A Daring Gamble: Ninth Order

A mage represented far more than just themselves. Each of them commanded even more Eighth-Order combat power.

Some mages who had originally been Eighth-Order beings had condensed vast quantities of Eighth-Order Sword Qi. A very few had even condensed Ninth-Order Sword Qi as well.

But reaching the Half-Step Ninth Order did not mean one would definitely break through after attaining the Eighth-Order Peak.

They had all been stuck at the Eighth-Order Peak.

Even with the Mage World's explosive increase in numbers, it still lagged behind the Chaos World in the number of top-tier powerhouses. One could only imagine how many Eighth-Order experts existed within the Chaos World.

The current era was also known as the Age of the Strong, because far too many powerful beings had been born within the Void.

The status of Eighth-Order experts had plummeted, becoming only slightly higher than the status Seventh-Order experts had held in the past.

As the era shifted, the Mage World had also quietly released some information about Ninth Order.

The other members of the alliance had learned that, before long, they might face a reckoning from Ninth Order.

Thus, aside from the Mage World, the other three worlds desperately hoped that one of their own would give birth to a Ninth-Order being.

Things had progressed far more smoothly than the Magic World had expected. Over eighty million years, through constant cooperation, they had destroyed one top-tier great world after another.

This had given the Abyss a measure of trust in the Mage World. After all, the Mage World's logic of action was almost identical to Yang Mu's: they basically would not stab their own people in the back.

Thus, over these years, the Abyss had deeply experienced the benefits of being the Mage World's ally. Before a war even began, there