Chapter 1391: Immorality (Part 1)
Jason laughed and said, “Oh my student, are you still not content? Do you have any equipment on you that you can no longer use at this level? If you fuse it, it will be as if you…”
“Ah!” Saleen slapped his forehead with his hand. Only now did he understand where the strengths of the three-eyed race lay.
If it had been the imperial family who possessed this ability, as long as their bodies could withstand it, they could use high-level skills when their rank was low.
If such powers of absorption were placed on the bodies of the dragon race, they would also be unmatched in strength. A human’s body, however, could not withstand it.
Fortunately, the Figure of Fate was level-18 material. Saleen made up his mind on the spot, retrieving a piece of equipment that was tricky to master—the Signet of Silence.
This was the item that had been exchanged with Joey. Its level was even higher than the Lance of Order.
Saleen directly tossed the Signet of Silence into the eye at the area between the Figure of Fate’s eyebrows. Unexpectedly, after the Signet of Silence went in Saleen felt that time stood still.
The innate power of the three-eyed race that originally could absorb three pieces of equipment was completely digested by the Signet of Silence when it absorbed the Signet of Silence. To be precise, it was that Saleen had used up all of the three-eyed race’s power in order to digest the Signet of Silence.
What a loss…
Saleen wanted to cry, but the tears did not come. There should be more than three types of powers in the Signet of Silence. Under normal circ.u.mstances, a G.o.dly item would always have a singular power that would be monumental. If it was a divine item with many types of power, its level would be a little lower. For example, the Sword of Rules had 24 types of low-level rules when it was unsealed.
This weapon appeared to be huge, but after it had been promoted to a certain level, looking back, he would feel that it was of little value.
It was originally thought that the Signet of Silence would be ma.s.sive. After Saleen saw that all the power left by the three-eyed race had been used up, he immediately regretted it.
Time had stopped. In the eye that was propped up on the Figure of Fate’s forehead, the Signet of Silence turned its pupil into the shape of a square.
Even stranger was that after Saleen had used his secret technique to put away the figure, he felt that this time the Figure of Fate had fused with his body. It was just a figure and did not have a soul yet. Saleen did not dare to casually try to divide a thread of soul either. Although he currently already possessed this ability, he still felt that this should only be considered after he had truly advanced to level-13.
Such a skill was extremely dangerous. Before Saleen could firmly grasp it, he did not dare to try it out.
Yet, what the Winged Skull saw with his eyes was a different scenario. He felt that his body was unable to move even an inch. If he had eyelids, he would also have discovered that he was unable to close his eyes.
Everything had been petrified under Saleen’s gaze.
Between Saleen’s eyebrows, the shade of an eye appeared. Everything in all the places in his line of sight had stopped.
It was just one second, but it felt like an eternity.
Jason had the sensation that his heart had stopped beating. The power that Saleen had gained was too great!
Time had stopped for only about half a second.
To mages, half a second was already very long. In 30 frames, a mage of Saleen’s caliber could consecutively release 15 magic spells. If he only used this time to release one spell, he could release a level-12 magic spell.
Although Saleen felt that time had stopped, in reality he could still move.
Once half a second had pa.s.sed, Jason laughed heartily and said to Saleen, “How is it? Does this thing’s power have any limitations?”
Saleen checked himself for a moment and said, “It consumes mental power…”
“Any limitations?”
“With the entirety of my mental power, it can be used two times. Then, it will be as if it had died. It won’t be able to do anything.”
“That means that when your mental power is full, you can use it once. Saleen, this power of yours has finally allowed me to be to relax. You should not leave now. After you have trained this power in this interdimensional s.p.a.ce, then you can leave,” Jason said in high spirits.
The power to control time could be grasped somewhat after reaching about level-16. However, Saleen was using the power of equipment. The level of his equipment would be the level of the rules. Perhaps the Signet of Silence was level-17, or it was more likely that it was level-18.
In addition, it definitely was not as simple as controlling time. The effects of the Signet of Order surpa.s.sed all of Saleen’s other equipment, including his clan badge.
For the present at least, Saleen’s Signet of Order was simply the best tool for killing.
He, a level-11 mage, had the Crystal Finger, the Thunder Dragon Blaster, and the b.a.l.l.s of lightning. All were fatal attacks. For the enemy to pause just half a second, it would have to be at Jason’s level.
Jason was level-13. The time in which the Winged Skull had been controlled was even longer.
When he next encountered Fycro, Saleen would no longer have anything to worry about.
In his heart, Saleen knew that one of the Signet of Silence’s abilities would cause half his mental power to be consumed. He would probably have to wait until he advanced again before finding out which other two abilities hadn’t yet been developed.
Even so, he was satisfied. This time, when the Figure of Fate fused with the three-eyed G.o.d’s skull, the starline patterns in its body had all been wiped clean. In the future, he no longer needed to fear encountering astrologers. From now on, the Figure of Fate would consume the power of lightning.
One ball of lightning would be sufficient for the Figure of Fate to use for half a year.
Some 360,000,000 lightning runes huddled together in the figure’s body to form a majestic large array. Saleen felt that his control over Dante had become even more stringent. All of Dante’s actions within the Lightning Constellation could be felt in his heart.
