Winner Takes All...

As the nine elders rose into the air as one, Runes appeared on their arms, and from each rune, they all channeled a curious mixture of Astral energy, Bloodline energy, and Cosmic energy to form a Pentagon that spun in their midst.

The moment the Pentagon appeared, Hal felt a tug on his consciousness and knew the effect of the Formation had begun.

The Elders began to murmur spell words into the Formation to further strengthen it and the tug continued to grow stronger while Hal slowly got pulled towards the Pentagon.

That was the effect of the Formation and Hal had known it since they first started the activation.

One of the Elders took a break from chanting to say to Hal,