307 The Long-term Plan Part 2 (1/2)

Pasatilo and Kanuka took Saleen's token and letter, then they left the city base at night. They were accompanied by a boat of sailors, and travel;ed on the same route as the one Lex had used as they made their way to Lianyun City.

Consequently, there were only two grade-4 mages and some low grade mages left in the city base. These two grade-4 mages were older in age, and they had zero chances of becoming sorcerers. They were also more experienced in life. Even though they might not have been of much help on the battlefield, they were proficient in management, and that was why Jason had asked them to assist Saleen.

The three kings might not have been reliable, but they were able to guarantee Saleen's safety at the moment. As long as Saleen did not leave the shore, he would not need be afraid of the Holy See's retaliation.

Back on the pan's turtle alchemical boat, the winged skeleton had already executed all of the black armor warriors. When these warriors had died, some holy texts had been seen escaping from within their bodies. Under the winged skeleton's control, only a minute amount of holy texts managed to fly out of the alchemy ship.

The Holy See would only receive some vague information which would convey the message that the believers of the Lord of Glory had been tortured by some spirit.

Nailisi had also gradually recovered from her injuries, because of the soul contract between Saleen and herself. In fact, even if the hell's trial had destroyed her soul space, Saleen would still be able to help her recover. As long as Nailisi's soul was not broken, it would be difficult for her to die. Now that Saleen had the winged skeleton by his side, Nailisi's soul could also be converted into a spirit in the event that her physical body was destroyed.

However, Saleen did not want such a thing to happen. He wanted Nailisi to have flesh and a physical body. While he had been in that strange soul space, he clearly remembered seeing that Nailisi's soul had already been transformed into the shape of a human.

The body of a demon with the soul of a human.

Currently, Saleen still had a swathe of construction materials. At the moment, Saleen could not build a magic tower, because there were no mages around to lead the magic tower. Saleen decided to involve the three kings in the building of the normal structures, since Judikaka would still lend a helping hand in this matter. Anyway, the ones doing the work were only a group of low grade spirits. On the other hand, the mages and swordsmen from Sregl Island would do the complicated work.

The people whom Jason had assigned to Saleen were also well-versed in construction. The city on Sregl Island would often undergo renovations, in order to help train the abilities of the mages. Saleen's city might have been slightly larger, but the method of construction remained largely the same.

The temple at the center of the city had been constructed. The architecture of this temple resembled that of the Goddess of Myers' temple. It was just that no gods were worshipped in this temple. Surrounding the temple was the city square which was filled with unfelled trees. All these trees segmented the city square into twenty-four smaller pieces.

The lower level of the temple was going to be used to house the teleportation portal. As long as Lex managed to identify and calculate the coordinates of the interdimensional space, one would be able to enter the hell of god's punishment from this place. The only problem was that the coordinates might not be very accurate. There were weekly volcanic eruptions in the hell of god's punishment. If one was teleported over at a time which coincided with the eruptions and their location was also in the vicinity of the volcanoes, then they would be in great danger even if they were a sorcerer.

Surrounding the temple, there were six positions marked for six magic towers, and the rest of the city was built around these locations. Saleen had a thought in mind. Since the temple would not be used for worshipping any gods, he decided that this temple would be a magic temple. In the future, Saleen was going to establish a land of faith for all mages. Alchemy City was too commercialized. It was no longer a paradise for mages.

The more threatened Saleen felt by the Holy See, the more rebellious he became. From Saleen's perspective, the Holy See was tens of thousands of miles away, yet it wanted to extend its control to such faraway places. It was truly too greedy. Sooner or later, the Holy See's greed would cause the mainland to be transformed into a bloody battlefield. The fanaticism of the believers could hardly be understood. If a person chose to believe in a religion, it was akin to giving up on themselves. They would only do what their god asked of them, and they would not need to think at all.

That was the flaw which humans possessed. By entrusting their future to a god, they would not need to think anymore and they would not need to work hard anymore either. With a religion, they would be able to enter heaven after death. The believers were courageous on the battlefield only because their god had promised them a passport to heaven, so they had no worries anymore. In fact, some of them even yearned to die on the battlefield.

Saleen was disgusted by this situation. When the Goddess of Myers had been around, she had never allowed the humans to make such wishes. Even though the humans of the past had also worshipped gods, they were never as weak as the humans of today. Lex was trying to help everyone regain their own identities, and that was why Saleen had become increasingly supportive of Lex's ideas.

However, Saleen could not keep working for Lex, as he had his own ambitions as well. At this moment, he was not just seeking relief and freedom. He also hoped to do something for each and every mage out there, just as Raphael had.

Saleen's teacher might have also possessed similar ideas. Looking at the map, this city would help magic unleash its full potential. As long as the city was built successfully, it would be a fortress comparable to Holy Rock City. When all thirty-six magic towers were stimulated at the same time, a gigantic space would be formed. Within the limits of this space, no one would be able to fly over it without prior permission. This meant that one could only attack the city using primitive methods. Warriors would need to leap over the city walls and tear down its defenses.