Badge in Azure

The reason Saleen had not been able to develop territorial powers was because he had trained in the power of the stars. The instant the Starline Armament modification finished, his water element was restored immediately, which made him realize the secrets of water element.

It would have all come a lot more naturally, and he would have been able to develop territorial powers if Saleen did not have the Starline Armament.

However, if that had been the case, Saleen might have only been able to acquire a branch of some kind of territorial powers instead of the basic territorial powers of one of the six major elements.

The moment Saleen’s Water Element Territory was completed, his Water Flame Alchemy’s power grew. The Water Fox felt that she was no longer able to keep up with Saleen’s drain. The Blue Ice Maidens in Saleen’s elemental badge began to provide Saleen with power as well.

With the Blue Ice Maiden joining the crafting of the magic tower, all the other five elemental creatures chipped in as well. The power of the six badges in Saleen’s belt gradually began to work together.

Saleen had also unintentionally invoked the other star charts and starlines on his magic robe. Dazzling starlight shone on his belt.

The constellation power did not participate in the crafting of the tower and simply maintained Saleen’s constitutional balance. Saleen was able to sustain the crafting of the tower at full force. What he acquired from the Water Fox and the Blue Ice Maiden was siphoned endlessly into the tower.

The magic patterns within the tower were all converted. Torrential power welled up and the initially independent floors of the tower were all flooded by the power of water element, so much so that Saleen was able to hear the sound of water flowing in raging torrents.

Whoosh!

All the dimension stones embedded in the elementite of the 24th floor were flushed out, and all the pieces of elementite melded into one. Intense water element storms formed in the spaces of the elementite, and fierce lightning was conjured within the storms.

The two types of powers that Saleen mastered—water element and lightning—merged together and expanded the space on the 24th floor. Rumbling was heard. There was thunder and the raging howl of the water element.

The space in the tower was expanded over 200 meters in diameter, and it kept going.

Saleen willed the halt of the expansion when it reached 360 meters. According to his calculations, if the expansion continued, his powers would not be able to maintain it.

The power of water element and lightning was transmitted downward. The 23rd floor of the tower began to expand.

Most magic towers had spatial properties of some sort, making the internal space look bigger than what was suggested by its outer appearance. Saleen’s Magical Element Tower had lacked such properties, as the diameter was expanded to 360 meters and the height was raised to 120 meters.

That ratio was smaller than the dimension stones Saleen owned and paled in comparison to the Starline Ring. However, it humans were capable to stay in it to train.

Saleen would be able to place larger pieces of alchemical machinery and install magic power furnaces of a greater scale.

The source of power for tower was the magic power furnaces. However, due to spatial restraints, the magic power furnaces were the smallest. With the place expanded, Saleen was able to install the largest magic power furnace in the Ancient.

Only a large magic power furnace would be able to provide more power, enabling enhancement of the tower in offense, defense, flight, or any other aspects.

The Water Fox was the first to be exhausted, while the Blue Ice Maidens and the other five elemental creatures had seemingly inexhaustible power. She had just resurrected Nailisi and that had taken a serious toll on her.

If it had not been for her massive power storage and the fact that she was a level 10 creature, the Water Fox would have been totally drained a long time ago.

However, seeing the changes to Saleen’s tower, the Water Fox gritted her teeth and told Saleen, “My liege, release the limit of my heart!”

Saleen did not ask any further and did not care about the Water Fox’s new way of addressing him. He unlocked the limiter on the heart of the Goddess of Myers. The Water Fox, which had been hiding within, spit out a clear blue bead. The bead flew into Saleen’s body, making him feel as if his body had expanded.

He felt like his entire body was submerged in thick water element, like he had turned into a water elemental creature. His body of water element merged easily with the bead. His magic chords were infused in the bead and absorbed the pure water elemental power in a frenzy.

Saleen’s control of the Water Flame grew even stronger. The Water Flame seeped into every floor of the tower with the water element, refining every single floor. However, the lower they went, the weaker his ability to control the water element became.

Saleen burst open six floors without any problems until he reached the 16th floor, where the mechanical core of the Sky City began to absorb his water elemental powers as well.

Saleen was at his wit’s end. The mechanical core absorbed so much energy, it had Saleen spit out the Water Fox’s bead in three seconds and put the Water Flame away. Over half of the Water Flame disappeared, absorbed by the mechanical core of the Sky City.

