Just after the intense simulated battle had ended, everyone saw these patches of red warnings, and immediately became nervous again. In the simulated battle, everyone had exerted all their strength, so now they didn't have much energy left.
"What's going on? Why has the cycle of monster appearances shortened?" The members of the royal family activated the Telepathy and expressed surprise at the red warnings. Previously, the exotic monsters appeared once every four or five days. Therefore, the simulated battle was arranged for the day after the last monster appeared. However, now the monsters appeared just one day after that. Could it be that the monsters knew about this simulated exercise and wanted to launch a surprise attack while catching people off guard?
Watching the panicked crowd, Feng Mo began to speak to stabilize morale: "Since the monsters have appeared now, we can only face them head-on. Please follow the arrangement of the simulated battle just now, and let the monsters see the power of our new combat team! In this battle, the royal family members led by me will fight on the first defensive line."
After listening to Feng Mo's speech, everyone's morale soared. Although their bodies were tired, all the warriors still adhered to their mission, waiting in their designated positions within the Martial Souls Palace for the arrival of the monsters.
This time, the teleportation array of the monsters appeared near the Holy City Palace's Treasure Vault. Near the teleportation array, Mikos and wizards had already activated another large teleportation magic array, sequentially teleporting the appearing monsters into the Martial Souls Palace. A few months ago, battles with the monsters were conducted in various places in the Holy City Palace, causing extensive damage. Later, someone proposed using the vast space in the Martial Souls Palace to minimize the damage from real battles and to set up various mechanisms and weapons in advance to fight the monsters. However, to maintain such a large teleportation magic array, spiritual power had to be constantly infused into the array; this also meant that there had to be a certain number of spiritual power team members who couldn't participate in actual combat. After weighing the pros and cons, everyone ultimately adopted this plan.
Everyone, especially the newly entering songstresses, awaited the arrival of the monsters with nervousness and anxiety. As the teleportation array in the center of the circle opened, various real exotic monsters poured out from the center and attacked in all directions.
The battle officially began!
As Feng Mo said, Feng Mo, Kikyo, Zui Ai, and Chikane joined the first, second, third, and fourth teams of the first defensive line respectively. Kimoon saw Zui Ai come to her side, facing her back, releasing powerful spiritual power to support the protective barrier, while using her other hand to turn spiritual power into a sword, shooting at the monsters coming towards them. Powerful, truly powerful, and very beautiful. Although Kimoon had heard that Zui Ai was one of the strongest spiritual powers in the Kingdom of Light, today was the first time she had seen Zui Ai fighting with her own eyes. For a moment, she was deeply attracted and shocked by Zui Ai.
After Sheryl finished singing, she was waiting for Kimoon to sing the next song according to the exercise, but she couldn't hear Kimoon's singing. Turning her head, she saw Kimoon just staring blankly at Zui Ai's back.
"Really!" Sheryl complained in her heart, helplessly continuing to sing the next song; at the same time, she shook Kimoon's shoulder with her hand, trying to bring her back to reality.
After being reminded by Sheryl, Kimoon realized that she had lost control and immediately apologized to Sheryl, beginning to brew the song she was about to sing.
After seeing Zui Ai's full-on fighting posture, Kimoon's "revenge" emotions had been swept away, and she was unwilling to sing the song she had just sung again. After Sheryl finished singing another song, Kimoon skipped her first song and began to sing the second one originally planned.
After hearing Kimoon's singing, Zui Ai showed a barely perceptible smile of relief, and a stone in her heart fell. She knew that Kimoon was a kind child who wouldn't truly hold a grudge against her. What she needed to do was gradually start to get closer to this child to restore their normal mother-daughter relationship.
Three years ago, after using the Forbidden Technique to merge her fate with Kimoon's, Zui Ai used her own blood to request the guidance of the Fate Stone for Kimoon's future. The Fate Stone gave a new answer: Kimoon's fate had been changed; the seals and various restrictions imposed by the royal family on her before had become meaningless. Kimoon's life could return to normal from now on.
Could Kimoon really return to the royal family and become a true princess from now on? Zui Ai felt guilty and sad about the absence of Kimoon's past seventeen years. She also knew that Kimoon, who was willing to sacrifice her life for Shizuru's wedding, wouldn't easily forgive and integrate into the royal family. Therefore, Zui Ai only passed on the information from the Fate Stone to the members of the royal family. The reason why Kimoon's fate changed, the fact that she and Kimoon had merged their fates, only Zui Ai and Kikyo knew. Although the others in the royal family didn't understand the reasons behind it, they were all happy for Kimoon and Zui Ai. Feng Mo was especially happy for his sister and expressed full support for Zui Ai. But since Kimoon had spent seventeen years alone without knowing anything, people didn't know her well enough, but they understood that she might harbor dissatisfaction with the royal family. So the matter of Kimoon's return was entirely left to Zui Ai to decide and handle. Zui Ai hoped that Kimoon could first heal the fatal wounds in her heart, so she let Kimoon continue to live in the Kingdom of Purple for three more years. Until the songstress selection plan a year ago, Zui Ai felt it was time to start a new chapter in life with Kimoon, so she asked Yoko to bring Kimoon back no matter what.
However, when Kimoon returned, Zui Ai didn't know how to approach her to close the distance between them. Kimoon had no spiritual power and therefore didn't participate in the spiritual power training taught by Zui Ai. The only intersection between them now was fighting monsters together. This was also the reason why Zui Ai requested to join the Team Three of Line One this time.
As the battle progressed, Team Three of Line One still made smooth progress, and all the monsters were eliminated on the first defensive line. However, many teams began to show signs of fatigue. In the north, due to the exhaustion of the songstresses, a large gap had been opened by the monsters. Therefore, most of the mobile teams from the third line gathered in the north.
After understanding the overall situation, Feng Mo ordered the entire second line team to move north to support the northern battle. Feng Mo believed that with Zui Ai's support, there wouldn't be too many problems in the southern battle. Thus, the third team became the only combat team in the south.
Suddenly, an agile tiger-shaped monster attacked from the north. It swiftly ran from the outer edge towards the south, pouncing on the protective barrier of the Team Three of Line One.
Zui Ai noticed that the huge tiger seemed to carry a noble artifact, the Counter-Spirit Stone; its eyes were fixed on Kimoon in the middle of the team.
This is bad! Without thinking too much, Zui Ai flashed to Kimoon's side, shielding her behind her; at the same time, she mobilized all her spiritual power to summon her contracted spirit beast, the Snow Phoenix, also one of the guardians of the Kingdom of Light.
In an instant, the blue-purple sacred phoenix spread its wings, not only burning the monsters coming towards them to ashes but also instantly eliminating all the monsters in the field. This scene shook the heavens and the earth. Everyone suspected that they had witnessed a miracle.
After confirming Kimoon's safety, Zui Ai, due to overusing her spiritual power to summon this powerful spirit beast, became weak and on the verge of collapse.
Just before losing consciousness, Zui Ai felt the warm embrace she had longed for day and night. It was Kimoon, embracing and supporting her from behind.