Rivalry

"Had it already reached this point?"

Feeling the radiant, dazzling solar divine power ahead, which had reached the pinnacle of what mortals could attain, Garfina and the others sighed softly. By now, they all realized how dire the situation was.

Their opponent was far more powerful than they had imagined.

Even though they had repeatedly overestimated him, it was only when they faced him directly that they could feel the Sun King's terror.

He had already surpassed the ordinary Seventh Tier, approaching the peak of the Seventh Tier.

And with this magnificent city before them, his strength was even more terrifying. They feared that even a peak Seventh Tier being would be unable to defeat him here.

After all, this was the City of the Sun.

This was the Sun King's stronghold, the location of his earthly divine kingdom.

Over countless years, the Sun King had cultivated this place to great prosperity. After so many years of accumulation, it had long since reached a terrifying level.

Even an ordinary Sun Priest would be bolstered by solar divine power while within the City of the Sun, silently growing stronger and more formidable, and gaining power comparable to that of a greater being.

If even an ordinary Priest was like that, then the Sun King, its true master, was all the more so.

At that moment, under Qimudan and the others' gaze, the City of the Sun was awakening. Everything within it seemed to be changing.

Faint golden radiance surged skyward, and boundless light blanketed everything, enveloping the entire area.

It was pure solar divine power. Now, as the Sun King emerged from within, it began to well forth of its own accord, continuously bolstering him and making his figure appear even more dazzling and sacred in its glow.

Boundless radiance enveloped