"Rockpeak, among the eleven clans, which three were the ones that attacked you?"
After leaving Mount Netherworld, Oakes asked Rockpeak.
Before Rockpeak, the one who had dealt with these clans had been Oakes.
One could even say that the reason these clans had risen over the past three trillion years was because they had originally been chosen by Oakes to become subordinates who gathered divine beast blood essence for Lord Locke.
Back when Oakes selected these clans, he had also taken their personalities into consideration.
If they had been the sort of people with the eyes of wolves and the ambitions of hawks, Oakes would have worried that they might ruin Lord Locke's plans.
It was just that Oakes had never expected that in only three trillion years, three of the eleven clans would already begin turning traitor.
Oakes felt that he bore part of the responsibility for Rockpeak's experience.
At the very least, his poor judgment of character could not be denied.
Thus, Oakes did not have any objections toward accompanying Rockpeak this time to seek revenge.
Rather, Oakes felt that the reason Lord Locke had called him along was probably to make him pay more attention when judging people in the future.
If Locke knew what Oakes was thinking, he would probably feel that Oakes possessed a talent for reading comprehension.
In truth, the reason Locke had called Oakes along was to give Rockpeak and Ryan some protection.
According to what Rockpeak had said, among the clans that had cooperated with Locke for over three trillion years, all of them had relied on the resources bestowed by Locke to develop into top-tier great clans within their respective planes.
The clan leaders who had originally traded with Oakes had also entered the sight of Sovereigns, received Sovereign artifacts, and become Sovereign Emissaries.
When Rockpeak and Ryan went to seek revenge, almost none of the Sovereigns would recognize them.
If, during Rockpeak's revenge, a Sovereign descended a projection to interfere, Rockpeak and Ryan would not have the courage to disregard the Sovereign's face.
But with Oakes accompanying them, those Sovereigns would know that Rockpeak and Ryan were Locke's people.
After all, over three trillion years ago, when Dunnington barged into the encampment of Locke's Sovereign Army, overturned the entire army, and killed Locke Army captain Figaroa, the various Sovereigns had all been spectators.
Every Sovereign knew that Oakes was a Sovereign Emissary under Chief Sovereign Locke.
Now that Oakes had appeared together with two other Sovereign Emissaries to seek revenge, if they wished to interfere, they would first need to consider Chief Sovereign Locke's position.
"The Silvio clan of the Water Divine Plane, the Magrida clan of the Fire Divine Plane, and the Castan clan of the Fire Divine Plane."
Inside the metallic castle, Rockpeak did not hide anything and directly named the three clans that had acted against him.
In any case, they were going there for revenge this time. Hiding it had no meaning.
"Silvio, Magrida, and Castan?"
Oakes nodded.
He still remembered those three.
In terms of strength, the three of them were merely average Prefect-level experts. Even after obtaining Sovereign artifacts, Oakes still had confidence in killing them.
Oakes possessed a material defense Sovereign artifact. Even if he did not dodge their attacks, they still could not injure him.
On the other hand, if Oakes used fused divine power, he could instantly kill them in a single move.
Since the three of them had been able to defeat Rockpeak, the Sovereign artifacts they possessed must be offensive Sovereign artifacts.
If they had possessed material defense Sovereign artifacts instead, then with Ryan's strength, although he would not have been able to injure the three of them, it would likewise have been impossible for them to defeat and humiliate him.
"Then Rockpeak, which clan are you planning to go to first?"
Because interplanar teleportation arrays existed, for Deities, there was no such thing as one plane being farther or closer than another.
No matter which plane it was, it was merely a "whoosh" and they would arrive.
Discussing distance between planes was the perspective of Sovereigns.
The Seven Divine Planes, the Four Higher Realms, and countless material planes all occupied different positions within the spatial turbulence. Only when traveling through the spatial turbulence would concepts such as one plane being closer or farther away exist.
However, although there was no concept of distance, revenge still had an order of priority.
Unless the three of them split up.
But Lord Locke had already instructed that this was Rockpeak's own matter, and Rockpeak himself was to take revenge.
The two of them were only there to support him.
Only if someone joined in attacking Rockpeak would the two of them step in.
"Let's go to the Magrida clan in the Fire Divine Plane first."
"That clan was also the first one to make a move against me."
"Alright, then we'll go to the Fire Divine Plane first."
…
Fire Divine Plane, Magrida clan.
At this moment, a group of people were discussing something inside a great hall.
They were all the backbone of the Magrida clan—the clan's elders.
The weakest among them possessed the strength of a Five Star Fiend.
There were also quite a few Six Star Fiends.
Even Seven Star Fiends numbered two.
"Dammit, the Four Divine Beasts clan has gone too far!"
One of the Magrida clan elders slammed his palm onto the table and roared angrily.
"Our Magrida clan, under Lord Magrida's leadership, is already the undisputed number one clan of the Fire Divine Plane."
"How dare the Four Divine Beasts clan act like this?!"
