Yorhun and the other warriors were already marching to the next town with Jas.
Jas' orders had been transmitted to Asgard and Eve, and literally, the entire empire was in full war mode.
As Jas had expected, no priest or priestess of the church of the night had managed to enter this floor. The only thing that happened was that Aether gained access to the empire.
Jas was maddeningly surprised by this news. He didn't even know how Aether himself had made it to this floor. He had chosen to sleep as he hadn't slept for a long ti, and when he opened his eyes again, he found himself inside the imperial hall.
All the while Aether himself was able to communicate with Nyx, carrying out orders.
Nothing had gone wrong in the imperial capital, so the idea that the Fallen Gods' summoners were targeting the imperial capital was completely disproven.
The nobles of the Empire had chosen to leave the palace as soon as they received this information. After Aether's checks, it beca clear that neither they nor their family mbers were hard, which allowed the imperial nobles to take action.
The nobles were already struggling to take action with the information from Jas, but the orders from their Empress Eve were the last straw for them.
Jas had managed to pull one artefact out of its mire, but he had failed to do anything in the next six towns.
These seven towns seed to represent a shape when viewed from the map as if more than 200,000 imperial armies had been built in a circle in almost three days.
When viewed from the map, a heptagon shape was presented to the eyes.
When Jas saw this, he closed his eyes and started to think how he could not realise it.
When Aether himself ca up to Jas and looked at the map, he put his hands to his head, the old man even chose to pinch himself to see if he was imagining things.
Eve, the Asgardian warriors, and the imperial nobility had beco incredibly frightened at the sight of them.
"How long do we have, Aether?" Jas suddenly asked, drawing everyone's attention to the question.
"You broke a seal, sir, the spell will work later. Breaking such an elaborate seal would give you almost three or four days," Aether replied.
Jas squinted at these words and began to think. If the Fallen Gods were created as a diversion, it ant that this organisation could not only summon the Fallen Gods but also give them orders, unless, of course, the Fallen Gods did not create these events of their own free will.
Anyway, the danger of this event has increased many tis over.
The real problem was that there were six more of the seals he had broken.
It was obvious why this organisation had chosen this floor and this region of the empire on this floor. Seven towns are connected to each other and seven artefacts are connected to each other by a complex black magic.
This was a complex formation of a gigantic spell. If this spell worked, it would be completely impossible to tell what would pass through that passage.
It was literally blood-curdling.
"We can say we have at least three days. Aether, I assu you can use rune magic, do you have arcana energy?" Jas suddenly asked.
Aether nodded, Jas curled his lip as if he understood, and then said, "Find everyone with arcana energy, show them the runes I'm going to give you. We have to be quick if we don't want the empire to fall to the ground."
The mont Jas had said those words, the hearts of Eve and all the imperial nobles had literally fallen into the sea, it was easy to tell that every one of them had been overco with fear.
Especially Eve herself...After all, this woman knew who Jas was descended from, and the fact that even he was so worried was a great burden on this woman.
After these words, Jas drew a few symbols on a few pieces of paper and waited. Under the leadership of Aether, people who were skilled in arcana energy gathered and waited right behind Jas. Imdiately after Jas noticed this, he stopped a few hundred tres away from the entrance of the town they were in and transferred arcana energy to the five fingers of his left hand.
Since arcana energy is sothing that can be mastered quite difficult, almost two hundred people imdiately gathered under the leadership of Aether.
Each of them began trying to morise the details of the runes Jas had begun to draw on the floor and the way they were drawn.
After almost five minutes of an incredibly detailed drawing session, Jas rose from his crouch and wiped his sweat-soaked face.
It was quite difficult for him as he was not a master of Arcana energy, which is why he needed the direct help of others.
"We will draw a copy of this rune in a circle around each town, two rows at five-tre intervals. It's sothing that must exist to prevent the initial impact of these artefacts," Jas said suddenly.
He took a deep breath and then said, 'In the anti, I'm going to try to learn another rune, and if we can learn it by the last day, and if we can place the rune itself at the centre where the black magic is focused, maybe... even if it's a small possibility, we can stop the magic.'
He could see that these words made every single person there smile.
"However, please don't take this for granted, this is close to impossible. Even all these runes we will draw will not be enough. We must treat this black magic as sothing impossible to block and be ready for battle. Rember, these runes will only reduce the incoming danger to a low level, it is IMPOSSIBLE to destroy the thread." Jas added.
These words seed to bring everyone back to reality.
"Co on, what are you waiting for?!" Jas suddenly shouted and with that, everyone got to work.
When everyone was gone, Empress Eve herself and a few high-ranking nobles approached Jas. The question Jas had never wanted to hear ca to his ears:
"Umbra...How much of the Empire can survive?"
At Eve's question, Jas looked at her and his heart skipped a beat, even though he was obviously scared out of his mind.
"Maybe half...if we try hard enough...just maybe..." Jas blurted out, lying was obviously not going to help.
Eve and the rest of the nobles stood where they were at these words, they had no idea what to say.
Still, there was really nothing they could do.
Jas knew this, so he found the centre of the heptagon on the map, in the middle of the towns, and set off towards the centre.
When he approached the centre, he saw that the black magic source had started to rise to the upper levels. Suddenly, sitting on the ground, he had indeed removed his only chance at rune magic from his inventory:
[Beginner Level Ancient Rune Arts Manuscript]
Jas secretly hoped that he was strong enough to open the next pages. Taking a deep breath, he turned the cover of the manuscript and then skipped to the first page.
When he managed to open the second page, he realised that he could see the information on this blank page again.
Jas didn't even realise that the manuscript itself was a rune that only the most powerful could use, but that wasn't even what he needed to realise right now.
Seeing that there was nothing useful on the second page, he forced himself to open the third page and again found that there was nothing useful.
There were a few attack runes on the page that might be useful, but all Jas needed was a seal rune.
Now he had one last chance. Sweating profusely and the magic drained from his body, he was able to open the fourth page and then smiled in happiness.
There was indeed a seal rune on the fourth page.
With great happiness, Jas started to hold the manuscript open in his right hand and started to write the seal rune by circling in the centre of the black magic from where he was.
This process would take almost 19 hours.
Jas did not last a second and used both his main mana and arcana mana to the fullest. The only reason he was able to stand up despite being so tired was because of his aura.
He could have completed this job tomorrow, but he chose to finish it today, despite all the warnings of Vladimir and the others, just in case.
When he returned to the camp, everyone had seen his miserable state. Of course, the other arcana mages and the Aether were also in a bad state, but they had already completed the part they had planned to do today and even added a small part on top of it.
"Sir...are you alright?" Aether said.
Jas turned to Aether and said, "I have completed the centre seal rune, I will help you tomorrow."
He could not have realised how much those words ant to Eve, the nobles, the soldiers and others.
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