Chapter 130: Preparing The Defenses To Withstand A Stampede Of High Level Monsters

Axel's PoV:

"Wait, what?"

I was shocked by what the double-headed python had said.

I had already done my best to defeat the level 45,000 fire lion emperor and now the double-headed python was telling me that a stampede of high-level beasts was heading towards us?

If the monsters in the stampede were below level 30,000 then we wouldn't be able to survive unless it was below level 15,000.

Most of my teammates were level 20,000 while the junior heroes were at most level 1,000 or above.

The monster stampede might be able to damage and destroy my protective array if the monsters ever decided to attack my protective array.

It was already troublesome to defeat a level 45,000 monster and not to mention summoning a monster of the same caliber.

I already expended most of my energy in summoning the double-headed python.

{Axel 1, it should be possible to maintain the protective array while it is being attacked by numerous high-level beasts as long as a lot of mana is being supplied towards the protective array.}

Okay, got it. Thanks, Axel 2. For now, I needed to recover all of my mana so that I would be at my peak when the stampede of high-level monsters occur.

Although I had a high capacity of mana in my mana pool due to having a large mana pool, it still would consume both my mana and stamina to maintain the protective array while it would be attacked by numerous high-level monsters.

If only my teammates and the junior heroes would be able to supply their mana towards the protective array...

I know! How about I create an array that would store the supplied mana of my teammates and the junior heroes and I could create another array for the stored mana to be transferred directly into the protective array?

I would need to create a mana storage array and a mana transfer array for my plan to be executed.

The two arrays would play as the main weaponry and if it wasn't created, my plan would surely fail.

I tried to create the mana storage array by placing several mana imprints in a form of a circle.

After placing my mana imprints, I added more mana into my mana imprints.

The mana in the mana imprints condensed until it materialized due to the high quantity of mana that I had placed in it.

I tried to find the biggest boulder I could find and used it to place it at the center of the circle that I had formed.

After placing the boulder at the center of the mana imprint circle formation, I transferred my mana into the boulder.

I kept on transferring my mana into the boulder until the surface of the boulder was covered in thick mana.

The thick mana then seeped into the inner part of the boulder and replaced the minerals inside the boulder into mana crystals.

I had read from a book that stated that mana crystals formed from a place with a high density of mana.

Most mana crystals were stones, to begin with, or were materialized mana that had begun to solidify due to the thick materialized mana.

I was able to create a mana crystal by using the boulder as a medium to store my mana.

I still had plenty of mana in my mana pool so I should be able to completely transform the once ordinary boulder into a huge chunk of mana crystal.

I kept on supplying the huge boulder with my mana until even the outer part of the boulder transformed into a mana crystal.

After I had confirmed that the boulder was now 100% filled with mana crystals, I directed my mana towards the other mana imprints.

I used the other mana imprints to connect and focus the mana towards the mana crystal boulder.

The boulder of mana crystals shone brightly in bright blue light and the mana imprint followed after the boulder of mana crystals.

"The array is almost completed. Now I need to gather the energy of heaven and earth before the array would be complete."

I drew in the energy of heaven and earth using my mana as the medium and I kept on collecting it until it was enough to fill the array.

I transferred the energy of heaven and earth into the mana storage array which caused the mana storage array to react towards the energy of heaven and earth.

The energy of heaven and earth, also known as yin yang energy, was fused with the boulder of mana crystals, and a few of the yin yang energy fused with the mana imprints.

A beacon of bright blue light appeared out of the mana imprints and boulder of mana crystals which indicated that the array was completed.

I tested the effects of the mana storage array by transferring my mana towards the boulder of mana crystals.

As I transferred my mana into the mana storage array, I felt as if the mana storage array was a void that had unlimited storage since it wasn't filled even if I transferred all of my mana.

My skills in creating arrays had indeed become much better than before.

Since I had already completed creating the mana storage array, it was now time to create the other array which was the mana transfer array.

Unlike the mana storage array, I needed to create the mana transfer array by pointing the center of the mana transfer array into the direction of the object that I'm going to transfer the mana at.

So, the mana transfer array was going to be rectangular while the center of the mana transfer array would be at the edge of the rectangular formation.

I tried to find a suitable location to create the mana transfer array at and found a suitable place near the edge of the protective array.

I started to create the mana transfer array by leaving mana imprints on the ground to form a rectangular formation.

As usual, I supplied mana into the mana imprints until the mana in the mana imprints condensed and materialized.

After that, I found a medium-sized rock and placed it at the edge of the rectangular formation.

I transferred my mana into the medium-sized rock until it completely became a mana crystal like the boulder of mana crystal from before.

Unlike the boulder of mana crystal, the mana stored inside the medium-sized rock was much more potent than the boulder of mana crystal due to its smaller size.

If I transferred my mana into a pebble instead, it would be completely turned into a mana crystal in mere seconds.

As I was getting the hang of the mana crystal technique that I had created, a familiar sound rang inside my ear.

*Ding!*

*The host has acquired the [Mana Crystal Transformation] skill.*

As I had expected, even if the skill I had discovered or created wasn't a skill from this world, it would still be generated by the system and transform into a skill suitable in this world.

I used this opportunity to find more regular stones in the forest until I piled up several stones in front of me.

After I had enough stones in the pile I had created, I activated my newly acquired [Mana Crystal Transformation] skill on the pile of stones.

My mana seeped into the stones after I activate my [Mana Crystal Transformation] skill and it kept on consuming my mana until the stones completely became a mana crystal.

I picked up the pile of mana crystals and used it to form a rectangular formation for the array that I was going to create.

I used the medium-sized mana crystal to place it at the edge of the rectangular formation perfectly since an array was much more powerful if the array components were placed at the right spot.

By placing the array components at the right spot, it would be much faster and efficient to draw in the energy of heaven and earth.

And by using the medium-sized mana crystal as the eye of the formation, I would be able to transfer the stored mana in the mana storage array much faster as long as I placed it at the right spot.

I double-checked the placement of the array components of both the mana storage array and the mana transfer array.

I made sure that the mana crystals were placed at the right spot so that I would be able to draw in more yin-yang energy.

It was a good thing that I had taken my time in studying how to create arrays back when I was at the Elven Library and thanks to my genius-level comprehension skill, I was able to understand it much faster than the average person.

The mana transfer array was finally completed so I told my teammates and the junior heroes to transfer their mana into the mana storage array.

I operated the mana transfer array to transfer the mana that was stored in the mana storage array into the protective array.

Just as I was finished doing my preparations, the ground started to shake violently and I felt the presence of multiple high-level monsters heading towards the protective array.