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Salin was fully focused on the process of absorbing the souls. It was dead silent inside and outside the arena. Most of the soldiers had changed their weapons. They saw the assassin strangely pounce on a beautiful woman, and then stop moving.
No one knew what happened, and they didn't dare to move.
If they moved forward, they might be misunderstood as a mutiny. If they moved backward, they would be running away. Rex always trained his soldiers on discipline first. These soldiers' fighting style might not be suitable for a regular army, but in terms of discipline, they were already very obedient.
As a regular army, they didn't have to spend a single copper coin. The army was fully responsible, and the gold coins they received every month could be saved. This was ten times better than being a mercenary. Mercenaries had to figure out their own armor and weapons, but those provided by a mercenary group had to be bought with money, not given for free.
Nicholas flew over from the sky at this moment. Rex waved for him to land. Nicholas felt goosebumps on his skin when he saw so many Elven Alchemy Crossbows around Rex. Of course, he wouldn't be shot to death by these crossbows, but it was hard to say. At least all of his skills couldn't guarantee to block the attacks of these crossbows. He could only rely on Fallen Divine Spells to make the soldiers lose their accuracy.
Nicholas landed. Seeing the Water Puppet and Tyrant hugging each other, he vaguely knew what had happened. He was a Divine Spell Master, and his understanding of souls was even deeper than that of Magic Shooters. To avoid arousing suspicion, he stayed away from the two people standing on the empty ground, and walked towards Rex and Salin.
"Your Highness, it's fine. Our Lord has the situation under control." Nicholas comforted Rex first, and then stood beside Salin to protect him.
Nicholas's life had been pretty good recently. He didn't have to manage anything anymore, and all he did was cultivate the Soul Bead every day. Salin would only call him if he needed anything. Also, this place was very far from the frontline, so he didn't have to contact the people from the Vatican.
Since that was the case, he didn't have to worry about running into the people from the Tribunal.
Back when they besieged Emperor Chanak, two of the three chief judges were killed. Even so, the remaining one was still someone Nicholas didn't dare to provoke. The power of the referee office had weakened, and the two substitute judges were also slightly stronger than Nicholas.
Tyrant saw that his prayers were not working, so his soul started to chant a spell in the water puppet's mind. The long spell was made up of the spirit's language. Countless gray characters flew up and tried to seep into the holy light.
Ghost Curse Magic was an innate skill that could only be used in a ghost state. Tyrant knew that it was impossible for him to escape, so he wanted to use the Curse Spell to pollute the Holy Light. If he succeeded, he would make the owner of the Holy Light suffer the same fate as him.
The price of the curse was his own life. The Tyrant bloodline had a long lifespan, and the power of the curse was even stronger. However, the Divine Light of the Goddess of Nature was not produced by Salin, but something left behind by the Goddess of Nature. Moreover, even if the Goddess of Nature still existed, the curse magic cast by a mere ghost would not be able to harm the Goddess.
Salin was using his perception to investigate the mysteries of the soul. This was a necessary part of his advancement to Magic Shooter. He didn't expect Tyrant to go all out and use his own soul energy to cast a curse. Salin's heart skipped a beat, and he increased the speed at which he absorbed the curse symbols. Tyrant's soul screamed in pain. The curse was interrupted, and his entire soul shrank by half.
It turned out that using the power of the soul also required balance. Increasing or decreasing the speed would cause the soul magic to be interrupted. Salin understood this, so he resumed his original speed of absorption and slowly devoured Tyrant's soul.
A ghost's soul was easier to observe than a human's. The outer layer mimicked the shape of a soul. It was a thin layer of skin condensed from pure energy, like a grape. There were countless cracks on the soul, and it could not be fused together. It was obvious that this Assassin's soul had been injured and had not recovered.
Salin tried to use the water element to seep into the ghost's soul and squeeze it out. He did not absorb the energy from the outer layer, but directly absorbed the soul. When the soul entered the green holy light, it was directly assimilated. There was no purification like Salin had imagined.
What a pity. He thought he would get a blank soul. Salin sighed. After all, this holy light did not belong to him, and he was not good at soul energy. He could only waste such a strange soul like this.
Seeing that Nicholas had arrived, Trish whispered to Rex, then took Rex's badge and ordered the soldiers to retreat. Seeing that His Highness had dismissed them, the soldiers calmed down. This meant that His Highness did not blame them. The appearance of an assassin in the army was also a problem during recruitment. It could not be blamed on the officers of the army.
However, this was not the end. Using the excuse that there was an assassin in the army, Rex ordered a large number of low-level sorcerers to enter the camp and use magic to detect if the assassin had accomplices.
