Chapter 477: Chapter 413: The Savage Growth of Genesis

"What a pity, it was never destined to succeed."

Glory did so much, only to increase a sliver of possibility.

But even a sliver of possibility was enough for Chloe to attempt.

There was no longer any existence ahead to reference, and reaching this point, there was no road left to walk. Next, he needed to bear the mistakes that might arise from treading a new path on his own.

After consecutively defeating several groups of deities, Chloe did not linger for long.

Without external interference, Annie could basically remain in a state where the corruption was suppressed.

Although Chloe was very worried about Annie now, he also knew that staying here would not have any effect on changing the situation.

Should he continue killing?

Or, perhaps, prepare to kill whom?

A Strongest like the God of Destruction, even with the advantage of terrain, Chloe couldn’t leave them successfully, only ensure to drive them away.

He had already reached the limit he could withstand in his current state.

In this intense barrage, he vaguely felt that the power left behind by the God of Glory and Justice had quickly fused.

Reaching the pinnacle of the second sequence was a natural progression.

However, although they had gained an advantage, it did not significantly impact the situation.

The defeated deities came from different world groups, averaged out, the losses weren’t that severe for each side.

Moreover, the Strongest weren’t dead yet.

Chloe could be certain that even going to other battlefields, it would be difficult to achieve such results again.

Clearly understanding how dangerous Chloe’s power was.

To avoid Chloe from continuing to reenact chaos and simulate Genesis, He would absolutely not conceal the situation of the battlefield here.

Now in the Star Realm, even the most remote corner’s Evil God likely knew of his act of defeating deities.

After all, verifying such speculation was simple, just check the divine kingdoms of those defeated deities in this battle to know the situation.

The state of those deities, whose authority was halved, could be known with a glance.

After all, it was damage at a source level.

Thinking of this, Chloe said to Abigail, "Abigail, help me find a place to close off and cultivate, I need to digest this part of the power first."

"Okay."

...

A month passed just like that.

Protected by the roots of the Desire Mother Tree, Chloe quickly completed the digestion of those powers.

When he emerged from seclusion, he happened to see Annie waking up.

The girl sat on the tree roots, staring at him silently.

Chloe took the initiative to say, "What, surprised to see me here?"

"You... have become much stronger than I remember."

"As if you’ve seen my peak before, but now, I have indeed surpassed my prime."

"The matter of digesting and absorbing authority was quite difficult, wasn’t it?"

"Yes, but everything was as expected."

Seizing the authority of deities is not an easy task.

The month he spent in seclusion was mainly to digest those deities he directly destroyed.

The moment of their complete death, the authority that was initially only half-occupied would be fully filled.

Compared to those just killed and waiting for revival cooldowns, these deities’ authority lacked resistance strength.

The rules are without consciousness.

Those with consciousness are only those who manipulate the rules.

These cold and rigid consciousnesses, once Chloe gained dominance, quickly turned into the prostitutes of Charming Street, at Chloe’s disposal.

However, Chloe did not digest these authorities himself, instead, he directly invested them into Genesis.

They were nourishment.

The Simulation Star Map·Genesis, which fed on authority, after engulfing the Master of Soldiers, began to be influenced by the divine essence of Chloe embedded within and rapidly developed in an indescribable direction.

What Chloe needed was not authority; even though the authority of deities was useful to him now, it could not bring about qualitative change.

So he directly poured all these authorities into Genesis.

What was digested first were naturally those authorities that were completely seized, without much resistance, they were engulfed by Genesis, refined anew, and marked with his brand to become authorities entirely under his control.

However, performing such an operation is akin to money laundering, there would definitely be some loss.

After all, it’s essential to remove the influence of other World Groups on these rules.

Regardless, the authority after a round of cleansing, though weakened considerably, is still higher than facing him and those deities with only half of the authority in direct confrontation.

As for why not retain these authorities to maximize combat power, it involves another issue in this round of Genesis cleansing.

The deities who haven’t completely fallen still hold half of their authority, but this doesn’t mean Chloe can continuously hold onto this batch of authority afterward.

Because the moment the God of Destruction exposed his actions, Chloe could be certain the remaining authority would definitely be targeted by the World Groups.

If it were just deities competing with Chloe for authority, Chloe would naturally win.

