[First Update]
As the two puppets with souls quarreled, Salin quietly observed the giant puppet.
The giant puppet was about eight hundred meters tall, and the light emitted from its eyes could pierce through the darkness in this space. Salin's elemental eyes were originally restricted, but he could still see the scenery hundreds of miles away.
Those dilapidated temples were obviously not so dilapidated due to the passage of time. There were too many traces of battle, and it was frightening. A large temple was split into two halves from the middle, as if it was split by a sharp blade.
The combat power of these puppets was pretty good in the past, but Salin didn't want to know this. He wanted to know where these puppets came from.
The Myers Continent's temples were located not far from the Myers Continent, and the energy needed for the space channel or teleportation array was not large. Otherwise, after tens of thousands of years of consumption, it would be easy for them to become ineffective.
Salin walked through many temples. He first went to the Chaos Swamp, then to the Titan Duchy, and then to the depths of the sea …
The space of each temple was very stable. Even if something like an elemental storm or a space crack appeared, the space where the temple was located did not collapse.
The stability of these spaces determined that the most convenient way to enter these spaces was to use the divine power of the Goddess to enter from the Myers Continent's plane.
How did these hundreds of thousands of puppets enter this temple?
"Wizard, don't think about it anymore." The two puppets stopped quarreling, and the legless puppet said, "There is nothing left in that temple. We killed all the Goddess' believers."
"There's nothing left?" Salin looked like he didn't believe it.
"Of course, we puppets don't lie."
"I'll go take a look. Anyway, you have plenty of time, right?" Salin said to the puppet naturally. At the same time, he released Wind Walking and flew from the giant puppet's palm, heading straight for the distant temple.
The shrine in the distance was badly damaged. Salin flew to the top of the shrine and looked down. Sure enough, the material of the shrine had begun to decay. It should be known that to decay these materials, the amount of time needed would be calculated in units of millions of years.
Salin suddenly realized that the flow of time in the space where this temple was located was quite terrifying.
These puppets were originally undying, but the two strongest ones were already like old men in the twilight of humanity.
Aging Spell? What happened? Did the entire space age as well?
The name of a Divine Art appeared in Salin's mind. The Holy Church also had aging spells, magic spells, and astrology spells. These spells were more like curses, but they also had the technical meaning of magic spells.
The aging of matter was related to time, and the flow of time was the result of the movement of matter.
These theories had always been in the mages' knowledge system, but they had never been fully verified by any experiments. This result was the result of the mages connecting all sorts of research fragments and deducing it.
Salin flew above the temple. The two puppets didn't launch any attacks or communicate with each other. They just patiently waited for Salin to return.
How could Salin go back? He descended to the ground and entered the temple that had been split in half. There were still many murals in the temple, but the altar had already been torn down. Salin could still see the foundation of the altar.
As to why the altar was torn down, Salin could tell that the speed of decay of these puppets was much faster than the natural collapse of the temple. These puppets were looking for materials to repair their bodies. Most of the materials needed for puppets were metals, but there were also some jades and demon cores. Salin only saw some iron rocks and all kinds of stones in the temple.
Iron rocks weren't ordinary stones, but they weren't jades either.
The wood in this temple was still intact. Salin knew that when there was a lack of Star Pattern Cloth, he could also use wood to make puppets. Wood was also a common material for making puppets.
These pieces of wood seemed to be in perfect condition. Salin released an ancient puppet to move the wood. As Salin had expected, the moment the puppet touched the wood, it turned to dust.
Salin ordered the puppet to collect the ashes of these materials. After all, these pieces of wood were originally very high-grade materials, and even after turning to ashes, they were still precious alchemy materials. These puppets didn't know alchemy, so they could only use the dumbest method to repair their bodies.
Everything in this temple could be used as materials for alchemy.
Salin didn't make a sound. One by one, he summoned Ancient Puppets. In the blink of an eye, there were 360 of them. With so many Ancient Puppets, the puppets in the distance couldn't possibly not notice them.
The two puppet leaders were surprised to see a large number of puppets appearing beside Salin.
"Hey, is that a mage or a puppeteer?"
"Astrologer?"
"No, he's definitely a mage."
