The Minghe Empire had indeed been beaten badly in recent times, but even cornered in its own home and taking a beating, this top-level Death Element civilization was not entirely without the strength to strike back.
The first opportunity came from a Level-7 Mid-Stage Pharaoh King named Anlipuya.
Among the Pharaoh Kings of the Minghe Empire, Anlipuya's strength was not particularly outstanding.
However, his mother was a name that resounded like thunder throughout the Minghe Empire—the Fifth Pharaoh King!
In the 471st year of the Minghe World Defense War, Anlipuya, whose heart was linked to his mother's, suddenly felt a piercing pain.
Almost instantly, Anlipuya clutched his heart and knew that something had happened to his mother.
And it was not merely something that had just happened.
His mother had likely already...
A faint, cryptic whisper of death arose beside Anlipuya's ear.
No one knew what method the Fifth Pharaoh King Naiyatipu had used before her death, but this powerful Level-8 being known as the "Flayer" had somehow transmitted a trace of her voice into Anlipuya's mind at the moment of her death, bestowing one final gift upon her son.
"Try to live on, my child~" The voice of the Fifth Pharaoh King Naiyatipu softly echoed beside Anlipuya's ear before finally fading away completely.
An incomparably dense Power of Death immediately poured into Anlipuya's body, then erupted in every direction with him at its center!
This Power of Death was both an outburst of strength born from Anlipuya's extreme grief.
It was also the Fifth Pharaoh King's final act before death—using some secret art to pass her last reserves of power to her only descendant.
In short, these Level-8 Dominators of the Star Realm often possessed extraordinarily powerful abilities that outsiders found impossible to fathom.
Compared to Level-8 beings, Level-7