1524 Chaotic Void Part 1 (1/2)
Saleen was curious about the frost dragon's request. ”Speak.”
”Can I keep my items?”
Saleen scanned the place and found many shed hides and scales. There were also four dragon horns that were several meters long. All of them were frozen in an independent space. They looked to be something that fell off the frost dragon on their own.
Saleen chuckled, thinking that there were stingy dragons after all. Saleen had no desire to take any of those materials despite their immense value. He had 24 thunder dragons after all, and there was little need to talk about the strength of the soul armor they were all equipped with. The strength of the soul armor was so good that not even the scales of the frost dragon were able to compare.
Saleen quickly realized the fact that a level 17 frost dragon had to seek his permission for something like that. It confused him briefly, but he realized that it was probably due to some of the dragon's powers being robbed by the goddess. Space rules!
The space they were in probably was not very sturdy. The goddess was using the space to imprison beings at about level 15, which meant that none of them was capable of potentially breaking the space.
Saleen was level 15 and was being kept there by the goddess. If he had reached level 16, then it might have been possible for him to leave the space without requiring the goddess's permission.
The dragon, whose spatial powers were apparently restricted, would probably need Saleen's help to bring all its things away. However, Guffen was not a truly generous type. It was reluctant to give Saleen any benefits, and it was rather embarrassed for behaving to selfishly, so it requested to see if Saleen would have agreed to it.
It reminded Saleen of some dragons that he met before. While the dragons were indeed powerful, they had emotions similar to humans. Some so-called intelligent magic beasts paled in comparison to the dragons.
”The capacity for thought does not necessarily mean that one is wise. Wisdom is different from intelligence.” Those were words that Saleen had once read on a magic note, which he deemed to be a classic. The dragons were capable of wisdom because they had emotions.
”No problem, Guffen.” Saleen gathered the materials without giving it much thought, putting them away in his Ring of Cosmos. The frost dragon was about to remind Saleen of its concerns regarding energy fluctuations of the things. But when Saleen was done putting them away, not even Guffen was able to sense their presence anymore. That surprised the dragon.
The ring was such a formidable piece of space equipment that the spatial attributes contained within made the frost dragon feel rather envious. The dragon was rather baffled as well, unable to fathom why someone like Saleen, who was capable of crafting such space equipment, was unable to leave the space created by the goddess.
Saleen flew out of the crack first after he was done packing Guffen's items away. With the frost dragon still alive, the next space would not appear. Saleen thought for a bit and told the frost dragon to go inside his magic cube.
Guffen would have entered hibernation after entering a contract space, only capable of communicating with Saleen when summoned. In the magic cube however, Saleen would be able to communicate with Guffen mentally at all times.
The frost dragon went inside Saleen's space equipment unquestioningly, and another entrance opened up at the edge of that icy space. The ice mountain that cracked open, forming a gate to the area. That area, where the next magic beast was imprisoned. was on the other side of the canyon-like passage.
However, Saleen was completely at ease. He was already able to calculate that even without the help of a being like a frost dragon, he would have been able to make it through on his own, somehow. But he no longer had any need to prove anything, and it would be easier to just rely on Guffen's powers.
Saleen sped up at that thought, charging through the icy canyon.
”Alright, Guffen. It's your show from here on out,” Saleen said nonchalantly. Guffen did not feel like anything was out of place. It was even more eager to leave that space than Saleen was, even though it had no idea what it would do after leaving.
However, Guffen was oblivious to the fact that Saleen already had planned on how to exploit everything there was to be exploited. It would have the dragon enhance its powers as soon as possible, reaching that befitting its level. He would then craft a set of equipment for the dragon, including armor and weapons, in order to give it a fighting chance when not using magic spells. A dragon's defense would drop considerably in human form, after all.
He would not need to waste much time at the East Sea anymore, as Guffen alone would be an ample threat to the Lord of Glory.
However, he still did not deem it wise to give up conquering the East Sea. Saleen's instincts told him that things in the East Sea had changed considerably, and there would be many powerful professionals emerging. If there were to be some very powerful being emerging in those nations, that someone might have even ended up uniting the islands.
The nations only had a population in the millions,. Not a single nation's population reached 10 million. Saleen would be able to make short work of such nations. However, if there were to be professionals of strengths comparable to his, he would need the frost dragon to bring about the shock factor.
He deemed it best to bring Grand Duke Iron Blood along after being reminded of the grand duke's dragons, and he already had ideas of how to proceed.
Guffen went back to Saleen's side after leaving that space meant for holding it. It was as Saleen expected—the goddess did not actually watch what was going on and had only somehow permitted the clearing of the stage.
Saleen had the frost dragon freeze all the enemies one after the other, before chucking them into his Ring of Cosmos. Things moved along a lot faster by doing so. On the other hand, despite being caged for so many years and still unable to bring about powers befitting a level 17 being, the frost dragon nonetheless had the superiority given by its level, as well as possessing formidable power of rules.
Saleen became able to easily cast level 16 water magic by tapping into the frost dragon's powers.
That was what put him at ease the most. With the frost dragon by his side, getting to level 16 would no longer be seemingly unachievable, and picking up level 16 magic would be comparatively easy. If he were to have a piece of decent divine persona, he would be able to get to level 16 in another month or so.