[The first update, the third update today … Right? The monthly votes are sad. We have to go one step further. Otherwise, we'll be happy for nothing. There's a mountain ahead, but we have to cross it. Old D is going all out. I'll shout until the end of the month.]
The teleportation used up a large number of magic cores. It didn't take long. Once Salin returned to the temple, he settled Sicca and the children down, then brought the Winged Skeleton back to the Half Plane.
Sicca was at ease in managing Metatlin City. Daniel was also summoned back to assist Sicca. The necromancer wasn't very enthusiastic about managing the city anymore. He regretted wasting time on it. But if he didn't have the ability to manage the city, Salin wouldn't have put him in such an important position.
He was born a small noble and received a good education. This was what allowed him to settle down by Salin's side. Salin would only let him stay by his side if he did these things well.
If he wanted something, he had to pay. Daniel only regretted spending too much time thinking of ways to manage his own forces. Many of the nobles in the city were counting on him to stay alive. Ever since he learned that Salin had advanced to level 11, Daniel knew he was wrong.
The nobles could no longer rule this world. This world belonged to the mages.
Salin settled Metatlin City. He didn't see Duchess Lace, so he returned to the Half Plane. With the Winged Skeleton, Salin didn't need his undead army anymore. It was just that this undead had enough combat power.
The Winged Skeleton's body should have evolved long ago. Salin's not advancing had been restricting it.
While Nelis was being summoned back, Salin's trip to the Half Plane took less than a month. The Church's army hadn't arrived at the City of Nature yet. Faka had killed two God's Messengers of the God of Light to accumulate enough energy to advance. Without the help of the two God's Messengers, Salin didn't have to worry too much about the Church's attack this time.
Salin told the Winged Skeleton to quickly complete its advancement in the Half Plane. At level 11, the Winged Skeleton wouldn't be in too much danger. Salin also didn't need the help of low-level people. He had to do it himself.
While the Winged Skeleton was advancing, Neris also came to the Demiplane to advance. Salin arranged for her to bring the believers back to Nature City. Of the 1.6 million believers, only Neris could take them away.
In the blink of an eye, another month had passed. The Winged Skeleton and Nelis had completed their advancement, and Raphael had also absorbed the power of the Divine Flame to completely heal his injuries.
Salin led Raphael, the Winged Skeleton, and the Violet Angel to the edge of the Demiplane.
There was a volcano there, and it was also where Faka entered the demiplane. Salin had already sent many undead to investigate, but none of them had returned.
The demiplane was evolving, but the volcano didn't stop erupting. It was just that it wasn't as dangerous as before.
When the volcano erupted, more than half of the Demiplane was swept away.
Salin took a long time to prepare this time. For a month, he had been asking the believers who had betrayed Faka about their origins.
Salin roughly knew how these people came. At the edge of the volcano, there was a place that was connected to the Myers Continent. It was a very stable and extremely wide space channel.
It was created by Faka's divine spell and wasn't a natural thing. The other end of this space channel was the Light Abyss, which was located in the Chaos Swamp.
Salin had walked over this abyss back then and didn't notice any connection between planes. Faka had put this thing in the open, so it was difficult to attract attention.
Salin only thought that Faka was creating a nest to fight against the Vatican, but he didn't expect that the function of this abyss was to lead to various planes.
Battles between gods often started with the betrayal of traitors. If he could lure the enemy god's subordinates to betray him and obtain a safe coordinate point in the divine kingdom, the God of Light would create a Light Abyss and erode the divine kingdom. After an almost eternal channel was opened, the God of Light's angel army would continuously charge in.
Salin had moved too many people into the demiplane. For someone like Faka, it wasn't difficult to sneak in after obtaining clues. Because he was afraid that the mages of the demiplane would discover him, Faka opened the space channel at the edge of the volcano. Such a place wouldn't be valued, so the mages didn't discover it until his army of millions entered. However, at this time, Faka had already used his divine power to temporarily disrupt the coordinates of the demiplane, so the reinforcements couldn't reach here.
Salin brought his three subordinates to the edge of the volcano. The ground was scorched black, twisted and undulating like a frozen ocean.
The volcano here used to be a place where the fire elements of the demiplane wreaked havoc. Salin flew forward, arrived at the crater of the volcano, and looked down. There were remnants of a tragic aura inside.
A fire elemental spirit was born, but it was devoured by Faka. Faka had become a god, but there was a price to pay. Without a lot of energy for him to squander, how could he advance so quickly?
Salin jumped into the crater and opened the Water Pattern Shield on his body. The temperature in the crater was extremely high. Salin's Elemental Eyes didn't see any chaotic fluctuations. This volcano wouldn't erupt for at least a few months.
