1087 Planning for the Future Part 1 (1/2)

Jalin's description was lively. The threat that she received was probably the most terrifying one that she had ever experienced in her life. Her pride was meaningless before absolute power.

There was no way she would be able to resist an attack with such force, even if she trained for a thousand years more.

Saleen shuddered. He had thought himself to be the only person to have mastered the power of lightning. It seemed that there had been humans in ancient times who mastered the use of lightning powers.

His lightning rules were nothing in comparison.

If he entered the cemetery and looked into the moon that unleashed lightning powers, there was no doubt that he would be able to perfect his lightning rules quickly. However, if he were to enter at such a low level...

Saleen recalled the curse of the gravestone. Jalin did not fear curses, but the same could not be said about Saleen. The more he came to know about fate, the more cautious he was when dealing with curses.

However, he never expected the inside of the cemetery to be what it was. It was too tempting for Saleen.

”I was able to recognize that as the crystallized structure of a giant's bone, and so I bagged some of it. I never expected some fossilized gods to be revived. I ran all the way until I got out.” Jalin felt incredibly frustrated as she recalled the days spent running.

She had fossilized gods on her tail simply because she took some crystallized bone. Worse still, all of the crystallized structures had to be taken away by Saleen.

Saleen was not that greedy. Even if he entered the cemetery, he had no intention of taking any of the bone crystals. The amount of bone crystals was so vast that he would be able to take on the Holy See armed with the power provided by the crystals.

However, every single one of the fossilized gods was level 12 at the very least. The only reason Jalin was able to escape was because of her extremely eerie movement abilities.

Furthermore, the fossilized gods had just been awakened and their bodies were stiff, which made them incapable of using the power of rules they had when they were alive.

Jalin finished drawing the map at that point and said to Saleen, ”I'm speculating this to be a piece of space carved out of a huge tract of land by an ancient powerful one. That space had been a battlefield. The gods surrounded the giants and killed them all. The gods were killed by the humans who arrived later.”

”Why build the cemetery then?”

”So visits could be made,” Lex added. ”The King of Glory wanted to be able to enter the space at any time from the mainland, so to commemorate the nameless giant, as well as to punish the gods.”

Saleen thought that was the only sound explanation. When the King of Glory was still alive, he would not expect that someday, a puny level nine human mage would move the bone crystals in that cemetery.

While the bone crystals were indeed precious, they were once commonplace. Giants only cared about their heads, thinking that...

Saleen froze. Giants believed that so long as their heads remained intact, they could be revived a million years later.

Was the King of Glory trying to resurrect the giant? Why would he keep so many gods imprisoned and carve out a space, providing it with limitless energy just to keep that head intact?

A million years' time, just to resurrect his brother?

Saleen was shocked at the lengths the King of Glory was willing to go to accomplish such a feat, and he did not know how he felt about the whole thing.

”Jalin, you've got some nerve barging in under such circumstances. Didn't you have any fear of being killed by the lightning?” Saleen tried his best to calm himself down and avoided thinking about the huge temptation inside the cemetery.

”Why? That lightning was meant for the gods. I just took some bone crystals. The lightning wouldn't even consider me a target. It was a simple magic principle.” While Jalin was unspeakably terrified then, she had grand words after escaping.

She was not actually wrong, however. Many magic traps or large scale magic arrays had trigger requirements. Power at her level was as good as nonexistent in that ring of energy.

Of course, while she was nonexistent in the perspective of the moon capable of unleashing lightning bolts in the sky, she was very much a target in the perspective of the fossilized gods.

The fossilized gods were held against their will. Anyone who wanted to enter or to touch the giant's grave, they would have to deal with the fossilized gods on their tail.

Furthermore, she had underestimated the power of the fossilized gods and had almost died. She sacrificed quite a bit of equipment just to stay alive.

”Why risk your neck?” Saleen asked, looking at the map Jalin had just drawn.

Jalin pondered for a bit. She could have chosen to ignore the question, but Saleen asked precisely to see how she would react.

If she kept it to herself, Saleen would chase her away and even if the mission that her teacher gave her was considered accomplished, she would face punishment from her teacher nonetheless.

”The crystals of giant bones contained the power of the earth. The power of giants originated from the earth itself and I train primarily in earth magic. When I get to break into level ten, instructions that teacher would have been able to give me would have been next to none, which means I have to figure something out myself. While the power of rules found in those bone crystals are few, it is still something that fits my direction of research.” Jalin answered.

Saleen found Jalin's answer satisfying. He knew little about giant bone crystals. While it was possible for him to just go ask his teacher, it was more convenient to get answers from Jalin.

Jalin continued, ”everyone knows how large giants were. The shortest were still more than a thousand meters tall. The tall ones were able to reach nearly ten miles in height. The very reason why creatures with such huge bodies were able to fly was that giants' bones were powerful and enabled them to absorb elements in all environments without exception.”

Lex finally understood why Jalin had been so crazy about it all. Materials regarding earth magic passed down through the ages were the least numerous. Jalin was already a level nine sorcerer.

If she were to advance any further, she would be able to do so easily if she switched to fire magic, which was the most common branch to be trained in.