The Bearman general called out to his companion, whose gaze was locked entirely on the two ash bodies in the distance, it was clear that he abandoned the remaining two ash bodies that were right beside him.He had believed they were mere duplicates not worth wasting time on, convinced that his only concern was figuring out which one of the two in the distance was the main body. However, since he was blinded by the assumption that they were only meant to confuse them, he hadn’t even realized that the two ash bodies at his flank were already swinging their solidified ash blades at him from different angles.After trying to warn him, the Bearman general realized it would be too late for the Were-Tiger general to react, so he simply decided to help out with the current spell he was casting.However, he altered it, shifting the spell from the attack model it was into a defensive one, which was specifically targeted at the Were-Tiger general.That was how stone pillars erupted from the ea

The Northern Kingdom was not the only one trying to get the submission of the cities under their jurisdiction; the other four kingdoms were likewise striving to reach out to the cities beneath them. Each employed distinct strategies of theirs in hope to bring the newly empowered city lords into their fold, though the royal families were influential within their own region domains, however these rulers were realistic enough to recognize that they could not match the power of lords who had spent ages preparing to rise as King-tier experts of the human race when they attacked that is why they realized that they need the full power of all the cities under them.They were eager to preserve their authority rather than submit to ambitious, aspiring King-tier lords who would want to attack them,which is why they were acting swiftly about this. In the Origin Realm, true diplomatic leverage belongs solely to King-tier experts, the standard human lords were viewed as nothing more than mere can

[Blood Changdao has finally absorbed enough blood to open the next seal and begin its evolution. Sword evolution will now begin. However, in the meantime, you can still use the second and the newly unlocked third seal to create weapons for combat while the upgrade continues.]This sudden notification that popped up before Alec took him completely by surprise, because the Blood Changdao lacked an experience bar, he had no way of tracking its progress and had remained entirely unaware that it was on the verge of evolving.Typically, he simply wielded it in battle, and the weapon would occasionally devour the blood of enemies during battle, while at other times it refrained from doing that. Whenever it didn't, Alec would merely assume it was sated, overly selective, or specifically craving only the blood of higher-ranked mages.And along the line Alec had grown accustomed to relying on the second seal to forge blood-crafted weapons, largely because he had begun to feel the Changdao blade

By the time Alec reached the ground, he could tell that the Beastkin general's lifeforce was almost entirely depleted, when he had unleashed the skill he had not anticipated the skill to be so potent that it would take out the Bearman general in one move, yet there was something else he was worried about and that was about the fact that it had drained both his mana and a portion of his blood in the process of activation.While he had utilized the blood absorbed by his Changdao earlier he had only used it to replenish his stamina and mend his injuries, he had not been using it to restore his own blood bank, a skill that is attached to his Changdao as it seem to have a space to store blood that Alec could just pass to his blood stream instantly .So it was not that he was unable to use the sword to replenish his blood, but rather that he realized the process took significantly longer if he wanted to do that due to the blood undergoing refinement before being passed onto him .Furthermor

Instead of using his mental powers to project a specific image and shape the blood manually, Alec refrained from interfering this time, he simply allowed the blood weapon creation process to unfold naturally on its own, as he was curious to see what kind of result this hands-off approach would yield.He hoped that by letting the skill handle the forging automatically, rather than forcing a predefined form into it using mental power, then the resulting weapon would truly align with the inherent properties of the source material (which is the body of the Bearman General).Alec however had been overthinking the matter; because he wanted to avoid creating a weapon incapable of properly channeling an earth-related power, after he understood a little about the fact that the third seal was able to draw the power from the carcass material it uses in creating the weapon. Thus, he left the entire construction in the hands of the skill itself.With his hand still embedded in the carcass, he felt