44 White Deacon Part 1 (1/2)

Walking back from the corridor leading to the temple, Nailisi had already stood up. Her expression was no longer as listless. She obediently stayed with them and whispered to Saleen, ”Master, are you looking for the exit?”

Saleen furrowed his brows. Nailisi knew why Saleen was upset and said, ”I will call you chief once I’ve learned the language you are all speaking.”

Saleen snorted. He was afraid that his heart wasn’t strong enough and that he would be tempted by the imp instead. Even though a soul bond existed, it was hard to say that there was no danger.

”This altar is the exit. Back then, the people who built this temple could leave directly from here. That is why I’ve been waiting here for thousands of years.” There was an unimaginable sadness in Nailisi’s voice. Saleen knew he could not stop her, either, for it was the nature of an imp to be ready to seduce anyone at any moment.

”It seems like master doesn’t have that much energy.” Nailisi stretched her back. Since transforming, she had lost her tail and it would take some getting used to.

”Is there no other way?”

”If there was, I would have escaped a long time ago.”

Saleen kept quiet. He touched the Ring of Gifts on his hand and said, ”Canghong, when you first found the entrance to the ruins, what was it like?”

Canghong’s face turned red. He said, ”I don’t think it was here. It was a magic tower, buried underground with only the peak of it showing.”

He had actually gone the wrong way?

”Everyone disperse and look carefully. See if there’s anywhere on the altar where a gemstone can be inlaid.” Saleen could only hope now that this ancient magic array had a simple method that commoners could use to pass through. A teleportation portal was very rare and there were probably less than twenty teleportation magic arrays in the four empires all together. These magic arrays could be used by commoners, but a large number of gemstones were expended each time they were used, so the price for them was hefty.

However, as long as they could get out of here, Saleen could afford it. He was no demon, and if he had truly been trapped here, it would not take tens of thousands of years. He would starve to death in a month.

Canghong had unconsciously started listening to Saleen’s orders. Comparing their abilities, Saleen was not as skilled as him in close combat. However, if the distance were to be increased, he would be no match for Saleen. In the beginning, Saleen had held back, but after everything that had happened, he had taken over as the leader of the team.

”Leader, there’s a hole here!” Sika’s voice was tremendously loud, echoing from the top of the altar.

Saleen came to Sika’s side, bent over, and touched the floor with his hand, feeling the magic streaks there. The hole that Sika had found was at the crossroad of all the magic streaks, and it was highly plausible that a gemstone could be inlaid there.

Saleen put his fingers into the hole, feeling its structure. He realized that this was a pedestal that could allow gemstones with twenty-four sides to be inlaid.

There were two different gemstones that could activate a teleportation portal. The first was known as the white spirit crystal, and the second was known as chalcedony. From their heist, Saleen had both gemstones. A white spirit crystal had a constant value while chalcedony’s was difficult to determine.

While Saleen considered which gemstone to use to activate the magic array, Canghong and Sarah both found a hole in which to inlay a gemstone and activate the teleportation portal. Usually, three gemstones would do the trick. Saleen felt that he was in a pinch, as these holes were not small and the inlaid gemstones could not be retrieved again.

He decided on the white spirit crystal in the end. He only had two pieces of chalcedony and it would be hard to cut three out of them.

Saleen dejectedly took out a white spirit crystal the size of a ball, feeling a little troubled. The white spirit crystal was very tough. He wondered how was he going to cut it into twenty-four equal sides.

Once a mage reached Grade 4, they would learn a certain spell: Current Cutter. This magic could then be used to cut different kinds of gemstones. However, Saleen was only a Grade 1 mage. He could cut the gemstone by using heated rhenium gold silk. There was a piece of rhenium gold in his Ring of Gifts. However, he was not an alchemist and would be unable to cut the rhenium gold, which was a hundred times tougher than steel, into thin streaks.

Sika, Canghong, and Sarah. The three of them did not seem like they could complete such a meticulous task. Nailisi saw Saleen worrying and in her quick thinking asked, ”Master, is there any problem that I can help you with?”

”You? Do you have a way of dealing with this white spirit crystal? Cut it into three equal parts with each part having twenty-four equal sides. The bottom needs to be four centimeters across, just like the magic nucleus of a magic beast.” Saleen thought, This imp has survived for tens of thousands of years. She should have some talents and should be able to cast a few high grade spells.

Nailisi took the white spirit crystal from Saleen. This was a more primitive crystal, and there were even impurities on the outside as it hadn’t been processed before. She observed it for a while before placing the white spirit crystal to her mouth and beginning to bite it. With a loud crack, the tough crystal had been bitten apart by Nailisi.