A group of elders roared within the hall.
Although they were asking how the Four Divine Beasts clan dared to do this, in truth, every elder knew that the Four Divine Beast Sovereigns were the greatest backing of the Four Divine Beasts clan members.
Furthermore, even setting aside the Four Divine Beast Sovereigns, the person who had led the Four Divine Beasts clan members into the Fire Divine Plane was Sovereign Emissary Nemo of the Vermilion Bird Sovereign. In terms of strength, he was not inferior to Clan Leader Magrida at all.
It was precisely because of this that, faced with the Four Divine Beasts clan pressing forward step by step, the Magrida clan did not dare resist. They could only retreat step by step while venting their helpless rage inside the clan hall.
Not every member of the Magrida clan knew that their clan had been secretly nurtured by someone.
They only knew that Clan Leader Magrida had spent three trillion years developing the clan from less than a hundred members into a great clan with hundreds of thousands of clansmen and nearly a hundred vassal clans.
After Lord Magrida became a Sovereign Emissary, although the Magrida clan had not moved into a prefectural city, the clan headquarters was in no way inferior to one.
As a Sovereign Emissary, Lord Magrida possessed a Sovereign artifact and was one of the top twenty super experts in the Fire Divine Plane.
And beneath Lord Magrida, the Magrida clan also possessed two Great Elders at the Seven Star Fiend level, over twenty elders at the Six Star Fiend level, and more than three hundred elders at the Five Star Fiend level.
This scale made the Magrida clan the undisputed number one clan of the Fire Divine Plane.
Even the Prefects of the Fire Divine Plane were happy to give the Magrida clan certain conveniences, allowing the clan's influence to control some resource channels.
But unfortunately, ever since the Four Divine Beasts clan began developing within the Fire Divine Plane, conflicts had emerged between the two sides regarding certain highly profitable resource channels.
Because the Four Divine Beasts clan had never hidden the fact that the clan's four ancestors were Sovereigns, lifeforms throughout the Seven Divine Planes and Four Higher Realms all knew that the Four Divine Beasts clan were the direct blood descendants of four Sovereigns.
Under such circumstances, the local forces who feared Sovereigns would always choose to yield when encountering the Four Divine Beasts clan. They did not dare provoke members of the Four Divine Beasts clan for fear of bringing disaster upon their own clans.
After all, no one knew just how much the Four Divine Beast Sovereigns valued their direct descendants.
If they attacked the Four Divine Beasts clan and enraged the Four Divine Beast Sovereigns, then even if the Four Divine Beast Sovereigns did not personally deal with them, merely having the Sovereign Emissaries of the Four Divine Beast Sovereigns make a move would already be enough to give them a terrible headache.
It was just that no one had expected that because the various major and minor powers of the planes were so accommodating toward the Four Divine Beasts clan, the clan members had gradually become more and more overbearing.
If the Four Divine Beasts clan had not seized too much of the Magrida clan's business during this period of time, how could Magrida possibly have turned his attention toward Rockpeak, with whom he had cooperated for over three trillion years?
Indeed, the Magrida clan could be considered to have been nurtured by that mysterious lord.
Magrida also knew that the expert who came to trade with him definitely had a Sovereign standing behind him.
But after becoming a Sovereign Emissary, Magrida himself was no longer without a Sovereign backing him.
And in Magrida's view, a Sovereign who hid in the shadows and dared not reveal themselves was certainly among the weakest of Sovereigns.
Even if he raised prices, that Sovereign would not dare risk offending the Sovereign behind him by falling out with him.
It was precisely after developing such thoughts that Magrida attacked Rockpeak and forced him to pay more resources in exchange.
And the subsequent developments proceeded exactly as Magrida had expected.
Several thousand years had passed, and no one had come looking for trouble with him.
Magrida also knew that by acting this way, the other party would definitely reject the idea of continuing future trades with his clan.
However—
A fierce light flashed through Magrida's eyes.
Although he did not know why that hidden Sovereign lord wanted to gather so much divine beast blood essence and so many natural treasures, the fact that the collection had continued for three trillion years clearly showed that divine beast blood essence and natural treasures were extremely important to that Sovereign lord.
Under such circumstances, all he needed to do was monopolize the divine beast blood essence and natural treasures of the Fire Divine Plane.
If another clan in the Fire Divine Plane began collecting divine beast blood essence and natural treasures, then that clan was certainly one secretly supported by that Sovereign in an attempt to replace him.
In that case, Magrida naturally would not allow the other side to grow.
As long as he controlled the purchasing channels for divine beast blood essence and natural treasures, the other side would have no choice but to trade with him.
Seated at the highest seat in the hall, Magrida was not listening at all to what the clan elders below were saying.
As the founder of the Magrida clan and also its true strongest expert, Magrida possessed absolute control over the clan.
As for the clan's industries being seized by the Four Divine Beasts clan, if one said Magrida was not angry, that would naturally be false.
(End of Chapter)
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