1438 Resurrection Part 3 (1/2)

What he was about to learn were things that would give him a decisive edge against others even though he had little use for those skills now. They merely provided him with a direction—where he should be heading with his studies. The general was unlike the grandmaster. As a warrior, he was more frank and forthcoming, making him more willing to share his knowledge with Saleen.

The general's level suggested that he had a profound understanding of the world. If he had been willing to train in magic again, he would have reached similar heights in that discipline too.

Saleen initially had things he wanted to ask the grandmaster, or, more precisely, information he wanted to acquire by trading. Seeing how easy it was to talk with the general, however, he simply posed his questions to the level-18 warrior. It was no big deal.

What Saleen intended to ask was simple. The first matter had to do with movement skills using earth element; the second was about the use of the territory.

Saleen had few problems dealing with other matters. Mainly, he felt he was progressing too slowly.

The general was patiently willing to instruct Saleen, seeing how he had brought him a piece of a broken divine persona. While that did not sit well with the grandmaster, he couldn't object to the general's decision. Saleen had exceeded his expectation by bringing them a demigod after all.

After chomping down on that demigod, none of them would have lost any soul powers for tens of thousands of years to come. That was especially so in the case of the general, as common god-related items were of little use to him. Besides, he spent most of his time hibernating.

Without the general, the rate at which everyone's soul power was lost would increase. That was a vicious cycle and everyone was glad Saleen did what he did.

If Saleen brought them stronger gods in the future, they might actually be able to leave the Cemetery of Heroes.

Rafel took her last breath. The general told Saleen to place the angel on the table. He took out a piece of bone from the Lord of Glory's double and stuffed it into Rafel's body. The bone melted right away, causing her injuries to heal instantly.

Saleen looked at the general's territory and found it overwhelming. A bone of a god was able to disintegrate right away, becoming energy that Rafel was capable of absorbing.

Ever since Saleen came to possess the Eye of Souls, he started learning how things worked just by looking at them. He managed to learn a great deal about controlling territories after seeing what was going on before him.

The lightning territory was by no means weak. In terms of the level of rules, it was probably around level-18.

Saleen was only able to overwhelm his opponents using the power of his territory, specifically by compressing it to an extremely small area. Given how far the distance in his combat level had grown, Saleen felt as if he had become a warrior capable of using territories.

As for control of earth-element power, the general only elaborated verbally instead of giving demonstrations to Saleen. He was a warrior, which meant that he relied also heavily on the power of the earth.

Saleen knew little about that, so when he heard the general talking about the secrets of earth element, he felt insignificant.

If there were such enormous differences between mages and warriors, then he had indeed been ignorant about the problem regarding levels.

Levels were not just a standard measuring a professional's strength; they were also a standard for segregating rules.

Saleen came to possess power of the soul, which was supposed to be something acquirable after level-13. That's not to say he was able to simply challenge beings above level-13.

The ability to move using earth element was a skill of warriors. Saleen initially thought it had been something developed by Arbola. But then again, Arbola was a genius who was able to analyze down to the last detail of a warrior's skill at that level, transforming it into a mage's skill and into something suitable to mages. That was how daunting Arbola was.

As for Jalin, she was but a learner, so Saleen paid little attention to her.

Then it was Nicholas's turn. Given that he was still breathing, it became a matter of treatment instead of resurrection. The grandmaster took over from the general. A level-15 Healing enabled Nicholas to sit up right away. He found it ironic to be sitting on a dining-room table.

”Thank you, my liege.” Nicholas got off of the table and bowed to Saleen. He went to thank him instead of the grandmaster, who was the one who had saved him.

Saleen had no reservations about the grandmaster and kept asking questions patiently. After he learned the skill he needed to continue evolving his power of the soul before he was capable of saving Nailisi, Saleen saw that he had no choice but to quiet down and take a metal house, walking inside with Rafel and Nicholas.

He had no fear of the general of doing something against him. If the general was up to no good, he could have done something right in front of Saleen and there was nothing he could do to stop him. Getting into a private space to train was just a habit of his.

Saleen cast lightning territory with the metal house. Under the general's instructions, he barred others' probing attempts using lightning territory. There would have been no way for Saleen's territory to repel someone of the general's level. Given the territory's characteristics though, it would have been impossible for the general to spy on Saleen without his noticing.

Saleen was training his power of soul right. He had no patience to wait since there were a lot of matters throughout Myers Mainland to be taken care of. The Floating City still hadn't been repaired and two of his weapon spirits were severely injured. Saleen had too many things to take care of at the moment. If he couldn't crush the Holy See, he wouldn't be lucky enough to escape if the Holy See called on their god next time.

He already had a way to make his power of the soul more robust—the divine persona on his Thunder Dragon Blaster.

That divine persona was tens of thousands of times more precious than the broken one of the double of the Lord of Glory. Even if there were tens of thousands of such fragments, they still would not be able to piece one single divine persona of such a high level.

There was no doubt that the Goddess of Myers had been brutal back in the day. The acquisition of one such divine persona meant the divine kingdom of that god had been annihilated.