But he knows, if the World Groups directly choose to destroy the slumbering deities, retrieve the authority ownership from their Divine Kingdoms, and then compete with Chloe himself, then perhaps the remaining half of the authority might also be seized.

"I see, prioritizing the digestion of authority with the least resistance first, the ones easiest to exploit, and securing the baseline, then attempt to digest those remaining authorities as much as possible?"

This kind of operation benefits Genesis.

Firstly, although the authority of the deities who completely perished sees some decline after cleansing, the lost portion doesn’t just vanish into thin air. Instead, it gets crushed entirely under Genesis’s influence, becoming World Source Power, nurturing the chaos’s growth.

In short, it’s used as consumables for Genesis’s growth.

Secondly, Chloe had no intention of retaining the half of the authority seized from the deities awaiting revival after further refining it.

Regardless of whether those authorities originate from medium divine power or weak divine power, whether they’re exceedingly rare or very ordinary, to Chloe, it doesn’t matter.

"So, how much was taken?" Annie curiously asked.

Chloe sighed and said, "The world groups reacted even faster than I imagined. Just days after I put the authority into Genesis, they’ve killed the deities awaiting revival, took over the authority ownership, and engaged in a war of attrition with me."

"You didn’t manage to keep even one?"

"Only half of the authority from twenty-four weak divine powers, five medium divine powers, and one powerful divine power was retained."

"Those guys reacted really quickly. It’s like the moment they heard the news from the God of Destruction, they directly took action against their subordinates."

"But among the authorities from 30 deities, all the medium divine powers and powerful divine powers were completely digested."

Chloe spoke once more.

Annie couldn’t help but smile upon hearing this.

That’s indeed good news.

Seizing a bunch of weak divine powers’ authority couldn’t possibly have the same impact on the battle as medium divine powers and powerful divine powers, could it?

Seizing the authority of these deities was what truly wounded the World Groups.

Not to mention, Chloe’s intention when seizing these authorities wasn’t to preserve power, but to crush them directly.

"The World Source Power extracted after crushing will be invested into the authorities I already possess, further enhancing their growth potential."

Chloe said to Annie.

Adhering to the idea of "Instead of injuring ten fingers, breaking one would be better; rather than seeking the short, elevate the long", though his combat power is somewhat weaker than at the peak during the battle with the God of Destruction, the stage where borrowing power to fight, after stabilizing these authorities in Genesis, his combat power was elevated again.

Originally having reached the pinnacle of Angel Class, he swiftly ascended to the level of Angel King.

That is the Angel King, Sequence One, the strongest echelon of life below True God!

However, Annie looked at Chloe, and after a moment, said something:

"How can a human break through to Angel King like that?"

"Am I not human?"

"You don’t seem quite human, more like a beast. Your promotion to Angel King wasn’t a natural life-sequence leap; you devoured too much authority. Even if each authority only nourishes and feedbacks a portion of your life essence, you forcefully elevated your life sequence..."

Annie was speechless.

From the Angel Class, whether for the usual deities or demigod entities, they all need to integrate their body with the Divine Essence.

After all, merely controlling the authority, the power one can wield is limited.

Only by deeply integrating can one better forge a perfect rule body.

And as they constantly complete stronger and newer rules to their body and soul, ultimately obtain similar macro existence like the World Groups.

So a Divine Kingdom is essentially a youthful miniature version of a World Group.

And deities within their own Divine Kingdom are akin to World Will on their home turf, capable of exerting exceedingly great power.

This is why even powerful divine powers struggle when fighting on the battlefield of another deity’s Divine Kingdom.

However, in the multiverse, there always exists a small portion of variables.

They naturally possess an extraordinarily vast amount of rules, you might even say they’re a grand manifestation entwined by countless rules.

These entities, even without directly merging with rules, can transcend the limits of life essence and reach infinite greatness.

For instance, the Supreme Cosmic Giant Serpent, from the moment it appeared in the multiverse, without merging with rules, became a natural ’’Supreme’’ by relying on its terrifying amount of rules.

Countless rules entangle its body, granting this "Supreme" the strongest actual rule body in the multiverse.

And it’s precisely due to its unique nature that the aspect of this Cosmic Giant Serpent inherited, the "Strongest" Ayo, also possesses this power.

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