Chapter 685: A Mage’s Love (Part 1)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
When Saleen returned back to his bedroom, Sika was already waiting for him.
The purpose of Sika looking for Saleen this ti was regarding South City and not about having a child. South City was vacant and was patrolled by Caucasus warriors day and night to ensure there was no trespassing.
South City would not stay vacant forever. As tatrin City developed, South City would eventually be filled with people and this troubled Sika. Quite a number of Caucasus people had expressed their desires to stay and she feared that they might get into trouble with others in future and prevent tatrin City from developing smoothly.
After hearing Sika’s concern, Saleen laughed and said, “In future, I will build many alchemy labs and factories in South City so there will not be any rchants’ rcenaries. You can rest assured about that.”
“Factories? Won’t it be dirty and ssy?” Sika was worried.
“Those factories will be built underground of East City. Don’t worry, Sika. The residents that will be living with you and your people in South City will be mages or magic apprentices. Their subordinates will not dare to create trouble. There should be another nine magic towers in South City, Eleanor...”
“I like Eleanor’s elf magic very much,” Sika knew what Saleen was thinking.
“Then that’s good. Although elf magic may not be as powerful as elent magic in terms of offensive prowess, it is very resilient and can be used in a variety of ways. Eleanor did not stop from teaching these spells to others because they require natural strengths. I think you should be up to it?”
“If you want to learn, I will give it a shot,” Sika replied with a smile. She was glad that Saleen was not hiding anything from her.
“Elf magic does not require magic chords and is activated by natural strengths. So of them can manipulate elental strength. Basically, it is sothing in between magic and sword aura,” Saleen explained to Sika. He used his own words to describe the gist of elf magic.
Saleen suddenly stopped in the midst of his explanation and said, “Sika, there is sothing wrong with your armor. Let have a look.”
Sika did not understand, but little did she know that in the midst of his explanation, Saleen had suddenly recalled the strange rule within the book that Isabella had handed to him. Although the rule was not related to elf magic, there were so similarities. Saleen seed to have gained a bit of understanding about it and wanted to test it out.
Sika took out her armor and passed it to Saleen. Saleen cast water fla and the temperature within the room dropped imdiately. Saleen threw the armor into the water fla and as expected, the armor disintegrated imdiately. As the temperature dropped, the materials that made up the armor were all broken down.
Saleen took out all the tals and discarded them. Then, he retrieved all the materials that he has studied before fro his devil ring and threw them into the water fla one by one.
Saleen managed to obtain the horns of all sorts of ancient magic beasts that have been gathered from the seabed from Nailisi. The horns of magic beasts were the strongest and most resilient body part, even surpassing their claws and teeth.
Saleen slowly refined the magic runes on the horns one by one and refined the latter into thin sheets of leaves. Saleen then took out four types of branches from the divine tree and peeled off their tree bark. The tree bark of the divine tree could not be refined by fla, but in Saleen’s water fla, their shapes began to change into fine filants. Under the control of Saleen’s ntal strength, these filants ford a complicated set of three-dinsional magic patterns.
These three-dinsional magic patterns resembled those on Saleen’s clan badge.
Three-hundred and sixty pieces of leaves were continually absorbing new magic beast horns in the water fla. They beca thinner and thinner until they were almost transparent.
The long rope that was refined from the bark of the divine tree was also becoming thinner until it beca a strand of filant. Saleen used this filant to create a three-dinsional magic pattern. Saleen repeated this six tis as he threw in bark from the divine tree and compressed magic beast horns that weighed more than ten-thousand pounds into transparent leaves.
Saleen used the strands of filants made from the barks of the divine tree to sew into a set of clothes that was decorated with the transparent leaves. An armor was ford.
Due to ti constraint, Saleen did not infuse any spells or create any magic arrays on this unique set of armor. This was a set of armor that was made from materials of high quality without any magic. It was made from thin strands of filants and while the six major elents did not create any new powers, they were flowing with unusual harmony and balance.
This balance was very similar to the rule on the cover of Isabella’s book.
This ti around, Saleen took out all his dinsion stones and aside from twenty-four pieces which he kept, he threw the rest into the water fla. Sixteen dinsion stones rged with the armor that Saleen had created. Combined together, they were refined into a belt.
The water fla was also absorbed into the belt along with the armor.
After refining it for more than six hours, Saleen finally stopped and took a deep breath. Unfortunately, he was only a grade-6 mage. If he was a sorcerer, he would be able to infuse magic into this armor.
