One had to know that the Sovereigns forbade fighting within cities.
Therefore, those who could openly use divine power within a city were generally only the city guards and the Sovereign Army soldiers stationed there.
But judging from where those two streaks of divine light had shot out from, these two people were neither city guards nor soldiers of the Sovereign Army.
By doing this, they were clearly treating the city's lord as though he didn't exist.
Weren't they afraid of being hunted down by the city lord?
Although this was only a large city, the city lord was still, at the very least, a Seven Star Windhunter-level expert.
Could it be that these two were both experts beyond Seven Star Windhunter level, or perhaps Prefect-level Windhunters?
Filled with curiosity, some gods immediately left the city and pursued the two experts.
However, to their surprise, the flying speed of those two experts ahead was simply too fast. By the time they exited the city, they could no longer sense the auras of the two.
Well, perhaps it wasn't really surprising.
After all, they were experts bold enough to disregard city rules within the city itself. If they lacked even this much speed, that would have been truly surprising.
Fortunately, some people had seen the direction in which Loran and Teresia had departed, and everyone could follow that route.
Before long, the gods who had rushed out suddenly sensed enormous fluctuations of divine power coming from ahead.
Experts were fighting!
Immediately, the creatures who had come out all became overjoyed.
Watching excitement was the instinct of all living beings.
And being able to witness a battle between experts gave one much more bragging rights afterward.
This was experience.
This was insight!
...
"Whoosh!"
After getting far away from the city, Loran loosened his grip and tossed Little Black aside.
Then, a black spear and his divine spark defensive armor appeared on his body.
Facing a Paragon, Loran naturally wouldn't be careless.
The moment he attacked, he went all out.
"Flood Dragon Overturning the Sea Wave!"
With his Water Laws nearly reaching complete fusion, the power of this attack had increased several times over.
Under Loran's spear, the Water Laws transformed into a single-horned flood dragon that blasted toward Teresia.
With this single strike alone, several hundred meters of space in the Wind Divine Plane were shattered open, exposing beautiful streams of spatial turbulence that radiated dangerous auras.
Facing Loran's attack, Teresia spread his fingers.
A violent vortex of wind gathered within his palm and condensed into a green spear.
Then, Teresia hurled the spear toward Loran's attack.
"Spear of the Wind God!"
"Boom!"
The blue flood dragon collided with the green spear, producing a deafening explosion.
At the center of the collision, a hundred-meter-wide hole in space was blasted open.
Black spatial cracks spread outward from the center like spiderwebs, making it seem as though the sky itself had been shattered by Loran and Teresia's attacks.
No—it didn't merely seem that way.
The space of the sky had truly been shattered by Loran and Teresia.
Countless spatial cracks split the surrounding space into fragments of various sizes. As those fragmented pieces of space fell to the ground, they instantly caused devastating destruction to the surroundings.
"Haah!"
Loran let out a shout as the divine spark spear in his hand thrust forward.
It fused together with the blue flood dragon created by Flood Dragon Overturning the Sea Wave, becoming the dragon's horn.
After scattering Teresia's Spear of the Wind God, it continued charging toward Teresia.
"What?"
Seeing his Spear of the Wind God actually broken by Loran, even Teresia was somewhat surprised.
One had to know that after becoming a Paragon, every move he made was equivalent to a powerful attack that fused six Profound Mysteries.
Although he hadn't used Willpower in his previous Spear of the Wind God, it still surpassed Prefect-level attacks.
A Spear of the Wind God empowered by six fused Profound Mysteries was more than ten times stronger than the ultimate techniques of ordinary Prefects.
In Teresia's eyes, as the child of Sovereigns, Loran likely possessed an offensive Sovereign artifact, and the limit of his offensive power should have been roughly around this level.
But the result of the collision had told Teresia that Loran was even stronger than he had imagined.
Indeed, the upper limit of ordinary Sovereign Emissaries was roughly the level of six fused Profound Mysteries.
Even the strongest Prefects equipped with a full set of three Sovereign artifacts were merely comparable to a Paragon who wasn't using Willpower.
But Loran was different.
Besides possessing divine spark weapons comparable to Sovereign artifacts, he was also a dual-soul mutate personally created by Locke.
The fusion of Death divine power and Water divine power made Loran's divine power ten times stronger than that of other Highgods—even Paragons.
And it was precisely because of this that Loran had instantly shattered Teresia's attack.
Seeing Loran unleash power of this level, Teresia became excited as well.
Ever since becoming a Paragon, all other gods—even Sovereign Emissaries—had seemed mediocre to him.
