Gabriel attacked with more ferocity. He moved in a graceful manner, his feet barely touching the ground before he lifted off and attacked again.
But Silva was blocking the attacks with ease, his blade parrying them like they were nothing. He had yet to even move a step from where he stood.
Gabriel went in for more attacks, trying to strike from different angles, but it was like he was hitting a wall; there was no space for him to get through at all.
Finally, he took a step back and assumed another stance. His blade crackled with lightning, and he charged in again.
Now that he was using his legacy, he was faster and better, but Silva still easily countered him. However, the wooden sword was getting chipped little by little.
And that was a sign that he was making decent progress, but it was far from enough to trouble Silva.
“That is enough now. I’ve gotten what I need. You can rest wherever you want in the castle while you wait for Amber.
She should be getting things ready, and that will take some time. I’ll be going to get some things done,” Silva said as he dropped his sword and walked out.
One thing had reached his mind, and that was the fact that he had started taking things too slow. Ophelia took a risk for him, and he had to repay her.
All this investigation and trying to gather information was wasting time. He wanted to get things done; he wanted to break into the empire.
Even if he still had to follow the normal plan, he wanted to speed things up significantly. The first part would be to get stronger.
But getting stronger now would either require him to take down the most powerful beings around, and he didn’t have access to that for now.
So he would use something he had obtained a few days back: the synthesis skill. It would allow him to create more powerful spells.
He had a few spells that he believed would work well together and yield massive results.
When he arrived at his room, he got in and locked the door. He sat on the bed and started sorting out the spells he would be merging in his mind.
The first one was a good candidate: Chronos Lock and Hell’s Domain. The two just seemed to make sense together in his mind.
His board of minds also agreed that it was the best idea. The system would not tell him if synthesis would produce a good result, so he had to wing it.
The method he devised involved looking at the details of each spell and determining how they would complement each other.
The domain was a place that used the power of laws to create an area Silva could control. But while he could control the domain, he couldn’t completely control the time within it.
He could probably slow it down a bit or speed it up slightly, but that was all.
However, if he merged Chronos Lock and the domain together, he would gain greater control over the time inside his domain than he had before.
Sure, he would lose Chronos Lock, but in the long run, the risk was worth it. He would be battling some heavy hitters very soon.
“System, I want to use synthesis to merge Chronos Lock and Hell’s Domain,” Silva said.
[Are you sure you want to synthesize both spells? There is no possible way to reverse the merge.]
The system threw out a warning, but Silva ignored it and proceeded.
“Yes, merge them,” he said.
[Beginning synthesis of Hell’s Domain and Chronos Lock.]
It processed for a few seconds before completing.
[You have successfully merged Chronos Lock and Hell’s Domain. You have created a new spell: Hell’s True Domain.]
[Hell’s True Domain: Create a 1km domain where even time falls under your control.]
Silva read the brief description. There was no drawback; he had simply created a superior new spell. He didn’t care for the name, but it didn’t matter to him.
He had merged his first spell, and that was a win. Now, he had to plan what other spells he would merge.
He had already made a list in his mind, but he needed to review and recheck it to ensure the merges would yield better and worthwhile results.
He made his second decision and was about to proceed when there was a knock at the door, and Amber spoke.
“Silva, I’ve prepared everything. We can go now,” she said.
“Alright,” Silva said as he got up. He walked to the door and met Amber.
“So, you told your dad I’ll be coming?” Silva asked as they started walking.
“Yeah. He seemed eager for you to come. I don’t know why, but I don’t think your stay there will be a calm entry and exit,” Amber said.
“Well, the Elvish Empire is probably a place where I’ll encounter a demon king or a king candidate. I think it’ll be fun to go there.
See what the outside world looks like. I’ll have to tell Lily and Drake. They won’t want to let me go alone, but I’ll have to convince them,” Silva said.
“Convince us about what?” Lily asked as she and Drake walked out of a portal.
“Well, you see, I want to go to the Elvish Empire to get someone, and Amber will be taking me there.”
“No,” Lily immediately cut him off.
“Even if you blast off with all the rage and anger at me and Miss Lily for stopping you, we will not let you go without a proper escort.
Sadly, Master Silva, this is not up for debate, as we would rather fight you than let you go to that place alone,” Drake said.
“That’s all,” Lily added.
Silva was stunned by this. He couldn’t even be mad; he was just amazed at how they didn’t waste a second to refuse him, even willing to fight him.