564 Metatrin City’s teleportation portal Part 1 (1/2)

The eye of lightning did not possess any offensive ability at the moment, but it was similar to Nailisi's lightning guardian, they could both decode many spells. Saleen's eye of lightning did not carry out passive decoding like Nailisi's skill. If Saleen cultivated it successfully, it could execute long range decoding. This was the strongest aspect of the eye of lightning.

Despite not having any offensive power, it would also render the enemy's mages useless.

When Saleen was still at grade-5, the eye of lightning would cause temporary blindness after usage. Saleen himself was also looking forward to find out the outcome after advancing the eye of lightning's level.

With regards to being unable to use the power of lightning for offense, Saleen was still bothered by it. He had already grasped the magic patterns found on the surface of the lightning dragons, but he could not release electric currents like the lightning dragons.

When a grade-6 mage practiced special magic, they would seek refuge in their own magical tower to avoid getting ambushed. Everyone knew about this principle, so they stood guard beside Saleen, waiting for him to wake up.

No one knew what spell Saleen had invented, but this spell appeared very exquisite. Golden light would be launched from the eyes, but were there spells which were released from the eyes? It seemed like some wurms could use their eyes to shoot fossilizing rays, but these rays had a gray hue. Saleen's eyes shot out golden beams.

Saleen had realized what happened. He had converted the magic patterns on a lightning dragon's body into a magic symbol. This magic symbol was invented by him, but it was not complete yet. In order to expound this magic symbol, other magic symbols were needed to supplement it. When Saleen got promoted, he had only refined the training guidelines, there were still many details yet to be ironed out.

Even so, the power contained in Saleen's magic symbol at the moment was still hundreds of time mightier than before.

Saleen gradually retracted the golden light shot out from his eyes and the magic symbol also disappeared into thin air. By the time this round of research was completed, the sun had risen. Lex's men were making fire to prepare breakfast.

The moment the sun rose those pesky magic beasts had also retreated. The demons and Black Metal Grand Swordmasters who kept watch overnight seized this opportunity to rest, as the team was going to begin its journey at noon. Lex's camp and barracks were constructed beforehand, there was a large amount of metal materials. The main components could only be moved by a puppet or grand swordmaster and these things had to be connected together.

For each journey or time setting up camp, they had to expend at least half an hour. Such a barrack had been specially prepared by Lex for this expedition. Had she used a normal barrack it would have been destroyed by the magic beasts already.

Saleen was not tired. After advancing, his mental strength had increased exponentially. Saleen was sure that his mental strength would undergo qualitative changes once he became a sorcerer. By then a mage could then come into contact with knowledge about the soul. When Saleen exited his barracks he noticed that Lex was building a type of puppet he had never seen before.

This puppet was four meters tall. Its materials were simple, but it had a complicated structure. The body of the puppet was an exterior shell made from countless metal strands woven together. The material of the metal strands was average, it was made by fusing copper with some light metals. It was definitely weaker than steel strands. The problem was that copper was more expensive than steel, but it was much easier to refine than steel.

The four yard tall puppet had four arms and at the end of each arm was a rarely seen palm and four fingers with a weapon affixed onto them. This weapon was a knife wheel, usually only seen inside the illustrated handbook.

The knife wheel had a triangular shape and when it was spun furiously it would turn into a razor sharp circular weapon. This object was designed to be used by a puppet. It was not only heavy, the user could also injure themselves easily. The lower body of the puppet had the structure of a horse, there were four legs and a tail.

Ever since Saleen advanced to a grade-6 mage, his thoughts had become more agile while his observation ability had been strengthened dozens of times over. At one glance, he could decipher the function of this puppet.

While running at high speed those four arms could wield four knife wheels. This weapon was the best when one was surrounded. This puppet could attack in all four directions. By defending the sides it could thus lessen the pressure a mage would face.

”Why?” Saleen inquired. The survivability of such a puppet was not strong, but it consumed many magic nuclei. It was less valuable than a fully constructed puppet. It must be noted that a Silver Grand Swordmaster could not even destroy a fully constructed puppet and it could still recover from its injuries. This four-armed puppet with a horse body could basically be sliced into two by a grand swordmaster, not to mention the difficulty involved in controlling it.

Lex did not stop working either, she continued assembling a second puppet. At the same time, she told Saleen, ”Saleen, our harvests are huge this time around, we cannot be stingy. If only I had brought along more puppets, then…” Lex got a little depressed at that thought. The loss of two grade-5 mages had caused her to be heartbroken.

She could do nothing, it was impossible to revive the dead. When she returned, besides placating the families of those two grand mages, she also had to seek suitable successors and spend huge sums of money to groom them.

This was the method members of the Grukos imperial family used to retain mages. This did not apply only to the mages, Lex's swordsmen were also treated in the same manner. Bain's daughter was already more than ten years old and was learning magic in the Bitter Water Prefecture at the moment. Bain was not a noble, he did not have lands to groom a mage. His daughter's future would have to depend on Lex.