981 Playing with Fire Part 1 (2/2)

As a layer of green energy wrapped around the Divine Baby Girl's head, Saleen's blue electricity was wrapped around the outside of that layer of green energy.

Everything was crackling with energy. At that time, Saleen knew that only Nailisi would be able to handle the head, as no one else could even touch it.

Nailisi felt very touched. The injury she had sustained in her soul was worse than Saleen knew. With the head of that Divine Baby Girl, however, she would at least be able to heal her wounds. As for the matter of whether she would be able to evolve, that would have to wait for a later date.

Divine fire was not only useful to the gods, and Nailisi had learned what Saleen had learned back in the Cemetery of Heroes. When humans were conquering the gods, they were doing it for themselves.

Divine fire was something that was capable of strengthening one's soul, boosting one's power, and extending one's lifespan. As for a divine persona, that was useful for crafting powerful equipment, and the body of a god possessed only the highest grade materials.

Saleen knew that it would have been akin to wasting 99 percent of its energies for the divine fire to be used by Nailisi in such ways. However, Nailisi's injuries needed healing, and there was nothing else that he would have been able to do.

So, Nailisi extended her hand to Saleen and said, ”Ring of Gifts.”

Saleen then handed Nailisi the ring. She took the ring, then pressed it to the head's forehead.

She did not fear the electricity that Saleen had left on it. This because the electricity was so weak that it would not have even been able to compare with the golden electricity that was currently wrapped around her hand.

When the Ring of Gifts was pressed on the forehead, that layer of green energy was absorbed by the ring in an instant. The layer of green energy that was on the surface of the Divine Baby Girl's head was a power of the nature goddess, which meant that there was no difference between the two.

Furthermore, that energy was massive, and it had at prevented her injuries from worsening. When Nailisi was done absorbing all of the energy with the Ring of Gifts, the bloodied mess of a head within it revealed itself.

Saleen then took the Ring of Gifts and searched it for a bit. The space within the ring was filled with the nature goddess' divine power.

This meant that the Ring of Gifts' true purpose was probably to store divine power instead of being used as a piece of space equipment. After all, there was no way a piece of space equipment that had been crafted by a goddess would have so little space within it.

After the divine power that had been protected the head was absorbed, the head began rotting. Nailisi's golden electricity-covered hand then reached for the eye sockets of the head, causing the cracked socket to burst.

Nailisi's finger then started to carefully pull out the Star Gathering Needle. By this time, the divine fire that was left on the needle had almost dissipated.

Nailisi muttered in a complex demonic tongue. Her body was no longer able to control Ultimate Shapeshifting, so she returned to her imp form. At the same time, tiny demonic runes flowed around her sharp, pointy nails. They were stacked in layers and numbered in the thousands.

She carefully cut the divine fire with her nails, which made it even weaker until it became two mere wisps of fire, which were smaller than the tip of her nail. Nailisi's nails were completely melted by this point, yet she felt no pain.

It was a very difficult task to handle divine fire, and as she continued to do so, it went on to burn her fingers. However, Nailisi still felt no pain.

In actual fact, divine fire was the core of life force for the gods. Hence, even if her entire body was burned to the ground, she would not have felt any pain at all. This was a talent that was bestowed upon the gods, the power to burn all life.

Divine fire was also something that would have been able to spark again, as long as it was not entirely snuffed out. Moreover, that Divine Baby Girl was just a pseudogod. As this meant that she was a being that was lower than a demigod, that divine fire severely lacked the support of rules, and as such, it ended up being cut open by Nailisi via demon magic.

The price she had paid for all of this was simply a finger. A finger was something a demon could regrow easily enough, as long as its food supply was ample.

The only troubling thing about this was that the divine fire was still a level 13 existence, while Nailisi was only level nine, which meant that there was the possibility of recoil by the divine fire during the absorption process. If Nailisi ended up being swallowed by that divine fire, then the Divine Baby would probably transform into a new shadow.

A shadow of that Divine Baby would be at least a level ten being nonetheless. Then, if it was to run amok in the magic tower, there was little that Saleen would be able to do in order to deal with it.

Nailisi used the crudest, simplest means to go about her work. She let the cut divine fire suspend in the air. She then stuck it with the Star Gathering Needle and stirred the matter vigorously.

As she did so, she found a microscopic particle that was hidden within it, which was the core of that divine fire, the dormant will of the Divine Baby Girl. The very reason Nailisi was cutting the divine fire was to preserve that core in its complete form.

After all, no matter how much gratitude she felt toward Nicholas, she still wanted to save the best things for her own use. She would not be a proper demon otherwise.

She continued prodding with the needle again. As Nailisi was unable to control her senses, she was also unable to find the location of the core of that divine fire. So, even though she continued looking for the core, she had no luck finding it.

Finally, after she had poked around for about an hour, the needle coincidentally stuck into the core of the divine fire. The core instantly imploded violently as it was trying to avoid the needle's attack.

But, soon after the tip of the Star Gathering Needle touched the core, the implosion of the space within the divine fire was forcefully halted, as if a bubble had burst. That same moment, Nailisi heard a clear pop.

The divine fire had bloated out all of a sudden, like a level ten magic spell was bursting. The constant temperature within the Magical Element Tower rose exponentially, and the clothes on all three of them were severely burned. Saleen clumsily threw an uncut level 12 magic nucleus into the magic power furnace, and only then did the temperature within the tower stop rising.

Nailisi stuck out her tongue like a child, while squeezing the bloated divine fire. The core of the divine fire was broken, and the golden electricity that was around her hand was no longer in danger of being burned by the divine fire.