When he woke up his brother was standing above him inside a tent "you weren't supposed to eat them all at once, you almost died." warren got up feeling much stronger level 5 was said to be the real starting point for cultivators, warren immediately checked his stats
NAME: Warren Rex
TITLE:Baron
AGE:18/100
STRENGTH:100/300
SPEED:145/300
Dexterity:159/300
AGILITY:167/300
INTELLIGENCE:100/300
PERCEPTION:130/300
PRECISION: 125/300
CULTIVATION: Stage 5 level 0
Warren didn't realize how stupid he was when he thought he could kill a whole orc village alone, but now he could easily kill any village he pleased even a stage 4 cultivator couldn't do it coming out unscathed a stage 5 could easily win, but of course a stage 5 cultivator could not destroy the village in one blow only someone in the next realm could.
Warren left the tent and immediately saw the city wall of zen and all the tents that lined her walls apparently alot of other soldiers ate their amount of pills immediately.
The city of zena had a population of 26 million and 10 million of those people were refined into spirit pills, the second part of Warren's plan worked better now that a lot of his army was incapacitated he immediately left to go get the traveler's who betrayed the rex kingdom.
The traveler named Robin couldn't stand the thought that the rex kingdom was the reason the United states was attacked in zoa she had a brother who died during the battle and her mother was sold into sex slavery she only made it here after starving for weeks in the wilderness.
When Wqssarren finally made it back to rex he immediately called a meeting with all the citizens. "My father is the one who orchestrated the attacks on the government and there will be a vote to decide whether or not he should be punished, the vote will be completely anonymous." he then instructed them to go into the booths that were already prepared.
After an hour or so everyone finished voting only twenty people voted for his father to be punished. Most people even if they lost someone to the attack knew that in this world there was no room for hesitation they also knew the government was planning to attack the crystal cities first they just never got the chance. They also knew the rex leaders had a team searching for survivors. the twenty who voted to punish him held the deepest grudge.
"I am sorry to tell you this but the people who attacked our camp had help from people inside and these votes were not anonymous they were a test to route out the traitors." at that point twenty people tried to run but were immediately apprehended but the crowd tried to attack them because a lot of them lost family members to the attack over six thousand people died.
"I took them to be used in a new experiment, soren guessed that if he took away all of a mages senses they would develop a powerful new form of magic. Soren learned this from our most powerful mage collin who was blind, but gained the ability to see mana"
Craven had someone take out their eyes, tongues, eardrums and smell all of this was done physically without magic , all of their classes were changed to mage. Mage class changes cost a lot of energy and was extremely painful so it was rarely ever done finally they were burnt enough to take away their sense of touch.
Afterwards they were put to sleep and taken to zena and then they got injected with a plant extract that makes the user go beserk they immediately started attacking the city.
Everyone was amazed at how powerful these stage zero mages were each attack was at least stage five. Collin was prepared to put down these beserk mages and immediately took away all of his senses magically and he was already at stage five. He killed all the mages in seconds.
No one was worried about how powerful he was, they had already used their only oath contract on him even though Soren vauched for him. Mages were one of the top tier existences because they had a natural connection to magic and they could naturally use chantless magic so they couldn't just take his word for it.
Zena started to cheer in joy when the army entered because they believed the mages that were rampaging were the ones behind their suffering and the army had just killed them.
After they cleaned up they left craven and his team to ensure Zena grew back to the city it once was and to see if anyone had the ability to become a mage because Collin wated to build a mage corp called the silent ones. suprisingly all 20 Soren stayed behind to check out the alchemy lab but before he could Warren approached him to look under ground for more vaults.
Sorens eyes widened in awe. "there's a city underneath this one filled with gnomes