1359 Lightning Armament Part 2 (1/2)

There was nothing Saleen could have done about Raphael's Crystal Ring. He went to work on the Thunder Dragon Blaster. The weapon was of far better quality than the Thunder Dragon Bangle. After all, the bangle was created using fully intact bones of the most powerful thunder dragons.

The difference was that the bones lacked flesh and blood. To complete the weapon, Saleen merged the golden liquid into the Thunder Dragon Blaster.

His mental powers expanded again after he had merged his soul with his body. The extent of the expansion was beyond his comprehension. At the very least, he was now able to see everything within a 100-kilometer radius without having to use the Elemental Eye.

That was not due to his mental powers but to the power of his soul.

It was said that mages were only able to access the powers of their soul when they reached level-13. Saleen had already gained such powerful abilities before he had even gotten to level- 11. His speed at learning magic would have no longer been a slog that it used to be.

He would have only needed to master the rules of the magic to be learned, looking them over just once to get a roughcasting. Practicing this magic hundreds of times would have resulted in near mastery.

The power of the soul was thousands of times more condensed than mental powers. Saleen found it over a thousand times easier to work on the Thunder Dragon Blaster. Because he no longer had to worry about errors, his speed at re-crafting the Thunder Dragon Blaster was considerably quicker than it used to be.

After absorbing ample amounts of golden liquid, the weapon gained some size and weight but was still just slightly longer than his forearm. He embedded the weapon with the divine persona of the water elemental god.

That was the most precious item in his possession. Without it, the weapon would have been substantially slower at conjuring lightning icicles: its ability to fire continuously would have been limited.

The weapon's appearance hardly changed even after absorbing the liquid. While it looked somewhat larger, the internal changes were enormous and now were like those of true thunder dragons.

The place where the magic nucleus was embedded was relocated inside the weapon—the stomach of thunder dragons.

To put it more accurately, that was no longer embedding. Saleen only needed to throw a magic nucleus into the mouth of the Thunder Dragon Blaster and it would have swallowed it on its own. As for the divine persona of the water elemental god, it was wrapped in golden granules, becoming the heart of the weapon.

The Thunder Dragon Blaster became a miniaturized version of a real, living thunder dragon. Such crafting techniques were, however, found only in the secret arts. Saleen probed with his power of the soul after finishing the modifications.

The number of lightning icicles capable of being fired by the weapon increased to 12 at a time while recharging time was halved.

The weapon thus allowed him to fire 12 lightning icicles within half an hour. The Thunder Dragon Blaster became Saleen's main assault weapon from then on: no other equipment was able to recharge as quickly.

Saleen was very, very pleased with himself. He never had high expectations of the changes to the Thunder Dragon Blaster, to begin with, as he had not added much to its design in the first place. Most of it was done by replicating Hogina's Gun.

The genius girl at alchemy was unable to craft something exceeding limitations, despite her designs being exceedingly wondrous.

Saleen then moved to the main target of the crafting session at that time—the magic amplifier.

He used too many secret arts from another crystal wall system for crafting it. He poured a huge quantity of the golden liquid into it and then threw in the dagger made from the purified bones of the Heretic God.

The black necklace transformed into a ring, hovering behind Saleen. The black ring had 24 sections to it that used to house the thunder dragons. With them no longer inside, he added the golden liquid and had the sections coalesce into something resembling lightning beads.

The golden beads, however, were not something that could have been replenished on their own when used. Saleen had no intention of using them in battle. He was too low a level and unable to bring the original powers of the beads to bear.

As such, he was only storing the golden granules using such a method that let them be continuously tempered with lightning, thereby upgrading their quality.

The golden dagger remained resistant to the workings of the Water Flame. A layer of thin golden colors were coated onto the black ring. The dagger zipped in and out of the faint golden ring, intending to escape.

Saleen began chanting Thundering Explosions at the dagger. Despite not having a weapon spirit, the weapon nonetheless seemed to possess a will of its own. It began to tremble as Saleen continuously attacked it using a thundering sound within the ring.

But the rules of the plane simply didn't allow something like that to become a weapon spirit. Even if the bone of the Heretic God had been purified, it was still being rejected by Myers Mainland. If that thing were to be made into a weapon spirit, the Heretic God would have had to do it personally.

The faint will on it was gradually scraped away by Saleen's thundering sound. It quieted down only after being bombarded by tens of thousands of thundering chants, hovering in the middle of the ring without making a sound. Saleen pointed his finger and sent forth a bloody mist that fused with the golden dagger.

Lightning magic patterns filled the internal parts of the golden dagger, developing 64 ancient, plain characters.

Saleen felt as if his soul had developed a link with the magic amplifier and the metal dagger. That was one of his secret arts used for crafting. He had no idea why such an outcome was yielded, but he nonetheless deemed it a satisfying one. He tried to take control of the golden dagger and make it fly.

That golden dagger developed limbs, and Saleen could make it move any way he wished simply by directing it with nothing more than a single thought.

The golden dagger circled around Saleen's body as it flew, while the ring hovered behind him. Its flight became increasingly quick and gradually turned into a beam of golden light, zipping in and out of the Water Flame.

Saleen was finally able to craft the golden dagger using Water Flame. Its colors began to dim until they became transparent. The lightning magic patterns within were no longer around.

”Rafel!” Saleen gestured for Rafel to make a move. She knew what he wanted of her and brandished a blade that he had crafted from heavy crystals. Its outer layer was made of gorilla metal, which was known for its hardness.

The magic blade was swung at Saleen. The wind whipped up by the blade cut like Wind Blades.