Inheritor Of Magic: The Magi King

The Fae created a barrier array that should create the wall of vines all along the boundary that was marked by the poles, which would attack the undead that made it that far and throw them back.

It wasn't a solid wall, but more of a row of vines that would extend upwards when needed, so the defenders could still shoot over it freely. The Unholy Fire barrier was directional, so it could be fired through, though it would light the bullets on fire as they passed.

It should be a great combination, and Wolfe was actually looking forward to seeing what the tentacles would look like covered in dark blue, Unholy Flames. He could bet that nobody else would be expecting that, though perhaps a few of the Fae had tried merging tentacles and fire in the same defensive array before.

The nature magic for the barrier was truly Fae Magic, and the best that Wolfe could do was to just copy what he saw and layer the elemental magic around it. The Fae runes weren't anything that he could understand, or even work with, but once he had the two of them merged into a proper barrier array, he could feel the magical resonance that told him the spell should activate.

He quickly created a large golden orb, with a large chunk of condensed mana crystal and ten additional orbs layered inside it. Each of them would get one transferred layer of the spell, and then when the one holding the orb activated all the spells, the burden would be spread so that the orb didn't explode in the hands of a more powerful user.

The extra layers were needed to link it to the regular barrier poles, so they would act as markers and a conduit for the magic, allowing the bearer of the orb to fill their mana storage remotely, while using the orb as the base storage of the spell.

It would replace the tablet that the Morgana Witches used to activate theirs, with the benefit of a lot of additional mana storage and a longer range. Wolfe had also built in a failsafe so that the poles weren't overpowered, but if the enemy did more damage than they could sustain even with maximum mana transfer, they could still be overrun and destroyed.

That was still the greatest weakness of this spell, the need for the poles to be properly placed so that the barrier could form along an extended line.

Even Ella was staring in wonder at the golden orb in Wolfe's hand, which was radiating immense power, despite presently being inactive, with its mana storage empty.

"Well, you're not hiding that thing anywhere." Ella laughed as she finished inspecting what she could see of the magical item.

The gathered guardians nodded in agreement. That was a Rank Seven Magical item, with immense potential. If they remade the poles so that they could take more mana transfer, they could erect a Saint Level barrier around an entire city, or perhaps even an entire nation, using that single golden Orb as a control device.

"That's no joke. I had forgotten the level of magical aura that such a powerful item would give off. If anything, it might actually draw enemies to itself if it was left out in the open." One of the Fae agreed.

"But if you put it in a Palace, garrison building or other location where the powerful gather, it shouldn't be too difficult to mask its presence. There isn't a lot of powerful magic floating around out here at the airport, so it's extra obvious, as it isn't a living magical aura. But in the barracks, around all of our gear, it wouldn't be as obvious in the Demon Realms." The excited Wrathbringer agreed.

The Demon smiled down at Wolfe, with what he could only assume was meant to be a pleading look. On the face of the warlike Demon, with the scars that limited its facial expressions, it was more of a toothy grimace, but the intention was clear.

"We can discuss the price to have one made for personal use later. This one is a national defence asset." Wolfe replied.

Many of the more magically adept had already placed barriers over their towns, but this method, with the poles and the core, was much more mana efficient, and it had the added advantage of being able to shape the boundary in any way that you liked, instead of having it form a dome over the location, as a normal protective barrier would.

Trying to shape the boundary when you couldn't see it all was nearly impossible, and the defensive line that they were dispatching riders to set up now would be over a hundred kilometres long. If it weren't for the poles, set every fifty metres or less, the task would have to be done in sections.

"The first section is up. Who gets the honours of erecting the barrier?" One of the Fae asked after quickly checking her phone.

They had taken to the technology at an incredible pace, and had even managed to stabilize the devices against magic well enough that the cell network was slowly becoming a continent - wide communications technology.

By next year, that would be a huge change for the leadership of the many nations, but it still wasn't fully connected, and Wolfe knew nothing about how the different nations networks would communicate with each other. Someone in the development department might know, but not him.

"I say we let the local leadership do the honours. This is your city, and the orb will be stationed here, unless the leader of the Free Territories disagrees." Ella suggested.

The local guardian did a little happy dance, then ran over to stand next to the orb.

"What do I do? Just inject mana and think about forming the barrier at the poles?" He asked.

"That's all it takes. I already linked them, since I'm familiar with the devices." Wolfe agreed.

With a ripple of displaced air, a light blue shimmering barrier stretched for over a kilometre in either direction, slowly expanding as more of the poles were placed. Then it suddenly tripled in size as the next two sections were linked, and then expanded again as it reached the next.

"It doesn't look like much." One of the Demons sighed.

"Just wait until the Undead get to it. You'll see, it's going to be great."