The Overgod Who Dared Not Show Himself

Wyatt's voice once again reached Ashcroft's ears.

This golden spear, radiating a terrifying aura of lightning, was naturally the Sovereign Artifact Azure Dragon had bestowed upon Wyatt when he became Azure Dragon's Sovereign's Emissary.

After reaching Paragon, Wyatt had never had an opportunity to use it. This was his first time using it since becoming a Paragon.

Since he had chosen to act, and before so many divine beings in Mingshe City at that, Wyatt naturally intended to show them all just how vast the gap between ordinary divine beings and a Paragon truly was.

At the same time, this move was meant to tell the family powers of every plane that opposing the Four Divine Beasts Family would lead only to death!

"Bzzz!!!"

As he activated the golden Sovereign Artifact in his hand, the spear let out a humming cry like that of a roaming dragon!

Merely activating this Sovereign Artifact caused the space around Wyatt to show faint signs of fracturing.

Holding the golden spear, his strange purple hair fluttered in the wind. Lightning flashed continuously around him, while purple arrows kept shooting down and slaughtering members of the Mingshe Family.

All these sights came together, making Wyatt seem like a Demon God.

"Damn it, the Mingshe Family is practically on the verge of extermination! Why hasn't the Black Water Sovereign appeared yet? Could it be that he hasn't noticed what is happening here at all?"

Feeling the terrifying aura behind him, one powerful enough to kill him, Ashcroft was frantic to the extreme.

The Black Water Sovereign Ashcroft spoke of was naturally the Overgod who had taken him in as a Sovereign's Emissary.

Back then, it was this Black Water Sovereign who had been friends with Ashcroft's father, Nether Serpent.

In Ashcroft's mind, the Black Water Sovereign should not have stood by and watched the Mingshe Family be destroyed. Yet now, there was not the slightest sign of the Black Water Sovereign appearing.

How could Ashcroft have known that it was not that the Black Water Sovereign did not want to appear, but that he could not and did not dare to?

The Black Water Sovereign, who had always resided in the Netherworld, had actually noticed the events in Mingshe City long ago.

It was not just the Black Water Sovereign. At this moment, most of the Overgods in the Netherworld were watching Wyatt's battle in Mingshe City.

These Overgods were bored as well. A Paragon making a move was enough to draw their attention.

If some other Paragon had sought to destroy the Mingshe Family, perhaps the Black Water Sovereign would have intervened to stop him.

But this Paragon happened to be Wyatt, and Wyatt was a member of the Four Divine Beasts Family.

Though the Black Water Sovereign was an Overgod, he was merely a Lower God.

And he was not even a Paragon Lower God.

When facing the domineering Four Divine Beasts, such a weak Overgod had to be extremely careful.

The Black Water Sovereign estimated that if he stopped Wyatt one second, the Four Divine Beasts would arrive in the Netherworld the next.

There was an agreement among Overgods that those of higher rank could not casually attack those of lower rank. But that was only on the condition that the lower-ranked Overgods did not provoke the powerful ones.

A Paragon like Wyatt was the banner of the Four Divine Beasts Family. Touching Wyatt would almost inevitably lead to conflict with the Four Divine Beasts.

Given the Four Divine Beasts' domineering nature, the Black Water Sovereign had no desire to offend them over such matters.

Taking Ashcroft as his Sovereign's Emissary and offering the family a little support was already the limit of what the Black Water Sovereign was willing to do.

Now that this family had brought destruction upon itself, the Black Water Sovereign was powerless to help.

How could Ashcroft, a mere Seven-Star Demon, possibly be qualified to know such secrets between Overgods?

Naturally, the Black Water Sovereign would not take the initiative to tell Ashcroft about something that would damage his own dignity.

This pitiful patriarch of the Mingshe Family had always believed that, with an Overgod as his backer, he could at least contend somewhat with the Four Divine Beasts Family.

The more arrogant this patriarch of the Mingshe Family had been before Wyatt appeared, the more wretched he looked while fleeing now.

"Ashcroft, you may die now."

A golden dragon phantom flickered in and out of existence above the golden spear in Wyatt's hand.

After the dragon's roar faded, Wyatt directly hurled the golden spear from his hand. Golden light flashed, dyeing the entire Nether Serpent Valley where Mingshe City stood in a golden hue!

"Aah?!!"

A horrified cry burst from Ashcroft's mouth.

Ashcroft discovered in terror that no matter how he dodged, the golden spear behind him was like a true divine beast, viciously stabbing toward his body!

"Sizzle!!"

Accompanied by the sound of a dragon's roar, the golden spear tore through the air.

From an unknown distance of tens of thousands of meters away, the golden spear pierced directly through Ashcroft's chest. Then, as chaotic lightning power surged forth, his body exploded with a boom. Not even his Spatial Ring remained; only a High-God Divine Spark was left behind!

This patriarch of the Mingshe Family, this powerful Sovereign's Emissary, could not even withstand a single move from Wyatt!

"The patriarch... the patriarch has fallen!"

"Run! There's no meaning in continuing to fight. The gap between us and a Paragon is too great. Preserving the Mingshe Family bloodline is what matters most!"

The Mingshe Family members naturally witnessed their patriarch's fall.

While despair filled their hearts, all their fighting spirit vanished in an instant, and they began scattering in every direction to flee.

But was escaping beneath the gaze of a Paragon truly realistic?

Although the Mingshe Family had many people in Mingshe City and the odds of successfully escaping by scattering were high, how could a Paragon possibly lack a way to deal with that?

"Rise!"

Wyatt spread his arms slightly as the power of the laws continuously circulated within him. In an instant, Mingshe City was enveloped by a pale-purple Lightning Prison!

Light flickered across the Lightning Prison, making the entire Mingshe City seem as though it stood within an ocean of lightning!

Whenever Mingshe Family members attempting to flee touched the surrounding Lightning Prison, they were immediately sent flying backward by the backlash, blood gushing from their mouths.

Even the Seven-Star Demons of the Mingshe Family were momentarily helpless against this enormous Lightning Prison.

The arrows in the sky no longer rained down, but fewer than one in ten of the Mingshe Family members remained alive.

It was not only the Mingshe Family members. Those divine beings who had not managed to leave Mingshe City were trapped within it as well.

"I said it before. Before me, you are nothing more than a group of ants. Killing you is even easier than crushing an ant."

With a casual wave, the golden Sovereign Artifact spear radiating lightning flew directly back into Wyatt's hand.

As he looked down upon these defeated survivors, a smile suddenly appeared on Wyatt's lips.

Looking at the Mingshe Family members trapped within the Lightning Prison, Wyatt spoke calmly:

"How about we play a game together? I will give you two choices. First, I make a move and kill every one of you here. Second, you act yourselves. The last person alive will be allowed to leave, and I will not intervene."

Wyatt's voice was calm, but it made the surviving Mingshe Family members' hearts skip a beat.

They could see it clearly now. Wyatt was plainly treating their Netherworld super family as a toy.

"Hmph, Wyatt, what do you take the Mingshe Family for? Members of the Mingshe Family may die standing, but do you truly think anyone among us would agree to such a ridiculous demand?"

A somewhat disdainful laugh rang out at that moment.

The speaker was a tall, burly man, one of the Seven-Star Demon elders of the Mingshe Family.

(End of Chapter)