1349 Angering the Heretic God Part 2 (2/2)
He could have returned only after becoming familiar with his new weapon and had nothing to fear.
”Alright, I hope you won't regret this,” Rafel said as her golden pupils turned into a vertical slit again. She pivoted and brought the party to a passage at the left.
They arrived at yet another plaza after passing through several small living areas. A 12-meter-tall black vortex was at the center of the plaza. The Winged Skull found it hard to estimate the size and distribution of those vortexes, yet Rafel seemed to know that information like the back of her hand.
The abilities possessed by a level-13 combat angel was not something Saleen and the others could have compared to.
As he did with the previous one, Saleen simply showed up right beside the black vortex and covered the entire construct with his Lightning Territory. Then he sent in the Armoring Lightning Beads in. The black vortex responded by spewing golden granules.
Suddenly, an abomination's dead body charged at Saleen. It was already completely dead, and its soul was gone as well. Its limbs were all rotten; its head was the only thing still intact.
Taken by surprise, Saleen dealt with the situation calmly by contracting the Lightning Territory inward, forming a lightning field and repelling the dead body.
Nailisi stuck out her tongue and then threw the dead body into her collection of purgatories.
A large number of level-10 abominations was in that plaza—more than 30, to be precise. The Winged Skull went about swinging tits meteor hammer again, preventing them from getting near Saleen. Rafel and Nailisi thrust at the abominations with their spears, deftly moving between the meteor hammer's swing.
Saleen's body was covered in a thin layer of Water Shield that kept him from taking in the stench of blood. Since Rafel was a metal angel, she was indifferent toward odors. The Winged Skull, being a spirit, relished the smell of death.
To Nailisi, there far grosser things in the demon plane than what they had witnessed there. She was even more indifferent than the others.
Blood splattered all over the place as the abominations charged without any concern for their lives. In seconds all were reduced to blood and guts, flesh and gore.
Still nothing!
Saleen carefully inspected how things were inside the vortex while purifying it. The Heretic God hadn't yet launched any attacks; it was almost as if he had not noticed his existence.
How cool was that! If the god made a move sooner than he should have, Saleen might not have had a chance to continue purifying the vortexes.
They should have been filled with the power of the Heretic God. The matter found within was unique to the Heretic God. If all of the vortexes were to disappear, he would have had to resort to trying his luck at Highland City.
If he had known that the vortexes were composed primarily of a good bunch of golden granules earlier, he wouldn't have left Highland City back then. Even if he ended up clashing with Fycro, he wouldn't have given up.
I intended to create yet another Thunder Dragon Blaster, so what did Fycro want to do with the white ones he collected? The white granules had no special properties but were nonetheless very precious alchemical materials. Saleen did not think for one second that Fycro was collecting them purely for his enjoyment. No way.
Saleen swiftly cleaned up the hall and collected about four cubic meters of golden granules from that vortex. He gleefully stashed his loot and let Rafel lead the way to the next one.
She had decided to give up trying to persuade Saleen altogether. She saw that to him, the abominations were practically walking bags of money. She came to have a rough grasp of Saleen's equipment. That Thunder Dragon Blaster could have posed a threat to her life.
Saleen's capabilities meant that even if she were to fight up close, she might not have been able to really take him on.
That mage had all sorts of mysterious gear with rare attributes.
Saleen continued sweeping all the halls found on the first level of the underground city with his three subordinates. The black vortexes seemed to be things that could have only been created in vast spaces. But for some unknown reasons, the Heretic God's believers did not carve the rune arrays on the ground.
After purifying over 60 black vortexes, Saleen finally managed to capture the the attention of the level-11 abominations, a consequence of Rafel deliberately evading the high-level abominations. She could have easily killed the level-11 ones, but Rafel determined that they were the ones the Heretic God paid close attention to.
If any of the level-11 abominations had been killed, the Heretic God would have taken stronger measures against them.
Tens of thousands of abominations assembled outside the magic door and began to attack. The number of black vortexes at large hovered at nearly 100, in contrast to the a staggering six million abominations found in the underground city.
The underground city, however, was just as big as Holy Rock City itself and had two levels. Accordingly, the six million abominations did not actually manage to fill all spaces within the underground city. Saleen was at the first level and was cleaning up things near the north. The abominations came from the south, congregating at the magic door.
Two level-11 abominations headed straight for Saleen with troops clad in golden armor. The reduction of the number of black vortexes finally attracted the powerful abominations' attention. If they were unable to summon an ample number of troops, their own power and food would be limited.
In times of shortage, high-level abominations sometimes ate low-level ones.
”Damned human! Damned mage!” The first of the abomination leaders who reached the hall found Saleen purifying a black vortex. That leader lost his cool and began flashing gray light beneath his feet, which began rushing angrily toward Saleen.
Rafel was standing right next to him.
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