971 Fanatical Faith Part 1 (1/2)

The number of transparent creatures seemed to be endless. The creatures went charging at Saleen's party twelve miles away, and there were more of those creatures flooding in from outside the temple.

The tallest among the transparent creatures was near ten yards tall, and looked very similar to humans, with a human face and limbs. The tentacles sprouting from the sides of their chests looked like appendages for breathing and were not all that powerful in terms of damage potential. Saleen had only found that he had the wrong idea about the creatures when the three-hundred spirits were being surrounded by them. The tentacles were directly stabbed into the bones of the spirits, attempting to suck out any flesh and blood found within.

The source of spirits' powers came mostly from their soul flames, but their bones carried energies as well. When the tentacles were stabbed into the spirits' bones, they were rendered numb by the toxins the spirits produced. Every spirit was clung with at least three transparent creatures. Nailisi simply threw both the spirit and the creatures clinging to them into her collection of purgatories.

Only the purgatory of devils was expanded among the collection. All the other spaces were only about a little more than a dozen square yards each. The space that Eleanor had spent time in was bigger than it used to be, but even with the plants within withered, it was still little more than thirty square yards. Nailisi threw the spirits in together with the transparent creatures. Having absorbed the bone marrow of the angel of fear just a while ago, the space exuded some rules, which quickly tore the spirits apart and absorbed their soul flames.

The transparent creatures suffered worse fates. Their bodies bloated like bubbles before blowing up. The blue fluids in their bodies were absorbed by the space, with which the space expanded itself quickly.

Saleen did not get himself into the battle. His body was surrounded by twelve Blue Ice Maidens, all of whom were compressed to the size of about twenty yard tall, and very capable of killing the transparent creatures with a single blow. Even those stronger ones among the creatures were no match for the Blue Ice Maidens.

Nicholas went killing without restraint. Every time his Staff of the Fallen was thumped onto the floor, gray lights shimmered within a one-hundred yard radius. None of the transparent creatures were spared, and all of their souls were sucked into the blood soul tower.

Nailisi and Saleen shared senses, which enabled her to see the temple faraway. She charged at the torrent of transparent creatures and was initially able to kill several of them. As her spaces grew, more and more of those creatures were able to be absorbed.

The speed at which the Twelve Notes of First Purgatory absorbed the transparent creatures grew, and Nailisi turned around instead. She did not dare venture too far away from Saleen. The Sensory Sharing between both of them had a limited range. The further they were apart from each other, the more mental powers Saleen had to expend to maintain it. Nailisi simply chose to stand her ground just a little more than a hundred meters away from Nicholas, leaving half of the creatures coming at them for Nicholas to kill. She herself kept bottling up the remaining half in her collection of purgatories.

The space within the Twelve Notes of Purgatory grew increasingly large, gradually reaching the size of about one square mile. Nailisi felt pleased with herself, as the space was indeed capable of absorbing souls like her blood soul towers. What made it even more powerful than the blood soul towers was that tangible matter was still able to be kept within, like the transparent creatures.

”Who is it? Who is it that killed my believers in cold blood!?” A sharp, high-pitched female voice was heard from deep within the temple. The voice shrieked, and underwater sands and dusts were roused. Saleen's sight grew blurry. It was fortunate that his Elemental Eye was capable of seeing through the six major elements. The sands and dusts only blocked his vision momentarily, and Saleen quickly regained his perception of things.

Nailisi was afraid of seeing the woman who let out the eerie shriek coming out. She cut off the Sensory Sharing on her own and went up to kill more of the endless torrent of transparent creatures. She stopped leaving even scraps for Nicholas. Huge amounts of those creatures were bottled up in her spatial equipment, and then had their souls removed.

”My believers?”

Saleen felt strange hearing the female voice say something like that. The creatures all radiated powers bestowed by the Goddess of Myers. ”So, it is the goddess herself who resides within the temple? Impossible. If the Goddess of Myers had been revived, there was simply no way I wouldn't have found that out. If she hadn't fallen from grace, my contract wouldn't have come into effect.

Thump, thump...

The temple began to shake, and the sharp, high-pitched voice shouted in range. ”Die, you defilers!”

Even Nicholas felt weird about what he heard. He was a fallen holy master himself, and that meant he was able to tell that those souls contained weak divine powers—powers bestowed by the gods. As the faraway voice reached his ear, Nicholas' hesitations slowed his reactions. The few creatures that he overlooked quickly pounced on him but were quickly sucked into his fallen codex.

Nailisi went on a killing spree for a while, before returning to Saleen's side and restored the Sensory Sharing.

The temple afar looked like it was about to collapse, when a huge head of more than a dozen yards radius, belonging to a huge transparent creature struggled to climb out of the gate of the temple.

Nailisi's mind ran into overdrive at the scene. That huge thing was indeed a powerful thing, a creature of grade-8 or grade-9. It would be beneficial for the growth of her purgatories to gobble up more of those things.

Saleen cast Water Shield, and projected his voice using magic. ”Nailisi, Nicholas. I have no idea what that thing inside the temple is, but the temple is now ours, so try not to wreck the place too bad.”