Chapter 561
Phoenix and Divine Lightning…
It was hard for Lawrend to think of any entity that represented both. Maybe a chimera? But that was too diverse. It would only lower the power of the spell.
“Ah!” Lawrend exclaimed in his mind.
Sun gods!
In his previous world, many civilizations worshiped sun gods. It shouldn’t be wrong to use them instead. Although they were not worshiped anymore, the faith of millions of people worshiping them in the past shouldn’t have disappeared.
He remembered his love for Nippun. That country worshiped a Goddess called Amaterasu.
“No… This god is used to name swords too. It’s not a perfect fit.”
Lawrend abandoned the idea and instead remembered another god from an ancient civilization.
Ra– the god of the midday. He was worshiped, and people feared that a snake had attacked him when a solar eclipse happened.
“O’ Ra, bring us light, disperse the darkness…”
Lawrend stopped and was unable to continue. He was not familiar with Ra. He only him from a surface level.
“I need more time.”
Lawrend left his mind and opened his eyes. He saw the three envoys sitting on the ground with their legs crossed. Meanwhile, Ember was fanning him.
“How much time had passed?”
“Three hours, Master,” Ember replied.
“Order the mages to enter the city,” Lawrend ordered the three envoys.
“Yes, Your Imperial Majesty.”
The three envoys glanced at him one last time before flying away. They felt waves of power leak from his body. It made them wonder what he just did. Was he able to increase the power of that spell earlier?
They shook their heads and stopped thinking about it. At this point, they could only act as his subordinates.
The mage army flew into the city. The citizens inside were quite relaxed. They were initially a part of the Undrasil Kingdom until the previous king sold them off.
It made them indignant toward him. Now that they were back, it only made them happier. They approved of Lawrend as their king because he was the only one capable of fighting against the empire.
Lawrend entered the city together with Ember.
“Master… You’re awesome,” Ember whispered with a red face.
She also felt the waves of powerful mana he released earlier as he was contemplating. She was very sensitive to his phoenix mana, and it gave her a clear idea of his next spell.
“It was all thanks to you. I wouldn’t have improved so fast without you as a catalyst,” Lawrend replied and smiled.
He doted a lot on this girl. She was fun to conquer, beautiful, cute in bed, obedient, and talented. He couldn’t ask for more from her.
“Hehee~”
Ember fidgeted and swung her body in embarrassment.
His talent and exploits only made her fall deeper and deeper into his heart. As a princess from a clan with countless talents, she valued his talent more than anything else.
They entered the city, and the first thing Lawrend did was to find the center of the magical defensive formation. He inspected it and gathered materials from the local Mage Guild.
“This will be the first time this formation would see the day,” Lawrend said.
He destroyed the platform in the center of the formation and recreated it from scratch. He used various materials like blood, dust, chalk, liquid metals, and liquid mana to draw it.
After finishing the center, he traveled around the city and changed the structure of the whole formation. It wasn’t the same earth magical defensive formation as before.
Lawrend smiled as he stood at the city’s wall.
He finally finished by the time night fell. The three envoys were curious about the formation, but they didn’t dare to pry further. They were scared of angering him.
“Master, was this the formation you were drawing back in the inn?” Ember asked.
She was naturally very curious about it. She saw him draw it for two nights. It was quite fast, so she initially thought it wasn’t a serious attempt from him to create a formation.
Usually, it would take years to create an entirely new formation from scratch. Of course, Lawrend wasn’t part of the norm. He was practicing magic using his soul.
His intelligence rose the more powerful his soul was.
“It is Master’s new formation.”
Valentina appeared beside Ember silently.
“Oh!”
Ember walked a step back in surprise. She wasn’t able to sense her appearance.
“Master, this is a masterpiece,” Valentina said and looked at him solemnly.
As someone who knew a lot about formations, she was aware of the power of this one. Although she couldn’t fully understand it, she could instinctively tell it was powerful.
“It’s nothing. If I had more time, I would be able to create a magic formation that could kill a Heaven Mage,” Lawrend humbly replied. Though, his last sentence wasn’t humble at all. It was more like he was bragging to her.
“How powerful do you think this is?” Valentina asked.
Meanwhile, Ember could only listen to their discussion. She was clueless about formations and only knew they were hard to make.
“Could this kill any Earth Mages?” Valentina guessed.
“Correct. This city is lucky. If I didn’t need to do it, I wouldn’t have bothered to set this up here.”
Lawrend knew the importance of this kind of formation for the city. It meant unrestricted development because no external threats could shake them.
“Why bother then?”
“I want to test it out. The reinforcements are good test subjects.”
Lawrend evilly smiled. It was a smile he only showed against his enemies or when he was about to do something absolutely degenerate to one of his maids.
…
They waited for several more hours, but there was still no sign of the reinforcements.
“Order the scouting party to scout ahead,” Lawrend ordered Julianne.
She bowed and left their temporary headquarters in an inn. Lawrend sat behind a table with Ember standing beside him like a statue.
“Did I scare them off?” Lawrend wondered with a wry smile on his face.