Without much hesitation, everyone followed the Fate Wizard, flying in the direction he had sensed earlier.
During the flight, Benjamin discovered that the entire plane was shrinking faster.
The earth beneath their feet was moving toward the direction he had sensed earlier. The distant mountains grew smaller little by little in his sight, and the clouds overhead were also drawn by an invisible force, converging in the same direction.
It felt as though the entire plane were a piece of cloth gripped by an invisible hand, contracting toward a central point.
They had not flown far before they heard a furious roar.
The sound erupted from the depths of the plane, carrying an indescribable pressure.
The Fate Wizard and Clark acted simultaneously, their law solidification domains unfolding in unison. Two layers of protection overlapped, shielding everyone behind them. Boom!!!
The heavy pressure spread outward, shaking the law solidification domains they had deployed incessantly.
Yet even with the two of them blocking it, Benjamin felt the lingering traces of that aura.
That all-too-familiar sensation swiftly stirred his Body Tempering Method into activity. The Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror rose within his spirit sea, shedding radiance to help stabilize his soul.
Benjamin had experienced this familiar sense of oppression many times before.
That terrifying pressure, which overwhelmed everything through sheer superiority in the hierarchy of life, was enough to strip any Level 8 lifeform of the will to fight in an instant. Lifeforms below Level 8 would be crushed outright without even being able to resist. That was... the aura of a Level 9 lifeform!
Although Benjamin was very familiar with this aura, the others present were not.
Virtually all the high-rank wizards present were cowed by the terrifying aura.
Several Level 7 wizards turned pale. Augusta instinctively glanced at Benjamin's reaction, and a