Chapter 503: The Wager

"If you don't put on your material-defense Overgod artifact, then don't blame me if you die!"

"Hahaha..."

Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff merely smiled at Destruction Chief Sovereign Wodred's warning.

"Wodred, those words are rather alarmist."

"I believe that the fact you've successfully analyzed the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' fused innate divine ability is no secret to Chief Sovereign Locke."

"But since Chief Sovereign Locke said that the strength of the four Chief Sovereigns of the Edicts has increased by hundreds or even thousands of times, rather than tens or hundreds of thousands of times, it proves that in Chief Sovereign Locke's eyes, even if you have mastered the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' fused innate divine ability, the increase to your strength doesn't reach the millionfold level."

"At most, it can only increase your strength by a thousand times."

At first glance, Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff's words seemed to show that he had tremendous confidence in what Chief Sovereign Locke had said.

But in reality, it was because Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff himself had also completed his analysis of the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' blood essence and had mastered their fused innate divine ability, knowing the limits of that technique, that he was so calm.

"Heh, then I won't hold back!"

With those words, four drops of Sovereign blood essence radiating powerful auras appeared beside Destruction Chief Sovereign Wodred.

Just as Wodred was about to unleash Space-Time Chaos, Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff suddenly raised a hand.

"Wait!"

"Hm?"

Destruction Chief Sovereign Wodred frowned.

"Orloff, if you have something to say, say it directly. Stopping in the middle of a battle like this is irritating."

"That's my fault. I apologize first."

"However, Wodred, by a stroke of fortune, I also gained a certain understanding of the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' fused innate divine ability."

"How about we make our next move into a wager?"

"If you win, I'll tell you everything I've comprehended regarding the principles behind the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' fused innate divine ability."

"Conversely, if I win, you will tell me everything you've comprehended regarding the principles behind the Four Divine Beasts' fused innate divine ability."

"What do you think?"

"Oh?"

Destruction Chief Sovereign Wodred raised an eyebrow.

Since he himself had been able to analyze the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' blood essence to deduce their innate divine ability, it wasn't strange to him that Orloff had accomplished the same.

What Wodred found strange was where Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had obtained the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' blood essence.

The fused innate divine ability was the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' greatest trump card.

Before their deaths, it was impossible for them to allow their Sovereign blood essence to leak out.

After the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns died, Beirut had taken their corpses to the Yulan Continent. Aside from Wodred himself, Beirut had never given the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' Sovereign blood essence to any other Sovereign.

Thinking of Light Chief Sovereign Augusta, Destruction Chief Sovereign Wodred suddenly recalled that several tens of thousands of years ago, when Chief Sovereign Linley had taken over the grudge between Beirut and Light Chief Sovereign Augusta, Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had stepped forward.

At the time, Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had said that he owed Light Chief Sovereign Augusta a favor.

Then how had Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff come to owe Light Chief Sovereign Augusta a favor?

Most likely, it hadn't been Light Chief Sovereign Augusta himself who had wanted to attack the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns.

Rather, Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had wanted to study the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' blood essence and analyze their fused innate divine ability, which was why he had wanted to act against them.

However, Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff was a Chief Sovereign of the Edicts, while the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns were merely Chief Sovereigns of the Laws.

Without any provocation from the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns, even Orloff would not dare violate the Sovereigns' agreement by attacking them personally.

Thus, it was Augusta who had acted against the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns.

Thinking it over carefully, that also made sense.

The fused innate divine ability of the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns possessed might approaching that of a Chief Sovereign of the Edicts. Even if it couldn't instantly kill Light Chief Sovereign Augusta, it should at least have severely wounded him.

Yet during the previous battle between Light Chief Sovereign Augusta and the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns, although Augusta had been struck by their fused innate divine ability, he hadn't suffered any real injury.

Most likely, Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had lent his soul-defense Overgod artifact to Light Chief Sovereign Augusta, allowing him to block the fused innate divine ability of the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns.

However, in Destruction Chief Sovereign Wodred's eyes, the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns had truly been too useless.

Their fused innate divine ability possessed enormous potential, yet after possessing this treasure mountain for more than fourteen hundred evolutions, the four of them had never created any other methods of attacking with it.

They deserved to be killed.

Recalling how, several tens of thousands of years ago, countless members of the Four Divine Beasts clan had died throughout the Seven Divine Planes and the Four Higher Planes, Destruction Chief Sovereign Wodred felt as though he had finally understood something.

The Four Divine Beasts clan's headquarters had been in the Infernal Realm.

To increase the strength of the clan's members, the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns had created the unorthodox magical formation known as the Bloodline Baptism.

Apart from clan members who had been born less than a thousand years earlier, every member of the Four Divine Beasts clan had absorbed a trace of the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' Sovereign blood essence through the magical formation used during the clan's Ancestral Baptism, thereby increasing the purity of their bloodlines.

In other words, every member of the Four Divine Beasts clan possessed an extremely faint trace of the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' blood essence within their bodies.

Using certain methods, it was entirely possible to refine that faint trace of Sovereign blood essence.

"Heh, Orloff, you've truly made me see you in a new light today."

Destruction Chief Sovereign Wodred let out a cold snort.

Even he had only thought of this possibility after learning that Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had successfully analyzed the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' blood essence and wondering where Orloff had obtained it.

So Light Chief Sovereign Augusta had merely been Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff's white glove.

Of course, even after realizing this, Destruction Chief Sovereign Wodred's opinion of Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff did not change in the slightest.

Destruction Chief Sovereign Wodred himself had never been a benevolent person.

Not to mention the extermination of a single Four Divine Beasts clan—even if every living being throughout the Seven Divine Planes and the Four Higher Planes had died, Destruction Chief Sovereign Wodred would not have felt the slightest pity.

Besides, from the very beginning, Destruction Chief Sovereign Wodred had never thought highly of Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff.

He had always felt that Orloff was a madman.

Learning that Light Chief Sovereign Augusta had merely been Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff's white glove only confirmed what Wodred had always believed—that Orloff was far from the "good old fellow" the other Sovereigns thought him to be.

What kind of good person kills the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns and exterminates the entire Four Divine Beasts clan simply because he covets the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' divine beast blood essence?

Had Linley not suddenly risen to prominence, the Four Divine Beasts clan would probably have become nothing more than a "legend" throughout the Seven Divine Planes and the Four Higher Planes by now.

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