“Dante, come out.” If there were any mages who saw Saleen summoning such a powerful creature, they would consumed with jealousy. Other mages had signed contracts. They needed to recite lengthy mantras to summon higher-level creatures.
In practice, Saleen was really enslaving them.
Shanglan’s broken jade could make Dante eat out of his hand and not dare to resist him.
“Master.” Dante appeared and respectfully bowed to Saleen.
“Go into the divine kingdom fragment and help the Violet Angel for a little while.”
“Yes.” Dante did not ask too many questions. He didn’t know how he could help the Violet Angel, either. He would go first before pondering this further.
After he saw Dante fly away, Saleen picked up his perception again. Saleen was unable to observe the distant scenery through Dante after he had flown more than 500 kilometers. But he still could detect what Dante was doing.
Originally, Saleen could only control the creatures in his territory. Now, this distance had already exceeded the distance of his territory ten times.
After Dante had flown out of the forest and arrived at the borders of the volcano, Saleen could still faintly sense his location. Saleen discovered that this was due to the effects of the Power of the Soul.
How much had his Power of the Soul increased after he had acquired the power of the three-eyed race? Without such a mighty Power of the Soul, he would not be able to control the power of the Signet of Silence one bit.
Saleen estimated that his Power of the Soul was already approaching that of a level-15 lesser G.o.d.
This was even under the effects of the Ring of Cosmos that amplified his Power of the Soul by 64 times. Otherwise, he was unsure when he would be able to use the Signet of Silence.
The energy that had originally been stored in the Signet of Silence, however, was consumed after Saleen tested it out once. He had no choice but to create eight b.a.l.l.s of lightning and send them into the eyes of the Figure of Fate.
The Figure of Fate’s eye was in the three-eyed race’s middle eye. It was able to store energy. After the b.a.l.l.s of lightning entered it, they did not dissipate and maintained a spherical shape. It would only be consumed when it was being used. It’s too bad the lightning could not be released from within the eye. If that were possible, this equipment would really be too terrifying.
Saleen calculated that the s.p.a.ce for storing energy in the Figure of Fate’s eye was enormous. There would be no problems no matter how many b.a.l.l.s of lightning he sent into it. In the future, when he was idle, he could send as many b.a.l.l.s of lightning as possibly.
In any case, when this item was used, apart from consuming the Power of the Soul, it would also consume energy at the same time.
For Saleen, who could steal G.o.dly power, it was relatively easy to replenish his Power of the Soul. He always had G.o.dly items at any given time. However, for the replenishment of energy, he could only condense eight b.a.l.l.s of lightning a day. When he advanced in the future, he would probably still be unable to condense too many of them. Thus, to prepare for a rainy day, Saleen would transfer as much energy as he could into the Figure of Fate each day.
Now that the Figure of Fate had lost its starline patterns when he blocked attacks for him, it would consume the energy within its eye.
With gains, there would be losses. Obtaining the Power of the Constellation was easier to handle.
Saleen had no regrets. The new Figure of Fate had raised his combat ability an unknown number of times. The ability to stop time was just for show. What was truly important was that when time was stopped, he could see through the opponent’s weakness.
As long as a person was glanced at by him when in a frozen state because of the stopping of time, he would be able to understand which position would be fatal for the opponent.
For other people, even if they knew the fatal position of the enemy, they might not be able to do much. The fatal position was the place where one’s defenses were the most rigid. For Saleen, however, he had the concealed dagger that could pierce through most energy defenses. As for physical defenses, unless it was a G.o.dly item, it would not be able to resist the penetrative ability of the golden dagger at all.
Saleen knew there was nothing else worth researching at this point. If he wanted to acquire new abilities, he would have to evolve his Power of the Soul once more and increase its rank. Anyone who was at level-11 could dominate on the Myers Continent. Against the G.o.ds, that person would still be too weak.
Without powerful equipment, Saleen would not be able to inflict any harm on Fycro at all.
He had four level-13 subordinates who were currently the true decisive powers.
Originally, with these four level-13 subordinates, Saleen should have gone to exterminate the Holy See. Unfortunately, the strengths of these subordinates could only be sealed at level-12 on the Myers Continent. Once they surpa.s.sed this, they would have to receive the punishment of the plane’s Rules.
If they were level-12, Saleen estimated they would die even when facing the head warden.
The head warden was a person that even Fycro didn’t want to aggravate. Saleen was extremely curious about this person. At the same time, he was also extremely guarded. He had clashed with the Holy See many times but had never seen the head warden. It seemed that the head warden did not care whether the Holy See lived or died. As long as they did not kill their way to the Black Dungeon Island, they could not be bothered to take notice of you.
“Saleen, when you return to the Myers Continent, you can expand the Nature Faith. I know that Lex won’t support the faith outright, but you can try to control the House of Commons. Maybe you should talk with Safilos.”
“Safilos?”
“Yeah, Safilos. He definitely won’t want the empire to fall into the hands of the Golden Plains. Once you’ve grasped control over the House of Commons, you can secretly borrow its reputation to develop the Nature Faith.” Jason pointed out a path of Saleen to follow.
“But…”
“Mages are the masters of this world. We’ll have to wait until the Myers Continent advances again before this can happen. When the time comes, maybe the Lord of Glory’s clone will descend. When would you have the time?”