Azhdaha's Explanation; Xiao Prepares to Crush Some Small Fry

After hearing Xiao's somewhat expectant words, Azhdaha hesitated for a moment before helplessly speaking.

"Brother Xiao, you should... well, don't get your hopes up too high. If you're thinking of finding a few opponents who can serve as whetstones for you, or who are evenly matched with you, you'd be better off giving up on that idea."

There was no helping it!

To keep Brother Xiao from building up too many expectations, it was better to make him give up early.

He was doing this for Brother Xiao's own good.

There was no helping it! Xiao's strength was simply in a different league from the powers of both the Empire and the Demon Country Federation.

To put it simply, those stronger than him were far too strong, surpassing him by several major realms outright!

As for those weaker than him, they could not fight him at all. They would be crushed outright and were of no use as whetstones or practice opponents.

According to the intelligence Morax had sent over, there were absolutely fewer than ten people in the entire Empire who had both the ability and qualifications to fight Xiao.

Emperor Rudra, or Michael, and Marshal Velgrend, the Burning Dragon, needed no further mention. Even if Xiao advanced to become an Awakened Demon King, he still would not be able to defeat those two.

Among the rest, only the powerful knights within the Emperor's Royal Guard Knights whose sequence numbers were in the single digits could fight Xiao.

Xiao's current combat power had already surpassed that of an ordinary Awakened Demon King. Even among those knights with single-digit sequence numbers, only the very few at the very top were qualified to be Xiao's opponents.

And in the current battle, it was obvious that the single-digit members of the Emperor's