1408 Cunning Weapon Spirit Part 1 (1/2)

The corner of the Winged Skull's raised as they smirked at the mages on the other side of the crystal wall.

The mages no longer laughed. That meteor hammer was indeed powerful. A crack was seen on the wall. It was only healing gradually with the Book of Gaia at work.

The nine mages were thinking that the Winged Skull would have only been capable of dishing out such attacks once, as it would have expended quite a lot of power. However, when the Winged Skull lifted their weapon and brought it down on the wall again, the crack on the wall extended for several centimeters more.

Impossible. That's impossible! There is no way that thing could keep on attacking like that!

The mages repeated that to themselves in silence, so much so that they have forgotten to cast magic to attack the Winged Skull.

Boom!

The Winged Skull picked up their paces and the crack on the wall expanded yet again.

Saleen did not bother with the Winged Skull. Regardless of how hard that crystal wall would have been, it was not a godly item. The wall was but a window for observation. If the Winged Skull were to be unable to break even that, they should have their equipment swapped out and there was no need to use that weapon ever again.

The very reason the Winged Skull kept that meteor hammer was so to deal with situations like that.

What Saleen paid attention to was what lied beyond the crystal wall. The nine mages were the leaders beyond that wall. There were also mages who were standing at the side who wore red magic robes. Those were level ten mages.

Saleen paid no attention to levels. His powers enabled him to deal with anything below level 12 after all.

If those mages were to have someone at level 13 among them, they would have thought about taking on that skeletal dragon at Alchemy City. With a godly item in hand, a level 13 professional would have been able to try to subjugate that skeletal dragon.

If the skeletal dragon were to be made a bonded creature of theirs, then Alchemy City would have reigned supreme in the mainland for the time being.

The nine mages sat around a magic array, which was the most lavish that Saleen had ever laid eyes upon.

The core of the magic array was a perfect crystalline body. Magic patterns were crafted into the crystalline body itself, which was free of impurities and filled with power of the six major elements. Those power ebbed in the magic pattern, making the crystalline body looked like living being.

Saleen took one look and had almost succumbed to it. The mages of the Elemental Hand were unable to see clearly due to insufficient level. However, Saleen was able to see that at the core of that crystalline body, lied a living being, which was looking outside in silence.

That magic array is alive?

What kind of damned mage would create something like that? Who knows if someone would become a god after using that thing for too long.

However, Saleen quickly realized that that thing might have been something similar to Dante and the others. It would have been peculiar instead if the Baldur's Gate were to not have a weapon spirit.

The mage who crafted such a huge space would not have bothered to spend their time managing every detail of that space all day long.

The mages of Alchemy City had not realized that. The attack outside would not have been carried out so smoothly otherwise.

That weapon spirit clearly was capable of thought, and yet it refused to help the mages of Alchemy City. Saleen found that to be rather amusing. He had been worried if the mages of Alchemy City would have gained control of the Baldur's Gate all of a sudden.

If that turned out to be the case, almost all of the soldiers that he brought there would have died within.

Without the help of a weapon spirit, the Baldur's Gate would have been little more than a collection of scattered parts, which would not have posed much of a threat to people of Saleen's level.

That weapon spirit looked at everything taking place outside in a lethargic manner and sensed Saleen's eyes all of a sudden. It startled the weapon spirit at first, but it quickly turned overjoyed.

Its master once said that there would have been a day that a mage would keep their eyes on it, and that would have been the time it gain freedom.

Saleen was looking at it with complicated eyes.

The former master of the Baldur's Gate left the equipment behind and the weapon spirit was waiting for the one to claim it.

Is this fate? The thing that Alchemy City poured their heart and soul into acquiring, turned out to be something they could only use the most basic of powers of. That core of the Baldur's Gate, the weapon spirit didn't bother with any probing from the Elemental Hand.

That weapon spirit was not a prisoner. It was simply waiting, waiting for the one who could truly master the Baldur's Gate.

One without powerful power of the soul would not have been able to see that weapon spirit.

Saleen thought that the Elemental Hand would have wasted all of their efforts eventually. He came to wonder if he would have acquired the Baldur's Gate only to pass it on to someone else.

His luck had been getting better and better all these while, yet it had been quite a while he last searched for a temple. Most of the temples were still scattered throughout Myers Mainland.

If someone were to find them and inherit the mission to resurrect the goddess, they would have divided his luck. If my luck were to prove inferior to others...

No, I'm a mage. Don't go about blabbering about luck.

Luck favors the brave ones. Mages shall not be people who constantly look fore and aft, worrying about gains and losses needlessly.

Saleen cleared all that distractions in his mind in an instant. Acquiring the Baldur's Gate proved more important than searching for temples. The Baldur's Gate would have been the best equipment there was for transporting troops. His own Floating City proved to be too complex and troublesome.

It would have sufficed flying around in Myers Mainland, but if he were to travel between the mainland and the interdimensional space, he would have needed a piece of equipment like the Baldur's Gate.

The 12 Notes of First Purgatory was essentially a weapon. Warriors would have sustained damages when they enter. Even if those damages were to be patched up, it would have affected their future training nonetheless.

As such, Saleen never used that collection of purgatories to transport human troops. He only used it to transport demons.