After six hours, the waves of Griminions from the river began to slow down.
Many began taking rests, but not those who were in the top 100 and those who wanted to make it into the leaderboard.
Almond and Lily were at the front line together, their synergies and teamwork increasing their kill count even higher.
Moreover, Lily was absolutely unstoppable in the presence of Almond. She would directly ignore all control-type effects of Monsters because they would have no effect on her.
Infernus Fons Intimacy!
[Infernus Fons Intimacy]
Rank: X
Description: The inferno of love that no darkness can shade. This is the blaze that burns the brightest in all of existence. Nothing can douse it; nothing can bind it. This is the ever-growing blaze that no one can suppress, be it gods or devils, dreams or curses, but all of this is only…if its dearest amber embraces it, it remains.
Effect:
—> In the presence of Almond, you are immune to all controlling-type effects that immobilize you in any way or affect your mind.
—> You and Almond can freely transfer vitality to each other as long as you two are in each other’s sight.
—> You and Almond can freely transfer energies to each other as long as you two are in contact with each other in any way.
She gained a third effect in this talent three months ago during a mission to destroy a hideout of Hollowstar in Cosmos #5783 and kill their people who were planning to blast off several planets.
They had a few Immortal Emperors, and the battle was intense, but Lily and Almond together were unstoppable as they completed the mission successfully with only one enemy escaping at the end. Almond’s space power couldn’t restrict Hollowstar’s tricky escape means.
On top of that, Lily also had another Innate Talent called Achromatic Domain, which she got after she gained a sudden enlightenment, and it was related to Black Will Temple since the enlightenment was related to the seed of something she gained in her after clearing the temple’s trial and gaining the title of 78th candidate of Ruined Achromatic Throne.
The Achromatic Domain had a simple effect. It increased her Darkness-related powers’ effectiveness by 100%, but this was just the beginning, as Lily was sure she could make it stronger after gleaning more insight from that seed of something she had in her source space.
Meanwhile, Almond’s Innate Talent was already affecting people.
Those who returned after a break were startled to see Almond’s power, as they had forgotten about him.
This was one of the main reasons why Almond was not known far and wide, and he liked that.
Simon and others that Almond had talked to and remembered could also remember him, but these nameless people he had never talked to couldn’t keep him in their memories.
Speaking of talents, the innate talents everyone had awakened with the Bone Tethering Technique were destroyed when they lost their human bodies and died.
Resurrecting as Regalons, they didn’t have the same foundation structure as humans, so those talents were lost.
Naturally, no one cared because they gained way more than what they lost.
The second group of High-Mortals led by Julian was also performing exceptionally as they killed weaker Griminion Immortals that appeared in low numbers while mostly killing High-Mortal Griminons that were like a flood.
They couldn’t kill all of them because they just rampaged ahead.
It was more like unleashing your attacks while staying safe and hoping for your attacks to kill as many as you could.
Unlike in the frontlines, where powerhouses fought within Hyper Plane, where High-Mortals and most of Immortal Griminion couldn’t enter, they weren’t considered obstacles.
But in the 100 channels where the rest of the Griminions flooded, it was hell due to the sheer number of them.
Fortunately, the battlefield’s 100 channels were designed quite strategically with such a flood in consideration.
By now, all 100 channels stretching 3000 kilometers were bloody.
The first half of the channels’ landscape was completely painted with blood of varying colors.
But as the wave began to slow down, those at the last didn’t even get any monsters to kill.
And then suddenly, the Griminions completely stopped coming, which was strange.
Because according to the calculation, the tide was supposed to last for 18 hours straight, and only six hours had passed by.
The top powerhouses like Simon and others in each channel got reports from the cosmic surveillance and relayed terrible news.
“What’s going on?” Almond, Lily, and Admiral Rudra arrived at the gathering.
“The tide is stopped at another big planet in the middle,” Simon said with a grim expression. “The few people from Hollowstar who sneaked into this cosmos are controlling them and doing something. We have no idea since the whole planet is covered in a starry violet veil.”
“Eight Supreme Emperors are heading there to investigate personally, so we’ll have to wait.”
“Those bastards. They are definitely planning some shit.”
“Stopping the Griminion Tide on a single planet…I have a bad feeling.”
“Yeah, I hope they can find something and disrupt whatever those pests are doing.”
Almond and the other two left and went back to Sylvia’s Warden Grove.
Everyone had gained lots of Spirits and resources by killing Griminions and also ways to improve themselves, even if a little.
One of the Spirit Lords was also doing training in the Spirit Realm, having acquired a breakthrough in the development of an Ability tree.
Galvaren, the Warring Skylord Tyrant.
“Boss, I want to spar! Please!”
Raring to fight with his newfound strength, Galvaren shouted right as Almond summoned him.
In terms of overall power, Galvaren was ranked 4th among his Spirit Lords and was as strong as Admiral Rudra.
Knowing he would lose, Galvaren still wanted to fight against Almond.
“Fine. I’ll give you five seconds.”
“Awesome! I’ll show you everything I’ve got,” Galvaren grinned.
…
On the other hand, in the Council Hall of Gezero.
The upper echelon of people who were in charge of observing the battlefield were watching Almond and Lily’s combat footage.
The hall had seven Immortal Emperors of the late stage in charge of surveillance with their powerful ocular abilities and maintaining the number of minions in all channels by giving information to the Supreme Emperors and other top Emperors in case a reinforcement was needed in another channel.
“What’s with these two Immortals?”
“House of Regalon. I didn’t know we had an organization with such exceptional individuals.”
“Too exceptional. It’s almost like it’s a core force belonging to those Supreme Emperors in Ascension Games.”
List their specialities from observed data, especially their Abilities Trees. “I’ll send it to the previous Gezero Emperor in the Ascension Realm and have him rate them.”
“It looks like they’ll be getting an invitation to the Arcadia Spectrum soon.”
“Indeed. But I can’t help but feel they have one of the top Supreme Emperors’ support. How else can they become this strong? Those unique armors exuding bloodline aura are almost like Geneline’s power, and only Supreme Emperors have Genelines.”
“We’ll find out soon. Whatever the case may be, I think it would benefit all if we maintain friendly ties with them. Regardless of anything else, the individuals we are seeing are exceptional and filled with potential. With their entry into Arcadia Spectrum guaranteed, they are bound to make waves.”
“Include those two in emergency reinforcement.”
“Done.”