1266 Lightning Constellation Part 1 (1/2)
Saleen pondered seriously for a bit and said to Gaine, ”I have some matters which I'm thinking if you'd be able to help me with, master.”
”Speak.”
Saleen cast his territory and unleashed his own magic amplifier. At the center of the device, the shadow of the Lightning Constellation was displayed. At the same time, Saleen created an illusion using magic which showed the Lightning Moon inside the cemetery of the giant.
”I want to take this thing for myself and merge it within my equipment.” Saleen pointed at the Lightning Moon.
Gaine took a look and wore a troubled expression. After studying it for a bit, he said, ”Your equipment is too weak to hold this unless you merge your equipment into it.
Saleen expanded the illusion and revealed the countless suppressed fossilized gods beneath.
Gaine was somewhat shocked and said, ”All of them are gods. I'm surprised they stayed alive after being suppressed for that long. Oh, it was done so deliberately!” Gaine quickly saw through what the King of Glory's had been up to. None of those fossilized gods were truly dead. It had been done so to provide power to resurrect the giant. The power of a level-18 giant was beyond anyone's imagination. The wrath of one angry giant would have enabled them to destroy many divine kingdoms.
Having such power meant that the giant had a powerful life force. As such, resurrecting one such being would have meant paying a greater price. It was anyone's guess as to how many divine kingdoms the King of Glory had destroyed in order to capture so many gods.
”Not a request that I'd say is overboard, Saleen, but it is indeed a difficult one!” Gaine did not answer Saleen immediately, but Saleen knew that Gaine had agreed to do it nonetheless.
”Anything else?”
”My skeleton.” Saleen pointed at the Winged Skull and said, ”I know that in the spirit plane, there was a King of Spirits above the kings. Would you be able to advance him?”
Gaine took a look at the Winged Skull and said, ”A rather interesting form of life. Not all that difficult to advance. Is that all?”
”That would be it. As for the path to walk after advancement, that would be up to them,” Saleen answered.
The Winged Skull felt grateful. While his powers would have been to surpass Saleen's and continue to grow, but in the end, Saleen was the one with greater potential and the one who would have achieved more.
Saleen was doing so to make the Winged Skull's path in the future smoother. If Saleen were to die one day and that the Winged Skull had advanced to become a King of Spirits, they would have been able to continue advancing even without outside help.
Even if a spirit wanted to overcome such a threshold, the encounter that would have enabled them to do so came in the chances of one in thousands.
”Well then. Three matters. The totem pole and the matter with the skeleton, I'd take care of them for you right away. As for that Lightning Moon, you'd need to wait for an opportunity.”
”Wait for an opportunity?”
”If the giant were to resurrect, you'd be able to take it down. I'll work on your Lightning Constellation. By then, the two pieces of equipment will be able to merge. I'll complete all of the level seals for you. As you advance, you'll be able to unravel the seals one at a time, unleashing the true power of the equipment.
Saleen looked rather disappointed and said, ”When would the giant resurrect then?”
Gaine smiled and said, ”Well, don't get too greedy. Get someone to be on the lookout for you. If the energy barrier disappears one day, that'd mark the giant's resurrection. He would then break through the barrier between planes and return to the giant plane. The gods outside would then be truly dead and you'd get a bunch of materials for crafting high-level puppets. All of them were powerful fossilized gods, and so, don't think about taking the power of life in them. Those are for the giant and if you were to attempt to take them, you shall be attacked by all of those gods. Even I wouldn't have been able to stay alive under such circumstances.”
”I understand.” Saleen nodded in acknowledgment.
”I'd be leaving when I'm done with all that, Saleen. You could try to take everything in the Imperial City of the Abyss. What you'd find here would enable you to conquer the entire mainland. The astrology tower shall be yours. I'm not taking anything with me but this Star Gathering Needle.
Gaine ended up leaving massive wealth behind as a result. The amount of astrologer equipment and mage equipment left behind in the astrology tower was massive. The entire astrology tower was filled with material and equipment in massive amounts. Every single room was considered an independent space and the amount of starline cloth lying around was astronomical.
The astrologers who had once been in the astrology tower would not have even considered using starline paper of just one level lower than their own. Materials like were common consumables for astrologers. To mages, however, those were the best materials for crafting magic scrolls.
It was due to their stable nature. Both starline paper and starline cloth were incredibly stable materials, making it easy to create energy pathways in them.
What was different was that, in the hands of astrologers, starline paper was something capable of being reused several times. In the hands of mages, however, one use would render them destroyed. As such, mages did not use such materials much in ancient times. Starline cloth was far more expensive, and yet mages were still only able to craft one-time-use consumables with them. Astrologers crafted figures with them instead.
Even Saleen would have been reluctant to craft scrolls using starline cloth. With Gaine gifting the entire astrology to him, the Kingdom of Metatrin would probably never see another day where they ran short on scrolls.
Gaine smiled looking at Saleen's expression. ”While the astrology tower's wealth is massive, the most precious things you'd find here are the stellarites that the astrologers had accumulated from many other planes. You'd be welcomed to have them. It's better than just letting them go to waste,” Gaine said as he took out a wooden box. The box was square and it was only about the size of a book.
”This thing here is called the Mysticube. It was something rare even back all those years ago. It'd come in handy somehow. Take the stellarites out from the inside when you're free. Everything the stellarites are capable of is recorded well in the book. I'm not giving you any guidance in this regard. You're a mage, after all, so use it as you please.”