The soldiers naturally had no complaints. If something like this happened as soon as they entered the flag regiment, the soldiers might have resisted. However, a soldier from the army tried to assassinate His Highness in front of everyone. It was normal for His Highness to have such a reaction.
After a search, there were indeed two secret agents from Sacred Rock City hiding in the army. Rex did not kill them. He only recorded their names and marked them with permanent magic marks. Then, he chased them out of Great Liang City and sent them back to the Qinyin Empire. If the two of them entered the territory of the Bitter Water Prefecture again, what awaited them would be death.
It was a tacit understanding for countries to send secret agents to each other. Once discovered, as long as there was no violence, they would be chased out of the country and never allowed to enter again.
Tyrant entering the Water Puppet's body and walking right into the trap was the most unexpected result for Salin. The training field was sealed. Salin had been here with the Water Puppet for more than 40 hours before he completely digested and absorbed Tyrant's soul. Salin did not obtain any memory of Tyrant. He was not a level-nine Magic Shooter, nor was he a necromancer. He could only absorb the power of the soul by relying on the life force left behind by the goddess.
It was not that Salin did not gain anything. At least he had a more thorough understanding of the soul. During the process of absorbing the soul, Salin refused to complete it as soon as possible. Instead, he kept trying to understand his control of balance. Because his Magic String was of a single element, it could only organize water elemental magic. To release the other five elemental magic, he had to redesign the structure of the magic and transform it from the water element.
If he trained to the extreme, this would not affect Salin's elemental balance. The problem was, if Salin wanted to advance to become a Magic Shooter, he had to master all of these at level-six before he could advance.
Salin finally found a path that belonged to him, and that was the rule of balance. Under the rule of balance, he could transform his water element into the elemental forms of the other five elemental elements without causing any conflict. This made it much easier and safer for him to modify the elemental magic of the other five elements.
There was another unexpected gain. Salin obtained a soul leather bag, which was the energy body that Tyrant used to contain the soul. The soul could not be touched, but the energy body could. Tyrant left behind two leather bags. One was the spatial equipment that he carried with him, and the other was the soul leather bag that Salin refined.
In the spatial equipment, there were more than ten pieces of equipment that Salin did not understand. The rest were precious items such as gems and magic cores. There was also a well-preserved female corpse.
Under Nicholas's inspection, this female corpse was confirmed to be a body whose soul had been stolen. This thing was useless to Salin, but after Ghost's refinement, this female corpse's body was not damaged at all. It could be sent to the White Bones Castle directly for the Winged Skeleton to refine into a powerful zombie.
There were more than ten pieces of equipment that Salin's Elemental Eye could not identify, but Rex said that they were equipment for assassins. Salin thought about it and gave these items to Rex. She had an old assassin by her side who could use these items.
Salin did not know what to do with something like a soul leather bag. Although Nicholas wanted it, he could not ask for it. He did not contribute in this battle. It was Salin and Gu Xin who settled it.
Back at the palace, Eleanor's residence, Salin showed the soul leather bag to Eleanor. Eleanor recognized it immediately.
"Master, this thing was refined by Ghost. The success rate is very low."
"You know it?" Salin was surprised.
"Of course. If you give it to me and use it to refine a quiver, I can store more advanced Life Arrows."
"I'll give it to you." Salin laughed and said, "I think Nicholas will be disappointed if he wants it."
Eleanor smiled and said, "Master, you can't do that. Why don't you give it to him or me? I won't make the decision for you."
"Forget it. I'll give it to you. Life Arrows … use life force to shoot. That must be the reason why you did not dare to increase your attack power. With this soul leather bag, you will be able to store a lot of life force in the future. At least it will be less harmful to yourself."
Salin's words exposed Eleanor's weakness. Indeed, the Life Arrows of the Elves were very powerful. However, even with Seven Nights' longbow, if Eleanor wanted to shoot a powerful Life Arrow, she would still have to sacrifice some of her life force.
Back then, Eleanor did not kill Tyrant in one shot because she controlled the strength of the arrow every time. She did not dare to let the attack be too powerful. Otherwise, if she killed her enemy, her life would be reduced too.
If an Elven King sacrificed all of his life to shoot an arrow, even the gods would tremble. Elven Kings, on the other hand, drew power from the Water of the Spring of Life to activate the Life Arrow skill. Eleanor was far away from her homeland and could not find a substitute for the Water of the Spring of Life. Now that she had the soul leather bag, if she refined it into a quiver, she could store the power of the soul in the quiver to replace the consumption of her life force.
With this quiver, the longbow Seven Nights could be considered a complete piece of equipment. Eleanor could use it without worry.
After dealing with the spoils, Salin called Gu Xin over and asked, "Gu Xin, why didn't you tell me that your equipment was bad?"
Gu Xin blushed and said, "Master, I haven't done anything yet."
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