The skill that Saleen was using was something researched by mages, yet few would have been willing to use it in battle, as the research itself would have turned out to be nothing after all. However, Saleen had already researched just about all that was to be researched in that regard.
Those stemmed the ideas he had when his level was still low. Saleen, at that time, never thought that he would have been able to achieve what he had achieved on that day.
However, he refused to just resign himself to the masses, so he and Lex attacked each other using magic and looked for breakthroughs, finding a path in their magic studies to become stronger.
Saleen then shrunk his territory all of a sudden. Despite having his territory expanded all the time before, he still failed to protect the soldiers of Qin. Safilos, in his hurry to exact revenge, had most of the troops attack the magic towers on the outside.
