The entire thousand-meter-deep pit had been filled with corpses. Hodan had once read that stacking the world's seven or eight billion people together would make a pyramid roughly 800 meters tall. Now, he had filled a thousand-meter-deep pit with corpses.
It was easy to imagine how frenzied Hodan's slaughter had been. It was also easy to imagine just how many Saint-level magical beasts he had bought and dumped into the pit.
After ten years of slaughter, Hodan's strength had undergone a dramatic transformation. First, his understanding of the Fate Element had brushed against the threshold of Asura level. Although Hodan had already possessed Asura-level strength, that didn't mean his comprehension of the Fate Element had reached Asura level. Now, he was about to live up to the title.
Next were his Destruction Clone and Death Clone. These two had made the greatest progress. First, the Destruction God Clone had finally reached Highgod level after all the slaughter and the boost from refining Sovereign's Might. It was now a Five-Star Fiend, and the fastest-growing of all his Divine Clones.
His Death God Clone had also reached Mid-God level and was nearing its peak. After all, countless living beings had died at Hodan's hands during those ten years of frenzied slaughter. Nothing could bring Hodan closer to death than this. He had turned the entire area where he'd planted the Life Fruit Tree into the Ten Thousand God Pit—a burial ground for countless god-level experts.
He had also found the point of compatibility for the Violent Profound Mystery of the Thunder Element during those ten years, and it was now rapidly fusing with the other mysteries. A third of the fusion was complete. He believed it would be fully fused in another ten or twenty years. After all, the early stages of