"Every ten million years, Sovereign Locke rewards them with Sovereign's Might according to the natural treasures they collect."
"Sovereign, you can also see that the Sovereign's Might Magrida is using right now is Fate Sovereign's Might."
"From the moment we arrived until now, the aura of Sovereign's Might around Magrida has never dissipated. That alone is enough to show how much favor Lord Locke has bestowed upon him over the years."
"But several thousand years ago, Magrida actually attacked the person Lord Locke had sent to collect natural treasures, forcing him to exchange those treasures at several times the normal price…"
Oakes did not continue.
But Botier could already imagine the rest.
A dog that had been raised for trillions of years had begun biting its master.
If so, what was the point of keeping such a dog?
Botier believed Oakes' words.
Ever since the Death Chief Sovereign and Chief Sovereign Locke had revealed the Overgod Mission, every Sovereign without exception had been secretly collecting natural treasures.
However, most Sovereigns only gathered them within their own planes.
The more Powerful Sovereigns would naturally expand their influence into other planes as well, using those forces to collect natural treasures on their behalf.
What Botier had never expected was that the Sovereign Emissary he had selected from countless experts within the Fire Divine Plane was actually a watchdog raised by Lord Locke.
In fact, Botier could even imagine that the greatest factor behind Magrida turning around and biting his master might very well have been himself.
What gave Botier a headache now was how he should handle this matter so that Lord Locke would not pin the blame on him.
He was merely a weak and helpless Lesser Sovereign. He couldn't bear the burden of deliberately instructing his emissary to offend Chief Sovereign Locke.
Beneath the enormous Sovereign face, neither Oakes and the others nor Magrida knew what Sovereign Botier was thinking.
A silent Sovereign always exerted the greatest pressure.
However, Oakes and the other two remained calm.
They knew that Lord Locke stood at the very pinnacle among Sovereigns, on the same level as the Four Chief Sovereigns of the Edicts.
Sovereign Botier was merely a Fire Sovereign. At best, he might be a Fire Chief Sovereign, but even then, he would still be a tier below Lord Locke.
As long as they had not offended Sovereign Botier, there was no way he would risk offending Lord Locke by taking hostile action against them.
At most, he would simply protect Magrida.
Magrida, however, was the complete opposite.
The longer Sovereign Botier remained silent, the heavier Magrida's heart became.
If Botier wanted to save him, it would only take a single sentence.
But his silence proved that the Sovereign was weighing whether saving him was worth it.
"Magrida."
"Sovereign, your subordinate is here."
Hearing Sovereign Botier call his name, Magrida immediately bowed.
"As a Sovereign, every action you take outside represents my dignity."
Upon hearing this, joy flashed through Magrida's heart.
Could it be that Sovereign Botier was willing to save him?
"However, based on my recent observations of you, you have broken your word, acted dishonestly, and caused an extremely negative influence externally, tarnishing my image."
"Therefore, I hereby reclaim the Sovereign artifact I bestowed upon you and strip you of your status as my Sovereign Emissary. I hope you reflect on your actions."
As he spoke, an attack shot out from Botier's Sovereign projection.
Instantly, the Sovereign artifact sword in Magrida's hand shattered.
Then, Sovereign Botier's projection transformed into countless strands of Sovereign's Might and dispersed into the sky.
Above the ruins of the Magrida clan's estate, only the stunned Magrida remained.
After a long while, once he finally came back to his senses, Magrida let out a miserable cry.
"No!"
At this moment, terror completely filled his heart.
He had never imagined that the Sovereign projection he had summoned using the scroll granted by his Sovereign would become the final straw that pushed him toward death.
With a Sovereign artifact in hand and some remaining Sovereign's Might, he had still possessed a sliver of hope of escaping.
But now, his Sovereign artifact had been personally destroyed by Sovereign Botier.
No matter how much Sovereign's Might remained on him, he had fallen into a hopeless situation.
"Die, Magrida!"
With the Sovereign gone, Rockpeak no longer had any reservations.
Immediately, he absorbed another drop of Sovereign's Might and thrust his Sovereign artifact spear toward Magrida.
Slash!
There was no surprise at all.
Having lost his Sovereign artifact, Magrida could not block Rockpeak's attack.
His chest was pierced through, and the violent Sovereign's Might ravaged his body.
The saying that only a Sovereign artifact can contend against a Sovereign artifact was not merely a saying.
It was a fact recognized by all Deities.
Although the Fate Sovereign's Might within Magrida's body was rapidly repairing his divine body, without his Sovereign artifact sword, he simply could not withstand Rockpeak's attacks.
Very quickly, Rockpeak's spear trembled.
