1494 Magic Soldier Part 1 (1/2)

The goddess turned around and smirked before saying to Saleen, ”Electric snake, thunder hawk, and lightning raven. They are conjurations of lightning skills at levels 15, 16, and 17, respectively. Do you know what level 18 would be?”

Saleen shook his head, and the goddess answered, ”Thunder dragon.”

Seeing that Saleen had been rendered speechless, the goddess continued, saying, ”When other people learn lightning magic, they take it upwards one level at a time. You're quite an exception, keeping so many thunder dragons and having even dissected one. I'm sure you are now very clear about the inner structure of thunder dragons. When you've amassed enough power to manipulate lightning, you'll be able to conjure a true level 18 thunder dragon. By then, you'd be able to grind that Heretic God to dust.”

Saleen noticed that the goddess had said he would be able to grind the Heretic God to dust instead of saying that he would be able to kill it in one shot. It seemed that the Heretic God would not be so easy to deal with.

Level 18 thunder dragons, huh? Saleen had been doing research in the clouds before and had found that when lightning reached a certain level of power, it exceeded what godly items were able to defend, making evasion using skills the only option to deal with lightning attacks.

But then again, no one had any doubt about the frightening speed of lightning. Evading lightning attacks once or twice was feasible, but prolonged evasion would have been like dancing at the edge of a cliff.

Saleen finally calmed down. Despite having borrowed his Lightning Moon, she still nonetheless had given him pointers on how to use it. That proved a lot more useful to Saleen than when she had been chucking a good number of items to him earlier.

There was no material that would have truly been out of his reach, so long as he became powerful enough. But of course, he still had to take the Hall of Gods away. That was a piece of equipment like no other, after all. Its function of serving as a training ground was just one of the many features that the Hall of Gods had. So long as he kept advancing, it would have only been a matter of time before finding out the other functions the Hall of God offered.

”Wealth is always enticing. But you're a mage, Saleen. Fix that shortcoming of yours, and your future will always be bright.” The goddess broke down the gates of the palace, all while still giving pointers to Saleen.

”Wealth is what drives people to advance,” Saleen added. That was a well-known saying of the Sikeqinyans.

The goddess shook her head and stepped into the palace. Hundreds of magic attacks rained down from above. The goddess shouted, and the attacks were immediately dispelled.

The power of rules!

That was the first time Saleen had seen someone using the power of rules in battle. The goddess was capable of nullifying elemental magic attacks altogether. That meant that if he were to fight the goddess, the only magic he would have been able to use against her was that of lightning.

Saleen recalled Lex's skill, which was capable of nullifying the sword aura of warriors. That somewhat resembled the ability shown by the goddess just then.

That was but a stray thought, yet an idea then struck his mind out of nowhere, which caused him to shudder.

Wait, does that mean that such powers could be acquired without mastering rules?

Saleen remembered that Lex was not even at level nine when she had come to master such powers. If there were to be someone wielding secret arts capable of collapsing sword aura, then it was only a matter of fact that abilities used specifically against elements existed.

Be it Elemental Lockdown or the anti-magic territory, none had been wielded with the extent of finesse displayed by the Goddess of Myers, and nowhere as straightforward as Lex's secret arts as well.

Saleen had been searching within the many secret arts that his teacher had imparted upon him, and he still was unable to find something resembling such abilities in them. However, he was far from being frustrated. Instead, he went on to record what the goddess did in detail in the crudest of ways.

High-level magic was incapable of being retained using memory magic, yet human memory would have still worked.

Saleen forced himself to memorize the way the goddess had been disrupting the spells and made it a point to look into it at a later date. The ability did not expend magic chords, and if he were to be able to lower the level requirement, it would have truly become something surpassing anti-magic territory.

Anti-magic territories were incapable of distinguishing friend from foe, rendering all elements within its vicinity out of use.

What the goddess did, however, was fully able to tell spells fired by friendlies from those fired by foes. It would have been a lot more useful than anti-magic territory.

Saleen followed right behind the goddess, observing how she tore down thousands of spells as she walked, before arriving at a magic array. The goddess pointed her finger, and a thunder hawk shot out of the Lightning Moon, charging inside the magic array. The magic array shook alongside the ground and was then reduced to dust.

The results of the attack were superb, and yet Myers sighed instead, mumbling to herself, ”The passage of time is too quick here. Who knows just how many years have flown by in this place? So many that the defenses have been reduced to such levels, being torn down by a level 16 thunder hawk and all.”

Saleen took the opportunity to look into the way the goddess manipulated the thunder hawk in detail.

He had mastered the electric snake. The thunder hawk, lightning raven, and finally, the thunder dragon, were the most powerful beings capable of being conjured by lightning magic. As for the others, Saleen had no intention of learning them for the time being. Lightning powers were ferocious and difficult to control. It would have done him little good learning too much. While the thunder hawk disappeared shortly after, he was nonetheless able to grasp all of the internal structure of that conjured being.

That was the perks of having formidable power of the soul. The Eye of Souls alone would not have been able to get the job done.

The goddess tore that magic array apart, but she was able to extract its diagram. She took out a massive piece of crystal instead. The crystal looked structurally damaged.

The goddess sighed and threw that huge broken piece of crystal to Saleen. She then continued forward. Saleen pointed to his left and said, ”Myers...”

”I know. The Hall of Gods is over there. I was able to craft something like that back when I was alive. It was nothing. I'd be able to do it again so long as I've killed enough high-level gods. I intend to take out the palace's defenses altogether, and there are still over 1800 magic soldiers to take care of. You really need to be on guard afterward, Saleen.”

Be on guard? What was that supposed to mean?

Saleen was still puzzled when the gates before him opened. Hundreds of soldiers charged down the stairs at the center of the gates.

Saleen felt as though the men were made up of hundreds of generals. His own generals were not as well-equipped as those soldiers. Saleen's elite soldiers were all wearing Tainted Blood Armor now, and his generals were all wearing armors that would have lasted until level 13.