The first one to enter the grand palace rushed over and knelt on the ground before the sleeping gem person and shouted with anxiety, "I have bad news, sir."
This shout woke the gem person up. But before the gem person could speak, many more gem kings rushed into the palace, knelt down, and began shouting about having bad news.
Their behavior annoyed the gem person, so he shouted at them, saying, "Shut up, all of you."
Everyone became quiet immediately. The once boisterous palace became quiet immediately.
The gem person berated them first. He said, "Have you all lost your minds? Or have you just lost your manners? Why do you think it is okay for you to shout in my presence?"
He spent a few seconds reprimanding their behavior. No one dared to speak back, even though they were all bigger than the gem person.
Despite being stronger than this gem person, they all listened attentively to the reprimand like obedient children. This is because they all respect this small gem person.
This small gem person used to be one of the strongest gem kings who came to subjugate Aries. He was one of the three who besieged and felled the previous Snow King.
They had been ultimately victorious in that fight. But they also had to pay a price for their victory. The body of this gem king was destroyed and scattered into the wind.
Fortunately, his heart core remained, so he was still alive. He manages to germinate a new body. Unfortunately, he now needs to start over again from the first step.
Because his body had been destroyed in the line of duty and because it would be very easy for him to recover his strength to the peak of the fourth step, the Ivory gem emperor asked him to remain on Aries and rewarded him with as much precious material as he would need to recover his strength quickly.
It was a great loss to him that he had lost the strong body that he spent many years and countless resources to build, but it was worth it, and everything was going well for him until these troublemakers barged into his abode and began making a ruckus.
It was only right that he would be angry and berate them. But it is also imperative for him to know the reason why all of these powerful gem people would be so flustered.
So after berating them for a while, he asked the first gem king who woke him up, saying, "So what is the bad news that made you think it was fine for you to wake me up. I hope for your sake that it is worth it, or I'm cutting your ration of resources for the next year."
The threat was real, and the punishment of cutting off resources was severe, so the gem king made sure to pass across the severity of the situation by getting to the point.
The gem king said, "Spike and Crage are dead! They've been killed by the new invaders!"
The gem person was first shocked by the news. But then he became confused when he heard the second statement.
So he asked in confusion, "Who are the new invaders?"
The gem king quickly explained what had happened recently. This gem person didn't know because he had been sleeping.
After the gem person got caught up with the latest information, his face became grave.
He said to them, "We are clearly incapable of handling the new invaders. We need reinforcement. So we need to inform the Ivory Emperor immediately."
"Quick, prepare the leystone. We are running out of time."
He was right to be worried. After all, the gem people have no means to resist the new invaders right now. If they are attacked by the new invaders, they wouldn't be able to resist and would be killed. So they had to get reinforcement as soon as possible.
The gem kings began to scramble once the order was given. One of them carried the small person with one hand, and together, they all rushed to where the leystone was stored.
The leystone is a large boulder that is 11 meters in diameter. This makes it bigger than the strongest gem people in the world of Aries.
The leystone is black and has a smooth surface that is demarcated into faces similar to those of a gem. This makes the leystone look like a gemstone. So one can call it a large black gemstone.
The gem kings quickly began to put power stones into the faces of the leystone. The energy in the power stones entered the leystone and filled it slowly. This caused the leystone to become transparent like glass.
Once the leystone changes from pitch black to clear glass, it will become usable. But before that could happen, what they were worried about happened. The new invaders had attacked.
After Thunder Drake acquired the information about the current situation of the hem people and confirmed it with the information that Lady Evergreen acquired from soil searching the minds of weak many gem people, the three patriarchs decided to attack the gem people while they are helpless.
Thunder Drake left the North Pole and came all the way to the headquarters of the gem people on Aries. His main goal is to destroy the leystone and sever the main connection of the gem people to their homeworld.
The gem people still have other smaller leystone that they can use to contact their homeworld, but if the biggest leystone is destroyed, the gem people won't be able to receive any strong reinforcement.
The three patriarchs had learned about the importance of the leystones, which was why they chose to prioritize destroying the biggest one above killing the remaining gem kings.
Unfortunately, the Sun King also knew about the importance of the big leystone, so there was no way that he was going to stand back and watch as his only channel for help was destroyed.