Chapter 65
Leaving the Imperial Palace, old man Sloan was excited to start the formation. He returned with his group to Garric’s mansion and there, he used a communication spirit stone to contact one of the twelve groups with the Soul Seeking Pendants. "Yes, Milord?" someone asked from the stone. "Should we start?"
Old man Sloan was just about to answer when cries suddenly came from the stone. "Hey-! What’s going on there?!" he asked hurriedly, but no answer came for a long time, only the cries of his subordinates coming from the stone. After a long while, the cries died down and someone picked up the communication stone. "Hey! Who are you?!" old man Sloan asked when he heard that the stone was picked up, but no response came.
Then, the connection was cut off. The communication stone was stored in a spatial ring or bracelet which blocked communication.
With the connection gone, old man Sloan tried to contact the other groups, but the result was the same. Just as he was about to speak, cries in anguish sounded before the connection got cut off. It was like there was someone hiding in the shadows by each group, and once he contacted them, with him hearing it, they annihilated the group. And the silence of the enemy was what made him dreadful.
He slumped back in his chair and stared at the twelve silent communication stones spread out on the table in front of him. Who was targeting him? The little Emperor and the Prince Regent were just non-cultivating trashes. And Michael Grayson seemed to have no plans to stop him at the moment, so who was powerful enough and with a reason to stop his plans? Who was hindering his ways?
For some reason, the smiling face of Michael Grayson kept popping up in his mind. His instincts were warning him to evade the young guy. The guy seemed like he carried no real presence and that he was harmless, but his words were spot on, though those who didn’t understand the topic wouldn’t understand anything from his words. And from the cries from the communication stones, it was clear that Michael Grayson had the authority to command a force which could annihilate his subordinates in seconds.
But Michael Grayson had no presence, so why would such individuals listen to him? Or was he just hiding his presence? But to completely conceal one’s presence like that was completely impossible. Was Michael Grayson really the one who was standing in his way? What if Michael Grayson was just a pawn of the person blocking his way to succeeding. If that was the case, old man Sloan was in trouble as he had no clue who could be standing behind Michael Grayson.
After her darling contracted beasts and Spirit Clones killed the delegation groups and put away the communication stones, they went over to the Imperial Palace and gave the stones to Michelle. They also gave her the twelve Soul Seeking Pendants. Each group had one.
Michelle stored it all away and contacted Nyxaroth: "Nyx, we got the Soul Seeking Pendants. They were planning to use it for a sacrificial array to gain power. The array would have not only involved the twelve thousand souls, but the whole Imperial Pallace and the streets surrounding it. That would have been a few thousand lives more."