On the plains.
Several hundred people had been evenly distributed across different areas, staring intently at Kieran above.
"How will he make his move?"
Ian was curious as well.
He had never seen his teacher fight before.
But the next second, he froze.
Kieran raised a hand, his movements slow.
Then the earth shook.
Not the "shaking" of Ian's Earth Vein Tremor, but the trembling of the entire plain.
Dozens of square kilometers of land shuddered, and enormous cracks split open across the ground.
Ian steadied himself.
Then he saw elemental fluctuations within those fissures, as though living creatures were about to crawl out.
"And it isn't just the ground."
Ian looked up, and the sky changed color.
The gray sky was torn open in gashes. Azure wind poured down like waterfalls, then transformed into Wind Elemental Sprites.
They had no fixed forms.
They resembled azure whirlpools, faint light visible in their cores while powerful wind elements coiled around them.
Each possessed the strength of a peak Zero Ring, while some were occasionally larger, their auras reaching the First Ring.
There were several hundred of those larger ones, while the Zero Rings were too numerous to count.
"Gulp."
Ian's throat trembled slightly. Was this the power of a Second Ring Wizard?
"And this isn't the end."
He looked in every direction across the plain. Crimson points of light appeared from nowhere, transforming into Fire Elemental Sprites.
Some took the forms of various Magic Beasts, while others remained pure and shapeless, just like the wind elements.
Their numbers were equally impossible to count.
On the other side, within the fissures of the plain.
Rock creatures crawled out from various places. Some cracks spouted clear springs, which then transformed into Water Elemental creatures.
Ian's pupils widened.
At this moment, he could not