Ray looked at the two standing in front of him. Feeling the aura coming off from them, he recognized the head nurse and nodded at her. As for the other man in front of him, he looked to be eyeing him strangely and Ray understood the way he looked at him.
"He doesn't trust my strength against the threat," Ray and Aurora conversed while the whole student body neared Ray. They were a bit behind and had caught up just now.
Looking at them, Alden's face turned downtrodden. He really didn't know what to say of it. He thought there would be some solid help from the head nurse's side but these people, they were kids who were still wet behind their ears and even if they were in the Magical Realm; that was pointless in front of stronger adversaries.
"Not a single Calamity Realm expert," Alden muttered.
"Huh? I beg your pardon?" Ray asked, pissed off at the man's disappointed actions in them. He had thought the Celestial in front of him was not a quick judge of people from the strength they let on for others to appraise.
"Alas, I was wrong. I guess we will have to show him our strength to earn some respect from their side," Ray thought as he brought his hand back. The man hadn't shook his head and this pissed Ray even more and given his unstable state of emotions, Ray was finding it hard to control himself but Aurora helped him and he kept himself in check.
"Okay kids, follow me," the head nurse said as she led them inside the barrier. Her expressions the same as an amiable smile hung up her face.
Ray followed her but not before scanning the strange barrier these people in front of him had cast. It intrigued him how they had cast such a barrier without using any mana crystals or spirit cores to provide it with energy but when peering deeper into the barrier, he realized that it was nothing but another use of the head nurse's abilities merged with the abilities of these people from the forest. Or beasts as Aurora would call them.
Ever since he had seen the Celestial, he felt his appearance albeit human was a bit off and had asked Aurora to perform a deeper scan on him and it was then that he found out what its race and lineage was.
"So a distant link to the Wargs," Ray thought as he called onto Mag'ladroth and asked him about it, "Any information on the Wargs?"
Sadly Ray wasn't too well versed with ancient beasts as he found history to be quite boring other than that of those beasts that were directly linked or in contact with him and hence he knew next to nothing about the Wargs but he did know that the Wargs were no more.
"They are or say were a well known race before they cast upon themselves their end," Mag'ladroth replied, his voice oozing off with scorn as he explained, "Simply, they were a wonderful race with such good bloodline abilities that they would have surely come to be known as one of the top races of the universe but their bloodthirsty attitude and their pride made them bit more than they could chew and thus it led to their end as the whole race was finished overnight,"
"Wow, did they piss of someone?" Ray asked, a bit shocked of how such a strong raise that even Mag'ladroth praised it to some extent was finished off in such a shocking manner.
"Well, don't ask me. You will get your answer from FengFeng," Mag'ladroth said as he passed the spotlight onto FengFeng.
"FengFeng? Any words?" Ray asked in slight confusion as to why Mag'ladroth refused to answer.
"Well, it was the phoenix race who marked their end," FengFeng replied. Her voice containing a tinge of guilt.
"Ohh," Ray exclaimed lightly as he thoughts for a moment and then asked, "I am sure they must have done something to piss off the phoenix race that they wiped them out," he said and stopped talking about the matter completely.
FengFeng wasn't in the mood to talk about it and he wouldn't force her. He wasn't the type of person to do so anyways. He continued following the two Celestials and changed the topic as he asked, "What of the guy in front? How strong is he?"
"Not much, probably a newly ascended Celestial. A kid still wet behind his ears according to Celestial standards but combined with his pack, I am sure he can give a good competition to some stronger Celestials," Mag'ladroth answered and his answer piqued Ray's interest. More so a simple phrase that Mag'ladroth had said.
"You say with his pack, do you mean that his pack is strong enough to fight alongside him? Like a pack full of Calamities?" Ray asked, referring to Calamity Realmed experts as Calamities but Mag'ladroth just shook his head inside his consciousness as he explained to Ray what he meant,
"Not that but what I mean is that he has a bloodline ability that allows him to share everything he has with his pack. Including his strength and other things such as being telepathically connected to them and sharing their mental powers together. In short, the whole pack can pool their strength together and act as one unit. Also, they can pass their injuries to other members of their pack and heal at a faster rate,"
Listening to Mag'ladroth's explanation, Ray understood how strong the Celestial in front of him could become if he used his powers correctly and it really and Ray think, "Why does he need our help?"
And soon enough, Ray got his answer as he looked at the said pack of the man in front of him. The pack was even smaller than the army he had brought with him, excluding the infants and younger ones who couldn't fight, the pack had sixty members at best and most were in the Magical Realm with only two being in the Calamity Realm.
"We are going to be heavily outnumbered," Ray thought as the cogs turned in his mind and plans were formed as he thought of ways to fight the enemy with the people he had on board.
"Hopefully mo reaches us on time or else we are going to have a very very tough time ahead of us," Ray thought, knowing full well that the coming battle was going to be hard and not just hard but close to impossible but in his eyes wasn't any fear but far form it, a glow of anticipation shone in his eyes.
Ray loved challenges and this battle was going to be just another challenge to him and Ray was sure that he wouldn't stop at any cost and win this battle. Not to mention that he had to deal with the damned tree for kidnapping his loved one.
"Don't worry Aella, I will come to you soon enough," Ray promised to himself as he let his friends form a circle around and discussed with them their arrangements.
Letting Sirius coordinate with all the students that had come, he told him to organize everyone and set up tents for them to stay.
Looking at Emma, he asked her to let her energy flow through the jungle and sense for any unusual moments and to also keep an eye on any big signature of energy from the core of the forest.
Noah was assigned the job of filling some more beast spirits into their ranks while Tim knew what he had to do. He was the tank of the team and was assigned to check out the defenses and keep them in check.
Aliya was also with them and he job was to take care of healing and for that she set up a camp in the middle as she readied her healing apparatus for any injured that might come her way.
As for Kashish, she went towards the trees and looked at them as she spoke, "Leave these plants and trees to me. I will make sure to control them and use them to our advantage," As she said those words, her eyes were resolute and determination shone in them as Ray let her do as she wished.
The others also walked out and spread to their said jobs and started working on their things and in the end, Ray was left alone. He looked up in the air as he sighed.
"I guess this is it. The calm before the storm, the calm before we fight the biggest fight we have ever fought," thinking of this, he thought back of the strange staff that he had pocketed when he had fought against the elven chief. Thinking about how that staff had revitalized him and his mana, Ray took it out and started inspecting it.
"Maybe I can use this staff to some extent and increase my odds of winning," Ray's thoughts wandered as he looked at the staff in his hand.
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