As the Emperor looked straight at Nobuharu and said to him, "Do your thing," Nobuharu turned to Drey and Kohana, signaling for them to give him space.
So they came down from the air, gently landing beside the Emperor. They flanked him like soldiers guarding a person of interest.
"You might want to get out of here, Emperor," Kohana said to Magus, who walked out of the area with them without a word of protest.
Now given the space he required to "do his thing," he groaned as he churned up his body like a ball, floating in the sky, as his body started to metamorphose. As he had memorized the spell necessary for this, he did not need to open his grimoire for this to work.
Gradually, before the eyes of all the onlookers present, his skin turned to scales, and two horns protruded from his forehead as his eyes glowed scarlet red. His bodily physique broadened as his clothes got ripped apart by the somewhat sudden expansion of his body.