35. God I Once Banished, Know Your Place! Now

Chapter 757: 35. God I Once Banished, Know Your Place! Today, You Challenge Me!—Bonus Chapter [15]

(Bonus chapter for word count variation [1/5])

Surrounded by twin spheres of black and white, Diakum possessed a distinctive aura unlike those other gaudy Lesser Gods.

Especially as he stood tall upon this collapsing land, confronting the incarnation of the Dark Titan—his imposing presence, not inferior in the slightest, fully proved that his current power and state far surpassed those of an ordinary Lesser God.

Had he become a True God?

Clearly, not yet.

Though the path leading to a Force True God was now incomparably clear, and he merely had to continue along his current course to reach his destination, once one had reached this level of life, leaps in power became difficult to achieve.

He was not, after all, a naturally great lifeform like a Star Soul. Born a mortal, he was destined to climb one step at a time.

Yet while his status had not reached that level, his strength had clearly surpassed the category of Lesser Gods.

What a joke. Even when Diakum had still been a Perfect Demigod, he had already chopped off the heads of plenty of Lesser Gods—though the Lesser Gods of the Sea of Darkness, who embodied concepts of lesser power, were admittedly not worth much.

But after the long trials of the Shadowlands, Diakum had clearly become able to wield great power with effortless mastery. After all, he was someone who had chatted and laughed with the Eternal Ones, and accomplished the true feat of slaying gods in the Sepulcher of the First Ones.

What annoyed the Vigilant somewhat was that, at the moment he completed Holy Sun Rebirth and truly crossed the boundary between man and god to become a Lesser God, the Character