1342 Pain Part 1 (1/2)
Lex said, ”Saleen, it is true. If I were to become empress, this is a duty that I must shoulder.”
Ojarvis then smiled and said, ”Well, Saleen, better work on it and don't get separated from Lex all that often.”
”Yeah, sounds about right.” Saleen answered without putting any thought into it. If chatting with Ojarvis was to be considered as a battle, then Ojarvis would have been considered having level-11 skills, as he kept rendering Saleen almost speechless.
”The key to the magic cube lies with its manufacturing schematics. The magic cube that I have is entirely different from the one shown in the schematics, as many changes have been made. I'm unable to calculate much of anything but I've drawn quite a lot of schematics. Those are things that I've done with my life, Saleen…”
Saleen understood that Ojarvis had to bear the pain from with his body while he observed the future, in order to tell of the magic cube's secrets. That was something that he had long planned, so as to let the magic cube's powers be brought out to its greatest extent in Saleen's hands.
”I will not disappoint you,” Saleen said with a solemn tone. He was wondering what was Ojarvis's eventual goal for doing all of that, and if the emperor was only doing all of that for Lex's sake.
”I'm doing all of that because I don't want to die, Saleen. I saw a vision of a god being resurrected, and that was done because of you. If you are able to even resurrect a god, maybe someday you'd resurrect me as well. I've been living in pain for my whole life, and that doesn't quite sit well with me.”
Saleen sweated cold sweat. So Ojarvis can actually read my thoughts then? Boy, spending time around someone like that sure is one hell of a pain.
”I don't need you to sign a contract with me, Saleen. I'm only handing everything to you. I know you'd help me, right?” Ojarvis asked with a smile.
”Yes, I'd do that indeed,” Saleen answered in a deadpan manner.
The greater the amount of help he had gotten from Ojarvis, the greater the possibility things would have turned out like this. Ojarvis had actually entrusted the magic cube to Saleen because he wanted to live. As a person who knew that he did not have long to live since the time he came to know what was going on around him, such a life was indeed incredibly cruel. As such, Ojarvis was determined to cling to life more than anyone else. ”I'd hand my life bead to Lex. You'd find my mark of life on it. Even if I were to die, I'd remain behind and there'd always be a sliver of my soul within. That was something that father prepared for me, and I shall hand it to Lex. When you come to possess the ability to do it one day, resurrect me. I'd really want to know what a beautiful life would have been like…”
”I will, if I'm able to live that long myself,” Saleen answered.
Ojarvis pressed something at his side. A magic box opened at the side of the bed, with thick stacks of schematics in it. ”Here are the schematics of the magic cube. Many mages have them, but these are the original. There are notes from tens of master mages on them.”
Saleen waved and the thick stacks flew and opened before him. Saleen took a look and knew that there was no way he would have been able to memorize the whole using magic. He resorted to using starline cloth and began copying the schematics manually. Saleen did not like using skills of astrologers much, but that was an exception. There were hundreds of magic papers that consisted of the entirety of the schematics and every single one of them was packed with data. Some of the data was even written inside magic arrays. Three-dimensional magic arrays could have stored practically limitless amount of information. If Saleen were to rely solely on his own memory, he would not have been able to quickly memorize everything, even if his mental powers were even more powerful than they already were. Saleen took out a Star-Gathering Needle and four star figures. The four star figures were final gifts from Gaine. If Saleen were to truly be willing to practice astrology and reach level 18, he would have been able to truly control the four star figures and make them powerful combat weapons. At present, those figures would have only advanced alongside Saleen's level at astrology. If he wanted to make the star figures more powerful, there was no other way to do it but to dedicate himself to astrology. That was the final joke from Gaine. If Saleen gave in to the enticement, then Gaine would have ended up raising a powerful astrologer. If Saleen truly decided not to advance his studies in astrology further, then he would have only been able to keep the four treasures around and not be able to use them. It was fortunate that Gaine had no intentions of forcing Saleen into doing anything. The four star figures were of at least level-ten powers at present, and they were also capable of storing limitless constellation power.
Saleen jabbed his Star-Gathering Needle into the four star figures, pouring constellation power into them and activating them. Saleen took out starline cloths and distributed them to the figures, then gave his orders, ”Copy all of these magic schematics. Leave no details behind.”
”Yes, master,” the four star figures answered.