The Empyreal Gem Master

The tent of the Elder Commander Lidar opened wide as this Elven Beast left it grandly.

He was adorned in a golden robe that fluttered with radiance, his Six-Link Gem Sockets shining brilliantly as he walked on the green earth.

Around his tent, there were hundreds of others smaller than it where thousands of Elven Beasts could be seen moving about, and in the far distance, there were other tents that had burly humanoid beats different from the Elven Beasts.

Their skin was black and shining with a heavy radiance, their bodies twice as big as they held pig-like faces and even tails behind them.

The Orc Beast Lineage!

A further distance away from them, with fewer tents as Beasts could be seen perched on trees…an array of avian Beasts could be seen.

Most of them shone with multicolored radiance reminiscent of Peacocks, their feathers lustrous and filled with deadly radiance.

Elder Commander Lidar went towards the very center of this whole encampment that held a few hundred thousand Beasts.

His steps were light, and yet he moved rapidly to arrive outside a central temporary tent that seemed to be constructed from vines and emanated an air of regality.

The three horns on Elder Lidar shone as he moved past the entrance of the Command Center of this army and delved into the eyes of multiple powerful entities turning towards his direction at this moment.

Three Elven Elder Commanders just like him, their chests shining brilliantly with Six-Link Gem Sockets as well.

They were standing around a device at the very center that shot out an illusory image of a wide Stronghold- an Ascendant City Fortress of the Asmodeus Bloodline!

Apart from the three Elven Elder Commanders, the figures of three massive humanoid Orcs could be seen, their chests also brimming with Six-Link Gem Sockets as their pig-like faces brimmed with ferociousness.

But the most distinguished of all were the multicolored Peacocks.

Their feathers brimmed with regality, with two of them being of massive stature, standing to the left and right of…a human.

Well, she looked human, but one could see gorgeous green locks of hair and green shapes around her eyes reminiscent of the feathers of a Peacock.

She was a beauty that even actual humans would lose against, with her chest shining brilliantly with Seven Gem Sockets.

A Tier 7 Beast Lord.

Someone powerful enough to change from her Beast Form and into a human form seamlessly if she wished.

That was how potent her life force was.

How terrifying her levels of Energeia were!

Under her gaze, even though a deadly fire rose in the loins of Elder Commander Lidar, he killed this fire so damn quickly as he knew the moment he showed it, he would die faster than anything else.

He nodded towards his peers and the Orcs before he bowed even deeper towards the Tier 7 Beast Lord, who looked towards him with eyes that were naturally magnetic.

"Beast Lord Vishpala, a portion of our forces- authority Tier 5 Elven Elder along with his subordinates, have been ambushed by the unruly humans in a nearby City. I know plans are cemented and we set off soon towards our target, but would it be possible for us to make a small detour? The place is only 100 miles or so from our original route.

I can even temporarily leave the army to flatten that human city as we then continue our way."

…!

His words caused the brows of the Orcs and Peacocks to rise, while from the Elven side, a beautiful and devilish female Elven Elder Commander flashed with a serious look as she asked with anger.

"Do not tell me it is Dadarius…he is the only one who left to obtain more Tier 4 Beasts!"

"..."

Lidar turned to gaze towards this Tier 6 Beast with heavy eyes as he nodded.

"It is precisely Dadarius."

BOOM!

Tendrils of wild Energeia erupted around the female Elder Commander.

The lover she enjoyed her time with the most…was killed.

Her eyes flashed with a deadly light of bloody murder as she turned towards the Beast Lord within this space.

"Beast Lord Vishpala…please allow this slight detour."

The eyes of the Elven Beasts were firm.

Gazing at them, the Beast Lord radiated a colorful smile.

She was adorned in somewhat see-through green robes as her fair skin could be seen underneath, the outline of her blessed chest and waist clear even though nobody dared to stare too closely.

"Since the rest of our Commanders will not be put at ease unless this is taken care of, let's go. It should be a Tier 5 Ascendant Human or even Tier 6 if they can easily take out an Elven Elder. No harm in taking care of them before we proceed on our way. We are done here for the most part…let us start."

…!

Her commands were inviolable.

Hearing them, everyone rose to attention as these terrifying Gem Masters nodded to each other and began to move.

Among all the Beasts here, all of them had a white and blue ring around their Sockets as under Human assumptions, they could be considered Ascendant.

But the Beast Lord held three faint rings of light around her Sockets on her chest.

White. Blue. Red.

It was tantalizing and filled with power, her figure flashing with radiance at this moment as she disappeared from the eyes of all others here.

It was a flash of teleportation too quick for any of them to see closely.

Such a being would make a slight detour to lead her army towards the City of Anan.

Under her banner, there were bound to be countless deaths even before she made a move.

And when she did…oh!

"Let us move!"

With a booming roar, the Elven Beasts began to move along with the Orcs and Peacocks, tents being uprooted and stored away as very quickly, the massive army began to move like a single organism.

The earth shook where they moved, with some even rising to the skies to scout ahead.

It was the advent of a terrifying force.

The advent of a battle that would change far, far too many things!