Preparing The Arrays - 215

Before any of the beasts could react to the sudden appearance of the stone stele, a figure appeared in front of it as if he had teleported.

He seemed to have the figure of a human or a humanoid creature. However, his race was unable to be determined as he was covered in black cloth that did not expose a single inch of his skin. 

The humanoid creature reached out what seemed to be a hand and rubbed the stele as he appeared to read the contents.

By now, the beasts in the room had all comprehended what had happened, but none had spoken or even moved.

Although he had never been seen before, his aura was undeniably there. The man in front of the stele was the mysterious being that created the city.

The entire room was so silent that a single breath would seem like a loud roar. Only the sound of the humanoid beings hand rubbing against the stone stele was heard.

"Yes. Yes I see. So that's what I was missing." The man said to himself.

He was speaking in the beast's universal language, or english, in a dry voice that gave off a sinister feeling.

He had been learning the art of arrays through personal testing and had worked on an array that could teleport through space. He was nearly finished with it, but he was missing a few more parts. 

Unfortunately, he was struggling immensely to understand those remaining parts. While success was almost guaranteed, the time it had taken him was annoying him.

Luckily, the answer literally fell from the sky.

"It's slightly different from mine, and it probably works much better as well." The man continued. "And these must be coordinates. It appears we will be busy for the next few days." The man said. The last sentence was said with the intention of talking to the beasts within the room.

Only once he finished looking at the stone stele did he turn around and directly address the leaders of the beast races.

"I will not force you to collaborate with me as I am sure I can do anything myself, but if you are interested in the exploration of a new area, perhaps a new world, then you will meet me 50 miles west of here in two days." The man, or beast, said before disappearing into the shadows below him as if he was ink.

A minute after he left, the beasts let out a breath. They all needed to think seriously about the man's words. If what he said was true, then the beast world would undergo huge changes and those that didn't participate would be left in the dust.

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Two days later, both Tian Ren and the mysterious man had finished setting up the arrays. Their speeds were eerily similar to each other.

As he had some insider information, Tian Ren brought a bunch of materials in order to build more teleportation arrays once they got to the worlds. Before exploring, their first goal would be to set up teleportation arrays linking every other one of the first ten planets together. They would continue to do so as they went to further planets.

Although it may be possible for a void traversing cultivator to set up a teleportation array, it would be very difficult and time consuming, and the finished product would be very inferior.

Therefore, Tian Ren, the sole space shattering cultivator of the heavenborns, needed to set up every single array. A simple calculation let him know that 99 arrays needed to be built before he was finished. 90 leading to other planets, and 9 leading back to the heaven world.

He simply sighed and teleported to the first world with a legion of soul formation heavenborns.

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On the beast world, the mysterious man stood on top of a hill as he stared at the army of beasts in front of him. 

As he had expected, each and every single race had sent at least a hundred beasts. The most powerful races had sent tens of thousands.

"While I must say I appreciate your enthusiasm, we do not have an infinite number of spatial stones." The man said.

His words were said lightly, but they reached the ears of every single person there.

"Until we find more space stone mines, we will need to limit the number of people using the teleportation arrays. The only people entering will be me and the beasts at the soul formation realm and above."

"Those of you that fit that description can come inside and have a talk with me." He said as he turned around and walked into a building he had built over the last two days.

It housed every single teleportation array he had created. The building was square as if it was a warehouse and two floors tall. The only material it was made out of was high grade iron.

As he finally entered, around a thousand people stepped out from the ranks of the beast armies. Although there were more soul formation and above beasts, some had to stay behind to defend their territories.

Luckily for their peace of mind, the leaders of each of the beast races had made a temporary agreement that would stop the leaders from attacking other races' bases.

The main way that was done was by sending the leader of each race with the mysterious man.

As the near thousand beasts walked through the doors, they were greeted by a large, empty, white room with only two doors and a platform halfway up the far wall.

On that platform stood the mysterious man.

"20 void traversing cultivators. Very good." He said as he took in their numbers.

"The first thing we will do is send in a test subject to see exactly what is on the other side of these teleportation arrays, although I do have a fairly good idea as to what that is." The man spoke.

The beasts tensed up, worrying that they would be chosen, but the man raised his hand and continued.

"I have already gathered my test subjects. Come out children." He said loudly.

From each of the two doors, five young beasts came in, totaling ten. Disgustingly enough, each of the children were spiders.