Badge in Azure

“Don’t make me laugh!” Saleen looked at the holy light from the tower. The Thunder Dragon Blaster on his arm was prepped for retaliation.

He had originally needed to open the window of the tower to cast the spell, but with the completion of the tower’s crafting, Saleen’s lightning icicles were able to phase through the elementite and clashed with the incoming holy light, nullifying it.

“Huh?” The oracle had intended to take to the air to pursue them, but seeing how the four icicles had broken his Divine Wrath spell, he stopped immediately. The enemy’s power was not all that great, but the lightning that coursed about the icicles reminded the oracle of something.

Something from the depths of his memory welled up and the oracle’s face calmed.

Isn’t the God of Thunder dead already? As I recall, his divine persona was shattered and his divine fire was completely snuffed. Even his body was made into equipment by humans and every single believer in his divine kingdom is dead.

There are no more than three humans capable of manipulating lightning, and there had not been any lineages left!

He definitely did not inherit the lineages of the three. His power is too weak, and the rules are different. He can’t be a believer of the God of Thunder. Who the hell is this guy?

Was a gap in the gods’ memories, leaving some powerful ones unaccounted for?

There was that possibility. There were many powerful humans on the Myers Mainland plane who did not participate in the conquest of planes, just like how some gods chose to hide. The lineages of humans were not recorded in the gods’ memories.

The oracle’s hesitation bought the tower some time, enabling it to fly far away. He would still be able to catch up to it if he wanted to, but there was no certainty that he would be able to trap the tower. The tower developed territorial power,s and there was no way he would be able to break it.

If he wanted to suppress it, he would have to use his full power, preventing him from leaving.

He was unwilling to go that far. Staying back to cage a tower and fight a mage would mean that the other oracle would take advantage of things.

The oracle chuckled, as he had an idea. Saleen would have to leave the tower sooner or later. There would still be a chance to kill him. The target was tricky, so it was better to let the other oracle take on the mage.

He, on the other hand, was going to dive into the pool and look at the secrets beneath.

The crystal ring behind the oracle’s back spun once and the stones that the angels became flew back into the ring and were absorbed. None of the angels were revived.

The oracle took a deep breath, sated. It was a pity that the ring was only able to summon that many angels every month, making him feel hungry for more.

However, even if he were able to summon more, he would not dare do it. There was a limit to how many angels could be spent in the Lord of Glory’s divine kingdom.

Eating too much would attract the Lord of Glory’s attention. His own brethren were probably summoning angels in secret and eating them. The total number of angels eaten was best to remain below 300 every month.

Saleen’s tower flew for several hundred miles. He looked at the magic map and took the tower southeast. He arrived at a city six hours later.

He looked down at the city. It was a small town, with an area of less than 200 square miles and a population in the tens of thousands. However, the town looked busy. There was a river passing by that was not very narrow. There were merchant ships on the river.

Saleen dropped the tower outside the city. “We’ll wait here and see if people from the Holy See come for us. If they don’t come, we’ll go for the next target.”

Saleen was rather uneasy. The powerful one from the Holy See had cost him four lightning icicles with just one nonchalant attack. It was obvious that he was beyond level ten. Skills cast by level ten professionals would cost him only one lightning icicle to nullify.

He would be lucky if he was not coming for him. If that person had indeed pursued him, he would have to leave the Cloudflow Empire.

Agares would leak his whereabouts to the Holy See, enabling that person to come after Saleen.

No one dared to get close to the tower that dropped out of nowhere. The nobles in the city had no idea what had happened. The tower was over 200 meters tall, was covered in a layer of cloudy mist, and looked like a small mountain.

The city’s nobles did not even dare to send someone to look into the tower.

It was an honor to have mages visit a city. However, no one had said anything about a mage bringing a tower and dropping right outside their turf.

While Saleen waited, the oracle had already dove several miles into the pool. He saw the exceedingly cold layer of water in the final 20 meters or so. The oracle was overjoyed and shouted, “The Six Elements’ Heavy Water!”

The Six Elements’ Heavy Water was good stuff and would never appear on divine kingdoms, as only the planes with living beings had it.

Regardless of how many divine kingdoms the Lord of Glory possessed, he would not be able to find any. The Six Elements’ Heavy Water was very useful to the gods, as it could serve as material for further training.

While Saleen had no knowledge of the material, he sensed something special about it and took it. The oracle did not know that three quarters of the Six Elements’ Heavy Water was gone. He was overjoyed, but he was also troubled.

