No one knew that a Paragon had silently been taken out by Hodan beyond the Plane Battlefield.
The Destruction clone returned to the Plane Battlefield and, relying on its speed, silently merged back into the true body once more. It was as though nothing had happened in the world.
Not long after, Oufu arrived at the disturbance in the Plane Battlefield and discovered that Magnus was indeed dead. Even his divine spark had been cleaved in two.
Only a Sovereign could have accomplished this. Even a Paragon could not so easily split a Highgod spark in half.
"This aura has never appeared before!" Oufu sensed the lingering aura of Sovereign's Might.
He found that it belonged to a Sovereign whose aura he had never encountered. After refining a Sovereign Spark, all power became the single source power known as Sovereign's Might.
Whether divine power or soul power, it was all the same thing. Every Sovereign's aura was likewise unique.
Although Hodan was not a Sovereign, using Sovereign's Might would inadvertently leave behind traces of his soul aura. After all, Hodan needed to mobilize the Willpower within his soul in order to traverse Spatial Turbulence and manipulate Sovereign's Might perfectly.
"Strange. Why would this unfamiliar Sovereign kill Magnus?" Oufu wondered. "Could one of his former enemies have accidentally acquired a Sovereign Spark and come to seek revenge?"
But no new Sovereign had been born recently. Given the nature of those gods, after ascending to the heavens in a single step, they could not possibly hide themselves away. They would reveal some trace of themselves sooner or later, yet there had been no word of a new Sovereign being born.
"Moreover, this unfamiliar Sovereign is clearly avoiding us veteran Sovereigns!" Oufu frowned deeply. A Sovereign was not frightening by itself. Oufu was