What it meant to be the world's foremost King

The Ninth-Level Strange Entity Clan.

The Strange Entity Clan's reigning Dark Monarch was indisputably the world's foremost King.

Even the Heavenly Punishment Continent dared not confront their King head-on. Whenever they encountered him, they had to give him a wide berth. He represented the absolute pinnacle of power in the world!

And now.

They were about to ask the King to act personally against a mere Sixth-Level Continent.

It was undoubtedly a mad plan.

The Old Strange Entity standing at the front took a storybook from his robes and spoke calmly.

"Have you ever read human storybooks?"

"There's a story in this book where the protagonist offended a powerful organization. That organization sent outer disciples, inner disciples, outer elders, inner elders, personal disciples, its First Elder, and its sect master after him, one after another. Yet the protagonist killed every last one of them."

"Only at the very end did they send their Grand Supreme Elder."

"But by then, too much time had passed. The protagonist had grown strong enough to kill the Grand Supreme Elder instead, and the organization was utterly destroyed."

"Yet at the beginning."

"The protagonist's strength wasn't even remotely on the same level as that organization."

"They wouldn't even have needed to send the Grand Supreme Elder at the start. Sending the First Elder would have prevented that outcome."

"When I first read that story, I fell silent for a long time.

"I wondered."

"Why was that organization so stupid?"

"But then I thought about it again. They weren't really wrong to do that. They couldn't send their First Elder out personally for every little thing, especially when they hadn't recognized the protagonist's potential at the beginning."

"I decided then that we must never make the same mistake."

"The Mortal Domain's potential is already beyond dispute."