1025 Crisis Part 1 (2/2)

Gessica was dumbfounded for a moment, before replying calmly, ”I should have died a long time ago. It's boring living for as long as I did. Do your worst.”

Saleen could have simply crushed the soul stones and wiped the two oracles from the face of the plane. However, he saw use for both of them and would not let them die so easily.

The grandmaster and Gaine both had the opinion that the very reason gods appeared was because powers across the Myers Mainland had weakened. In general, Saleen believed it, as he had witnessed with his own eyes how the Divine Baby treated her adherents.

The gods saw their adherents to be little more than sheep. There was, without a doubt, need to keep their sheep protected. But what about when the sheep grew up? Their wool would be harvested, or they got killed for their meat, of course.

Humans herd sheep and gods herd adherents. Both went along the same line of thought.

”You can't die yet. It's coincidental that my followers lack souls like yours. Bing, prepare to suck both of them in,” Saleen said as he took out the Ring of Gifts. The ring was filled with the power of faith collected from the Divine Baby. Saleen splashed a bit of the congealed power of faith onto both soul stones.

The gush of pure power of faith enabled the two oracles to quickly repair their souls.

Saleen had no intentions of allowing both of them to resurrect. If both of them were to live, it would be him who had gotten the short end of the stick, especially when they both knew the connection between him and the goddess. If they were to resurrect, they would monitore his every move. Every deed of his needed to be for one specific purpose—helping the goddess resurrect.

When Saleen felt that the souls of the two oracles were mostly repaired and the cracks on the stones disappeared, he brutally crushed the soul stones, allowing the souls to be absorbed into the Winged Skull's eye sockets.

The soul flame coalesced into the form of eyes again within the Winged Skull's eye sockets, instead of dancing about like other spirits. There was one Blood Soul Tower within each of the Winged Skull's eye sockets. The souls of Gauf and Gessica flew into an eye socket, to be absorbed into the Blood Soul Towers within.

Gauf and Gessica were still in shock. They saw the liquefied power of faith that Saleen poured and thought Saleen had robbed a god of some sort. But they quickly found the power of faith to be the ones belonging to the Goddess of Nature! Both oracles were sent in a state of confusion and panic instantly, and were absorbed by the Winged Skull without a glitch.

When they were both inside their respective Blood Soul Towers, the Winged Skull wiped their memories without a second thought. Two powerful souls ended up sitting at the 13th floor of the Blood Soul Towers.

Gessica and Gauf's souls peered forward and saw the top of their towers, which looked like a boundless sky. A silhouette looking down from the sky.

Is that my god? But why does it look so foreign?

That's not what a god should look like. It's a pale golden skeleton with a pair of bone wings behind its back. A golden heart is beating within the chest of that skeleton, sending eerie power to every single bone, circulating and returning to the golden heart.

The oracles looked at the silhouette for some time before deciding to bow and worship the projection of the soul of the Winged Skull. The Winged Skull, however, did not absorb their power of faith; they turned such power into pure soul power instead, fortifying the Blood Soul Towers. Both oracles had power of faith to spare, but ended up wasting more than half of their powers after conversion, but the Winged Skull nonetheless felt their Blood Soul Towers getting increasingly strong.

That was the true use of the Blood Soul Towers. The souls within the towers fortified their own prison with their own power. When the cages were deemed sturdy enough, then the Winged Skull would use the powers for their own battles.

Saleen saw everything going well with the Winged Skull and took something out of a dimension stone.

It was a half-broken rock. Its original shape was a drawing of a shield. Saleen's Elemental Eye scanned it and saw criss-crossing gashes on the half-broken rock badge, which he was unable to help but sigh at.

It had been an equipment of rules, which unfortunately, had been broken by the monster.

Saleen's judgment had been sound. The Dark Sky Devil was able to restore its powers due to having devoured half the badge. If the badge had been whole, the Dark Sky Devil would have probably broken the shackles of the plane and advanced to level 13 or higher. However, the badge contained countless natural magic patterns, which made Saleen reluctant to throw it away.

The power of rules was something Saleen had yearned for. The rules within the half-broken badge were of far higher status than those on the Sword of Rules. Saleen had not been able to figure out how to use the badge yet, and so he simply put it away in his Devil Ring.

The last thing within the dimension stone was a piece of jade ring. 24 holy prose were carved on the inside of that ring. Saleen's lightning attack had not been able to even scratch the ring.

Saleen held the ring and felt rather dazed while looking at it. What kind of jade is this? From the looks of the material, the ring was the sturdiest item that Saleen had ever seen other than his family badge and the level 19 Star Gathering Needle.

The peculiar material piqued Saleen's interests. If he had not been in a hurry to get to Golden Plains, he would have stayed right where he was and looked into it, finding out what that ring actually was.

An item with such sturdy qualities yet devoid of any attributes.