Chapter 1358: Lightning Armant (Part 1)
Mages valued their lineages just as humans valued procreation. There were those who, despite being dirt poor, had been able to persevere and raised their offspring. They sacrificed nearly everything for them.
That was the instinct of living beings. The instinct of mages was to disseminate their skills and knowledge. Most mages liked having their nas recorded in history, and then there was a handful who disliked leaving their nas behind.
You would be hard-pressed to find any mages who liked the idea of having their skills lost in the coming generations.
Saleen was even more so. While his skills were less impressive compared to those of ancient tis, there were parts of his skills that the ancient mages paled in comparison to. For one thing, ancient mages did not have to be as detailed and ticulous with their art.
Furthermore, Saleen had already begun to develop his lightning skills when he was below level-9. Although weak, those skills would have still proven useful as a way to get to know lightning. The ancient mages lacked this skill entirely.
Saleen crafted magic books and concentrated his ntal powers, writing on the golden liquid of the granules. The more he wrote, the more developed his ntal powers beca, and he continued writing for days. But on this particular day, Saleen felt as if his ntal powers were contracting violently and returning to his body.
He was afraid this might be the end of his magic book. Since changes with ntal powers could be a matter of life and death, he felt he had no ti to spare by looking at the magic book. Instead, he focused his ntal powers and observed his insides.
Saleen felt the sensation of the ntal powers returning to a single dot in his mind that then exploded and fused within an eerie place within his body.
That place seed to be a parallel dinsion. Every single movent he made affected the energy of that space. Things felt vague, and Saleen sensed it was that space affecting him in return.
His entire life seed to be filled with changes; in actuality, he felt as if he was being manipulated by that space.
Even his thoughts seed to have been little more than projections from that space.
Saleen was startled. He wondered if he was real and if the Myers Mainland was just an illusion.
He wondered if his ntal powers were about to crumble as fear welled up inside him. His ntal powers were on the verge of dispersing into the vast, endless void, never to have coalesced again.
Be strong, Saleen...
A voice was heard from the depths of his mind at that mont. The voice was a very, very familiar one, and suddenly Saleen felt reassured. That was...
Father’s voice!
Saleen was already at an age where he began to rember things from when his father died. But he was unable to recall when his father had said sothing like that to him when he was still alive.
Those reassuring words made Saleen feel as if he was being thrown back from that parallel space of his own, rging back into his own body.
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His ntal powers burst again. Saleen opened his eyes and 360 million lightning characters flew out. Rafel was hurled back over 100 ters.
A human has three souls.
Saleen recalled such a description in the secret arts. He believed it at that ti. A lot of what he had from his teacher seed utterly ridiculous now, but Saleen truly believed that line at the ti.
None of the three souls truly resided in one’s body. Only by regaining all three of them would humans be able to surpass the gods.
Saleen was imdiately aware of his soul’s return. There seed to be two other parallel spaces outside his body that were vague and unreachable. Those were not actually spaces but his souls outside.
Myers Mainland was real. What he experienced was similar to looking in a mirror and thinking his reflection was his true self while he, on the outside, was the projection instead.
There was little need to talk more about how perilous that would have been. If it hadn’t been for his father’s voice, Saleen’s ntal powers might have crumbled altogether by then. Even if he had survived, he would have sustained a severe injury that was unlikely to heal.
As a mage, the crumbling of Saleen’s ntal powers would have nearly marked the end for him. He would have retained magic chords of level-10 mages but would no longer be able to cast any magic spells. That’s the best he could have hoped for in such a predicant.
A transparent golden magic book hovered quietly before Saleen’s eyes. Lightning magic patterns shimred indistinctly on the book cover. The magic book was still successfully crafted.
“Lord Saleen...” Rafel knew that Saleen had been in a perilous state earlier and wanted to say sothing when he simply waved dismissively saying, “We’ll continue.”
Rafel shut her mouth and backed away, leaving Saleen alone with his thoughts.
Saleen opened the magic book without realizing it; he had been poring over whatever he had learned and comprehended during more than 100 years of training. Perceptions of conventional mages wouldn’t have been able to look into the contents of the book he wrote with magic patterns.
A reader had to be soone who had learned these lightning skills, soone whose ntal powers were capable of manipulating lightning before being able to safely absorb the knowledge in that magic book.
That book seed to be devoid of words altogether, yet Saleen knew he had actually written all of his 360 million lightning characters. As long as readers of future generations were beings whose ntal powers were immune to lightning powers, they would be able to start learning.
There were 36 pages in the book and every single page consisted of transparent paper of a faint golden color that enabled the user to store one magic spell. There was no special requirent for the spell store.
Be it elental, spiritual or even death magic, a spell could have been stored within the book as long as it was of a magical nature. Saleen felt that even divine spells could have been stored.
That magic book allowed the storage of magic spells up to level-16. If the book was required to go further than that, Saleen would have needed to advance above level-16 and re-craft the magic book.
It seed that the magic book he crafted still paled in comparison to the Demonic Magic Book that ancient humans crafted. He had given that book to Eleanor. That book could store magic spells up to level-18 and there was no requirent for a particular type either.
