This gap allowed Rockpeak to maintain the advantage during the battle, but it wasn't enough for him to quickly defeat Magrida.
However, relying on his superior strength, Rockpeak was able to firmly suppress Magrida and prevent him from escaping.
Grinding his teeth, Magrida couldn't help but regret attacking Rockpeak over six thousand years ago.
But the mistake had already been made. What he needed to do now was escape from this place.
As for the Magrida clan, as long as he remained alive, the Magrida clan would continue to exist.
On the contrary, if he died here, the Magrida clan would become nothing more than a tiny ripple in the insignificant history of the Fire Divine Plane.
With this thought in mind, after being forced back by Rockpeak, Magrida waved his hand.
Immediately, a drop of crimson Fire Sovereign's Power appeared in his hand and was absorbed into his body.
Boom!
Crimson Sovereign's Power flames erupted from Magrida's body, causing his aura to surge by several hundred times.
"Hmph, Magrida, have you forgotten? At the very beginning, you obtained Sovereign's Power from us."
"Don't tell me you think you're the only one who has Sovereign's Power."
Upon seeing Magrida begin using Sovereign's Power, Rockpeak's expression also became serious.
Of course, verbally, he continued to belittle Magrida.
Words were one thing. His actions didn't slow in the slightest.
He swiftly took out a drop of Destruction Sovereign's Power from his interspatial ring and absorbed it into his body.
Immediately, black-red Destruction Sovereign flames ignited around him.
Boom!
After using Sovereign's Power, the destructive force generated by Rockpeak and Magrida's battle increased by a hundredfold.
After only a few clashes, the Magrida clan's headquarters had already been almost completely destroyed.
The movements of Rockpeak and Magrida had surpassed the limits that any member of the Magrida clan could track.
All they could see were black-red and crimson lights colliding, exploding, colliding again, and exploding once more across the sky.
Spatial tears hundreds of meters long continuously appeared and disappeared above the Magrida clan.
Each time a black spatial tear swept through the air, large sections of the Magrida clan's territory vanished.
From time to time, attacks formed from crimson or black-red Sovereign's Power descended, causing even greater devastation to the clan.
After activating Sovereign's Power, the intensity of the battle between Magrida and Rockpeak rose to an even higher level.
With the tremendous regenerative abilities of Sovereign's Power, Magrida no longer feared injury at all. A threefold difference in strength was no longer a decisive gap in such a battle.
No matter how many injuries Magrida suffered, or how severe they were, as long as he wasn't instantly killed, the tremendous power of Sovereign's Power would restore him in the next moment.
Neither Magrida nor Rockpeak was a Paragon.
After using Sovereign's Power, neither of them could suppress its dissipation.
Almost every thirty breaths, whenever the Sovereign flames around them began to dim, they would immediately take out another drop of Sovereign's Power and absorb it.
After all, in a situation like this, if one side completely exhausted their Sovereign's Power, the other side could casually kill them with a single strike.
At this stage of the battle, Rockpeak's strength advantage—which was roughly three times greater than Magrida's—could no longer determine the outcome.
Sovereign's Power had become the most important factor in deciding victory between them.
Rockpeak had anticipated this long ago.
After all, during three trillion years of trade, a considerable amount of Sovereign's Power had passed from Rockpeak's hands into Magrida's.
Fortunately, as one of Locke's subordinates, although Rockpeak had not previously become one of Locke's Sovereign Emissaries and thus had not received a Sovereign artifact, Locke had never been stingy with Sovereign's Power.
In fact, in order to ensure that Rockpeak, Ryan, and Oakes could obtain the Sovereign's Power most compatible with themselves, Locke had exchanged Sovereign's Power with quite a few Sovereigns.
It could be said that over these three trillion years, the Sovereign's Power possessed by the three of them was sufficient to sustain prolonged combat.
But on Magrida's side, things became troublesome.
He had never imagined that after using Sovereign's Power, he would be dragged into a war of attrition over Sovereign's Power reserves.
Although Magrida was a Sovereign Emissary of the Fire Sovereign Botier, the amount of Fire Sovereign's Power he could obtain was limited.
After only the time it took to drink a cup of tea, Magrida had completely exhausted his supply of Fire Sovereign's Power and was forced to use the Fate Sovereign's Power he had obtained through trade with Rockpeak.
When a Deity used Sovereign's Power that matched their affinity, their strength could increase by several hundred times.
However, if the Sovereign's Power was not compatible with them, it would only grant around a hundredfold increase.
While using Fire Sovereign's Power, Magrida had been able to fight evenly against Rockpeak, who was using Destruction Sovereign's Power.
If he ignored injuries, Magrida could even desperately inflict considerable damage on Rockpeak.
