Thus, Augustine—the one most likely to ascend to an Eighth-Tier God King in tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of years—lost all his Dominions and fell! However, the gods who had participated in the siege gained little as well. Fifty-one percent of the Dominion of [Justice and Thunder] had fallen into the wizards' hands. Even if a single god controlled all the remaining Dominion, they still could not use it to ascend to God King.
Moreover, the other gods could not simply watch their interests be surrendered. Another round of open and covert conflict followed.
By comparison, the wizards' side was far more harmonious. Their purpose in obtaining this Dominion was simple: research it and attempt to find a new path of advancement. All they needed was to form a research group and study it together.
In fact, if not for the need to weaken the gods' faction, the wizards would have been willing to yield even that fifty-one percent of the Dominion. After all, for Demigod wizards, Dominion was not that important. It was not enough to let them take an entirely new step forward.
Instead, they would soon be constrained by the Dominion and end up walking the path of the gods!
Walking backward...
The wizards were not that foolish.
Isaac was not particularly shocked that Augustine had survived. Gods were inherently difficult to kill. Even the Lord of Billions of Flesh and Blood, who was not even Seventh Tier, had been like that; Augustine, at the Peak Seventh Tier, was even more so. Although Augustine had faced more and stronger opponents, completely killing him was still no easy task.
What surprised Isaac was that Augustine had awakened so quickly!
Something was not right about that!
Augustine had even had his Dominions divided among others, stripped