Badge in Azure

Saleen had agreed to Nailisi devouring the three kings because of another reason. All this while, he could not determine the origin of the three kings. He only managed to find out that the three of them had followed a powerful human in the past.

It was extremely perilous leaving something like that beside him. Metatrin City was actually full of loopholes and there was a lack of powerful characters protecting it. Saleen had no choice but to trick the three kings. At the moment, there were two grade-9 sorcerers in the western town, thus forming an interdependent relationship with Metatrin City. Fellett and his wife lived in the city while the winged skeleton protected the waters, so there was no need for the three kings anymore.

“As long as the Holy See’s expeditionary army is defeated this time around, Metatrin City will remain safe within the next one and a half years. In at most a year, my demonic city can begin producing huge numbers of demons. By then, Cuisi’s abilities should be as strong as the three kings or perhaps even stronger. I will have sufficient power at my disposal already. When that time comes, Judikaka will already guess that their presence poses a threat to me. Will the three kings remain passive? Definitely not, I should just attack them now to catch them off guard. If I wait until the Holy See’s army is defeated, then the three kings might be the ones who act first.”

“Master, Soldier requires at least three months to get back, will it be too late by then?”

“No, the broken-edged barrier might not be salvaged, but the Holy See’s army does not have sufficient rations. Very soon, there will be high grade holy masters transporting huge amounts of logistics over to reinforce the army. The crux is rations. Looking at Metatrin City, they will know that they cannot take it down in the foreseeable future and I will not initiate an attack either. We can tussle with this expeditionary army for around six months at the least.”

“Then Holy Rock City will take action!”

“Yes, I will not attack and they cannot breach the city either. Holy Rock City will surely react, however, it won’t be so soon because I have already leaked the information and deployed people to pen a letter. Whether or not Holy Rock City will help my empire, they will have to debate about it among themselves for some time. That’s why I said that there will be a period of stalemate for around six months.”

“In six months, I can evolve into the appearance of a devil and totally grasp the fourth ability. Master, if I eat Eleanor, I can even transform into an elf, what do you think?”

“Nonsense, Eleanor is my follower. Even though the contract has a time limit, I will banish you to the demonic plane if you dare touch her before the contract ends and you shall never return again.” Saleen spoke in a harsh tone.

“After that?”

“You also cannot do it!” Seeing that Nailisi was not afraid of him and was still trying to argue her way out, Saleen said, “The function of your third ability, transforming into a human, isn’t great. You shall use the human form to learn the skills of an elf, the effect will be better.”

“Got it, Master.” Nailisi knew that Saleen was right. By transforming into a human, Nailisi could learn many skills which could not be learned by a demon such as the archery skills of an elf. Nailisi’s powers were growing by the day, in the future she would not need to veil her identity. Disguising herself as a human would be a completely unnecessary thing. If she did not learn the skills unattainable by a demon, then having this ability would be futile.

“Nailisi, Eleanor might be a royal among the elves. Tell her that you want to learn her best archery skill. If she agrees to it, then give her this.” Speaking, Saleen took out a short bow from the devil ring.

This short bow was only as long as Saleen’s arm, it was even shorter than the Qin Eight-sided Sword. The body of the bow was a dark green color. There were no magic patterns on its surface, only some natural wood grain patterns. Both tips of the short bow were fitted with a horn. Saleen had crafted them using the horns of a dragon. The bow chord was suspended atop the dragon horn. The bow chord was fully transparent and slightly thick with three dimensional green magic patterns in it.

At one glance, Nailisi knew that this shortbow contained an immense power. It was as though there was an infinite number of overlapping spaces in the wooden body of the bow and these spaces contained every single attribute in Nailisi’s knowledge.

“Master, where did you get this item?!” Nailisi asked in alarm, she could sense that the bow itself was a horrifying weapon. Even if she transformed into a devil, her soul could get broken by this short bow.

Saleen’s short bow was crafted using the branches of the Tree of Taboo. It was rumored that the Tree of Taboo contained all the rules of every plane. Once a person mastered all of them, they would become a supreme god.

“Stop prying, if Eleanor agrees to the request, I will also make a bow like this for you too.” Naturally, Saleen would not reveal the contract he had signed with the Goddess of Nature. Nailisi would be implicated if he did, and Saleen would not know what consequences there might be.

Afraid that Nailisi would probe further, Saleen added, “If you want the three kings, then you need Eleanor’s help. Her crystal arrow can subdue the three kings. If you master this skill, it will be of great help to me.”

Of course Nailisi envied Eleanor’s archery skills. She put in a lot of effort into learning it, but Eleanor did not want to impart her forte to Nailisi. Nailisi was filled with resentment and wanted to eat Eleanor.

After seeing this bow, Nailisi knew that Eleanor would surely agree. A human expert would not be able to resist the temptation of owning this bow, not to mention an elf.

Saleen would not force Eleanor to impart her secret skill nor use emotions to influence her. Instead, he decided to use a straightforward Sikeqinyan’s method; equal exchange.

