791 Rescue the Elf Part 1 (2/2)

This spell was a branch of divination; the Instant Death Curse.

The amethyst on Lex's tiara exuded a mild, gentle aura. White-grayish light passed her by and she was unharmed. The heavenly angel however, had its wings crumbling right there and then.

Saleen saw that the upper body of the heavenly angel began to turn transparent. The badge's energy absorption power was terrifying. The sword that was previously more than a hundred yards long, was then rendered less than thirty thirty long.

”You...will...be doomed!”, the angel shouted. There was no fear shown on its face, only a terrifyingly cold expression.

The tiara on Lex's head protected her. Saleen had his body fused with the badge and kept absorbing energy. The signature divine spell rendered ineffective.

”You...will...,” the angel started to shrivel. Fires began to sprout all over it. The fireballs about its entire being burned harder and brighter, to the point they almost engulfed all of the angel.

Saleen trembled. While the divination spell of the angel had no apparent effect on him, he felt a deep sense of emptiness in his soul. It was due to the mark of the power capable of bending fate. If it had not been for the protection of the badge, he would have been truly marked by God.

That would have meant that the plane of gods would have always been able to detect his presence, which would then enabled the gods to always dispatch someone to get rid of him.

Lex cast a Chunlin Spell on Saleen. She watched the giant sword get absorbed into his badge, alongside the translucent body of the angel. It was a very eerie sight to behold.

Saleen knew, however, that if it was not for the few arrows Eleanor fired at the heavenly angel, the absorption would not have gone so well. The angel clearly was not at its top form, even before it realized it was being set up.

The pressure in the air subsided somewhat. Saleen realized that he was able to keep the angel in check due to help from the three magic towers suppressing the attack, as well as the three grade-8 sorcerers within each respective tower. The angel's power had been suppressed all along, until it used the Sword of Burst.

The sweat on Saleen's face evaporated immediately and a thought crossed his mind. Had it not been for the mages using the large scale magic array of the towers, his hand would have been melted the moment he stuck the badge on the sword.

Saleen knew well of the balance of energies, and that time, his hand dived right into the blade of light and emerged unscathed.

The three sorcerers had been using a balancing spell. Divine spells were powers of imbalance, while magic was a power of balance. ”The three sorcerers are far more experienced than I am. I'm just very lucky, and this is all just too risky.” Saleen sweated as he hurriedly made his way to the ruins outside.

He recalled that Su and Cuisi were hurt. Eleanor's injuries had her life hanging by a thread.

Lex was in deep thought. What she thought about was different from Saleen. If fate really did exist, what happened to them earlier hardly made sense. It was, after all, an angel casting the Instant Death Divine spell on her.

Her tiara was coincidentally something that was capable of repelling such divine spells. The tiara was something Saleen put on her personally that day.

”How did such a coincidence exist? I'm a grade-7 sorcerer, two levels below the heavenly angel. That means the Instant Death Divine spell had more than ninety percent chance of succeeding.” The thousand-year pledge of the Goddess of Myers crossed her mind. ”Did my luck change for the better after signing the contract? Is that to say that the Goddess of Myers is still watching over the mainland?”

Lex looked around cautiously as she followed Saleen. Soldiers from afar came close. As they noticed Saleen and her getting near, the soldiers cheered loudly. While this clearly called for a disciplinary action, no military officers stopped them.

They were worried that Lex or Saleen might have died. Their futures were in the hands of those two individuals after all.

The Dragon-slaughtering Mercenary Group was unable to make themselves useful in the battle. It was Gusion, who saved three people.

”Get to the magic tower!”, Saleen ordered concisely. All three injured personnel required medical attention at the tower. While the crisis still lurked in the city, the mercenaries would have been more than capable to handle it. Any resulting riots or rebellions would have been taken care of by the army stationed at the palace.

Saleen made his way to Stephanie's magic tower and found her still in shock. She saw, with her own eyes, the equipment that Saleen literally sucked the angel into. Even with three grade-8 sorcerers suppressing the sword of light's fluctuations, it was still a very, very horrifying sight to behold!

Saleen busted into the eighth story as she was still deep in thought over what took place, and said in a rather rude manner, ”Master, we need your help.”

”Yes, I'm on it,” Stephanie answered.