According to the agreements set between the Sovereign, the first rule is that high-level Sovereigns shall not attack low-level Sovereigns without cause.
Battles between those of equal standing are not included within the Sovereign's agreements.
The second rule: Sovereigns shall not attack Gods without cause.
Matters between Gods are to be resolved by the Gods themselves.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, Sovereigns would take on several Sovereign's Emissaries, bestow Lord God Artifacts upon them, and have these emissaries resolve disputes concerning Gods on their behalf.
To reflect the status among Sovereigns, they also set strict requirements for the number of Sovereign's Emissaries.
Low-level Sovereigns can only have two Sovereign's Emissaries.
Mid-level Sovereigns can have four Sovereign's Emissaries.
Sovereigns can have eight Sovereign's Emissaries.
Due to the agreements between Sovereigns and the immense power of Lord God Artifacts, Sovereigns also feared encountering those high-level Gods whom they found distasteful but could not act against due to the agreements.
Thus, to balance the power among Gods, Sovereigns established a third Sovereign agreement.
Each Sovereign's children and emissaries can only be bestowed with one Lord God Artifact from their Sovereign.
To obtain more Lord God Artifacts, the only way is to participate in the Plane War, which occurs once every trillion years, kill the opposing Commander, and exchange ten Commander Badges for a Lord God Artifact.
The situation with Gaia, being both a Sovereign's child and a Sovereign's Emissary, was something everyone was seeing for the first time.
In the eyes of Sovereigns, an emissary was essentially no different from a servant.
Who would be willing to let their own children become servants to another Sovereign?
This allowed Roy to exploit a loophole in the agreement.
He was Gaia's Fifth Uncle; even if Gaia became Roy's emissary, Roy would not treat Gaia as his servant.
Roy's actions made many Sovereigns with offspring's eyes light up.
They themselves worried about their children's safety.
If they could also find a friendly Sovereign to have their children become that Sovereign's emissaries...
After a few Sovereign of Rules discussed the matter of Gaia, the Life Sovereign Vivian finally issued the final judgment.
"Regarding the Star Sovereign taking Leding Lord God's daughter as an emissary, according to the ruling of us four Sovereigns of Rules, it is reasonable, logical, and in compliance with the Sovereign's agreements. Gaia possessing two Lord God Artifacts does not violate the Sovereign's agreements."
"Of course, we will add one more clause here."
"A Sovereign's emissary cannot be changed unless the previous one has died."
"Furthermore, after a Sovereign's emissary dies, it will take a trillion years before a new emissary slot is restored."
"For every additional Sovereign's Emissary that dies, the restoration of the slot will increase by one trillion years."
"Does anyone have any objections?"
Upon hearing Life Sovereign Vivian's words, the Sovereigns immediately abandoned their selfish thoughts.
Low-level Sovereigns only had a total of two emissary slots.
If they were to use their emissary slots to do a favor for another Sovereign's child, what would they do if they encountered a God that disgusted them? Would they have to personally intervene and be ridiculed by other Sovereigns for tens of trillions of years?
The children of other Sovereigns would, at most, hold the title of emissary; they could not be ordered around like other emissaries.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be a favor, but a conflict between two Sovereigns!
Of course, for Sovereigns who possessed eight emissary slots, it wasn't impossible to offer one or two slots as a favor.
But Sovereigns were already at the pinnacle; would they care about the favors of other Sovereigns?
The problem was the clause added by Life Sovereign Vivian: after the emissary died, it would take a trillion years to replace them.
If these two Sovereigns fell out, and other Sovereigns wanted to change their emissary, their own children would have to die.
Who would be willing to gamble their child's life on the assumption that the two parties would not fall out in the future?
This point alone effectively blocked the other ideas of the Sovereigns.
Hearing this, Purple Jasmine High God's heart tightened.
However, Purple Jasmine High God soon relaxed.
She didn't know how long it would be until her child was born.
During this time, she would observe the Star Sovereign's character.
If the Star Sovereign was trustworthy, then entrusting her child to him and gaining an extra Lord God Artifact wouldn't be an issue.
If he wasn't trustworthy, she would defect to the side of Destruction Sovereign Utred.
Two trillion years ago, Purple Jasmine High God had also witnessed with her divine sense the scene of Vermillion Bird Sovereign Nimo pursuing Blood Peak Lord God Pash, only to be heavily injured by Destruction Sovereign Utred.
If Pash could defect, why couldn't she, Purple Jasmine?
In the spatial turbulence, due to Gaia's actions, the Plane War entered its cleanup phase. Most Sovereigns lost interest and returned to their own planes.
Only the five Sovereigns from the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods' side and the four from the Destiny Master's side remained.
When the ten thousand years were up, the semi-transparent film on the spatial gate in the Plane War dispersed.
This signifies the end of the Plane War.