Even the emperor of the elves would not be able to obtain a branch from the Tree of Taboo. The four divine trees were born only because of the Goddess of Myers.

Receiving the short bow, Nailisi could not stifle her jubilance. Saleen smiled and said, “Go on, I want to practice magic now.”

Nailisi nodded, then went to look for Eleanor.

Eleanor’s room appeared slightly bigger, its length had exceeded two yards. Situated at the end of her room were numerous human-shaped shooting targets. These targets were made from different materials, there were some made of metal, white rock, thundercloud wood, and divinecherry wood. Eleanor was naturally gifted in magic, but her strongest skill was the Elf Emperor Arrow.

As she lacked materials in the past, she could not produce an elf short bow, so she could only use magic against her adversaries. Now that Saleen had produced a few powerful elf short bows for her, Eleanor began restorative training.

Nailisi did not knock, she simply entered Eleanor’s room, causing Eleanor to be a little displeased. Eleanor tolerated it, knowing that Nailisi was Saleen’s contract creature.

“Did Saleen ask you to look for me?”

“Kind of. Sister Eleanor, I would like to learn the Elf Emperor Arrow.”

“No,” Eleanor rejected flatly. Other than this skill, she could teach Saleen or Nailisi anything else.

“There is a condition.” Nailisi smiled smugly. Looking at her expression, Eleanor hesitated. Eleanor had to abide by the rules of the elfish race, but it was not like the Elf Emperor Arrow had not been imparted to other people before. “The marquis exchanged that bangle to learn my archery skills. But… I had my own motives at that time, I wanted to bring the marquis back to the elf plane and make him join the elfish race.”

Eleanor already knew that Nailisi was a demon and it was impossible for demons to learn the Elf Emperor Arrow. Nevertheless, Nailisi was sent by Saleen and Saleen would never do things he was not confident of.

From her bangle, Nailisi took out the elf short bow which Saleen had handed to her, causing Eleanor’s jaw to drop. Her mouth was almost fully opened, any further and her chin would get detached.

“Teach me the skill and this will be yours.” Nailisi dangled the short bow, looking full of herself. Only Nailisi could make such an expression without looking detestable because of her looks. If anyone else did that, Eleanor might have blew her top and walloped them already. Nailisi’s current appearance was that of the Goddess of Myers and the image of the goddess would stop people from producing evil thoughts.

Eleanor inhaled deeply, then said weakly, “I agree.”

Nailisi squinted as she looked at Eleanor, thinking to herself, “The sound of her breath is very much like that time when Sister Sika was on the bed!”

“It’s great that Sister has agreed to it.” Nailisi addressed Eleanor as ‘Sister’, but in actual fact, Nailisi could be Eleanor’s ancestor. Not everyone could live for ten-thousand years in the sealed environment of a temple.

Receiving the short bow from Nailisi, Eleanor was stuck between feeling melancholy and joyfulness. “The quality of this bow can rival that used by the emperor. The material of this bow can contain any kind of power. A mage can use this as a magic staff, but a swordsman can use this to release the Sword Aura. Judging by its material, this short bow can withstand the power of a Golden Grand Swordmaster’s Sword Aura.”

This was an almighty elf short bow, Eleanor did not even dare use it to fire arrows immediately. She was afraid that the arrow would create a huge opening in Saleen’s temple.

The essence of archery was in penetration. If an elf’s archery had reached its peak, an elf could even shoot an arrow from one plane to another. Archery like this could destroy the power of planar rules.

“A pity, this is such a good bow, but I cannot craft better arrows,” Eleanor sighed.

The feather arrows produced from divinecherry wood were terrific, but if they were used to exemplify any skill from the Elf Emperor Arrow, they would disintegrate at once. Even on the elf plane Saleen’s crafting ability was also considered to be very proficient. Be that as it may, Saleen could only allow the divinecherry arrows to be disposable items.

Nailisi’s heart lurched, “Saleen said that he will make another short bow for me, which meant that Saleen still has adequate materials. Given Master’s character, if he doesn’t have a huge amount of such materials, he wouldn’t give it away so easily.”

“Heh, Sister Eleanor, if you are willing, Master can help you produce a quiver of feather arrows. You have to do me a favor though.”

“What favor? If it is killing someone, I will not do it.”

“Definitely not killing people.” Nailisi answered earnestly, “The three kings are spirits, not humans.”

“Okay, then when should I act?” Eleanor also knew that there had to be a pretty big problem for Nailisi to come look for her. Nailisi was much mightier than Eleanor, she would not need Eleanor’s help.

“We have to wait for three months. During this time, I want to learn the archery skills. By then, Sister’s feather arrows will be produced. Master isn’t willing to participate in this matter, when the time comes, I still have to depend a lot on Sister’s powers.” Nailisi said with a grin, thinking to herself, “If you conceal anything from me and do not impart your mightiest skill, it will be exposed when we are facing the three kings.”