1239 Legend of the God of Purgatory Part 2 (1/2)
Theisio's face twitched. The God of the Underworld was a heretical god in the Codex of Light. It was a being that must be killed. However, the Lord of Glory did not possess the strength to do so.
”The God of Purgatory was a heretical god that was banished to purgatory by God. It was not a being from the purgatory plane. Hell was something created by God, originally meant to punish...”
”To punish people like me, eh?” Saleen interrupted Theisio with a smirk.
Theisio realized all of a sudden that Saleen was teasing him, talking with him only to buy time. He was enabling Baudelaire to get further into the cemetery.
”Saleen, you're a disappointment.” Theisio stopped talking altogether, having deemed it a waste of breath. Saleen's smirk remained unchanged, just like the mage's mind.
”No, Lord Pope, I really want to know. What is the God of Purgatory?” Saleen looked at Theisio sincerely. Even the likes of Theisio could be played by Saleen. To him, the Holy See was no longer something that inspired awe in any sense. Theisio was little more than a very powerful enemy to him.
Theisio suppressed his irritation and continued to explain. ”It is a demigod, which means that it is not a god.”
Saleen thought deep down that, as a level-14 being, there was no way of dealing with that demigod unless the Lord of Glory went to purgatory himself. The oracles that he'd sent were at level-12 at the very most.
”Lord Pope, demigods are incapable of going against the Lord of Glory. This Baudelaire seems to be a lesser threat than I am,” Saleen said to Theisio in a normal tone.
”Are you telling me that you want to fight me to the death right now?” Theisio looked at Saleen. The mage had dealt one heavy blow to him after another. The army had suffered massive losses which had caused a considerable setback to their plan of unifying the entire mainland.
According to reason, he should be killing Saleen first, but Baudelaire now proved to be more dangerous than anyone else.
A person returning from hell would become the successor to the God of Purgatory. If such a successor were to spark a divine fire within the plane, it would mean the end of the entire Holy See.
Theisio knew well enough that it was impossible for the Lord of Glory to advent on Myers Mainland in the coming millennium.
”You have the three godly items, so I can't kill you. I have the Magical Element Tower, so you can't kill me. A tough issue for both of us indeed,” Saleen replied with a troubled tone.
Theisio knew that Saleen was telling the truth. His instant divine spells, even level-11 spells, would not be able to kill Saleen. The difference between levels 11 and 10 was not as pronounced as the difference between levels 10 and 9.
Furthermore, Saleen was armed with powerful equipment, some of which rivaled even the three godly items in terms of power.
Divine spells of greater strength were not instantly castable ones. They needed a lot of preparation time. If they were, it would have enabled Saleen to deploy his tower and hide inside.
He had seen what it was like for Saleen to be inside the tower. 13 consecutive slashes from the Sword of Divine Punishment had failed to even scratch the tower.
”Saleen, Baudelaire might become the next God of Purgatory by sparking a divine fire on Myers Mainland,” Theisio said, revealing a bit of the related secrets while observing changes in Saleen's eyes.
Saleen's blue eyes looked like a frozen lake without a single ripple on it.
”So that's how it is then, Lord Pope. I take it that you know about me building the Nature City with the intention of resurrecting the Goddess of Myers then?”
”Why you!” The pope stopped altogether and raised the God Grace Staff in his hand. Saleen brandished his magic staff.
Boom!
Gray light flashed through the pope's staff over a hundred times. Saleen only cast a level-11 spell before him—Crystal Mist.
Countless fine, minute crystals spun before Saleen, forming a misty structure.
Theisio's attacks were deflected by the mist and weakened, dissipating before they even reached Saleen.
”Saleen!” Tens of thousands of water droplets appeared right before Theisio, all of them imbued with potent poisons that vaporized without warning. It was a compound magic spell.
High-pressure water vapor shrouded Theisio in an instant. The poisons within the vapor were so potent that one breath was all it would take to kill even dragons immediately.
An airtight protective barrier was conjured from Theisio's God Grace Staff, keeping him safe. The light shone onto the mist and caused massive explosions. However, no burns resulted from the explosions as the explosions were simply the elements being disintegrated in the high-pressure environment.
A three meter-tall angel appeared eerily behind Saleen. Nailisi, who was behind it, slashed at the angel with the Sword of Rules.
The wings of the angel were torn to shreds by the Sword of Rules in an instant. Nailisi opened the purgatory of purification and sucked the angel inside. The angel had pure energy which would serve as a decent power source for the collection of purgatories once it was purified.
Genesis was something difficult. If the upkeep was difficult on a daily basis, the 12 Notes of First Purgatory would eventually slow to what they had once had been.
Both sides cast two attacks each. Neither was able to one-up one the other. Saleen had the advantage in numbers while the pope had powerful equipment.
Unless he was able to appear out of nowhere at very close distances like Agares, Saleen could not sneak up on Theisio while he was armed with the God Grace Staff.
Nailisi's human form was capable of both magic and martial arts. The power of the Sword of Rules had only begun to be displayed, yet she had already been able to easily cut down a level-10 angel.
”You want to have another go, Theisio?” Saleen felt the power of the Thunder Dragon Blaster being restocked, enabling it to attack again. While it was less than enough for what was needed to end Theisio, it nonetheless would be able to force Theisio into using a lot of his powers.