The Fire Element God Plane emerged victorious.
To Roy's surprise, there were survivors from the Destiny God Plane's side.
It was the Asura who had killed Douglas.
His name was something like Barbari.
An emissary of the Mu Ya Lord God.
Roy paid no further attention to what happened afterward.
Although Roy's side managed to annihilate the Sovereign Legion and seven commanders of Destiny Sovereign Off's faction in this Plane War, their losses were also significant.
To increase their chances of victory, out of the five new Sovereign's Emissaries Roy had acquired, all but Garfield, who was an Asura, were Seven-star Demons.
Among them, Douglas, Edgar, and Atley had perished, with only Marshall surviving.
At this moment, Marshall had returned with Garfield to Lotus Rock Island in the Nine Nether Region.
A Sovereign could have eight Sovereign's Emissaries. Apart from the one spot reserved for the Purple Jasmine High God, Roy could still have seven emissaries.
However, according to the newly implemented supplementary agreement, Roy would have to wait three trillion years to recover his emissary slots.
This meant that within these three trillion years, besides Gaia, Garfield, and Marshall, Roy could only take on one more emissary at most.
...
The Plane Battlefield concluded. Apart from the Destiny Sovereign's faction suffering heavy losses, there were no other significant impacts on the other Sovereigns.
After the upheaval of these two trillion years, complete magic incantations from the Sovereigns had been left behind in many planes.
Subsequently, the Sovereigns discovered that without needing to actively promote faith, the faith of all mages who practiced magic would be absorbed by the Godheads of their respective elements. This reduced the intensity of the faith war by more than a level.
Of course, many of the High-level Gods who entered the material planes were not motivated by the paltry rewards from the Sovereigns, but rather by the hope of obtaining a Godhead that resonated with them, ultimately becoming a revered Sovereign themselves.
Roy, who was an ordinary person in the material plane, died during the collateral damage of a war and his soul was reincarnated into the Undead Realm within the Netherworld.
In the Undead Realm, countless weak undead like Roy were everywhere.
They would kill each other, plundering the soul fire of other undead to grow stronger.
Roy was fortunate; within just a thousand years, he evolved to the Saint Realm.
Eventually, within ten thousand years, he comprehended the Death Law, became a God, and regained his memories from his previous life.
After wandering and surviving in the Netherworld for several million years, Roy became a High-level God of the Death Law, earned enough Nether Stones to return to the material plane, and used the planar teleportation array on the Undead Sacred Mountain to return to his homeland—the Crimson Flame Plane.
By this time in the Crimson Flame Plane, several million years had passed since Roy's era. His family and friends had all died in that Plane War millions of years ago.
This fueled Roy's murderous intent towards the Gods in the Crimson Flame Plane.
Having lived in the Netherworld for millions of years, Roy was well aware of what these Gods were doing in the material planes.
In his previous life, without any power, Roy could only be killed by the aftershocks of these Gods' battles.
But this time, Roy had the strength to resist.
Thus, the Crimson Flame Plane, which had been peaceful for a million years, began a new round of conflict due to Roy's actions.
This was originally just a very ordinary act of revenge.
However, after these countless years, the High-level Gods had basically adapted to a rule.
That is, once a battle occurred, there would definitely be a Godhead appearing, discovered by two or more High-level Gods.
In this way, the Crimson Flame Plane began to experience great turmoil.
"Damn it!"
Roy unleashed a soul attack, killing the High-level God in front of him, and rapidly flew towards the planar teleportation array.
He never imagined that his covert act of hunting High-level Gods would be discovered, and then, the High-level Gods of the Crimson Flame Plane would hunt him down as if they had gone mad.
Could it be that these High-level Gods were all from the same organization? Killing one had alerted the entire nest?
Unfortunately, due to the asymmetry of information, Roy had no idea that these individuals already considered him a possessor of a Godhead. At the planar teleportation array, over ten High-level Gods were lying in wait.
Roy's divine sense scanned this scene, and despair began to fill his heart.
He had been killed by these High-level Gods in his previous life, only to die by their hands again in this new life?
Only this time, having become a God, he wouldn't have the chance to start over.
"Then let's fight!"
"Fight to the death!"
Roy finally abandoned the thought of escape. As a High-level God of the Death Law, his physical attacks might be somewhat lacking, but his soul attacks were more than enough to pose a significant threat to Six-star Devils.
Unfortunately, these individuals casually produced various colored Sovereign Powers and, under Roy's despairing gaze, absorbed them all into their bodies.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
In the hands of these High-level Gods, who were all at least Seven-star Devil level after using Sovereign Power, Roy's undead body instantly disintegrated, and massive spatial rifts appeared one after another.
Roy, with only his head remaining, watched as these individuals began frantically scrambling for his spatial ring, letting out a self-mocking bitter smile.
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