One more to go.
Nicholas used one of the weaker Divine Punishment spells — Judgement of Justice.
Nicholas already had more than 100,000 complete souls in his Fallen Scepter. However, if he wanted to use the powerful Divine Punishment Spell, not only would it require a lot of equipment, but he would also need to have more than a million souls before he could barely use it.
Judgment of Justice itself had a prerequisite. It had to be used on a real heretic. It had to be able to purify the heretic's soul and make it lose the power of faith. However, it was different from the powerful Divine Punishment. Depriving the opponent of their power of faith did not make them lose their ability to fight.
However, Nicholas was not fighting one-on-one. There were six taller Elemental Stone Soldiers around the light blue monster.
This time, the Elemental Stone Soldier's magic war hammer smashed the monster into pieces. Nicholas was overjoyed. He tapped the Fallen Scepter on the ground, and divine light radiated in all directions. A strong, condensed soul was absorbed into the Crimson Soul Tower.
Neris rushed forward and collected the shattered flesh of the giant monster into the Fallen Purgatory. Rules appeared in the Fallen Purgatory, but the land and sky were very fragile. More materials were needed to complete and evolve them.
Boom!
The second monster stuck in the temple door exploded, causing a crack to appear on the broken temple door.
Then, a third monster easily squeezed through the crack and climbed out.
Salin was speechless. There might be a large number of monsters hidden in the temple. The problem was, no matter how many monsters crawled out one by one, they were all nourishment for Nicholas. There was no killing power at all.
Salin was curious. He approached Nicholas and released an Ice Arrow. This was a level-four spell. Salin's mental power locked onto the third monster. It could not dodge and could only take it head-on.
The sharp Ice Arrow pierced the monster's light blue bone armor at a vertical angle and slid away. Salin used his Elemental Eyes to observe carefully. He discovered that the monster's bone armor was layered, and each layer was extremely thin. It was half a meter thick, and there were thousands of layers stacked on top of each other.
In comparison, the strength of the blue monster's soul did not match. Although Salin's Ice Arrow was a level-four spell, its killing power was not low. Yet, it could be slid away by the bone armor. This showed how strong the creature's defense was.
Back when Salin had just become a Magician, an Icicle could pierce through a hard stone wall. The attack power of a level-four Ice Arrow was countless times stronger.
After hesitating for a moment, Salin still did not fight with Neris for this material. The 12 Movements of Purgatory were the most powerful equipment among the people around Salin, and their growth was limitless.
Salin couldn't calculate the power of opening all twelve spaces at once. Now that he had just opened up a second space, it was not worth it to compete with Nelis for these materials.
As if sensing Salin's thoughts, Nelis whispered to Salin, "Master, I can provide you with these materials in the future. It's just a little less, and the refining speed is also very slow, but it's still better than this natural material."
Salin just smiled and watched Nicholas fight the third monster.
This time, Nicholas used Judgement again. After depriving the Divine Spell's buff, he had the six Elemental Stone Soldiers crush the monster and collect its soul.
The guy in the temple did not seem to know that such a simple and boring repetition was meaningless. He released forty-four monsters, and Nicholas kept their souls into the Crimson Soul Tower.
Not only did Nicholas' mental power not decline, but it also increased a lot. In the past, when he used divine spells, he borrowed the power of the gods. Even if he won the battle, the mage himself did not gain much. All the benefits belonged to the gods. But now, Nicholas was a fallen mage. After collecting these souls, in the ninth floor of the Crimson Soul Tower, the memories of the forty-four powerful and simple souls were washed away, and they worshiped his soul brand. The mental power that Nicholas consumed was constantly replenished by the souls in the Crimson Soul Tower. He was a hundred times more energetic than before the battle.
Seeing that the temple had quietened down, and the sharp female voice no longer chanted any incantations, Salin let everyone enter the temple. In front, Nelis had already taken out the Bone Shield and the gray memory. With the spear in hand, Nelis was not afraid. If the monsters in the temple were really powerful, they would have jumped out and killed everyone long ago.
Moreover, the space here was stable, unlike the Abyss King City, which was isolated from the outside world. In other words, this place was restricted by the rules of the plane, and there would definitely not be any creatures above level-12.
The upper floor of the temple was full of cracks, and seawater filled the temple. The walls were peeling, and the pillars had collapsed. There was no life, and it was pitch-black. Nelis, in the spirit of plucking feathers from geese, poked around with the gray memory, and collected all the materials that could be collected into the 12 Movements of Purgatory.
