The surroundings were quiet. Except for the momentarily rustle of leaves from the large tree besides Hide.
He had just commanded the system to use the D-Rank core of the Brochio Fiend to create a new phantom. He expected the familiar rush of dark mana pulling from the environment, wrapping around him to forge a new soldier.
Instead, a glowing blue holographic window suddenly flashed in front of his face.
[System Warning]
Dark Abyssal Core (S) is temporarily locked.
Time remaining: 3 Hours, 12 Minutes. / 8 hours
Phantom Court creation unavailable until lockdown is lifted.
Hide stared at the floating blue text, his eyes slightly widened in genuine confusion.
"..."
"What is this?" Hide muttered under his breath, reading the prompt a second time. "There was something like this?"
He didn't remember seeing any warnings about his core locking down. Well the lockdown was for 8 total hours and out of them, almost five had already passed.
