Badge in Azure

Chapter 1153: Puppet World (Part 1)

Chapter 1153: Puppet World (Part 1)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

A person with no desires could not possibly be destroyed.

Although Saleen had desires, in regard to the Myers Goddess’ temples, all of Saleen desires had been fulfilled. His final wish was to destroy the temples to prevent others from gaining the fortune of the Goddess.

Destruction was always easier than construction, and Saleen only needed to destroy the teleportation portal to make a few temples disappear from the dimensional plane.

The Myers Goddess probably never imagined that the person to revive her would exert all their efforts to destroy all of her temples.

Saleen’s thinking was simple. Even if the Goddess was revived in the future, he would still want to destroy the temples. Destroying them now would be easier. Furthermore, the temples left behind by the Myers Goddess were not necessarily left for him alone. There were at least four or more others who, because of a chance encounter with the temples, became strong in a short period of time, including Lex. Saleen did not believe that Lex had only obtained gold coins from the temples.

Lex’s special physical constitution was probably acquired from the temples. Otherwise, if her physical constitution had been the same since she was young, no matter how much Safilos disliked her, he would have allowed Lex to be brought back to the Golden Plains.

The Golden Plains also did not want Lex, demonstrating that Lex’s physical constitution was not good when she was young. Emperor Chanake also had no choice but to allow her to leave the imperial city.

The topography there was smooth. It was not possible to create any concealed traps as the area consisted entirely of flat plains. Thus, Agares also could not be blamed for using the most stupid method to deal with Saleen, which was to mix three assassins amongst ordinary soldiers.

Originally, wanting to differentiate the assassins from the rest would be impossible even for Saleen’s Elemental Eye, however the attack from thousands of demonic spirits caused the three assassins to be exposed. If they wanted to continue to stay successfully hidden, they had to die with the soldiers to keep their identities hidden.

The most stupid method used by Agares would perhaps be able to deal with other people if a good opportunity arose. However, Saleen had used the most violent method to completely destroy his plan upfront.

Mages had a proverb, “after the flames of magic have finished burning, fine gold and copper can be identified at a glance.”

After finding the spatial pathway to the coordinates, Saleen compressed the Magical Element Tower. No matter what position the Magical Element Tower was in, Saleen was able to enter and leave it freely.

“Sika, look outside. If there are any strong opponents, you don’t need to hold back. Let the demonic spirits attack with full force, there is no need to save on magic nuclei...” Saleen paused for a moment and laughed. “We must let the enemies know we are very rich and can squash them to death with money.”

Saleen was not boasting. With over 3,000 demonic spirits in the magical tower, borrowing power from the magic net, they would still have the capabilities of a level 7 sorcerer in the worst case. More than 3,000 demonic spirits were divided into three waves, taking turns to attack to maintain the length of their combat power. It could definitely surpass Saleen.

Saleen was able to hold off hundreds of level 7 sorcerers by himself, but if thousands attacked him at the same time, he would be unable to bear it.

The strengths of the Magical Elemental Tower were when more than 1,000 demonic spirits attacked at the same time, it could target attack in a very small area and would not result in elemental garbling. It was much safer and much more efficient than a magic cannon.

“Saleen, if you won’t let me follow you, you should at least let Nailisi go, right?”

“Sul will follow me. I feel that luck is on Sul’s side!” As Saleen spoke, he felt as if he had just opened a large gate. He had obtained what he needed, but his subordinates still had their needs. He was able to use the magical tower to directly locate the spatial pathway’s coordinates due to luck.

If they did not make use of luck while it was this good, it would leave them.

It was the superposition theory of fortune mentioned by the astrologers. When someone rejected fate’s favor, fate would thoroughly abandon them.

Saleen used the godly power within the Ring of Gifts to smoothly open the pathway to the temple, bringing Sul with him. Sul was very relaxed, learning from Saleen’s attitude towards fate. He would just do his best without any fear.

“Master, in the future, it is better if I stick to using dual longswords? I have achieved some understanding, though it is still not stable, but I have a set of secret techniques passed down through my family. If I cultivate for a bit, I will be able to run through the skills from the past. I really like these two swords, Master, I wish to continue using them.”

“Then keep it as a memento, I will follow the specifications of the two swords and refine some new equipment,” Saleen said to Sul, and suddenly, a huge fist came bounding over.

Just a fist.

A lone fist came flying over, battering towards Saleen’s face. Lightning shot out from Saleen’s eyes, incinerating the fist. Saleen was clearly able to tell that it was merely a puppet’s hand.

“Master!” Sul exclaimed at the leg flying out from the darkness, heading directly towards Saleen. With a cleave of his sword, the puppet leg was chopped into pieces and fell to the ground.

Swish!