But once his Fire Sovereign's Power was exhausted and he began using Fate Sovereign's Power instead, the strength gap between him and Rockpeak exceeded fivefold.
Under such circumstances, Magrida was almost completely reduced to a punching bag before Rockpeak, with virtually no ability to fight back.
"Will this guy's Sovereign's Power never run out?"
Although his injuries rapidly healed under the effects of Sovereign's Power, the pain they caused did not lessen in the slightest.
Magrida struggled to withstand Rockpeak's attacks.
Blood holes continuously exploded across his body, causing him to bare his teeth in agony.
At this point, genuine fear finally appeared in Magrida's heart.
Rockpeak was simply a madman!
The amount of Sovereign's Power consumed during this single battle had already surpassed the total amount accumulated by the Magrida clan over an entire trillion years.
If this battle continued, even all the Sovereign's Power he had obtained from Rockpeak through trade would be completely exhausted.
At that point, even if he managed to escape, he would no longer possess sufficient resources to rebuild the Magrida clan.
Thinking this, while being attacked by Rockpeak, Magrida deliberately pretended to make a mistake.
Rockpeak's spear pierced through his chest and blasted him away.
The white flames of Fate Sovereign's Power around his body shone brightly, rapidly restoring his injuries.
Then, instead of charging toward Rockpeak again, Magrida turned and fled in the opposite direction at full speed.
Magrida's sudden escape was clearly beyond Rockpeak's expectations.
By the time Rockpeak thought of pursuing him, Magrida had already fled a great distance away.
Bathed in black-red Destruction Sovereign flames, Rockpeak resembled the most terrifying fiend of the abyss as he shifted his gaze toward the people within the Magrida clan headquarters.
"Lord Magrida..."
"It's over. The Magrida clan is finished..."
The members of the Magrida clan reacted even more slowly than Rockpeak.
Only after the white light in the sky completely disappeared did they finally realize that Lord Magrida, the clan leader, had abandoned them and fled.
Instantly, these clansmen who had regarded Magrida as their faith felt their beliefs collapse, each of them becoming nearly deranged.
"Don't talk nonsense! As long as Lord Magrida lives, the Magrida clan still exists!"
"Everyone, show the backbone of the Magrida clan! Don't let the enemy look down on us!"
"Even if you're going to die, die standing!"
In times of crisis, all aspects of life revealed themselves.
Some feared death.
Others wished to resist.
But none of it held any meaning before Rockpeak.
Regardless of what the Magrida clansmen did, the moment Magrida had attacked Rockpeak, the destruction of the Magrida clan had already become inevitable.
Rockpeak showed no mercy.
His Sovereign artifact spear swept through the air.
Within a few breaths, the number one clan of the Fire Divine Plane, the Magrida clan, had been reduced completely to ruins.
Magrida looked back at the clan territory engulfed in towering flames and finally relaxed.
Since Rockpeak had chosen to destroy the Magrida clan, it seemed he himself was safe for the moment.
With that thought, Magrida absorbed another drop of Fate Sovereign's Power and flew at top speed toward the location of Fire Sovereign Botier.
As a Sovereign Emissary, Magrida knew that in certain situations he represented the dignity of his Sovereign.
Now that his clan had been destroyed by Rockpeak, if he simply fled like this, he would inevitably become a laughingstock among Sovereign Emissaries.
And by extension, the Sovereign who possessed an emissary like him would also become the target of ridicule from other Sovereigns.
At that point, it wouldn't be Rockpeak who wanted to kill him.
Even Sovereign Botier himself might execute him.
Therefore, what Magrida needed to do now was complain to Sovereign Botier.
Only by relying on Sovereign Botier could he obtain the power to protect himself—or take revenge.
This battle against Rockpeak had made Magrida realize that at the level of Sovereign Emissaries, possessing large quantities of Sovereign's Power was the most important thing.
Once he reached Lord Botier's side, Magrida planned to remain there permanently until he accumulated enough Sovereign's Power to establish a new Magrida clan.
Boom!
Just as Magrida was imagining the future, a cyan wind blade tore through space and shot toward him.
Magrida swung his Sovereign artifact sword, unleashing a sword beam over a hundred meters long.
Boom!
The flaming sword aura empowered by Fate Sovereign's Power collided with the wind blade, producing a thunderous explosion.
"Who is it?"
Seeing this, Magrida's expression changed dramatically as he shouted.
His attack enhanced by Sovereign's Power had actually perished together with the opponent's wind blade.
Clearly, the enemy was extremely powerful.
At the very least, they were a Prefect-level expert using Sovereign's Power.
"Magrida, after three trillion years, your choice has truly disappointed me."
(End of Chapter)
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