868 Giant City Part 1 (1/2)

Saleen has never felt so determined before. Back then, when he was still a grade-1 mage, he already dared to enter the Chaotic Swamp. After he became a grade-8 sorcerer and the number of equipment he possessed was much envied by all other mages, was there reason why he could not explore the ancient cemetery on his own?

Although danger was not new to him, like his teacher, he has never chosen to go into danger of his own will before. All the dangers that he had experienced thus far were due to his circumstances, where he did not have a choice.

That time around, he would put himself through something all mages must do, face the dangerous world on his own in the abyss. There would be no subordinates, no followers, and no help. He could only depend on himself and his spells.

Saleen suddenly understood why his teacher was so powerful. His power came from his mindset of never backing off from anything, and instead doing what needed to be done one thing at a time. This was what a mage should be like, the pride of humans.

Saleen felt much more comfortable leaving Nailisi behind. He lifted his water shield slowly to form a magic shield that was fusiform-shaped. Saleen began to go through the magic knowledge that he had learned all that while. The transformation of the six major elements, the balance of energies, the control of souls, the lightning rule…

The energy of the water shield was gradually balanced due to the rich amount of elements in the abyss. Blue electric currents finally appeared on the surface of the water shield. That was something that Saleen had always dreamed of.

The electric current only appeared for a moment before vanishing. Saleen did not mind, since that was a new technique that he had just learned. Besides, it would be even better if the electric currents appeared only when he was defending himself in a fight against an enemy. If they appeared all the time, Saleen would not be able to handle the drain of mental strength.

Ground elements softened on the exterior of the water shield. They showed no signs of solidifying into rocks and it was as if the ground elements had mixed and reacted with the water elements so that the shield, which was made of water elements, had become more resilient. Saleen even sensed that the defense abilities of the water shield had surpassed grade-9, yet the amount of energy required was only equivalent to a grade-6 spell.

That was not an illusion. It was because the amount of ground elements there were so rich that Saleen did not have to use up much magic chords. Once he had activated the water shield, he only had to maintain it with his mental strength.

Once the fusiform-shaped water shield was formed, Saleen felt more relieved. The gravitational force of the abyss was no longer so terrifying. Instead, Saleen had even made use of the power of the land to life up his water shield.

Saleen's speed increased instantaneously and he was moving as quickly as a single-horned white whale.

His powers remained the same as he was still a grade-8 sorcerer, but he had managed to fully utilize the forces around him and turned his obstacles into advantages. Saleen's understanding of the Figaro Magic Formula and Dante's Sequence had also deepened. The power of elements might not necessarily be manipulated only with mental strength nor initiated only with magic chords.

His own water-elemental body already had the ability to resonate with the surrounding water elements! No wonder he was using up less magic chords!

The magic beast skeletons on the exterior were only about thirty miles wide. The magic beasts died there without even having the chance to enter the cemetery. The deeper he went, the bigger the skeletons.

At thirty miles away, Saleen began to circle and observe the city wall that had collapsed. The city wall was still one-hundred yards tall despite its collapse. Saleen floated upwards until he reached a height of about five-hundred yards. That was when he could see the interior of the city wall with his elemental eyes.

Saleen could use his elemental eyes for more than six hours, which meant that he could almost use it any time he wanted. Other grade-9 sorcerers would only able to use that grade-9 technique for only about half an hour.

Saleen's elemental eyes could not see the end of the city. He only saw that huge building that had collapsed, and plenty of plazas that were covered with magic arrays.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.

The city was more than seven miles in diameter. Saleen could not see the end of the city wall on both sides. In that case, the city might be as wide as three-hundred to five-hundred miles.

How much manpower was used in order to construct such a massive city under water? Saleen taken more than a year's time to construct Metatrin City, which was only eight miles long and six miles wide. In the end, he had to resort to relying on the Three Kings to summon many spirits of the dead to help him complete the construction of the city.

There were quite a number of stone statue soldiers in the city, which eliminated Saleen's plan of trying to sneak in. The stone statue soldiers were less than eight-hundred yards from the city wall and the range in which they could detect intruders was at least be a mile.

Saleen circled the city wall patiently and observed from a distance. He approached very gradually, and when he was finally about one-thousand yards above the city wall, he tried to get within ten miles.

Ten miles, eight miles, six miles!

When Saleen had reached six miles, a flood of ground elements came straight at him from within the collapsed city wall. Even though the city wall had been so badly damaged, it still possessed powerful defense and attack abilities!

An attacking range of six miles was not considered too formidable compared to Metatrin City, whose magic catapults possessed an attacking range of more than ten miles. That was a pure magic attack though, which was a flood made up of thousands of giant rocks of ground elements.