Chapter 264: Three Arrow Formations (1/2)
The sun was already about to set when Boris and the Protectors from the Church arrived. According to him, the road was blocked halfway from Aves to the Elemental's Forest that they have to make a detour lest they would be surrounded by an army led by three Transcendents.
Through the use of his Illusion Eye, he managed to fool them by conjuring a scene that covered them to block the enemies' view of their march.
He then excitedly told me that during the Transcendent Trials, his Illusion Eye was upgraded. Apart from what he'd shown me before, he can now create a bigger illusionary scene that was hard to detect unless one was in close contact with it.
Before, he could only conjure somewhat realistic illusory objects. His illusions are hard to detect unless you put your hand in them. Now it has been upgraded to conjuring a whole scenery. It has more value this time since it can now be used to confuse the enemies or rather the fleeing enemies if there will be one.
Aside from that, his first ability to conjure realistic objects was also slightly upgraded. He can now cast an illusion not limited to objects that could stick not only to himself but also to someone he chose. Or in short, he can now cast a disguise on him and someone else.
Though it's not as perfect as Jayna's disguise, in a chaotic battlefield that we will be marching on, being perfect isn't that important anymore.
And since it was made from his Psyche Energy, despite having a limited duration, it's possible to maintain the disguise by pouring in more Psyche Energy to it.
Because of that, I had him cast it on us to change our current appearance. Instead of letting them standby to wait for the Dark World Transcendents to make a move, they'll now be joining the march to land a sneak attack on an unaware Transcendent.
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”Let's move out!”
With Fleur's voice serving as the signal, the gates of the wall that was erected through the use of an Elemental Spell opened. Coming out from it were three groups of 300 Elementals and Luxians alike.
If someone looked from above, they would notice that every Elementals and Luxians had a serious expression on their faces. Most of them were holding different kinds of staves which all glowed with the color of their Main Element while some were holding different kinds of melee weapons, also glowing in different colors.
They're all ready to cast an Elemental Spell at any moment.
Aside from that, everyone was neatly lined up in the Arrow Formation which I imparted to them.
A number of golden armored Luxians were at the front of the Formation while holding identical rectangular golden shields large enough to cover their whole bodies. Since their Main Elemental Core are all of Light Element, the light coming off from their shields was enough to illuminate the dark night and blind whoever's standing in front of it.
Behind them were Elementals and Luxians whose weapon is a spear. They're in charge of attacking through the gaps that will be opened between the shields when they reach the enemies.
The others whose specialty is close-combat were spread out to the borders of the formation. They were left with the task of protecting the shape of the Arrow Formation.
And lastly, at the rear were the most Elite Luxian Protectors who would fly around to deflect attacks from above.
In the middle of the three Arrow Formations were me and two of my clones with the Energy Zone, Domain of Valor and Bulwark of Invulnerability opened.
Though it burns through my Energy reserves to keep them open for longer periods of time, actively absorbing the Energy Zone's gathered energy for a while was enough to replenish my reserves.
Thanks to Boris' Illusion Eye, even the clones I conjured bore the same disguise. And since the clones have limited duration, some of my focus was on them. As soon as they disappeared, the Totem was always ready to conjure more that would replace them.
With this kind of setup, we started marching outside to meet those Noxians and Dark World denizens who kept on intimidating the Elementals to go outside.
”I didn't think my disciple's Ability could be upgraded. If I had known about it, I would've told him to put in the time to train it.”
Fleur who was also disguised like me whispered at my side.
”It's fine. They gathered information about the Helpers of the Worlds. Most likely Hikari and Boris' information is also included in it. It's safe to assume that they know their previous Unique Abilities.”
I don't know about Hikari but her Ability was kind of unique as it could borrow or steal anything. The unpredictability of it was slightly lesser than Yumiko's Spirit Channeling.'
”I see. What about you? They still don't know about your existence?”
”Maybe they will be able to connect the dots now after I encountered that Transcendent Incarnation. They will soon find out that I've been to multiple worlds and each time, I was mistaken as a native.”
Even though I've only exchanged a few words with Remilia, I have a feeling that she gained a lot of information about me through it. In the same way, I gained a lot from her words.
In any case, my identity was bound to be exposed ever since I became a Transcendent, letting them think that they solved a mystery is good as well.
As the march of the three Arrow Formations continued, the previously relaxed Noxians and Dark World denizens have started to scramble on their feet.
Now that we've given them what they wanted, leaving the range of the Forest's Defensive Formation, the Mortal Ranks leading their troops had a smile on their faces as they looked at us.
For sure, they're thinking that we're all marching to our deaths.
”Drive them away!”