856 The Fate of Ancient Warriors Part 3 (2/2)
”We will stop here for three days and no attacks will be launched.” Saleen gave the order to the Mechanical Soul and led the rest onto the pan's turtle alchemical boat. Although the exterior of the pan's turtle alchemical boats was made from materials of a grade-8 magic beast, its defense far surpassed that of most grade-9 magic beasts.
On the ancient combat vessel, it was the first time the Mechanical Soul began to think for itself.
From what he has observed, Saleen's abilities were not entirely fearsome since he was only a grade-8 mage. Although some of his subordinates were at grade-9, they should be no match for a spirit of the dead like him. For some reason, the battles that he had observed had struck fear in him.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.
Saleen only needed half an hour's time to deal with forty grade-9 warriors, while the water puppet did not even dare to open a single cabin, much less defeat forty warriors.
The Mechanical Soul still retained some memories of humans' powers. Long ago, the Mechanical Soul was already at grade-16 in the death dimension, but his soul flame was refined by a human and he was then absorbed into an equipment to become a weapon's spirit. A sliver of soul flame managed to escape and was finally restored after tens of thousands of years.
Was there a need to continue going against Saleen? He did not have much energy left to keep opposing.
The Mechanical Soul had been temporarily put in charge of the fleet, other than the dragon skeleton combat vessel that was controlled by the mages. Saleen and the rest entered the pan's turtle alchemical boat. In the three days that he would be there, he would have to subdue all twenty-four ancient warriors and turn them into his most powerful forces.
Saleen and Nailisi entered the Purgatory of Ice. The fossilization spell and water-element control spell on the twenty-four ancient warriors were no longer effective. The moment Saleen entered, the warriors looked at him with enmity. In the depths of their souls dwelled the shards of Eternal Control that Saleen had refined and inserted into them. There were two rules in the shards, which were Eternal Control and Power of Lightning.
”Do you all… still know how to talk?” Saleen spoke in the ancient Myers language.
The eyelids of the twenty-four warriors flickered quickly. It was clear that they understood what Saleen said but they were not able to say anything despite some movement of their lips. The bones of the warriors had greatly degenerated, and their vocal chords were worse.
Saleen pointed at the warrior at the front and said, ”Try to attack me.”
The red light on the warrior's body flashed and he charged at Saleen, aiming for his neck with his long lance. The long lance had barely traveled a yard's distance before a streak of blue electric current flashed in the depths of the warrior's soul. Just like that, the ancient warrior fell onto the ground.
”Looks like it's very effective.” Saleen was relieved to see that the moment he sensed danger, the warrior immediately received punishment.
”Master, what ability is this? Will you teach me it?” Nailisi asked in envy.
”You already have your demon army, you don't need this. Besides… this is a rule that I discovered on my own. There's no way I can pass it down to you, unless you learn and explore it yourself.”
”Then forget it.” Nailisi was a Luoluokaluo and she had her own path to take. An ability like that that allowed her to control others was not that important to her. After all, all the demons in her demon army would submit to her without needing any techniques to control them.
”All of you shall become my bodyguards. You will not need any names individually. All of you shall be called the Ancient Warriors.” Saleen looked at the twenty-four warriors and gave up the notion of letting them become generals. The souls of the Ancient Warriors were already very weak, there was no point in allowing them to rest for three days. Their souls would still be equally fragile even if they rested for three years.
They had no choice but to become soldiers who had no chances of advancing. Even though they had met him, their fates would not change.
Saleen knew that unless he used the broken jades from the soul flames of the Three Kings to subdue the Ancient Warriors, there was no way their souls would return to optimal conditions.
Unfortunately, he only had three broken jades and he had already used one of them on the Mechanical Soul. He could not possibly use the remaining two broken jades to rescue the tens of thousands of soldiers on the ancient combat vessel.
The twenty-four Ancient Warriors stood in two neat rows in the Purgatory of Ice. Saleen stood in the middle and began to observe their tainted blood armor.
If the twenty-four grade-9 warriors had decided to attack in a group, Saleen and Nailisi would have been no match for them. In one-to-one combat, even if the warriors were able to unleash all their combat technique, they would still be defeated by Saleen and Nailisi.
The materials used to make tainted blood armor was the blood, bones, and even some fascia of magic beasts. The ancient humans compressed and purified those materials to form pieces of regular armor plates before joining them together with the power of magic. Even Saleen was unable to grasp such alchemy abilities. If he advanced to grade-10, he could try to refine magic armor of a lower quality like them.
The Ancient Warriors could not speak but that was not an issue for Saleen. In any case, the tainted blood armor did not have masks. He only needed to refine a magic mask for each of them and he would be able to use the power of magic to allow the warriors to communicate with him.