Sovereign of the Ashes

Master Chakra’s ability to gain such a dramatic boost on the battlefield through elemental amplification ultimately depended on the sheer scale of his Divine Tower of Dark Wind, which had over twenty thousand full-fledged mages.

This kind of amplification was directly tied to both the number and overall quality of a divine tower’s mages.

Although Sein’s Divine Tower of Ashes had expanded rapidly in recent years, the constant attrition and heavy losses from frequent wars meant it still could not compare to the ancient divine towers that had been established for tens of thousands of years.

With only a few thousand full-fledged mages, the elemental amplification they could provide offered Sein little more than a marginal boost.

As a Rank Five mage, the mana he could wield on his own likely exceeded the combined output of every full-fledged mage currently serving under the Divine Tower of Ashes!

If Sein were still Rank Four, the now-flourishing Divine Tower of Ashes would have provided a substantial increase in combat power.

But for mages who had already reached Rank Five, only command over ten thousand or more war mages could produce a truly noticeable effect.

The Divine Tower of Ashes still had a long road ahead.

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When war broke out once again, Sein deliberately positioned himself in the central rear formations of the Magus Civilization’s main forces.

Over the past several years of fighting, he no longer rushed to the frontlines as he once had. Instead, he fought like a typical Magus World mage, providing long-range support from the rear.

This had also been the norm during Rank Four conflicts. Magus World knights and the foreign deities of the Magus Alliance took the brunt of the fighting at the front, while Rank Four spellcasters operated from safer positions farther back.