But Loran's performance had given Teresia a tremendous surprise.
Everyone loved invincibility.
Yet after becoming invincible, they would begin longing for an opponent worthy of forcing them to use their full strength.
This was also a common flaw among intelligent lifeforms.
"Hahaha, excellent!"
"Loran, I'm going to get serious now!"
After laughing loudly, Teresia immediately activated his Willpower and threw out a punch.
"Bang!"
Without any surprise, this punch directly shattered Loran's Flood Dragon Overturning the Sea Wave.
His fist collided with Loran's divine spark spear, and the terrifying force transmitted through the spear and slammed into Loran, sending him flying.
However, this level of attack was still unable to break through the defense of his divine spark defensive armor.
Seeing that his attack hadn't caused any real damage to Loran, Teresia relaxed.
It seemed that Loran possessed more than one Sovereign artifact.
Which made sense.
Loran's father and mother were both Sovereigns. A Sovereign could bestow one Sovereign artifact upon their direct descendants.
With two Sovereign parents, it was perfectly normal for Loran to possess two Sovereign artifacts.
At once, Teresia decided to fight without restraint.
"Spear of the Wind God!"
Under the augmentation of Willpower, the instant the green spear appeared, the surrounding space was immediately torn apart.
"Whoosh!"
Under Teresia's control, this spear carrying the Willpower of a Paragon shot toward Loran with terrifying might.
Having been blasted away by Teresia's punch earlier, Loran already understood that even with the enhancement of his divine spark weapons and fused dual-element divine power, he was still ten times weaker than a Paragon.
Fortunately, his divine spark defensive armor was sufficiently powerful to withstand Teresia's attacks, preventing him from being defeated immediately.
But weapons were also part of one's strength.
Since Teresia couldn't break through the defense of the divine spark armor, then this battle could continue!
"Coiling Dragon Sweeping Storm Formation!"
Loran spun his spear, and countless flood dragons formed a vortex around him, twisting and slaughtering.
Once Teresia's spear entered Loran's defensive range, those flood dragons roared as they rushed forward and tangled themselves with the spear.
Although under the effects of Teresia's Willpower, the Law-formed flood dragons couldn't hold out for long and were instantly destroyed, they still managed to delay the spear's speed slightly.
With that brief buffer of time, Loran's Coiling Dragon Sweeping Storm Formation continuously generated new flood dragons, sending them charging at the spear like moths flying into flames.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Huge numbers of spatial cracks appeared between Loran and the Spear of the Wind God, extending for several thousand meters.
Only after repeatedly attacking it in close combat did Loran finally manage to disperse Teresia's Spear of the Wind God.
"Excellent!"
Seeing this scene, Teresia praised him.
A Paragon's attacks were not easy to receive.
His previous attack could only be considered a casual strike from a Paragon. Any Prefect lacking a material defense Sovereign artifact would almost certainly have been instantly killed.
Although Loran had taken some time and distance to block it, he had relied entirely on his own comprehension and strength to withstand the attack, without using his divine spark defensive armor.
From this alone, Teresia felt that Loran was undoubtedly the strongest person beneath the Paragon level.
With the defensive domain Loran had displayed earlier, no non-Paragon Prefect—even one possessing an offensive Sovereign artifact—would be capable of breaking through it.
What a joke.
This technique, "Coiling Dragon Sweeping Storm Formation," was a defensive technique Loran had mastered after being "educated" by the Death Chief Sovereign. It had received the approval of the Death Chief Sovereign herself.
"Whoosh!"
His figure flashed.
Teresia transformed into a streak of green light and charged toward Loran.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
After entering the range of Loran's Coiling Dragon Sweeping Storm Formation, five blue flood dragons rushed toward Teresia, only to be shattered with casual movements of his hands.
The reason the Coiling Dragon Sweeping Storm Formation could destroy Teresia's attack earlier was because of its endless stream of attacks.
But once Teresia personally entered the battle, that "endlessness" simply couldn't keep up with his speed.
Moreover, the rate at which the formation generated flood dragons was nowhere near the speed at which Teresia destroyed them.
In only a few breaths, Loran's Coiling Dragon Sweeping Storm Formation was broken apart by Teresia.
"Bang!"
Loran's spear collided with Teresia's fist once again.
The immense force blasted Loran away.
Then, with a flash, Teresia closed in and struck Loran's chest with his palm.
"Boom!"
The power of that strike passed directly through Loran's body, tearing open a hundred-meter-long spatial crack behind him and sending Loran flying far into the distance.
(End of Chapter)
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