The huge stone pillar swept across, and the platform collapsed in an instant. The platform was only about two meters tall, and the Cardinals sitting on it tried to fly up, but a few other Assassins pounced on them, and they could only roll backwards.
The remaining four assassins, who had fused with creatures from other planes, expanded their bodies by several times. The chains that passed through their bodies became their weapons. With a swing of the chains, they sealed the space within dozens of meters.
Originally, they were only rank 4 or 5 assassins. After fusing with creatures from other planes, their strength suddenly doubled. However, the price was that their lives would definitely not be able to last until the next sunrise.
Byrne has been sneaking into Glory City for some time now. These cardinals have never been so concentrated. Therefore, the previous assassination was just a start. What the assassins were waiting for was this moment.
In this profession, this kind of assassination was called a chain trap. The second attack was very hidden and carried out when the target thought that it was impossible.
In the sky above Glory City, a bloody mark crossed the sky. This was an abnormal scene that would only appear when a city blessed by the gods was injured.
No matter what the result of this assassination was, the loss of Glory City was already irrecoverable. Although Glory City's power was taken away, spiritually, it was still a sacred place in the hearts of believers. This assassination would bring a huge impact to the Vatican and an irreparable loss of reputation.
In the Hell of God's Punishment, Salin was still living a leisurely life in Rafael's magic tower. Every day, aside from a short meditation and doing some interesting magic experiments, he would be together with Shika.
Neris busied herself and became a real maid. The lifespan of the creatures here was not too long. Because of the lack of care, their degradation was more serious over the past thousand years. The strength of the magical beasts created by these people had dropped greatly. In the past, none of the synthesized magical beasts created by Rafael were lower than rank 9.
Neris's hunting was also completely unnecessary. If Salin was willing, these magical beasts would still listen to his command and automatically walk back to the magic tower to wait for handling.
Salin had unknowingly broken through the rank 7 boundary. Except for the Magic String, he could already freely control rank 8 magic. This was a very difficult phenomenon to explain. Salin could only regard this as the rule of the demiplane. If in the Myers Continent's plane, magic strings were insufficient, then even if one's understanding of magic reached a certain level, one would absolutely not be able to use magic that surpassed their level.
This phenomenon deepened Salin's understanding of the rules. His energy balance rules might be similar in any plane, and the rules corresponding to magic strings and ranks in the Myers Continent might not necessarily be accurate in the Demiplane. In any case, Salin understood why Jason told him not to enter the Six Yuan Space.
The accumulation of Magic Strings didn't require too much time. For mages, comprehension of realms was the most difficult thing. In the Six Primordial Space, everything became easier, which was detrimental to accumulation.
His teacher's expectations of him were too high, so he had him train on the tenth floor of the Magic Tower.
On this day, the ninth rank magic core was completely used up. Salin glanced at the magic clock. He had been in the Hell of Divine Punishment for quite some time now, and his understanding of the natural laws had reached a bottleneck. If he wanted to improve, he would need to accumulate more experience. Just relying on meditation and magical experiments would make it difficult to make any progress.
It was just that Rex had only been here once to send new Magic Shooters over and pick up five of them. It would take at least three months for Rex to come here again. Thinking of this, Salin decided to use three months to refine a piece of equipment that he needed.
Salin knew Water Flame Alchemy and was proficient in Figaro's magic formula. He had probably refined hundreds of pieces of equipment himself, but this time, the equipment he was going to refine would definitely surpass any of the previous ones. Even Eleanor's Longbow Seven Nights couldn't compare to it.
This time, he was going to refine the main trunk of the four sacred trees.
The Tree of Life, the Tree of Elements, the Tree of Wisdom, and the Tree of Taboo. These four dead sacred trees still had great power and special attributes. If they were used to refine equipment, no matter how ordinary the technique was, they could at least be used to refine something at the level of a sacred tool. In ancient times, there were no sacred tools at all, and the level of things from that time couldn't be distinguished.
But in the present day, sacred artifacts were not very common.
The space inside Rafael's Magic Tower was different from that of the Myers Continent. It looked extremely small on the outside, but when it was really used, it was extremely huge. This kind of technology that compressed space without affecting human activities was rare in the Myers Continent because it would consume too many high-level magic cores, and mages were basically unwilling to use it.
These four dead sacred trees were left by Goddess Myers to the contractors. In essence, this was part of the deal. Rex didn't need this thing. Apart from refining equipment for his trusted followers, Salin wouldn't leak the materials of the sacred trees. In addition to refining some special equipment for Silva, Eleanor, Rex, and the others, Salin also refined a magic robe for himself. After that, he never used these four sacred trees again.
