"You don't need to concern yourself with the war against the Light Empire." Haru said, "Everything there is proceeding as planned. Your only task for now is to use the Eternal Monument to restore your strength."
Celestia bowed, "As you command, my Lord."
"Once you become a Pseudo God Queen, the Demon Emperor stops being a problem. " Haru said, "The twelve Demon Monarchs stop being a problem too."
"My Lord may be certain of it." Celestia said, "At my peak, suppressing the Demon Emperor is not beyond me."
This wasn't confidence without foundation. In the Illusory Angel Realm, Celestia had led the Angel lineage to unify thousands of planets. The Supreme Gods she had suppressed there were beyond counting. She had even suppressed Pseudo God Monarchs.
She had effectively swept that entire illusory universe while in the real universe, the Demon Emperor was a serious threat. He was not in a different category from what Celestia had already handled.
Haru nodded. She bowed again and withdrew to her courtyard to prepare for her ascension.
He turned back to the light sphere. There was something worth noting about his own path to Pseudo God Monarch Tier, because it was nothing like Celestia's. She needed to comprehend the God Monarch Tier Law. He didn't. As a Castle Lord, his path had no shackles whatsoever.
All he had to do was kill enough enemies, kill enemies strong enough, and the ascension would come automatically. No comprehension required, no bottleneck to force through. And inside his Godhead were five Supreme God Tier Artifacts, three Demonic artifacts and his two natal artifacts, were continuously strengthening and perfecting his existing law origins, pushing them closer to God Monarch Tier with every passing moment.
The question wasn't whether he'd reach Pseudo God Monarch Tier, it was which route got him there first.
The GM's prompt had already appeared:
[Discovered 1,249 sources of Divine Laws with different attributes not yet possessed. Do you want to integrate them into your Godhead?]
"Integrate."
Golden light streaked out of the sphere in dozens of simultaneous threads and disappeared into his forehead. Inside his Godhead, a mysterious force, something that originated from the GM, something Haru had never been able to identify or reverse-engineer, took over the process.
Under its influence, the 1,249 new law sources slid into his Godhead and settled there cleanly, each finding its place without conflict.
This was the rarity of an attributeless Godhead. Other Gods couldn't even fuse two law sources of different attributes simultaneously without risking a conflict with consequences ranging from severe injury to a shattered Godhead and destroyed soul.
Haru, on the other hand, had just integrated 1,249 at once. In the entire Endless Continent, this was unique to him. Even in the entire universe, it might be an entirely unique phenomenon.
An attributeless Godhead accommodated everything. In the ancient texts of the Endless Continent, something like it would have been called an innate treasure, born from heaven and earth, beyond what any craftsman could replicate. Its value exceeded even the [God King's Throne] for a Castle Lord like Haru.
The Throne could elevate someone to the God Monarch Tier, but Haru's estimation ran further: if he could master every law in existence, his strength at the God Monarch Tier would be incomparable to any other God Monarch who had mastered only a single Law. The two weren't in the same category.
That was for later. He had a long road before any of it mattered for now.
…
The 1,249 new sources were in. But the sphere still held nearly 1.6 million law sources total.
The remainder were duplicates, sources of Laws he already possessed, drawn from the 1.6 million Godheads Celestia had processed. Nearly 400,000 of them were sources of the Law of Destruction alone, one from each God of Destruction killed in the recent war. Another 300,000 were the sources of the Law of Slaughter. The rest were distributed across the other Laws.
Integrating duplicates didn't add any new Laws. It strengthened and purified the origins he already had, pushing them further along the evolutionary path toward God Monarch Tier Law. Unlike the native Gods, who had to spend enormous time and energy carefully refining absorbed law sources, and who risked damage to their Godhead if they rushed, Haru used the GM's assistance to directly absorb, without any danger.
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