1440 Training Hard for a Thousand Years Part 2 (1/2)

Using a divine persona like that was a terrible waste. If he surpassed level 16 in the future, he would be able to extract rules from the divine persona, enabling him to acquire power of the water element god without having to train.

Extraction would enable him to save up to 10,000, even 100,000 years. At present however, he used the divine persona to adjust the flow of time. Even if the divine persona remained intact when he was done, the powers within would be drained and the rules would be damaged, making extraction very difficult.

There was no way he would waste a divine persona. He summoned all his followers from the magic amplifier and had them all train.

All the resources that he had brought with him were distributed among them and Saleen made it clear that they were able to afford to spend 1,000 years there doing nothing.

Rafel looked at the divine persona Saleen had embedded in the magic array and shook her head. She knew that Saleen understood that it was a waste, but the situation meant that Saleen had no choice.

Saleen even brought Sika with him, for fear that the Lord of Glory's double would attack Metatrin City.

There were no magic arrays in the Hall of Gods to expand the space, but it was capable of housing thousands of people. Saleen called all of his followers but left enchanters behind. He summoned some of the stronger demons and mages. The rate of time in the magic amplifier was similar to the outside world, and Saleen had no way around it.

He was only able to include as many as possible in the coming years of training, as he was unable to afford to take care of everyone.

Saleen was relieved that he had brought the more important mages of Metatrin City with him, as well as his student, Truman, who was a level ten mage. He was more talented than Saleen, and if he trained for 1000 years, his level could surpass Saleen's.

The following events were simple. There were enough food stocked in his magic amplifier, and the magic cube was like a world in itself. While it was impossible to farm due to the lack of a sun, fungi could be plated, fire and water element powers generated using magic.

No one else could solve the problems that Saleen had run into. Almost all of Saleen's food storage had something to do with the Floating City. Most of the city's spaces were used for storing food. That had a lot to do with Saleen's personality, as to him, there was only a future when there was food.

Saleen began his own training after he was done with arranging others' training.

Due to instructions and help from the general, his power of the soul rivalled level 15 professionals. Saleen needed to work on his family badge. The power stored within his badge was enough for him to fight gods.

Before that, however, he needed to first get to level 12 to stabilize his power of the soul.

The general gave Saleen 30 days. He figured that Saleen's wealth would enable the mage to train for 100 years in the Hall of Gods within a month. He never expected Saleen to have a divine persona, enabling Saleen to train for over 1,000 years in there.

100 years quickly passed and, as predicted by the general, Saleen had gotten to level 12. His magic chords were over 100 times purer than they had been, which was preparation for breaking into level 13. If he had not had a powerful soul, there would be no need for him to do so. While he lacked talent in training his magic chords, he was almost the best among mages when it came to soul-related aspects.

If someone else had his skills, they would have only been able to learn death magic. They might have been able to reach great heights with it, but they would not have been able to learn elemental magic.

Saleen's advancement did not affect the others around him. He did not rush to get to level 13 after getting to level 12. He found that what he knew about secret art alchemy had been skewed. All secret art alchemy had to do with souls.

His teacher, Jason, had always possessed formidable power of the soul, but his teacher was unable to instruct Saleen. Training the power of the soul had to be done alone.

Saleen ran through the secret arts that his teacher had imparted to him and found that his Water Flame Alchemy was still the most powerful. It had originally been geared for battle, and using it for alchemy was a waste.

However, his understanding of rules was unable to reach the other crystal wall system, and he did not consider a mistake in his training.

But since Saleen acquired complete power of souls, he was able to re-train his Water Flame Alchemy.

White Water Flame was so cold that it was capable of freezing souls. Old scripts ran within Saleen's mind. The words were profound and difficult to comprehend, and Saleen was only able to sense the power of rules when the words flowed.

His Ring of Cosmos slowly oscillated in his finger. The vibration frequencies of the Water Flame slowed considerably under the effects of the Ring of Cosmos. Saleen's power of the soul was able to clearly observe all minute changes.

It became easy for Saleen to control his Water Flame. Snowkill and Tornado no longer came alongside the Water Flame's release. A white 'flame' hovered above his palm, its temperature was comparable to the room.

Saleen extinguished the Water Flame and thought that the power of his water element magic would become even greater.

Saleen had achieved considerable progress with the training of his power of the soul. He needed to reconsider matters related to Water Flame Alchemy. He took out the Thunder Dragon Blaster. The injuries that all three weapon spirits caused were patched within the past 100 years, and even the Floating City had been gradually repaired.