Hours after passing the border of Chutha Dynasty and Seidel Kingdom, Vicente and his group spotted the kingdom's great capital as they left the back of Onyx to fly towards Grandis.",

As they moved, the group could gradually see thousands of black dots moving towards the city, while the sounds of cannons and explosions arose on the outskirts of Grandis.

Just as they got there, the city was under heavy attack from monsters!

Seeing the situation while flying lower and lower, Lina broke into a cold sweat as Layla and Vicente took the lead to reach that area.

Being the two fastest in the group, the couple would reach the front of the city, where warriors from the royal army were currently fighting the 3rd and 4th stage monsters in the area.

The moment they got there, they spotted King Seidel in the area, leading his men against the brutal attack that had now taken out over 100 men on the outskirts of Grandis.

Vicente saw the man, but said nothing. As soon as he was in front of the main point under attack, he revealed his magical powers, making his pentagrams appear as he attacked his enemies with one hand.

The wounded, tired and desperate men at that point of the capital's fallen wall saw the unthinkable happen right in front of them, with over 40 monsters being disintegrated by one movement of the newcomer.

Simultaneously with the action of Vicente's atomic manipulation power, the ground there shook, with several of the soldiers' weapons and metallic minerals giving rise to large, powerful sentient weapons.

In a few breaths of time, the warriors, doing their best to defend the city, stopped moving as they saw the monstrous creatures, hordes of different types of monsters, being brutalized by the Paragon with his back to them.

'Those powers...' King Seidel saw this and couldn't help but change the tired, depressed expression on his face, seeing the young black-haired man with his back to him shining like a star, the hope of his kingdom.

"Vicente!" He shouted to the boy, momentarily forgetting he had a daughter, leaving to worry about her later.

All that was on King Seidel's mind at the moment was Vicente's frightening power, which was honestly giving him even stronger chills than vampires would!

In the blink of an eye, over 300 monsters died because of Vicente's movement, while his weapons continued to kill the monsters even without him commanding them.

His companions took advantage of the path of corpses generated by their leader's movements, finally landing in the position where the king was rushing to Vicente's side.

"Father!" Lina shouted when she saw her old man still alive, feeling a little more relieved, even though she was still worried about her family, siblings, and mothers.

"Lina!" The king remembered the existence of that beautiful brown-haired woman and couldn't help but smile at how strong she had grown after over two years of traveling with Vicente.

"You've become a Sky Sovereign!"

"How's the family? What's the situation in the city?" She asked as Low-level Paragon, Torne, and Onyx helped Vice clean up the outskirts of the city.

All the rest of the group stood by King Seidel and Lina, while the guards on the outskirts dropped their weapons to watch the end of the monsters when they were so close to taking down this city.

The locals didn't know that the monsters would never devastate their city with attacks like the one today. It wasn't their plan to do that. Their plan was more malicious: to drive the magical community to despair, keep human civilization under pressure and occasionally bring in some magicians to make the community aware that they were now sheep at the monsters' disposal.

But with Vicente's group arriving today, it still wouldn't be time for this community to learn about this current cruel reality on the continent.

"The family is resisting. We have lost no one yet. I sent them to Metal City a few weeks ago along with Nina, Eve and Nova. They should be fine there." The king said, aware that this was the case, at least until four days ago, the date of the last message he received from one of his wives.

Lina was finally free of the weight she had been feeling since they began their journey back south, relieved that she hadn't returned too late.

She herself wasn't confident of saving her entire family. But by being there, she could at least talk to her relatives and do her best to avoid loss. If something worse happened now, there would be nothing left for her to do but mourn. But at least she would have the opportunity to act, which was enough for her at the moment.

The others also felt a little relieved to hear that.

'If they were only sent to Metal City a few weeks ago, perhaps the situation in the kingdom has only deteriorated since then.' Rory thought to himself.

Casey asked. "The kingdom must be fine then, right? If things have only gotten so bad in the last few weeks, the situation shouldn't be much different from when we left."

"No, we've lost half our territory and our numbers so far." The king said in a deep tone, his wrists clenched and a grim look on his face.

"The monsters really took their time to bring chaos to the kingdom. Until two months ago, we were more or less in the situation you left us. But two months was enough for them to brutalize our forces, take over half my territory, destroy crops and even railroads.

A horde of 4th stage monsters almost brought down Scott Province three weeks ago. If it hadn't been for the structures Vicente left behind to protect that territory, we would have lost it completely.

Unfortunately, even if we didn't lose the territory completely, half of the province fell, with Saltstar City having been destroyed by the enemies."

"What?" Rory heard in alarm, and couldn't help but approach the king as a troubled look formed on his face.

"Don't worry, young man, Martell Village, Metal City and Millfall are some areas still standing and less affected. Your mother was fine until the last time I received information about her."

King Seidel knew the origin of each of the members of Vicente's group to relieve Rory like that.