Chapter 555
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Hidden amidst the grasses and trees along the way were the parasites . These parasites attacked by using a Soul spell to cause their targets to lose control first, then they would burrow through the body and infiltrate the brain .
Even without the mark of the bond, Luola's soul was too strange to be used as a target . The parasites only chirped, but did not attempt to attack the sprinting Luola .
They were still incapable of going up against a demon even if they tried their hardest .
Luola's senses were extremely sharp, especially towards creatures that were near him . Even if they were much stronger than him, he would still be able to detect them . Along the way, he could sense that there were countless parasites that wanted to attack him . Precisely because his senses were sensitive enough to detect all these things is why it was so terrifying . "On the Mountain Without End, there was a God that has yet to wake . "
This was what Nailisi had said and he believed every single word now . He had never seen such creatures before and he dared not entirely trust his life to a bond . If he was surrounded by the parasites and there turned out to be a loophole, then he was finished .
What Luola did not know was that after Saleen had left, Nailisi took the chance to devour Ismail's divine crystal under the protection of Jola and Su . Now, Nailisi possessed a large amount of Holy Prose and her sensitivity towards godly powers had improved dramatically .
After a month of deep sleep, Nailisi had absorbed some of Ismail's abilities . If she could devour his body, Nailisi would immediately develop her fourth special ability, rather than it being just a vague feeling .
The length and width of the Myers Mainland was not even one-hundred and eight-thousand miles . The height of the Mountain Without End was so long that if it was laid down horizontally, it could definitely split the Myers Mainland in half . With such a big piece of land, it should come as no surprise that there would be gods here .
The Mountain Without End was transported over from the giant dimension . After the Goddess died, there was nothing else to stop the mountain from developing spirituality and producing Gods .
Nailisi was willing to stay obediently in camp because she had already obtained a large amount of knowledge through Ismail . She now understood how terrifying this dimension was .
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The humans at that time were able to extract large amount of materials from other dimensions . This allowed the Goddess to quickly build up this dimension that was filled with various substances .
The humans at that time possessed such abilities too . To them, creating a dimension was meaningless and was a waste of effort when they could easily travel across all dimensions . The land, mountains, rivers and stars of this dimension were not created by the Goddess, but were transported over by humans for the Goddess to control .
That river that could submerge any object was probably the River of Nothingness from the abyssal plane . Further away was the jungle that seemed to have no boundaries, and was probably taken from the elf dimension . As for the land, its depth was thicker than the boundaries of the Myers Mainland . It was probably something similar to a complete and whole crust from the subcontinent plane .
If this mountain could produce Gods, then so could the River of Nothingness . Even the jungles, lakes, stars and basically everything possessed such a possibility now that the Goddess was no longer in control .
Based on this point alone, the Goddess must be revived . Many Gods would be produced in this dimension otherwise . These Gods were not produced on the Myers Mainland, so they were not restricted to only one dimension . Once they decided to leave this dimension, the Myers Mainland would be at risk of being conquered .
These Gods would destroy the barriers between dimensions and gather all the creatures from their own dimensions to replace the humans on the Myers Mainland .
This was the most effective way to conquer a dimension, unlike what the Lord of Glory was doing by spreading his faith amongst the human population .
The reason why Nailisi had instructed Luola to destroy the two mages completely was to prevent any shards of their souls from being left behind . If the Gods here became conscious and were able to recognize the unique features of the human soul, they would be able to find its weakness immediately .
Gods did not have souls . Compared to all other sentient creatures, gods were actually pitiable . Without souls, Gods could only exist within a dimension and depend on the dimension's powers to prolong their own lifespan . If gods desired to leave their own dimensions, they would either have to advance to a higher level or spread their faith in other dimensions .
By right, the gods that would be produced in this dimension did not belong to the Myers Mainland dimension . Since they were controlled by the Goddess prior to being produced, they would be able to survive on the Myers Mainland though . They would already bare the marks of the Goddess of Myers . The fall of the Goddess gave them the chance for freedom, but similarly, they would all be under her control again if she was revived .
Back when humans helped the Goddess to create this dimension, it was out of gratitude for the Goddess who had created a sun that belonged to the Myers Mainland . Unfortunately, an act of gratitude of the past have now created a potential crisis in the present .
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Nailisi understood this, so even if the Goddess had not left behind a bond, she would still have convinced Saleen to spread the Goddess' faith again so that she might be revived .
At first, Nailisi did not really care if humans were to survive or perish . Ever since she could travel from the Myers Mainland dimension to the demon dimension, she had treated the Myers Mainland dimension as one of her targets .
She was under Saleen's control so even if she summoned many demons and formed them into an army, it would not be considered as an invasion of Myers Mainland . Helping Saleen to gain control of the Myers Mainland was like helping herself . Her Master's lifespan was not as long as hers, after one-thousand to two-thousand years later, she would be able to build a demon kingdom on this dimension .
