After the intangible figure walked out, the Echo's chant became increasingly high, their body converted into the purest form of energy, causing the Blood Emperor and the rest to wake from their mindless state.

The Echo turned into the glittering light, they all slowly absorbed by the old figure that stepped out of the crystal, helping him recover his vitality, after slumbering for so long, one would need lots of energy once reawaken.

The process lasted for a very long time, the Echo dissipated one by one, slowly reducing their number.

The figure started to materialized itself, gradually became a real living thing, but due to its enormous soul, the physical shell needed to be of the high calibre, causing the process to be the long one.

The Grand Archmage was the most excited one out of the four, this process showed him the way of the magical force, after this, his understanding of the law of reality would deepen significantly.

A huge amount of time passed by, the last Echo, the one that guided them to the shine, suddenly stood up, it whispered unknown language to the floating soul and looked around for one last time, it closed its eyes, and just like the other, it slowly faded away.

The cultivation of the physical shell had been completed, the holy soul immediately began to get into the body, the mountain-sized soul squeezed into the human-sized shell, it was the strange sight to behold.

Because of the miracle of the Echo, the refined body was powerful enough to withstand the sheer size of the soul, once completed, the noble body started to move around, trying to adjust his own control over his new body.

The figure gradually opened his eyes, they were sky-blue and could piece through the physical body and peered into the soul of other, he wore a white and black robe that concealed the true appearance of his, but one could guess that under the imperial robe was a wise old man who had experienced the world and heaven.

He extended his hand, the Despair that was used to open the shine reappeared before them once more, it slowly moved toward the figure and merged within his body, the power of the artefact transferred into him, granting him the magical power unrivalled across the Human continent.

He gazed toward the four, giving them the feeling of being exposed, they couldn't hide anything from him, like the omniscient judge that dictated the world.

The moment he was about to speak, everyone unknowingly stopped everything and quieted down, attentively awaiting his words with utmost respect.

"Why was it that you woke me?"

...

"Your Majesty, your soldiers are ready to serve you, please issue your command."

The emissary spoke as he bowed down toward the figure who sat on the throne.

"We shall process as generals' plan, this time, the victory would be ours."

His voice reflected his confidence in his generals, he himself also participated in the strategic discussion.

"We shall not disappoint your majesty and bring them down."

The groups of officials spoke with determination and slowly retreated toward the army, in their mind, the victory was already in their grasp.

"What do you think? Would they fail?"

The one who seated upon the throne suddenly turned his attention to the envoy.

"This one didn't dare, didn't dare at all."

He lowered his head even farther, avoided to offend the other party.

The figure gestured his hand and laughed.

"You are permitted to speculate about this matter, I will not take it to heart."

The envoy smiled helplessly before he addressed his thought.

"This little one is grateful for your magnanimity, this one personally doesn't think that today's plan will work, but, it will surely archive your goal, your majesty."

"Why is that so?"

The figure continued to ask the envoy.

"Your Majesty is unrivalled across our history, you should have already know about this. The Human Empire stood strong since time immemorial, they surely must have at least some secrets that allowed them to rule over all other."

The figure laughed soundly.

"Very well, you are knowledgeable, if you continued to serve me with your best, your future shall be bright."

"The envoy thanks your majesty, the Great King, may the Demi-human Kingdom rule over all other."

The Great King nodded his head slightly, causing the envoy to brim with joy and happiness.

The Great King has acknowledged me, my future will from now on be boundless!

The envoy bowed one last time before slowly retreated back from the throne room.

...

"Commander!"

The warriors of kingdom yelled loudly, signifying their peak fighting spirit.

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A figure could be seen walking in front of the soldiers, his body radiated the mighty aura of the super soldier, he dressed in the traditional outfit of the military, but on his cloth were many dazzling stars and symbols, indicating his superior position of the army.

The commander of the army, Ferror Morus, walked across the divisions, checking his troops and boosting their morale.

As he walked past the captains of sub-legions, they commanded their men to salute him with respect, shouting the greeting phase of the military, hoping to gain some favour for themselves.

At the end of his small journey was a well-prepared tent for the commanders like him, he was the last commander to arrive, but he was not late at all.

"Ferror, you are as late as ever."

A familiar voice travelled into his ears.

"I won't bother about the usual greeting staff, I only come here to ask you guys, will the plan surely work? I won't risk my subordinates over the unreliable plan."

Ferror was always very protective about his underlings, he personally hand-picked all of them, he had many uses of them all.

Hearing that, the other commanders began to laugh uncontrollably, causing Ferror to feel shame burning on his face.

"Why are you laughing? This is not funny."

He was very confused.

"Of course this is funny, so the rumour that you are a shut-in was true after all."

A commander spoke with a hint of sarcasm.

