370 Gathering & Confrontation! (1/2)
'It already started?'
Sitting on the top of a medium-sized mountain, I immediately sprouted up from my place as I saw streaks of lightning falling from the sky.
'The formations of the cult sure are potent…'
”They really did start early…”
Looking at Blade who just spoke up and rose from his place as well, I nodded as we both jumped off the mountain!
'It had only been one week.'
It had only been less than 6 days after the cleansing of the demon seeds, precisely one week after we spoiled Crane's plan. Yet, the attack had already started, the overseers of the demons did indeed realize that something had gone wrong and decided to ascend to the surface almost two weeks earlier than they planned to.
There was no time to lose!
The lightning we just witnessed wasn't some sort of a natural phenomena, but it was in fact the very first step of phase two, counter-attack!
As we almost reached the ground, a sword flew off Blade's back as he landed on it while I simply latched to the mountain and slid off to its end. While I could also use the low altitude 'Sword Flying' ability by employing my weapon essence like Blade did, I had no plans to do that. The reason was very simple…
'That would be too slow.'
Compared to an ability that I just acquired one week ago and had no experience at, I trusted my natural agility more. Although I did look awkward running beside the floating Blade, I didn't mind as long as we could reach the opened gate as quickly as possible. Blade himself didn't even bother questioning my peculiar body speed.
'It really doesn't last that long…'
Merely a few minutes later as we already cut the distance between us and the descending lightning to a mere tenth of what it had originally been. The continuous waves of electricity were already starting to fade away, but we were able to spot a few other humans rushing through various methods to the same location.
Since we couldn't dispatch elites into the bases nor station forces to the Demon Nests in preparation, the only way it could be done was to discreetly disperse forces around in a small circle with the center being the demon nest itself.
Knowing that it would take two to three weeks at the most for everything to start, the powerhouses of the top sects didn't mind shrugging everything off for this task, especially thanks to the Cult of Elements setting up an 'alarm system��� to ensure that the situation of the demons launching a sneak attack wouldn't happen, and instead morph it to an equal confrontation.
Thanks to the crazy cult master being rational and cooperative out of habit, almost all of the apprentices within their formation department were sent all over the domain, naturally they didn't fork out the costs for everything, getting the crazy woman to agree easily was already a miracle...
Acknowledging the fact that a huge part of the Cult of Elements' inheritance was specialized in elemental formations, the top sects happily opened their treasuries for the sake of immediate deployment of powerful 'one-time burst' formations in front of every Special Demon Nest!
”He really guessed too well!”