Those five Supreme Emperors were at the very front of the battlefield, past the 100 channels' entrance and floating right atop the river two hundred kilometers away.
Almond saw them and was tempted to use his Unbound Eyes on them, but that would be foolish.
He didn't want to offend people, which could spoil his development and the lives of people around him.
"I'll create a temporary platform for us."
Almond heard the Admiral's voice and took back his focus from those Supreme Emperors.
On the other hand, Admiral Rudra took out a block of metal brick, one of the Neo's highest-ranked products, an Immortal-rank Flextron Metal.
Striking it with his fist, Admiral Rudra broke the bar into countless tiny particles covered within his second Ability Tree's power.
Admiral Rudra had three conceptual powers turned into Ability Trees: 1. Arcane Breaker. 2. Epoxy Mayhem. 3. Evermore Flow.
After breaking the metal with Arcane Breaker and using Epoxy Mayhem on the particles, Admiral Rudra could bring out the full potency of this particular Flextron Metal.
In a few seconds, a sleek gray platform with aesthetic patterns and three chairs of utter comfort formed while the metal particles hummed in nano movement, allowing Admiral Rudra to change the color, size, and comfort of the platform.
The chairs could become as soft as the softest cushion by adjusting to a certain type of movement, become bigger, or become bouncy or even sticky and stiff.
During combat, Admiral Rudra could convert this platform into flexible weapons since he was mainly an unarmed fighter, but this flexible weapon could turn into anything he desired in fights, becoming an annoying addition for the enemy.
As the trio sat on the large and wide chair, which had enough space to sit cross-legged, Almond and Lily began meditating while Admiral Rudra began creating a formation's skeleton structure that Almond would finish later.
'Darling, I am very close to getting my second Ability Tree now. We have 22 hours until the tide, so I might be able to complete it before the tide arrives.'
'That's great. Let me send you away from here then.'
'No, it's fine. I am going to let loose my Dreadspire Elementals and you can also tell Sylvia to root herself here and I'll be fine. But I'm fairly sure I'll be done before the tide reaches here,' Lily replied.
'Alright and it's better to station Sylvia here for our support,' Almond nodded and summoned Sylvia as a beautiful fairy with verdant dreamy attire made from leaves and flowery design appeared, radiating liveliness and looking wildly regal with a vine-flower tiara on her head. Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on ɴovelfire.net
[Verdant Queen Sylvia]
-Lifeform Rank: Immortal Emperor
-Ability Power: [Zeta 7649]
— Body Constitution: 6452
— Mental Constitution: 6342
— Soul Constitution: 6538
— Arcane Constitution: 6790
—> Tree of Everbloom.
—> Garden of Mystic Flowers.
< Genesis of Everbloom >
1. Minions of Everbloom
2. Nectar of Life & Death
"Master, Lily-chi!" Sylvia smiled before she was startled to sense so many strong auras.
"Woah, where are we?"
"We are at a battlefield, and what you are seeing is merely just one of the hundred battlefields," Almond chuckled and added, "but we are in the frontline, so you can see that river."
"So big! It's way bigger than the one connecting to our planet," Sylvia's mouth was wide open in shock and she spread her senses, observing the battlefield from a bird's view tens of kilometers above. "What are those fields?"
"That's the entrance for incoming Griminions to part into a hundred channels one. Sylvia, I want you to root yourself here beside this platform and keep Lily safe."
In the next second, Sylvia activated one of her Innate Talents—Tree of Everbloom, alongside using her Ability Tree's powers.
Warden Grove and Minions of Everbloom.
Sensing a sudden burst of energy and power, the Immortal Emperors had their attentions redirected there.
A magnificent grove of beautiful and lush trees with a giant tree stretching 500 meters long just floated in the sky. The grove was 500 meters in radius. The flowers and trees looked magical and dreamy as they transformed into small animated creatures made of flora with eyes and mouths, running around the grove and making it beautiful as well as defensive.
Lily smiled and went into the grove, sitting on a comfortable and peaceful flower mattress Sylvia created for meditation.
Among Almond's Spirit Lords, Sylvia boasted the highest defense and most powerful support. Moreover, among all of Almond's group and Spirit Lords, only she had reached Paragon rank Mastery in her Element.
After Mythica rank was Transcendent-rank, and then came Paragon-rank.
Even Almond and other top powerhouses had their main elemental masteries at Transcendent so far.
Almond had his Space and Lumeir (Light + Wind) mastery at Transcendent rank, Lily had her Blood (Water + Life) and Darkness mastery at that, while Admiral Rudra had his Blaze (Fire + Wind), Crystal (Earth + Fire), and Ice ( Water + Wind) at Transcendent-rank.
Some old monsters had also reached Transcendent-rank in their main elements, but only Sylvia had her Flora-element at Paragon, courtesy to the powerful Griminion Emperor's Spirit Almond had extracted three months ago who had Paragon-rank Flora elemental mastery.
Spirit Lords are unique, so naturally, Sylvia's existence itself briefly became a target of interest for the Immortal Emperors.
"What kind of creature is she?"
"Those three as well. A bit weird to see Immortals here."
"Their position is assigned here, so who cares?"
Just then, another powerful and unique aura manifested along with a loud neigh of a majestic horse.
"The manifestation and that brief sense of energy…what are these creatures?"
"That black-haired Immortal is summoning them from the aura connection I feel."
Almond also summoned Infernal Knight Ashkar since he had shown Ashkar to Simon anyway, but he didn't plan to summon others yet for two reasons.
First, the other Spirit Lords were in the Spirit Realm, training and improving.
Second, he didn't want to reveal all of his Spirit Lords at once, especially in such a big crowd of powerhouses.
"Ashkar, you're done creating your second Ability Tree, so just stay here and relax or spar with Gramps if he feels like it."
"Understood, my lord."
Admiral Rudra cracked his neck and said, "Alright, Al. I'm done with my part in the formation. It's your turn now."
"Gotcha. Given that we are going to be in a long fight, I am only going to set up Instant Recall and Instant Animated Recovery allowed for every ten minutes."
After setting up the formation and installing it inside Sylvia's Warden Grove, Almond gave a rune to Admiral Rudra and sent one inside Lily without disturbing her.
The rune would activate with a thought, instantly teleporting them even from Hyper Plane into the Grove, and using it again would activate Animated Recovery, utterly renewing them no matter the injury.
But those two effects would only activate once every ten minutes for Lily and Admiral Rudra unless Almond activated made moves and saved them.
"House of Regalon, haha. So you've settled already."
Almond felt fluctuation in space and suddenly saw four people appearing in front of the platform.
Simon looked at the grove, rubbing his chin with interest in his eyes "Quite the preparation you made, eh?"