Badge in Azure Chapter 880 - The Power of Fear (Part 1)

Chapter 880: The Power of Fear (Part 1)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The Angel of Fear rejected that thinking immediately. If that human had possessed similar attacking abilities, it knew that it would have died long ago. The attack was so powerful that it was able to kill its partner from twenty miles away. It must have been unleashed from some sort of equipment. Humans possessed many kinds of such equipment but no matter how powerful they might be, their equipment would never possess the ability to attack continuously.
Surely a human, who was below grade-10 and had already lost the power of his equipment, was nothing to be fearful of?
At that thought, the Angel of Fear killed the pests calmly and threw their soul shards into the huge mouth on her stomach.
Beside the crystal tower, Saleen unleashed his divine tree magic tower. It was twenty-four floors high and each level was only six yards tall, so the entire magic tower was one-hundred and forty-four yards tall. The difference between the divine tree magic tower and other ordinary magic towers was that there were only four sides to the former instead of six for the latter. There were no windows on the floors and not even a door on the first level.
Once the divine tree magic tower was firmly on the ground, the magic arrays and magic patterns on the tower lit up. Saleen teleported himself, along with Nailisi and the water puppet, directly into the divine tree magic tower.
At that moment, there was no space from the eighteenth floor and above in the divine tree magic tower. The mechanical core of Sky City had been trying to find its place within the magic tower and eventually settled on the sixteenth floor. Saleen brought Nailisi and the water puppet to the seventeenth floor. The sixteenth floor was still out of bounds to Nailisi and water puppet at the moment, so Saleen would control the entire magic tower from the seventeenth floor at the moment.
Actually, it did not matter which floor Saleen controlled the tower from, but he did not wish to fight the Angel of Fear on low grounds. After all, it was always more advantageous for mages to fight from a higher ground.
The lowest floor of the divine tree magic tower was filled with elf magic arrays. Once Saleen entered the magic tower, he began to control the magic arrays on the floor first. Hundreds of roots branched out from beneath the magic tower and burrowed into the ground. The roots were formed by elf magic. They would borrow the power of the divine tree and simultaneously absorb the abundant ground elements so that the roots would grow longer and stronger, ultimately burrowing as deep as six-hundred yards into the ground.
The roots of the divine tree extended out to two miles from the magic tower. The roots would serve to transport energy to and from the magic tower, allowing the magic tower and the ground to function as one entity.
Saleen felt slightly more assured. Although the magic tower was only a prototype, its defense abilities were already astounding.
There was nothing else he could do if even the divine tree magic tower was unable to resist the Angel of Fear’s attack. Although his devil suit was powerful, at the end of the day, it was just something refined by a grade-10 sorcerer. The only thing he could depend on was the material of the divine tree. He prayed that the things that the Goddess of Myers had left behind for him would be able to counter the Angel of Fear.
Once the roots of the divine tree magic tower had extended fully, Saleen decided to take back all his elemental stone statue soldiers. They turned into streams of ground element as they were absorbed back into Saleen’s ground-element elemental badge.
The elemental stone statue soldiers might be powerful in their attacks, but they were also ineffective against the pests. After taking back the stone statue soldiers, Saleen unleashed the Blue Ice Maidens.
One-hundred and forty-four blue ice maidens split themselves up into each level of the magic tower and only Gloria stayed by the side of Saleen.
When Gloria saw the interior of the magic tower, she was shocked and asked, “Master, you are a human, why would you possess anything from the Gods?”
“What’s wrong?” Saleen had no idea why Gloria would ask such a question, but he was sure that there must be a reason for it.
“Humans have no need for anything from the Gods. Master, you should rely on your own abilities to kill the enemy. That is the true pride of humans!”
“Hmm, you make sense, but Gloria, I am only a grade-8 sorcerer. You are a grade-10 elemental leader, Nailisi is a grade-9 demon, and Rossen is a grade-8 elemental… mage. Tell me, how can I fight against a grade-12 Angel of Fear?”
“The difference in grades doesn’t represent everything. Master, haven’t you already killed one Angel of Fear? It is such a pity. There is a completely perfect soul within the Angel of Fear’s body. The soul is made up of the best soul shards and possess great power. If Master is able to get his hands on the soul and absorb it, Master will immediately become a grade-12 mage.”
“No, Gloria, you don’t understand…” Saleen did not know how to explain it to Gloria. The humans of the Myers Mainland had become so weak that they could not be compared to those in the past. He might be one of the strongest mages on the Myers Mainland, but he was still helpless against a grade-12 Angel of Fear.
Indeed, Gloria did not understand what Saleen was saying. In her opinion, there were countless ways for a human to defeat the grade-12 Angel of Fear. Even if Saleen was slightly weaker, he should still have at least one-hundred ways to deal with the Angel of Fear.
“You will control the blue ice maidens to use their spells to attack any creatures that try to come close to the magic tower but keep yourself out of it. I will need your most powerful technique at the most crucial moment.”
“Most powerful technique?”
“You are a grade-10 water-element creature, so you should be able to cast a grade-11 spell. Maybe only once, but that will be enough,” Saleen said patiently.
