Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan

Chapter 547: Chapter 115: Space Authority’s Empowerment, the Giant Serpent God Attains Authority (2)

Even the Earth Giant Dragon himself had said as much before the war, as if he were settling his final affairs.

According to the feedback from his Authority.

After his death, he would most likely be revived on a terrestrial planet that had Magic Power and a relatively high Energy level.

This was because only the core of such a planet would barely qualify to become his Earth Divine Realm.

But for this very reason, his revival was destined to be anything but smooth.

Furthermore, the revival of Authority Level Deities is a random process.

Even Lince couldn’t make any arrangements in advance.

The Earth Giant Dragon faced this restriction entirely by his own choice.

He did it to protect civilization, to protect the people of his own Clan.

If he hadn’t chosen to merge his Divine Format with a planet from the start, if he hadn’t chosen this path to ascend to the Authority Level, perhaps his revival wouldn’t be so fraught with difficulty.

But there are no ’ifs’ in reality.

Every god makes their own choices. There was nothing more to be said about it.

’For an Authority Level Ancient God to be revived is actually this difficult.’

’The Earth Giant Dragon must be the first of his kind to face this, right?’

Lince felt a headache coming on.

’Of all the things to benchmark his Authority Power against, why did it have to be a Life Planet with living beings and Magic Power?’

’If his Authority Power was like mine, or the Dawn Giant Dragon’s—similar to other Ancient Gods—benchmarked against an ownerless Sun, the hope of living beings, or even formless Energy, things would be simpler.’

’Even if the revival was slower, there wouldn’t be any complications. He could even be restored to his Peak immediately upon revival, returning to his original Tier.’

’But for someone like the Earth Giant Dragon, even after being revived, he couldn’t immediately regain his Authority Power.’

’In the end, he brought this upon himself.’

But no matter how one looked at it, this ’leader’ of the Ancient Dragons had certainly done more than enough.

He was forced to choose this path for the continuation of his Race, so there was nothing more to be said.

Otherwise, with his Potential as a leader, no matter what he chose to benchmark his Authority Power against, his revival wouldn’t have been this difficult.

’As for the Earth Giant Dragon, if I can find the world he will be revived in, it shouldn’t be too hard to handle.’

’But first, I need to revive the Dawn Giant Dragon.’

’Two heads are better than one. Perhaps he will have an idea...’

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Time slipped by unnoticed.

「In the blink of an eye, nearly three hundred more years had passed.」

During these three hundred years, the Star Empire could be said to have been in a constant state of war fervor.

Countless civilized worlds were discovered.

Countless civilizations needed to be conquered.

Under these circumstances, whether they were individuals, groups, or entire conquered Vassal civilizations, nearly every entity within the Empire was swept up in the frenzy.

The wars were ceaseless, and the victories unending.

This also meant that endless lands and resources awaited division among those who earned military merit for the Empire.

Naturally, the number of individuals who died in the process was not insignificant.

But the victors and successes were also countless.

Nearly every faction and group that was part of the Star Empire carved out massive territories and resources for themselves.

Like a snowball rolling downhill, even some recently conquered Vassal civilizations and worlds reaped considerable rewards.

The entire Star Empire expanded as if it were an inflating balloon.

In a mere three hundred years, the territory of the Star Empire had once again undergone a tremendous leap.

That was right.

The Star Empire’s sphere of influence was now equivalent to the territory of four mid-sized World Communities.

The Star Empire’s snowballing growth brought many benefits.

The first was that the number of Deities had increased tremendously within those three hundred years.

This included Players and various other Races from the native world.

Within those three hundred years, over 1,500 new Mortal Deities had appeared.

In terms of high-end combat power...

The ten Players who were secondary Authority Holders had all reached the Star God Tier.

Among them, ’Brother Cheng Takes Off,’ who held the Authority of Death, had progressed the fastest.

Just thirty-two years ago, he successfully leveraged the Death Law from the constant wars to ascend to the Authority Level in a single leap.

The first Authority Level Deity to emerge from a mortal race had appeared.

Even though he was one of the so-called Divine Favored, the first mortal being to serve under the Dragon God, his ascension still couldn’t help but ignite an even greater wave of war fervor.

Meanwhile, the promotions among the Ancient Gods brought a continuous stream of good news.

