1076 Sealing the Hole Part 2 (1/2)

Saleen wanted nothing more than to just run from the place. If I were to die here, would my soul be sealed within those shells and doomed to repent before the giant for eons to come?

The curse of the King of Glory was indeed powerful. No believers were able to receive their god's blessing within hundreds of miles radius. No mages were able to draw power from the elements. With the exception of unpopular professions like Sika's, everyone's combat capacity were affected.

The magic fire shells slowed the movements of the fossilized gods. Their cracking bodies were no longer able to withstand the power of the magic cannons. Every shot ended up killing hundreds of fossilized gods.

However, Saleen did not see any auspicious signs of souls dissipating. The souls from the fossilized gods' fragments were sucked back into the giant by some massive power. Saleen seemed to be able to hear their eerie screams.

Were those souls just going to keep being punished? Saleen cared little if they actually ended up being punished. What concerned him was if the retrieved souls would have simply be given another body to act as fossilized gods, and be deployed in battle again.

If that were to be the case, they would never be able to seal the hole.

”Saleen, why aren't those things coming out from other places?” Sika asked something that Saleen had never considered before.

He was too stressed by the current predicament, putting all his mind into sealing the hole and little else, and that ended up with him being unable to see things as clearly as Sika who was watching from the sides. She's right. There're so many of the statues around, there'll sure be other exits, no?

Even if his calculations proved apt and the giant they were at now was the main one standing right at the front, there still should have been another hole in another ear. He did not spend much energy digging the ear out. While the dirt covering the ear was hard, it was still way softer than fossilized dirt.

Why don't the fossilized gods just open up the other ear then? If that happens, I'd have had to give up entirely, wouldn't I?

”Take care of things here, I'll go have a look around,” Saleen left the 12 sorcerers in charge of the battle, while he took Sika and Gusion to the other side of the statue's head to look into the other hole at the ear.

Both holes were found to be parallel to each other and that other hole was filled with dirt as well. Saleen went up and dug up a piece with his nails, smelling it. The dirt did not have any special components in it, just the smell of sulphur. The collapse of the ground surrounding the place was probably caused by some magic over level 15.

The lava that erupted from the ground was probably caused by the aftershocks of the spell as well, instead of the earth truly splitting apart reaching the depths of the crust. Saleen scanned the dirt with his Elemental Eye and found no signs of power of rules.

Why don't the fossilized gods simply come from this hole instead? Saleen wanted to do alchemic analysis of the dirt and see if there was something that the gods feared here.

It was a pity that there was no time for that. The army of the Holy See would be upon them soon enough, and what was more dire was that all three head inquisitors would be there soon as well.

Sika looked at the dirt in the hole.”Who cares what they are. Just dig a piece out and stuff it at the other end. We'll see what would happen soon enough.”

Saleen slapped at his forehead hard, thinking himself really to be dumb. It was as Sika put it, there was simply no need for him to figure out the principles behind the dirt. The most pressing issue then to simply seal the hole. There was no point in understanding anything about the dirt if he was unable to get the hole sealed up.

He summoned six Elemental Stone Statue Soldiers and had Gusion carve up the dirt meticulously. The Elemental Stone Statue Soldiers then dug up the entire piece of dirt with the steel materials.

Six beings of over a hundred meters tall carried the dirt all the way to the other side of the head. The Stone Statue Soldiers looked rather flimsy compared to the huge statue right beside them.

12 magic cannons fired at once. The fossilized gods quickly turned to scrap while still burning. The Elemental Stone Statue Soldiers charged straight at the hole and stuffed the dirt into it.

Everyone held their breaths as they waited for the result. No further sound was heard from within. Saleen was the first person who sighed a breath of relief. The fossilized gods had truly retreated, and retreated very quickly.

The pieces of the fossilized gods outside the cave stacked up to a height of several meters. Saleen stored them inside his Starline Ring without saying much. The materials were rather special, as they were capable of isolating powers of elements and faith.

All 12 magic cannons were near depleted. Being fired at such high frequencies rendered them nearly completely broken. Sika brought another 12 from the city and had the Elemental Stone Statue Soldiers replace the ones that were being used earlier.

Saleen dared not have more magic cannons set up when used at such a narrow place.

The last time he fired massive number of magic cannons and caused an elemental shock, which in turn triggered a catastrophe. He dared not pull any risky maneuvers like that anymore. If the earth had actually collapsed, the chasm of about ten miles deep would have been capable of swallowing the entire Daliang City.

While the hole was sealed, things were far from settled. With the head of the statue of a giant excavated for all to see, the Holy See army would be able to catch sight of it from afar.

Furthermore, he had built a magic tower and had 12 turrets aimed at one ear. It was a peculiar sight that would have piqued the interests of the Holy See.

The three head inquisitors would probably simply order their forces to attack that spot, taking out the turrets and digging up the hole. Once they had done so, Saleen would be caught in a pinch again together with the ones from the Holy See.

That was a very difficult problem and there was no way he could just go up to the people of the Holy See, telling them the hole was very dangerous and to not ever dig it up.

The Holy See would be insane to buy his words like that.

Saleen was reluctant to simply take the defenses apart. The dirt that filled the hole at the ear was little more than three meters thick, little more than a thin wall.