It was not that big a deal since Sika only needed a suit of armor that possessed strong defense and could repel magic attacks. Although Saleen’s grade was not high, the power of his water fla had even surpassed his teacher. The entire armor looked like sothing the guards-of-honor in the palace would wear; grand-looking, but defenseless. In actual fact, the materials that made up this suit of armor could repel any magic attack.
Although Sika did not possess elental eyes, she could see that this suit of armor was sothing special. The magic beast horns were rare and high-grade magic materials. Each horn was as long as a finger and weighed tens of pounds. After being compressed by Saleen’s water fla and refined into residue, they beca even stronger. Although they were so thin to the point of being transparent, their defense abilities were stronger than a heavy shield or even the magic tower shield wielded by big puppets.
Most importantly, Saleen had refined it with magic so the fabric was very soft and felt similar to a skirt. Sika was giggling to herself when Saleen suddenly collapsed.
“Saleen!” Sika caught Saleen in ti and prevented him from hitting his head on the ground.
“Tired...” Saleen had wanted to say he was ‘tired to death’, but only managed to utter the first word before falling unconscious. The armor that he had refined for Sika this ti was different from those in the past. The temperature of the water fla was kept to the lowest and the focus of his ntal strength was terrifyingly high. Not only did he create a three-dinsional magic patterns, he also ensured that the six major elents flowed in balance between the gaps of the threads. This was sothing that not even sorcerers might be able to accomplish.
Saleen did it. His ntal strength was at least on the sa level as a grade-8 sorcerer, otherwise winged skeleton would not have been able to advance to grade-8 either.
What Saleen gained from the book far exceeded his expectations. Just by observing the traces of energies on the cover, Saleen’s ntal strength improved and he even gained so power from the rule. This reduced the amount of ntal strength expended and it could regenerate even as he was using water fla.
Although the speed of regeneration was slower than the expending of the ntal strength, it was this ability that allowed Saleen to persist for six hours to finish refining the armor before finally collapsing.
Not even Saleen himself was aware that this ant that his ntal strength would not be used up even if he used scrolls below grade-8. Only mages that were grade-10 and above could comprehend the thod that operated ntal strength in this way.
Spells that were more powerful than grade-9 had a wide range and required a lot of ntal strength. Without this technique, even grade-10 mages would not be able handle such an enormous loss.
Sika was relieved to see that Saleen was only unconscious temporarily. She carried Saleen onto the bed before picking up the belt and gently putting it around her waist.
Sika began to chant a long string of ancient sounds and more than three-hundred black-colored runes appeared and fused into the belt. Instantly, patterns made up of black-colored runes appeared on the transparent and jade-like belt. Saleen did not cast any spells on the belt. Instead, Sika used a Priestess’ refining thod to gain control of the belt.
The armor that Saleen refined for Sika began to appear above and below the belt and quickly covered Sika’s entire body. This type of magic equipnt was sothing that Saleen picked up from Joey. No one else knew this thod of refining. Although the powerful devils on the demon dinsion also knew about this thod, Joey was probably the only one on Myers Mainland to use it.
If not for the helt that extended upwards from the neck or the intricate and transparent leaves, this armor would look like a dress instead.
This equipnt was beautiful and Sika loved it. There was a hole at the back of the helt that allowed for long hair to be let down in little bundles. These bundles of hair passed through the collar and the hole and fell naturally onto the shoulders. The holes at the back of the helt intersected each other and ensured that there was no gap for enemies to attack from.
Such details made Sika feel extrely fortunate. Saleen knew that Sika was beautiful, hence the entire armor was created in such a way that fit her physique. One would only be able to do that if they knew the other person completely.
The suit did not co with gloves or shoes, but that was because Saleen had already collapsed. Once the wrists and ankles were fit with equipnt similar to the belt, Sika would be fully protected from head to toe.
This suit of armor was extrely rare on the elf dinsion. The Goddess of Myers’ divine trees did not exist in the elf dinsion. Even if soone managed to refine a similar armor, it would not have the sa level of resistance against magic.
Those transparent leaves were even able to repel arrows from crossbows.
Sika ca to the bedside and caressed Saleen’s cheek. Her heart was filled with love. There were so many ancient magic beast horns that they could be used to refine more than 1ten high-level magic armors, but Saleen used them all on her. If Saleen was just a freelance mage then this would not be such a big deal. The fact was that Saleen had just built a kingdom and this was the ti when he should be creating many high-level equipnts for his own warriors.
This had nothing to do with money. Sika could feel her importance in Saleen’s heart. Sika recalled what Saleen told her back when she was severely injured. He had said, “I am not your Priest. Next ti... don’t give up your life for .”
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