Speed!
The theme was tremendous speed as Alexander cleared the Second Sacred Mound within the span of barely less than a minute, his figure and Claire flying out soon after as they were pulled towards another floating golden landmass, The Tier 9 Undead Summons following close behind.
On the Second Sacred Mound, the protector was defiant to submit before Alexander, and it became a corpse that when the Vigor Flayer Lich arrived on that Mound, it would only fall into its Legion.
On the way to the next circular floating landmass, Alexander only glanced at the panel in the corner of his eyes that showed the brightly lit Vigor and two Gem Recipes that could be augmented by the Ruler’s Covenant Authority, the plus sign in front of them almost daring him as he didn’t make the choice yet.
He wanted to accumulate them and see.
He used a single point on Energeia as it doubled that value and gave it a terrifying influence.
On the blue-bordered panel, Energeia was now golden and wrapped with golden radiance.
He wanted to see how many points would be required to augment the Gem Constellations, and even what a second augmentation on the same thing would do!
So he moved on with caution and speed.
“Yaa!”
The next floating landmass they landed on was the First Sacred Mound, with Claire unleashing a storm of blue lightning to temporarily paralyze two Tier 9 Mutated Gem Chimeras, Jujugan and the other Undead Minions decimating six others as Alexander seamlessly obtained a third Sacred Key- every single beast on this landmass being killed as they continued on.
Three Sacred Keys.
Two Ruler’s Covenant Authority points!
Nothing changed even after obtaining two as Alexander continued- with Vishpala, Anastasia, and other Minions who were catching up finally joining them as they followed the unexplainable gravitational force towards another landmass.
From the third, second, and first Sacred Mounds, the next one they came across was the Thirteenth Sacred Mound.
On this one, only a single Mutant Gem Chimera nearing the stage of a Ruler appeared as with Jujugan and three other Undean under Alexander radiating similar levels of power, this Emperor was downed even quicker than the golden serpent as atop a mountain peak, another spinning golden ring was obtained.
It still bound itself on Alexander’s right hand as three Ruler’s Covenant Authority points were now collected!
And finally…
HUUM!
He felt his body pulsing with the foreign golden tendrils of authority that sought direction on where to go.
When he looked at the panel that his Enneagram displayed for him, the words depicting Gem Constellations were finally and absolutely shining gold, plus signs appearing in front of them.
“…”
He stared at the golden brilliance briefly as his body was already floating in the austere brilliance of the Sacred Gold Mountain, heading towards another one of its Mounds inside its hollow earth!
All three Gem Constellations could be augmented, and even their first augmentation required three Ruler’s Covenant Authority points.
Meanwhile, Energeia that had been grayed out this whole time shone again, a golden plus sign appearing in front of it.
To augment it and likely Gem Recipes for the second time, three Ruler’s Covenant Authority points were required.
These points were extremely limited as it seemed like in this Sacred Gold Mountain, only 13 of them existed.
Every single one was critical as at this moment, Alexander continued to hoard them- his heart particularly drawn to the Gem Constellations that required three points each just for the first augmentation!
But he persevered and continued on.
From the Thirteenth Sacred Mound, they were pulled towards the Twelfth, Eleventh, Tenth, and Ninth ones without any issues as another four golden ringed Sacred Keys were obtained.
The seventh and eighth Sacred Keys that granted Alexander a total of 7 Ruler’s Covenant Authority points did not bind themselves on his right hand, and instead went to his left.
He currently looked like a grandiose bejeweled prince with these dazzling golden rings as he only noted this before continuing.
There were now only 5 Sacred Mounds that Alexander had not visited.
But while they were on the hollow earth of the Sacred Gold Mountain and heading towards the Eighth Sacred Mound…
…!
They saw the dazzling scene of the Priestess and her followers…in the same region as them.
Being pulled along the same gravitational force as them!
The robes of the Priestess were bloody as she held in her hands four radiant golden rings in comparison to Alexander’s eight!
It meant that this golden floating landmass all of them were now flowing towards…held the last unaccounted key as all other Sacred Keys were in the hands of others.
The Priestess had a frightening aura of power currently, but her forces were dwindled as only a single Tier 9 armored Emperor followed her along with six Tier 8 Kings!
For her to have so many casualties…
Alexander’s eyes squinted as knowing the level of power the Beasts he faced showed, it was more than them just having some casualties due to the Mutated Gem Chimeras.
They were a few miles away still as they were all pulled towards the same location, but Alexander could now see a sense of disharmony within their group as the eyes of the remaining Tier 9 Emperor were cold and filled with a light of resignation- his eyes shifting with caution towards the Priestess he followed this whole time.
Seeing this, Alexander quickly understood and theorized that on the first or second Sacred Mound that this party entered, someone other than the Priestess had gotten their hands on a Sacred Key first.
They grasped its shocking power as after that…they did not wish to give it up to the Priestess!
After all, who would easily let go of something that literally granted Ruler’s Covenant Authority?
What happened next had to be bloody- thus leading to this current situation.
Feeling their bodies drawn towards the same landmass, Alexander knew the final leg of this perilous journey had arrived as he spoke out calmly.
“Ignore everything and everyone else, and kill that woman for me.”
He gave a simple command to the array of forces surrounding him as all his Minions and Undead Summons burned with a cold light.
And seeing the even more terrifying aura around the Priestess, Alexander gazed at the panel on the corner of his eyes and decisively pressed on a golden plus sign!
Three Ruler’s Covenant Authority points were utilized as rivers of golden light that were swimming within his body bloomed with halcyon radiance- their reach extending extremely high.
Towards a Constellation.
It was the Gem Constellation, Light of the Void!