1313 Repairing the Lightning Constellation Part 1 (1/2)

”Saleen, I'm about to impart a secret art to you. If you were to master it...”

Saleen looked at his teacher. Jason had never been so serious and solemn when he was about to teach him something.

Jason continued, ”If you were to master it, you shall do your best to keep this deep within your heart and not impart it to anyone else.”

Saleen was dumbfounded for a bit and did not ask questions. There were many secret arts to the world of mages, as well as many rules. Teachers were not allowed to pass them on to their students.

All mages within the temple excused themselves. No outsider was allowed to stand around and watch while the imparting of secret arts was being carried out.

There had been many methods of training practiced during the time when humans threw their weight around in all manner of planes. That was also the beginning of the secret arts. Even after the secret arts were modified and refined by humans, only a handful of humans were capable of practicing them. They either needed some special talents or bloodline.

Lex's secret arts required the bloodline of the Grukos, specifically the line of Emperor Chanake, in order them work in an apparent fashion. Emperor Chanake only dared to invade the Tanggulasi Empire because he had succeeded in mastering their family's secret arts. The power of secret arts were usually massive.

Jason dismissed all of the mages. None of the people around Saleen were allowed to stay either. Sika took the followers outside. Rafel the archangel intended to stay, but she was also hauled away by Sika.

Rafel never expected Sika to possess such monstrous strength. When Sika pulled her arm, it felt like her arm was about to come off.

That was Saleen's wife. Rafel was not angered. Instead, she was curious. She knew of Sika's priest profession. People in such a profession had few among them who possessed formidable combat capacity. Even in regards to brute strength alone, there were few contenders found in the divine kingdoms. If there were to be anyone who able to actually overpower Sika through brute strength, it would have had been someone above level 14. They would still need to borrow divine powers to do so.

Jason unleashed his magic amplifier and sealed the room off. Water and fire elements coursed about the walls of the room, forming a visible barrier.

Saleen had not seen this before and kept watching with his Element Eye. He quickly found that the elemental barrier his teacher unleashed had elemental structures tens of times finer than what he usually saw. This implied that his teacher's power in magic was tens of times greater than conventional elemental magic and capable of greater changes.

”Saleen, the secret arts I'm about to impart are completely dependent on compatibility with your talents,” Jason said. ”If you're unable to comprehend it, there will be nothing I can do to help you. Watch closely.”

He began to chant complex verses. The tempo of the chants was stiff yet sounded exotic. Saleen was unable to comprehend any single rune, yet extremely complex, ever-changing perceptions began to form in his mind.

He was finally able to see what the elemental barrier cast by the Rings of Water and Fire truly was. Those elements formed complex magical runes. There were at least billions of combinations between them.

”Saleen, this secret art isn't something I'm proficient in,” Jason said. ”If you were to be able to master it, it shall provide you with unique methods for controlling souls.”

Saleen was astonished. There were billions of rune combinations, yet Jason claimed that he was not proficient with it. Just how complex would such a skill be to master?

Jason's eyes sparkled. That skill came from another crystal wall system. While that other crystal wall system had humans, their cultural development bore no similarities to theirs.

At present, one would not be able to find any detailed information regarding that crystal wall system, let alone learn arts from it. Jason forced himself into research using magic to acquire those skills. He was eventually able to translate about 40,000 of the scripts used and deduce every single syllable.

Despite the effort, those scripts still looked and sounded alien to him. Every single expression seemed contradictory. Only by comprehending another civilization altogether would he have been able to master such a skill at a deep level.

The very reason Jason had been able to learn Water Flame Alchemy and Blazing Flame Soul-refining was because his thought patterns resonated with the things that those two skills expressed, which made learning a literal breeze. He came to learn hundreds of skills from a single piece of memory gem, yet only one-fifth proved relatively compatible with him. As for the rest, he was barely able to deduce over a dozen of them.

Jason spent a great deal of time in his youth trying to acquire those skills. It resulted in him becoming a level five mage when he was in his 30s. However, as those skills matured, his rate of advancement soared. It was so quick that the other mages were astonished at his rate of growth.

The Ring of Cosmos on Saleen's finger spun in a frenzy. Every spin sent countless information into his soul. That information was translating the scripts that Jason illustrated. Some content came from the ring itself.

Saleen suddenly felt that there were huge spaces within the Ring of Cosmos. There were 64 of them, and every single space had extremely deep attributes. They were as vast as oceans.

He was a mage, so he probed it using his senses. He surprisingly ended up spending all of his mental powers, including the boosted parts the Ring of Cosmos bestowed him. Not a single drop remained.

Jason was shocked to see Saleen black out in front of him. Saleen's Ring of Cosmos continued to spin, unleashing gentle powers to replenish his mental powers.

Saleen gradually came to shortly after, but the massive content sent to his head gave him a headache. The vast information all illustrated a world. There was hardly any information regarding skills in it. Still, every single detail surprised, startled, and astonished him.

The information within the ring illustrated all worlds, from structures to rules and gods to humans. Furthermore, the information within the ring illustrated the direction of human evolution. They were to become everlasting beings higher than gods.

Gods would eventually perish. At the end of humans' training, they would be able to share the lifespan of the cosmos.

Saleen began to slowly digest the information as he came to. At first, he thought it was ridiculous. As he came to comprehend more information, his expression turned glum.