The violent Destruction Edicts, emMighted by Destruction Sovereign's Might, directly suppressed the Fate Sovereign's Might within Magrida's body, rapidly consuming it.
In the end, Magrida's entire body turned to ashes within black flames.
Only a black Highgod fire divine spark remained behind.
"Not bad. Botier is at least sensible."
In the Netherworld, after seeing Botier destroy Magrida's Sovereign artifact and disperse his Sovereign projection, Locke nodded and withdrew his divine sense.
There are no secrets among Sovereigns.
That saying was not merely empty words.
For Sovereigns who already stood at the pinnacle of the Coiling Dragon Universe, one of their greatest entertainments was watching whether other Sovereigns had done anything interesting enough to become conversation material.
The moment any Sovereign made the slightest move, dozens of Sovereign divine senses would immediately spread over.
When Botier descended with his Sovereign projection, he first attracted the attention of the other two Sovereigns within the Fire Divine Plane.
Afterward, Sovereigns from the other planes also extended their divine senses over.
The Chief Sovereigns of the Seven Divine Planes did not possess the same level of deterrence as the Four Chief Sovereigns of the Edicts.
If Sovereigns wanted to spread their divine sense into one of the Four Higher Planes, they first had to personally travel into the spatial turbulence outside those planes and effectively inform the Four Chief Sovereigns, "I'm watching."
But when it came to the Seven Divine Planes, Sovereigns were far less formal.
They simply spread their divine senses directly from whichever Divine Plane they currently occupied.
After witnessing Oakes and the others' actions against the Magrida clan in the Fire Divine Plane, the Sovereigns would undoubtedly react much the same way as Botier when they later saw Oakes and the others in the Earth Divine Plane and Water Divine Plane.
Even if they did not go so far as Botier and destroy their own emissaries' Sovereign artifacts or strip them of their Sovereign Emissary status, they certainly would not interfere with Oakes and the others' actions.
Of course, this also meant that the forces Locke had arranged throughout the other Divine Planes and Higher Planes might all be exposed by those Sovereigns.
As for that, Locke did not care very much.
Now that he had the Four Divine Beasts clan's ancestral baptism as a steady source of divine beast blood essence, his demand for the blood essence of other divine beasts was no longer that high.
More importantly, Locke felt that the blood essence of the Four Divine Beast Sovereigns might contain some of the most fundamental secrets of the Coiling Dragon Universe.
Continuing his analysis of their blood essence might yield even greater gains.
Naturally, however, all such research would always be secondary to his cultivation of the Spatial Laws.
Netherworld, Mount Nether.
Within Locke's Water Palace, nothing appeared unusual on the surface.
However, if a living being stepped inside, they would discover that the stability of space within the Water Palace exceeded even that of the Planar Battlefield created by the Four Overgods.
Unless one possessed Will, like a Paragon, even a Prefect-level expert would be unable to tear space apart within Locke's Water Palace.
Locke slowly extended his right hand and suddenly clenched it.
In the next instant, it was as though heaven and earth reversed.
The entire Water Palace instantly became enclosed within Locke's palm.
If there had been anyone inside the Water Palace, they would have looked up to see five gigantic fingers gripping the entire palace, along with an enormous face that covered the sky above.
Universe Within the Palm!
This was a technique Locke had created based upon his comprehension of the Spatial Laws.
Back when he had shown Dunnington the difference between a Paragon and a Sovereign, this technique had already existed in rudimentary form.
After countless years of research, Locke had finally perfected it.
Whoosh!
A red figure instantly appeared beside Locke.
It was the Death Chief Sovereign.
"Locke, earlier I sensed the space here…"
The Death Chief Sovereign had only spoken halfway before seeing the Water Palace within Locke's palm.
Her mouth immediately fell open.
"Locke, how did you do that?"
As the possessor of the Netherworld Core, the Death Chief Sovereign possessed absolute control over the Netherworld.
Yet now, she felt that she had lost control over the region of space within Locke's palm.
It was as though that space no longer belonged to the Netherworld at all.
Within the Netherworld, there existed a region of space that neither belonged to her nor was under her control?
This was the first time the Death Chief Sovereign had ever encountered such a situation.
"I can actually feel my control over the surrounding space weakening considerably. As for the space within your palm, I've completely lost control over it?"
"Mm. It's probably because I used my own Spatial Laws to overwrite the spatial laws in the surrounding area, turning that region into something that belongs to me. That's why you're experiencing that feeling."
Locke flipped his hand, restoring the Water Palace's space.
After dispersing the Spatial Laws surrounding him, the Death Chief Sovereign immediately felt that the region of space had once again returned to her control.
"Locke, you've become stronger again."
Seeing this, the Death Chief Sovereign sighed.
"Not really."
Locke shook his head.
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