Chapter 233: The power of formations. Angel's miscalculation.

Chapter 233: The power of formations. Angel's miscalculation.

While Yasenia was pampering Kali, Angel decided to approach the Monolith. She thought about how to take on the trial and decided to begin with her physical strength. The little girl was curious about how much physical power she had. She punched the Monolith softly first and then increased her strength little by little. The cute and sweet girl with disproportionate breasts managed to score an impressive 264.

Even though she was far from Kali's 289 or Lui Yi's 299, she showed high strength for someone at the eighth level of the Mental Nourishing realm.

Angel had a high-level bloodline called [Light Molding Glass Sallow], but it was not comparable to Kali's [Life's Origin Nine-Tailed Fox]. Still, once she reached the half-step, she would absolutely be able to crush Liu Yi strength-wise.

Next, Angel hit the Monolith with different combinations of formations, golems, and exploding golems. Her score constantly increased, showing extreme control over her abilities. Her current score was 813! However, Angel wanted to try and reach the 1 000. She thought a bit and concluded that using her typical formations would be hard.

Angel's formations didn't just have to be strong, but also not too complex, or they would be completely useless in battle. This time, however, Angel could take all the time she wanted.

The people around were a little disgruntled at her pause since they wanted to hit the Monolith. However, whenever someone was about to speak and complain, they could feel a pair of Golden Dragon eyes locking onto them. Therefore, under Yasenia's care, Angel could calculate all she wanted.

Tatyana and Yasenia had similar likes and dislikes, so the Death Empress had taken a liking toward the sweet and cute Angel since the beginning. Tatyana could see that Angel's soul was extremely pure, devoid of the malice people normally had, making Tatyana fond of her. Moreover, she was very talented in the formation aspect, which Tatyana was a master for.

Therefore, Tatyana had been teaching Angel personally. The first thing she did was help her learn how to do calculations without the use of tools. This would be extremely helpful for Angel, whether with her formation mastery or battle strength.

Angel's trained and extremely intelligent mind spun and formulated countless formations in her head. She calculated different energy patterns, observed the plaza's geological condition, and measured the air's energy amount, purity, and how many layers of her formations she could superimpose. The little girls did all measurements like a precise machine, with negligible margin of error. After one minute, Angel's eyes flashed and a happy and sweet smile formed on her face. She moved around the Monolith, planting [Glass Nodes] and using some other formation components.

Formation components were composed of flags, rocks, pillars, lines painted by the formation pen, and the "ink" used for this pen. This ink could be made with the combination of countless different materials, and depending on the ingredients, it would add different effects to the formation. Formation masters had to be careful not to mix elements that could react with each other wrongly, or it could even lead to a backlash.

The materials Angel was using were mostly energy-gathering materials, with some light channeling and absorption rocks. There was a flag in each of the four directions and another four pillars in the middle of the diagonal connecting these flags. The [Glass nodes] created three concentric circles, connected by the Angel-painted yellow colored "ink." There were some more intricate shapes inside these three circles.

The formation masters around almost had their eyes popping out of their skulls. The precision, speed, material knowledge, and movements that Angel was showing were well above the level of a Mental Nourishing formation master.

"She is a genius!"

"Impressive. I think I would need at least 20 years more of training to reach her level."

"20 years? I think you missed a zero there!"

"However, why is she building an energy-gathering formation?"

"Hmm, there are places I can't understand, but it is true that the general form is similar to a [Energy Gathering array]."

"She isn't planning on sitting here and cultivating, right? I want to hit the Monolith!"

"If she does that, I will fight her!"

"Are you sure? That dragoness is looking at you quite intensely right now."

The man who declared that didn't speak again because he was petrified after Yasenia glared at him. They couldn't do anything but wait until Angel finished the formation. Fifteen minutes later, Angel cheered, "Nice~. It is done! Now, I have to change all the 'External' Objects with glass that has similar qualities."

The people's eyes opened wide and looked toward the Monolith again.

*BAM!*

The laser slammed powerfully and created a 380, higher than the previous number. Now, they knew where this was going. The question was, as Yasenia asked, how much time Angel could maintain it. But her answer made a lot of them almost collapse. Angel looked up at Yasenia, genuinely confused, and asked, "Huh? Didn't you see the Eight Elemental gathering sub-formation?"

Yasenia tilted her head and looked at the formation again. There was an eight-pointed star that was only visible after looking at the formation as a whole. Each end of the star touched a flag or a pillar. 'Indeed, there it is. My little girl managed to create the sub-formation naturally utilizing the shape of the main formation... What can I say? My baby is a super genius that even fooled me!'

As Yasenia deduced, the sub-formation was naturally formed when Angel combined the other formations, so Yasenia didn't realize it at first. Yasenia laughed out loud, knowing the function of this sub-formation. "So it can run forever as long as there is energy around."

That's right. This sub-formation was used to feed the formation's main core. It needed abundant energy in the surroundings, but it could work perfectly in this town where energy was extremely rich in the air. Moreover, it didn't disrupt the balance since the whole formation was based on absorbing and releasing energy.

The people that had managed to get up after collapsing fell again. This time, they were almost kneeling to Angel's might! They almost shouted aloud, "Miss, we are sorry for doubting your capabilities!"

And so, the cultivators could only look as the numbers increased. 400...600... 800... The lasers right now were very terrifying, even more so when the laser that attacked the Monolith was only the small portion the flags deviated from the main laser that was making rounds.

Angel began gaining points crazily as the numbers overcame the 1 000! However, a single detail went over Angel's mind. The durability of her own glass. Sadly, Angel wasn't looking at the formation since she was too occupied hugging Yasenia. Yasenia, however, was keeping an eye. She didn't want something going wrong. If that laser killed one of the mortals running around, Angel would die for it.

Yasenia's gaze turned serious as she saw the formation began to tremble, "Angel dear, did you put a mechanism to stop the formation?"

Angel looked at Yasenia's serious face and nodded, "Yes. This formation can grow infinitely, so it needs a release valve."

Yasenia laughed and caressed her long blonde hair, "You always focus too much on the theory. Look at your formation, my love."

Angel looked at it and instantly frowned. "It is going to break."

Another enormous laser slammed the Monolith.

*BAAANG!*

Yasenia looked at the massive red 1 340 that just appeared and advised, "At this pace, it won't be able to endure the 1500s. Stop it before it is too late."

Angel sighed sadly and approached the dangerously overloading formation, "I thought I could win a ton of points."

The laser was currently gaining strength in the northwest pillar.

Angel shot a thin laser beam toward one of the biggest [Glass Nodes] near the middle. That node was placed in the southwest position. When the overcharged laser shot toward the west flag, it rebounded on the flag, with the standard diverting effect, toward the Monolith and the southwest pillar.

However, that pillar had changed forms when the laser reached it. The pillar was now similar to a cannon, pointing at the Monolith in the middle. All the energy inside the formation rushed toward the cannon, lighting it up brightly. The oceanic color painted the surroundings beautifully because of its sapphire-like composition. Then, the blue cannon shot the overcharged ten-meter-wide laser beam toward the fourth meter tall Monolith.

Yasenia's eyes suddenly thinned, and her heart sank. 'It is too powerful!'