Chapter 1546: World-weary (part 1) (1/2)

Thundercloud, a skill that Saleen developed on his own. However, it was only usable in the Well of Stars. The Well of Stars gathered massive stores of water element, conjuring a massive storm cloud.

The electrical discharge in the cloud was no longer something Saleen could have easily controlled. His power of rules was lacking, and it had always been his weakness. However, the grandmaster was unable to easily escape from the Well of Stars all the same, and he would have only ended up being slowly ground to death by the power of lightning.

Accuracy did not matter in this case, as Saleen had all the time in the world.

Using the power of the godly item in an underwater city such as the Imperial City of the Abyss, there was no way he could have run out of water element. Furthermore, the electrical discharge from the workings of the water element was practically limitless.

The grandmaster screamed in despair, after witnessing the amount of power emanating from the godly item.

As Saleen put it himself, a mage like the Grandmaster would have never given up resisting. He would have dealt a lethal blow to the enemy even if he would have ended up dead.

“Let’s die together, Saleen.” A huge burst of energy was seen from the grandmaster’s magic book again. A black hole appeared with the grandmaster at its core.

Saleen was stunned for a bit before laughing. Tens of ball lightning were sent inside the black hole as it appeared, causing the black hole to collapse in less than a second.

This couldn’t be!

The grandmaster’s eyeballs felt like they were about to shatter. Saleen clearly lacked comprehension of power of rules, and that was something the grandmaster had no problem telling. But, being able to instantly dispel his space-devouring skill was something that not even level 18 beings would have been able to pull.

Casting one such skill in such a sealed environment made the grandmaster’s intentions of dying together with Saleen very apparent. Saleen was having the time of his life, so he definitely would not have agreed to just roll over.

Saleen stood at the center of the Well of Stars and watched the grandmaster struggle in vain. The grandmaster had all the skills he needed, yet he ended up trapped by a huge number of lightning creatures. Those creatures, which were conjured directly from the Thundercloud, were over a dozen times more powerful than those summoned by the Lightning Moon.

That massive size of the Thundercloud had raging power, wearing down the grandmaster’s magic shielding layer by layer. The grandmaster was a level 17 mage, capable of conjuring near-limitless number of such shielding. However, the power of one man was eventually limited nonetheless, while Saleen’s lightning powers raged on without limit in the cloud.

As for things at the goddess’ side, the combat remained intense. She fought up close and personal like a warrior. Every single divine spell she cast was almost done very near her body. The general was frightening fast, at least still a tad bit faster than the goddess.

However, the goddess had a better sense of tempo, causing the general’s attacks to miss all the time. The goddess retaliated even more viciously. If it had not been for the general wearing a set of godly armor, he would have ended up killed by the goddess a while ago.

There was no way a level 18 warrior could have taken on a mage or god of a comparable level without godly armor. Any of the goddess’ instant-cast divine spells would have had a hard time breaking through such armor as well.

The general had ample combat experience. He had gotten near the goddess since the very beginning of the fight, never letting her distance herself more than 20 meters away from him.

The goddess wanted to end the fight quickly as well, but she had to do so without sustaining too much damage. She still had to fight Saleen after she was done taking care of the heroic spirits after all, and that following battle would have been more important. Her path from then on out would have depended on the outcome of that battle after all.

She knew right away after seeing the Well of Stars that Saleen cast, that the battle between them would have definitely been a long one. That godly item that Saleen was something that came after the fall of the First Dynasty, and there were definitely more than one of those around.

While the Baldur’s Gate was infamous, it was something that appeared when the Second Dynasty was near the end of its days. While the fall of the Goddess of Myers was actually later than that, but she had been busy setting up things for what came, after all, preventing her from paying too much attention to the mainland.

Furthermore, the Baldur’s Gate did not become famous due to the six godly items it harbored, but due to the concept of its construction being too eerie. The layered, stacked spaces, expandability, and rules like that of a world within were what made the Baldur’s Gate so renowned in the first place. The six godly items were not actually considered the most powerful items to have appeared in the Second Dynasty.

A thunderous rumble from Saleen’s Well of Stars permeated the entire cemetery, and the general, who was still busy fighting the goddess, became restless. The thunderous rumbled permeated the spatial barrier, as the grave was unable to block it. That was to say that Saleen’s power had not been suppressed by the power of the grave’s space.

As such, the grandmaster was probably done for by that point. If the grandmaster were to end up dead, there would have been no way he could have taken on both Saleen and the goddess.

His attacks became even more rushed and relentless at that thought. The blade in his hand crackled and extended to lengths well over three meters, making it a massive blade. Complex shrieks were heard from the massive blade, which would have made the hearts of people shudder.

The goddess smirked, however. A level 18 god could have never been stunned by such noise after all.

But then, the noise became that of a sigh as the blade was brought down.

That sigh was from the emperor of the First Dynasty—heard when the goddess ascended to godhood.

Her mind was shaken nonetheless.

That man, whom she used to look up to, severed contact with her completely after she became a goddess. She wondered why he did not understand why she was doing such a thing in the first place. The secret of the gods was something she could have only completely learned, after becoming a goddess herself.

The emperor wanted to conquer all realms and she went on to do the most dangerous thing there was to be done, yet the outcome yielded only disappointment.

Her hand stopped and the cold blade cut open the skin on her face. She did not feel any pain from it, as even her mind began to feel numb.