"Not good!"
The moment they felt that vast, majestic pressure descend, the expressions of all the Sovereigns changed drastically.
This was...
The precursor to an Overgod's descent!
Only then did everyone remember what Chief Sovereign Linley had just done.
He had directly pulled an Angel out of the Planar Battlefield.
According to the rules established by the Overgods, any being who entered the Planar Battlefield was absolutely forbidden from leaving before the Planar War ended.
Even after the war concluded, the Commanders and soldiers inside the Planar Battlefield could only leave safely through the teleportation gates if they possessed Commander Medallions or Soldier Medallions.
Those who lacked medallions would be executed by the Sovereigns.
Yet now, before the Planar War had even ended, Linley had forcibly taken someone out of the battlefield...
What did that mean?
It meant he had violated the rules established by the Overgods!
The ancient Sovereigns who had survived since the creation of the universe all became incomparably solemn.
Even now, they still vividly remembered how the two Sovereigns who had destroyed Material Planes had met their end.
Now that Linley had violated the Overgods' rules, causing an Overgod to descend, the outcome was obvious.
Even if Linley was a Rule Chief Sovereign, before an Overgod, he possessed no ability to resist whatsoever.
The Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff narrowed his eyes as he watched the Destruction Overgod gradually take form.
Perfect.
Just moments ago, he had been considering whether he should silence Linley if Linley had learned the secret of the Bula Clan from Brelle.
Now it seemed he wouldn't need to act personally.
Having violated the rules, Linley would undoubtedly be killed by the Overgod.
As for the Light Chief Sovereign Augusta, he could barely suppress the smile spreading across his face.
He had never imagined that not long after suffering humiliation at the hands of the Yulan faction, Linley would be about to perish.
And once Linley was gone...
Thinking of this, Augusta looked toward Beirut and Bluefire, the killing intent in his eyes nearly overflowing.
At this moment, both Beirut and Bluefire had turned deathly pale.
Neither of them had expected Linley to suddenly do something like this, even drawing the Overgod's attention.
Without Linley, the Yulan faction's situation would likely become even worse than it had been before Linley rose to power.
"Linley... how could you be so foolish?"
"I'm sorry, Lord Beirut... Lord Bluefire."
Linley naturally realized that he had caused an enormous disaster.
Yet there was not the slightest trace of regret in his heart.
Compared to his mother's safety, his own life simply wasn't as important.
Of course, there was another reason.
Present here were only his original body and three Sovereign clones.
His wind divine clone remained in the Infernal Realm, accompanying Delia.
As long as the Overgod did not completely erase his soul, Linley would not truly die.
Only then, he would no longer be Rule Chief Sovereign Linley.
He would merely possess a wind divine clone whose strength rivaled that of a Paragon.
"But..."
"I couldn't just stand by and watch my mother die in the Planar Battlefield."
"What?"
"That Angel... is your mother?"
Hearing Linley's words, Beirut cried out in shock.
His exclamation also drew the attention of the surrounding Sovereigns, whose gazes all turned toward the Angel carefully protected behind Linley.
This Angel...
...was actually Chief Sovereign Linley's mother?
No wonder he had risked violating the Planar Battlefield's rules just to pull her out.
However, Angels were private property of the Light Sovereigns.
Since Linley's mother Lina had already been transformed into an Angel through an Angel Rebirth Pool, her soul was naturally under the control of a Light Sovereign.
Several Sovereigns who knew the truth about Angels looked toward Lina beside Linley and sighed while shaking their heads.
Making a Light Sovereign release an Angel's freedom came at far too great a price.
One might labor for tens of quadrillions of years in vain.
People with perfectly pure souls were extraordinarily difficult to find.
Moreover, even after such a soul was reborn through an Angel Rebirth Pool, the amount of a Sovereign's power the Angel inherited depended upon both the grade of the Angel Rebirth Pool and luck.
An Angel like Lina, who possessed the strength of a Seven-Star Fiend, could only be produced by the highest-grade Angel Rebirth Pools.
