981 Playing with Fire Part 1 (1/2)

Saleen reached out with his hand and took the Divine Baby Girl's head, throwing it into the dimension stone, where everything inside was cut off from the outside world. As such, she had no more tricks left to play.

Furthermore, Saleen even threw the Star Gathering Needle into the girl's divine fire! And… Everyone knew that a level 19 Star Gathering Needle was more than enough to suppress a weakened divine fire!

Saleen turned around and looked at Nailisi, who was on the ground. Nailisi gritted her teeth and clung to the ground, while her body wiggled and she returned to her imp form. While both physical forms had nothing to do with each other, they shared the same soul nonetheless. As such, when the Divine Baby Girl threw her down, it had severely injured both her soul and her devil form.

Saleen was regretting this immensely, as he knew that now that her soul was injured, it would impede her growth. Furthermore, there was no telling if Nicholas was dead or alive. Moreover, that adventure of his had caused two of his followers to be injured, and that weighed heavily on Saleen's mind.

”Nailisi, how are you feeling?” he asked, clearly concerned.

Nailisi wore a forced smile as she said, ”I'm fine, master.”

Saleen looked at the altar on the other side of the crack and started to ask, ”Can you...”

”I can, master,” Nailisi said, completed his thought as she went and picked up the weapon that she had thrown on the ground before putting it away in her bracelet. She then went up to the crack, stepped onto the seawater instead of the solid ground, and headed toward the altar.

In that moment, Saleen felt Nailisi's pain. He even felt Nailisi using her own life force to repair her soul. As the soul bond between him and Nailisi was damaged, he knew that Nailisi could have simply shrugged herself free from his control.

Saleen felt very bitter inside. He saw that piles of level nine creatures were sprawled all over the place, yet he was in no mood to pick them up. Instead, he returned right away to the magic tower.

When he got there, he saw that Nicholas had already sat up and was leaning against the wall and panting heavily. It was clear that he wanted to say something, but Saleen waved his hand and stopped him.

He then pulled the Divine Baby Girl's head out of the dimension stone and asked, ”Nicholas, can this be of any use to you?”

Saleen looked at Nicholas' wrinkled face and refrained from taking out some magic liquid to heal him. After all, his was not the kind of damage that magic liquid would have been able to do anything about.

Nicholas was dumbfounded. What lied within that head was the most previous divine fire, after all, from which all powers of that Divine Baby Girl had been derived! Thus, the value of that divine fire far surpassed the entire body of an angel of fear. In Saleen's perspective, that would have served well as being something to trade with those ancient souls in that Cemetery of Heroes.

”I understand.” Saleen smiled and said. Even though Nicholas had not uttered a word in reply, Saleen could read his face perfectly. ”I can't craft a Blood Soul Tower, so we'll have to wait for Nailisi to return. Hopefully she can help you.”

As Nicholas heard what Saleen said, something welled up inside him. It was not exactly a feeling of being deeply touched, but was one of a comforting warmth at the very least.

”My liege...” Nicholas began to thank him, murmuring weakly.

”I know.” Saleen did not let Nicholas continue.

The contract between him and Nicholas was rendered null. This was due to his soul having exceeded the limit of level nine. He would not have been able to sense something changing so deep within his soul with such clarity otherwise.

It was about half an hour later when Nailisi returned. She had gone to sweep along the outside of the tower. That was so typical of her personality. She would always put her own troubles aside, regardless of how messy those troubles were. Similarly, she would never let herself be troubled when it was time to be happy!

While her soul sustained serious damage and her lineage would not be able to evolve for a very long time, she knew that the second space of the 12 Notes of First Purgatory had been perfected. Thus, she was confident that she would not have been rendered utterly helpless if she were to encounter a half-human, half-god creature as she was making her errands outside.

As she returned, Nailisi's eyes almost popped out of their sockets when she saw Saleen taking out the Divine Baby Girl's head. She was utterly shocked!

”Nailisi, split this thing between yourselves, then help Nicholas craft a new Blood Soul Tower. I'll get him a Scepter of the Fallen,” Saleen said as he tossed the head to Nailisi.

The Divine Baby Girl's physical body was not powerful, and it was actually not all that different from those of her believers. What was truly precious lied within her head. There were divine crystals and divine fire within it, which would have been enough to make up for all of Saleen's losses.

Saleen left Nailisi alone while he silently took out the few divine branches that he had left with him and crafted a Scepter of the Fallen for Nicholas. Nailisi then said, while having her back toward Saleen, ”Master, that thing about the Three Kings...”

Saleen had not recalled that he still had three scepters that had been left by the Three Kings with him. All of those were great resources, which had such a high-quality hardness that even his Water Flame would have trouble destroying them. In fact, one would only need to fix a Blood Soul Tower upon one of them, and a perfect Scepter of the Fallen would be complete!

The scepters of the Three Kings had nothing within them. However, this was not an issue, as what gave the Three Kings their power was the broken jade that was buried deep within their soul flames.

”Alright, in that case, let's go!” Saleen took out a scepter and handed it to Nailisi. He then took control of the Magical Element Tower and caused it to hover above the huge crack.

Currently, they were within the very depths of the underground. When the Divine Baby Girl had struggled to break free from her chains, she had caused the entire templed to collapse, making it easy for Saleen to escape.

The Magical Element Tower rose slowly, floating in seawater as it went. Saleen did not want to stay in that pile of rubble any longer, even if they could have found many construction materials worth taking within it.

At that moment, Nailisi pulled at Saleen's sleeve. Saleen acknowledged her and took out a bottle of bone marrow from the angel of fear, then handed it to her. Nailisi had used up all of her own without telling anyone, having merged them with the purgatory of the fallen.

Her soul still hurt, and as golden electrical sparks flashed on her finger, Saleen was startled. He had never seen Nailisi use a skill like Lightning Protection. He was relieved to discover that Nailisi was capable of controlling electricity, and he secretly congratulated himself for not having gotten on Nailisi's bad side in the past.