Chapter 1465: Chapter 1465
Chapter 1465: Advancement (Part 1)
Saleen spent over 1,000 years training to use lightning magic in a rather boring way before seeing signs of advancement . The powerful beings he surrounded himself with were shocked . They gathered around him and wanted to see how a mage like him could advance .
“It’s dangerous . Leave me alone!” Saleen barked . The only people left around him were the three weapon spirits and the Violet Angel . They wanted to say something to him, but he chased them all away again and again .
His followers knew he was not one to make a bigger deal out of things than they were . If he said something was dangerous, it was definitely something that could affect their lives .
This was why a mage’s advancement was generally not witnessed by others .
If enemies observed the process, they would be able to assess a mage’s true powers . If friends were watching from the sidelines, a failed advancement might cost them their lives .
Mages had no way of controlling their bodily states when they advanced . Everything came down to luck . That’s why mages above level-6 spent all their advancement processes in magic towers: The higher a mage’s level, the greater the changes from advancement .
For someone like Saleen who had only begun mastering the rules, there was no telling how great the magnitude of energies would be when released . If he were making breakthroughs at the highest levels, the energies would be commensurately high too .
With that said, now that Saleen was at the precipice of advancement, the entire Hall of Gods would be filled by lightning powers at the pinnacle of level-13 .
Moreover, at the very instant Saleen advanced, those powers would jump to level-14 .
No one would want to be around something that dangerous . The only ones who stayed near Saleen at that moment were his 24 thunder dragons . He didn’t dare keep Dante, the god of lightning, around . Had he done so, it would have ended up absorbing his lightning rules, rendering Saleen’s advancement incomplete .
That was the downside of having gods as subordinates . There were some things Dante was incapable of controlling .
The Hall of Gods darkened . Except for the faint light unleashed by the divine persona, only that bit of elemental energy was released naturally by the walls . That energy was stored inside the remains of the gods, which was seemingly limitless .
Saleen’s water and lightning magic chords all extended outside his body . Those chords were transparent and had magic patterns coursed about them . The phenomenon made Saleen look like a mollusk, while those magic chords looked like his tentacles .
The image was obviously quite ugly, yet Saleen felt very tranquil at the moment . He was even thinking that if he built a massive magic net in some plane, none of those enchanters would want to advance this way .
Humans came in all shapes and sizes when they had reached the end of their evolution . Mages were still considered normal in that case . The minds of humans were probably even stronger than the gods’ . There was a reason for this . Despite the short lifespan of humanity, humans had probably seen more changes than what the gods would see after more than 100 million years .
Uncontrollable .
Saleen recalled that magical term: The evolution of humans was uncontrollable .
No professionals could walk the exact same paths as their teachers . It was the same between Saleen and Jason as well as between Saleen and Truman .
Truman had balanced six elements while Jason preferred fire and water more than anything else . He, on the other hand, acquired lightning magic chords, making him more similar to Nailisi’s human form instead .
The seven magic chords seemed to have turned into lightning as they danced in a frenzy in midair . As Saleen hovered, lightning exploded against a fiery blast in the Hall of Gods, with no corners uncovered .
Saleen was astonished to find that his advancement had triggered a multiple-target skill at level-15—Dance of the Lightning Snakes .
He never expected that would become his special skill .
He had wanted to acquire a single-target offensive skill like the Crystal Finger . When imbued with lightning properties, such attacks would enable him to kill something at a higher level .
Dance of the Lightning Snakes was a multiple-target spell . Although useful for attacking targets below level-14, it would be effective against targets not armed with powerful equipment .
Saleen stopped sulking shortly thereafter . The Dance of the Lightning Snakes had a very wide area of effect . If he were ever ganged up on by the thousands, that one skill alone would have allowed him to reduce those thousands to dust in the blink of an eye .
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It was fortunate that he had chased all his followers away earlier . Otherwise, Dante probably would have been the only one left alive in that place .
Saleen saw his magic chords sticking to the walls of the Hall of Gods . They began sucking powers from there, discharging electrical arcs . Ah, trouble was brewing . It was entirely possible that his lightning magic chords would destroy the place .
Luckily the lightning magic chords had absorbed ample power about half an hour later . The walls were hardly scratched when they returned to his body . A place forged with the gods’ remains was extremely resilient .
Saleen’s advancement process only lasted about half an hour, though it felt longer than 1,000 years to him . All 360 million lightning runes coursed about in his mind once . The speed of the process was such that even a mage like him, who had commanded formidable power of the soul, felt as if he was about to break .
The cause of this discomfort was the sounds from the appearance of the lightning runes . The vibration frequency consisted of rules of thunder and electrical discharges .
That was to say, he had been forced to take in huge amounts of lightning rules within that half an hour .
Were it not for his advancement, a common level-13 mage would have gained nothing from that experience, even if he had managed to somehow stay alive . In conventional circumstances, level-13 was the first time a mage was able to touch the secrets of the power of the soul . Saleen’s power of the soul, on the other hand, had already reached its pinnacle state .
