820 Bringing Your Lover Along To Training Part 2 (2/2)

As the journey had not been an easy one, Nailisi vowed to herself that she would dedicate her being to looking after Sika, just so that Sika would not get fed up with her and kick her out of the place. Nailisi knew that she was a sore thumb, more so then than she had ever been before.

When Sika was feeding one child, Nailisi had to keep the other in her arms, soothing the child while walking about. It was an eerie thing for a demon to do, as demon parents would simply throw their children out in the open fields for survival training. Human children were different; they were entirely helpless as newborns, and parents needed to look after them.

After Sika settled down, Saleen headed to the tenth floor to begin practicing. The elements there were very thin, but Saleen was surprised to find that as the magic tower began operating in full capacity. After the required grade-9 magic nuclei were set into place, the tower was connected to the peak of the mountain. Fire and earth elements were extracted from deep within the earth and sent into the tower one wave after another. The defense mechanism of the entire peak was activated in an instant.

It would not have been possible for anyone else to come up to the mountain at that point.

The tower was only equipped with the elements wind, water, light, and dark. They were all forced away from the tower. As the magic tower itself was equipped with elemental conversion capabilities, Saleen was entirely incapable of feeling that he was in the barren Hell of God's Punishments. He felt no different there than he did back on the Myers Mainland.

Sika was rather happy to have Nailisi to keep her company, as she was not there for a honeymoon with Saleen. She was only there so that Saleen would always be able to see his children right in front of his eyes, enabling him to train without having concerns for them.

Nailisi brought Sika to the twelve Notes of Purgatory when Sika was pregnant, and so the children seemed to feel she was familiar. That must be why they did not cry at the demon's presence.

While the babies might have been born just a short time before, their innate human instincts nonetheless told them that Nailisi would never harm them, so they learned to cuddle up to the demon. Saleen simply kept meditating where he sat.

The rules of meditation served to do more than recover one's own mental powers. Saleen only felt the full weight of his lineage, both in terms of importance and preciousness, at that time.

The density of elements within the ten floors of the tower were such that normal humans would die as soon as they stepped foot within. The richness of elements in the tower did not cause Sika's children any discomfort though. If anything, they seemed to be more vigorous there than they did back on the Myers Mainland.

Still, Nailisi refrained from taking out the twelve Notes of Purgatory. While the children should not have feared the dark purgatory environment in theory, such things were not something one should experiment with. It was saved for later.

Other than meditating, Saleen also read the book Isabella gave him with his Elemental Eye, studying the hidden power of the rules within. While the rules did not seem to be powerful ones, it was nonetheless very important to him.

Saleen knew full well of the huge price he had to pay if he were to gulp down the magic chord medicine, rendering him with only one type of magic chord. Advancement would prove very, very difficult if one's elemental balance was out. Coming to look at things at that moment, while he had been more hardworking than other mages, had access to far more resources for practice, and seen a lot of action, he would have still been a grade-6 mage if he did not have all that stimulation to push him forward. He would have never been a sorcerer in the first place.

The mages who followed him from Sregl Island were basically grade-6, and white-robed mages were clad in gray robes. His advancement would never have been something to boast about.

The reason why he was able to become a sorcerer was due to the fact that the powers permeating the entire Myers Mainland grew. Saleen never thought himself to be a genius, and he never would have done so.

The rules to such energy balance were intricate; that boosted Saleen's faith that he could make it beyond grade-9. While Joey had been his target, he knew then that his own teacher was a powerful one as well. At the very least, Jason was an indomitable person in terms of willpower and mental capacity.

Saleen had been unable to figure out those rules. As Raphael's magic tower began operating, he realized something very important right then. Raphael was able to achieve elemental balance with the extraction of only two elements. Him having one did not seem to pose such a great problem to such achievement after all.

As long as his body was able to meld with his surroundings and perform elemental exchanges any time he wished, he would became a part of the world. That meant that there was no need to remodel his body of water element.

There was no such thing as eternal balance. That book he held, would one day be reduced to ashes too.

Saleen held the book in his hands as his Elemental Eye kept scanning the energy orbits within. Saleen felt that he was able to make sense of the flow of energy within the book without realizing it. He began to feel the influence of the magic tower, and both earth and fire element rushed into the cover of the book.

Saleen was shocked. The energy of the book was scarce, while the elemental powers within the tower were akin to the sea in comparison. His book would have been destroyed by such influx of power!

The boy child smiled at Saleen suddenly, which Saleen was able to see as he lifted his head.

Children had no skills and knew nothing of magic. They did not even know how to talk, yet they were still capable of staying inside the ten floors without any discomfort!

”Ahaahaha!”, the child shouted. Saleen stood up and put aside all the ponderings going about in his mind. He went over and picked his child up from Nailisi, cuddling the boy in his arms.