661 Subduing Nicholas Part 2 (1/2)

Saleen smiled and said, ”Nicholas, please go on.”

”I would like to become your follower,” Nicholas replied through gritted teeth. He was already a grade-9 sorcerer and even though he had fallen, his abilities had not been reduced. He felt a little embarrassed to follow a grade-6 mage. Fortunately, he was already quite old and had learned to be thick-skinned so Saleen would not be able to see his embarrassment.

Saleen moved his left hand and looked at Nicholas. Nicholas' expression was one of peacefulness.

”Why?”

”The current bond between us only restricts me from hurting you. If I become your follower, I will not be able to hurt your subordinates either. I just think that one must be decisive.”

”Alright.” Saleen did not say more. He took out a blank scroll and began to write.

The two of them signed the second bond in silence before Saleen finally smiled and said, ”Nicholas, it must not have been easy for you to make this decision.”

Nicholas replied, ”By following you, I will have a chance to shine one day. I don't have any other choice.”

”You will not regret it. Originally, I had wanted to just keep you by my side and hope that you would not give me trouble. Now, Nicholas, you may still have the chance to attain freedom one day. Give your soul bead to me.”

Nicholas handed over the soul bead to Saleen and Saleen looked at it. He took out a piece of tourmaline and placed it with the soul bead and began to refine it in front of Nicholas.

The water flame appeared and Saleen melted the tourmaline before putting the soul bead within it. He then released a bit of life strength and infused it into the soul bead. Green holy prose began to appear on the tourmaline one by one along with magic words and magic patterns.

Nicholas was engrossed. Even he was not able to refine items like this.

His soul bead had been refined into a bigger bead. This bead was green in color and there were twenty-four holes in it. Nicholas would still be able to absorb energy through these twenty-four holes, but because of the bond. No one else would be able to control the soul bead. The bead had been combined with the tourmaline entirely. Destroying the tourmaline was equivalent to destroying the soul bead as well.

Other than Saleen, no one else, including Fycro, would be able to control this soul bead.

By making use of a simple principle of material, Saleen managed to block off every way to utilize this bead. The holy prose on the bead was the divine spell of the Goddess of Nature. If Fycro were to change his religion and followed the Goddess of Myers instead, it would be easy for him to regain control over the soul bead again based on his abilities.

The problem was, would Fycro change his religion?

Sometimes, mages might not necessarily need to use their own strength to make full use of the principles of a particular dimension. As long as one was still on the Myers Mainland, its principle would override the principles of other dimensions, including those set by the Gods.

”Lord Saleen…”

”Hmm, from now on, your powers are no longer restricted by Fycro. He will not be able to hurt you as long as you don't go looking for trouble from him. I will not allow you to face an oracle head-on either,” Saleen did not hold back his words in his own temple. Although his temple seemed to be built in a typical and boring manner, it was equipped with what a magic tower should possess.

When a mage was in a magic tower, his own safety would be guaranteed. Fycro would not be able to do anything at least within the small region of principle of the magic tower.

Before, when Fycro secretly approached Saleen, it was at the port. If it was at the temple, Fycro would not have been able to control Saleen without being detected.

”Nicholas, I would not have wished to control you either. The source of your power comes from the soul bead. I do not wish for you to suddenly turn into a normal person while you are carrying out a task for me,” Saleen was careful and clear with his words.

Nicholas held the soul bead in his hand. An electric current ran through the inside of the tourmaline. The current was a weak one and flowed within the magic patterns before fading off. The soul bead was hidden within these electric currents.

Nicholas knew that even divine spells would be destroyed by the electric currents. There was once a mage who used arrows made from tourmaline to shoot at an armor that had been boosted with divine spell and it was quite effective. Tourmaline was rare and it was difficult to mine it. Not many people knew about this effect it had. There were many ways a mage could destroy divine spells and this particular way was just not well-known.

This did not mean that tourmaline was not valuable. The price of a tourmaline was worth more than most gemstones. The most common use for a tourmaline was in healing spells. A human's heart would stop beating after suffering from serious injuries. By activating the electric current within the tourmaline and infusing it into the body, the heart would be started again.

This method would allow middle-grade mages to revive people who had died very recently, just like holy priests.

”Lord Saleen, I'm afraid Fycro's powers have surpassed that of a grade-9 Professional,” Nicholas reminded Saleen.

”Don't be afraid. At most he will destroy this object, but he will not be able to use it to control you. If worse comes to worst, as long as I don't leave this temple, there is nothing he can do to me. If he dares to look for trouble in my temple, you have seen how I managed to kill the gold grand swordmaster,” Saleen replied steadily.