304 Allowing the Enemy to Escape Part 1 (1/2)

Am I dying too? Saleen felt that breakthrough in his abilities, and it even affected his surroundings. The elemental disorder was toning down while Saleen's magic chords grew rapidly. At the same time, he felt that something had entered his brain, and with a boom, he fainted.

The black bishop observed Saleen from afar, but did not go near Saleen. The vigorous elemental vibrations on Saleen's body struck fear in him. The black bishop found Saleen quite terrifying. Having been in the inquisition for so many years, the black bishop had witnessed his fair share of strange occurrences, but Saleen still astounded him very much.

The magic of a grade-4 mage had posed a threat to a grade-7 professional. If not for the partial divine weapon that had been in his hand, that mage and his female warrior would have injured him. Seeing that Saleen had fainted, the black bishop retreated even farther.

Who knows if this isn't an ambush? Those elemental vibrations from the mage have even stabilized the elemental disorder. There must be something wrong! If his subordinates were not here, the black bishop would have definitely taken the risk to try and kill Saleen. However, the oncoming footsteps could already be heard clearly. A grand total of two hundred and forty swordsmen were going to arrive anytime now.

The black bishop would not want to take any more risks now that he was going to have so many people under his command. His early arrival had resulted in the deaths of two bronze grand swordmasters and damage to the partial divine weapon. The black bishop did not want any more accidents to happen.

As the elemental disorder stabilized, the water flow which encircled Saleen rose up and moved about gently, just like a snake. If someone tried to attack Saleen at this point in time, the water flow would retaliate autonomously.

Bam, bam!

Saleen could feel that his mental power had evolved and was now existing independently from his physical body. Was this his soul? However, Saleen's soul was definitely not made of up of his mental power. This was a condition which would occasionally occur in a grade-7 mage – mental dissimilation.

Dissimilated minds did not have similar attributes. There were thousands of variations in their details. However, there was a common feature, that dissimilation would cause the mage's mental power to grow by several times.

Saleen felt that he had entered the goddess' necklace, as though his mental power was travelling through the twenty-four segments of the necklace. With every space his mental power passed through, one magic symbol would be imprinted upon it. Saleen's mental power was becoming increasingly solidified. In the end, his mental power had transformed into a clot of blue liquid which was the size of a human adult.

This clot of liquid was continuously transformed by the magic symbols within the goddess' necklace, and then it underwent a strange transformation once more.

This blue liquid had solidified into Saleen's own appearance. It looked exactly like Saleen.

Soul incarnation? This skill could not be learned. It was an ability that would only occur occasionally when one advanced to the next grade. Saleen had not expected his advancement to have the appearance of such a skill. However, he was not jumping for joy. Nailisi might have already been dead. There was nothing which could make him happy.

So what if the black bishop was killed? Some things, when lost, could never be retrieved ever again.

In Saleen's eyes, a bundle of three-dimensional magic patterns were growing within his blue pupils. These magic patterns had come so suddenly, and Saleen did not even know why. If he could observe the magic patterns in his eyes right now, he would realize that the structure of these magic patterns were identical to that of his clan badge. It was just that the size was proportionately much smaller.

It was an extremely rare event for magic patterns to appear on a mage's body. However, some mages would use dragon's blood medicine to draw magic patterns on themselves, as it could bring about special effects as well. Saleen's magic patterns had grown in his pupils, and that was an event which had never been mentioned in any magic book before. Furthermore, he himself did not even know why something like this would happen.

As the magic symbols were assimilated into the soul incarnation, the goddess' necklace became empty. In the future, Saleen would no longer need to enter the necklace in order to learn those magic formulae. This meant that he would be able to calculate the implications of a certain spell under normal conditions, spending the same amount of time as when he was inside the necklace.

For example, the Figaro Formula could be used to dissect a spell in order to discover its weakness. At this moment, Saleen could do the same thing as Lex's teacher. He could now dissect a spell which was at the same level or a lower level than his own grade. In the past, Saleen and Lex had practiced such an ability for a long time, but they had only managed to do it to a few low level spells in the end.

Prior to this event, the spells which Saleen could dissect had all been lower than level-3, and the quantity was less than ten. Now that his mental power had transformed into a soul incarnation, Saleen would be able to dissect most spells under level-5 as long as he continued practicing.

If Saleen possessed such an ability, his offensive power would be increased by a large magnitude, because the dissection of a spell would consume less magic chords than the usage of a magic shield. How long a mage could battle was decided by the amount of their magic chords. If they used more defense spells, then they would have less magic chords for offensive spells. This was a fact which could not be altered.

However, Saleen was devoid of happiness at the moment. Once all of the magic symbols from the goddess' necklace had assimilated into the soul incarnation, Saleen made the soul incarnation enter Nailisi's body.

Saleen felt a kind of attractive force which sucked the soul incarnation into a space. This space was surrounded by green barriers, as though it were a gigantic green crystal box. Saleen saw Nailisi laying in that space. Outside this space, a gigantic black sickle was hacking her, as though it were destroying this space and trying to tear her into shreds.

On the barriers inside this green space, there were fine magic patterns. This time around, Saleen understood these patterns. These patterns represented the soul contract between Nailisi and himself. If the sickle managed to destroy the space, it would mean that the connection between Saleen and Nailisi would be detached completely. If the sickle managed to chop Nailisi into shreds, then Nailisi would really die.

All of a sudden, Saleen became very excited. Nailisi had not died yet. Was this her soul? A demon's soul typically resembled a demon. However, within this space, Nailisi had the appearance of a human.

Saleen did not delve into this matter. Since Nailisi had not died, he was more energetic now. Instinctively, Saleen walked towards that massive black sickle. Two rays of light shot out from his eyes. They were blue in color, and they looked extremely transparent. Shining onto the green barriers, the blue light projected two phantoms which were intertwined with one another.

As those two phantoms overlapped one another, a burst of blue electric current suddenly appeared. As the black sickle was being sent downwards, it struck the electric current instead.