Way of the Knights

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Greater Domain Formation, this is the name of Raven's knew craft.

The twelve small flags that he created served as boundaries for the said formation. Each flag had numerous inscriptions etched on it's surface, enabling it to connect with each other and form this large domain. Once activated, these flags will appear on their respective spots and stay in there to become the boundaries. Aside from the one who created and owned the formation, these flags won't be seen by other people, so it's completely useless to search for them.

As for the black orb, if functions as the center of control for the whole formation. It's surface is also filled with numerous inscriptions that similarly connect and respond with the flags. The orb is made out of black obsidian so inscribing inscription symbols in it was challenging. Aside from that, it also allow one to have a mental map of the whole place covered by the formation.

The Greater Domain Formation has several functions. One is the ability to convert energies into a purer form and also raise it's quantity by at least double, the formation also doesn't conflict with the main formation of the institute.

Second ability is to act as an obscuring formation, which basically make his whole territory become less obvious to people. Unless he wants other people to enter his territory, they won't be able to easily do so otherwise. Trespassers might experience being lost inside or worse, be trapped inside the formation without knowing. But Raven adjusted this purpose to be a little bit forgiving so problems like that shouldn't arise.

Also, he could use this function to hide the changes that he will make inside his territory. For example, if he adds another room aside from the current one that he has, unless he wants to show it, this new room would be hidden by the formation.

Third is the ability to have a great influence inside the territory. What that means is that he's lord of this little land. If he doesn't want any people in, he could lead them out with just a thought. If he wants to transform a specific spot inside his territory, he could do so using his thoughts. Everything that happens inside his territory is known to him whether he's inside or not. And if he became a bit stronger, if he want someone dead inside his territory, then he could do so with his thoughts.

But the gist is, people who had a stronger than him had a greater chance of resisting him. For example, someone who's a Bronze Knight would be harder to deal with even with the help of the formation compared to someone who's at Junior Warrior Realm.

Also, the formation uses his spiritual energies more than the regular one. So if he runs out of spiritual energies, then he won't be able to have the assistance of the formation. But this doesn't mean that the formation would cease functioning.

This formation helps Raven temper and train his Spiritual Energies. Since he's going to remodel many things inside his territory, he will be able to train his control over his spiritual energies as well as raise it's quality.

Just a few moments ago, he caused the wall on the northern side of his room to cave in slightly, but that already consumed most of his spiritual energies. Currently, he was recovering when a sudden idea flashed by his mind.

"Right, I haven't checked that space up until now. I wonder if something changed."

And just like that, he fused his consciousness with his spirit. Upon opening his eyes, the view of his Spirit Sea appeared.

[A/N: Sea of Consciousness -> Spirit Sea.]

His spirit then looked up to see the Crown slowly spinning on top of his head, with a thought he used the connection he had with the crown and sent his spirit inside the space of the Crown.

He felt his vision warped for a bit, and when he came to be. He arrived a vast white space filled with golden splendor. As he looked around, he felt like he was floating. The ground beneath him looked like soft and fluffy clouds but also stable at the same time.

Golden lights appeared like curtains that lifted the beauty of this space to another level. Raven smiled seeing this.

"Yep, still the same like before."

Raven and the Ancestral Divine Crown had been together for the longest of time. It provided him with too much assistance and even gave him another shot at life. All of the knowledges he knew, the profound truths and techniques that he had, all came from this Crown. He inherited them from the previous masters of the crown and with it he reached heights that he didn't dare to imagine before.

He had lost count on how many times he had been in this space, but there's one thing that he knows. Even if he became the official master of the crown, he knew that he's far from releasing the true might of this Crown.

"Hmm?"

Raven's thoughts were interrupted by a sudden change. He felt a great movement around him, the clouds rolled beneath his feet, the golden light intensified to the point that it almost blinded him. After a couple of moments, Raven felt like he was in the middle of a fierce storm. He heard the rumbling around him, there were multiple times that he almost lost balance but he held on.

"What's going on? This never happened before."

Raven was confused about the sudden changes around him. He tried to go out of the space but he couldn't so he knew that he could only endure.action

Eventually, the chaos subsided and when Raven took a glance of his surroundings once more, he was left gobsmacked and just outright speechless.

"W-what the hell?"

The seemingly endless space of white clouds and golden lights were gone. In front of him, a humongous and majestic golden palace stood.

He found himself standing in front of it's majestic gates, the road beneath him looked like it was made out of the shiniest and the most polished jade. The fields surrounding the palace was rich and vibrant, it carried a trace of life and could make one's spirit lifted just by a glance.

The walls and columns of the palace appeared like they were taken out from the pillars of heaven and used as a materials for building it. The gates were made out of metals that shone with a faint golden shimmer, even with his knowledge, there's no way for him to identify what kind of metals these were.

As he was trying to recover from his initial shock. He heard s mighty rumbling sound, the ground beneath him shook, and just as when he was expecting for something chaotic to happen. He saw the gates slowly moving, seemingly allowing him passage.

Raven smiled wryly at this. It turns out that the gates were so heavy that it causes the ground to shake just by opening it.

After a couple moments, the gates were now open wide open. Raven was instantly greeted with an air filled with ancientness and profound majesty. A deep feeling of respect surfaced in his heart, he thought that whoever was able to build this castle in front of him must be something that's beyond his imagination, and that's saying a lot considering his experience.

He took a deep breath and decided to take a step forward, as soon as he did so, the space around seemingly warped, his vision blurred and he felt like something heavy was pressing his shoulders down.

Raven was surprised and shocked by this feeling, he gathered his strength and forcefully carried this weight on each step he took. He gritted his teeth and suppressed the urge to give in to this supression.

Each step he took was as heavy as a mountain, it had to be known that he hadn't taken ten steps and he was already feeling like this. Not to mention, he had this idea that the supression was getting stronger. He was puzzled about what's going on. He didn't know why there's too much supression on himself when he was technically the master of the crown.

While this left a bad taste in his mouth. Something interesting happened that distracted his thoughts.

*Drip* *Drip*

"Eh?"

A surprised sound came out of his throat. He looked down and saw that there's blood dripping from his nose. He even saw traces of it on the ground.

Instead of panicking, this caused to be shocked instead. How can he be bleeding? Wasn't he in Spirit Form? He clearly remember entering this place in Spirit Form so technically, him bleeding should be impossible.

He then took time to inspect his body and his expression changed upon doing so.

"I'm physically here? What's going on?"

There was no mistaking it, he was wearing clothes as well as his spatial ring, and to confirm his suspicions, he took out something from it and it appeared. This made Raven's confusion shoot through the roof, another spectacle happened that took the cherry on top.

"Hi there, Partner."