The instant Cain touched the pillar of light, his body fused into this one, and he rose into the sky before vanishing from the forest. Many people saw that and feeling more confident, they also advanced to the pillar.
Cain's mind went blank after touching the pillar, and the only thing he felt was moving from one place to another at a simply overwhelming speed. When his sight returned, and he saw his surroundings, a sense of overwhelming danger assaulted him.
The reason for that was the hundreds of Sword Monsters surrounding him from all directions. His first thought was to unleash every iota of Astral Wave and Blood Energy from his body to face those monsters, but to his shock, he could not do it.
There were hundreds of monsters around him the second he reached the second stage, and he could not use his energy pool. How was he supposed to fight all of them?