This time, it was a puppet’s armor, a part that was commonly seen during ancient times. Modern mages were unable to create good puppets, so armor had become rare goods.

Saleen treated it as a piece of scrap, raising his hand to envelop it in Water Flames and turning it into trash.

“This mage is rather interesting!”

“After killing him shall we analyze him for a moment?”

“Mages are living creatures, after killing him, the research value would not be much!”

“But if he is alive, he will think of ways to analyze us!”

“Then isn’t that very fair?”

“Why don’t you go and die? Being particular about fairness with humans?”

Two voices quarreled in the darkness.

“Come out. Trying to incite our curiosity is useless. You are only puppets, however strange the puppet, I have seen them all before,” Saleen said calmly.

Two mutilated puppets immediately jumped out. One of them was missing an arm, its toes had been cut off, and its waist had a large opening from which energy was leaking out.

The other puppet was missing both legs, it relied on its extremely long hands to move. The puppet was extremely humanlike, giving off a feeling that it should be concealed.

They were absolutely a mage’s puppets, instead of an astrologer’s figures.

“Mage, you coming to this temple, is it to revive Myers?”

“You absolutely must not, that b*tch...”

“Shut up, Myers is not a b*tch.”

“It serves you right to have your legs cut off!”

The two puppets quarreled, and Saleen interrupted with a cold expression. “It was very difficult for both of you have been born with souls. Why learn from how humans behave? I have come to attain wealth. If you are not able to provide help, you will be treated as spare parts from my research.”

The two puppets screamed and pointed at Saleen. “Arrogant mage, you are only at level 10, yet you dare to threaten us?”

“I have no more patience.” Saleen saw that the souls of the two puppets had weakened. It was obvious that they did not have much time left. They were most likely thinking of ways to trick someone strong into taking them in, and then they would turn on their master, obtaining new spiritual power.

Saleen was not certain on how the puppets had gained souls, but as for the relationship between souls, he understood far too much.

“No patience? Haha!”

“Heh heh...”

The two puppets laughed, and the puppet without legs said, “Mage, we are bored and just teasing you.”

As the puppet finished speaking, Saleen and Sul saw that the strange darkness within the temple’s space had disappeared. Two giant magic lights not far from them lit up.

The two magic lights were actually the eyes of a gigantic puppet. The gigantic puppet was sitting on the floor and was more than 300 meters tell. Its head drooped and its hands were placed on the ground. Saleen and Sul were in the palm of its hand.

The gigantic puppet was not too strong. It was probably level 9 and its combat power could perhaps reach level 10, but the puppet had not been repaired in a long time and it was missing the souls of the two puppets standing on his shoulder. Thus, to Saleen, the gigantic puppet was only a pile of materials.

“Master, it seems this is a puppet world!” Sul looked left and right. Hundreds of thousands of puppets appeared from all four corners. The large puppets were several hundred meters tall, while the small puppets were about the size of a person’s finger.

“Haha!” Saleen laughed. “Look into the distance!” Saleen shared his perception with Sul. One collapsed temple after another was being occupied by the puppets.

Gods were not omnipotent. The Myers Goddess had left behind 24 temples, which held enormous wealth, as well as skills, equipment, and materials. To prevent people from easily obtaining the things from the Myers Continent, the majority of the temples were positioned in the dimensional plane or the interdimensional space. The planes did not contain any life, so Myers could use divine spells to open up spaces to preserve the temples for a longer time.

After Sul’s perception was cut off, he also understood. They had not gone the wrong way; the temple was already occupied by puppets.

“Mage, submit to us. Let the radiance of puppets shine on all planes, form a contract with me!”

The puppet without legs spoke passionately to Saleen. Saleen couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to it, as the puppets had already aged and their energy was insufficient. If their energy was sufficient, Saleen would be worried about their power. If the puppet were to exert slightly more force, its remaining energy would spray out from the wound at its waist.

What Saleen found strange was why the two puppets knew about Myers. When the temple was attacked, Myers was long dead. Otherwise the puppets would have been easily destroyed with one divine spell from Myers.

“Mage, don’t listen to him, so what about all planes, I want to establish a plane for puppets. You can be the first human to create a plane for puppets. We can work together. It will just be a collaborative relationship! You can provide mages for us to mend our bodies, and we can provide all kinds of puppets to you, satisfying both sides!”

Saleen laughed. “Speaking from the perspective of a mage, the temptation of establishing a plane for puppets is really great.”

“Does that mean you agree?” The puppet missing an arm was overjoyed.

“Idiot,” he puppet without legs said.

“Who are you calling an idiot!”

“You can’t even understand after listening. If you are not an idiot, then what are you?” the puppet without legs said very proudly. “The people remaining on Myers say that we are not logical. If this is not logic then what is it?”