Chapter 1525: Chaotic Void (Part 2)
The frost dragon knew little of the chaotic void, and it spoke to Saleen in a rather nervous tone, “Steady yourself and never ever get near the edge of the crystal wall!”
Saleen, of course, knew that the closer he got to the edge of the crystal wall, the less probable he would be able to cast any spell.
While he had powers of level 15, he had no way of resisting the highest rules of the crystal wall system. Unless he possessed a mastery of rules powerful enough for him to stay unaffected by external interference, thus truly making a solid s.p.a.ce of his own, there was no way he could stay totally unscathed if he went near the edge of that crystal wall.
Saleen’s hand was forced since the place was simply lurking with too many dangers. He had to release the thunder dragons again and let them circle him, creating a lightning s.p.a.ce as they did. Saleen cast his lightning territory as well. Rules of lightning were still considered stable in such an environment. At the very least, Saleen was able to breathe.
Having air to breathe was a luxury, at least in a place like the chaotic void. The frost dragon only wound down a little after Saleen did so. While Rafel was no longer an angel, she retained the ability to move about nimbly in a vacuum, and that made Saleen very envious.
However, Saleen did not dare to let Rafel simply zip around. There were powers capable of affecting one’s const.i.tution and even alter one’s talents in the chaotic void. In most cases, the changes would have been negative. Saleen had been going to great lengths to get Rafel to advance, and he did not want to bring a warrior below level 10 with him.
Saleen stood still for a bit in the chaotic void to determine where the edge of the crystal wall system was. That was a pretty easy task, as Saleen’s Eye of Souls was capable of seeing over 200 kilometers away in the chaotic void.
He was capable of observing elements to fine details within such a distance. The closer it was to the edge of the crystal wall system, the more difficult it became for the elements to be in an orderly alignment. After he was done determining his location, he backed away several hundreds of kilometers, before feeling the stress lifting off of his shoulders considerably.
He constantly tried to put up the Water s.h.i.+eld while he backed away, stopping only when the spell became able to stay stable. He then took out a diving combat vessel that he made a long time ago.
Saleen had once used it in the Red River. The vessel was crafted using thunder dragon hide and was capable of diving underwater. Saleen brought Rafel inside the vessel, and then they became capable of resisting the rules of the chaotic void without him having to maintain the power of his territory.
“Seems like we can’t go back anymore,” Saleen summoned the frost dragon and asked for its opinion.
The frost dragon shook its head. “I haven’t been to many places, and I was only at level 15 when I was caught by Myers. To tell you the truth, I can’t cast s.p.a.ce powers right now, so I’d be of little use to you.”
Saleen was unable to come up with any truly good ideas listening to what the frost dragon just said. They couldn’t return to where they came from. Their arrival was like riding on a one-way teleportation portal. There was no way to return at all.
If he were to leave the chaotic void, he would need to find a stable place to build a teleportation portal. If he were to just rely on flying, there was no telling how long he would have to stay in flight.
While he was capable of using the Water s.h.i.+eld, it was not enough for the s.p.a.ce rules of teleportation portals to work.
If it had not been for the chaotic void being so huge, he would not have been so troubled. If he had to rely on his flight abilities to truly leave such a region, it might take him tens, or even hundreds, of years, depending on where he truly was.
Saleen had never read anything with a specific ill.u.s.tration of the chaotic void. While he was capable of flying at speeds exceeding 3000 kilometers per hour, that was only sustainable when he had the resources to continuously do so. Rainbow was far less convenient in a vacuum than it would have been on the mainland. He would have to rely on Comet Flash to stay constantly in flight.
While the speed of 3000 kilometers per hour sounded fast, in a practically boundless void, the trip would easily span billions of kilometers. Saleen knew that he would need to fly like a true comet before he would be able to leave the void.
“d.a.m.n it, why did the 24th s.p.a.ce of the G.o.ddess of Myers have to be a place like this?”
“This is not the 24th s.p.a.ce. It is the result of that s.p.a.ce being broken by the magic beast it held, opening a pa.s.sage leading here, before being destroyed. The G.o.ddess of Myers wouldn’t know.” The frost dragon did not want to see Saleen losing his mind, so it voiced its observations and let Saleen decide how to proceed.
“So I have to wait for Myers to rescue me then?”
“She won’t be able to. You’re on your own.”
“On my own!” Saleen did not know of the words to describe what he was feeling at the moment. He had a ma.s.sive amount of food stored within his s.p.a.ce, and he was capable of creating a s.p.a.ce unaffected by vacuum. Furthermore, his lifespan reached tens of thousands of years. As such, flying back would not have been all that much of a problem for him alone, but he wondered what would have happened to Myers Mainland if he were to do that.
“My lord, the magic cube…”
“An independent s.p.a.ce, somewhere that not even Myers would have been able to probe. We can’t build a teleportation portal there,” Saleen answered dejectedly. Rafel had run out of ideas as well. Her current powers were below that of Saleen, and if Saleen was unable to solve the problem, it would be the same for her.
The frost dragon was at wit’s end as well. Saleen sighed. “It’s best for you both to start training. I’ll think of something.”
