1436 Resurrection Part 1 (1/2)
The great number of heroes surrounded the double of the Lord of Glory and Saleen heard gulping sounds from them. There was without doubt that the heroic spirits had no saliva, but they nonetheless retained the desire to eat. But then again, it was easy to tell that they were simply making those sounds to scare the Lord of Glory's double.
”Grandmaster, there're so many of us and there is only one him. How do you suppose we carve him out?” A warrior was unable to help but asked.
”We'll cut him up, of course,” a mage answered.
”No, no, no. This is a light-element god. Cut him up and he would just piece himself back together.”
”Yeah, not like we can chew him up or anything,” someone who had been a death mage when they were still alive had flickering flame for eyes, and they stuck out their tongue at the Lord of Glory.
”His divine persona fragment is in the ball on his hand!” Saleen pointed at the Lord of Glory's double and said.
The Lord of Glory's double turned limp. He had dared to chase all the way there in the first place because that godly item's concealment effect was so extraordinary, that not even the most powerful mage hero had been able to tell anything from it. He was wondering how that puny human mage was able to find that out.
”Alright, alright, settle down, people. A god with a divine persona fragment would need the general to be around before we could split it,” the grandmaster did not want to get on the bad side of the general. However, the general was still in slumber at the moment and waking him up without a good reason would have pissed him off.
”Grandmaster, are you sure you're able to pay the price?” Saleen then asked the grandmaster.
”Price? What do you want? Any equipment below level 14, I can easily make just about anything for you. Level 16 ones wouldn't be much of a problem too...”
”This god's double injured several of my followers when I tricked him here. I want to know if they are completely dead, and if so, I want them resurrected.”
”The price for resurrection isn't something you can pay with just a demigod, you know,” the grandmaster said with a sheepish smile.
”Well, you can say goodbye to getting even a demigod in the future then,” Saleen answered coldly.
The grandmaster was dumbfounded and said, ”Who did he harm?”
”A bonded creature of mine. She's a luoluokaluo. There is also an angel who has lost her god. A metal one.”
”Luoluokaluo...is something very hard to kill. A level 14 demigod eh...” The grandmaster then shot a look at the Lord of Glory's double and said, ”Hand over the luoluokaluo's soul, or I shall eat you alive.”
The Lord of Glory's double flicked his hand and a plain golden light emerged from the ball of light in his hand. The grandmaster then threw a crystal ball and took the golden light inside, handing over to Saleen and said, ”Your underling's soul is in the crystal ball and it's incomplete. There should be another part in her body. If her body has yet to rot, that is...”
Saleen took the crystal ball and recalled. Nailisi's heart had been pierced and her body dropped to the ground, which was then being snatched away by the Winged Skull. There was no way the Winged Skull would have let her dead body be damaged. He put the crystal ball away without saying anything and then added, ”This won't do.”
The grandmaster then replied exasperatedly, ”But I can't leave this place, you know. If you would bring me outside, it would be a simple thing saving a luoluokaluo.”
”I'd bring her here.”
”I'm not going to do anything about the angel though.”
”That is up to you,” Saleen answered coldly. If the grandmaster were to simply leave Rafel be, then he would have decided never to show up there again.”
”I'd look into it. Take that angel's body here as well.” The general's voice was heard from afar, specifically from his grave.
”Release me, and I shall bring you people more gods.” The Lord of Glory's double finally said something. He observed the conversation between Saleen and the grandmaster and knew deep down, that Saleen had baited him there to conclude a trade.
That was to say that Saleen was selling him.
If that was the case, then he would have also been capable of negotiate with those ghosts. He had taken quite a number of gods and he had no problem exchanging their lives for his.
Saleen smirked coldly and the grandmaster answered expectedly, ”Dude, I could trade with a human mage, but you're a god. We've never traded with gods throughout our lives. That is especially when you're now food. Have you heard of anyone negotiating with their food?”
The Lord of Glory's double had completely fallen to despair by then. The ball of light in his hand flickered for a bit and was then snuffed out.
The grandmaster smirked and said, ”Even if your main body shows up here, you still won't be able to shake yourself loose from this magic array. Don't waste your effort. Just sit back and wait for death to claim you. I've said that I'm not going to eat you alive, and you're lucky that I do that.”
Saleen then looked at the Lord of Glory's double. That look finally instilled fear into the Lord of Glory.
That look from Saleen was not actually one of hatred, yet the Lord of Glory knew right there and then, that the human had decided deep down, to annihilate his divine kingdoms.
That was indeed what was going on in Saleen's head. He had no idea if Nicholas had ended up dead. The fallen holy master was still alive when he left, yet judging from how the lesser prophecy spell he cast had actually worked on the demigod, Nicholas had probably paid the price with his life.
Lesser prophecy spells were fallen divine spells that were incapable of being reversed. Saleen felt very said deep down. That old man could have actually remained alive and watched Saleen succeed.
Nicholas was not a bad man. He was actually one of the handful of good men found in the Holy See, which was why he was marginalized and sent to do missions that were hardly useful, yet dangerous.
Saleen recalled everything they did together when he was fighting alongside Nicholas. He was still hoping deep down that the old man would have still been alive.
Gods were not entirely useless. For instance, the Lord of Glory asked for his believers to be peaceful, just, brave and good. There was no doubt that the Lord of Glory himself was incapable of doing any of that, but it did not change the fact that those qualities he required of his believers were good. From Saleen's perspective, there was quite a bit of good qualities left on Nicholas.