To the gem people, what they saw was that they were dying left and right without any reason. This kind of silent death struck fear into their heart. They soon began to consider retreating.
Their intention to escape for their lives became stronger and unstoppable when their leaders died in front of them without fighting a single enemy. Their enemies had simply dropped dead, so their fear made them all turn back and run away as fast as they could.
But the nascent souls didn't let them go. The nascent souls continue to kill them as easily as a giant crushing a chicken with its foot.
In order not to be left behind, Arthur inflated the blue lightning snake into a blue giant snake and sent it forward to kill enemies, too. So the combined might of a visible but unstoppable enemy and an invisible but lethal enemy began to take the lives of the gem people.
At the end of the battle, Arthur killed more enemies than the three of them combined. This was because he created four more giant snakes of lightning to make a total of five.
Their nascent souls were lethal, but they could only have one. But he could produce more giant lightning snakes, and his lightning snakes moved at a faster speed than their nascent souls, so he was able to kill more than three of them.
They couldn't compete with him in the use of spells because their maximum power output couldn't match his, even with the help of spiritual energy. Their strongest tool for killing is their nascent souls, so they could only watch helplessly as he produced more and more lightning snakes.
This many lightning snakes should have been impossible for him to create and control at once on Ethera, but this world isn't Ethera. This world seems to like him and helps him to control the giant lightning snakes while providing him with all of the energy that he needs, so he can achieve feats he normally shouldn't be able to.
This achievement made him hold his head high while the three nascent soul cultivators snorted in disdain. They simply refused to admit defeat. They came up with the excuse that he was cheating somehow.
Arthur also didn't admit defeat when they defeated him earlier, and he was indeed cheating, but that didn't stop him from being smug and saying in disdain, "They are just a bunch of shortsighted and bigoted fools."
While the fight was going on, the three patriarchs and the three ancestors were watching the progress of events and chatting about it. The remaining nascent souls cultivators from upstream were somewhere else having their own discussion.
When Sky Eel saw that the enemies had been successfully and easily repelled, he sighed in relief and said, "It is good that we have people we can count on for this invasion. If not, we might have to return home immediately, which would have meant a waste of the time and effort we spent planning this invasion."
Pink Dandelion nodded in agreement and said, "Not to mention all the resources we used to come here. Just thinking about all the energy stones that the space gate burned is making me wince with heartache."
Bladed Hemlock rubbed his chin and said, "This Arthur is great, though. I can't believe that is what it takes for someone to cultivate two elements."
He said in admiration, "He seems too talented. Abnormally even."
Lady Evergreen heard and was quick to say in agreement, "Right? I thought he was the only one who thought his talent was abnormal."
Bladed Hemlock chuckled and said, "I didn't think anyone could be this talented, and I have seen the descendants of divine transformation seniors that were directly created from their blood. But that's just me. I'm sure that there are many such existences as Arthur whose talent defies understanding."
Lady Evergreen shook her head and said, "I can't imagine that anyone can be more talented than him. What I want to know is where Arthur's great talent is, why he can cultivate two elements, or the fact that he managed to cultivate two elements improved his talent so much."
Bladed Hemlock shrugged and said, "Who knows? I'm just glad that the duty of our ancestors is about to be fulfilled. What we should hope for is that the great power that put our founders up to the task won't get rid of us to silence us after the job is done."
These words made them shudder in fear. They had to be afraid because, despite their power, they are still bound by the curse of the founders from thousands of years ago.
They don't know just how powerful the person who sent the founders to establish the Blood Skull sect is, but they know without a doubt that if that person wants to silence them, there is nothing they will be able to do to avoid such a fate.
Sword Flash could only say, "I don't think they need to go that far just to keep us quiet. They have succeeded all along in keeping us quiet by using a curse. So they can still use a curse to ensure our silence."
Pink Dandelion sighed and said, "I hope you're right. I truly do."
Meanwhile, the fighting below had finished. The gem people had been repelled, and the mothership was able to finally land.
The site they picked for the landing was a floating island that initially belonged to the gem people. There used to be a garrisoned fortress there.
The fortress is no longer there. The gem people who used to live in it have escaped, and the fortress itself has been crushed into rubble by the mothership after the mothership landed on it.
The next thing that they did was to plant a mana seed and set up the domain of the Ethera tree in Aurora, just like they had done on Aries. But this time, there was no storm trying to kill them after they set up the domain.