It is said, at this point the ultimate trump card of a Battlemaster is the weapon they have created with their aura called an Aura Avatar. Similarly, based on the knowledge provided by uncle in the Inheritance realm, eventually a mage must form a magoi phantom of the themselves called an Arcane Incarnation. All that's left for me is to condense my aura and magic ability into a tangible substance like an Aura Avatar and Arcane Incarnation.
Let me explain. Expert stage mages after perfecting their arcane possession spells, will need to fully embody their arcane arts. In this process they deconstruct all of the arts they have learned and create a uniquely distinct arcane art for themselves. Naturally, the new art will not be usable for any other mage.
Afterwards, they then establish this art by creating tangible inscriptions. Said inscriptions must be made of their internal magoi and shaped into any 3-dimensional object best suited for said arcane art. Once formed, the mage must nurture this new object inside their primary mage core until their incarnation emerges from the inscription cocoon. This will cause the mage to enter the Master stage.
Grand Blademaster stage Battlemasters also go through this process, but slightly different. The Battlemaster was condense their aura inside their heart while feeding it their blood essence. After their aura fully condensed and is completely nurtured, the Battlemaster must summon said object and feed it the blood of many enemies. Their battles fought using this avatar will cause them to break into the Duke stage.
To recap, both Arcanists and Battlemasters are required to incubate a new existence. They do so until it fully develops into a tangible/secondary existence directly connected to their soul. Further, the powerhouse will temper and purify this new existence continuously.
Eventually, they are then fully baptized by Ohmdorra's purest of worldly energy during "Magoi Baptism". This results in breaking into the King and Grandmaster stages. For both paths, the Arcane Incarnation and Aura Avatar are essential for future development. Should there be any issues or conflicting energies, their cultivation will halt if not be utterly destroyed.
After spending many nights mulling over Uncle's information inside his journal and comparing it to what dad had in his study, I find myself at a complete loss. For me to become the next stage which I call "MagiKnight Commander", I need to follow this trend of creating a tangible or secondary entity that's a part of my soul. Meaning, I have to use both aura and a tangible internal magoi shaped 3-dimensional object.
I have already decided on what 3d object I want to use; a trihectohedron. That is a polyhedron with 300 geometric facets. Perfectly suited for me as, I have many interchangeable tools at my disposal. The idea came to me when I considered what the nucleus of an atom looked like. To me, the nucleus of an atom looks like tiny orbs clumped together making up some kind of polyhedron with hundreds of geometrical facets.
Next, I have many arcane arts, but primarily use a select few. Combining them all together should not be an issue, just a matter of time. Instead of placing everything inside my heart or the Primordial palace, I will use the Divine Kingdom palace as the place of incubation.
Everything seems to be okay, but not quite. Using my Divine Kingdom palaces as the place of incubation, I will create an inscribed multi-layered trihectohedron therein. Afterwards, I would need to infuse aura, blood essence and my internal magoi into this object's core. This here lies the problem. Aura Avatars do not have humanoid appearances nor can it mix with an Arcane Incarnations in any way. To be exact, they are anthesis of each other, polar opposites, water, and fire; doomed to never peacefully coexist.
At first, I considered making them separately. However, my calculations and experiments always lead to me becoming a human shaped bomb, exploding almost instantly. I also considered making one or the other. This would lead to my cultivation being crippled, never to use both energies every again.
Even with my ability to infuse aura into my spells, I was not able to come to an experimental result which worked in the same fashion. My only choice is to somehow make a dragon and phoenix coexist in balanced equilibrium. This may take me years to figure out, years I currently do not have… sigh
Currently, according to the announcer's voice, I have about 20 day left to finish preparing before the war begins. After 40 days of modifying the shrine, and developing this stronghold, I can say the environment is ready for anything. After enhancing the inscriptions on the children's small shards and magoi cores, my invading force is ready for battle.
Lastly, I finished building 1,000 auto turrets alongside a team of Alchemic Craftsmen. Another team finished an entire legion of humanoid golems with the same power scale starting from Knights to Grand Battlemaster stage warrior in terms of interpersonal strength.. I can safely say the stronghold's defenses are top notch. In summary, my overall forces could rival many small nations, yet it's not enough to rival Duxley.
To improved my force's combat ability, I and the other smiths have creating armor, weapons, and siege equipment night and day. Outside of time spent training and overseeing progress throughout the stronghold, I have been crafting my weapons and armor with my signature ore.
I laboriously created a host of plasmasabers, light armor made of luminian silver and heavy armor made of necron platinum for my elite battalion. I've also made equipment for the other battalions under the other children clans which focused on maximizing the offensive capabilities related to their racial traits. Simply arming such a large force with high quality magic armor and weapons was a major undertaking which took up 15 days of my remaining prep time.
For the last five days, I had everyone work for no more than 2 days. The first of the last 3 days was spent at the shrine where all would offer our pleas to the Elder Spirits and the Creator, in hopes to bolster our unity and ease the hearts of those who would not be fighting. The second of the last 3 days was to be a festival celebrating how far this stronghold has come and the unity we all now share.
It was a day of revelry, merriment and joy washing away the pain that was to come. To be honest, I never thought I would get this far when I began this trial. I initially had 1 billion members of the children clans and 600 tribals. I now have the 1 billion children alongside 150,000 tribals of whom I can no longer call tribals. Officially, they are now members of my dungeon realm and have developed technology on par if not better than Duxley.
On the last of the 3 days, martial law was declared. Under no circumstances were any non-combat related trades performed unless authorized be me. On this day, I wanted my forces to rest fully and be at their best. I too rested until an announcement rung out,
"Warning: You have 1 hour before Combat begins. Any current projects must be finished before the start of the war game."
-End of Chapter