The aura below made it hard to breathe. Salin looked around and indeed, there were crystals left behind by the fire elemental spirit near the eruption point. This was more advanced than the crystals left behind by the flaming snake.
Salin released the lightning warriors and collected these crystals.
He couldn't waste them. His various equipment needed a huge amount of energy to drive. The floating city was indeed powerful, but the number of magic cores and crystals burned in battle was also a heart-wrenching number.
Fortunately, the ancient magic furnace could contain everything. Even low-level magic cores could be refined into pure energy.
Salin turned back to the ground and searched the edge of the volcanic area. Faka didn't hide any clues. Soon, Salin came to a rock fault. Looking at the horizon, there was nothing in front of him, but looking down from the sky, he saw that there were steps deep underground where the earth broke.
These steps were about a mile and a half wide, and could accommodate a thousand people. The color of the steps was also pitch-black, and the bottom was filled with smoke, but the temperature wasn't as high as the crater.
"Let's go." Salin pointed at the huge steps.
"My lord." Raphael took a step forward and let Salin walk behind.
Salin smiled. Raphael finally put his mind at ease for the time being and didn't mention leaving. With Raphael in the lead, the purple angel and the winged skeleton were also relieved. They walked down the huge steps on both sides of Salin.
Salin blessed everyone with a Water Pattern Shield. Raphael just smiled at this kind of magic.
A level-ten Water Pattern Shield was a bit fragile for her. This was already a very high evaluation. In the eyes of a level-thirteen expert, a level-ten skill could generally only be given a very bad evaluation.
The winged skeleton released two emerald flames, illuminating above everyone's heads. As soon as the emerald flames appeared, the smoke nearby was forced away by the power of the undead, so it was much clearer in advance.
The steps were very wide and not steep. They could run on horses.
Raphael sped up and ran down the steps. Salin and the others could naturally keep up. Gradually, only the emerald flames released by the winged skeleton were illuminating. The light outside disappeared.
Salin took out a piece of Seabed Jade. This was a gem of a lower level than greenstone, but it could also contain divine power.
What was stored in this Seabed Jade was the divine power of the God of Light. Salin had subdued a million troops, so he had accumulated a lot of this stored divine power.
The divine power of light was released, and the steps flickered a few times, emitting a gentle glow.
The divine power was absorbed by the steps, and Salin saw a road that was a hundred miles long.
The end of the road was still filled with smoke.
Raphael ran even faster. Violet Angel and the Winged Skeleton had no choice but to spread their wings and fly to keep up. Salin used the power of the earth to keep up with them. Step by step, he was able to keep up.
After running for more than two hundred miles, a spear suddenly appeared in Raphael's hand, and she stabbed it into the smoke.
A dull cry of pain sounded. Salin took out his family badge, ready to deal with an unknown enemy at any time.
Raphael retracted her spear. On it was a monster less than a meter tall. It looked like an angel and had wings, but this little monster's wings were broken, and the color was mixed.
The little monster was still waving a sharp fork in its hand. Raphael shook her spear and threw it in front of Salin.
Roar!
A big monster more than ten meters long pounced out of the smoke. In Salin's eyes, it looked like a shrunken mountain monster. There were many kinds of magic beasts in the Chaos Swamp, and the monsters that suddenly appeared in the smoke all looked like malnourished things.
Thunder Warriors flew out of Salin's magic booster and pounced on the increasing number of monsters. Raphael didn't slow down. He killed his way forward, and after ten miles, a dazzling light suddenly appeared, and the steps could no longer be seen.
Within the light, there was a huge number of angels …
They weren't angels, but half-angels, incomplete battle weapons created by Faka. He'd simply used the creatures of the Chaos Swamp to create angels, instead of using divine power to create them out of thin air.
Half-Angels were a miserable race. Their status was lower than that of angels, and they were equivalent to cannon fodder.
Seeing Salin and the others appear, these half-angels who had lost their gods pounced one by one. Salin sighed and released Thunderbolt Stars, releasing all the Thunderbolt Warriors to face the Half Angels.
Raphael and the others stopped. Everyone stopped and watched as the half-angels entered the thunder domain like moths to a flame, and were killed by the thunder warriors.
Half-Angels were too weak. Without gods, their level was lower than when they were alive.
Some level-eight and level-nine magic beasts in the Chaos Swamp continuously dropped after being made into half-angels, and they might only have the strength of level-five or level-six. They had to obtain Faka's divine power before they could explode with power beyond level-nine.
Now, these half-angels had nothing, and they were all in a miserable state. Before Salin and the others arrived, the half-angels had already started killing each other.
Salin released his Soul Strength to investigate. He discovered that there were more than three hundred thousand Half Angels in this abyss shrouded in light.
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