<h4>Chapter 1163: Shards of the Sky (Part 1)</h4>
Trantor: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Saleen had someone stand guard outside and did not bring Sika in. He brought Daniel and Isabe instead.
They were not high level mages, but since the temple was built in a ce with so much human traffic, the Goddess of Myers’ personality dictated that she would not ce something terrifying.
Furthermore, Saleen wielded the powers of the Puppet World Realm, making him practically immune to being surrounded. The territorial powers were greater than even his own, and bringing Nailisi and the others would not make much of a difference.
Saleen’s family badge was filled with energy. The Thunder Dragon ster only needed an hour to cool down, and 24 level 11 spells were infused within the Starline Robe.
Saleen no longer needed to be as cautious and meticulous, and he no longer shirked things, as long as the enemy did not possess greater equipment.
Daniel and Isabe both knew that Saleen was making things up to them. Every single person that Saleen brought into temples had something to gain. Daniel was swamped with day-to-day affairs.
If it had not been for a lesser noble like Daniel working hard when Metatrin City was first established, Saleen would not have had time to attend to other matters.
As for Isabe, she had been away for quite some time and Saleen hoped that she would be able to brush up on her powers as soon as possible to be capable of truly serving him.
Her ordeal would either enhance her unique skills or pose an obstacle for advancement.
Saleen did not want Isabe to give so much o following him and end up gaining nothing in the end.
The portals to the temples were all different and this one had some light in it. Saleen’s Elemental Eye scanned it and found the light emanating from phosphor. Phosphor could originate from bones, which was precisely what had happened in the temple.
It was unknown how many magic beasts and humans died in the portal, leaving behind piles of bones. The phosphor from some bones were capable of burning for hundreds of thousands of years.
The bones had natural magic patterns on them. Bones with magic patterns were a sign that the creatures were level 12 or above when they were alive. Saleen was ted to see the bones and said to Daniel, “You, Aini, and the Winged Skull can split the bones.”
Saleen knew that despite having be a level eight sorcerer, Danielcked decent space equipment, so he grabbed them for Daniel. The bones were of high enough level for crafting powerful spirit equipment.
The portal ended after six miles. There were no temples at the end, only the remains of a huge battlefield. Bones and armor pieces littered the ground. Broken weapons andrge scale equipmentid about.
There were even huge puppets that were practically torn to pieces, the sheen in their eyes long gone.
It seemed that millions had duked it out there. Judging from the quality of the broken weapons, the battlefield was ancient. Saleen frowned and took to the air, scanning the area with his Elemental Eye. He did not find the edge of the battlefield nor any signs of the temple.
This is impossible. If the Ring of Gifts was able to open up a portal, that means that this is where Myers built her temple. The Elemental Eye can see over a hundred miles away. Why isn’t the temple in sight?
His Ring of Gifts was able to detect temples. Even if his Elemental Eye happened to be blocked by divine spells, it would not be able to escape the Ring of Gifts’ detection.
The sky was pitch ck but there was light. Aini and Isabe were both capable of seeing their surroundings using skills.
“My liege, the air here seems thin,” Isabe said to Saleen.
“This is not Myers Maind, but some independent space that the goddess created to hide the temple.”
“No, it’s not. This is an interdimensional space!” Daniel did not fall into inertial thinking and found the problem quicker than Saleen.
An interdimensional space?
Saleen was ted. Raphael had been able to find an interdimensional space, preventing him from being hunted by the Lord of Light. Fycro wanted to find an interdimensional space in the hopes of amassing his own believers.
Interdimensional spaces were precious and rare. Saleen would have to build a city rivaling the Holy Rock City to conceal the secret teleportation portal.
The interdimensional space he found was even more precious, as it was probably very near the Myers Maind. The goddess was incapable of opening a stable portal, resorting to using teleportation portals instead.
“My liege, it’d be quite a loss for us to give this city to the southwestern nobles!” Isabe developed a keen eye for preciousmodities. She knew that the equipment and high level bones were nowhere near as valuable as the interdimensional space itself.
Saleen hesitated for a bit. If he advanced to the next level, he would be capable of creating ne coordinates, making it easier to link the interdimensional space with Myers Maind. The cost of getting to Myers Maind from that interdimensional space was far less than Raphael’s.
The air there was thin and there were hardly any nts. There were few stars in the sky, which was probably blocked by the air. There were thick clouds floating in the sky. They had no idea if the interdimensional space was growing about to copse.