Saleen stopped refining the Magical Element Tower. The 24th floor to the 17th floor were all expanded, but when his powers hit the 16th floor, the mechanical core’s power was simply too terrifying.

Saleen figured that even if he threw all of his elemental creatures into it, he would not last against the absorption for one minute.

However, Saleen did not feel that he had failed at all. What he gained far exceeded his expectations. The elementite that Gaine had modified was suitable for crafting. He would not be able to modify the level 18 material otherwise.

While the lower 15 floors were not expanded, it was sufficient. Defense and offense on every floor was changed. All magic patterns were converted into water elemental patterns.

Nailisi laughed painfully, seeing the tower expanded from the 17th floor.

“Master has finally developed territorial powers. Sika, get ready to leave!”

The oracle outside the pool had left a long time ago, leaving only a huge divine rune charm array behind. There was a teleportation portal stacked on top of the array. It would enable him to teleport there immediately if anything happened with the magic tower.

Over a hundred angels were turned into energy stones, supplying endless energy to keep the pool sealed.

Saleen looked at the bead in his hand, which was tarnished dull.

“Myers, let me finish one more thing and you’ll have your freedom.” Saleen handed the bead back to the Water Fox.

The Water Fox was elated, but replied plainly, “thank you, my liege.”

“Better stick to addressing me as ‘Your Highness’. You still have to play the part of the Goddess of Myers’ double.”

“Indeed, Your Highness.” The Water Fox smiled. Her gamble paid off. Saleen had no desire for her water element essence. She has spent hundreds of thousands of years to develop the bead. Without it, it would be nearly impossible for her to get restored in the future.

Saleen siphoned divine power in the Ring of Gifts to the Water Fox, allowing her powers to be restored. Saleen returned to the 17th floor. The crafting process only took him ten days. What he truly found exhausting was the work he did with the top six floors.

While the 16th floor had been expanded with the top six floors, it was completely taken over by the mechanical core of the Sky City, which meant that it was unable to accommodate people.

Saleen took back control from the water puppet after returning to the 17th floor and began to absorb the cold waters from below. The cold water that burst from the spring had similar effects to Water Flame, and he saw no reason to waste it.

Things that would be able to carry the water, aside from the Magical Element Tower, were limited.

The freezing water was sucked into the magic tower one layer after another. The lower spaces of the tower were not that big. Saleen stopped after water flooded the 12th floor. There was a possibility that it was the last time they would be at the pool. Saleen cast a huge ice lance from the tower, stabbing the teleportation portal at the bottom of the lake.

Hundreds of ice lances split and rained down on the array, eventually dismantling it. The holy prose on top was wiped clean.

Saleen destroyed the teleportation portal and had no intentions of entering the temple again. The divine crystals and divine persona were already obtained. Furthermore, it was a divine persona of a water elemental god.

He no longer feared lacking materials. The divine persona alone was enough to enable him to advance all the way beyond level 15.

Refining a divine persona and making it a part of his mage equipment was what Saleen wanted. The gift left behind by the Goddess of Myers had been a good one. It was a pity that he remained staunchly against becoming her believer.

Saleen had two people he respected the most, one being his teacher, Jason, and the other being the emperor of the First Dynasty.

The founding emperor of the First Dynasty, the King of Glory, killed 18 king of gods, refining the divine personas of all 18 of them into his own crown. Furthermore, he only used his own followers in the killing of the 18 king of gods. The achievement had been passed between the mages for thousands of years without being lost.

It was the glory of humans, a species that had once been on every single plane of the crystal wall system.

After the teleportation portal was destroyed, Saleen activated the magic power furnace, and the tower shot up at a great speed. Power of water element emanated from the tower, wrapping it up. Lightning powers sparked in the elementite, forcing the water element out and forming a Water Element Territory.

The pool began to boil. The tower reached a speed that it had never before, enabling it to move faster than in the air. The tower burst out of the water and rammed straight into the divine rune charm array.

The magic power furnace consumed thousands of magic nuclei instantly, coalescing the Water Element Territory until it became as solid as crystal.

The Territory of Light split, and the Magical Element Tower tore through the sky. Without the oracle to man the Territory of Light, there was no stopping the tower.

“Stay back!” The divine rune charm array was restored. Half of the oracle emerged from the teleportation portal, and a beam of holy light shot from the oracle’s palm.

There seemed to be millions of angels howling in the beam, as if they were about to tear everything in front of them apart.