975 Shackles of the Fallen Part 1 (1/2)

The chained up woman had eyes like lightning, and cold light seeped out of those eyes, shooting everywhere without a target in the void.

Nicholas took note of all that and reminded Saleen, who was standing in front of him, ”My liege, this woman is really something. Close combat in not an option. That thing that shot out of her eyes was an attack like Divine Punishment. It is anyone's guess however, as to why the range was so short.”

”I know. The chains restricted her powers. If all we do is stand here and do nothing, she won't be able to do us any harm,” Saleen replied calmly. He had no idea what the lights that shot out the woman's eyes meant, but he was nonetheless able to tell that the power unleashed by the woman was restricted within the vicinity of the altar. The altar itself, served like a thoroughly sealed cage.

”Do I have any choice but to get close? Of course not. That woman is just as fearsome as the angel of fear. Her power has reached the pinnacle of the plane. She might be a little loose in the head, but she is still probably the most powerful figure in this world. If I don't kill her off while she is still being held back by the chains, the entire mainland will be doomed if she managed to get herself free.”

While she thought herself to be the Goddess of Myers, there was no way Saleen could have freed her and let her go about spreading her faith. If he did, all of the believers' powers would be hijacked by her, and there would be nothing left for the goddess to get revived with.

While Saleen wanted very much to break the contract between him and the goddess, going about it like that was not an option. His plans were coming together at the moment, if that thing actually was able to escape, breaking off the contract would no longer be a concern. That thing, would just...

Saleen thought for a moment. If that thing would just go about killing all of the Lord of Glory's believers, it would be quite a nice thing to happen, but she took herself to be the goddess, and from the looks of things, she definitely would not be as sensible as the Goddess of Myers herself. Her bloodlust was just too strong. If such a thing came to the gates of Metatrin City, there would be no city to be had there soon enough.

Saleen came to the conclusion that his city would not be able to defend against her, by just gauging what she was capable of doing alone.

”Well, kill her right here right there it is then!” Mages did not need too many reasons to deal with matters like that. Saleen's mood calmed and he realized, most of the time, what he was compelled to do seemed to be ordained by fate itself. ”If you aren't going to do this now, you will never get another chance at it ever again.”

The woman who took herself to be Goddess of Myers was not one who was easy to deal with. Saleen did not want his elemental creatures to take the risk, as such, he took control of the Stone Statue Soldiers conjured by his Devil Suit to climb over through the corridors at the flanks. Below the corridors was a giant chasm that seemed bottomless.

A mile long distance was nowhere near Saleen's mental powers limit for control. The Stone Statue Soldiers quickly made it through the corridors and went up to the altar. The Stone Statue Soldiers did not possess intellect and were driven completely by instinct, or Saleen's commands.

The six Stone Statue Soldiers stood before the altar, and the woman in chains who had been shooting cold light from her eyes stopped her attack. She went on to glare at the Stone Statue Soldiers. Under Saleen's control, they conjured their elemental axes and lunged at the woman.

Six axes went down on a layer of invisible wall at the edge of the altar. The resulting metal clanging sounds were loud. The six axes were soon disintegrated to base earth element.

Saleen was able to tell from where he stood that the soldiers were unable to do anything to the woman on the altar. He wanted to recall them, as they were still summoned beings that could last for three hours. It would be a waste to see them destroyed, however, tens of blue humanoid creatures quickly leapt from the chasm of the temple, surrounding the Stone Statue Soldiers.

The soldiers once again conjured their elemental axes and expanded their bodies, becoming nine yard tall war machines. More blue humanoid creatures however, leapt from the chasm. They held strange weapons in their hands, and left gashes on the bodies of the soldiers.

”Master, that woman was just practicing!” Nailisi yelled. She found that the blue humanoid creatures were too of grade-9 yet possessed mediocre offensive capacity.

”I can tell.” Saleen's face turned pale. He was taking personal control over the soldiers to fight, and it was a given that he was able to tell what the other side was doing. The woman on the altar was obviously mimicking what he was doing with his soldiers. She was too taking personal control over her blue humanoid creatures and was being very bad at it.

She was, however, able to learn very quickly due to being of high-level. If the fight was dragged on, her ability to control her troops would quickly improve. Saleen let out a sigh and relinquished his control of the soldiers. They immediately gave up fighting the grade-9 creatures and went straight for the altar.

The woman at the altar seemed to be very pleased at that turn of events. She lowered the defenses at the altar and went straight for the soldiers. She shot cold light from her eyes and tore the Stone Statue Soldiers to pieces. She then opened her mouth and sucked up all the rich earth element left behind.

Saleen frowned. The cold light from her eyes was just too powerful. Close combat was not an option. Where he stood was about a mile away from the altar. The likes of alchemy crossbows would not be able to do her any harm. Saleen took hold of his family badge without realizing it.

The badge was capable of taking out things even more than twenty miles away. One mile was simply child's play in that case. The problem however, was that if he unleashed the lightning attack from the badge, there would be nothing left on the altar. Such powerful soul and body materials would go to waste.

More importantly, Saleen felt that the woman must have been related to Goddess of Myers in some manner. She might have been able to dig out some valuable information from her soul. He had signed a contract with Goddess of Myers, with Gaine the astrologer, as well as with the heroic spirits in the imperial city cemetery.

All three contracts were interconnected. Any one of those contracts was connected in one way or another to the revival of Goddess of Myers. The way to break all three of them became the top priority matter in Saleen's mind at the moment. The key of which, laid with the Goddess of Myers herself.