They neglected the structural integrity while they were performing the soul search. It was as if they were performing the soul search just to torture the gem kings.
But they didn't let their anger blind them into destroying the minds if the gem kings before they got the information they wanted from them. After all, the priority of the soul search is stilly he acquisition of information, not torture.
The soul search helped them to learn about the plans of the Ivory Emperor to tell the other gem emperors about their mothership and gather more helpers to enter the Aries world. They also learned about the new location of the largest leystone.
Sword Flash took the information about the Ivory Gem Emperor bringing more helpers seriously. So he decided to join Thunder Drake and Lady Evergreen on a trip to destroy all of the leystones.
This time, their mission went well because the sun king didn't come out to stop them. They destroyed every leystone that the seven gem kings they had soul-searched knew about, so they effectively cut off the gem people on Aries from support from their homeworld.
This didn't mean that the gem people couldn't interfere in Aries anymore. But any interference and reinforcement without leystones will be more difficult to execute.
After they destroyed the leystones, they went about killing every gem person that they could find. Meanwhile, a new mobile fortress was given to what was left of the sixth division so that the domain of the Ethera tree will continue to expand.
This unfavorable situation made the world spirit of Aries angry. The fact that the Sun King holed himself up in the South Pole again and refused to do anything made the world spirit angrier.
Another month went by like this. Another 10% of the surface of the world was covered by the domain. This made a total of 20% of Aries that had been eroded by the domain.
The domain stretched underground and rose into the air, claiming those places as territories of the Ethera tree. It caused the power of the world spirit of Aries to decrease. This was evident by the fact that the power of the Sun King fell by another 5% to 90C.
On the other side, the domain became stronger and gained one more slot for elevation. Just as they had planned, they chose to elevate a Vulcan this time around.
A Vulcan became a Sun King while the first Sun King was still alive. This caused a great divide among the Vulcans because they didn't know who to follow.
The power of the invaders and their highly deadly disease had already broken the morale of the rebels. Now that there was another Sun King to follow, they didn't know what to do.
The fact that the first Sun King was nowhere to lead them made the forces of the defenders more indecisive. Their indecision changed to arguing with each other as they tried to convince one another of who to follow.
Eventually, instead of fighting the invaders, they began to fight each other. No one bothered to stop the mobile fortresses from expanding their domains anymore.
The war progressed like this for two more months. In these two months, the domain managed to take over 40% of the world of Aries.
At this point, the world spirit had lost too much power. It couldn't spare any energy to create powerful winds anymore. So more of the soldiers of the Blood Skull army could now venture into Aries. The new Snow King and Sun King were also finally able to step out of the domain without worrying about being killed.
The impact of the second Sun King increased after he was able to roam Aries and rally the Vulcans to his side. Compared to the absent first Sun King, the Vulcans preferred to follow someone who could lead them into battle.
The second Sun King was able to create a large army, which he led to the South Pole to invade it. The barrier shielding the South Pole will only block those who aren't Vulcans, so it can't block the second Sun King and his army.
They were literally bringing the fight to the first Sun King since he didn't want to fight so badly. Many of his people called him a coward, but what they didn't know was that if he hadn't hidden himself, he would have died, and his power would have been stolen by the invaders.
If he hadn't hidden himself, the three patriarchs would have killed him and weakened the world further by stealing his power. By staying alive, he had made it difficult for Aries to fall quickly.
So he may be a coward, but just like that premature self-detonation, he has made the best decision possible. But the three patriarchs are still after his life. This is why they sent the new Sun King to invade the South Pole and kill the old Sun King.
Some soldiers from the Blood Skull army followed the army to support them. Void Claw was the one who led them. Their job is to prevent reinforcements from entering the South Pole and to assist the second Sun King.
Arthur was among the team of people sent to assist in the invasion of the South Pole. He signed up for it and was allowed to go because he could create more soldiers with his Wood Army spell.
The wooden soldiers that he creates are the ones that should do most of the fighting. They will reinforce the Vulcans, while he stands by and watches.
Before the fighting began, he went to see the bomb that the Sword Flash's other disciple, Silver Web, was in charge of. The bomb was built by Sword Flash, which was why his disciple was put in charge of its transportation and handling.
The bomb is supposed to be a peak rank 5 warhead with an explosive power of 10B. This is clearly overkill for this world, but the three patriarchs thought that it was worth it as payback for all the explosions that the Sun King had performed over the course of this war.