Sovereign of the Ashes

The war in Buros World had dragged on for far too long.

Both the defenders and the invaders were powerful forces in their own right.

Because this battlefield lay close to the overlord-level battlefield, neither side held anything back.

At that moment, the overlord-level battle raging on the outskirts of Buros World was being fought between the Holy Dragon King and Venerable Muge.

In terms of cultivation, the two were roughly on the same level.

However, the Holy Dragon King had already been locked in battle with Marduk for quite some time, so its condition had inevitably declined.

Fortunately, Venerable Muge was an overlord-level powerhouse who wielded dendro elemental power. This meant he was not particularly strong in combat.

Against the Holy Dragon King, who was strengthened by the profound Dragon Qi of the Dawn Empire, Venerable Muge could only fight him to a standstill.

Their battle had first erupted on Phylis Plane, before eventually spilling into the Astral Realm.

The shockwaves from the clash between these two overlord-level beings even affected many low-level planar battlefields across the surrounding star domains.

After fighting for some time, Sein also shifted his battlefield into the Astral Realm.

This time, Sein restrained himself from displaying too much of the Magic Cube’s power. He certainly had no intention of casually revealing that his planetary fortress could transform either.

Drawing too much attention on a battlefield like this was never a good idea.

Sein had no desire to suddenly find himself targeted by another overlord.

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Aside from the Holy Dragon King, who was currently locked in battle with Venerable Muge, Gustavo, the demon overlord of the Quatar Star Pirates, was also swinging his sword in a fierce clash against Venerable Tianyang, a late-stage Rank Seven powerhouse from Myriad Manifestations World.

Just like the Holy Dragon King, Gustavo was at a slight disadvantage.

Yet despite being the ones with the upper hand, both Venerable Tianyang and Venerable Muge could not help cursing inwardly.

What the hell is the Divine Descendant Overgod doing? Why hasn’t he shown up to join the fight?!

Their frustration was perfectly reasonable.

At the moment, the one facing off against the Divine Descendant Overgod from a distance was the Dawn Emperor, Gongsun Wuji.

Given the gap in their strength, Gongsun Wuji, fighting alone, should have found it extremely difficult to restrain Marduk, who was a peak Rank Seven overgod that commanded the Ark.

And yet, the Divine Descendant Overgod had ended up retreating into his homeplane, leaving Venerable Muge and Venerable Tianyang to deal with the mess by themselves.

Although Dawn Emperor Gongsun Wuji remained wary of the Divine Descendant Overgod suddenly intervening in the battlefield and therefore did not withdraw to support the other fronts, the current stalemate was clearly not something the two venerables from Myriad Manifestations World wanted to see!

However, they had been unable to break the deadlock on the battlefield before them.

The legions of Myriad Manifestations World were also beginning to suffer heavy losses.

War always claimed lives. It was impossible to simply appear out of nowhere and reap the spoils without paying a price.

Seeing that their casualties were drawing closer and closer to the limit Myriad Manifestations World had set before deployment, the two Rank Seven venerables simultaneously shifted the direction of their battles, steering the conflict as much as possible toward the region where the Divine Descendants World was located.

The original three-layered encirclement of “inner, middle, and outer” gradually collapsed into a chaotic free-for-all.

The creatures trapped in the very center of that vortex might not have noticed much, but those with a broader view of the battlefield, especially the Rank Five and Rank Six powerhouses, should have sensed that something was wrong.

The two Rank Seven venerables from Myriad Manifestations World were still cursing under their breath.

But that was not what angered them the most; there was something else.

After more than a decade of chaotic melee, the two Rank Seven venerables from Myriad Manifestations World tried to push the battlefield closer to Divine Descendants World, hoping to receive support from Overgod Marduk and the Gallant Federation’s apocalyptical weapons.

Just as they neared the outskirts of Divine Descendants World, two blasts of divine energy suddenly shot out from within Divine Descendants World itself and struck them head-on!

When blue-purple lightning and a pillar of divine power appeared behind Venerable Muge and Venerable Tianyang, all of the powerhouses on the surrounding star domain battlefield who witnessed the scene were stunned.

The source of that divine attack was none other than Overgod Marduk, a fellow peak Rank Seven overlord inside the plane.

Aren’t they his allies? Why is he attacking them?

Countless beings were now asking themselves those very questions, including the two opposing sides directly involved in the battle.

Even the two five-star generals of the Gallant Federation, who were in charge of the apocalyptical weapons, now turned their aim toward the Divine Descendant Overgod.

They had repeatedly urged Marduk to join the battle before, but to no avail.

Combined with the current situation, the Gallant Federation had every reason to suspect that Marduk had betrayed them and defected to the Magus Civilization.

In reality, Marduk had not defected to the Magus Civilization!

Otherwise, the Magus Civilization overlords would not have been standing there frozen in confusion.

The main reason Marduk attacked the overlords of Myriad Manifestations World came down to the overgod himself.

To put it simply, Marduk was not sane. This could be seen from how he had murdered his own wife and brothers in his early years, as well as from the long purge he had carried out against deities who posed a threat within the Divine Descendants Star Domain.

This guy could not even tolerate peak Rank Six deities. Aside from him, the strongest combatants in the entire Divine Descendants Star Domain were only a few late-stage Rank Six deities.

Furthermore, he was the reason this world had come to be known as Divine Descendants World.

This guy could only sleep peacefully when the dominant sentient beings of the entire world carried a portion of his bloodline.

And now, on the battlefield of Divine Descendants World, several more overlords had squeezed their way in one after another.

The overlords from the Magus Civilization were one thing. But the two overlords from Myriad Manifestations World, who had been brought over by the Gallant Federation, were clearly supposed to be on their side!

Yet for Marduk, that was still unacceptable!

He could not even trust his own wife and brothers. How could he possibly trust two Rank Seven venerables who had appeared out of nowhere?

The fact that these two Rank Seven venerables had tried to approach Divine Descendants World had clearly struck one of Marduk’s nerves.

He could not shake the feeling that they were harboring ulterior motives toward him and the Ark in his possession.

With such thoughts weighing on his mind, how could he possibly sleep soundly?

This bizarre mentality, coupled with his deep wariness toward outsiders, left the powerhouses from both warring civilizations completely baffled.

The Magus Civilization was the first to react.

The Dawn Empire did not care in the slightest about their internal conflict. Seeing that the two venerables had suffered a minor setback, the Dawn Empire legions immediately launched a fierce assault on Myriad Manifestations World legions under Gongsun Wuji’s command.

The Gallant Federation was the second to react.

Based on the assessment of the Ultimate Quantum Computer, they determined that Marduk had not betrayed the Gallant Federation. At this stage of the war, it was also impossible for him to make peace with the Magus Civilization.

Therefore, the two five-star generals immediately re-entered their control commands, launching the fully charged apocalyptical weapons once more in an attempt to halt the advance of the Dawn Empire’s massive army.

The war, which was already far more chaotic than before, now escalated even further because of this “farce” created by the Divine Descendant Overgod.

By this point, even Myriad Manifestations World legions were beginning to lose confidence in Divine Descendants World and the Gallant Federation. Under such circumstances, how were they supposed to keep fighting?

It was against this increasingly chaotic backdrop in the Divine Descendants Star Domain that...

BOOM!

A distorted wormhole appeared once again in this vast star domain, accompanied by the law of spatial power.

Another new force had entered the fray!