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- that shone from his raised hand. In tandem, the catalyst was engulfed by a sea of arcane incandescence, eventually consolidating into the form of @UmuMonarch. 〝 Heed my call and come forth! Your master beckons you! 〞

- There was no need for an elaborate ritual, not when all he required for this task was contained within his body. The vast amount of mana required reacted to his will, rushing from the endless torrent of power that was his magical reserves and manifesting as a blinding light -

- of the room, laid a shard of marble; its appearance was hardly captivating, but it was without a doubt once a part of the great Flavian Amphitheatre standing at the center of the city of Rome, and the catalyst that would summon a hero from the land he once called his own. -

- summoning. It was through 'acquiring' the studies of the magi who called forth these spirits as servants that he was able to find an additional method for narrowing down which hero was manifested, in this case by providing an artifact as a catalyst. Before him, at the center -

- eschewed such external tools. He had already proven himself capable of summoning the beings known as Heroic Spirits, figures of mankind's history and legends who, by his own reckoning, were considerably more powerful than many of the spirits he was otherwise capable of -

〝 It is done. 〞 The Emperor cast his gaze down at the featureless obsidian floor of the palace's ritual chamber, the various magical circles that had previously adorned the ground erased for this particular occasion — it was, among other things, a test that specifically -