“My grade-11 spell is the Rainbow spell…” Gloria replied.
The Rainbow spell was purely a movement spell. In order to develop a soul, Gloria did not learn any attack spells when she was still at grade-10. Instead, she advanced her grade-10 Rainbow spell. At the most crucial moment, a grade-11 Rainbow spell would help her to move more than one-hundred miles away.
Learning movement spells was due to the fact that all lifeforms would naturally want to protect themselves, especially those that possessed souls. If Gloria used her grade-11 Rainbow spell, even the grade-12 Angel of Fear would not be able to do anything about it.
Saleen was frustrated. To think that Gloria was just an elemental creature that was afraid of death! If she could cast a grade-11 water-element magic attack, he could boost her with a Frost and Snow magic pattern. With the power of the magic tower, the attack could definitely cause serious damage to grade-12 creatures.
Saleen still possessed one more broken jade. He would be able to control the Angel of Fear as long as he could insert the broken jade into its body.
Saleen knew that that was his only chance. If he was able to subdue the Angel of Fear, then he would have a chance to venture deeper into the Imperial City of the Abyss.
Deep down, Saleen had never given up. After bringing out the divine tree magic tower, he was already planning how to control the Angel of Fear.
The Angel of Fear slowly walked over, armed with a long knife. She was less than five miles away from the divine tree magic tower. At that point in time, she finally saw the magic tower.
“How can this be?!” The Angel of Fear could not help but mutter to herself when she saw the divine tree magic tower.
It was obviously a human mage so how could he possibly possess God’s equipment? Besides, the human was definitely not a disciple. Human mages were the natural enemies of disciples!
The Angel of Fear’s memories were made up of countless broken pieces, which formed a complete soul once they were all pieced together. Everything she knew was left behind by the humans of tens of thousands of years ago.
The humans of tens of thousands of years ago were the ones that constantly initiated conquests of various dimensions of other lifeforms and Gods. Back then, humans were so proud and arrogant that they would never tolerate any faith or religion and would never possess any Godly items. Even if they killed the Gods, humans would also refine their items into human objects in order to erase every trace of the Gods.
The magic tower clearly still possessed the Power of Faith left behind by the Gods!
“Could it be… that the humans have fallen?” The Angel of Fear had hidden herself in the Imperial City for so many years. Exactly how long had she slept? The Angel of Fear’s mind was in a mess. The face on her stomach began to howl impatiently.
“Keep quiet!” The Angel of Fear shouted. Her voice vibrated across the waters and all the pests nearby began to collapse and turn into piles of dust. They were no longer able to merge together again.
None of the pests dared to escape. They laid down cautiously and waited for the Angel of Fear’s slaughter.
The Angel of Fear no longer bothered with the pests. She stomped her feet on the ground and a huge crater of one-hundred yards in diameter appeared. Her body tunneled through the waters and almost instantaneously, she crossed over five miles to appear in front of the magic tower and was about to swing her knife down.
Items of the Gods were not foreign to the Angel of Fear. There were Gods of very low grades as well and the lowest of them would be the same grade as her, which was grade-12. The equipment of Gods was not comparable to those of humans’. Grade-12 Godly equipment would definitely be hacked in half by her knife.
There was no way Saleen would allow the Angel of Fear to attack so brazenly. From within the tower, the one-hundred and forty-four blue ice maidens unleashed Dark Blue Howl all at the same time.
All the water elements from within the range of a few miles began to move and form an elemental creature of more than one-thousand yards tall. The shape of the elemental creature was vague and was like a human face on a giant blob of water. The mouth on this face opened wide and all the water elements harnessed within the blob of water shot out, bringing with them a howl that was deafening to all souls.
Both sides were so close to each other that Saleen could see directly what was happening outside the magic tower. There was blade on the opposite side of the Angel of Fear’s seven yard long knife. The knife was narrow and black metal in color. Rich black-metal aura wriggled on the sword, as if it was the faces of humans.
Deep Blue Howl was a grade-9 spell. When it was used by more than one-hundred water-element creatures at the same time and boosted with the power of the magic tower, the spell advanced to grade-10 directly and became a brand new water-element spell. That grade-10 spell was more powerful than all other grade-10 spells. That was the power of the magic tower. It was able to increase the power of a grade-10 spell into that of grade-11.
The face on the Angel of Fear’s stomach howled furiously. It was a display of hatred towards both Gods and life. The aura of the Goddess of Myers enraged it. The faces on Angel of Fear’s long knife began to howl as well. She swung her knife and it hacked into the blob of water formed by Deep Water Howl.
Everything became silent all of a sudden. All the crazy howling, the explosion from the Angel of Fear crossing five miles, and the impact of her long knife hacking at the one-thousand yard tall elemental creature…
Every sound seemed to have been sucked into the Angel of Fear’s long knife. Then, they seemed to be unleashed instantaneously to form a beam of light that was a one-thousand yard long, collapsing the grade-10 spell that was cast by the one-hundred and forty-four blue ice maidens.
The collateral damage of the knife included destroying all the broken walls within a thousand yards. A canal of one-hundred yards depth formed where the blade of the knife pointed.