1522 Frost Part 1 (1/2)
Saleen's meditation allowed him to stop at any given moment, and it was something imparted to him by Jason. With the protection of the thunder dragons, Saleen had no fear of being ambushed. All 24 thunder dragons had soul armor on. Regardless of the magnitude of the attack they could be met with, they would at least be able to hold out for a minute or two. Not even the Goddess of Myers would have been able to kill all 24 of them in one go.
But then again, if all those magic beasts were of levels comparable to the goddess, Saleen would have just given up. It would have been impossible.
A frail magic beast began to gradually awaken in the land covered in ice while Saleen was still meditating. It was covered in hard ice. When it was awakened, a layer of ice around it melted, making it look like it was wrapped in a water bubble.
If it had not been for Saleen showing up, that beast probably would have probably been frozen deep in the land by the goddess for good. In truth, however, not even the goddess had ever had any intention of capturing that thing. It seemed that she had no interest in the materials it would have given her.
The magic beasts shook its huge body about and a layer of skin fell off of its body, revealing what was beneath.
The transformation process was extremely slow, but it was speeding up. Saleen sensed peculiarities in the space but did not stop meditating just yet. He simply unleashed thousands of lightning warriors to deal with it.
The lightning warriors' movements were not affected by what was happening in the icy world at all.
However, most of the lightning warriors were at level nine or ten. They were little more than cannon fodder when they ran into level 14 or 15 magic beasts.
The magic beast shook and cracking noises were heard from its bones. The Thunder Dragon Blaster in the magic amplifier behind Saleen was being prepped. The huge thunder dragon within it seemed to have come alive and looked rather restless.
Saleen had to stop meditating but stopped Rafel, who was about to get up.
”The goddess might have made a mistake. That thing below might be over level 16,” Saleen said as he pointed at the white ground. There was a huge crack had appeared at some point while they were resting.
The crack was over 15 kilometers long. Saleen unleashed an electric snake. The tiny snake burrowed into the crack, and Saleen sensed the snake being destroyed about half a minute later.
That thing below made short work of a level 15 electric snake.
The goddess had indeed made a mistake. Some beings were capable of advancing during specific states. Despite not having eaten or drank for a long time, they would still be capable of killing Saleen.
”Rafel, how much power do you have left?”
”Half,” Rafel answered concisely.
”Well then, you stay down for the moment. There is only one enemy here.”
Saleen looked at Rafel's face and finally explained to her what he had been thinking.
”This is a powerful being, and the battle between us will probably end up tearing the space apart, sending me into another space. I can't win without getting injured. Before I can recover from my injury, I'll need you for protection, so...”
Saleen sent Rafel into his magic amplifier, keeping her from joining the battle. Her powers at level 14 were still too weak. If she were to be able to make it to level 15 suddenly like Nailisi, she would have stood a chance.
Saleen had no intention of wasting his magic chords. Recovery of his magic chords had reached 80 percent, and they would have come in handy in the upcoming battle. The Book of Lightning hovered before him. Electrical discharge from the piece of equipment became strong enough to kill a level 15 being at present. If the being were devoid of defense, it would be wiped out altogether.
Still killable at level 16.
But what about level 17 then?
Saleen sighed. Regardless of the quality of a piece of equipment, there would be a limit. Level 17 was the level when gods achieved greater god status, making them capable of mastering foundations of rules. It would be almost impossible to kill them by relying on equipment alone.
It would not be doable unless he had completely mastered the Book of Lightning and got to level 17 himself as well.
Saleen's limit was at level 15. If he were to reach level 16, he would have to achieve complete mastery of a type of rules, any type. Saleen was only able to master rules of water element and lightning, and the lightning ones being over 100 times more complicated than that of water element.
If he were to master water elemental rules, he would at least need to familiarize himself with 12 level 16 water elemental magic spells. That meant that not only would he need to be able to cast water elemental magic beyond his level, he would also need to be able to work on any of the 12 in any way he fancied, modifying their magical attributes and making them into chants.
All in all, Saleen needed to achieve thorough mastery with twelve level 16 water elemental magic spells, and that would take a considerable amount of time. Furthermore, that was just preparation. He needed to have a certain level of mastery of the other five types of elemental magic, and all of them needed to be level 16 if he were to get to level 16.
The difficulty was tens of times more than what it had been for advancing below level 15, and Saleen did not have that much time to spare.
The ground let out a stifled rumble and the width of the crack beneath Saleen's feet widened by 10 meters. Anyone else would have easily lost their balance if they encountered something like that.
In Saleen's case, magic patterns in his eyes shifted before he leaped into the crack.
It would have been a lot more difficult to deal with the thing if it emerged, so he went to confront it first.
The mist before Saleen turned into Wind Dragons, which then burned and shone a light into the snow-white crack. Saleen cast the level seven magic over and over. Such spells had a negligible drain to him.