1023 Retribution Part 1 (1/2)
Looking up from the ground, smoke of a myriad of colors was seen bursting in the skywell and shooting up. Loud impact noises were heard all over the place. The two oracles ceased their ranged attacks and went fighting the Dark Sky Devil up close and personal instead.
The Dark Sky Devil had no other choice. Its evil holy spells were coincidentally countered by the Goddess of Nature's holy spells. Even during melee, it was still two against one.
The edge of the skywell was filled with green Goddess of Nature holy prose, which the Dark Sky Devil dared not ram, fighting the oracles in the cramped bottom of the place.
Somewhere high above in the sky, clouds zipped past at high speeds but suddenly turned around. It was Saleen and the winged skeleton within the clouds, and the colored smoke shooting up felt familiar to Saleen.
”Master, we'd better mind our own business,” The winged skeleton reminded Saleen.
Saleen nodded and said, ”Don't you feel the air to be rather terrifying in the battle taking place there?”
”Which is why we need to leave.”
”No risk, no gain,” Saleen countered as he took the clouds to the sky above the skywell. He was flying at very high altitudes, about 3,000 yards above ground. When observed from the ground, not even sorcerers would be able to tell it was Saleen within the clouds. Saleen was able to see everything on the ground due to his Elemental Eye.
The billowing smoke was unable to block Saleen's sight. He slapped the gourd at his hip, releasing a water current about nine yards long. The water current was re-crafted and packed more power. Transparent magic patterns were packed within the azure water, which looked like the veins of plants.
The water current shot through the clouds and made for the skywell, lurking near the edge. Saleen only went on to observe the ongoing battle inside when he was done with all that.
Saleen only thought of leaving after seeing what was inside. What was fighting within were a hundred times more powerful than he had expected, and it was definitely the kind of things as strong as the angel of fear.
”My liege, we best leave,” The winged skeleton reminded him again.
”Just wait a moment longer,” Saleen said as he took out his family badge. While it was a bad thing to keep relying on it, it was nonetheless a useful tool for keeping himself alive. The three beings fighting down there were having really violent bouts between them. All three beings apparently did not have much equipment with them; they were fighting using only their own might.
Saleen was still thinking if he wanted to simply shoot all three into oblivion with his badge, when the man below suddenly shouted, ”Come down and help out!”
Gauf had felt Saleen's presence for quite some time, and he was able to sense the air of the Goddess of Nature about him. Saleen's God's Left Hand might have been taken away by the grandmaster, but he still had the contract with the goddess deep in his soul, and that was something no one could wipe off. While Saleen had never specifically looked into the holy arts, he used the God's Left Hand multiple times nonetheless, and had built up experiences with using divine power. His way of using magic had references acquired through such experiences with the holy arts.
As such, traces of the goddess' holy spells were left on him.
If Saleen had been a believer of the Goddess of Nature, he would have simply gone on one such suicide mission, with just that single shout from Gauf. The Dark Sky Devil killed one head and its powers burst, making it capable of taking on two oracles. While it was not a long term solution, the two oracles were not having a better time themselves. Due to not having aid from the goddess, their rate at healing was incredibly slow. They hoped that they could finish fighting sooner than later.
Saleen, who had appeared out of nowhere, was at the pinnacle of grade-9. The two oracles would not pay any heed to powers of such levels in general, but things were different at that moment. Due to neither side having a clear advantage of the other, one straw would have been enough to defeat the Dark Sky Devil, and Saleen's current level, was equal to that one straw needed in the eyes of the oracles.
In the perspective of the oracles, it was nothing to kill someone if they were able to kill the Dark Sky Devil. It was a better alternative than having the rest of the mainland screwed up after all.
Saleen was no believer, and Gauf's shout resulted only in a strong repulsion welling up in his mind. Saleen was able to tell that it was something resulting from the Star Gathering Needle. The voice of the oracle pierced through Saleen's cloud and went straight of his soul. The Goddess of Nature's contract responded in kind within his soul. If it had not been for the Star Gathering Needle, Saleen would probably have jumped right into the fight.
The grade-19 Star Gathering Needle exuded plain constellation powers, forming layers of starlight deep within Saleen's soul, as if to protect his fate.
”Darn it!”
Saleen was able to realize something. The man below had been using holy spells to trick him into going down there to fight! Saleen, however, was no longer a common mage. He was in control of a nation and had killed millions. His rather meek personality had grown to be resilient and strong throughout his ordeals.
Realizing Gauf was using holy spells to trick him Saleen decided right there and then to make for higher altitudes. He flew right up to the sky about 8000 yards high. The air was thin and it was bone-chilling cold at such heights. If it had not been for Saleen's special Quickcloud spell, he would have been pummeled and torn by the peculiar wind element at work up there, which was like being attacked by sorcerers in the thousands.
Seeing how the mage took off for higher heights, Gauf felt rather peculiar. With the Dark Sky Devil's attacks being fast and sharp, he had no time to dwell on it.