Third person POV
Meanwhile, at the same time Sol was fighting the crystal golem, the Old Faction members and their brainwashed soldiers from the military had somehow managed to break through the soldier layer of defense, and they are now fighting his academy students and the Zanid students. But that break through the defense comes with a cost: They had to sacrifice most of their ally soldiers in order to do so.
Watching this, the Hal family and some of their guards and attendants ran downstairs to the throne room to watch the fight from the doorway, with the doors opened. The king had been spending more time in his office than the throne room. The side parts had been temporarily turned into hospital wards for the injured guards and soldiers.
Sol's academy students and Zanid students are now doing their best to fend off the enemies while trying not to accidentally kill the brainwashed soldiers. Emi, still masked, uses her dodging skills and attacks her enemies with her magical arrows, one of her clan's specialties other than melee weapon combat. Tanaka and Jeremiah used their abilities on three Old Faction members, who were consisted of 1 Earthheart and 2 Necrohearts, the latter which are masters of necro magic. Those two Necrohearts then tried to summon the dead from the ground, but they were counterattacked by Jeremiah's strong Tornado and Tanaka's Sword Summon, obliterating them [the summoned undead] into nothing, thus foiling their summon. The Demonhearts are handling the rest of the Old Faction, preventing them from reaching the front gate itself. Meanwhile, at the first floor of the palace, Blaise and her medic team are treating the injured palace guards and soldiers, and half of the first floor was temporarily converted into a hospital for the injured. Almost all of them couldn't fight and had to rest and recover. At the same time, Dan, Luke, and the other two Senior Royal Guards are helping out in the fighting by handling the toughest Old Faction members.
Back at the fight, as he clashed against one of the Old Faction members who wielded a sword, suddenly, Robert pushed a bit more and lightning magic flowed from his hand and through the blade, electrocuting his enemy severely. That Old Faction member then collapsed to the ground in pain. Robert was stunned to see that, asking, "Woah, what is that? Lightning Rod?"
He then looked at his katana and tried to do it again, and it did. Some lightning magic flowed from his right hand and through the blade, temporarily turning it into a lightning rod, hence the name, Lightning Rod.
Upon finding it out via telepathy, Sol was rather impressed than shocked, thinking, "So he managed to unlock Lightning Rod, a Tier-7 magic. Good job, Robert."
Then, another Old Faction wielding a sword charged towards Robert. Upon seeing that, Robert decide to put this to the test by pointing his katana towards him, shooting lightning magic towards him and this electrocutes it severely. That Old Faction member then collapsed to the ground paralyzed temporarily.
Seeing that he did it again, Robert was amazed, but he has no time to celebrate because of the intense and tight situation he was in, so he went fighting with his precious weapon. But, the Grand Founder used his teleportation magic to go through the chaos and into the palace grounds towards the throne room, beating every guard who tried to stop him. Sol knows this by using telepathy to one of the injured palace guards.
He then send and relay that message to Robert and Emi by telepathy.
"What?" Robert responded upon receiving the message. "How?"
"He used Teleport," Sol replied using telepathy. "You and Emi need to stop him now."
"Right," Emi responded. Then to Robert, "Let's go, Robert-kun."
Robert then seriously nodded in agreement, and they raced to the front doors of the palace to stop the Grand Founder.
But, will they succeed, or fail?