“No need to be in a hurry to clean up the battlefield!” Saleenmanded his two followers to create a set of coordinates. It was an effort involving all three of them, as it would make the coordinates considerably more stable.
Daniel used death magic, Saleen used elemental magic, and Isabe used silver sword aura. A set of coordinates with three types of attributes would make it difficult to be erased. Saleen created a link between them and the coordinates to prevent them from getting lost.
Magicpasses were not all useful in interdimensional spaces. If one intended to return to a certain point, it was best to use coordinates. Saleen did not think that to be enough and summoned arge puppet. He simply let the puppet stand there, doing nothing.
There were many puppets left on the battlefield and all of them had long been drained. The damages they suffered were difficult to repair. Therge thing that Saleen had taken in a while ago did not look out of ce at all in a battlefield littered with puppets.
Therge puppet served both as a guard as well as a mark. Saleen would still be able to connect to the puppet’s soul so long as he stayed within a hundred miles radius.
Once he was done with all that, Saleen took his two followers and took to the air, flying at the defending side of the battlefield.
Saleen had tond every hundred miles to set up new coordinates. The battlefield spanned over 400 miles. Saleen flew over 1000 miles before arriving at the end of thend.
A ck oceany at the end of thend and Saleen felt a lot better at seeing water. That interdimensional space was not all that deste, but the water element was not all that stable as well, feeling rathercking. Water element finally looked thick when they came near the ocean.
However, Saleen was not in the mood to look into the ck waters. He only knew that the ck waters did not contain poisons and that someponents within were hardly of any difference with that on Myers Maind. The waters should be able to host living beings, but it was entirely dead instead.
What Saleen was concerned about the most at the moment was that he finally saw the temple, floating on the ocean.
Saleen was very moved. It was the first time he felt so strongly about bagging the entire temple. There was a patch ofnd beneath the temple of unknown material. His Elemental Eye scanned the dirt and rocks, finding a beehive structure.
There were 24 temples on top of the ind. The temples were constructedpletely of wood, elegant and intricate. They bore no simrities to the other temples of the Goddess of Myers.
The ind was about 80 miles away from shore and the hall took less than one-third of the ind. Saleen took a deep breath to calm his rising emotions. “Let’s get up there.”
Daniel and Isabe were both unable to see it. Their sight was limited to little more than two miles.
Saleen easily took them along using Quickcloud and arrived on the ind. The ind was 36 miles in length and width, just like Nailisi’s 12 Notes of First Purgatory.
Saleen attempted to use territorial powers and found nothing resisting his turf. He grew even more ted as it meant that there were no other powers in the interdimensional space.
But how am I going to bag an ind that is 36 miles across? Can I take it apart? It looks feasible given how the ce seemed to be put together in blocks. But the puppets would take too much time to take the ind apart.
Give up? Hell no! This floating ind may actually be part of the Sky City.
He had the mechanical core of the Sky City, Six Element’s Heavy Water to nurture the core, and his teacher possessed the Heart of the Sky. If he got thend part of the Sky City, then he would be able to build aplete Sky City, which was far more powerful than a flying tower.
He would no longer need to painstakingly train armies to wage wars. He would only need to bring the Sky City above his enemies’ cities and bombard cities. At altitudes of over ten thousand meters, even a pebble could wrought devastating damage.
“My liege?” Both Isabe and Daniel were aware that something was not right with Saleen.
“Do both of you know that the ind beneath our feet might actually be a part of the Sky City?”
Daniel and Isabe werepletely dumbstruck.
“I’ve seen the Sky City’s schematics. It’s huge and this ind is less than one-tenth of its size. But, even if we are able to create just one chunk ofnd...”
“My liege, this is crazy! There is no way we can take something this big with us!” Daniel wailed, while Isabe eyed thend beneath her feet with wide-opened eyes.
“There is definitely something we can do. You saw how big that portal was, how did Myers get it ] here?!” Saleen immediately knew he was not making sense.
Even if Myers was not a god, she was a level 18 mage and had space equipment that probably rivaled God’s Ring.
The God’s Ring would definitely be able to bag the entire chunk ofnd beneath their feet. However, even if Lex gave him her ring, his mental powers meant that he would not be able to take such a huge ind.
“My liege, let’s head down to the temples. We might find clues there,” Daniel reminded Saleen. The Goddess of Myers would definitely have a purpose for leaving a part of the Sky City behind like that.