I shall call it the Lightning Magic Book then.
Saleen was ecstatic: A level-10 mage who could craft sothing capable of storing level-16 magic? Sothing like that had only been possible in another crystal wall system. He wanted to check out the secret arts if only he could find the ti.
His teacher’s powers grew exponentially after learning Water Fla Alchemy and Blazing Fla Soul-refining Technique after all.
Those were secret arts from another crystal wall system that gelled well with magic, which seed able to accelerate the rate of magic learning while boosting the powers of magic learned.
But, of course, there was a requirent of having alchemical materials of sufficient quality on hand. If it had not been for the materials yielded from the Evil Oracle’s body, it would have been impossible for Saleen to craft such powerful equipnt. That’s exactly how it was with his old Divine Tree Magic Tower.
Had it not been for the dead trunks of the divine trees, it would have been impossible for Saleen to craft sothing like that in the first place.
Saleen planned to replicate the Starline Bangle next. He had no plans for replicating the Starline Ring at the mont because there was more than enough space to be had in the Ring of Cosmos.
He would have only needed to open any one space of the 64 spaces within that ring, and Saleen would have no longer had any need for other space equipnt.
The Starline Bangle, on the other hand, provided slots for equipnt. A slot equipped by a mage allowed the unleashing of the original powers, skipping the processes of taking equipnt out and equipping them. This was extrely crucial in battle, especially after Saleen advanced to level-10.
His enemies would have basically been people capable of instant-cast abilities, and tempo in battle would have been counted in fras. The ti it would have taken to switch gears would have allowed his enemies to kill him several tis over.
Thunder dragons, co forth!
Saleen summoned all 24 thunder dragons from his magic amplifier. They had completely awakened and flew outside right away, heeding Saleen’s call. He pointed at the liquid golden granules floating around, and all 24 thunder dragons pounced on them imdiately and consud them in a frenzy.
Scales began to develop on the smooth hide of the thunder dragons. The scales were transparent, faint golden colors and there were natural lightning magic patterns on them. Saleen’s Water Fla continued to refine the golden granules and let the 24 thunder dragons consu them.
The dragons rolled around in Water Fla and their bodies were tempered growing wings.
The thunder dragons originally resembled snakes, but they then grew wide, golden, physical wings behind their backs and four sets of sharp claws under their torsos. The longhorns on their heads shimred with lightning.
All 24 thunder dragons’ bodies had long been tempered by the Six Elent’s Heavy Water to critical points. They seed to advance at the sa ti after consuming the golden liquid; they all reached the pinnacle of level-12.
All exuded a powerful aura. Rafel saw this and ca to realize why Saleen dared to challenge the Heretic God. If the Heretic God was unable to send over beings beyond level-13, they might have ended up digging their own graves.
The thunder dragons intended to grow their powers further but were forcefully stopped by Saleen. The rules of Myers Mainland forbade living beings of level-13 from being present. If the thunder dragons were to advance to level-13, they would have been punished in accordance with the rules.
Dante was one such example. The God of Magic Net at the Floating City was far smarter in comparison, sealing its power as soon as its divine fire was ignited.
Saleen’s Water Fla continued wrapping around the 24 thunder dragons and gradually shrank. The thunder dragons had long been made into weapon spirits, which allowed them to adjust their sizes at will. While they were being refined further by Saleen’s Water Fla, they coiled around each other and ford a faint golden bangle on Saleen’s hand.
Saleen ripped the weapon spirits from the magic amplifier and made the Thunder Dragon Bangle. He had his own reasons for doing so. The magic amplifier had been created from materials left behind by the Goddess of Myers, so Saleen was still wary of it.
The 24 thunder dragons, on the other hand, were beings that he personally raised. He had developed an attachnt for them after having them around for so many years.
He feared the day that the goddess would have been resurrected and taken his magic amplifier away right there and then, resulting in the loss of his beloved dragons.
The magic amplifier was no longer capable of conjuring ball lightning following the loss of the thunder dragons as its weapon spirit. The Thunder Dragon Bangle took the magic amplifier’s place in performing that function. Saleen was then capable of conjuring ball lightning any ti without having to use the magic amplifier.
What’s more, there were 24 equipnt slots on the Thunder Dragon Bangle crafted from 24 thunder dragons.
According to the usual calculations, those 24 thunder dragons would have allowed Saleen to craft 24 equipnt out of them. Every single equipnt crafted would have had at least three equipnt slots.
The reason Saleen had crafted sothing like that instead was specifically to allow him to cast lightning attacks at any ti.
Twenty-four equipnt slots were more than enough for him.
Saleen sensed that the souls of the 24 thunder dragons were rather worn on the Thunder Dragon Bangle he was wearing. Fortunately, even if the thunder dragons were to go into hibernation, he would still have been able to use the power of the bangle right away.
Not bad indeed. While the number of ball lightnings conjured was still eight despite all of the dragons having advanced to level-12, the ball lightnings’ powers were considerably amplified and their speed grew 100 tis over. They were no longer balls that waggle about when unleashed.
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