1090 Book of Pathos Part 2 (1/2)
”No!”
The specter stomped its leg in the air, breaking the shell covering it and exposing its translucent toes. However, the being was an actual double of the Lord of Glory and did not have power. It was simply tied to the core rules of the Book of Pathos.
The fossilized gods continued to rush at it. A bit of its body was quickly fossilized as one crashed into it as a layer of thin shell covering the crashed area. The specter struggled at the beginning.
It was still something that did not possess actual intelligence. Every time it was fossilized, the part beneath the rocky shell felt somewhat better. As such, it gradually lost the will to resist.
Nailisi was able to sense the change within the 12 Notes of First Purgatory as another space was opened up. That space was made specifically for taking out gods. It was quite a pity that the level of that space was not high enough. It was incapable of imprisoning gods above level 12. How about level 11? Probably not. Seems like the most it can take now are level 10 gods.
The specter of the Lord of Glory's eventually became encased in a thick rocky shell. It was only then that it found itself no longer able to shake off the shell's control.
More and more fossilized gods rushed at it and turned into thicker and heavier shell.
”Lost one, there is no need for faith...” Nailisi's voice was heard within. The portal of the 12 Notes of First Purgatory was closed. The collection of purgatories returned to her hand.
Nailisi held the collection of purgatories in one hand and the Sword of Rules in the other. She easily knocked down two fossilized gods and dodged to the side. The fossilized gods within the cave charged at Jalin instead.
Jalin was filled with rage. She wanted to cast spells and sneak around Nailisi, giving the demon a dose of her own medicine. However, when Nailisi passed by Jalin, she rubbed the Sword of Rules lightly on the magic staff.
The staff snapped, and the bone crystal on the top shattered. Jalin was suddenly robbed of her most important power source.
Nailisi chuckled and charged outside. She turned around and shouted, ”Hey Jalin, I dare not kill you, but I wouldn't say the same for those gods.”
”You're insane!” Jalin shouted in rage. What Nailisi did was no different from personally killing her. Is that bonded creature's head broken? Or, has Saleen lost control of her?
The mask on her face was already torn as she continued to shout. She cast Crystal City with a wave of her hand and sealed the passage.
The fossilized gods began knocking hard on the barrier that Jalin cast with their weapons in a frenzy. She turned around and ran. Having lost the support of the magic staff and the bone crystal of the giant, her speed of movement was equal to that of a common beginner swordsman.
Jalin felt despair for the first time. The mask was akin to her double. A Crystal City spell cast by using the power of the mask would not be able to block the fossilized gods for long.
The depth at which both she and Nailisi found themselves in, and her current speed of movement, meant that the fossilized gods would be able to break her level nine spell at any moment.
Jalin felt cold deep within. There was simply no way Nailisi would have had everything calculated so well if she had gone crazy.
Has Saleen rendered the contract between him and Nailisi null simply to kill me? No way! A bonded creature of Nailisi's strength wouldn't have stayed at Saleen's side if he had released her. Saleen would never give Nailisi up just to kill me!
The cold in her mind seeped into her bones as she pondered further.
Did Saleen have it all thought out? Why am I only able to figure this out now? To Saleen, I'm less than even a bonded creature!
If Nailisi knew what was going on in Jalin's mind, she would have scolded the sorcerer, deeming the sorcerer brain damaged. She had been through thick and thin with her master and was willing to give up everything for him. Jalin was nothing compared to her.
Jalin continued running for hundreds of feet and began to pant. Her constitution was such that it would not have been difficult for her to run three to five miles. However, the sounds of the gods attempting to break the barrier behind her seemed to be hits on her mind itself.
The pride of a mage was turned to nothing. Without support of elements, any spell cast using solely her own magic chords probably maybe kill a level eight fossilized god. She would be able to fend off the gods' attacks another six times before she exhausted her magic chords.
Am I going to just die unceremoniously like this? Jalin felt her feet tripping and eyes daze, but she quickly saw Nailisi turning around and hoisting her up.
Nailisi had long nails. When she was holding Jalin's wrist, her nails scraped on the walls of her blood vessels.
”So Jalin, you're afraid of death after all. And, I thought you were a brave young woman,” Nailisi said with a sarcastic tone.
Jalin's blood was boiling, but she knew that it was pointless to resist now that Nailisi had grabbed her. ”What do you want?”
”Do you want to live?” Nailisi asked.
”I do!” Jalin exclaimed.
”I've no certainty of being able to get you out of her. How about this? You get in here, and I'll get you back to Daliang City,” Nailisi said and opened a portal.
Jalin had personally seen the door gobbling up tens of thousands of fossilized gods. There was no way she would have went inside willingly.
Nailisi laughed sheepishly and said, ”Oh Jalin, I'm here to save you. If you're not getting in, and if your teacher is going to question us in the future, even a level ten mage's lie detection wouldn't have yielded anything. I'm not the one who killed you after all.”