Celestia alone remained with Haru as Yvonne had already been dispatched back to the void to claim ownerless Divine Kingdoms, they have literally just created almost 1.5 million of them, minus the Evil Gods currently sitting in the Holy Grail whose kingdoms still technically had owners.
But those would come later, after the transformations completed and the rebirths happened, at that point, Malakar and the others would hand over their wealth themselves. They'd be Haru's fanatic believers by then.
Haru handed Celestia the storage artifacts, "Artifacts and divine corpses go to the imperial warehouse. Godheads get distributed. As for everything else, use what can be used. What can't, we'll sell through the hyperspace trading channel."
He kept one artifact back, "Also… yes, Christine. She came to us with one wish. Make sure she gets Bloodline Evolution Blueprints. Since she became my subordinate, we're not going to let her down."
Celestia nodded. Christine was a peak High Goddess, only one step away from ascension. The evolution probability for Christine using bloodline evolution blueprints was roughly ten times better than for an Angel, about 1 in 1,000 versus 1 in 10,000. The tradeoff was ceiling: an Eighteen-Winged Angel at the Supreme God Tier would outperform any native creature at the same level. Harder to evolve, but correspondingly stronger.
"One more thing." Haru said, "Extract the law sources from all the Godheads. Any law I don't already have, I want it integrated."
He was sitting at 195 Divine Laws. Breaking 200 was straightforward. Breaking further than that was where it got interesting. On this battlefield, at the same level, he'd double-killed Malakar and Skarion without any particular strain, and that was almost entirely the advantage of those almost 200 sources of Laws working in combination.
The effect wasn't additive, it was multiplicative. For comparison, the Goddess of Storms in the Nature Pantheon mastered two law sources and could suppress ordinary Gods at the same level. Haru had nearly 200.
His goal was mastery of all things. Enough law sources, and even without comprehending the Law of Creation, he'd stand comparable to, or even beyond, the Angels' Creator God.
"I'll extract them personally, my Lord." Celestia said, and took the artifacts out with her.
…
Haru walked to the imperial square and took out the 20,000 Troop Summoning Blueprints.
For context: the same battlefield had dropped over 300,000 Bloodline Evolution Blueprints. The ratio said everything about how rare these blueprints, that guaranteed free recruitment of troops, were. Of course they were always going to be rarer.
He used them all at once and the twenty thousand blueprints dissolved into golden light, climbing into the pre-dawn sky, condensing into a sea of luminous clouds above the imperial capital.
Then the light balls started emerging, steady and continuous, accumulating in the sky like a second set of stars being installed above the first.
Haru watched the count climb. An hour later, the clouds faded. The light balls remained, packed dense across the sky, each one an Angel waiting to be born. He counted and there were over a million balls here!
"This time, I really profited big…"
The light spheres cracked open one by one, releasing the faint aura of newborn Gods into the pre-dawn air. Faint, because these were Holy Spirits, at the initial level, the bottom rung.
A Sixteen-Winged Angel entered True God Tier territory from the start while a Fourteen-Winged Angel came in as a Demigod. The lower ranked Holy Spirits were neither. They'd have to fight their way up.
Haru watched them emerge anyway, and felt something close to satisfaction.
'Free is free.'
When the last sphere broke, more than 1.2 million Holy Spirits filled the imperial square, a white sea stretching further than the eye could comfortably follow, dense enough that the divine light radiating off them stirred the clouds at thousands of meters and turned the entire Angel City into something visible from outer space The Light Empire's capital, famous for never going dark, even looked gray by comparison.
Haru had arrived on the Endless Continent less than two months ago, with two two-winged Angels to his name. He'd set himself a goal of one million Angels within a year.
But it seems like he'd miscalculated. The 20,000 blueprints he'd just used were higher quality than the batch from the Demon Slayer Tournament. Even the lowest quality ones were intermediate-level and there were multiple top-level ones.
Intermediate-level blueprints produced thirty to fifty Angels.
High-level ones produced fifty to a hundred.
Top-level ones broke a hundred.
The math landed where it landed: 1.2 million new Angels, combined with the existing army, put the Great Aetherium's total Angel count at two million.
"It seems my growth rate is quite decent…" He said to himself.
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