"Y-Young Master..." Raya’s voice quivered nervously as he looked at Kyran. "A-Are you serious about this?"
Kyran smiled at him wryly and asked, "Why do you think, otherwise?"
"N-No... But, you see... right?" Raya shook his head and exchanged nervous glances at the other Regis members looking at the new array formation that Kyran had drawn after reviewing the incomplete draft of the seal’s formation they tried to recreate.
"It is not that we think creating it is impossible but the materials..." Shimon, the vice leader of Raya’s squad started to voice his opinion.
Before he could finish speaking, he and Raya exchanged looks again.
"Actually, it is not the materials..." Shimon slowly corrected himself. "But..."
"I don’t doubt your Array Knowledge, Young Master," another member spoke up.
Kyran looked at him and remembered the member’s name was Jettson. He could be considered a distant relative now because he was the son of his fourth cousin.
"But I think the concept of the array itself is..." Jettson’s voice trailed off because he could not bring himself to say the word that crossed his mind.
"Impossible?" Kyran tried to supply.
"Insane."
"Unprecedented."
"Inconceivable."
"Mentally ridiculous!"
The rest of the members, Aubrie, Davion, Jair, and Zoll also supplied their impressions about Kyran’s array at the same time.
Kyran chuckled despite himself. But his laugh turned to a grimace halfway as his core trembled in pain.
"Y-Young Master!"
All of them rushed to his side at once. In the end, they stopped, not knowing what to do.
Cyneah also reacted. But instead of shouting her concern, she could only grit her teeth and reign in her concern. She could worry all she wanted but nothing would change. Even if he was not using his domain to stop her from using magic, she would not be able to help him. She already realized that after Shaiha explained that she was expelled from Kyran’s sea of consciousness.
The influence of Coelus’s corpse’s magic energy was far too potent for Cyneah’s meager Soul magic to affect. Moreover, her soul magic was borrowed only and could not even be considered hers.
From the side, Aillos’s brow furrowed slightly upon seeing Kyran’s pain. His barrier could not completely block off Coelus’s corpse’s influence, but the magic energy that managed to bypass his barrier should not affect Kyran that much. If the latter was grimacing just by the act of laughing, it meant he had been enduring a much grievous pain even before they arrived.
"...This calculation will control the amount of magic energy that you will assimilate. After that, the next ones will enter the formation."
"The next ones?" Raya and the others looked at Kyran in confusion. But then they felt like slapping themselves as they thought of the other dragons in the Dragon Clan.
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Of course, since Coelus’s corpse practically belonged to the Dragon Clan, they could not possibly hog the benefits by themselves. Once they finished assimilating enough of its magic energy, they had to surrender it to the dragons.
"No," Kyran suddenly said, cutting off their train of thought. As if sensing what was going on in their heads, he explained, "I don’t plan on sharing Coelus’s magic energy with them."
To prove his point, he even pointed in Aillos’s direction, making Raya and the others break out in cold sweat.
"Besides, the formation will only work on humans I acknowledged."
"But..."
"Lady Ames and Myst will work on this side to open a path for the Lower Realm to enter," Kyran explained with a small smile. "To be more accurate, they will use the Regis Terram as a bridge in opening that path."
"!"
Raya and the rest were speechless.
Aillos, Auto-one, and Cyneah were the only ones whose expression remained calm since they were already aware of Kyran’s intentions.
"At this moment, Lady Ames is trying to convince the rest of the Dragon Emperor’s aides to help in creating that path. An array formation is not enough to do that, after all."
"But would they really help? They are not exactly a very... welcoming lot," Jair said, looking over at the Dragon Emperor uneasily.
"If there is one thing I understand about the Dragon Clan, is their desire to protect their people," Kyran told them. "I am not saying Lady Ames is trying to convince them that we are one of them, but that... the only way for them to overcome the situation is through us."
"’Through us?’"
They repeated while looking at each other in confusion.
"The Emperor has all the information about every clan in the Higher Realm. The Dragon Clan is not an exemption. It is probably not complete, but I’m sure he knew all the powerful dragons, at least, and already had countermeasures against them."
Raya and the others widened their eyes as they were struck with realization.
"They don’t have information about the Regis Clan!" Raya exclaimed.
Kyran nodded with a small smile, "Exactly. However, we are still at a disadvantage because of our low level. Thus, in the next few months, I’ll make all of you break through to Sovereign or higher."