Chapter 514: The Deal

In response to Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff's question, Linley remained silent for a while before shaking his head.

He was different from Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff and Light Chief Sovereign Augusta.

The two of them could deceive him for certain reasons, allowing him to remain trapped within the lies they had woven for ten thousand years.

Linley could not possibly pick up such hatred heavily, only to put it down lightly.

"Orloff, I will definitely kill Light Chief Sovereign Augusta."

"And you, as someone who participated in deceiving me alongside Light Chief Sovereign Augusta, I cannot put aside my grudge against you either."

"So, I'm sorry. I was foolish before."

"There is absolutely no room for reconciliation between us anymore!"

"Just as I thought."

Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff nodded.

Since Chief Sovereign Locke had already chosen him as the "villain" in Linley's life, how could the cause and effect between Linley and himself possibly be resolved so easily?

If Linley could even let go of a grudge like this and reconcile with him, then Linley probably would not be worthy of Chief Sovereign Locke's attention.

"Since that's the case, then let's turn the world upside down!"

After thinking through these matters, Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff smiled.

The complete set of three Overgod artifacts was Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff's greatest source of confidence!

At the very least, before Chief Sovereign Linley reached the realm of the Overgods, Linley could not pose any threat to his life.

Since that was the case—

Orloff extended his hand, and Light Chief Sovereign Augusta's expression immediately changed dramatically.

"No!"

Augusta roared.

However, as a divine clone that Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had separated using his innate ability, he was completely incapable of resisting Orloff's will. He could only transform into a streak of white light and merge into Orloff's body.

"What?"

"What is going on?"

This scene immediately left all the Sovereigns who saw it dumbfounded.

Among the Sovereigns present in the spatial turbulence, the youngest, and the ones who had been Sovereigns for the shortest amount of time, were the three Sovereigns of the Yulan lineage: Beirut, Bluefire, and Linley.

But even Linley and the others could understand what this scene represented.

No, even if it were not Linley and the others, the divine-level lifeforms and most Saint-level lifeforms throughout the Seven Divine Planes and Four Higher Planes all knew what this was.

It was clearly the scene of a divine lifeform's original body taking a divine clone back into itself.

But when this action, which was known by practically everyone throughout the Seven Divine Planes and Four Higher Planes, appeared between Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff and Light Chief Sovereign Augusta, all the Sovereigns became restless.

What a joke!

Every living being's soul aura was unique.

Even after becoming a God, if one chose to become a God outside the body and gained multiple divine clones, one's own soul aura would still remain the same.

At most, the elemental or Law attributes of the divine clones would cause each divine clone to possess minute differences in temperament.

However, the souls of these divine clones would always be one and the same.

But what about Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff and Light Chief Sovereign Augusta?

The two of them were among the oldest Sovereigns in the world.

Moreover, their soul auras were fundamentally different.

And Light Chief Sovereign Augusta, aside from his strength, had a terrible personality. He bullied the weak while fearing the strong, was arrogant and unruly, cunning and sinister...

It could be said that every negative emotion and personality flaw that everyone could think of could be found in Light Chief Sovereign Augusta.

What about Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff?

In everyone's impression, Lord Orloff was the standard "good old man." Aside from his obsession with cultivation, he practically had no flaws.

The reason it was "practically" was naturally because of the various things Lord Orloff had done during Chief Sovereign Locke's growth.

Although Lord Orloff could explain the reasons behind every one of his actions, once there were too many of them, the Sovereigns would naturally begin making their own guesses in secret.

Of course, if Chief Sovereign Locke had truly been as dangerous as Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had feared, then the Sovereigns would probably have trusted Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff even more, believing that Lord Orloff had simply been extraordinarily far-sighted.

Unfortunately, Chief Sovereign Locke's growth had exceeded even Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff's expectations.

Aside from obtaining a Lesser Sovereign spark of Fate from an unknown source and using it to become a Sovereign, everything about Chief Sovereign Locke's subsequent cultivation had absolutely nothing to do with Sovereign sparks.

In fact, everyone felt that the fact that Lord Locke had obtained that Lesser Sovereign spark of Fate was the lucky fortune of that Lesser Sovereign spark of Fate.

