Chapter 1017: Taking a Slice of the Pie (2/2)

After some hesitation, he asked, ”Since the net is woven by Althea, will it boost her power?”

He couldn't be faulted for having those doubts. If Althea could really make use of the energy from the souls of normal gods to weave a net like this, the net must be of truly mystical sort. If it could be used to block Aethernia's pull, what other abilities did it have?

Fernando paused at the question, before shaking his head with an odd expression. ”I'm not too sure about that, but it isn't hard to imagine there being another use case for it. All these years, the power of destiny has been growing in Althea. Nestor and the others also suspect that apart from mitigating the pull from Aethernia, the mirror is also helping Althea. They believe that she is hiding something from us, but mitigating the pull is not something we can do without, so nobody actually confronted her about the matter.”

Hearing Fernando say that, Han Shuo had a thought. He nodded as he figured that the other eleven Quintessence overgods probably had their grievances with that too, but as long as they needed her power to resist Aethernia's pull, they couldn't really bring the matter up.

”I believe that must be part of the reason Azdins targeted the Dominion of Destiny. Lyna and Monroe must've been unhappy with this for quite a while now too. After all, the Dominion of Destiny hasn't participated in every other battle of the gods and benefited much over it. Since Althea herself said that even her people wouldn't be able to evade the war this time, the others finally got a good reason to vent their frustrations.” Fernando relished in the schadenfreude. He definitely had some pent-up frustration as well.

”I think it must be because some destiny divine souls have to be sacrificed this time around. There's no way she would sacrifice her own subordinates otherwise,” Han Shuo said.

”Well, who knows? Either way, even if Althea again chooses to watch from the sidelines and let us battle it out, I believe neither Azdins nor Nestor would let her have it her way. After all that sacrifice, their subordinates couldn't really grow or improve, so they ended up having much fewer elite fighters to count on.”

”Still, the Dominion of Destiny is really amazing. They actually managed to hold the three armies of the other dominions back!” Han Shuo exclaimed.

At that moment, seven astrarium-wieding old crones were sent out to fight. All of them were peak-level highgods. They used their astrariums to form a heptagonal star and used it to guide astral debris to come crashing down into the ranks of the enemy, claiming many lives of light, water, and life gods.

”The power of destiny has something to do with the movement of celestial bodies. Those seven have been with Althea for a long time. Even if they weren't able to become demi-overgods, their combined power enhanced by their astrariums make them about as powerful as an overgod. If they work together, even Quintessence overgods like us would have trouble dealing with them. Althea must've been intentionally hiding the power she had gathered, making people think that the Dominion of Light is the strongest one in Elysium. Azdins really suffered a humiliating slap by her this time around!”

Most people did indeed believe that the Dominion of Light was the strongest of them all. When the Keepers of the Light showed up, many dominions had to be wary of them and evade them. The three keepers came to be synonymous as the strongest demi-overgods, but even then, they hadn't made their way to the Dominion of Destiny before. People thought that was because Azdins had a deal with Althea to not cause trouble for her, but now that seemed to be far from the truth.

It now appeared that Azdins was long aware of the power of the Dominion of Destiny. Had he sent his keepers there to cause trouble back then, they probably wouldn't be able to escape alive from the seven old crones.

Marveling at the might of the Dominion of Destiny as he watched many gods perish at the hands of the crones, Han Shuo saw the energy of their divine souls vanish before he suddenly had a thought. Could he use his cauldron to take a slice of the mirror's pie?