Kailen didn't appear at where his society members were for the time being.

His reason for this decision was simple.

He didn't want them to be overshadowed by his appearance, or show of power.

So far, they were doing very well, and the society wars had proven very helpful in honing them.

He was very satisfied with the results.

Thanks to Kailen's ability to notice the nature of various traps in the secret realm after observing the other societies, Kailen's shadow creatures had been able to secretly use themselves as scapegoats to activate and disrupt most of these traps.

Kailen, after all, wanted to train them — but he was a leader, and he didn't want his society members dead.

His society members thought they were quite fortunate that they had not come across some of these traps.

However, the spectators were aware of what was going on, because they could see what was happening with the various societies across the secret realm.

Anytime the members of the Sword Tribunal Society were approaching a particular territory, Kailen's shadow creatures would covertly — without the detection of the society members — scout the area first, activate the traps in the area, and disrupt them with runes.

Since the traps ran on runes — a truth Kailen had been able to grasp during the society wars due to his extensive understanding of rune concepts.

Kailen had a perfect synergy of communication with his shadow creatures, so teaching them runesmithery and helping them gain profound mastery was not an issue.

As for spiritual power, they were all connected to his consciousness, so they had it too.

Through this, Kailen had been able to disrupt several ascendant level runes through his shadow creatures.

The audience were extremely shocked at what was happening.

One moment, an obsidian creature donned in some hoodie would appear somewhere, activate traps, and destroy them with runesmithery.

Another moment, a ginormous creature with a lion head and a tiger body would appear and wave her paws at traps — and the traps would be deactivated.

Several bizarre scenes were happening constantly, making the audience feel like the members of the Sword Tribunal Society were having a breeze when it came to escaping the traps in the secret realm.

Of course, the audience knew that the members of the Sword Tribunal Society had not come across any traps that had been too powerful for Kailen's shadow creatures to deactivate yet, else they would have been screwed.

However, little did the audience know that Kailen had already made his shadow creatures scout large possible perimeters to detect how powerful the runes were before he proceeded with this plan.

Had the runes been more powerful than his level of runesmithery could handle, he'd have simply sent a message to the unit leaders to take certain paths according to certain coordinates — to avoid these traps.

But fortunately, that had not happened, and his plan to aid them without letting them realize he was helping them had not come to light.

That way, they'd take things seriously and be wary of traps — as if the traps had not been tampered with by Feral, Everfrost, Vengeful, Avarice, and co.

The sight of Kailen's shadow creatures demonstrating high-skilled rune skills was extremely flabbergasting to watch.

Several masters of the Runesmith Society were watching the whole thing with shock etched on their faces.

It was already hard to accept that this young man was a highly proficient runesmith, but to have his shadow creatures — as he called them — be runesmiths having the same level of proficiency and skill as himself?

That was extremely flabbergasting!

Sigrid Coppervein, the runesmith lecturer whose lecture Kailen had attended, couldn't help but sigh when she saw the whole thing.

Several other instructors seated across from her asked her, " What do you think of this?"

She simply shook her head, at loss completely for words.

" It takes a certain level of understanding of rune concepts to be able to identify that the traps are based on runes — that can require years, centuries, or more even to get to that level," she sighed, under the gazes of the other instructors.

" But I'm sure we shouldn't be too shocked about his performance, honestly.

He has an extremely high rune skill proficiency for his level, after all. When it comes to this kid, it's not a matter of whether he will break through to the next level of runesmithery — it's rather a matter of when he will, and how terrifying he will be with each level up.

As for the part about his shadow creatures being runesmiths too, I honestly can't explain it. It's beyond reasoning."

The instructors looked at Kailen Darkhaven standing atop the forest region with renewed respect and seriousness.

They were not runesmiths, so they didn't previously understand the gravity of his display to a certain extent.

But now that Sigrid, a rank 2 runesmith , had explained to them, they realized how terrifying this kid was.

Several similar conversations were happening across the empire at this moment about Kailen.

All drew one conclusion — this kid was a monster that defied all reason and couldn't be judged in the frame of other geniuses.

Anyway, the subject of discussion knew nothing about the uproar his simple act to preserve his society members' lives had caused.

" It's been 11 days since society began, and I've yet to make a move.

According to the message Zarek sent me, he will be with Everlong and the others by tomorrow. When they meet up, I'll make an appearance with them.

It seems those clowns planning to get rid of me will be there too at about the same time.

Good — that way I can get rid of them together, everything is going according to plan.

Anyway, I said I was gonna hunt for spawned creatures about six minutes ago, I better get to work.

Since Zarek has made an appearance, I have to show off a little.

After all, Arrie and the others are watching.

Let's try the vine affinity on some weak creatures to see how it works — then, the actual hunting with my capabilities as a Black Flask can begin."

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