Luola reached camp on the fourth day . He secretly passed Nailisi the two rings and the bottle that contained the corpses of the parasite .
Nailisi asked Eleanor along and the two of them began to dissect the corpse of the parasite .
The parasite was about half a foot in length and its body was slender and soft yet very elastic . There were no scales on the surface of its body, only a very sharp mouthpart . On both sides of the mouthpart were slightly more than ten eyes that were of different sizes . Luola's horse-killing sword might have pierced through the parasites' bodies, but it did not fully impale them . Their bodies were incredibly elastic and what should be a huge gaping wound had vanished .
The parasite died very thoroughly and no longer possessed any aura of life . Even so, its body was still repairing itself automatically .
Upon opening up its brain, they found no crystallized substances in it . Nailisi groaned, but Eleanor began to record the Holy Prose found on the insides of the parasite's body instead .
"What is there to record?!" Nailisi asked impatiently when she saw Eleanor recording down the Holy Prose with pen and paper .
"For comparison," Eleanor answered coolly . She was not bothered by Nailisi's tone at all . This woman was mentally unsound . If she had time to argue with her, she might as well put in more effort to train up her spells .
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Nailisi was extremely sharp and immediately figured out what Eleanor was doing .
Within the knowledge of spells and magic, comparison was not a major subject . By making comparisons between specimens that were very similar, mages would be able to come up with many hypotheses .
Nailisi made a few cuts on the parasite's body with her dragon's tooth dagger, then carefully dug out its eyes one by one . The biggest of them was only about the size of a grain of rice . Nailisi tried to squeeze one with her fingers and was surprised that it were not crushed .
Although Nailisi's fingers might not be as strong as Sika's crushing a stone should be an easy feat . The parasite's eyes could be as hard as a magic nucleus . Nailisi did not have powerful mental strength like Saleen . She was not proficient with spells and did not know how to use alchemy equipment to conduct analyses, so she could only keep the eyes very carefully .
By deduction, the main ability of these parasites must be related to the eyes . Although the mouthpart was sharp, its body was so fragile that there was no way it would be used in a direct attack against a strong warrior . In fact, a group of ordinary soldiers were more than capable of turning these parasites into minced meat .
After Nailisi completed the dissection, she came to the conclusion that the mages must not be alone, or else they would be vulnerable to sneak attacks by the parasites . Unless the mages could be alert at every moment or their mental strength had reached the level of a grade-7 sorcerer, they would have no chance against the parasites once they relaxed .
On the other hand, the sensing capabilities of warriors were tuned towards sensing the presence of life forms . Compared to the mages, they would be able to detect such parasites much more easily . Even Lex's ten swordmasters would be able to kill the parasites with ease . After giving some instructions to Eleanor, Nailisi called for Tolesi and asked him to keep an eye on Lex's mages . If any mages still wanted to climb up the mountain in search of Lex, they would either be stopped, or Luola would continue to tail them and dispose of their corpses .
Saleen and the rest had been fighting in the temple for six days . The middle-grade scrolls had more or less been used up so the speed at which they were exterminating the dwarf demons had reduced drastically .
They fought for six hours everyday and used another six hours to repair the fully constructed puppets . Saleen's magic nuclei had not been cut at all . Without Nailisi by his side, he would have to do it himself .
Within these six days, not only had the number of dwarf demons reduced, there were no longer anymore mutated dwarf demons . It was only a matter of time before the dwarf demons were completely destroyed .
On that day, Saleen was cutting magic nucleus and Lex was repairing the fully constructed puppets when she suddenly stopped and was staring ahead blankly .
"What happened?"
"Two of my mages have died . " Lex's expression was terrible as she looked at the God's ring on her hand . The God's ring would never be wrong, two very powerful grade-5 mages under her command had indeed died .
Saleen also stopped and was quiet for a moment before saying, "Nailisi is fine and has not been in battle . They must have left the camp and encountered danger . "
"What danger did we encounter on our way up?!" Lex was agitated and suspected that Nailisi was behind the deaths of her two mages .
"We used Flying spells to come up here, but they could only travel by foot . You should know how complicated the creatures on the mountain may be . " Saleen was unhappy that Lex was suspecting Nailisi .
Lex stopped . She did know how dangerous the mountain could be . Those creatures might not pose any danger to Saleen and herself, but that was not the case to her mages .
"Princess, we must quickly exterminate these dwarf demons . " Bain reminded Lex . He must also have sensed that the there was something not quite right about this mountain .
"Do you remember what the sixth to last sentence on the stone tablet was?" Saleen suddenly asked Lex .
Lex shook her head . The words on the stone tablet were mostly the ancient Myers language, but some of them were in Holy Prose . She barely understood a tenth of the words of the sixth to last sentence .
"On the Mountain Without End, there has been a God for thirty-six-thousand years," Saleen repeated the sentence word by word .