The Feathered Insect God and the Frost Giant.

These two Ancient Gods also successfully broke through to the Authority Level.

At the same time, witnessed by countless living beings and numerous Deities, these two received a boon from the Dragon God.

They both received a new boon.

From that day forward, they would have the right to establish their own domains.

In other words, they could operate independently of the Star Empire and truly develop their own factions.

They would no longer even be nominally required to obey the commands of the Star Empire or the Pantheon.

They would only answer directly to the Dragon God.

Simultaneously, within the Pantheon, they also attained a status comparable to a Game Authority holder from the True Game.

Although it was akin to being a Guest Minister, it granted them partial recruitment and hiring rights within the Star Empire.

Recruitment rights, as the name suggests.

In addition to mobilizing their own Clan forces, they had the right to conscript a certain percentage of soldiers from the Star Empire’s non-directly administered Vassal civilizations and factions.

As for hiring rights, these could also be called bounty rights.

This meant that for any new civilizations and worlds they discovered, they could post missions and pay rewards to hire any individual, Deity, or faction from the Star Empire to help them wage war and complete the conquest.

In addition to these two major powers, they could also purchase any and all products from the Star Empire to help develop the civilized worlds they conquered.

In short, these two had, in effect, obtained the right to expand their own territories and establish themselves as ’kings’.

It was a right akin to that of a King Pan, ruling their own domains under the Dragon God.

Authority Level Ancient Gods were indeed qualified to receive such a reward from Lince.

However, in Lince’s eyes, the Authority Level Power of these two wasn’t based on particularly powerful Laws.

Furthermore, as Ancient Gods, the depth of their life was clearly a bit shallow.

This was not surprising.

They were not individuals who had emerged victorious from a planet-wide struggle on their own.

They weren’t the sole survivors, nor had they completed a ritual like the Dragon Race or the Titans.

The depth of life of such Ancient Gods was naturally weaker.

But an Ancient God was still an Ancient God, after all.

They were far stronger than any Authority Level being from the Clans or mortal Races.

With them around, Lince could be spared the disturbance of dealing with minor civilization-level conflicts, as they could handle it for the Star Empire.

Lince didn’t ask much of them.

’In any case, this will do for now.’

As for the other Ancient Gods, they had, on average, reached the Peak of the Star God Tier. However, when it came to taking that step into the realm of Authority, these beings had more or less all begun their own paths to Authority.

In this process, some needed to further solidify their chosen benchmark for their Law and Authority.

Others needed to accumulate power over time in specific environments to achieve a breakthrough.

In short, all these Ancient Gods were currently stuck at the threshold between the Peak of the Star God Tier and the Authority Level.

It was hard to say when they would succeed.

But as Ancient Gods, they were certain to succeed eventually; it was just a matter of differing circumstances and the amount of time required.

Simply devouring and evolving was not enough to reach the Authority Level.

After all, they weren’t a ’cheater’ like Lince.

And now, today.

The most important one of all.

The Ancient God whom Lince had always valued most was finally about to begin his transformation.

That’s right.

It was the Giant Serpent God Kukudar, who had been undergoing his Authority transformation for more than five hundred years.

Currently, just outside the Crystal Wall of the Crimson World.

In the Void Star Sea, in a region a dozen or so light-years from the Giant Dragon Red World, at the center of a massive Black Hole.

A behemoth finally awakened after devouring vast amounts of matter and Dead Star Cores.

Before Lince’s eyes, and under the watchful gazes of the numerous Deities who had gathered to witness the event, the ’small’ Black Hole, with a diameter of over tens of millions of kilometers, finally collapsed and shattered.

And as it collapsed and shattered, a colossal, pitch-black, horned-python-like head emerged from the collapsing Space.

As the sole victor who had devoured every other Ancient God on his world during its primeval era, the depth of the Giant Serpent God Kukudar’s life as an Ancient God was beyond question.

In essence, his Potential was absolutely among the best of the Ancient Gods.

Therefore, the moment he successfully ascended to the Authority Level, the terrifying amplification his Power received was unimaginable.

At the very least, in the eyes of the many Deities present, the mere sight of Kukudar’s massive Snake Head emerging was enough to make them feel a terrifying pressure.