1085 Jalin’s Compromise Part 1 (1/2)

The soul beast flew increasingly high, circling at a height over 2,000 miles above the Tribunal army.

Jalin thought about Saleen's threat and said, ”I'd have just run away if I knew this would happen.”

”Arbola had you stuck with me. Would you really run away?” Saleen retorted.

He wanted to kill Jalin badly, but he would have had nothing to gain from killing her. Furthermore, Saleen wanted to know what was in the cemetery, but he had no intention of going inside to look around himself. Jalin was the only one who had entered, and her information was very valuable.

Jalin was rendered speechless by Saleen's retort. Her teacher stuck her to Saleen's side, so she definitely had a purpose to serve. While her teacher was rather lenient with what she did with him, it would have been problematic if she were to run away and Saleen chased after her. It would have been very awkward.

She could leave for a while, but not in a way in which she had Saleen at her tail. If he were to chase after him, there would have been hardly any reason for her to return to Saleen's side. That would mean the mission given to her by her teacher would be completely compromised.

”Put down what you have willingly, or we strip you down. Otherwise, run away right now. The choice is yours.” Sika held on to her staff. Her eyes were completely hostile as she looked at Jalin's charming face.

Jalin's emotions seemed rather unstable with her mask torn. ”Do your worst, Saleen. I'm not signing any contracts with you.”

”Alright, Nailisi, she's all yours,” Sika said.

Nailisi laughed maniacally and grabbed Jalin. She flew on top of the soul beast. Her huge body bent over. With all three of her heads speaking to Jalin at the same time, she said, ”Don't try to resist. Do so, and I'll kill you.”

”Stop! Saleen, we can discuss this...” Jalin's voice trailed off.

Pfftt...

Nailisi's huge hand took hold of Jalin's body. She turned into a whiff of smoke appearing beside them.

”What's more to discuss? Sign the contract and I'll forgive what you did,” Saleen said. ”Refuse to do so, and we'll be mortal enemies. I'll let you off alive once at most for Arbola's sake. I won't go easy on you if I were to see you again.”

”Master said that he would let you go alive, but I can't guarantee I'm going to do the same.” Nailisi said as her four arms closed in at the center, making an attack gesture.

While they were over 2,000 miles in the air, it was still a difficult place to cast spells. Sika had broken Jalin's magic staff. While she had barely been able to escape the first attack, there was no way to escape the second one.

”Alright, Saleen, I agree,” Jalin said.

Nailisi took hold of Jalin's waist and squeezed hard. Saleen said, ”Don't kill her yet!”

Saleen knew Nailisi's temperament too well. She would ruin things before thinking about the consequences of doing so. If she wanted to kill someone, Saleen had to warn her beforehand.

If he was only half a second slower, he would have only been able to retrieve a bisected Jalin. If he wanted anything useful by then, the only way to do it was to extract the memory fragments from her soul.

If he were to let Jalin die in pieces and have her soul extracted for torture, Arbola would have flown into a rage. There was no need to offend a level 10 professional at that juncture.

Saleen was afraid of what Nailisi would have done, and Jalin was even more so. She was able to smell death as Nailisi's sharp fingernails punctured her magic robe and scraped against her skin. Death was within an inch of her life.

Jalin believed that if she were to be tortured to death, her teacher would avenge her. The question was, however, was it worth it to argue with a demon?

If Jalin remained adamant, Nailisi would have crushed her to death. With that, all the great ideals she had would have been no more.

There were plenty of cases where geniuses died young, including death caused by people of low status. Jalin was thoroughly frightened. She lost all courage to fight Saleen any further.

Saleen was still watching the battles taking place beneath. He found troops swinging weapons at the passage to the cemetery on the ground, intending to dig it open, which was followed by a punisher ramming at the passage and dropping dead right away.

The power within the dirt seal had absolute killing power over gods and their adherents. The head of that punisher had massive stores of power of faith. The ram had rendered the punisher completely dead, so much so that it did not even twitch.

However, a large hole was torn at the dirt seal. The fossilized gods within rushed out of the exit. They swung their weapons without hesitation as soon as they caught sight of the Holy See troops.

Things were hardly peaceful between humans. It was even less so with the gods. The fossilized gods and Lord of Glory were of entirely different races. Furthermore, the Lord of Glory was a very xenophobic god. Intense hatred welled up deep within the souls of the fossilized gods as soon as they saw the adherents of the Lord of Glory around.

Worse still, the light that was maintaining the Divine Territory fell onto the fossilized gods, causing them great pain. If it had not been the skin of the fossilization skill having an edge by being able to suppress divinity, the fossilized gods would have been injured.

The hole was not very large, and the number of gods rushing out was few. They were quickly surrounded and taken care of by the Tribunal army. The dead fossilized gods' souls were sucked back into the cave. It was apparent that the light of the Divine Territory was incapable of cleansing them.

The two head inquisitors went pale. The ruins are actually a turf of other gods?

They were unable to tell the details of the fossilized gods, but they were able to sense the scent of other gods. That was the scent the Lord of Glory hated most.