Inside the city of Ether Lucifer was meditating on his golden throne. Currently, he was purifying his light energy. His body was going through a change he was breaking through from a minor realm. That is he was moving from Intermediate level 11 to advanced level 11. After that, if he would break through then he would reach peak level 11.
Karl entered his chambers and said, "Greetings my King, There is news from Frozen Land and the Kingdom of Sword."
Lucifer opened his eyes and said, " Are they making preparations to attack us?"
"The Frozen Land is making preparations for attack, whereas there is something suspicious going on with the Kingdom of Swords. Their top warriors are on alert and for some reason they are keeping an eye for spies."
"The announcement by King Snow that they would attack us might have spooked King of Swords. From what I have seen King Snow is a cautious one and if he is making a direct attack then there are chances that there is a big game at play," said Lucifer.
"The King of Snow might be confident because of Taro after all with both of them together we don't have a chance. And once they have our army they can easily take Kingdom of Sword," said Karl.
"Than too It's reckless because they know how good we are with preparations and if they are planning to attack even after knowing that then they might have crazy power or they are just trying to create chaos."
"That might be possible."
"Be at alert, Don't stop the training until they reach the walls. If they want to attack let them attack. Our preparations for defense are already over. Also, don't contact me now until there is a major development. From now on we cannot trust our spies." said Lucifer
"As you wish." Karl bowed and left the chambers.
After Karl left his chambers, Lucifer concentrated on his soul and pushed the light energy out he drew a big golden statue in front of him. The statue looked like a human, however was purely made of light energy. It stared at Lucifer and then got absorbed into the chandelier. Once that happened Lucifer once again fell back to intermediate level 11.
After that he took his sword and started practicing, he was making a technique that would create such a bright light that it would overwork the opponent's senses and make them lose their senses. However, he was currently only at the initial stage. To make this technique, he used bright light to hamper the vision along with that there would be impure energies behind bright light that would give a fake odor and would make sharp noises. Currently, Lucifer was working on the fourth aspect where he was trying to hamper instincts and to do that he needed to manipulate the sense of space.
While Lucifer was busy with his technique. King Snake and King Snow were practicing against Lucifer's fighting style. They both became fully adapted to countering his way of Sword. However, they were now looking at fighting against its upgraded version.
On the other end at the Kingdom of Swords, Sword King was practicing against his subjects. They were attacking him from all ends but he was easily fighting against the barrage of energy blasts. He would deflect some with his sword, he would defend against some with his shards and he would dodge some with his agility.
After some time he opened his eyes, and the attacks stopped he looked at the corner. Rick was standing there.
"Is it complete?" asked Sword King.
"Yes, we are done," said Rick
Sword King nodded and flew towards Rick. Soon both of them started flying towards a mountain which was near to Kingdom of Swords. There they entered a dark cave, inside it there were tons of high-level ghosts. They all had injured souls, and all of them were concentrating their dark energy on a ball. The energy ball was as large as a room.
"Greetings, my lord. The destruction ball is ready." said one of the ghosts.
"How many are there?" asked Sword King.
"We have three currently, within a month fourth one would be ready." said the Ghost.
"Can you launch it to Frozen and?" asked Sword King
"Yes, we can, however, we would need the essence and souls of around a thousand average ghosts."
" Rick, look to it. Once they start the march, we can drop the destruction blast on their army. How much damage do you think it can cause?"
"If we drop the middle one then around half of their forces will die, apart from Snow King no one within a Kilometer would survive."
"That's great, Would it injure King Snow? asked Sword King.
"Yes, it has chaotic energy his consciousness would fall into chaos. Not only then all those who would be around 5km would fall into illusion so we can plan a surprise attack too." said the Ghost.
"That sounds nice. Your years of preparations finally would bear some fruit. I know its purpose was for us to destroy three Kingdoms but now with it, we would be able to capture all three of them." said Sword King.
"We definitely would." said the ghost with a smirk.
The Sword King left the cave. The ghosts there looked at Stark the ghost who was talking with Sword King.
"That went well." said one of the ghosts.
"Yes, it did. What do you think? Do you think he doubts us?" asked Stark.
"I don't think so. Even if he does he is not much of a threat to you. Also, he needs our destruction balls to win this war. What do you think of the human? Should we take him with us after all of this is over?"
"I'm thinking about that, his growth is good. He looks above average. I will decide after the war is over. Remember our mission, we can't let them know our truth until it's over." said Stark.
All the other ghosts nodded and started pouring energy into the destruction ball.