Chapter 842 471: On the Eve of the Venerable King's Birth

And now, it's just like giving myself, this little soldier, a buff, so that I can withstand a few more tower attacks... right?

Xue Dili has always been quite self-aware; he never felt that his strength would be needed in a divine war between concept gods like this.

However, now it's as if the Mimic Venerable King can make a move, but only once. He is stuck just one step away from becoming a concept True God. If he takes that step, the real Venerable King would open the door to the Subspace Barrier in an instant and drag him to the end of subspace, imprisoned together with those other Subspace Evil Gods.

Therefore, the Mimic Venerable King has only one chance to act, which might also be the reason why he can still chat here with him, not fully covered by the concept of order, still retaining part of the last consciousness of the Mimic Venerable King.

So, whether the Lord of Mist can be killed depends entirely on the effectiveness of the Mimic Venerable King's final strike. Thus, for him, the best method is to directly explode the concept of order inside the Lord of Mist, using his body for this final divine war to end everything completely.

But the Mimic Venerable King looked around and suddenly realized there was no one capable of getting close to the Lord of Mist, just as he mentioned before. Hassan is dead, and even those Tier Five in the Interstellar Corps he had cultivated don't wield power of authority.

Compared to Xue Dili, who has forcibly controlled several powers of authority, their strength might be more stable because they won't suffer from the backlash of authority powers. However, similarly, they don't have true Apostle-level power.

Just like when encircling the Ninth Apostle, the Interstellar Corps often need several Tier Fives together to generate a force comparable to other Apostle levels. This both protects them from the backlash of powers of authority but also limits their upper limit.

Xue Dili doesn't know whether the Mimic Venerable King's choice is right or wrong, because for him, true high-end combat power requires only himself. He belongs to the cosmos strongest who, even if plotted against by the Lord of Mist along with the Apostles, can still achieve the extreme of trading one for 6.5 in the Mist Council.

If the Lord of Mist hadn't run fast enough, he would probably have been left there too, becoming one of the casualties in the battle between the God of Order and void monsters.

High-end combat power requires only oneself, so to avoid becoming a puppet of authority completely, the Mimic Venerable King found another way to ascend to Tier Five without touching powers of authority, which is what those in the Interstellar Corps have achieved.

In fact, considering it this way, perhaps the Apostles are the true Tier Fives. The Tier Five achieved by the Interstellar Corps, in actuality, resembles Zeus and Typhon, only comparable in numerical value. When involving powers of authority, they can't compete and can only rely on numbers to forcibly erase the gap brought by authority.

Perhaps this is also a method by the Mimic Venerable King to lower the Tier Five threshold. Abandoning authority allows more people to enter the Tier Five domain of influence.

However, this also resulted in an immense amount of mid to upper-tier strength in the Interstellar Corps, but the truly top-tier combat power is solely the Mimic Venerable King.

When the Mimic Venerable King wanted to find someone at this time, he unexpectedly found that even though he had trained so many "Apostle-level" forces, those truly capable of helping him complete the divine war upon reaching this point still required dependence on others.

If he had known he would face this situation in the future, would the Mimic Venerable King regret not letting anyone in the Interstellar Corps control the powers of authority?

Perhaps...

Xue Dili might not have reached the same height as the Mimic Venerable King to understand why the Mimic Venerable King would rather abandon powers of authority than let others control its power; perhaps it's because he thought, if one controls the authority, whether the person will listen to him or the power itself is uncertain...

Or maybe the Mimic Venerable King has a thought akin to "absolute loyalty or absolute disloyalty"?

But now it seems that this batch of Interstellar Corps people should be the last ones not to control authority because after this, they might control an entirely new power of authority named "Order"!

However, that is a matter for the future.

Now, the Mimic Venerable King looked around, feeling a bit like "no general in Shu, so Liao Hua becomes the vanguard," and could only forcibly elevate Xue Dili, making him the Grand General, to replace him and head north...

Xue Dili seemingly truly felt this kind of dilemma from the Mimic Venerable King.

It was roughly the feeling of "if any of them were a bit more promising, I definitely wouldn't trouble you, this outsider."

Xue Dili even found it somewhat amusing but didn't laugh, instead telling the Mimic Venerable King in the end: "I am ready, begin merging with the flesh of the Lord of Mist."

"Begin. In fact, originally, I should have had you merge with my flesh, thereby forcibly elevating your power to make you reach the so-called 'Tier Six' as you mentioned. Only then, after I leave, would you smoothly take over everything..."

"It's just, what a pity..."

The Mimic Venerable King lamented in the end, and Xue Dili didn't know what he was lamenting about. Perhaps it was lamenting about having too much clutter on himself.

It seems like he's never truly practiced or completed any real trials, and his power seems to have gradually increased with each journey.