Badge in Azure Chapter 1407: Book of Gaia (Part 3)

Chapter 1407: Book of Gaia (Part 3)

The floor inside the tal tower was not made of stone nor of tal but was still incredibly resilient. Grand swordmasters and sorcerers alike could have fought battles on it at full force, and it would not have collapsed. A huge mouth all of a sudden appeared and began chomping away. Luckily, Saleen was alerted in ti and did not get bitten.

Seeing dirt-yellow earth elents sprayed everywhere from inside that mouth left Saleen seething in anger.

It was yet another form of Fossilization. Saleen dared not expand his lightning territory too much, restricting it to an area within a 100-ter radius to protect everyone around him.

Had he been able to open up his lightning territory, he would have searched every detail of that floor in no ti.

Rafel said to Saleen, “No worries, my lord. I’ll fix it.”

She imdiately pulled out the War Drum of Fear. It was sothing she had acquired from the Violet Angel, and there was no way she would have misplaced it. Once unleashed, the pests inside the drum spread everywhere, searching for signs of the enemy.

Saleen was at a wide corridor that resembled the underground city. Huge gaping mouths also appeared on the walls at their flanks once the pests spread out, their teeth bared nacingly while chomping down on the pests.

Cracking noises were heard nonstop. Crack, snap, pop. Those pests, which had a dust-like structure, were fossilized as soon as the jaws bore down on them. They crumbled right away.

Attacks of earth-elental magic ca with high physical damage. If it was difficult defending against earth-elental magic, imagine how hard it was defending against attacks of warriors.

While earth-elental magic attacks at low levels were notable for being slow, such attacks above level-10 would not have been slow at all even when compared with wind-elental magic.

Even with the likes of pests, which were eerie and odd beings, to begin with, being “bitten” to death by them was a horrifying thought. Saleen had no intention of risking his neck by getting near them. His Quickcloud was still at work, enveloping his followers and Safilos, yet he activated earth-elental magic and shot yellow light from his feet that were sprinting toward the end of the corridor.

Although mouths kept erging from the wall, none had been able to hurt Saleen. The speed at which Saleen ran was so high not even the fastest magic beasts could keep up with him. The power he used all ca from earth elents. Saleen’s power of the soul allowed him to use the other five major elents.

It was an ability above level-13 that would have been possible to pull off with powerful power of the soul.

Saleen’s movents surprised Rafel. Gods also possessed these abilities, but the speed at which the tal God moved was far higher than Saleen’s, and its workings were more profound.

Divine arts of the gods seed to share certain connections with magic.

The gods mastered rules and bestowed their believers with the power of divine arts, which...which seed to work like the magic net. While Rafel no longer had any plans of believing in any other god, the discovery turned her knowledge of the world upside down.

Saleen’s movent skill grew to beco considerably different from Jalin’s. If he continued to continue to upgrade it, it would have been as if Saleen had created new skills.

Saleen sensed the vibration frequencies of the earth elent trying to locate the source of the attacks.

It was impossible for godly items to hide while launching attacks. If Saleen had hidden his magic amplifier behind him, he would not have been able to attack anyone with it. It worked the sa as having the weapon spirit concealed. Even that golden dagger would have had to show itself once it began attacking.

Saleen kept running midair. He borrowed powers from the attacks unleashed by the Book of Gaia. The golden flashes beneath his feet glimred as his speed reached over 600 kiloters an hour. The internal space of that tal tower was unlike that of the temple of the goddess, and it paled in comparison to the 12 Notes of First Purgatory.

The space, narrow and tight, made Saleen feel as if he was zipping through the cracks between the teeth appearing on the walls. The mouths on the walls and the floor continued to bite, and every bite almost grazed Saleen, causing elental quakes. None of them was able to hit Saleen, however.

Everyone watched, their hearts pounding, as they moved alongside Saleen. If it hadn’t been for his lightning protection, no one would have withstood the attacks from the Book of Gaia. That godly item seed to have assimilated the entire tal tower. Each corner of the tal tower continued behaving like the book itself or one that could be used by all ranks.

The nine major mages of the Elental Hand didn’t need to do anything but sit still at the core and invoke the Book of Gaia. It was due to the workings of the Book of Gaia that the tal tower was able to self-repair.

The hole blasted by Saleen’s family badge began to close gradually. The wound on the tower continued to crackle with electrical sparks.

It was a testant to the Book of Gaia’s power, as it was even able to heal the damage caused by lightning.

It was said that at the end of the Goddess of Myers’ training, she acquired her divine persona from the power of the earth itself. None of the Goddess of Myers’ healing arts was derived from the water elent. All healing was done using the power of earth elent.

Saleen moved as he traced the elental vibrations, like soone following the ripples to search for the stone dropped into the water. Saleen had gotten increasingly adept at using elents at will, and supre confidence Jason’s was beginning to rub off on him as well.

Nailisi and the Winged Skull were the two who were most sensitive to such changes. Both bonded creatures were happy to see their master mature. It was only a matter of ti before they, too, achieved great things for following Saleen for so long.

Saleen wasn’t a god, so he would not have asked them to give up their souls. If he were to continue doing what he did and survived, their respective achievents would have eventually eclipsed Saleen’s.

