of Saleen .
Saleen’s Quickcloud, which had risen to level-13, was no longer just a movement skill anymore . He managed to control the water element to intricate levels, causing the mist around him to merge seamlessly with the clouds during the downpour .
Saleen then cast 12-Thunder Phantasms shortly thereafter, a skill poor in killing but effective in ambushing .
It was especially so given how it was used in the clouds . Locating Saleen in them might not have required mental powers or power of the soul but if someone could distinguish illusions from a real body, it would have been impossible without using those powers .
Huffff!
Shhh…
The flames on the head warden’s body suddenly expanded as if his body had expanded . A ten-meter stream of flames was launched . All mists around the head warden were evaporated .
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He didn’t even bother locating Saleen’s, saying coldly instead, “Saleen, if you keep running away from me, I’ll just go after your soldiers . Is that what you want?”
“If you kill my troops, I’ll kill your wardens,” Saleen answered, taking control of a Thunder Phantasm .
“Suit yourself . The lives of those wardens belong to me in the first place,” the head warden answered without mercy . Saleen then recalled how the head warden caused the volcano to shake and did nothing to control his powers . Saleen knew that the head warden wasn’t joking or bluffing .
Saleen was still thinking when the head warden burst forth at a high speed, swinging his sword and cutting a Thunder Phantasm in half .
The beast sprayed blood as a flesh-and-blood person would have . Then it plopped to the ground, yelping .
The head warden laughed and said, “Saleen, you think these illusions are of any use?”
Saleen thought for a bit and knew what the head warden meant . Many weapons were capable of attacking souls . The godly item the head warden attacked was one of them . The head warden’s weapon didn’t detect the presence of a soul when it cut down a Thunder Phantasm, so he knew it was a fake .
“Saleen . Where are your angels? Hand some of them over and let me have a go at them . That should be fun,” the head warden continued to provoke Saleen . Those metal angels were scared! They didn’t fear death, yet the head warden issued something like stunning skills in magic .
Despite being only of level-10, the weapons held by those metal angels still posed a threat to the head warden . What he was doing was akin to clipping the wings at Saleen’s side .
He had no intention of taking on 100 combat angels on his own . After all, he didn’t want to end up getting injured for no good reason .
Saleen noticed that despite being able to command far higher powers, the head warden still chose to be cautious in battle . Saleen also knew that if he were not able to use a level-18 scroll, there would be no chance for him to get rid of that head warden down . The Lord of Glory’s double had been so pompous and fearless when he was chasing after Saleen back in the day, without yielding to tricks or defense .
Enemies like the head warden were the toughest to deal with . Saleen took control of another Thunder Phantasm and unraveled a level-12 magic scroll—Gale Dragon .
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Thousands of Wind Blades turned into tiny scales and attached themselves to a dragon conjured out of wind element before charging at the head warden .
The head warden swung his greatsword . That level-12 elemental creature was as fragile as a toy before the flaming sword . It immediately crumbled, as thousands of scales of the wind dragon were crushed before the beast had a chance to attack .
Seeing how adamant Saleen was, the head warden backed off his threat to kill Saleen’s soldiers even though they were scattered and hadn’t flown far away . As a level-14 being, he could have easily caught up with them . But did he want to chase small fry? That would have been mind-numbingly boring .
Further, those soldiers had gone off in different directions . Chasing after them would have been too tedious . Saleen wouldn’t have been hindered if hundreds of them had died, but there was no way the head warden could kill them all .
The head warden was now covered in flames . The clouds and mist couldn’t mingle where he was standing . The thunder dragons in the sky kept launching lightning bolts even though the attacks couldn’t punch through the flames .
The thunder dragons’ weaknesses were obvious . They needed more time to prepare their attacks . Attacking at high speeds would have severely diminished the strength of their attacks otherwise . The ball lightning Saleen had mastered was not something the thunder dragons could aim at . Ganging up on the head warden seemed like a great idea at the time . But this was madness: A thunder dragon could easily be taken down with one swing of the head warden’s sword .
Whoooosh . The weapon spirit of the magic amplifier appeared behind the head warden’s back, swinging its blade at him . The head warden threw his sword to block him while swinging his tail up, whacking the weapon spirit’s magic amplifier .
The amplifier was forced to bring its sword down, slicing the head warden’s tail .
He panicked for a bit after seeing that someone had managed to cut into his tail . So–the fiery red crystal didn’t block the golden sword’s attack .
And that’s not all . A deep gash was left on the godly item in his hand by a formless weapon flying at him .
What if he hadn’t had that godly item with him? The ambush would have done severe damage .
That golden dagger revealed itself after attacking and was unable to turn invisible again . That was because the head warden had switched the greatsword to his left hand, while his right hand, which was covered in scales, grabbed onto that weapon crafted by Saleen .
The dagger jumped for a bit before the head warden breathed purple flames onto it, covering the entire blade . The connection between the golden dagger and Saleen was cut off right away .
Saleen’s expression was unchanged . The weapon spirit of the magic amplifier escaped . The injured tail quickly healed with no obvious signs of damage
Sh*t . That thing is just like a fire-elemental creature!
The weapon spirit of the magic amplifier had no idea that the head warden was getting frustrated . The attack that had been able to cut into his tail was worse than the head warden expected . Worse still, the rules imbued within the great sword caused great pain to the head warden’s tail . If it had not been for the intense pain, the head warden would have been able to quickly lift its tail and destroy the weapon spirit on the spot .
Be it the dagger or the golden great sword, the rules imbued within were something that not even Saleen could decipher . Saleen simply wiped the aura of the Heretic God clean, yet the act gave birth to new rules . Such weapons were usually imbued with supplementary rules, yet they caused the head warden, who had a body of fire, to feel intense pain that went into his bones .
Was Saleen upset by this? Not in the least . Nor did he care that the head warden had taken his dagger . If he couldn’t kill the head warden, it would be pointless to keep the dagger around . If he did kill the head warden, he could easily get the dagger back again .
Saleen then aimed his family badge at the head warden and unleashed a thick bolt of lightning .
The attack was launched when the head warden was busy taking out the dagger . He had been greedy enough to give Saleen an opening to do this . But then again, that dagger was capable of cutting up godly items and the head warden just couldn’t resist the temptation .
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