Hermes had a deep and unique understanding of Will Power. He divided it into two main categories:
Sovereign Spark Willpower and Soul Willpower.
According to this theory,
Sovereign Spark Willpower was considered an eternal, unchanging force, unaffected by external factors. It was the Will Power contained within the Sovereign Spark itself.
All Will Power acquired through other means, whether by refining a Sovereign Spark, reaching perfection in laws or rules, or earning a reward for ten consecutive victories on the Plane Battlefield, belonged to the category of Soul Willpower.
According to Hermes, refining a Sovereign Spark allowed a Sovereign God Clone to gain a complete measure of Grand Perfection Willpower, while a non-Sovereign God Clone could gain only eighty percent.
Likewise, reaching Grand Perfection in a law or rule could earn one measure of Will Power bestowed by heaven and earth.
In addition, special individuals like Linley could also earn Soul Willpower as a reward through Four-Element Soul Mutation and the fusion of four types of Anomalous Mysteries.
Although these rewards differed in quantity, they were all essentially Soul Willpower, because they directly enhanced the soul rather than a Sovereign Spark or Divine Spark.
Hermes believed that the Soul Willpower acquired after birth was vastly inferior in quantity to Sovereign Spark Willpower.
Even a Lower Sovereign God who had fused with no Mysteries of the Laws could easily slap a Paragon High God to death.
Even if a Paragon High God acquired several measures of Soul Willpower, it still couldn't reverse this fundamental disadvantage.
The idea that a Paragon could defeat a Sovereign God just by gaining a few extra measures of Soul Willpower was complete nonsense.
And yet!
Acquiring Soul Willpower was still a game changer for those who weren't Paragons.
Gaining Will Power wasn't merely an increase in