"Seven?"
Qin Chuan's voice was flat, betraying no emotion.
Alesha's Night Avatar nodded gravely.
"Yes. Seven entirely different systems of Divine Might, spread across Blue Star's continents. Each has reached the level of a High God."
"Their arrival was well concealed. If you hadn't resolved the Void Vortex in Kyoto and allowed the breach in World Law to begin healing, we might not have detected them so soon."
The black robes around the three Death Bringers stirred without wind. Ripples of void energy betrayed their unease.
Seven High Gods.
That meant at least seven complete pantheons had landed on this planet without a sound.
It was a terrifying force, powerful enough to overturn the entire balance of power.
Qin Chuan said nothing.
He merely closed his eyes.
The next instant, his connection to the entire world activated on its own.
With World Echo, he no longer needed any external detection equipment.
His senses followed the Strings of Law and spread across the globe in an instant.
Seven glaring points of light flared on the map in his mind.
Unlike powers born in this world, they did not exist in harmony with it.
They were nails.
Seven sharp nails driven into Blue Star's body, each radiating an alien presence.
Qin Chuan could even "hear" the World Will rejecting and suppressing these outsiders.
Every second, the world's laws worked to weaken them, trying to expel these "viruses."
But they spread their Divine Domains and stubbornly resisted, carving out territory on land that did not belong to them.
Qin Chuan's awareness swept over the seven lights one by one.
One blazed with the heat of fire and the aura of the forge, entrenched atop a vast Volcano Cluster.
One reeked of death and decay, turning an ancient swamp into a Dead Kingdom.
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