Otherwise, judging by Chief Sovereign Locke's growth, even without that Lesser Sovereign spark of Fate, Chief Sovereign Locke's ultimate achievements would not have been any worse than they were now.

Rather, once his strength had reached Chief Sovereign Locke's current level, that Lesser Sovereign spark of Fate was merely something dispensable to him.

Precisely because of this, the series of actions Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had taken against Chief Sovereign Locke had become one of Orloff's "black marks."

However, all the Sovereigns had to admit that aside from this, the only other questionable thing about Lord Orloff was that he often owed Light Chief Sovereign Augusta favors and would stand up for Light Chief Sovereign Augusta because of them.

But now, the scene before everyone's eyes had completely shattered their impression of Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff as a "good old man."

Everyone, who could have imagined that Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff and Light Chief Sovereign Augusta were actually the same person!

What did this mean?

No wonder the exchanges of favors between Light Chief Sovereign Augusta and Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had exceeded everyone's imagination.

Previously, everyone had not thought too deeply about it. But now that they had seen Light Chief Sovereign Augusta merge into Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff in the spatial turbulence, how could they still not understand why?

Although Light Chief Sovereign Augusta's strength was in a class of its own among the Law Chief Sovereigns, making him the undisputed number one Law Chief Sovereign, there were still four Rule Chief Sovereigns above the Law Chief Sovereigns.

If Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had not owed Light Chief Sovereign Augusta some favors and displayed his willingness to act on Augusta's behalf because of those favors, then given Light Chief Sovereign Augusta's unpleasant personality, the other Rule Chief Sovereigns probably would have taught him a lesson long ago.

But with Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff's involvement through these favors, the other Rule Chief Sovereigns were also willing to give Orloff some face and let him personally deal with Light Chief Sovereign Augusta and make sure his subordinate behaved himself.

It had to be said that Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff's understanding of "human nature" exceeded that of all the Sovereigns.

Because of these "favors," Light Chief Sovereign Augusta truly had never been deliberately targeted by the other Rule Chief Sovereigns.

In any case, whenever the other Rule Chief Sovereigns had an opinion, they would directly tell Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff, and Orloff would then have Light Chief Sovereign Augusta restrain himself a little...

...

"Very good, Orloff. Very good!"

Within the spatial turbulence, Destruction Chief Sovereign Wodred's face had turned purple with rage.

Among the several Rule Chief Sovereigns, he was the one who had caused trouble for Light Chief Sovereign Augusta the most.

At the Sovereign assembly before last, Destruction Chief Sovereign Wodred had even rejected Light Chief Sovereign Augusta's proposal to become a Rule Chief Sovereign.

Now, it seemed that he had been toyed with by Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff.

However, no one was paying attention to Destruction Chief Sovereign Wodred at this moment. Everyone had turned their gazes toward Chief Sovereign Linley and Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff.

After refining his fourth Sovereign spark, Chief Sovereign Linley's strength had leaped upward, surpassing Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff.

But Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff possessed a complete set of three Overgod artifacts.

What kind of spectacular battle would unfold between them?

This battle between Chief Sovereign Linley and Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff might even change the future balance among the Sovereigns.

...

"Orloff, you're a member of the Bula Race?"

Within the spatial turbulence, after seeing Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff's actions, a flash of insight passed through Linley's mind, and he suddenly understood.

Linley also suddenly remembered that before the previous Planar Wars, he had not had much interaction with Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff.

However, after his Sovereign Army had appeared on the Planar Battlefield, Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had suddenly shown goodwill toward him and asked him for one of the Sovereign Emissaries under his command.

Linley remembered that the name of that Sovereign Emissary was Bresle. The reason Linley valued Bresle was because Bresle's attainments in magic arrays were extremely high.

Even though Linley was a Sovereign, his attainments in magic arrays were inferior to Bresle's.

Therefore, despite possessing only Seven-Star Fiend-level strength, Bresle had still been accepted by Linley as a Sovereign Emissary.

After Bresle became Linley's Sovereign Emissary, Linley also learned Bresle's secret.

Bresle possessed a divine clone whose soul aura was completely different from his own.

According to Bresle, this was an innate ability unique to the "Bula Race."

Now that Linley thought about it, perhaps Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had never had good intentions back then.

Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff might even have harbored the intention of killing Bresle to silence him, wanting to prevent any Sovereign from connecting the special characteristics of the Bula Race to the relationship between himself and Light Chief Sovereign Augusta.

Fortunately, ever since Bresle had become his Sovereign Emissary, he had rarely traveled outside. Instead, he had remained within the Sovereign Army, comprehending the deeper mysteries of magic arrays.

"As expected, Linley, you know about the Bula Race."

Hearing Linley's words, Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff smiled.

Although the moment he had chosen to merge with Light Chief Sovereign Augusta, there had been no way to preserve the secret of his race, Linley's ability to recognize his race still caused Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff to marvel at Chief Sovereign Locke's abilities.

Clearly, even if Light Chief Sovereign Augusta had allowed Linley's mother Lina to regain her freedom, there would still come a day in the future when he and Linley would become enemies.

In order to conceal the relationship between himself and Light Chief Sovereign Augusta, all members of the Bula Race would be eliminated by Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff and Light Chief Sovereign Augusta as potential threats.

Linley had a Bula Race Sovereign Emissary under his command, so even Linley himself would become a threat.

The fate between himself and Linley had long since been woven. It all led toward that one inevitable path!

He was fundamentally incapable of escaping such a fate.

However, he could improve himself.

As long as he killed Linley in the final battle, his fate might undergo a transformation, allowing him to see the path ahead and continue onward.

Since he had already made up his mind, Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff no longer concealed anything.

"That's right. I am indeed a member of the Bula Race."

"Light Chief Sovereign Augusta is the divine clone that was formed after I separated all of my negative emotions and all the aspects of my personality that might affect my pursuit of cultivation and increase in strength."

"Linley, since you already know about the deception from ten thousand years ago, you should also know that there are only two methods to remove the soul control over an angel."

"One method is for the Light Sovereign to release his ownership of the Angel Reincarnation Pool that gave birth to that angel. In this way, all the angels born from that Angel Reincarnation Pool will gain their freedom."

"The second method is to kill the Light Sovereign who possesses that angel."

"Now, Augusta has merged with me."

"And I possess a Soul-Defense Overgod Artifact and a Material-Defense Overgod Artifact."

"Linley, even if your strength has now increased by a hundred times, you still cannot cause the slightest harm to me while I possess two defensive Overgod artifacts."

"In other words, Linley, if you want your mother to regain her freedom, the only thing you can do is ask me to release my ownership of the Angel Reincarnation Pool."

"What are you trying to say?"

Linley's expression sank.

Naturally, he knew what Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff was saying.

However, he could not give up on saving his mother Lina simply because he could not hurt Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff.

At the same time, he could not allow his mother's soul to remain under Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff's control.

"Let's make a deal."

"Linley, hand over that Bula Race Sovereign Emissary under your command to me, and I will immediately release my ownership of the Angel Reincarnation Pool and allow your mother to regain her freedom."

Linley fell silent.

If possible, he actually wanted to kill Light Chief Sovereign Augusta to remove the soul control over his mother Lina.

But as Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had said, Light Chief Sovereign Augusta had now merged with Orloff, who possessed three Sovereign artifacts. Even though Linley's strength was ten times greater than Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff's, he still had no confidence that he could win a battle against Orloff.

No, forget about winning.

Even remaining undefeated would probably be difficult.

After all, Orloff, who possessed a Soul-Defense Overgod Artifact and a Material-Defense Overgod Artifact, could completely ignore all of Linley's attacks.

Including the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' fused innate divine ability.

Yet Linley did not dare underestimate Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff's attacks.

A tenfold difference in strength was still insufficient for Linley to ignore the might of an Overgod artifact.

Now, faced with the proposal Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had made, Linley was tempted.

However, Bresle was his Sovereign Emissary. On the Planar Battlefield, it was also because of Bresle's extraordinary attainments in magic battle formations that the Water Divine Plane had successfully defeated the Light Divine Plane in ten consecutive victories on the Planar Battlefield.

Such a great contributor—was he really supposed to hand him over to Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff in exchange for his mother's freedom?

"Orloff, forget about it!"

After taking a deep breath, Linley decisively rejected Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff's demand.

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