And if they remembered correctly, among the 128 Angel Rebirth Pools in the Light Divine Plane, half belonged to the Light Chief Sovereign Augusta.
The two highest-grade Angel Rebirth Pools were also under his control.
In other words...
Unless something unexpected had happened, Lina's master was the Light Chief Sovereign Augusta.
Now things had become interesting.
Only tens of thousands of years ago, Augusta had suffered a crushing defeat at Linley's hands.
Now Linley's own mother's life rested in Augusta's hands.
What kind of conflict would arise between them?
Of course, the greater possibility was that Linley had pushed his own mother into an even deeper pit of fire.
After all, what Augusta feared was Linley's strength.
Once Linley's original body and Sovereign clones were killed by the Overgod, his lone wind divine clone—with only Paragon-level strength—would be completely beneath Augusta's notice.
Under the various expressions of the assembled Sovereigns...
The Destruction Overgod descended.
Buzz—
Within the spatial turbulence, the bodies of the Sovereigns appeared as insignificant as ants before the Overgod.
The instant the Destruction Overgod opened his eyes, boundless destructive intent erupted forth.
Every Sovereign who looked directly at him let out a muffled groan.
If the Life Overgod gave others the feeling of a gentle and benevolent goddess capable of drawing people into a beautiful dream...
Then the Destruction Overgod radiated the imposing majesty of a world-ending demon king who would openly annihilate all things.
Merely gazing upon him caused severe backlash to every Sovereign present.
Fortunately, the Destruction Overgod had not directed his gaze toward them.
Otherwise, several Sovereigns might already have perished.
When the Destruction Overgod's gaze fell upon Linley, Linley's expression changed.
He immediately pulled his mother, Lina, behind him, choosing to face the Overgod's gaze alone.
In a single instant, the boundless destructive intent directly destroyed Linley's soul-defense Sovereign artifact and material-defense Sovereign artifact.
Countless cracks spread across his body as blood burst forth in every direction.
Pfft!
Within Linley's soul, an enormous quantity of faith energy evaporated instantly, annihilated beneath the Destruction Overgod's single glance.
Spitting out a mouthful of blood, horror flashed across Linley's eyes.
He had never imagined that he could not even withstand a single glance from an Overgod.
Back before becoming a Sovereign, Linley had completed a Life Overgod Mission.
He had personally met the Life Overgod and had even exchanged several words with her.
Yet at that time, the Life Overgod had never given him such terrifying pressure.
"Could it be..."
"Is the Destruction Overgod that much stronger than the Life Overgod?"
Bearing a single glance from the Destruction Overgod had already left him gravely wounded.
Such a thought inevitably surfaced in Linley's mind.
However, he quickly shook his head.
The relative strength of the Overgods was not something a mere Sovereign like him was qualified to judge.
The only reason he felt the Destruction Overgod was stronger than the Life Overgod was probably because, when he had met the Life Overgod, he had been the successful completer of her Overgod Mission.
She had harbored no killing intent toward him.
This time, however, he had violated the rules governing the Planar Battlefield.
The Destruction Overgod had appeared for one purpose alone—
To kill him.
"Linley Baruch."
"You violated the rules of the Planar Battlefield by removing a lifeform from the battlefield before the Planar War had concluded..."
"Your crime..."
"Merits death."
The Destruction Overgod's voice carried overwhelming destructive aura.
Merely hearing it caused the souls of the surrounding Sovereigns to tremble.
As the primary target of the Destruction Overgod, the attack Linley's soul endured was thousands of times greater.
Within his soul, enormous quantities of faith energy boiled away, desperately resisting the destructive power carried within the Overgod's words and reducing the damage inflicted upon him.
Even so, Linley could clearly sense that had he not been a four-way soul mutate, whose soul strength far surpassed ordinary Sovereigns, his soul would already have been shattered by the destructive might contained within those words.
"What terrifying power..."
"So..."
"Am I going to die?"
The moment the Destruction Overgod uttered the words "merits death," Linley knew that neither his original body nor his Sovereign clones could be saved.
The only comfort he had was that his wind divine clone in the Infernal Realm remained completely unaffected.
