1362 Sacrifice to the Sword Part 1 (1/2)

A tall weapon spirit emerged from the ten-meter-long sword. Saleen unleashed it, seeing how it had been willing to submit to him. The weapon spirit bowed before Saleen and he gave his orders, ”You shall control the magic amplifier and the swords.”

”Yes, master.” Golden armor began to coalesce on the weapon spirit's body. It took hold of the sword and leaped, entering the ring that was the magic amplifier, and became a specter.

The magic amplifier hovered behind Saleen and he no longer needed to transform it into a necklace.

With all three weapon spirits taken care of, Saleen began feeling uneasy about those control methods acquired from another crystal wall system. He could easily manipulate powerful weapon spirits despite being only level-11 while all three weapon spirits were already level-13 beings.

Lacking sufficient energy, the weapon spirit within the magic amplifier had not ignited its divine fire. The other two had done so, however, since they had consumed a huge amount of energy.

If Saleen were to feed a corresponding amount of energy to the weapon spirit of the amplifier, it would have been no problem getting it to ignite a divine fire.

No one else would have believed that a level-11 mage would be able to control three level-13 weapon spirits; even Saleen felt the whole thing was unreal.

But then he had no time to linger on the sentiment. Saleen still had to supervise the enchanters working in the alchemy factories in the crafting of the Tainted Blood Armors after he finished his weapon spirit.

There were too many enchanters working in the alchemy factories, more than enough to have them all work at the same time.

They were churning out all types of weapons non-stop—magic armors, magic weapons, construction puppets, wedge-shaped underwater vessels, various alchemy crossbows, magic cannons, Wings of Elves, large-scale metal flyers, new combat puppets, magic chariots...

The alchemy factories at the Floating City were producing Saleen's latest designs. There was no need to worry about secrets being leaked: Those who earned the right to get up to the Floating City and enter alchemy factories were people Saleen trusted implicitly.

Some might have worried about having enough troops. Not Saleen. He still had over 80,000 ancient warriors at his disposal. By the time all those warriors were done for, the training of the demon army would have been almost completed.

Furthermore, an unlimited number of demons could have been summoned; regardless of how long the wars lasted, it wouldn't have been able a problem for him.

What Saleen lacked at the moment was equipment. While alchemy factories at Metatrin City were also producing goods, most of those weapons were meant to be sold. What Saleen was able to arm personally was limited to the temple guards.

Despite this, Saleen had a nagging feeling that something was lacking in that equipment. He was capable of grasping the secret arts this teacher imparted to him after advancing to level-11, which meant that he also had new ideas when it came to crafting equipment.

In general, all the original equipment had to be scrapped and redesigned. Since Saleen had an enormous number of enchanters available, it would have been easy to design what he needed. A single idea of his could have easily been made into hundreds of schematics from which he would select a handful.

Mass production could have begun once he experimented with crafting those designs personally and making detailed modifications.

Saleen supervised the enchanters to mass-produce weapons. Something was off. But what? Sika said she would contact him, but he had not heard from her since she returned to Metatrin City.

There shouldn't have been any danger to Metatrin City. His teacher definitely would have contacted him if there had.

”Master, help me out.” The weapon spirit of the Floating City—the God of Magic Net—asked for help all of a sudden. Saleen had only realized that the God of Magic Net had sent the magic cube into the space that it carved out, yet it was unable to merge with the cube despite its best efforts.

The materials that the magic cube was constructed from were not of higher levels than those of the Floating City; however, the rules of the magic cube were not something the God of Magic Net was able to master.

Any being at level-13 would have been able to develop basics in mastering rules, but the level of rules of that magic cube far exceeded that of what the God of Magic Net was able to comprehend.

Saleen saw through all of that and said, ”No time for slow crafting. Take this instead.”

He took out a bottle of fluid mixed from Six Elements' Heavy Water and Genesis Stock Solution from his magic amplifier and handed it to the God of Magic Net.

The being was elated. It never expected Saleen to be nice enough to give it something like that.

The Floating City was like the god's body. Saleen controlled it, but if he were to end up dead and someone else took over, that person had to be of Saleen's lineage and familiar with the methods of controlling the broken jade fragment.

It would have gained freedom otherwise.

Such methods of control were far more relaxed than soul bonds. That was because of the way it understood it, Saleen's lifespan would have definitely been shorter than its own. It did not mind being Saleen's slave for the time being. After Saleen died, no one else would have been able to subjugate it.

The God of Magic Net chugged down a bottle of fluid that was potent enough to kill half the mainland's living creatures. The weapon spirit of the magic cube that it had been unable to dissolve disintegrated immediately. The secrets of the magic cube were only gradually absorbed by then.

The value of that bottle of fluid would have been on par with the Floating City itself. The God of Magic Net began to focus and refine the magic cube. It breathed a thin mist from its mouth that contained Six Elements' Heavy Water and Genesis Stock Solution.

The mist diffused widely and eventually encased the magic cube.

The magic cube seemed to have been melted down and disappeared altogether within the world that the God of Magic Net had opened up.

It had only been gone for several seconds before reappearing. The God of Magic Net's world contracted all of a sudden and frantically put whatever Saleen had stored within into other spaces within the Floating City. The magic cube, on the other hand, expanded instead.