While inside of the forest things had slightly calmed down a bit, outside the place was in a turmoil.
Out of the around twenty thousand participants who entered, less than one thousand had soul lamps linked to them, the number might sound a bit low, but we are talking about people who at least has one peak Transcending realm cultivator backing their respective force or family.
That is enough to be considered a middle-ranked force in a middle ranked Stellar System, so you can imagine the agitation caused when overnight around a third of those soul lamps exploded.
Envoys from all those forces which were native of the Star Clusters of the Fritz Stellar System were sent right away to find out what was happening, since in previous years those talented members of the young generation rarely suffered a casualty.
Imagine their surprise when they arrived and found a lot of elders of the Steel Tower sect working their asses of to repair the spatial formation that allowed them to enter into the Silicon Forest.
In other words, they ones inside were trapped and the ones outside lost any kind of contact with them.
Naturally all the envoys immediately demanded an explanation from the Steel Tower sect, since those spots weren't free, they had to pay or exchange some rare resources for them, the patriarch of the sect was suddenly hit with tons of refund requests, that made his heart bleed.
So, a decision was made, they will be using all the surveillance nodes they had installed inside of the forest, to force their way in, it wasn't exactly because the patriarch was afraid of those representatives from Star Clusters of the Fritz Stellar System.
He was worried that the Castle Armored sect will blame him if their disciples die, and extort a lot of resources out of him as a compensation, in comparison the surveillance nodes could be built once again later.
So, now as a way to ease up the situation, it was announced that even Genesis Manifestation cultivators will be allowed to enter, so everyone was happy, those whose young generations were important, will be able to look for them and keep them safe.
As for those who just sent cannon fodder, there was two options, if they were lucky enough, the elders will pick them up on their way while they look for resources, if not they will be declared lost in the action.
Out of all the people who were cooperating, there was a group who wasn't doing anything, that included a tall man with a small moustache, who was fully clad in heavy armor, and was exuding a pressure that far surpassed the Genesis Manifestation realm, despite him being in it.
Besides him, there was the gatekeeper elder in other words the gray-haired girl that earlier told the group from the Castle Armored sect to get lost if they didn't have an entry pass, and also knocked out Renard's former teammates.
Also, there was a pair of elders, a middle-aged man and a woman wearing yellow and blue robes respectively, who were stuck to each other flirting, and lastly two men wearing black and green masks.
Those were the top of the food chain currently present, which belonged to the Armored Castle sect, the Pleasure Palace of the Tsarai Stellar System and the Marsh Domain of the Zoldia Stellar System.
The moustache guy approached the gray-haired girl who was casually waiting for the tune masters to finish their job, and after inspecting her from head to toe, he smirked.
"Young lady from the Fritz, how are you going to compensate my Castle Armored sect if our disciples died?", he suggestively asked.
Just to be met with a sharp silence, feeling insulted the moustache guy softly snorted, which made the others who weren't doing anything laugh.
"The Fritz have truly become the lapdogs of those guys, what a shame, they can no longer be considered a threat to take our chance to become a high ranked Stellar System", said the yellow robed man.
"Mm, if they are treated like this in their own backyard, then they have fell too low", added the blue robed woman.
The masked men just hoarsely laughed, but the gray-haired girl ignored them all, she instead gazed at the only other two people present besides the previous, who weren't cooperating or doing anything else.
Which were a pair of beautiful women that were sitting far from anyone else.
'Those were the ones that were accompanying the sole male core disciple of the Myriad Occupation sect, then why are they so calm, is that guy really so strong or…', while she was lost in her thoughts, Eris and Agnes were having a secret conversation both are soul cultivators, so it's not hard for them to communicate using sound transmissions.
Eris saw the bracelet with blue roses that Aster gifted her slightly glow and she smiled.
'Everything is prepared, I will try to make the space tunnel as stable as possible, but be ready in case something happens', she said.
'Mm, don't worry', said Agnes.
All the people here suddenly stopped working, a large array appeared on the ground and those who had decided to form groups gathered together, the formation illuminated and then everyone disappeared.
…
Inside of the Silicon Forest, Aster grabbed the cube necklace which Eris lend him just in case and injected a lot of spirit sense into it, one of the faces of the cube lit up and the rune which meant "coordinate" appeared on it.
The space in front of Aster waved before a small crack appeared on it, then under the surprised eyes of the girls, two different hands came out of the crack in the air, one of them was glowing in orange light, while the other was covered in a gauntlet made out of runes.
"Crack!", with a single push, the crack on the space was enlarged and the figures of Eris and Agnes, came out of it, before it closed.
"Phew, the space laws here are surely stronger than outside", said Eris as she let out a sigh of relief, her eyes glowed as she saw Agnes's hand which was returning to normal, but she remained silent and instead looked at her surroundings.
Before she snapped her fingers, the cube necklace on Aster's neck flew by itself returning to her hand, she didn't do it to retrieve it from Aster, but because she immediately activated one of the formations prepared on it.
The girls saw the four corners of the cube separating from it, and then flying off to form a cube of around two hundred square meters, the four corners then formed a cube of soul energy which hid them perfectly from the outside.
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