1212 Getting swallowed into the Kingdom of Gods Part 2 (2/2)

”As you wish, lord pope.” The oracle answered Theisio respectfully.

Saleen was able to feel that the Magical Element Tower traversing a huge portal after the tower was swallowed up by the beast. The portal seemed to be the insides of the beast.

The portal was twisty, which was unsafe, unlike the one left behind by the goddess. The tower barged through untold numbers of elemental storm areas and space tears as it traversed the portal.

If it had not been for the tower, Saleen thought that he probably would have died inside that portal.

It was not that there were pieces of wreckage inside, but that the wreckage was all rotten. Being corroded and torn apart by the energies and space tears in the portal for prolonged periods was not something that anything less powerful than level 18 elementite would be able to endure.

What made Saleen exasperated was that after the tower was re-crafted, some abilities were already etched within the elementite, such as the ability to see what was outside. However, the flying magic patterns were not.

The Sreeger Island mages were incapable of taking level 18 elementite apart, which meant that they were only able to coat the patterns outside the tower.

With the tower being banged up, the flying magic patterns on the elementite were damaged once more.

The flying magic patterns were precious, as without them, the tower's flying speed would be reduced to below 100 miles per hour. Even though it was still capable of flight, any sorcerer versed in flight would easily be able to catch up to.

Most flying magic beasts were capable of achieving speeds higher than that.

However, Saleen remained smiling, chatting away with Agares.

Saleen had to admit that despite the fact that Agares kept him on edge, he was an interesting man. He was devoid of the common flaws of the Cloudflow people and actually resembled a Qin more.

Both of them whined a lot when it came to running a country. Saleen had little affection for nobles and Agares shared his sentiments.

However, Agares did not like the nobles not because they were disobedient to the royal family, but because they were utterly useless. While the Misty City was extremely lavish, it was possibly the only city in the Cloudflow Empire that did not have starving people.

Regardless of how wasteful the royal family was, they would always get food ready, enabling everyone within the city to have at least a full belly.

Every project undertaken by the royal family brought work to the poor. Nobles were forbidden to get involved.

Agares even told Saleen something laughable. If he distributed supplies to the poor in Misty City, he would be ridiculed. He learned from his father's ways—getting some ridiculous thing done and reasons to spend money, letting the poor lap up the offer.

Saleen was dissatisfied that his nobles viewed their interests above their dedication to their tasks. While the Qin nobles were not all that bad, it was the same with them as well.

The nobles simply did what they should have been doing and they had the subjects of their fiefs sworn loyalty to them. In Saleen's view, it was an unequal exchange.

Qin had the greatest amount of food, and the soil was the most fertile. However, Qin still had hungry people.

Saleen was able to identify with the common folk as he was from the slums, but he was unable to fathom why Agares was also able.

The two talked about their training. Since the conversation did not involve their most secret skills, Agares and Saleen were able to talk frankly.

Saleen learned of some very practical skills of assassins while Agares was aghast at how complex a mage's skills could be. Over 100 combinations could be made from just two common spells for different environments, situations, and enemies.

”Saleen, I think that if you advanced to level 11, it would be very difficult for me to kill you,” Agares grumbled.

”Same goes for me. Your hiding skills might have something to do with dark element, and that's what I'm bad at. If your level were level higher than mine, it would be very difficult for me to detect you.”

The Magical Element Tower passed through one dangerous area after another in the portal, and finally flew out of the dark and into a bright world.

Saleen and Agares stopped talking at the same time. They were able to see a corner of the world in the magic array's projections. The disgusting glow was everywhere.

Saleen let out a bitter laugh. ”Agares, it seems that there are no shadows in this world.”