[Fourth Update]
The job of destruction didn't give Manipulators any psychological pressure. In the Demonic Plane, it was common for a large number of insects or familiars to be killed.
Insects also had intelligence, which wasn't much different from killing people. The Demonic Plane was a strange place. It was vast and barren, but it had more life than many planes.
Life and death weren't difficult choices for demons.
The way the floating city destroyed a city was very simple. Hover the floating city at the edge of the city wall and use magic cannons to control the city gate so that no one could enter or leave.
Then, in the center of the city, they would start to release forbidden spells.
Magic cannons weren't a good choice to destroy the city. It was too costly. Instead, the release of forbidden spells became relatively easy.
A hundred Manipulators could easily release one forbidden spell. Sarlin had more than a hundred thousand Manipulators, which meant that it wouldn't be a problem to release a thousand forbidden spells in a row.
Forbidden spells weren't about their level, but how they were released.
Most forbidden spells couldn't be controlled because the casting range was large. They just needed to be thrown in a suitable place. Especially against a city that couldn't move, a forbidden spell could kill everyone within a few hundred meters. If the forbidden spell was of a high enough level, it would require a thousand Manipulators to cast it at the same time, which would be enough to destroy more than a mile.
Sarlin didn't need to conserve the power of the Manipulators, because the spells were released within their range, and the Manipulators wouldn't be hurt.
The city of Calon became hell on earth. Only the miracle in the center of the city remained intact.
It was a stone house, where saints used to meditate. A thousand years ago, there was a devout believer who didn't eat, drink, or sleep. He prayed here for 360 days and nights, moving the gods.
The gods sent down divine power and granted the believer the title of saint.
Saints were pure in heart, passionate in faith, fair and upright, and unaffected by worldly temptations.
According to the Magicians, this was a person with mental problems. If a person practiced magic with such great perseverance, as long as their body could condense magic strings, they would basically become the most powerful Mage.
Such perseverance was used to believe in a god. The Magicians could only come up with such a judgment.
However, God liked this kind of person very much, so not only did he grant him the title of Holy Disciple, but he also gave him a large amount of Divine Power, modified his body, and turned him into one of the top ten experts in the history of the Church.
The gods also set up a divine technique on this stone house. As long as one could walk into the stone house, they would be a Saint and receive the protection of the divine technique. No one on the Myers Continent was allowed to harm the people inside the stone house.
This stone house was also a shortcut to Kingdom of Heaven.
Every year, millions of believers would come here to try and see if they could enter the stone house and enter the Kingdom of Heaven. After that, almost every few years, there were indeed people who could walk into the Kingdom of Heaven from this stone house. That was why the city was so prosperous.
After careful calculation, this was a one in a million chance.
Of course, it was hard to say whether these people were saints or not. Gods also needed to promote themselves. If there were no miracles, who would believe in them?
This was a very simple method, but it was very effective. None of the believers knew whether the stone house led to heaven or purgatory. In any case, the person who walked in disappeared. That was enough. Could it be that the gods would lie to people?
It was unknown how many people rushed to the city gate, wanting to escape, but were shot back by the magic cannons.
Some people tried to fly up and attack the floating city, but the large thunder dragon spear on the floating city shot down such strong people one by one. Under the control of the Controller, if one wanted to fly over the entire Calon City, they would have to use ten times the strength, and their speed would be reduced to less than half of their usual speed.
No one tried to rush into the stone house. Salin laughed and said, "It seems that these people's faith is not strong enough. Otherwise, they would all escape here!"
Originally, he was worried that his establishment of the Druidic Religion would create another freak on this continent. Now that he thought about it, believers were not that scary. When it came to a life and death situation, many people would give up their faith.
Those who could persevere, at least in Calon City, were not.
Having come this far, Salin was no longer excited about killing. He knew that the next step was to evolve his soul in order to break through to level twelve. The Gods had done some research on souls as well. Salin was now studying the souls of these believers.
His Elemental Eyes had finally changed. After so many advancements, the Elemental Eyes seemed to have never changed. In this battlefield, Salin saw the image of a soul for the first time.
To be precise, what Salin saw was the projection of a soul. The soul of a person was not in the body. Only those who surpassed level thirteen could turn the projection into reality.
Salin had obtained this ability when he advanced to Level-11.
The study of souls was mysterious. Those who had an incomplete real soul could reach the level of a false god. One could imagine that if the soul was complete, it would at least be at the level of the God of Light.
