1495 Magic Soldier Part 2 (1/2)

The goddess took Saleen on a detour around a vast compound, heading straight for the Hall of Gods.

Saleen then asked cautiously, ”Are you the one who designed the Hall of Gods?”

”No. His majesty was the one who designed it,” she said. Despite the First Dynasty being gone for tens of thousands of years, the goddess addressed him as 'his majesty' nonetheless. He had been the one and only mage in the entire empire who was more powerful than her in every way.

Saleen did not ask any further. He followed the goddess to the back of the Hall of Gods. She pushed opened a secret door and entered.

Seeing Saleen's puzzled look, she then explained, ”His majesty left a backdoor as well, back then...”

”I get it.” Saleen made it clear that he understood. The goddess might have been very, very close with the emperor all those years ago.

The goddess stepped up to the outside of the magic array as soon as she entered the hall. She then took out a level 18 magic nucleus. The size of that magic nucleus was almost comparable to a table. Under the goddess' divine powers, she compressed the magic nucleus to standard size before embedding it into the magic array.

”I will be staying here for a month, so don't do anything to that fellow just yet. When I'm done working on those magic soldiers, I'll need that thing as a bargaining chip to use with those at the cemetery,” she said.

Saleen nodded in agreement and walked away to sit down and train.

The goddess found his attitude satisfactory. Mages who trained diligently regardless of time and place would be able to achieve a lot, even though they might be lacking in talent.

Saleen worked on things methodically. He needed time to digest all of the lightning skills, as well as the manipulation of territorial and rule powers, that the goddess had shown him. The goddess did not give him any pointers regarding any of those. Saleen had simply watched from the sidelines and memorized everything the goddess cast, relying solely on his own memory.

The goddess began to take out some magic soldiers that she had sealed away and started working on them. Saleen's power of the soul was powerful enough to recall all the abilities that the goddess had cast while still observing how she worked on the magic soldiers.

Magic soldiers were crafted using the bodies of god creatures, meaning that they had almost zero affinity for elements. They were then crafted into weapons capable of containing the six elements by humans using magic. Saleen knew little about the processes involved, but he had purified believers of the Heretic God before. Those believers had become attribute-less materials after being purified.

Saleen watched from the side. The goddess stripped every single magic pattern from the magic soldiers' bodies before laying down eight new magic patterns on every single one of them. The new magic patterns were that of the six major elements, as well as those of death magic and lightning magic.

The lightning patterns that she laid down were apparently copied from those on the Lightning Moon. She had little use for them; they were made for Saleen instead.

The goddess threw all 300 of them to Saleen when she was finished working on them. She became even more familiar and quick with her work the longer she did so. Those 300 were experimental units meant only for her to get familiar with how to work with them.

The goddess only truly began working on the rest after Saleen put away his 300 magic soldiers.

The goddess spun her red bangle lightly, and the entire Hall of Gods became filled with her territory. The appearances of the gods on the walls of the place became blurred. The whole hall turned jade-green, and countless petals danced in the air, looking just like the miniaturized Water Shield that Saleen cast. The lines on the petals were all magic patterns without a single divine script found on them.

The Goddess of Myers was actually able to manipulate magic using the power of gods.

Saleen became very excited. He had never heard of something like that before. If the Goddess of Myers was able to manipulate magic right away without requiring power of faith, there would have been no need for Saleen to kill her.

The entire Hall of Gods became connected to the ground of the Imperial City of the Abyss. The power of earth element was continuously extracted, making the place extremely stable. However, under the goddess' manipulation, that brilliant-looking territory continued to extract the power of the earth, then severing the connection between the hall and the ground.

Saleen was unable to work with that kind of precision with such a level of rule powers. He was only able to manipulate a bit of lightning rules, after all. The goddess did not intend to guide Saleen in anything. How much he would be able to pick up was entirely up to him.

The goddess then threw the remaining 1500 magic soldiers into her territory. The mass crafting made every single one of them look life-like. The weapons in their hands came to have tens of thousands of magic arrays all over them.

The goddess then selected 1200 magic soldiers and had them guarding her. A natural huge magic array was formed with her as the core. The goddess served like a magic nucleus embedded at the center of a magic array. She stood at the center, unleashing extremely powerful energies. The magic array had wholly severed the connection between the Hall of Gods with that of the ground, with her serving as the center.

Saleen then saw bits of divine power being infused within, and the entire Hall of Gods levitated.

”What are you waiting for, Saleen?” The goddess shouted, and it was only then that Saleen came to. He unleashed all of his power of the soul and took the whole place inside his magic amplifier.

The Hall of Gods began to fuse with the magic cube. The goddess controlled her power and pulled her divine power out of Saleen's magic amplifier bit by bit.

Divine power was pulled out, and Water Flames entered. He knew that the goddess intended to tear down the foundations of the imperial city altogether.

What could I do? If I let this slip past my fingers, I won't get another opportunity like this ever again.

The general was stingy, requiring Saleen to seek his permission every time the mage wanted to enter the Hall of Gods. If the general had just given the badge to Saleen, he might not have ended up doing what he did on that day.

”The Hall of Gods had a great many functions, but they were of little use to level 18 beings. That place served as a symbol of the royal palace. If you ever advance to level 18, Saleen, don't use this thing anymore,” the goddess reminded him.

Saleen nodded. He had taken the Hall of Gods for himself, and there was no reason for him to feel unsatisfied. No one knew how long it would take him to advance to level 18. Even if he were able to speed up time in the Hall of Gods, all of the requirements for advancing further still needed to be fulfilled.