Many of the materials used to build the temple of the Goddess were very precious. The temple that Salin had entered for the first time was the same. It was just that Salin did not have the ability to do so at that time. Otherwise, he would have had the same idea.
The construction drawings of the temples of the Goddess of Nature were all different, but there was one thing in common. There would definitely be a main temple and twenty-four subsidiary temples. These temples were originally filled with transparent creatures, but now they were empty, leaving only bottomless tunnels.
Salin thought for a moment and released the Fluorescence Spell, illuminating the surrounding space for hundreds of meters. His Elemental Eyes could see everything clearly, but fighting under normal light would make him feel better. For Nicholas, this would also reduce the consumption.
Nicholas seemed to be the weakest of the three, but he was very important to Salin. Salin was still counting on Nicholas to help him destroy the internal stability of the Vatican. If he could attract more mages to fall, the division of the Vatican would be inevitable.
They walked past the subsidiary temples one by one, but Salin did not find anything. He could not even detect the location of the shrill female voice at the beginning.
The construction of this temple was also very strange. The uppermost temple was dilapidated and soaked in seawater, but the temple below was sealed. Salin's Ring of Grace was needed to pass through many places. It was as if they knew that the temple would sink into the sea when they built it.
"Nicholas, can you sense the existence of that thing?" Salin finally opened his mouth to ask Nicholas. He didn't understand. His spiritual power and soul were the strongest among the three of them. If the level of the female voice was high enough, why didn't she go out and fight him? If the level of this existence was low, how did she block his senses?
Nicholas shook his head. He was also puzzled by this situation.
"We've passed through twelve subsidiary temples, right?" Salin asked Nelis again.
"Master, including the broken one, it's already thirteen."
Salin felt that danger was quietly approaching. Without hesitation, he released twenty-four Night Fangs and surrounded the three of them. The Night Fangs were small enough to protect themselves in such an enclosed space, compared to the Elemental Stone Soldiers.
A pale blue light suddenly appeared in the darkness and went straight to Salin's back.
The dark elemental short swords in the hands of two Night Fangs fiercely slashed the blue light. With a painful groan, the blue light revealed its original form. It was a pale blue creature that looked no different from a human. This creature was different from the transparent creatures outside. It did not have two tentacles, and its facial features were very clear.
One of the short swords of the Night Fangs slashed its right hand, causing one of its scimitars to fall. The other sword pierced into its neck, almost cutting its neck off. Its head hung softly to one side.
Salin sneered. There were so many elemental creatures around him. Trying to assassinate him?
"Hmph!"
A cold voice came from a tunnel ahead. Nelis casually put away the half-dead humanoid creature and its scimitar into the Fallen Purgatory.
Salin thought for a moment and activated the magic on the Demonic God Set. Six Stone Soldiers that were only two meters tall appeared and walked into the tunnel ahead.
Banging sounds could be heard continuously. The six Stone Soldiers were attacked in the tunnel. Salin had already seen the enemies clearly.
Dozens of pale blue humanoid creatures surrounded the six Stone Soldiers. These pale blue humanoid creatures had begun to wear real armor, and the weapons in their hands were more varied.
Thirty-two!
Salin counted the number of enemies. He summoned the Stone Soldiers to retreat and block the tunnel. The combat power of these 32 humanoid creatures was much stronger than that of the giant monsters. It was obvious that they possessed intelligence. Each of the creatures was at the ninth level.
The Night Fangs could defeat these creatures. Salin was not worried about winning. However, he did not know what the sharp female voice was and where it was hiding.
Salin did not dare to underestimate it anymore. This was because the creatures controlled by the female voice were all level-nine. In other words, it was at least a level-ten creature.
An intelligent level-ten creature was harder to deal with than a level-ten magical beast.
The thirty-two blue creatures approached the tunnel. Salin's Stone Soldiers waved their battle axes to stop these creatures from passing through. Nelis gripped her spear tightly and asked, "Master, what do we do?"
In this terrain, Nelis was confident that she could deal with these creatures one by one. However, her gray memory also consumed a lot of mental strength. The dragon crystal in the gray memory could recover her mental strength, but there was a limit. If all thirty-two level-nine creatures were killed, Nelis's remaining combat power would be negligible.
"Master, let me try?" Nicholas volunteered.
"Okay, here. I feel that the temple ahead is strange." Salin said again, "Wait a little longer. You guys rest. When the second batch of Stone Soldiers appears, you can attack.
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