Salin's soul power, under the effect of the Universe Ring, had long surpassed that of a false god. In other words, a level thirteen false god could not use soul power to control him at all.
In the Elemental Eyes, the soul projections of those who were crying and running on the ground were incomplete. That was because a part of their Origin Power had been stolen by their souls after a long period of prayer.
Such a soul projection, in fact, meant that the soul of this person would not return to the body no matter how much he cultivated.
Salin was horrified. It turned out that the soul was so fragile. If one accidentally believed in something, they would never have the chance to achieve their dreams.
The advancement of those Divine Masters was actually a gift from the gods. Their own soul power did not improve at all.
If Divine Masters could improve their soul power, they would ignite the Divine Fire sooner or later. Then who would still believe in the gods?
Those incomplete soul projections could be considered stable in a human's body. Salin saw the attacks of the forbidden spells turn the human bodies into powder. The lucky ones could still be turned into a few pieces, which was not bad. The petrified ones could keep their corpses intact, but the soul projection was still struggling.
Salin thought to himself, Even though it's just a projection, the soul is still connected to the human body at all times.
It was just that the power of the projection was not enough, and could not use stronger spiritual power.
Once the soul returned, spiritual power would evolve into soul power. At that time, it would be easy to use the magic string.
Some believers who tried to pray had their souls infused with subtle power. Salin's eyes could clearly see that it was the power stored in the churches. When the churches were destroyed, the power would dissipate, but it would not disappear immediately.
It turned out that the power that the believers obtained from praying was accumulated from praising the gods.
Salin couldn't help but laugh. This was similar to usury.
It could be said that the Skocynthians were famous for borrowing money. There was a good joke. A poor man wanted to start a small business, so he borrowed money from the boss of the Scochenya Chamber of Commerce.
He only needed to borrow two gold coins and pay it back after a year. The boss told him that the interest was two gold coins, but considering the risk, he had to pay the interest first.
So the poor man paid the interest of two gold coins. That was the money his family had saved for a year.
In the end, the businessman received two gold coins. As for the poor man, he had to give away two gold coins first, and then pay back two gold coins at the end of the year.
The problem of faith was generally like this. You first paid the source of your soul, and then you had to pray every day to give the power of faith to the gods. The gods left a portion of the power of faith in the plane of their believers for them to use. In reality, the gods did not pay anything, but they received everything.
The so-called believers were lambs. They were let out to eat grass, but when they came back, they had to be milked and cut meat.
Salin let out a long breath. His Elemental Eye had finally advanced. He could see the source of power, the power that came from the soul. This was the advanced form of the Elemental Eye — the Eye of the Soul.
If the Eye of the Soul continued to advance, it would become one of the strongest skills of a mage. The Eye of Truth, also known as the Eye of Insight.
The Eye of the Soul was originally an ability that surpassed level-12, while the Eye of Insight was an ability that surpassed level-15.
With the Eye of the Soul, Salin could rely on the power of his equipment to deal with the God of Light's doppelganger. The Eye of the Soul could not only see the elements, but also the essence of all power. Salin's current calculation ability was equivalent to that of nearly a hundred mages of the same level. The Eye of the Soul also had a strong lock-on ability. From now on, the Thunder Dragon Spear would not always miss.
Salin specially observed the Winged Skeleton and found that its soul fire had become a real soul. It was very similar to his own, just slightly weaker.
This discovery made Salin ponder.
This was definitely not a recent change. Recently, the Winged Skeleton's power had not increased significantly. In other words, the Winged Skeleton's soul power had long been stronger than his. The mysterious mageweath deep in the soul could be easily erased by the Winged Skeleton.
Was this the undead's reluctance to leave? It was not willing to break the contract with him, and Nelis was probably the same.
Salin looked at them one by one and found that Nicholas's soul was still in the state of projection. However, Nicholas's soul projection was already complete. He had probably used the small prophecy spell to repair it, and the soul in the Blood Soul Tower had prayed for him to repair the injuries of the soul projection.
Zola and Sue's souls were complete. The rest were also complete, but not as strong as the two level-10 True Warriors.
The weakest was Isabella. This woman practiced magic and swordsmanship. Her combat power was unquestionable among the professionals of the same level. However, there was a crack in the soul projection.
It did not look like an injury. Could it be that the soul of such a person would eventually split into two?
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