The entire Coexis was buzzing with preparations for the war. The three middle-aged kings and the young elven queen, who declared war, wasted no time and left the scene to fulfill their responsibilities as the leaders of the continent.
Not just them, all the elder figures from each race spread out. Their first goal was to gather the trained royal armies, and their second goal was to announce to the public that anyone with the strength to fight for the continent could join the war. In return, if anything happened to them during the war, their families would be given enough to live comfortable lives.
Kyle watched the busy scene in front of him. Yon and the other guardians of the tower were working hard to finish building the round structure as quickly as possible. The same structure that would enclose the entire continent in a dome-like barrier.
He glanced up at the darkened sky above him and then turned to Bia, who had agreed to draw the array on her body. But he knew it would be painful, so he quickly went to Nine, who was the only one left with him after all their friends scattered to complete the tasks given to them by the four leaders of the Continent.
It was pretty strange that nobody asked Kyle to do anything, even though he was also named as a young guardian of Coexis by Istalian. But maybe they knew he wouldn't be very helpful in assembling the army.
Nine gazed at Kyle, who had arrived beside him quietly.
"What's up? Are you getting bored? Don't worry, soon you'll be the one fighting on the front lines, haha!"
Kyle rolled his eyes.
"I'm leaving for a while because I need to do something. If anything happens, contact me."
Nine nodded and waved his hand to shoo him away.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})"Go, go! I'm leaving as well because I need to check on the people I brought. I will give your communication crystal coordinates to Yon so he can contact you directly if he needs help... Just make sure to come back on time."
Kyle gave him a pat on his shoulder and started floating. In the next moment, he created a portal in mid-air. Bia flapped her wings and entered the portal, with Kyle following suit. Behind them, the portal broke apart into tiny particles that disappeared into thin air.
In the next second, the duo found themselves above a forest far away from the Continent. Kyle asked Bia to change into her phoenix form. Crimson flames spread out in all directions as Bia spread her wings to change her form.
Kyle gazed at the pair of crimson pupils that had formed a blue ring around them after Bia reached the pseudo-divine rank and let out a soft sigh.
In the end, to make sure nothing goes wrong in the process, he first asked the phoenix to call some monsters who were around them. He wanted to test the symbols on another monster first.
Bia flapped her wings and let out a cry. Instantly, a lot of monsters in the forest snapped their heads toward the sky and made their way toward the powerful existence that called them.
Kyle noticed with knitted brows that a few of the monsters looked like they had lost their minds. However, it seems that after Bia's authority increased, they were unconsciously listening to her call.
"I hope the air gets clean as soon as possible..."
The duo, one phoenix and one human, landed in the forest and got busy with their little experiment, completely oblivious to the dark sky that started to brighten up as the sun rose.
Bia groaned a little when another symbol was engraved above one of her wings, in a beautiful shade of gold.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})-"Hey... why does it look like you're deliberately using fancy symbols so I won't stop you from finishing the array?"
Kyle chuckled at her words.
"Your crimson feathers have a touch of gold in them, and they're blue at the edges. So I'm engraving the symbols right above the blue feathers, to make them look good on you..."
'After all, nobody wants to see an ugly phoenix trailing behind them... haha.'
Bia narrowed her eyes at him, a hint of suspicion in her gaze. But the phoenix's attention was quickly diverted when Kyle paused. They both sensed an immense amount of mana in the distance. Kyle started floating and looked at the beam of light that shot up into the sky with lightning-fast speed.
He blinked, and the beam spread out beautifully from the top, enveloping the vast area around it in a transparent dome that would protect the people within if someone dared to attack.
"It seems Yon is done with the barrier."
He looked at Bia, who arrived beside him and softly patted one of her wings.
"It's done, the symbols. Also, the array on your body will activate on its own, so you don't need to do anything..."
Kyle paused, and his lips curved upward.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})"You know what you need to do next, right? Now you can vaguely feel my presence again because our bond has gotten stronger in just a few days. So, find me once you're done."
Bia let out an evil cackle and flapped her wings as she dove towards the forest below.
-"Don't you dare start the war without me. I'll be back in no time! Haha, not alone though!"
Her loud voice echoed in Kyle's ears as he turned to look in the distance, where the enemies were gathering.
"It's true that extra precautions won't hurt, but right now my heart is hurting because the treasures I collected after so much struggle are all going to disappear..."
He grumbled and vanished into the distance, only to reappear above the remnants of the former Kingdom Escalante.
"So, they're really gathering on the western side...? I can smell countless disgusting scents in the distance. The fight with the divine-rank individuals is going to be very hard."
Kyle flicked his thumb with his middle fingers, and countless bright, flickering symbols appeared around him. They were ordinary low-rank symbols used to attack the opponents that anyone could draw with little knowledge about arrays. As time passed, the number of symbols around him increased, causing the air to contract and tremble under the pressure.
He closed his eyes and started stacking the symbols on top of each other. Initially, the symbols were violent, but they calmed down as he got the hang of it.
If only Han could see what he was doing right now, the old man would have fainted from horror and shock.
These symbols may be low-rank, but the way Kyle was stacking so many together in such a small space, despite their violent aura and potential danger, would create a devastating end product. That could easily take down even an (SSS+)-Rank individual. And to make the symbols even more dangerous, Kyle supplied his own divine energy to them.
