Chapter 283: Jade’s Equality And Exchange
[After using World Order, invisible rule-based fluctuations spread out with you as the center.]
[Within your range, your World Order took effect, causing the Goddess of Plants to have her Plants Principle be reduced in power.]
[Yes, it was only a power reduction. In the end, there was still a fundamental difference between an Authority and a Principle.]
[If it were just a clash of combat power, a Half-Step Starlight rank powerhouse might be able to fight an Initial Starlight rank powerhouse in a draw. But to use an Authority to restrict a Starlight rank powerhouse’s Principle? It was impossible.]
[Even when you used King’s Decree and Royal Confiscation to target her Plants Principle, it could only further weaken her Plants Principle.]
[However, it didn’t mean that your assistance was useless. The World Order you used was specifically something that could only be used when making a really strict condition, which, when fulfilled, would work better and be more absolute.]
[In this case, you literally imposed a restriction that your World Order would only take effect if the universe permitted you.]
[If it were other World Orders, the universe might not even respond or even care about you. But since it involved a Starlight rank Wild God, the Universe Will undoubtedly give you its permission and even empower your usage of it.]
[’With this, even a Starlight rank Wild God wouldn’t be able to ignore my World Order. However, this can only be used against Wild Gods. Against the average Starlight rank powerhouse, I can’t rely on the universe to empower my World Order via the completion of a difficult condition.’]
[’Not to mention, I also have the bonus from my Special Identity Spark: Godslayer as well as the Zenith Train’s Divinity Slayer train ability.’]
[’Looking back at it, the Zenith Train truly is the bane of these Wild Gods. We don’t have an advantage against most Starlight rank powerhouses, but we can even fight against Wild Gods stronger than our power ranks.’]
[Thinking of this, you went to the side and decided not to intervene any further.]
[Instead of using Absolute Boundary to further weaken the Goddess of Plants, you decided to set up boundaries around the world and strengthen them, assisting the Space Anchor in setting up a blockade.]
[At the same time, Jade had followed you out as well, along with the other train crewmates who planned to participate in this battle.]
[Jade immediately made use of her Equality Authority while taking out the Peak Aether-grade Pearly Eyes of Equality spirit artifact, "True equality can be achieved when those who oppose me are equally as normal as the mortals of the world."]
[Although Jade’s usage of her Equality Authority couldn’t truly make the Goddess of Plants equal to mortals, it at least further reduced her power, especially the Goddess of Plants’ divine aspect.]
[After all, what Jade focused on targeting was the aloof divine status of the Goddess of Plants, likening it to the equality of a mortal.]
[Feeling that it wasn’t enough, Jade continued, "Equivalent Exchange! For the price of being unable to use all my Authorities for an entire week, I exchange it for the Goddess of Plant’s Plants Principle dropping down to that of an Authority for a quarter of an hour!"]
[After paying a huge price to achieve that exchange, her Equivalent Exchange worked, and Jade felt that she could no longer use her Equality Authority and Exchange Authority.]
[Fortunately, she could still use her Golden Time spirit avatar and her Bloodline Magic: Eternal Dominion. At most, the disabling of her Authorities caused her overall power to drop from Half-Step Starlight rank to Peak Aether rank.]
[With the price Jade for this exchange, the Goddess of Plants, whose Plants Principle had already been weakened by you and her, could no longer deal with such severe weakening.]
[You and the others soon witnessed that the "Principle" status of the Wild Goddess’s Plants Principle had drastically dropped, becoming a Plants Authority in effect and status.]
[The huge gap between Authority and Principle was mostly due to Principle overriding the effect of an Authority. In other words, in the order of priority, Principle would always take effect first over an Authority.]
[It took the combined effort of you and Jade to bring down the Principle status of the Wild Goddess. But by doing so, the Wild Goddess’s power rank dropped from Initial Starlight rank to Half-Step Starlight rank.]
[With her low-grade Plants Authority, she naturally was no longer a threat to you and the others.]
[You, Jade, Scarlet, Magnus, and Cecilia watched from the sidelines, while the rest of the train crew fought against the Goddess of Plants.]
[Jade and your abilities might seem like it took time to set up, but you both had done it at the same time in an instant with tacit understanding.]
[It was to the point that when the Goddess of Plants reacted, her facial expression distorted after discovering the drastic weakening of her power.]
["You mortals wi—"]
[Before the Goddess of Plants could continue cursing, Old MacDonald had already summoned his Spirit Avatar, which was a multi-purpose farming tool.]
[Holding a pitchfork in both of his hands, Old MacDonald threw it towards the Goddess of Plants.]
[Out of reflex, the Goddess of Plants summoned thick plant stems, which she used to block the pitchfork.]
[Unfortunately, with her Plants Principle downgraded to an Authority, and with Old MacDonald’s active use of his Farming Authority to delay the growth of her plants, the wall of thick plant stems that could even block a planet’s collision couldn’t even protect her from the pitchfork.]
[The farming pitchfork, which had added damage attributes towards plants, hay, and such, easily pierced through the thick plant stem wall.]
[Unable to dodge in time, the Goddess of Plants coughed out golden-colored blood after the pitchfork penetrated her abdomen.]
[Just as she was about to remove the pitchfork, a dark figure had already appeared behind her, using the pitchfork as a distraction to divert her attention from him.]
[Forwarding his hand covered in black-colored energy, Morvane’s right hand reached out and gripped the neck of the Goddess of Plants, "Death Touch!"]