Time passed second by second in suffocating oppression, waiting only for that taut string to suddenly snap.
Yet the anticipated final showdown with the Giant Spirit Realm's army did not erupt immediately.
An entirely new and vastly different energy fluctuation surged from the battlefield's flank like a massive boulder cast into still water, instantly drawing the attention of every wizard!
Tens of thousands of reconnaissance spells, detection creatures, and energy sensors turned in that direction at once.
The next second, an atmosphere of astonishment mingled with gravity silently spread through the wizard camp.
Benjamin felt that fluctuation as well. It was a pure torrent of highly condensed spiritual energy!
He abruptly turned his head. Through his enhanced vision and the feedback from his reconnaissance talisman Seals, he saw a boundless—
"ocean" made up of translucent or spirit-light-flickering energy forms!
They took every conceivable shape. Some resembled twisted humanoid figures, some were nothing but geometric patches of light, and others seemed to be the direct manifestation of certain concepts.
They had no physical warships, yet the spiritual pressure radiating from their united forms seemed capable of warping the reality of that entire stretch of airspace!
The Mind Realm's army!
"How is this possible?!" Benjamin's eyes widened in shock, almost unable to believe what he was seeing.
Though the upper echelons of the Giant Spirit Realm and the Mind Realm had a cooperative relationship, that did not mean the two civilizations got along well.
Quite the opposite—their blood-deep hatred ran through nearly their entire known history.
Because of the Triangle Plane Cluster's peculiar nature, natural spatial gateways existed between them.
From their initial struggle for living space to their later mutual campaigns of conquest, technological plundering, and enslavement of each other's people, their hatred ran so deep that it could be called