That was why Saleen was able to endure the ordeal . The lightning rules were sealed deep inside his soul, at least for now .
The 360 million runes consisted of the general principles of lightning rules . If he were to familiarize himself with every single rule, there was no telling how long it would take . He had already reaped the greatest reward of the experience—advancing to level-14 and possessing a level-15 multiple target skill .
Saleen went out of his way to experiment with both, confirming them to be level-14 magic chords . But he was able to begin learning level-15 lightning magic .
After his magic chords changed, he initially thought he would have had trouble casting water magic . To his surprise, he retained the use of water magic .
That was not all . Saleen found that control of the other five elements was no longer as troublesome as it used to be . The advancement had finally gotten rid of the problem plaguing his body . The only shortcoming left was the mark of hatred left behind by Ismail, which still proved incapable of being scrubbed away .
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Scrubbing the mark off through sheer force would have harmed his soul, and Saleen saw no need to do self-harm simply because he wanted to run from a God of Underworld . It was really hard to repair a damaged soul .
The 24 thunder dragons were unharmed when Saleen’s Dance of the Lightning Snakes was in full effect; in fact, they were very excited . Their master’s advancement resulted in some seals that were placed on them bursting open . True scales began to form on their bodies; their horns extended and split into prongs . This meant that the thunder dragons began to gain true skills instead of having to instinctively charge before using electrical attacks .
By this point, Saleen was only able to tell that the walls in the Hall of Gods had been damaged . After that, they were doing self-repair . The divine persona, which should have lasted another four to five hundred, had its brightness reduced by half .
Saleen had more than 200 years left in the hall . How exasperating! His advancement harmed the walls on the hall, and his divine persona was used instead to fix the damages . He learned by then that mages really should not be cheapskates .
The three weapon spirits burst out of the magic amplifier and shouted in an agitated state .
“What are you guys doing?” Saleen was thunderstruck! He sensed that the powers of the three weapon spirits had risen exponentially . It was therefore not surprising that they hadn’t been able to advance before—Saleen was the one to be blamed .
He only came to understand more about the jade fragments’ abilities by then . There was no need to be concerned about his actual level when he was in control of those weapon spirits when they were at level-13 . Demigods, however, at level-14 were no longer beings that could be controlled solely through the jade fragments . He needed to be at level-14 himself before control would be safe .
He began wondering what kind of a lunatic genius had crafted the jade fragments to the extent that they could keep powerful beings on a tight leash .
Even if I set a trap for Myers, would I still be able to control her?
Saleen dismissed those thoughts right away . There was still a level-18 scroll in his Ring of Cosmos, a gift from the Goddess of Myers . If that scroll ever detonated, not even 100 Figures of Fate would keep him alive .
In the two remaining months left, Saleen had his followers in the magic amplifier emerge outside for training . Two-hundred years were not all that long to such powerful beings after all .
Saleen began to train in lightning magic below level-15 . He tried many times with the Ring of Cosmos but was still unable to extract the Aqua Fulgur within at will . He knew he was of an insufficient level and wondered what level the water was at . Despite having advanced to level-14, he still couldn’t use them as he pleased .
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It was fortunate that the Ring of Cosmos was extremely daunting in its capacity to enhance power of the soul . That was considered the most powerful equipment in Saleen’s arsenal .
Saleen did not fiddle with equipment after that but trained in silence . He enhanced his Water Flame skills and familiarized himself with spells between level-13 and level-15 . Doing so cost him considerable time . Over 200 years passed and the divine persona on the magic array, which had once been a perfect piece, had finally broken up into six pieces .
Saleen put the pieces of the broken divine persona away . He was considered quite a loser in that case, for he initially had powerful rules that he could have had access to, but at present, those rules ended up in six broken fragments .
Broken divine persona and a whole piece had totally different values to them: This was akin to the difference between a pile of dirt and a mountain filled with gold ore .
“Master, may I have a piece?” The Violet Angel went up and asked Saleen . It had learned many skills for the past 1,000 years or so . Too bad it still couldn’t advance . Advancement was too difficult for one such being . If it had no extraordinary encounters, it would probably stay at level-13 until the day it died .
Saleen threw a piece to the Violet Angel without saying a word . The Violet Angel’s soul was locked within a lightning cage . It was impossible for it to escape his control . Further, that thing seemed to be enjoying its current status very much .
Saleen considered the Violet Angel a lunatic but knew it would never betray him . Hmm, I wonder…
Puzzled, Saleen took another piece and handed it to Rafel, saying, “If you want to advance and become a demigod, eat this . If not, embed it onto a piece of gear . ”
Rafel saw no need to be polite . She took the piece and embedded it on her spear . The Inferno Spear had been completely reworked by then . Red colors crossed with greens, yet it did not look to be anything less than tasteful .
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