1335 Safilos Part 1 (1/2)

Angels were capable of resurrection, but the ones who lost their gods would have found it difficult to resurrect as there was nowhere for them to be resurrected to if their divine kingdom crumbled.

The Winged Skull summoned his six jade skeletons nonchalantly. When the jade skeletons touched the stains left by the abominations on the walls, their crystal-like bones were quickly dirtied and became rotten. Green light shot from the Winged Skull's eyes and cleaned up the jade skeletons. The jade skeletons had very high spirit levels, so it would have taken much more time than that for them to be fully abominated. The Winged Skull's cleaning was meant only for their exterior bodies. After the six jade skeletons were quickly cleaned, the Winged Skull sent them back to their spirit space.

The cleaned skeletons had now become resistant to staining by the evil aura. The experiment had been a success. The Winged Skull followed the party into the rear of the vast space, scanning the place with the Eye of the Dea. The hole was several hundred yards deep. Rafel was the first to land inside the hole. Her red spear stabbed one of the soldiers who was the source of the abomination. The soldier's garb described him as once a member of Holy Rock City's regular army, instead of a member of the royal swordsmen.

Nailisi and Saleen quickly descended to the second level. Saleen pointed at the floating starlight around and said to Rafel, ”Follow the starlight.”

Rafel did not question him. She simply nodded in acknowledgment. She took the lead and thrust her spear around, killing all the abominations who pounced from the dark. There did not seem to be anything peculiar about her spear, but any abomination that was attacked, regardless of the part of the body stabbed, would end up dead right there and then.

Saleen thought for a bit and then conjured a blob of Restorative Water in his hand. The amount that he was able to create in one go was a bucketful. He did not wait for the magic of the Restorative Water in his hand to settle, before turning the water into an Ice Blade. It was a spell that he rarely used. Ice Blades were more powerful than Wind Blades, but they were slower. He threw the three-yard-long, full-moon-shaped Ice Blade. The Blade was so huge that it ended up annihilating any abominations that it met, flying for several hundred yards before disappearing into the dark. The abominations that were hit by the Ice Blade did not have any liquids flowing out of their wounds, as they were frozen. There were layers of dust underneath the wounds, because, when the dead body hit the ground and the layer of ice shattered, the dust billowed out. However, no evil aura could be felt from it.

One Ice Blade was more than enough for purification to kick in. While the cleaning was not thorough, it gave the abominations no chance of resurrection. It pleased Saleen that a level-one Restorative Water had been able to do so much damage to the abominations. However, such conversion abilities could have only been mastered by a sorcerer. It would have proven difficult for common mages to do the same thing. Connecting two different types of magic required repeated practice, unless the one performing the connection was a level-ten mage, who had come to master manipulation of the elements so well that it had almost become instinctual. Saleen had been able to learn things from this experience, enabling him to create powerful alchemical equipment that would prove very lethal to abominations. It would suffice to coat alchemical arrows with magic liquid to deal devastating damage to high-level abominations. Things with healing properties would also have acted like poison to the abominations.

A starline paper appeared in his hand at that thought. He drew an alchemy schematic on it using magic and only stopped after drawing about 100 copies.

”Rafel.”

”Yes?”

”Select 100 metal angels and send these schematics back. Have the Floating City experiment with every single one of them and choose the cheapest solution available. After that, craft the weapons for dealing with the abominations.”

Rafel obeyed immediately and called the metal angels to her side, selecting 100 of them, and then she sent them off to the Floating City with the schematics. After that was all taken care of, Saleen continued to have Rafel lead the way as they moved to the outer reaches of the underground city.

These underground sections of Metatrin City had only very small living spaces, as the area was extremely limited at the very center of the city. All underground facilities surrounding the temple and the outer reaches of the city were warehouses or drainage systems. No places for prolonged residential purposes were available in such areas.

The underground sections of Holy Rock City looked like a huge cave, with tall buildings all around and a dome that was nearly 100 yards high embedded with glittering gems, which made the place look extravagant. The underground sections had originally been sealed. When the city was built all those years ago, Holy Rock City was threatened by the Holy See. Because of this, the underground sections had been made enormous, enough to accommodate about 1 million troops and enable long-term concealment.

The starlight seemed to be hovering about aimlessly, looking very eye-catching in the dark. Rafel was rather intrigued. Saleen's skills were truly complex, unlike the oracles, whose skills were set in stone. Advancing in levels allowed for discovery of new skills, yet they were incapable of creating new skills themselves.

The starlight continued to hover in the dark. Rafel stabbed any abomination that showed up before her without missing a single one. Nailisi saw that and lashed out with her spear as well. However, her thrust resulted in all six eyes of Grey Memory opening at the same time, which in turn resulted in a powerful suction force. One of the abominations before her was stabbed and all the evil energies in it was sucked dry, leaving behind a dried husk. Nailisi was elated. The six eyes of Grey Memory had never been able to be enhanced. Every single use cost her energy. As such, despite the spear's power, Nailisi never liked using the special skills imbued with it. At present, the six eyes of Grey Memory was able to absorb the energies of the abominations, and, furthermore, the weapon was lethal to them. Nailisi was almost able to hear the six eyes squeal in joy.

”Rafel, let Nailisi take the lead,” Saleen said.