445 Legendary (2/2)
Seeing that it could not escape, great determination rose in the dragon's golden pupils, and its body started inflating quickly.
Bang!
The power of its explosion was so great that the entire mausoleum seemed to be struck by a horrible earthquake! From above fell down the stone pillars, the vault, the walls… and everything.
When stone and dust settled, what was left of Vicente Miranda was only a skull head. Vicente was now quite pissed and even more gloomy, as it had taken him lots of effort to capture a golden dragon close to the legendary level.
However, he soon calmed down and flew back to the main hall of the mausoleum. Landing on a giant black coffin, he illumined the vault, and countless stars lit up.
A moment ago, when he was dealing with the dragon, he suddenly had a great sense of danger and thus became distracted. As a result, he was almost backfired by his spell. Although the backfiring turned out to be more startling than dangerous, he still lost the dragon and his body as a cost.
When one reached the legendary level, no matter whether the sorcerer was good at Astrology or not, he or she would purposefully pay great attention to make up for it. Even if the power of Astrology conflicted with their body constitution or soul, a legendary level sorcerer would still try to find a same-level astrological magic item for compensation. Otherwise, a legendary sorcerer who specialized in Astrology could become their most dreadful enemy at any time!
The power that Astrology could give became one of the prominent advantages for being a sorcerer over being a caster or a knight. Unless their talent includes prophecy-like powers or they possess similar legendary items, a knight or a caster could only rely on intuition to predict danger within a small range, but would be completely blind when facing the unknown hiding threats in the broader sense.
Vicente Miranda's spiritual power was not in conflict with Astrology. Therefore, although he did not study Astrology in depth, what he knew were enough for him to use and actually greatly surpasses that of the other legendary sorcerers who did not have the title of grand arcanist.
Against the black vault, the tracks of the stars was rather clear. The remaining skull head of Vicente bobbed in the air, and soon figured out the result:
”Storm… Tumult… Fernando… Destructive strike…”
The two flames in the skull flickered several times, and then Vicente said to the darkness,
”Congus, Rogerio, Demartes, Adol… Come and see me.”
The lid of the black coffin opened fiercely. A giant corpse surrounded with black smog sprang up. In the smog, countless layers of bodies made up the giant corpse. Those were all bodies of intelligent creatures — human beings, elves, dwarves, demons…
The huge corpse which was as tall as half a mountain possessed an extremely dangerous air, as if it could absorb all life power. Vicente's skull landed on top of it, like a pale crown.
The corpse's eyes suddenly opened wide, and two clusters of dark-red flame lit up in the eye sockets.
Only silence and darkness were left in this space.
...
On the thirty-third floor of the headquarter of the Congress.
”Sir, I received a letter from Felipe,” said Lucien straightforwardly to Fernando, who was strolling back and forth in his study.
”What letter?” Fernando asked with a strange look that was both serious and confused.
”He used a secret message in the letter, telling me that the Hand of Paleness has made an agreement with the spectres in the mysterious black and white space. They are going to stir internal conflict within the Congress using the debate war over the particle and wave theory to gain benefits. Felipe worried that the mysterious space could go out of control. Thus, he's on the Congress's side and told me the coordinate pair for the entrance of the space.” Lucien spoke briefly and clearly, but purposefully described the Hand of Paleness as the initiator.
Fernando nodded slightly. There was a hint of anger in his voice. ”So that's why…”
”What is it, sir?” Lucien was quite surprised by Fernando's response. From what Lucien knew about his teacher, Fernando was supposed to be beyond furious right now.
Fernando looked out of the window and said in a low voice, ”five minutes earlier before you arrived, Vicente came with Congus and the others. He asked to call for the Highest Council meeting.”
”What?” Lucien had no clue what was going on.
Fernando snorted. ”Vicente has caught all the spectres in the Hand of Paleness that came from the mysterious space, and put all the blame on Congus, Rogerio, and the others, claiming that they misled him. He then confessed all the secrets in the World of Souls, and told me that it is a space full of great dangers, so we have to take time to explore it.”
”… What about Mr. Congus? What did he say?” Lucien could not believe what just happened. He had arrived here as quickly as possible after reading the letter. How could so many things happen within such a short period of time? Had they caught Felipe?
Fernando shook his head. ”Congus and his people took all the blame, but they denied doing any damage to the Congress. Hiding some secrets itself won't bring them any severe punishment. The next step is to investigate those spectres…”
Fernando paused a bit, and then cast a glance at Lucien,
”If you don't know how to cover yourself using Astrology, don't ever plan on turning against a legendary sorcerer again, especially when you are trying to pose a threat to their life.”