Lord of Ashes
Chapter 1979

Retreat and Make a Desperate Stand

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Divine Descendant Star Region's main battlefield.

Facing three alone was also a battle of immense pressure for Marduk.

Although he possessed Level-7 Peak combat power, and his divine portfolio attributes even carried a hint of omniscience and omnipotence.

Marduk had one major shortcoming: he was too "all-powerful," making him seem somewhat "mediocre" overall, without any particularly outstanding strength.

This condition also made his charge toward the Level 8 realm incomparably difficult.

Had he focused on a single divine portfolio and path of laws back then, with the Divine Descendant World's overall foundation no weaker than Faelun Continent's, Marduk would probably have already reached Level 8 by now, wouldn't he?

Marduk's omniscience and omnipotence were fundamentally different from the deep accomplishments and research that the Wizard World's veteran True Spirit Magicians had achieved across every field.

Marduk's omniscience and omnipotence had been attained by plundering the divine portfolios and godheads of others.

The True Spirit Magicians of Wizard Civilization, however, had discovered it themselves through long years of research in their laboratories.

Though Marduk would also engage in divergent thinking and deliberation after obtaining divine portfolios in relevant fields, his path of growth was clearly fundamentally different from that of Wizard World magicians, who laid their foundations step by step beginning from the underlying logic.

Moreover, the three opponents Marduk faced were no ordinary figures.

Apart from commanding the Power of Luck of the entire imperial dynasty, the Tianming Emperor Gongsun Wuji's biological father and adoptive father were both absolutely among the finest of their level across the entire Star Realm.

Although the two had departed one after another, Gongsun Wuji, who had inherited part of both their legacies, still had few rivals among those of the same rank.

At the beginning, Marduk had suppressed him mainly because his "omnipotent characteristics"

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