Barak, Kirsty, and Maze flew back to their zeppelin ship and talked about their fights.


    "They were not bad," Barak chuckled.


    "But no need to add them to our ranks," Kristy said. "Boss saw their potential, but we don''t have time and energy to nurture them."


    "That''s right," Maze snorted. "We''ll be entering Axis Realm within a year. How much can they progress in a year when they just recently entered Empyrean-order?"


    "Taking them is a fool''s errand even if their potential is good. Let''s tell the boss that we are better off without merely two additions of them," Kristy nodded.


    …


    On the other hand, Erix and others didn''t waste time discussing much and went back to their work and training.


    Erix and Rin had 2 Insight Scrolls for long, one from the tower, and one from Kanx Abyss. It could help them massively, but they were saving it until they reached Empyrean-order and nned to use it once they got out of this pirate mess.


    The day continued to pass as people were awakening their souls in Spirit Training Hall with Aria and Lily''s help as the Blessed Ind upgrade''s final task was slowly nearingpletion.


    Erix started moving the Ind again, going to a hazardous area. He nned to teleport the Blessed Ind from there tomorrow.


    Lilith and Amu also continued making formations while Isabe, Rin, Sameira, and Kenshin were directing Balions to dungeons and gathering resources by using the powers of World Counsil''s positions.


    The day ended without any hups afterward. At night, the final task of 1000 people awakening their souls waspleted, but when the night passed and the sun rose, more people had awakened their souls.


    Everyone gathered at the empty plot ofnd for a big meeting. Almost 200 guild leaders and 48 n leaders.


    All of them were under the Unfettered Kingdom, and they knew that the moment had arrived since they got a notification from the U-card to gather at the meeting spot.


    "All of you are Empyrean-order and strong enough to support the formations. Get ready to give your all when the timees."


    "You are going to begin it right away?" Yelwon asked as she raised her eyebrows.


    "Yep," Erix nodded and snapped his finger. Instantly, the whole blessed Ind briefly shone for two seconds before it vanished and appeared at the underground hollow spot a thousand kilometers deep!


    Right after that, Erix began the Blessed Ind upgrade process.


    [Blessed Ind upgrade process beginning.]


    "Erix, let me inside," Amu said with a resolved expression. "I am ready."


    Amu wanted to be a spiritual host of the Blessed Ind by merging with it. The Blessed Ind''s core itself gave that possibility to Amu and Amu felt that doing this would be the next step in its evolution!


    "Go in," Erix nodded. "Make sure the Ind doesn''t grow enough to break touch the walls.


    Rin nodded, "This spot is twice as big as the Ind, but we don''t know how big this Ind will be after upgrading."


    "Take your Empyrean-order subordinates and everyone who has awakened their soul to position yourselves at the edges of the Ind and connect with the formation cores," Lilith said as she nced at all the guild leaders and n leaders.


    "Support and boost the formations'' cores with your Prana, Spirit force, and soul energy. The moment they sense we are beginning integration with Blessed Ind, they''lle."


    Everyone left right away and started working.


    Meanwhile, the Blessed Ind was covered in a hazy golden glow as it expanded in size.


    A minuteter, the Blessed Ind reached the size of 30 kilometers in radius and it was still increasing, so Erix and Amu halted its growth in size for now.


    After four more minutes, the upgrade process was finallypleted and every Pirs and Erix heard the notification.


    [Blessed Ind Upgrade Processpleted.]


    [New Features: Integration, Disintegration.]


    [New Functions: Specialized Area-2, Specialized Area-3]


    Of course, the existing features were also upgraded and one of them was particrly awesome!


    "Recovery Aura level 2? That''s great," Rin''s eyes glinted. "We''ll be able to hold on longer with this."


    "Absolute benefit of Blessed Ind to keep it and us safe inside it," Lilith nodded with a smile.


    —> Recovery Aura: Increase the recovery of Mana, Stamina, Prana, Spirit force, and Soul energy by 300% within the Ind''s territory. Only Pirs can benefit from this function.


    It went from a 200% to a 300% increase in recovery, making everyone overjoyed.


    Meanwhile, Erix immediately started Integration.


    [Do you permit for this Blessed Ind to integrate the?]


    Erix got a notification from the World Council since he was the Ruler of the and he readily gave the permission.


    "Let the grand event begin."


    …


    Blue Maw Pirate group''s ship, control room.


    Rani leisurely sat on a chair when she suddenly heard a beep and looked at the screen, only to see the''s conditions changing at its core.


    "Huh? Why is the''s core going nuts?"


    Rain narrowed her eyes and started checking other things and parameters. After a minute, her face changed into a dumbfounded one. "These bastards…"


    She immediately called Bill who was in their pocket dimensions, arranging ves, their schedules, and resources while the Empyrean-order ves they had were training them.


    [Bill: What''s up?]


    [Rani: Those sneaky bastards started Integration.]


    [Bill: huh? Do you mean Blessed Ind''s Integration feature?]


    [Rani: They were probably rushing to upgrade the ind to do this and expel us from the. Quickly gather Empyrean-order ves outside. I''ll call our subordinates.]


    [Bill: Damn, sneaky idiots. Do they think they will seed? Hahaha. Alright, let''s quickly find their location and rush there.]


    Rani and Bill met outside their ship with their 500 Empyrean-order ves of various races—Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Demons, Angels, Beast folks, etc…


    Their ten subordinates also soon arrived and floated before Bill and Rani, awaiting their orders.


    "Each of you take 50 Empyrean-order ves and start searching the entire to a depth of 2000 kilometers. They could be anywhere within that range," Rani narrowed her eyes. "We have to hurry, so no cking."


    In a few seconds, everyone vanished.


    "Let us go as well," Bill grinned as he cracked his neck. "Since they dared to pull a stunt like this, we''ll hit them hard enough that they''ll be forced to escape or die."