Within the Nation of Domination.
"Damn it! What the hell is going on with this guy?! Why is he this strong?! Does this make any sense?!"
The million Herrschers of Dominance gnashed their teeth as they stared at the white-haired youth.
At this very moment, a grand and spectacular battle was unfolding within the Nation of Domination. Elias was gracefully and domineeringly crushing and slaughtering the Herrschers of Dominance over and over again.
The scene felt as if he were declaring, "All of you are already surrounded by me. Surrender now."
"How is this even possible?! We had five hundred thousand of us simultaneously deploy Elysion Pedion! No matter how much Honkai energy you have, it should've been drained instantly!!"
One of the puppets couldn't help but shout.
Indeed, the Herrscher of Dominance wielded all Herrscher authorities in a very crude manner. Take the authority of fire, for example.
If Elias' usage was comparable to the heat of the sun, then the puppets were nothing more than lighters in comparison.
However, for authorities like Elysion Pedion, when multiple puppets activated them together, the effects could stack.
At this moment, a full five hundred thousand puppets were maintaining Elysion Pedion simultaneously. Under this golden barrier, Elias was losing over 5,000,000 HW of Honkai energy every second.
But...
"Haha, how stupid can you get? Since when have you ever seen a Pseudo God run out of energy? Unless your Elysion Pedion can drain the entire Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quanta dry, my power is endless."
Elias sneered as all twelve authorities activated at full power.
He had no need to hold back. He had already reached the "infinity" that Mobius had always dreamed of.
With the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quanta behind him, he could draw energy from them endlessly. And whether it was imaginary energy or quantum power, both were far stronger than Honkai energy.
Using them to fuel his authorities only made them even more powerful.
"Blazing flames—burn everything! Purifying winds!"
The flames of the Herrscher of Flamescion merged with the storms of the Herrscher of Wind, forming a colossal fire tornado that swept across the Nation of Domination, as if to burn all sin to ashes.
"Frozen stars! Crushing gravity!"
The authority of the Herrscher of Ice condensed massive ice crystals in the sky. Under the gravity of the Herrscher of Earth, they accelerated like a meteor shower, crashing down upon the puppets.
In an instant, the already devastated wasteland of the Nation of Domination gained thousands more massive craters.
"Thunder's burial! Void Unleashed!"
Golden lightning of the Herrscher of Thunder rained down from the heavens. Combined with the authority of the Herrscher of the Void, every puppet was precisely targeted as bolts of lightning pierced through each of them like serpents.
Immediately afterward, overwhelming imaginary energy engulfed them, finishing them off.
"It's been a long time since I've thrown around my authorities this freely. This feels amazing—haha! More, more! Let me kill you a thousand more times! Wooden puppets make perfect targets~"
The white-haired youth released his power recklessly, like a tyrant trampling the world. His absolute strength had already reached a level where sheer numbers meant nothing.
"Damn it! I refuse to believe this!"
"Hold him down! Let's see how long he can keep this up!"
"We have so many of us, and we can revive infinitely—eventually we'll exhaust him... we should!"
"Keep going! Don't give up! Victory is right in front of us!"
"Heh~ you may have a bit of cleverness, but overall you're still idiots. Competing stamina with MANTISes might give you a chance, but competing stamina with a Planet-class Chimera? I could probably keep going for a few hundred years~"
Elias had once run along the path of time for over ten thousand years without rest. With the recovery ability of a Planet-class Chimera, he feared no battle of attrition.
Even so, the difference in numbers was still enormous. Even Elias couldn't instantly eliminate all 999,999 puppets in a single moment.
Thus, occasionally, the puppets managed to threaten him with weapons created using the authority of the Herrscher of Reason—such as the Moonlight Throne or even planet-destroying cannons.
"The authority of Reason really is troublesome. As long as you can imagine it, you can create powerful weapons. Even these brainless puppets can construct planet-destroying cannons. But... it's nothing serious."
No matter how powerful a weapon was, it meant nothing if it couldn't hit its target.
