Meanwhile, at a specific spot in the area where the event which would be later known as the 'Spark that lit the fire of the Alliance' had taken place.
A man with a short, immaculately trimmed beard wearing court robes that looked a few centuries old was bent over a piece of land while staring at it with plete seriousness.
Beside him stood a beautiful woman with long, brown hair that cascaded down to the small of her back.
She had a stoic expression on her face while watching a man walking around and 'resurrecting' people.
As for the old man, he looked like he was pondering about something.
Whenever someone walked in the direction they were standing, they would find themselves being unconsciously led elsewhere so that they would sidestep the exact spot of that piece of land.
Finally, shrugging his shoulders, the old man clenched his fist, which made two items jump out of the land in front of him, which had bee a hole in an instant.
They were a rather dull but large Ker Root, and a round dinner-plate sized metal piece.
Taking the metal piece into his hands, the old man closed his eyes and began to analyze it, but after a few seconds, a vein started to throb on his forehead before he had to stop, forcefully.
Shaking his head, he stood up and said, "A Hero-level formation trinket. There is no Hero alive on this continent who is this capable in formations."
Hearing this, the woman raised her eyebrows with a start.
"Then…"
"Yes, the Empire Spirits are growing restlessly active again. The last time they did, we were almost wiped out. But this time…the threat is so much larger. First, let us leave this place. I do not want to risk the Church mounting an attack that would level this whole place along with us. Heh, I thought that kid King was doing something special, but he's just using a simple Warrior level wakeup spell. I do wonder how he got to the Peak Exalted Warrior level, though. Later on, maybe I'll have a talk with him, but for now, he's not the priority. We have bigger things on our plate."
Nodding, the woman flew up, while the man followed.
They stopped in a specific spot in the air, and although it looked no different than the vast sky around them, expressions of relief came on their faces as soon as they crossed some sort of invisible line.
"Ok, we're safe now. I ascertained that the goal of that formation was to make the bodies inside undergo some sort of process. We've examined the dead bodies, so we know that the objective was to 'purify' the blood. That should be the biggest clue that it is the Empire Spirit. Now that that's sorted, let's call in our main witness."
Saying so, the man flicked his fingers, following which Queen Eldra, or at least, the former Queen of Eldinor, suddenly found herself yanked from where she stood.
She had never even known that such a spell was possible. How was someone forcing her to teleport without even being there?!
Knowing that this might be what she was warned about, she steadied her heart and prepared to tell the story that she had discussed with King Daneel.
The old man saw her expression which didn't contain all that much surprise, which made him furrow his eyebrows and ask, "You look like you were expecting this. Do you know who we are?"
"Yes. When I was Mind Controlled by the Empire Spirit, Dinora, I was still aware of many of her thoughts as she liked voicing them out loud for me to hear. She called you…the 'monkeys' who are currently inhabiting the continent and will be wiped off first as soon as she regained her body."
Hiss!
Taking in a fast, deep breath, the old man looked at the Elf Queen with shock.
So this was that damn Empire Spirit's goal!
Resurrection using blood essence!
He had only been able to figure out the purpose of the formation, but he had no idea about what the other steps should be.
So, this thoroughly shocked both him and the woman standing beside him.
"Where is she now? What happened?"
The woman asked the Elf Queen this hurriedly, which, for some reason, made Eldra feel as though that voice sounded so pleasant to hear.
Shaking her head to get rid of that feeling, she said, "I don't know. I heard screams inside my head as soon as the veil broke…I mean, when the formation shattered by the heroic actions of King Daneel. I think…it might have been some backlash due to that."
This made the two look at each other, before the old man shrugged and said, "I can't gather much from the formation trinket, but I think that's possible as it looks like it needs an active connection with a consciousness in order to function. The result of the formation being forcefully stopped could result in a recoiling force that would definitely be deadly to an Empire Spirit. Oh, how the high and mighty have fallen."
As the old man said the last word, he was smiling wide.
Empire Spirits were practically the bane left behind by the Empire of Angaria that kept giving the Big 4 problems which they couldn't even handle appropriately with the power level they had right now. That incident where the Withering Leaf Sect had been wiped out because of the Black Raven Empire Spirit was just one of the many instances where the Big 4 had had their ass handed to them by the spirits.
They couldn't even do anything to stop them. It was impossible to move them, and 24/7 surveillance to stop people from accessing them wasn't feasible as one couldn't discount the possibility of even that surveillance being influenced for power.
Also, there was that damn statement left behind by the Emperor about Empire Spirits and about how they should take no actions that will limit the access of them by those who were worthy. It was said that that would be what would definitely lead to the true end of the Continent, so there were quite a few Heroes who believed in it and wanted to do nothing proactive. Instead, they wanted to 'hope'.
"So should we begin searching for those parts of the Grand Inheritance?
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