1326 Purification Part 2 (1/2)

Saleen's Floating City stayed behind in Nature City. The believers of the Nature Faith were used to it. Lord Saleen was the key to the goddess's resurrection and probably a friend of the goddess.

With the state of affairs on the mainland being a mess, the believers knew that although their city was strong, it was not all that difficult to take down. The Floating City was helping out with defending the headquarters of the faith at such times, preventing others from invading them.

The believers of Nature Faith heard from the abomination plane that Saleen had brought back some evil items for the believers to purify. Those items were in tainted Bug Angel Armors.

Saleen did not waste anything while he was collecting the fragments of the finger bone of the heretic god. The lightning warriors brought everything they with them. The Bug Angel Warriors wearing armor were long dead. Their bodies were brought back for purification, enabling their souls to disperse. They would have probably be resurrected as abominations otherwise.

The adherents of Nature Faith began to throw themselves into the long process of purification. None of them were idling by. Every single one of them had either bodies or armor in front of them waiting to be cleaned. To common people, these processes would be deemed boring and dull. To believers, they were beautiful endeavors.

They were able to provide formidable power of faith to the statue of the goddess during the purification process. Saleen was even able to sense that the power of faith with the central temples began to liquefy, gradually modifying the statue.

It was not that Saleen had never seen anything like that before. He had personally taken down a statue in the Purgatory Desert. The statue in the city was more powerful than the one that Saleen had taken apart before.

He thought, I wonder when the goddess will be able to resurrect?

Saleen was right beside the statue, using the power of faith to heal his own Figure of Fate, which had suffered severe damage. However, the divine powers of the Goddess of Nature were still capable of healing it.

He did not see any reason to refuse using them. There were over a million believers throughout the city, and the power of faith generated every day was massive. Those were powers generated when purifying the aura of the Heretic God.

Through the statue, the power of faith was quickly converted to the divine power of the goddess. Saleen absorbed over half of those divine powers and cleaned them using Armoring Lightning Beads before siphoning them into his body, patching up the Figure of Fate bit by bit.

The speed of recovery far exceeded his expectations. The figure, which had shriveled to the size of little more than an inch, had returned to its normal size. All the damage was fixed within one month.

Within that month, the finger bone of the Heretic God that Saleen passed to Baudelaire and the others was completely purified. However, Saleen had thousands of pieces like that. If they were to be all purified, it would have taken over 100 years, judging by the powers Baudelaire and the others currently had.

Surprisingly, the purified armor was still usable. There were even some weird attributes attached to them. Saleen collected the banged up armor and refurbished over 300 sets out of them. Those were not all that important. The most important thing at hand was that purified finger bone fragment of the Heretic God.

The bone fragment turned pale white after being purified. Saleen handed it to Sika, who reached out to it use her Nature Priest powers

Before throwing it back to Saleen, Sika said, ”I have no use for it. I still feel repulsed by it despite it having been purified.”

Saleen looked for Nailisi and asked if she would have been able to expand the 12 Notes of First Purgatory with it.

Nailisi took a look at the purified bone fragment and said, ”Sh*t. I'd still have some use for it if it was not purified. Now that it's purified, it's just a piece of junk.”

Saleen recalled something and asked, ”What about your purgatory of purification?”

”It won't do. It can't fit something so evil in it.” Nailisi regretfully shook her head.

”Forget about it,” Saleen said. ”We'll head back to Highland City later and see if you can siphon the evil black mist into the purgatory of purification.”

His idea was sound. The power of purgatory of purification was not high enough. If it was to continue to clean up those evil aura, it would have been able to grow more powerful.

Saleen went and asked many others. No one knew what could be done with the piece of purified bone fragment. He recalled someone else and contacted Lex, asking if she was able to lend Bain to him.

Lex was curious. She was busy with construction, which meant that she had no time to spare. As such, she told Saleen to just go look for Bain himself. Bain was in Metatrin City. Saleen called Bain over after acquiring Lex's permission.

Bain had recovered considerably under Nicholas' help. That old assassin quietly waited, not knowing what the mage in front of him wanted.

Saleen looked at the wrinkles of Bain's face and felt pity for him. He said, ”Come, I'll teach you some skills.”

He took Bain into the Nature Temple and sat at the side of the statue. Saleen began to cast his secret art, sending divine power of the Goddess of Nature into Bain's body.

Bain was shocked. ”Your highness, are you telling me to become a believer of the goddess?”

”No, Bain, I'm just healing your body,” Saleen said. ”Nicholas's powers are limited. I'll restore you to full health. You're still at level nine, right?”

”Yes, your highness,” Bain said in a rather saddened manner.

”You'll become a level 10 assassin soon enough,” Saleen said as he looked at Bain and recalled Nicholas's words.