Way of the Knights

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Raven just finished his meeting with the Inscriptionists. He already handed them the task on forming the necessary parts for the creation of the Grand Purging Array.

The Grand Purging Array requires ten miniature arrays which will take the form of a totem. And just like the Skynet Array, they will be placed around the borders of the Kingdom, which will then be activated once they accumulate enough power. Apart from the totems, they also needed to build at least five control panels which could allow them to control the array.

The matter about entering the kingdom won't be a huge problem since the array will have a Recognition Design. Once the array was activated, it will scan and memorize every people inside its territory. Those who were recognized by the array won't have any difficulties entering or leaving the kingdom should they need to. 

Due to the simplicity of the project, Raven had no doubts that the Inscriptionists will have no problems handling the matter. In fact, he even suggested to allow some amateur inscriptionists to participate in its creation in order to give them more experience. Of course, Raven will check the final product to ensure its quality but Raven have faith to these young inscriptionists.

He already withdrawn all the necessary materials needed for the formation so he could let them do the rest. Placing the array at the borders of the Kingdom was even more simple due to the existence of the Worker Constructs, which performances greatly improved due to the Blacksmiths' research over this time. 

It was already night time when Raven finished all his errands, he went back home, ate and took a brief rest before entering the Crown Space to train yet again.

As the familiar scene inside the Crown Space welcomed him, Raven took a deep breath in and did some light warm-up. 

Raven was little solemn currently. He felt like the odds are slowly stacking up against him. There this nagging feeling inside of him that if he didn't do something, he might go insane eventually.

As part of his usual training, Raven brushed up with some of his techniques. So far, he had developed some moves which he named 'Chaotic Hammer Series'.

This technique takes full advantage of the 2nd form of the Archaic Thousand Arms Hammer. Each swing in this form causes a fist-shaped energy pillar to strike down to his desired target, and with at little bit of finesse, he could also change the trajectory of his strikes to catch his opponents off guard. 

The thing that must be known about using the 2nd form of Raven's hammer is that, each attack he makes in this form will cause him to bear an immense burden. The Archaic Thousand Arms Hammer currently weighs about 100 tons. To a normal person, there is no way that they will be able to swing this thing at all but due to Raven's body being tempered to another level, he could use this hammer without the problem. Whenever Raven swings the hammer while it's on its second form, the weight of the hammer will increase depending on how many fist-shaped pillars he summon. 

Each fist raises the weight of the hammer for at least ten tons, so far Raven could summon ten which means that if he summons all arms, his body is bearing the burden of a 200 ton hammer. This weight, although scary, is still somehow manageable for Raven. Which is why he could use summon ten arms multiple times to amplify his attacks.

Raven could manipulate these arms in order to attack or defend himself. The attack that he mostly used with ten arms is the 'Ten Smiting Fists', which will cause fist pillars to strike down like falling stars at his target. The other is called 'Twisting Decimation', where the arms will materialized behind him and coil themselves up to each other and fly forward like a huge battering ram. 

The more destructive attacks he developed were 'Ten Land Shifting Palms' and 'Ten Overturning Sea Palms'. The Ten Land Shifting Palms will cause palms to appear from underground and push a piece of land high up in the air. As for the Ten Overturning Sea Palms, it will cause ten palms to flip a decent piece of land over along with his target. 

And as for the strongest attacks of Raven, that will be the 'Bronze Arms Edition' where he focuses more of his Chaos Force into the arm pillars causing them to condense even more and appear to be made out of Bronze. It was just a pity that Raven couldn't use this state for long since each Bronze Arms he condenses will weigh about 500 tons. At desperate times, Raven could summon a Silver Arm but that would weigh 1,000 ton, which not something that Raven could handle. 

With the addition of his Destruction Laws, the might of his attacks eventually experienced a massive leap. He was able to effectively mix his laws with each attacks, causing them to become even more destructive due to the nature of his laws. Unfortunately, in order to amplify the destructive effects of his techniques, he have to meditate on laws and understand them even more. That is going to take a lot of time so Raven had to search for an alternative.

"I have three weeks, more or less." Raven murmured after finishing his warm up, "I have to at least reach the level where I could wield ten Bronze Arms with ease. Even then, that could only ensure that I'll be able to defend us."

Establishing a goal for himself, Raven made up his mind and walked towards the ever present suppressive force at the Palace Grounds. He kept on moving forward until he arrived at the place where the suppressive force was so strong that his movements were heavily impeded. Raven could always deactivate the Resistance Seals to ease up the pressure he was feeling but that defeats the purpose of why walked this deep. 

Raven was gritting his teeth but he didn't complain. He summoned his hammer and started condensing a single Bronze Arm. 

This process caused the pressure towards Raven to rise. He could feel his back bending forward and his legs wobbling due to the weight he felt but Raven endured. 

After the Bronze Arm materialized, Raven held it for as long as he could and chanted the hymns of the Book of Chaos in his mind. 

Amidst the intense pressure on his body, Raven felt something soothing his body as soon as he started chanting. This sensation brought a little solace in the middle of his suffering, allowing him to hold on to his decision. 

Slowly but surely, Raven's back was straightening. His eyes were shut, signifying his full concentration on his act. His consciousness was active since he rhythmical hymns could still be heard escaping his lips. In his concentration, the burden on his body was slowly lessening and as time goes by, he couldn't even feel it anymore.

Eventually, during the times when Raven's concentration was broken, he would slowly inch forward, just enough to feel the pressure returning. He even condensed the second Bronze Arm while he's at it, which placed even more burden on his body. And just like before, he held the technique and circulated the Book of Chaos inwardly. 

Raven spent his training time like this. To others, this might look like a torturous way of training one's self and would cause more harm than good but this is not the case for Raven at all. 

His body is being constantly nourished by his Chaos Force, making him stronger by each passing moment. Chaos Force is he unity of Energy Essence, Spiritual Essence and Vital Essence, making it extremely effective and nourishing to an individual. And since Chaos Force doesn't take the regular route of the Energy Network and instead flow in every single blood stream in Raven's body, the strengthening effect he receives will not take too much time before being consumed, making his adjust to his current situation faster that normal.

Eventually, Raven's time was up. He got expelled out of the Crown Space and returned to his new house while feeling mentally exhausted. 

Raven ingested some pills to help with that and proceeded to enter meditation. Even though he knew that gaining more understanding towards the nature of Destruction Laws will take time, it doesn't mean that he should compromise and drop it for now. Improving on his Destruction Laws had became the goal of Raven's meditations ever since he gained enlightenment, and since he had been replacing sleep with meditation instead, this became a habit to him and he didn't want to drop it just like that. 

Raven's meditation spot is an empty field which was built along with the house.. The reason why he requested for this is because he will sometimes release his laws in the middle of meditation in hopes of attaining some understanding, and if he does this in an open field at least he won't destroy his house yet again.