"Don't worry about his profession. Look at how many helpers he has. Can we still catch him?"
"That won't do. Our subordinates can only scare ordinary people."
"How about we let the big guy do it?"
"No, if it weren't for the big guy, we would've died of old age long ago!"
The two puppets' discussion was fruitless. Salin began to dismantle the temple. Although the temple complex was heavily damaged, it was only the surface. Some of the underground parts of the temple were still intact. Salin actually saw a magic core warehouse underground.
The magic cores didn't have any quality. Like slag, they were piled up randomly in the warehouse.
In ancient times, people didn't value magic cores as much as they did today, but they were still relatively precious. It made sense that Myer left so many magic cores behind. This temple was left for mages.
Only human mages above level-10 could open these underground warehouses. This time, they didn't need any divine power.
The puppets lacked the special mind power of humans, so they didn't discover these underground warehouses. Salin didn't come in vain. The materials and equipment for mages were long gone, but these magic cores were enough to make up for the loss.
Because Myer wasn't as stingy as a Grandmaster, all the magic cores she left behind were level-9 and above. For a moment, Salin could not tell what kind of magic beast had left the magic cores. The species of these magic cores were too complicated. Most of them probably came from other planes. Salin even saw some magic cores with divine attributes. They should have been left behind after the magic beasts reared by the gods were killed.
It seemed that some of the books were correct. Myers had participated in the conquest of other planes, and not as described in most of the legends, Myers was a peaceful goddess.
Each of the magic cores left behind by Myers was probably stained with blood. These were the spoils of war that Myer had obtained when she went on a killing spree in various planes.
A level-18 god was at the level of a main god. When she wantonly slaughtered, only gods of the same level could contend against her. What kind of god was Myer back then? Salin had a rough idea of the situation.
The outcome of offending Myer wouldn't be good.
Although this was what Salin thought, he didn't stop dismantling the temple. Although the temple had already collapsed, to Salin, dismantling it was erasing the traces left behind by Myer.
There was no need for gods in this world. Even if he was bound by the contract and had to resurrect Myer, he definitely wouldn't let Myer grow to the terrifying level-18 again.
If a god wanted to resurrect, they first had to reignite their divine fire. The basic requirement for reigniting divine fire was level-13.
Salin dismantled these temples because he was afraid that Myer could use these temples to quickly recover her strength after she was resurrected from level-13. If she didn't set up a trap before she died, it would be thousands of times harder for a goddess to advance than for a human.
This was the price Myer had to pay to become a god. If she didn't become a god, the speed at which a human wanted to advance was much faster than that of a god.
When a human reached level-12 and above, it would take thousands or tens of thousands of years. But for a god, it would take millions, tens of millions, or even trillions of years!
There was another detail. A human genius could break this time limit. No matter how strong a god was, they could only slowly endure.
For example, the emperor of the First Dynasty was said to have used only 40,000 years to advance from an ordinary person to the highest level of the entire crystal sphere system. Under normal circumstances, it would take more than 120,000 years for a human to advance from level-17 to level-18.
There were also puppets in the temple. At first, Salin let the Primordial Dolls bypass these puppets. Later, he found that these puppets were basically rotten. Even if they could move, they didn't have any combat power. He simply found a blank star pattern scroll and sealed the more unique puppets inside.
Puppetry was a relatively difficult magic, and Salin didn't know much about it. The structure of these puppets was also the essence of alchemy. Salin sealed them because he didn't want them to continue to rot. At that time, he wouldn't even be able to obtain the blueprints of the puppets.
Along the way, Salin had plundered twenty-four dilapidated halls. Apart from the monster core warehouse, the most precious items were these sealed puppets.
Salin watched as the Primordial Dolls dismantled the last temple. Only then was he satisfied. Surrounded by the Primordial Dolls, he returned in front of the giant puppet.
"Have you two finished discussing?"
"Discussing what?" the two puppets asked in confusion.
"Do you want to become my subordinate, or continue to wait for death here?" Salin asked.
The two puppets were furious. The legless puppet pointed at Salin and shouted, "The believers of the goddess want us to surrender. Even Purification can't do anything to us. You want us to be your slaves?"
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