Alm and Bruno completely removed the seal from those twenty souls. It took several minutes for a spark to appear in their eyes, and for them to slowly return to reality. The twenty remembered only their current lives, but if Alm and Bruno wanted to, it wouldn’t be hard to bring back memories of past lives; it would just consume a lot of energy.
The twenty looked at themselves in shock, then at the surroundings, trying to understand where they were. Until a calm voice spoke:
"I think our first meeting was a disaster, let’s start over..."
Bruno was the only one speaking, while the others remained stunned. He briefly explained about the place and what the four kings had been doing with them. He also talked about the condition of everyone on the planet, the Dream of the Void.
It took some time for the twenty to emotionally stabilize. They had all been important beast cultivators and had lived for thousands of years before dying, but they had been trapped in this cycle of death and war for millions of years. The memories of their previous lives were distant amidst the chaos.
Then a Zaori with winged physique spoke: "You... you woke us up... but, can we really be free?"
"I came to this place to steal and get all the good stuff. Waking you up was just something I did on the way," Alm said dryly. "I intend to overthrow all the kings; but if you want to be free and save those of your race, you must fight one last time. Are you willing?"
The twenty clenched their fists, until a Celestial Jaguar spoke: "If we don’t fight to end those kings, we will never be free, and all our family will be enslaved. I will fight to defeat them, even if it takes forever."
"Great, prepare yourselves mentally. The four kings should already know where we are and will send their army soon," Alm said, turning to Kaiyka and Coltia.
The situation wasn’t simple. After the four were reborn going back in time, even without memories, it would be easy to deduce that the only thing capable of killing all four together and causing such destruction was someone with a divine soul.
Added to the fact that Alm and Bruno had stolen the Laws of Origin in the city and removed these twenty from the array, it would be obvious, and they would know their current location. Fleeing was an option, but it wasn’t necessary.
The four kings think that Alm and Bruno are too powerful to defeat directly. At the same time, it doesn’t make sense to keep dying and resurrecting endlessly. Their tactic will be to wear them down until they run out of energy using their slaves, while making them more powerful; in the end, they will capture them.
They don’t know that Alm and Bruno are almost out of strength to fight, but Kaiyka and Coltia can fight in their place, which is the same.
The common soldiers, who are the living people on the planet, aren’t good for this battle. The number is limited, and after they die, they’re forced to send them back to their bodies. So, those already dead who are part of the array will be the main front of the battle.
"There are about six million slaves. We are twenty-four now, or twenty-two, since the two of us are not in fighting shape," Bruno commented seriously. However, seeing the calm and tranquil look of the two, he felt strange. They didn’t seem afraid at all; they had an irrational confidence that they would figure things out.
"To make it more exciting, you want to uselessly save all the slaves," Alm said coldly. "There are six million, but killing them is useless since they will be reborn. We need to seal them and free them from the array."
The problem wasn’t destroying them; Kaiyka and Coltia could wipe them out dozens of times in a row until they ran out of energy. But using brute force alone was useless; even the kings were immortal.
Bruno nodded, and those twenty behind listened in silence and apprehension. Then Alm turned to Coltia. "Fleeing is a waste of time and energy. We can only rely on you, and it should take a few hours for them to knock on our door. This law of the Dream of the Void that created this place is the closest to the Void law from the Calamity. Your laws have already proven to be usable against the Calamity. It shouldn’t be impossible to influence this place, on a smaller scale."
Coltia nodded, understanding that her law and the law of this world were designed to approximate the Void Law. In other words, the two had very similar properties. It was like the power of ice and mist; both were manifestations of the water law used in different ways, but still very similar, one easily influencing the other.
"I won’t disappoint," Coltia said seriously, sitting in a lotus position and closing her eyes. She was in her human form, looking like Runula’s twin sister. She seemed quite accustomed to this form and didn’t mind staying like this for a while.
The whale nodded, while Kaiyka focused on talking to the twenty, trying to make them more comfortable and assuring them that she would save them. Alm and Bruno reflected on the next steps, and soon after, they interrupted their thoughts to listen to Kaiyka.
Alm remarked: ’Why does it seem like she’s trying to make them our loyal followers?’
’Kaiyka has been with us for a while. She understands our methods and goals. It’s not just her; everyone in our group is trained by Ruri to work as missionaries,’ Bruno replied calmly.
Alm was pleased with Ruri’s excellent work; she never disappointed them. Then he sensed the power of the twenty souls and an idea crossed his mind:
’If we reincarnate them personally, since their souls are very powerful, they would easily retain their memories... Yes, we could create a terrifying army from scratch with the six million. It would be a waste to just let the celestial laws reincarnate them.’
Bruno hadn’t thought of that but was excited. The problem was finding six million pregnant women to reincarnate them quickly. But... that was a problem for the future.
Four hours later, Alm and Bruno felt a subtle pressure in the environment.
"They’re moving in our direction. They should arrive in about two more hours," Bruno commented.
It was at that moment that Coltia opened her eyes. In her pupils, a white light shot out, and in the center, Alm and Bruno noticed tiny runes. They were very similar to the rune that was in Nenuo’s core, which brought them to this place.
Coltia turned to the two and spoke quickly: "I managed to form a simplified version of this law. It should be less than 30% of the original, but if I have time, I should refine it better."
"No, it’s already enough. Good job," Bruno said excitedly.
Coltia moved those two runes, which were copies of the Law of the Dream of the Void, and looked at the two, confused.
"Feel the runes that surround our souls in this place. They form a shell, as if simulating a body. The level of these runes is close to what you created. It’s perfect," Bruno explained.
Coltia felt the runes she created and confirmed their similarity. When they arrived at this place, their souls were covered by strange runes surrounding them. It felt almost like having a physical body.
"Quickly create as many of these runes as you can and put a thread of your divine soul inside," Alm ordered, and Coltia nodded, starting to work.
Bruno smiled slightly and turned around. "Kaiyka and the rest, let’s get ready for the show. The visitors will arrive soon."
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Nearly two hours later, around the city, from all sides, an army formed by the four beast races approached with frenzied looks.
Alm and Bruno climbed the walls and looked into the distance. "They’re here," both murmured, with a faint, wicked smile on their faces.