He had nothing with him that could be used to carry the Six Elements’ Heavy Water. While his ring would be able to somewhat carry it, the Six Elements’ Heavy Water was inherently anti-god. He would be able to use it for training if he carried some with him, but carrying that much would wreck his godly item.

‘Godly item’ referred to equipment beyond level 13. To the people of the divine kingdoms, the term meant equipment crafted by gods.

Saleen’s tower was made of level 18 elementite. Even without further refinement, the material would be able to withstand the corrosion from the Six Elements’ Heavy Water.

The Six Elements’ Heavy Water was dwindling as it seeped into the earth. The bottommost part of the pool had a divine rune charm array, and the Goddess of Myers used special methods to enable the Six Elements’ Heavy Water to circulate, preventing it from draining.

Saleen destroyed the divine rune charm array and rocky surfaces were incapable of withstanding the power of the Six Elements’ Heavy Water.

If he did not take the Six Elements’ Heavy Water away as soon as possible, it would eventually seep deep into the earth, merging with the underground fires and give birth to intelligent life. It would be difficult to take, as not even oracles dared to venture deep into the earth.

The oracle was troubled, and Saleen was troubled as well. He had used 12 floors of the tower to take the Six Elements’ Heavy Water, but he had no idea what it was.

Everyone trained on their own after the tower landed, and Nailisi continued to recuperate. Saleen began looking into ways to store the Six Elements’ Heavy Water to free up space in the tower.

He was in a hurry to take the materials and equipment and everything else stored beneath the bottom 12 floors before they were reduced to dust. It was a considerable loss, but it was one that enabled Saleen to see for himself how powerful the water was.

Saleen attempted to store some of the Six Elements’ Heavy Water in a purple gold pouch, but the pouch quickly melted. Saleen then used the space equipment that he made, but it crumbled as well.

One cup already strained the equipment beyond limits and rendered them junk.

Saleen had no other way. While the Starline Ring was capable of storing the water, there was still a possibility that the items within would interact with each other. If all the materials that he had gathered were reduced to dust, he would lose more than he gained.

The ring had things that Saleen needed to take out in a quickly, meaning that there was no way he could throw everything into the dimension stones.

Saleen had no idea if dimension stones were capable of withstanding the effects of the water, but he was reluctant to experiment with them. He deemed them too rare, so much so that he had never seen any in any of the goddess’ temples.

He got a considerable amount of other precious gemstones instead.

An idea popped in Saleen’s mind. He took out a blank starline scroll and wrapped the Six Elements’ Heavy Water with Water Flame, infusing it into a blank scroll as if it was a spell.

The thought originated from the sealing of elemental creatures. Not everyone could create Elemental badges. Common mages could only carry them by sealing them into scrolls and releasing them when needed. However, that was a one-time-use technique.

Saleen attempted and failed several times. After destroying several starline scrolls, Saleen finally was able to store six cubic meters of that water into a starline scroll.

He continued to over 200 scrolls, before finding that he had only stored two floors’ worth of Six Elements’ Heavy Water. Storing all of it would require him to craft about 1,000 scrolls.

Crafting over 200 of the scrolls had already cost Saleen’s two days. Furthermore, the speed was only possible because his mental powers were over 20 times stronger than common level ten mages. Water Flame Alchemy was also not a spell that cost magic chords, so he was able to keep his magic chords in a stable state.

It was only costly to craft the scrolls in terms of mental power consumption.

He hesitated over if he should have continued crafting. He had no idea what the Six Elements’ Heavy Water was, but he knew that its rarity rivaled dimension stones.

It was not that troublesome to just keep it stored within the tower, as the water could be safely kept inside a container and there were ways to scoop it up when he needed to use it.

Someone arrived at the tower. It was a personal guard of a noble, sending a letter.

The guard was a subordinate of the small city’s noble, but the letter was addressed to Saleen, and written by Agares.

Saleen checked the letter with magic before opening it. Agares’ letter was simple and clear-cut, devoid of any tones that Cloudflow people usually used, and instead resembling Sikeqinyans.

Your Highness Saleen, I was the one who pointed to the people of Holy See where they needed to go. I had no idea that the Holy See sent an oracle, who was at least level 11. If enough time has passed, the oracle will have his powers restored to level 12. Stay safe, Your Highness.

The letter seemed to be meant to provoke him, but it provided him with important intel. A level 12 oracle from a divine kingdom was the supreme being in their plane. But why did the Holy See not send one to Daliang City?

Saleen grew restless. If that thing had been a level 12 oracle, then he was unable to be so careless with his actions. If the oracle had showed up at the pool before he did, he would have probably died inside the temple.