1399 Violet Angel, Bait Part 1 (1/2)

In the air, Saleen commanded personally and explained to Safilos how the magic net worked.

It was not that Safilos knew nothing about magic. He had learned the skill once upon a time to understand more about the power of elements. He was unable to develop magic chords from his training, however. He was only able to pick up level-0 magic. None of that got in the way of his training in swordsmanship though.

This basic knowledge provided a good foundation for what he learned from Saleen. He was all set.

”Your Highness, wouldn't there be any side-effects to using the magic net?” Safilos inquired in a rather formal tone.

”There are. Enchanters who use magic nets damage their bodies in exchange for heightened mental powers. But the enchanters I employ are all demons. Their bodies already have intimidating self-repair prowess that keeps them from suffering too much while they're alive. If they can't work for me as enchanters, they have to live their lives in a kill-or-be-killed manner in the demon plane. Who knows how long the can live like that.”

From what Saleen had already told him, Safilos knew that if humans became enchanters, the consequences would be direr. Human bodies were not as formidable demons in terms of self-repair.

If humans became enchanters, they would also age rapidly. Unlike true mages, it was impossible for them to have strong bodies.

Saleen's constitution was stronger than a silver grand swordmaster. If he learned martial art techniques, his prowess in clashing head-on would equal a silver grand swordmaster's, except for the use of sword aura.

It would have sufficed if he had a weapon in his hand that was resilient enough.

After the magic net was completed, Safilos knew he would need to hand over the defense to Saleen. He was unable to just mobilize his powers from the imperial capital to his own kingdom. Moreover, he was unwilling to leave Holy Rock City.

No doubt Saleen had ways of getting Safilos to return to the imperial capital. Annihilating the mages of Alchemy City would be an excellent way of accomplishing that.

As for the crimes of the mages of Alchemy City or whatever, none of that mattered anymore.

Alchemy City's current level of powers threatened the safety of the empire, but the mages were unwilling to provide the empire with any help anymore. That would have been a great crime.

Saleen got what he came for—getting Safilos to agree to work with him. Taking on Alchemy City was just an excuse. That's not what Saleen was there for. He only had one goal in mind, and that was to have Safilos secretly support him, thereby allowing him to propagate the Nature Faith.

The Goddess of Myers was hardly discriminated against on Myers Mainland. In all records found regarding the goddess, she had always played the role of protector of the mainland.

Saleen knew enough to tell that some measures had been left behind by Goddess of Myers herself. There would definitely have been a great many who reaped benefits from her, whereas some, like him, were working to resurrect the goddess.

Those who received less would have probably needed only to spread the good name of the Goddess of Myers.

Saleen did not really annihilate the mages sent by the Elemental Hand, as some of them were not in the city at the time. Some were loitering about tens of kilometers away, cleaning up escaped troops.

Those mages were quick on their feet. Saleen did not bother pursuing them.

One newly advanced level-7 sorcerer was flying eastward as quickly possible with no worries about being followed. Rafel pursued that mage personally.

She gripped her spear as her body seemed to meld entirely with her surroundings, making it impossible for that sorcerer to detect her.

After flying for over 1,000 kilometers, a ten-meter-tall puppet burst through the mountains all of a sudden and headed straight for the sorcerer. Elated, the sorcerer took out a scroll. They were about to go up to the puppet when Rafel sensed that something was wrong.

A black beam shot from the puppet's chest and penetrated the sorcerer's body.

The young sorcerer was killed by the puppet in a single shot. The puppet exploded seconds later and was reduced to a cloud of broken parts. Rafel charged at the puppet and realized that she would not have been able to recover anything useful from it. Its core, magic nucleus, and magic arrays had all dissolved.

Rafel intended to trace that mage's tracks to find out where the Elemental Hand was hidden, but the Elemental Hand killed one of its own to remain concealed. It was all done without warning.

The scroll that the mage took out was nowhere to be found. Rafel thought second before deeming it best to keep flying east. That mage never adjusted his flight path. In other words, there would definitely be people of the Elemental Hand if Rafel continued flying straight ahead.

The Violet Angel had caught up to her by then. It had cleaned up even more mages behind it. It came all the way of pursuing the angel specifically because it did not want to be near Saleen. There was no telling what kind of mission its master would have given it.

The Violet Angels hated doing missions of any kind. Given its preference, it would do nothing.It would have enough for it to eat up all kinds of creatures, enabling its body to continue evolving.

It never crossed its mind to follow Rafel because of the risks. The mages from Alchemy City were going against Saleen. If they found the Violet Angel, they would have thought of ways to capture it and turn it into a puppet serving the Elemental Hand.

”Lady Rafel. May I know what happened?” The Violet Angel approached her in a pandering manner.

”Get lost,” Rafel quipped dismissively.

”Right away.”

The Violet Angel transformed into metal and rolled down the mountain as soon as it detected Rafel's foul mood. Being a puppet, it was easy to turn into nearly anything, except a person.

”Get back here!” After realizing what the Violet Angel was doing, Rafel saw that she needed some help. She had sealed her own powers and could only use her level-12 skills.

Divine powers in her two spears were limited. It was important for her to aware of not using up all the powers she had when overwhelmed by numbers, as that would have prevented her from escaping.

The Violet Angel rolled up the hill again after hearing Rafel summons it. It was hard to climb and Rafel had to suppress her chuckle.

”Violet Angel, what can you transform into?”