1007 Volume of Silence Part 1 (2/2)

”Master!” Lex was at loss seeing Joey looking like that. He was apparently injured. Who could have dealt such injuries on him? Lex noticed that blood was still coming out of his nostrils.

”Take me to your tower,” Joey did not bother saying much. Tens of the Mechanical Soul doubles that came near were immediately kicked away by him. The tens kicked were immediately rendered scrap and fell into the sea. The Mechanical Soul that was hidden inside the Ancient shrieked in terror, and almost dived into the sea in fright.

Joey's kick directly reached its soul in its original body. The Mechanical Soul doubles never felt that much terror before. Its soul was protected by the shard, and it had long thought that no one would be able to punish it but Saleen.

Lex put down whatever he was attending to at the moment and brought Joey back to her tower.

”Master, what happened?”

”I went all prepared, and still I was unable to kill Fycro. He was ten times stronger than I thought he would be,” Joey sighed, and his eyes were filled with disappointment.

”Master, you went to fight against Fycro?” Lex was surprised. She and Saleen both had not wanted to speak that name. They were forced to sign the contract back then, and there was no way for them to back out unless Fycro was killed.

”Yeah, we had something going on between us before. Worse still, that scumbag threatened you. It is the least I can do for you. You are married now, and I'll leave Saleen in charge of things from here on out.” Expressions like those of common men were seen on Joey's face, and that was something that rarely happened.

”Saleen, he...”

”I won't look for him anymore. I did what I had to do, and I don't need him to help me with anything anymore. Lex, Saleen's growth has greatly surpassed my expectations. If I hadn't saved him back then, I probably would still have to deal with something like this now.”

”But master!”

”What else do you need? I have given him the God's mulberry and the ghost oak tree that I kept for hundreds of years, and he only gave me the Seal of Divine Powers. Tell you what, Lex, if you find yourself unable to stay on the Myers Mainland anymore in the future, go look for me in the Eastern Sea.”

”You are going to the Eastern Sea?!”

”Indeed. I have a map with me. The ruins of the Second Dynasty. An absolutely well-kept one by the way. To get to the eastern waters, I'll need to cross the Stormy Sea. I have taken Fycro's godly item, which will allow me to pass the Stormy Sea easy enough. Too bad he took the Seal of Divine Powers though.”

Lex did not say anything. It was perfectly normal that Joey did not end up killing Fycro, as Fycro was probably the most difficult figure to deal with in all of the Holy See. He was someone who dared rob gods of believers and a grade-10 professional in possession of godly items. It would have been weird if such a person was to end up dead so easily.

It had probably been Joey's plan all along to take Fycro's godly item for his own use. Joey had indeed moved for his own benefit.

On the other side, in the sky above the center of the Chaotic Swamp, Fycro, who was dressed in snow white colors, looked at the ground with a three mile radius hole in it in rage.

The place was his fortress, and tens of thousands of believers had been moved there. His battle with Joey however, ruined everything he had built. All the facilities he had been managing below were destroyed, and there was no telling how long it would take to rebuild it all.

He had long been aware of the sorcerer following him. The range Joey kept at was one that was just about right for mages to launch their attacks. To holy masters however, such a range was rather out of reach.

Fycro had provoked Joey to strike several times, and the sorcerer remained unmoved, until they got there. It was only then that Joey took out the Seal of Divine Powers and went to clash head on with Fycro.

Both men ended up being severely injured. The Volume of Silence was a godly item that not even the pope had been aware of. The Seal of Divine Powers stored powers that Joey had been accumulating for the past several years.

The powers clashed, and the impact was led to the ground below, destroying everything that Fycro had painstakingly built.

What proved more infuriating was that Fycro's Volume of Silence was taken by the sorcerer. While he took the Seal of Divine Powers from the sorcerer in return, it was something that had belonged to the pope, and thus was something of no use to him. Using it on his own would have alerted the pope, and the pope would come asking him for it.

If he insisted on keeping it, he would be branded a traitor to the Holy See and made a fallen one right there and then. He would not be able to open his own interdimensional space and create his own heaven then.