1531 A Mages Deception Part 2 (1/2)
The Heretic God would not ever have dreamed that a level 15 mage would have had such an eerie piece of equipment at his disposal. Even back in the First Dynasty, such equipment would have only been available to the likes of kings.
Kings of the First Dynasty had all definitely been level 18 professionals, and they would have had over ten level 18 professionals serving them. Despite being the pinnacle of level 18, there were also differentiations between the professionals.
A king would have definitely been at the pinnacle of level 18, and they served to support and protect the emperor of the empire, making Myers Mainland an impregnable continental nation. The nation eventually declined and fell with the passing of the level 18 professionals.
”You have finally surpassed me, Saleen,” Jason looked at his student and felt very gratified and relieved.
Saleen was exasperated instead. ”Sir, it was just an accident this time, and I had no time to take the others with me.”
His advancement was indeed an accident, but he did not know that if he had taken everyone with him into the Hall of Gods, the most mysterious of its functions may not have been fully displayed, and there was no way he could have seen that many rules lying about.
What he lacked at the moment was only mastery, as he had gotten to the point of being extremely familiar with all the rules on that plane. Level 18 professionals had been like insurmountable mountains to Saleen once upon a time, and now, he had finally gotten the power to stand against them.
He would never end up being taken down by the goddess with just a single hit. At the very least, he would have enough left to run away.
Rules were indeed mystical things, as even though one might have been very familiar with every single detail pertaining to a rule, it was not certain that one could have even used a single bit of said rule's power. Saleen knew that his lack of mastery was due to his lack of stability in his current level, preventing him from truly mastering the Source.
However, the greatest benefit of getting to level 17 was that he was already capable of controlling the magic array in the Hall of Gods.
When he embedded power source in the magic array of the Hall of Gods in the past, he had no control of anything, be it the rate of passage of time and the displays on the walls, it was all dependent on what kind of power source one would have embedded it with. At present, Saleen had become capable of communicating with that magic array, enabling him to manipulate the changes through his power of the soul. He would be able to use the Hall of Gods as a tool for teaching.
Being able to manipulate time, space, and even fate was a mystical feeling.
Spending time inside the Hall of Gods seemed like a long tempering process.
Saleen had no idea how his teacher came to know that many secrets regarding training, but he knew that Jason would not have uttered such words without purpose. Those words were definitely meant for him alone, and it would be all that Jason had confirmed.
Furthermore, what his teacher said matched what he felt very much.
Saleen felt that his advancement to level 17 had something missing, and whatever that was, it was crucial to his future. If he were to lack it when he tried to advance, he might have ended up walking the path of the goddess.
Saleen never wanted to become a god. If becoming a god had been his wish, he would have had many opportunities to do so. Absorbing the power of the Heretic God would have allowed him to ignite divine fires within. Furthermore, there was some left over of the Heretic God's divine persona, and the piece had only been reduced by two levels, making it a level 16 divine persona.
Saleen would have only needed to ignite divine fires and swallow the divine persona to become a level 16 god. Furthermore, he would have become the highest of level 16 gods, with a lifespan spanning over tens of billions of years.
At the moment, despite being at level 17, he remained a human, and his lifespan was hundreds of thousands of years.
Hundreds of thousands might have seemed to be a very long time, but one training session might have easily cost him thousands of years. If he were to not be able to acquire perfect power of rules, Saleen's lifespan might not be able to get to a million years.
Jason wanted Saleen to stay at his current level for 100 thousand years due to fear of him walking down the wrong path. The way Saleen achieved his latest advancement was simply too out-of-the-ordinary. Consuming a part of a level 18 god's power was something that not even ancient humans had done. The heroic spirits in the Imperial City, however, would have liked doing that a lot.
The heroic spirits had a great flaw to them, and Saleen knew that well.
”Sir, I've already gotten enough power to destroy the divine kingdom. The Lord of Glory will be reduced to history. Please look after the mainland for me, as I'll be going out to war,” Saleen said as he bowed to Jason.
Jason nodded and added, ”may your expedition be swift. You'll still have a lot of troubles to deal with back on this plane after all.”
”Indeed, sir,” Saleen said and called the frost dragon. He then brought the Winged Skull and Nailisi to the gates of the divine kingdom.
Saleen had never felt so at ease in his life before, even though he would be taking on an enemy with absolute power.
He ordered the mages to take Baldur's Gate apart and bring it before the divine kingdom's gates. He then ordered the demon army to clean up the place right outside the gates, before setting Baldur's Gate up right in front of the gates of the divine kingdom.
Baldur's Gate held an attack force that Saleen prepared for the expedition. There were six godly items in it that he became able to use. Saleen was able to ensure that not a single god creature would ever make it into Myers Mainland by tapping into the powers of Baldur's Gate.
After he sealed the gates of the divine kingdom off, Saleen had Guffen, Rafel, the Winged Skull ride the Star Shuttle and charge inside the divine kingdom.