Thus, even if all his Sovereign clones perished, he would still have one divine clone left alive.
"Stop."
Just as Linley's soul was about to be obliterated beneath the Destruction Overgod's overwhelming pressure, a voice sounded beside his ear.
Immediately afterward, Linley felt as though the entire world had come to a halt.
No...
It wasn't only Linley.
Every Sovereign present felt it as well.
The entirety of space and time within the spatial turbulence had frozen.
Only the Sovereigns' divine senses remained capable of perceiving the outside world.
Then, through their divine senses, they saw a figure that was incomparably familiar to them.
Chief Sovereign Locke!
In truth, if Locke fully unleashed the power of Time Stop, he could have frozen even the Sovereigns' divine senses.
However, what Locke intended to do next was so overwhelming that if he failed to restrain most of his power, he might very well cause the entire Magic Universe to collapse.
After glancing at Linley, Locke shook his head.
Given his own experiences, Locke had naturally guessed that Linley would discover his mother during this Planar War.
Even so, he had never expected Linley to be this reckless—to directly violate the Planar Battlefield's rules by pulling Lina out of it.
What surprised Locke even more was that the Destruction Overgod had appeared...
...yet Hongmeng's will was nowhere within it.
With Hongmeng's abilities, it was impossible for him not to recognize Linley's potential to become a Hongmeng lifeform.
Had Hongmeng's will detected Linley violating the Magic Universe's rules, at most he would have administered a minor punishment.
He would never have truly destroyed Linley's three Sovereign clones and cut off Linley's path toward becoming a Hongmeng lifeform.
Although Locke did not know why Hongmeng had withdrawn his attention from the Magic Universe, allowing the Magic Universe's Destruction Edicts to instinctively move to exterminate Linley's Sovereign clones...
...there was no way Locke would simply stand by and watch Linley fall here.
Thus, just as Linley's original body and Sovereign clones were about to be killed by the Destruction Overgod...
Locke acted.
First, he used Time Stop to freeze the Destruction Overgod's killing intent toward Linley.
Then...
"Space-Time Reversal."
That's right—
Space-Time Reversal, not merely Time Reversal.
Time Reversal merely rewound the flow of time for living beings within a certain region.
Space-Time Reversal rewound both space and time simultaneously.
It was a technique countless times more profound than Time Reversal, one that could only be performed after completely fusing the Laws of Time and Space.
Thus, before the astonished divine senses of every Sovereign...
They saw the Destruction Overgod's body begin to dissipate...
No.
It was not that the Destruction Overgod was dissolving back into countless Destruction Edicts.
Rather, Chief Sovereign Locke was exercising unimaginable power to reverse the space-time of this entire region.
And the Destruction Overgod happened to exist within that very region.
Good heavens!
Even the Destruction Overgod could not withstand Chief Sovereign Locke's might.
His very existence was being reversed through space and time.
How ridiculous.
They had always believed that even if Chief Sovereign Locke had reached the level of an Overgod, he would still be slightly inferior to the four omnipresent Overgods.
Yet from what they were witnessing now...
...they realized how narrow-minded they had been.
Someone as monstrous as Chief Sovereign Locke...
How could he possibly be the weakest among the Overgods?
Even if Locke had initially been weaker than the four Overgods upon first reaching that realm...
He had remained at the Overgod level for so long.
How could he possibly have stood still?
Did they really think Chief Sovereign Locke was as mediocre as they were?
The realm of Paragon...
...was merely a small stone beneath Locke's feet.
The realm of Sovereigns could not restrain him.
Nor was the realm of the Overgods his limit.
Even if one day they were told that Chief Sovereign Locke had completely surpassed the Overgods...
...every one of these Sovereigns would readily believe it.
Gradually, the fluctuations of the Destruction Edicts subsided.
Then they saw Chief Sovereign Linley reopen the spatial rift...
...and send Lina back into the Planar Battlefield beside him.
Rustle... Rustle...
Only then did the assembled Sovereigns feel that the surrounding space-time had finally returned to normal.
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