Saleen put the frost dragon and Rafel back into his magic amplifier and hopped inside as well, leaving the puppets to man the vessel.
That was the unique thing with Saleen’s magic amplifier. Other people’s equipment, even if they were level 18, would not have allowed those people to hop into it themselves while still maintaining control of said equipment’s attributes.
Saleen went straight inside the Hall of G.o.ds, dumping out everything he deemed was capable of powering the place—four divine persona fragments, a huge amount of bone crystals of the giant, high-level magic nuclei, a level 18 scroll…
Saleen placed all of those things in one place and summoned Dante. He then had the G.o.d servant in charge of staying at the magic array’s side to maintain it, keeping the Hall of G.o.ds from ever running out of power, before he began to train.
Dante had three heads and six arms. It stayed at the side as requested by its master, and began to embed sources of power to the Hall of G.o.d’s magic array.
A divine persona fragment was the first to go. One broken piece would keep the Hall of G.o.ds running for at least a week.
A week with the Hall of G.o.ds up and running would give several months to tens of years, even up to 100, in its internal s.p.a.ce.
Saleen went on with researching his Comet Flash from top to bottom. His Comet Flash had not been upgraded since he last advanced, because he was unable to find the key to the breakthrough for the time being. As such, upgrading the Comet Flash would have been a waste of time.
This time, however, Saleen was forced to face the problem again. His movement skills had all been picked from all manner of sources. There was the earth movement magic stolen from Jalin, Quickcloud, Comet Flash, and Rainbow, which he had recently picked up.
Saleen felt somehow that there would be movement methods that were even more powerful to be found in lightning magic. He saw how b.a.l.l.s of lightning flew, and there were times where they were able to phase through barriers inexplicably. They were even capable of phasing through magic s.h.i.+elding. While they looked slow in flight, when they burst, not even his Eye of Souls was able to track the b.a.l.l.s.
If a ball of lightning went berserk, it would absolutely become one of the most powerful magic spells there were.
The working theories of all magic flowed within Saleen’s mind. Despite being of a body of water element, he was learned in all six major elemental magic. He began to learn everything there was to learn with the movement skills offered by the six elemental magic anew.
Magical chants gradually became to form within Saleen’s eyes, which were projected to the s.p.a.ce before him, coalescing into a new magic rune. That magic rune needed only a single syllable to activate, but it required the use of one’s power of the soul to work.
Someone with insufficient power of the soul, or someone who lacked understanding of the rune within their power of the soul, would not have been able to use that spell.
That new magic rune was something that had never been seen before, as it was created by Saleen. The newly created magic rune contained a new power of rules. He was unable to keep the power of rules running all the time, which meant that he had yet to truly master them. They were simply derived from that magic spell.
It was an all-new Comet Flash skill that Saleen had just discovered in his research. The activation speed was still not fast enough at the moment, as it required chanting a single magical syllable. He was unable to instant-cast that skill just yet.
But then again, it would suffice as it was only a spell meant for traveling, which meant that it would not be used in battle much. The spell contained seven movement magic spells, which corresponded to the powers of the six major elements and lightning.
If the components of the spell were used separately, he would be able to instant-cast every single one of them, and he found that to be enough.
“Rafel!” Saleen called. He really had no idea how much time was spent on training at that time.
Rafel replied immediately, “62 years and a month pa.s.sed within the hall.”
“What about outside?”
“Seven days in the void,” Rafel answered promptly.
“Stop!” Saleen shouted to Dante, as he saw the weapon spirit was about to chuck a level 17 magic nucleus into the Hall of G.o.d’s magic array.
He no longer needed to train, and there would have been no way to extract that magic nucleus, once it was embedded. Once the magic array was activated, there was no stopping it. All functions would have only ceased when the power source fed was depleted.
A level 17 magic nucleus was considered quite a precious piece to the Hall of G.o.ds, and Saleen needed to restore his magic chords. Saleen saw the magic nucleus disappearing into the magic array and was unable to stop it. It made his heart ache considerably.
The frost dragon charged inside after hearing Saleen shout. With the magic array up and running, the place only permitted entry and not exit, making it practically a cage. It was possible for one to get out, but at the very moment one burst through the spatial barrier of the Hall of G.o.ds, one would have possibly ended up having all their life force absorbed all of a sudden, becoming a sacrifice to the hall.
The rules of altering pa.s.sage of time were utterly terrifying, capable of robbing someone of all their life force within an instant.
“I’m fine!” Saleen stopped Guffen, seeing that the frost dragon was about to do something.
The frost dragon glared at Dante with a resentful look and said, “Saleen, G.o.ds are not to be trusted.”
Its level allowed it to tell that Dante was a G.o.d instead of any other beings with just one look.
“Dragon, Saleen is my master.” Dante knelt submissively at Saleen’s side, behaving devotedly and obediently.
Guffen was stunned. Dante was a level 15 G.o.d but was several times more powerful than the common level 15 G.o.ds. It was astonished to find such a G.o.d kneeling before a mage like a slave, and its divine persona stayed intact. The scene was a miracle like no other to the dragon.