"This project was designed personally by the generals and his majesty, they had been working on it since the Mana Catastrophe."

The commanders voiced out their information one after another, the overall information was laid out for exchange.

"A plan that was created in six months? Even so, the situation of the world wasn't the same as before, Monsters also started to appear as well as many new plants, can they guarantee that the plan won't meet any unexpected circumstance?"

"If you don't trust the ability of those old generals, you should still trust in the foresight of his majesty, right?"

"Many of the outstanding individuals participated in the strategic meeting, any of them can control a small army at ease."

As they argued, a group of soldiers walked orderly toward their tent, they were the specialized force for information gathering.

"Commander!"

"The general is about to arrive, please make your way to the platform as soon as possible."

The captain of the square spoke clearly and loudly, everyone within the tent could hear it without any problem.

The commanders looked at each other and smiled, they stood up one by one, adjusting their attire and finally started moving to welcome their superior, the general.

But, when everyone except one, Ferror, walked out, he observed the surrounding before hastily contacted someone with his magical equipment.

A figure of a female elf manifested into the reality, her appearance was concealed by the fog from the void, only someone with high mastery of formations could undo it, even so, her aura of the superior could not be concealed, inspiring awe from the young commander.

His eyes searched for the magical emblem, to confirmed the identity of the person before him.

Seeing the emblem, he smiled.

"This one welcome your arrival, your highness."

Due to this being outside and unsecured, it was not appropriate to welcome with commotion, someone might detect it and come to take a look.

Their interaction must be kept a secret without any strangers knowing.

"The general has arrived, this one requires your command."

The plan that her highness designed must not fail at all cost, for this plan will affect his future as both a commander and a member of Faceless.

Faceless was an organization that came to light around six months ago, some said that they broke away from the Masked, but no one knew its true history, other than the figure that was standing in front of him, the leader of Faceless.

She called herself the Faceless Princess, her information network was very vast, on par even with the entire Demi-human Kingdom, the unique thing about Faceless was the bizarre knowledge and magic spells that belong only to Faceless Princess.

Physical body changing, body modification, blood remodelling, soul corruption. All sort of unusual knowledge about physical plane and soul, the abilities to turn into virtually anyone was the nightmare that plague the world, raising the organization to the top, alongside the Masked.

The identity of Faceless Princess was another mysterious, the only known fact was that her gender was female, the only thing that identified her was her signified magical emblem, the picture of a hand that held a perfect-shaped skull gently, it was infused with magic that gave of the feeling of the reunion of love one.

She could take the appearance of anything at any time, without the emblem, there was no way to know who was her.

"You shall take your two bodyguards, Bloodless and Pollution, and participant the meeting, any information about the plan must be recorded at send to me."

Her voice was distorted by magic, but it still gave off the feeling of intoxication.

"By your command."

She nodded her head slightly, and the connection had been cut off, the figure dissolved rapidly until nothing was left behind.

The young commander then resumed his journey toward the stand, as if nothing had happened before.

...

"Reporting, an army of twenty-five thousand warriors, seven thousand archers of the demi-human has been spotted at the south-east fort, five days until their arrival."

The scout of the army quickly reported the information with a clear voice.

"As expected, the third scenario was corrected, send the command toward the seventh and tenth army, surround them and captured their commander!"

A dignified man spoke after a moment, then, he notified the others about this situation, he then prepared himself for a strategic meeting, after finished dressing up, he walked into his meeting room.

In the room, many crystals could be seen setting in an orderly fashion, he sat in front of his crystal, waiting for the meeting to start patiently.

After it was the time for the meeting, the crystals shone faintly, many familiar faces could be seen projected from the crystals.

"Greeting everyone."

"No matter how many times I used it, these Communication Crystals are really amazing."

After a round of chatting, it was time for real discussion.

"Fellow generals, everything has begun, the enemy chose the third route, prepared to counter-attack."

"My army has already gone to its location, this should be our victory if there were no unexpected things occurred."

"My teams are monitoring the Undying, although they showed no movement, it better to be safe than sorry."

"The others will remain guard on their location, we can't rule out the possibility of an ambush."

"Agree." "That's to be expected." "No problem."

"Then, let us conclude this small meeting and get back to work."

The light slowly faded away, the meeting had come to an end.

Shortly after, a soldier hastily ran toward the general.

"Reporting! The fifth princess has arrived and she requires your presence."

The commander was sent into a daze for a moment, he wondered why the royalty came here without any news about them.

Well, the fifth princess wasn't the outstanding one, maybe she just comes here for vacation.

Getting into the good side of the royalty was always a good thing, no one would pass this opportunity, the general dismissed the soldier and quickly changed his attire into his best-looking one, readied to welcome and flatter the fifth princess.