When the Herrschers of Dominance finally managed to charge the Moonlight Throne and their planet-destroying cannons and fired at Elias—
The attacks that could disperse thirty percent of the Herrscher of Finality and pierce through planets did indeed pass straight through him.
But they caused no damage whatsoever.
"The authority of quantum is pretty useful too~"
The divine halo behind Elias glowed with a beautiful blue light.
Under that glow, his entire body became a quantum entity. Though he appeared to still be there, in reality he now existed in another dimension.
Thus, all attacks from the Herrschers of Dominance became completely ineffective. No matter how powerful they were, they couldn't harm a quantumized Elias.
In the next instant, the starships and Moonlight Thrones that the puppets had constructed at great cost were pierced and destroyed by two Subspace Lances that ignored all defenses.
"Ahh~ being invincible really is something~ invincible."
After becoming quantum, although Elias could no longer physically interact with anything in the world, he could still activate his authorities.
Thus, while the puppets' powers couldn't touch him, his powers could still harm them.
This battle had already turned into a completely one-sided game.
Elias could freely damage the Herrschers of Dominance.
But the Herrschers of Dominance couldn't even touch him.
"Damn it! This is unfair! We demand a complaint!"
"He's cheating! How are we supposed to play like this?!"
"How many abilities does this guy even have?!"
"Is this the strength of the Savior?!"
"By Honkai, what do we do now?!"
The puppets felt like they were about to collapse first. Though they did not fear death, facing an opponent like Elias—who was practically a god—left them completely suppressed no matter what they tried.
Unbeknownst to them, the Honkai observing this battle was equally shocked. Compared to Elias from fifty thousand years ago, this savior Flame-Chaser had grown so powerful that even the supposedly omniscient Honkai could no longer comprehend him.
The million Herrschers it had painstakingly strengthened were nothing more than ants to be effortlessly slaughtered before Elias. More terrifyingly, it realized that Elias was still growing stronger.
Perhaps because he finally had enemies—test subjects—on whom he could use his authorities without restraint, his control over them was improving at a rapid pace. Each attack was stronger than the last.
Honkai: "...This can't continue."
The next moment—
One puppet among the Herrschers of Dominance suddenly removed its blindfold, revealing a pair of emotionless golden eyes filled with divinity. It instantly seized control among the puppets.
Elias frowned, unable to understand what was happening, but the Herrschers of Dominance fell into a frenzy.
"The divine one! The divine one has descended!"
"Ahh! Great Honkai, please help us defeat this detestable savior!"
"O god, tell us what we should do!"
Some puppets clasped their hands in prayer. Some trembled violently. Others knelt down and repeatedly slammed their heads against the ground, like fanatical believers witnessing their deity.
"You've got to be kidding me..."
Elias twitched at the corner of his eye. From their words, he could already guess what was happening—he just hadn't expected the Honkai itself to personally step onto the stage.
So it couldn't win and decided to call in a substitute?
"Whatever. Honkai or not, why should I be afraid? In every era, haven't I always beaten it down? Die for me!"
Elias activated death teleportation once again, attempting to directly send a Subspace Lance into the body of that divine puppet.
However, to his surprise, the divine puppet reacted in time. It also used the authority of the Herrscher of the Void to swap positions with another puppet.
After the position exchange, although the Subspace Lance pierced through a puppet's body, the divine puppet remained completely unharmed.
Though it was a killing move that ignored defense, evasion, and distance, it could still be avoided through substitution.
"Tch... looks like things just got a little troublesome."
Elias raised an eyebrow. This was the first time his move had failed to hit its intended target. If Mei were here, she'd be absolutely shocked.
As expected of a substitute sent by the Honkai—the results were immediate.
Still, after only a few seconds of surprise, the corners of Elias' lips curled upward into a battle-hungry grin.
"But for you to step in personally... it looks like you're really getting desperate, Honkai. Fine. Let me see what you're capable of. Now—"
"It's time for us to settle the score, god."