Now, like a carpenter, he began to take out the sacred trees one by one and began to cut the materials.
The bark of the sacred trees was very hard, and knives and saws couldn't leave any marks on it. He could only use the water to slowly cut it, but it was much more laborious than cutting white stones. After Salin wrapped the magic water with water flames, the cutting speed was still extremely slow. He simply divided the water into hundreds of parts and decomposed the materials at the same time.
In fact, before this, Salin had already tried his best to break down the sacred trees. It took him a lot of time to cut off the roots, and then the crown. Thousands of branches were enough to make a mage collapse. At that time, Salin had used large alchemy machinery and the mechanical undead as coolies to help him day and night. Now, only the core trunk of the four sacred trees was left, which was six meters in diameter and a hundred meters tall.
Like ordinary plants, the sacred trees had growth rings, veins, and detailed veins. The space inside the ten-story Magic Tower could extend upwards for more than a hundred meters, but not horizontally. This was the center of the mountain, so Rafael couldn't make too many changes to the space.
The main trunk of the four sacred trees was cut into square cross-sections, standing around Salin. Salin floated at a height of eighty-four meters, took out the mechanical core of the Sky Castle, and slowly opened it.
The mechanical core of the Sky Castle still lacked the Heart of the Sky. The Heart of the Sky was in Jason's hands, and Salin didn't need it. He couldn't build a Sky Castle at all. What he wanted to build now was a Magic Tower, a Magic Tower that could take root anywhere at any time and could fly.
He had already conceived this idea long ago, and the materials had been in the process of preparing. Now that almost all the branches of the sacred trees had been refined by him, he only had to wait for the four sacred trees to merge into one and open up a space in it. Then, he could refine the Magic Tower that Salin dreamed of.
A twenty-four-story Magic Tower was the highest level that humans had ever reached, and even the gods had to look up to it.
The emperor of the First Dynasty was a level-18 powerhouse, and he had led humans to sweep through countless planes. Before the First Dynasty, a mage who had reached level-24 was simply an invincible existence. If such a human was still in the Myers Continent plane, the Lord of Light wouldn't even dare to stay in this plane for a moment, let alone preach.
Salin understood a principle in Rafael's Magic Tower. He didn't need to reach such a strong level to understand many details of that level, so he could control a Magic Tower that no one had tried to refine for tens of thousands of years.
The materials of the four sacred trees ensured that the Magic Tower wouldn't collapse and wouldn't be broken by any attack. Goddess Myers should be a level-18 god, and her sacred tree should be able to withstand attacks of the same level.
The mechanical core of the Sky Castle separated thousands of mechanical tentacles, like petals, and tried to integrate into the trunk of the four sacred trees.
This process didn't require Salin's help. What Salin was doing now was to refine a magic array on the trunk of the sacred tree above the mechanical core of the Sky Castle, following the grain of the sacred tree.
The crystallized metal of the mechanical core was abnormally soft, and it also fused along the grain of the sacred tree. On the trunk of the sacred tree, the magic runes that Salin had refined also flickered one by one, assisting the mechanical core of the Sky Castle.
To drive such a huge piece of flying equipment like the Sky Castle, the power needed was too terrifying. Salin only wanted his Magic Tower to fly, and the consumption of magic cores was acceptable.
Salin knew that his enemy was absolutely powerful, but he had never lost confidence, because he himself would become stronger and stronger.
The golden light completely seeped into the sacred tree, following the grain and veins of the sacred tree, and running through all parts of the upper and lower hundreds of meters. Salin had already set up the magic array for embedding the magic cores, and he was only waiting for the mechanical core of the Sky Castle to completely fuse with the trunk of the sacred tree.
Salin didn't let Sicar avoid it. The two children looked at the tall sacred tree and giggled. Salin found that the two children rarely cried, and they liked to watch all the magic experiments that he carried out.
If these two little guys learned the skills of priests, they would definitely reach the level of Sicar when they reached adulthood. With some simple training, they would almost be able to go a step further.
Nelis's expression was a little gloomy. What Salin was refining could only be carried out in Rafael's magic tower. If it was refined in the Myers Continent, it could hardly be hidden from any powerhouse. This thing would attract the attention of all powerhouses, and they might even rob it regardless of some agreements.
The best equipment that Salin could refine in his life was probably this Magic Tower, because after this, he would not be able to obtain suitable materials to refine equipment suitable for mages of all levels.
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