The Winged Skull’s Ice God Scythe automatically absorbed the power of earth elent. The God of Underworld had achieved high mastery of the rules of earth elent. Gods did not use magic, but the fundantals of their powers were nonetheless the sa. So could also have molded the power of elents into divine arts.

Saleen was unable to do anything about Nailisi’s Gray mory in ti. The weapon could consu any type of power. The invasion of earth-elental powers was also absorbed by the Gray mory.

None of the three of them would have been fossilized.

Saleen was moving at such great speeds yet was still able to take care of Safilos. His Quickcloud dragged everyone in it with him, just like having all of them run alongside Saleen.

There was a huge gate at the forefront. A tal statue looked at Saleen, who was getting close, with cold eyes at the end of the corridor.

Saleen fired a lightning icicle right away without hesitation. He followed the attack by firing a ball of lightning.

That icicle did not manage to fly for 10 ters before being stopped in its flight by earth- elental powers. Saleen smirked as the ball lightning wobbled about in flight and entered the tal statue.

Ooorrgg...

The weapon spirit inside the tal statue seed to be severely injured and lost control before being able to retaliate against Saleen.

Saleen stopped all of a sudden and summoned an Elental Stone Statue Soldier. Most of his elental creatures were having a good ti in his magic amplifier, with the greatest use of them being to provide Saleen with elental powers.

Saleen had rarely summoned them as of late. That Elental Stone Statue Soldier held its magic warhamr and looked at Saleen.

Saleen then pointed at a statue. The Elental Stone Statue Soldier charged and lifted its weapon, pumling the tal statue into scrap tal.

Elental shockwaves burst around the tal statue. That was the Sigh of the Earth, and it was sothing at level-12.

That Elental Stone Statue Soldier might have been an elental creature, but it was frozen solid by the Sigh of the Earth right there and then. A rocky layer of several ters thick covered its entire body.

It was fortunate that the attack happened outside Saleen’s territory. If he had charged and done it himself, he would have been caught in the attack. While he might have survived unscathed, it would have nonetheless taken a lot of ti to repair the Figure of Fate.

The Sigh of the Earth had a very long range of attack and was hardly hampered by environntal factors. Saleen had been attacked by that spell before and knew how terrifying it was.

Saleen recalled the Elental Stone Statue Soldier, and he summoned another. The second Elental Stone Statue Soldier went up and moved the scrapped tal statue away.

The gate was at the side of the statue. The reason Saleen had to deal with the statue first was that he needed to get to the gate, and the statue would have attacked him. Retaliation would have invoked the Sigh of the Earth. It was a preset spell that enabled its power to be enhanced to its strongest.

Instant-cast magic of mages would definitely not have been at the strongest state of that spell. Being faster than the enemy in battle, however, often was the key to determining life and death. That was why mages dedicated themselves to train in instant-cast magic.

Regardless of how potent soone’s magic was, it would have been useful if the person couldn’t keep up with the opponent.

“Saleen, don’t you think you’ve gone too far by coming all the way here?” A brimming voice was heard from within the gate.

“Hah...are you Alchemy City mages actually telling that you finally know what “going too far” ans now? What happens to Prince Safilos’s subjects? Did they deserve to be slaughtered by you people then?” Saleen answered as he attempted to expand his territory.

After that, the ever-present earth elent would have co at him.

He had no problem with that, but his followers might not have been able to take it.

“What does killing Safilos’s people have anything to do with you?”

Saleen knew right away that the mages were stalling for ti. He looked at Safilos, who was next to him and said, “Those people don’t seem to know you. How about we get inside?”

Safilos shouted, “Let’s go!”

He didn’t seem to care at all. If that was a place Saleen dared to venture, he would do the sa.

Saleen laughed without bothering to explain. He then summoned a water elental creature—the Blue Ice Maiden. There were 13 of them, and all were hidden in the Quickcloud, protecting everyone within.

Pure-earth elental attacks were restrictive against water-elental creatures. Saleen’s choice to use water-elental creatures to defend instead was to waste more of the enemy’s power of the godly item.

Restrictive attacks ca at a price—it was impossible to stop attacking and to attack first.

That ant that so long as the water elental creatures survived, the powers of the Book of Gaia would continue attacking the water-elental creatures, relieving Saleen’s pressure.

That gate was really tall. The Blue Ice Maidens were about nine ters high, making it easy for them to pass. Saleen saw a wall after passing through the gate.

It was a wall made purely of crystal. While it was not a whole piece, but it looked marvelous nonetheless.

Dozens of mages from behind that transparent wall saw Saleen walking in, and all of them laughed at the sa ti.

I’m about to catch you, and here you are, walking right into our trap...”

“Shut up!” Saleen shouted. That level-11 mage’s words were cut off mid-sentence by Saleen right there and then. He waved to summon the Winged Skull, which ca charging clutching a humongous teor hamr.

Boom!

The teor hamr banged on the crystal wall. The center of the weapon exploded, and countless air currents blasted from the tight cracks, forming cutting forces.

“You’re really stupid!” The nine mages cackle at how Saleen ordered a skeleton to attack the crystal wall.