Legacy of the Dark Sage

To create a route that Chrysanthemum and her people could use to move around Somuli at their own pace undetected, Kyran would need to create a place similar to the Spirit World.

Creating a pseudo-world requires a powerful relic that will act as its core. This core will then be responsible for ensuring that the circulation and replenishment of magic energy in that world is possible. After all, without magic energy, that pseudo-world can not produce natural resources with internal magic energy.

Most importantly, Beings like Spirits, who are born from the purest energy from different forms of natural resources, can only survive in places that have adequate magic energy. As a matter of fact, it is also impossible for mages to survive for long in a place that can not produce its own magic energy.

When Caelan created the Spirit World, White Lily offered her tiara as its core. And up to this day, that tiara remained the Spirit World's core.

At the moment, Kyran did not have a relic as powerful as White Lily's tiara. Thus, it would be impossible for him to create a pseudo-world like the Spirit World in the Somuli.

But Kyran did not have to create such a world. Chrysanthemum and her people only needed a temporary place that would act as their route to move from one place to another within Somuli.

Considering this, Kyran would only need a large amount of magic energy to sustain that place. Fortunately, he did not have to perform complicated Void magic just to accomplish this feat.

While thinking this, Kyran gazed at the exquisite-grade spirit stones embedded in the ceiling and walls around him.

"Create a route," Dusk, who had been silent during Kyran and Chrysanthemum's talk, finally spoke. "Is that really possible using Ancient magic?"

A few minutes had passed after Kyran and Chrysanthemum concluded their talk, and it was only then that Dusk made sense of their conversation.

"I don't know about the other Ancient magic, but Void can," Kyran replied without looking at him.

"I can more or less understand that Void magic is basically the original raw form of Space magic, but for you to create a world, even if it is a temporary one... That is something I can't really—."

"Let me set the record straight: while Space magic appeared to possess the nature of Void magic, they are different," Kyran explained while he knelt down and examined the edge of the array formation on the floor. Since he wanted to collect the spirit stones, he had to do something about the array formation first.

Although the array formation did not have any formula that prevented one from taking those spirit stones, the spirit stones themselves were positioned in a way that would trigger the whole formation if one touched it. Thus, Kyran had to change the array formation first before he could take out all those spirit stones.

Frankly, Kyran did not need all those spirit stones to create a temporary world for Chrysanthemum and her people. But since he planned to take some, why bother doing it in installments if he could take everything?

"What are you talking about? Space is synonymous with Void!" Dusk argued, seemingly oblivious to the fact that Kyran was uninterested in their topic.

"Void is synonymous with nothingness," Kyran corrected him patiently. "Can you say the same with Space?"

"No... If there is nothing, how can there be space... it should be something because it is a place where objects can be placed."

Dusk stopped short as a thought crossed his mind.

"Wait, if Space is not synonymous with Void, then how are you going to create a place?"

Kyran sighed inwardly. One of the things he disliked was explaining. Besides, he believed that even if he tried to explain the difference between Space and Void, Dusk would not understand it— the only ones who could truly understand were those who possessed them.

Meaning, Kyran, and those Space mages— true Space mages, that is.

Because there were mages who believed they possessed Space magic when, in truth, their magic might only be a support type that affected distance or a specific area. If that were the case, then instead of saying they possessed Space magic, it should be Expansion magic or Area magic.

Not wanting to dwell on the subject, Kyran replied with, "In the first place, most have a wrong idea of what Space magic and Void magic are."

"I kind of get what you mean," Dusk agreed with a slight nod of his head. As a Sovereign, he had a fair knowledge when it came to magic theories and such. "Even I won't claim to understand it. I do know a fair deal about Space magic. As for Void... well, can you blame us? The things we know about Void magic are mostly hearsay. There is not even an official record of it. Only notes or stories from unknown origins are available out there."

Kyran did not react because what Dusk said was true. At least, in most of the Lower Realm's planes, there was truly no official record about Void magic.

Except in the Human plane— or, rather than saying it was only in the Human plane, it was best to say planes that used to be part of the Land of the Ancients.

At present, Kyran knows two existing official records that explain many things about Void magic. As a matter of fact, those records explain not only the Void but also the rest of the Ancient magic.

The existing official record Kyran had referred to was the Ancient Magic book that Stella possessed, which he also acquired as a reward in the Tower of Tribulations.

Thinking back on it, Kyran wondered if the location of the Tower of Tribulations was similar to the Human plane— a part of the Land of the Ancients.

But those were unimportant at the moment. With this in mind, Kyran pushed those thoughts to the back of his head as he continued to examine the array formation on the floor.

"Actually, I take that back," Dusk suddenly said after a short pause. "We may have already gotten hold of such a record without us knowing."

Although Dusk did not elaborate on that, Kyran guessed he was talking about the unreadable tablets his faction discovered.

Dusk looked at Kyran and could not help but frown when the latter remained unmoved at what he was saying. He was already aware of Kyran's request to see those tablets from Axil. As a matter of fact, Axil told Dusk the copies of those tablets were ready and that he should find Kyran and let him know.

"Oi, are you listening?" Dusk asked with a slight frown.

Instead of answering Dusk's question, Kyran replied with, "You're very talkative today."

"Tsk," Dusk replied with a click of his tongue. He was not talkative. Instead, it was Kyran who kept ignoring him.

Before he could refute the latter's remark, the floor at which Kyran was touching let out a blinding light.

Slowly, the light expanded, lighting up one array formula after another. Soon, the whole floor started to glow. After that, the spirit stones in the ceiling and walls also started to light up.

Seeing the spectacle before him, Dusk was dumbfounded. He did not notice that the whole room was filled with spirit stones. Not only that, but the spirit stones were all exquisite-grade! No wonder he felt that the magic energy in the castle's underground section did not appear thin like outside.

But Dusk's dumbfounded look was replaced with a solemn expression in the blink of an eye.

"How... How are there so many spirit stones in this place?"

"They found a reservoir filled with them," Kyran replied.

"But this place..."

Dusk was about to say that it was impossible for Somuli to possess that many spirit stones, given how thin the magic energy in the plane was. But then he remembered the other half of the tablet he found in the Human plane was discovered in Somuli. This means that the two planes might be part of the Land of the Ancients.

"I know what you're thinking," Kyran replied. "I've been wondering about that, too." 

Dusk did not respond this time. There were still some things that he did not dare say in front of Kyran. The latter might be someone Axil trusted, but they could not disclose everything to him, right?

Kyran did not notice the sudden change in Dusk. He even felt grateful the latter had finally stopped talking because then he could truly focus.

Meanwhile, Dusk turned his attention to the glowing array formation and visibly witnessed the array formulas moving around.

'This...' Dusk was speechless.

Loar was a Sovereign who specialized in Array, yet Dusk had never seen him do something like this. Loar did say that he once fought Kyran and lost because the latter's Array Knowledge far exceeded his. But Dusk had always believed that since Loar was now a Sovereign, it meant he had already surpassed Kyran.

It seemed his thinking was too shallow.