494 Eye of Lightning Part 2 (2/2)

The more Saleen pondered, the more unbearable he felt. He wanted to practice so badly, but was worried that his eyes could not withstand such frequent training.

”Forget it, I will train one more time before going to sleep!” Saleen could not resist the temptation. Once again, he mustered his mental strength and formed the lightning pattern two feet from his eyes. As the lightning pattern broke into pieces, Saleen felt a soothing comfort in his heart.

After regaining vision in the eyes, Saleen again could not resist the temptation and began practicing one more time.

”This is the last one, once I am done, I will sleep.” Saleen kept telling himself that until dawn. It was only when the swordmasters in the camp were preparing breakfast that he had no choice but to stop training.

There were no anomalies in his eyes, the temporary blindness arose due to the over-consumption of mental strength. The lightning pattern did not break in his eyes, so it would not cause injury to them. If light was involved, then it might have scalded his eyes.

It was not Saleen's fault that his determination was so weak. Any mage could not be more restrained than Saleen after acquiring such an ability. In fact, most mages would be more enthusiastic than Saleen. Saleen was already considered a more prudent mage.

The mages disembarked from the chariots and walked about, consuming breakfast with the swordmasters. That was the difference in Lex's mages, they rarely treated the soldiers protecting them with condescendence.

A mage was powerful, but in comparison to a warrior, a mage spent less time in battle. If there was a large number of sand scorpions in the desert, a grade-4 mage and a high grade swordmaster could easily kill all of them. A mage would be slightly exhausted after killing a dozen sand scorpions. After killing more than one-hundred and twenty sand scorpions, their magic chords would be almost fully depleted.

As long as the high grade swordmaster had a powerful weapon, they would be able to soldier on until their Sword Aura was gone.

With a powerful weapon, a swordmaster could easily pierce the shell of the sand scorpions without using much of the Sword Aura. As long as a high grade swordmaster was not besieged, he would not feel tired even after killing hundreds of these sand scorpions.

Lex had brought along ten swordmasters in order to take out the weaker magic beasts. The Purgatory Desert was fraught with perils. If a mage had to deal with all the dangers themselves, then the mages would get into a precarious situation as they would exhaust their magic chords every day.

Saleen did not notice that Lex did not rest well. He was immersed in his new spell, and just like any other fanatic mages, he had become oblivious to his surroundings.

After Nailisi failed to sow discord between Saleen and the winged skeleton, she returned and managed to discover the hatchet between Sika and Lex. She then immediately teamed up with Sika, greatly angering Lex. She was just worrying that Saleen would discover that something was amiss, but Saleen looked like he was out of sorts. Nailisi rejoiced secretly, before summoning the four demons to serve Saleen's breakfast.

All along, Lex was waited upon by other mages, but these mages were only involved in magic practice. Nailisi's four demons looked totally powerless, they looked just like normal beautiful women, causing Saleen to be portrayed as a nouveau riche. As Saleen was still pondering about the spell, he did not notice anything wrong. Under the service of four demons, he finished a standard meal which was usually prepared for an army.

As Lex was feeling very upset, she did not even share her tea leaves with Saleen.

At this moment, Sika then saw the good in Nailisi. If it was not for her hunger, she wished to have a longer chat with Nailisi. They had a good conversation yesterday, which led to Lex being infuriated.

Sika was in a dilemma herself too. She was clear about her responsibilities, but she did not want Saleen to live with anyone else. ”If Saleen married Lex, he might even be conferred an imperial salutation and be involved in various matters. If Lex could dismiss this notion of hers, that would be great.”

Unbeknownst to Sika, Lex would not feel the importance of Saleen if it was not for her and Nailisi. This was a small girl's mentality, but Lex had never loved a man before, so she was not mature in this aspect.

The only thing Lex rejoiced about was that her mages had regained a portion of their offensive power. In another two to three days, they would recover fully. It was so different having a magic war chariot. Lex turned her attention to the issues in the Purgatory Desert, but those four demons kept hovering around her. They were serving tea and food to Saleen, cleaning his face and tidying his outfit. They just stopped short of massaging him.

Lex was so furious that she went into another magic war chariot, unwilling to sit in the same one as Saleen.

Nailisi felt bored. Lex had a large withstanding ability, there was no use making further provocations. Thus, she instructed the four demons to protect Lex.

Saleen noticed this though. He felt that Nailisi had matured a lot. Right then, she knew how to show concern for her companions. Secretly, Nailisi was laughing so much that her tummy hurt. For a demon, Nailisi's muscles were hurting so badly from all that laughter.

This time around, the only ones left in the chariot were Saleen's subordinates and the two female mages who served Lex. Without any order from Lex, those two female mages would not switch chariots. The journey continued, with Saleen having the company of four beautiful ladies.

As Saleen did not sleep a wink that night, he immediately plunged into a deep slumber the moment he reached the chariot. Nailisi sat on the floor of the war chariot, serving Saleen meticulously. As the four women watched Saleen sleep, each one of them had a different expression.

Nailisi was jubilant, Sika was satisfied, and Narnia was slightly disappointed, while the last female mage was curious.

”Was this young mage really the heir to a great inheritance from Alchemy City? He looks really handsome and talented, somewhat like a noble from Cloudflow.”