1496 Thought Patterns of Powerful Beings Part 1 (2/2)
”Really? I'm not certain that I'd be able to get you to help me wholeheartedly, otherwise,” she replied.
”It would do if you just give me enough goodies. I'm weak when it comes to riches. What you're doing now is only causing me to resent you,” he said.
”And you think I care that you resent me? Saleen, I was still very humble when I was at your level, and everybody liked me.” The goddess's mood had gotten even better.
”Is that so, eh?” Saleen mumbled just to give her an answer. He was able to hear Dante's voice deep within his soul.
”Master, how about we ambush her and kill this witch once and for all?” Dante was getting extremely frustrated, hiding in the Lightning Moon. It felt as though the level of the goddess was not far off from its own, and it had three divine personas, making it equal to three level 15 gods.
”Hold your horses. You're no match for her at all!” Saleen immediately stopped Dante's scheming. Dante still did not understand the difference between it and the goddess. Even if Dante were to have impeccable control of lightning, it still would not have been enough to hurt the goddess, who had once been at the pinnacle of the plane's powers.
”Master!” Dante said.
”Shut up!” Saleen did not want to talk to Dante anymore. He suspected that the goddess actually knew that he was communicating with someone else through his soul.
”Relax, Saleen. I'm quite interested in that god too. I never imagined you could actually control something like that,” the goddess' voice suddenly appeared in Saleen's soul.
Dante immediately stopped speaking. It knew by then that Saleen was not wrong. That weapon spirit god was indeed no match for the goddess.
Saleen could not find the right words to shoot back at the goddess.
”Saleen, you may not know what kind of beings the heroic spirits are. Actually, the lifespan of heroic spirits is somewhat similar to the gods. They lived on the power of faith. Why do you think they like stuff related to gods so much, especially divine personas?” The goddess and Saleen spoke behind the heroic spirits' backs. Saleen's reaction deep in his soul was still unable to escape the goddess' probing.
Saleen had no choice but to really think about the question. The general and his people had indeed been eerie. Souls would have usually dissipated when one died before they returned to mere matter.
Even if they were to be converted into spirits, they would have actually lost a considerable amount of power of the soul. Dead spirits were incapable of remembering their past lives unless their level surpassed level 15, enabling them to recover their lost souls.
The heroic spirits did resemble the gods somewhat, or it should have been said, that they resembled believers of gods.
Believers of gods would have lived indefinitely in divine kingdoms, which was kind of similar to the heroic spirits when they were in their graves.
Saleen took a fragment and took a look at it, sensing that it contained rules of space that contained power, as well as some other attribute-less ones having some rules in them. The heroic spirits did resemble the gods somewhat.
”But then again, these fragments alone wouldn't have been able to make you believe anything. Human faith is something very difficult to make out clearly. The graves of those heroic spirits are not good. If the general and the others were to resurrect, it would have made the Imperial City of the Abyss something like a divine kingdom, and that Heretic God would have been able to take it for itself,” the goddess said.
Saleen shuddered at her words. He was unable to help but ask, ”Are you saying that the general knew all of that?”
”Heh, he just thought that he would get a lucky shot and kill the Heretic God when the time came. If the Heretic God was really able to make it into the Imperial City, there was no way he could have done anything to resist,” she answered.
Saleen was at a loss for words. From his perspective, the general had at least been concerned with the rise and fall of Myers Mainland, and he could have been considered a man of principle. Saleen did not think that the general would have made such a decision at all. If that place were to become a divine kingdom, then the Heretic God would have had an easy way of getting in and doing so with all its powers.
Attacking Myers Mainland from the Imperial City of the Abyss would have been a piece of cake. If the general were unable to kill the Heretic God, the entire mainland would have fallen.
Saleen knew just how terrifying the Heretic God was. Just a speck of that god's aura would have made anyone its believer.
The only choices available were to either be killed by it or submit to it. The Heretic God did not bother with enticement. The way it went about business was through sheer violence. A god like that was more terrifying than the Lord of Glory. The Lord of Glory was still someone who hoped that he could dupe his believers, resorting only to bloody means when he was out of other options. The Lord of Glory would not have dealt divine punishment so long as his believers remained loyal and had not taken up the faith of another god.
It seemed that the only thing humans were able to trust was contracts.
Saleen felt complicated, yet the goddess said, ”Saleen, if you were at our height, you'd think differently as well.”
The goddess wanted more than just to chat with him. She called Saleen to her side and handed a bunch of water magic scrolls to him. No level 18 things were given to him at that time; the highest of all of them were only level 15. That was also the most formidable of powers that Saleen was able to cast.
She was able to see his weaknesses, and she was able to make those weaknesses into strengths. The body of water element would have allowed him to raise attacks from water elemental scrolls somewhat. That had nothing to do with the power of the soul used when unraveling the scrolls.
On top of giving him the scrolls, she had also taught him how to control the magic soldiers.
The 300 magic soldiers that the goddess had made for him had all been imbued with lightning magic patterns. They were made specifically for him. Saleen could have used them in his own unique ways, making all manner of magic arrays by arranging those magic soldiers in formations.
That was the first time the goddess had truly guided Saleen, and he was unusually attentive to those lessons.
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