498 Goddess’ envoy Part 2 (1/2)

Across the black desert, the two people walked side by side. They might have appeared to be traveling very slowly, but in actual fact, every step they took covered almost a mile. At such a speed, they were way faster than a mage who was flying. The flying skill of a mage tapped into the power of the wind element, while the two goddess' envoys were borrowing the power of the earth.

More accurately, they were not just utilizing the power of the earth. Earth, water, wind, light, darkness; these six elements were mutually convertible, none of them were dispensable. Located at the core of the earth was fire, coupled with rivers. On the other hand, the environment above the earth was enveloped by an endless supply of the wind element. Situated beyond the earth was space, where light and darkness was present.

None of these elements were ever separated. Yet, when a mage was at too low a grade, they could only cast spells containing a single element. It was impossible for them to fuse the different elements together.

Saleen had already grasped the initial stages of elemental conversion, but he only managed to do so because of his constitution and guidance from Joey. Even if he had become a sorcerer, he would still need to master these skills gradually otherwise.

When all of these had completely fused with one another to the point of zero distinction, then that was the power of the Goddess of Nature. Thereafter, the seventh power, life, would be created. After the birth of life, death would be subsequently derived.

After the two goddess' envoys left the temple, the towering black sand dune began sinking into the ground slowly. Eventually, the ground became flat. The temple had also sunk into the desert, leaving no traces behind. With the original position of the temple as the nucleus, countless microscopic runes quivered in the midst of the black sand particles, as though they were fish in water. These runes expanded outwards, eventually forming a region with a diameter of one-hundred miles. In this region, everything remained still.

In the blink of an eye, Gauf and Jessica had already walked hundreds of miles. They stopped at an area filled with gravel, where all the rocks were white in color. The sandstorms which occurred in the past ten thousand years did not erode them into powder. As a result, this white gravel looked extremely blinding against the backdrop of the black desert.

Gauf scanned his surroundings, before bending down in front of a rock which was one and a half times taller than a human. He then extended his hand and caressed the rock.

”It escaped from here. Seems like it hadn't fully recovered yet, it only regained ten percent of its power. For some unknown reason, its recovery process has stopped.”

”Poor rock.” As Jessica gazed at this rock, her eyes were filled with sympathy. To the goddess' envoys, this rock also had life. After coming into contact with the Dark Sky Devil, its life had quickly ebbed away.

As if to verify her words, the rock burst open with a crack the moment Gauf lifted his hand.

”Since it hasn't fully recovered, it will go into hiding. It will be really challenging to locate it,” Jessica said worriedly.

”Since we have left, we shouldn't be too anxious. It is a devil, it must have believers in order to regain more of its powers.” After a round of short discussion, the two goddess' envoys altered their direction of travel, they began walking southeast. Even though both of them claimed that they were not afraid of the believers of the god from a foreign plane, the two envoys did not want to get into a conflict for the time being. The scent of that god was very concentrated in the northwest direction, so the two envoys had to avoid that area temporarily.

After such a long time, they were clueless about the situation on the mainland. Other than that devil, which was extirpated in the past, giving them information about the current turmoil on the mainland, no one else had entered the Purgatory Desert.

South of the Purgatory Desert, within the Black Rock Mountain, Lex's camp had spent the past fifteen days and fifteen nights uneventfully. The ten swordmasters, two Black Metal Grand Swordmasters, Wild Bear, and Jola had already acclimatized to their new magic armor.

With the Spirit Snake Armor on their bodies, the swordmasters' actions were unrestrained, it was as though they were wearing normal cotton clothing. As the armor was almost weightless, the weapons of the swordmasters had also undergone some adjustments. As a result, they had to train for half a month before being able to adapt to the armor completely.

The swordmasters had changed their weapons, the Qin Eight-sided Swords were changed into the more suitable double-edged serrated knives. Short weapons included the armor-piercing short sword and an axe. The soldiers only had one long weapon, the double-bladed spear. This spear could be detached in the middle. Even if all the parts were connected, it was not very long either, less than three yards. The body of this spear was crafted from an extremely lightweight metal. The swordmasters would put the spear in a spear pouch and sling it over their shoulders.

Each person got an alchemical crossbow, while the skeletal warhorses were fitted with intermediate-sized metal shields.

The swordmasters' backpacks were filled with fresh water. Even if the swordmasters got separated from the mages, they could still survive for several days.

Each mage was allocated hundreds of scrolls, Lex did not dare be thrifty at this point in time. As she did not bring along many people, she would lose a great deal of offensive power the moment any one of them died. The quality of her mages was very high, and they were not old either. In the future, some of these mages would definitely become sorcerers.

The magic war chariots were repaired. Saleen returned Eleanor her original robe, as her equipment had been seized by Nailisi. Saleen gave Eleanor ten level-4 scrolls, twenty level-3 scrolls, and one level-6 scroll.

Eleanor was grateful towards Saleen. Even if Saleen did not give her these items, it would not be considered a breach of contract. In an environment like the Purgatory Desert, it would be ideal to have the magic chords untouched though.

Logically speaking, Bifano had the worst luck. Saleen was obviously the one enjoying all the benefits, yet Eleanor hated Bifano.

In these fifteen days, other than learning holy prose from Eleanor, the only thing Saleen did was to produce a set of equipment for each of the four newly recruited demons.

This was Nailisi's request, which Saleen did not refuse.