870 Elemental Stone Statue Soldier Part 1 (1/2)

The leader of the stone statue soldier's second attack came quickly right in front Saleen's eyes as the Dismantle Element spell failed. The speed of grade-10 elemental creatures was not something melee soldiers were able to achieve.

The leader's warhammer was shaped like a war drum, with tower-shaped magic arrays within. The drum's surface had a diameter of one and a half yards. A wind dragon was conjured by Saleen as the hammer came crashing down, which entangled the weapon. His wind dragon was conjured by converted water element, and it was several times more powerful than usual wind dragons.

Saleen hesitated for a moment and decided not to use the Crystal Finger, and not to use grade-10 scrolls either. As the wind dragon was successfully conjured, he unleashed Vacuum Imprisonment from his robe. He followed that up with three consecutive castings of Dismantle Element.

The three consecutive castings of Dismantle Element formed an elemental point. The beat of three grade-9 magic worked as if it was a war drum: one hit followed by another hit without pause.

Light of six major elements flashed wildly on the body of the leader. Saleen did not dare to wait for the magic determination to finish. He took out his third staff and cast Death Impact. The spell was an instant death spell which also worked on elemental creatures. Effects of instant death magic stored within magic staffs were not half as powerful though.

Saleen followed up with yet another grade-9 spell after casting Death Impact, it was the Invasion of Darkness spell.

The spell was a debuffing spell, which only produced death effect when overwhelming the enemy with one's level. That meant that a grade-9 Invasion of Darkness spell would have proved lethal to grade-6 professionals, but to grade-7 professionals, the spell was only able to weaken its target. As the leader of the stone statue soldiers was a grade-10 being, such grade-9 spells could not have any overwhelming effect. It simply worked as a simple weakening spell, to weaken all of the soldier's attributes.

The third Dismantle Element spell announced it success with a loud crack. A huge crack formed across the leader's twenty yard tall body, which snapped the being in two soon after.

As Dismantle Element worked, the following spells were all completed. The stone statue soldier leader cracked all over as Death Impact came into effect, which sounded like dynamite going off. Under the succeeding Invasion of Darkness' effect, all attempts by the leader to repair itself failed completely. Saleen bore witness to the twenty yard tall body of the leader crumbling into pieces.

The warhammer had only managed to reach the ground after that, which created a crater of more than a yard deep on the stone floor right in front of Saleen. He was sent jumping up for more than half a yard as a result. The warhammer fell onto the ground like it was made of soft metal. The edge of the crater on the stone floor was clear-cut, without the tiniest of crack one could see.

Saleen pointed a finger. A small stone statue of about two yards tall broke from the shell of the leader's body. Taking one step forward, it stabbed a stone spear at Saleen's brow.

Saleen fired his Crystal Finger without hesitation. He felt a sharp pain on his finger, which then ended up being completely dried and shriveled. Despite having suppressed the power of the Crystal Finger to its absolute lowest, it still rendered one of Saleen's fingers completely dead, which looked so dried up that it looked like the flesh of spirits.

Such was the result of Saleen advancing into the rank of a grade-8 sorcerer and his body strengthening, thus enabling him to withstand the resulting recoil. The original consequence of using such an attack would have cost Saleen his entire arm.

The Crystal Finger's attack bore a hole in the brow of the smaller statue which burst out of the larger leader. Saleen put away his grade-10 scroll, as he did not have enough time to use it. He had never thought the leader's body contained such a fail-safe within.

A broken jade piece was thrown from Saleen's right hand, shooting right for the hole in the brow of the smaller statue.

Shrieks of pain were heard from within the two yard tall statue's head. The broken jade left by Shanglan went about sucking its soul maniacally. Grade-9 stone statue soldiers did not have souls, but that one was a grade-10 stone statue soldier capable of advancement, which looked like it was about to molt and become a grade-11 leader.

The structure of a soul had begun to form in its body. When the soul was born, it would have allowed the being to not be limited by its form, and become a high level elemental creature. The Eternal Control rule within the broken jade struck intense fear into that newborn soul within.

The elemental creature felt fear for the first time.

Elemental creatures with souls were painfully few and far between. Stone statue soldiers were in the handful of elemental creatures capable of developing a soul. The soul knew well that if it was not able to break free, it would lose its freedom forever.

Saleen did not show any mercy at all. The hammer attack from the leader would not have been something he was able to slow down if he did not possess insane spells like Dismantle Element. The magic of the warhammer had completely turned into a physical attack, which exceeded the Darkness Shield's capacity to defend against.

What an insane elemental creature! Saleen did not dare use Eye of Lightning against it. The Eye of Lightning might not have been able to paralyze something like the stone statue soldier leader. Casting the spell would have left Saleen with some dire after effects, such as a temporary drop in mental powers. Such a drop required multiple meditation sessions to recover, and even the use of divine crystals would not have been of much help.

The purple glow in the stone statue soldier leader's faded, as the rule within Shanglan's broken jade completely overwhelmed the newborn soul.

”What you are struggling for? You were but humanity's weapon even in ancient times!”, Saleen shouted, and the leader's soul immediately suffered an electrical shock. Saleen had no intention of killing the leader's soul, as it was very difficult for elemental creatures to develop souls. Saleen simply hoped his new servant would have been smarter.