Augusta Family Ambush

"He's dead." Audebeu was overjoyed and directly took a badge from the corpse.

He then looked at the other two and asked, "Sean, Torres, how should we divide this badge?"

"One each, taking turns," Sean replied directly.

However, his gaze fell upon the Sovereign Artifact beside Livas's corpse. The Soul Pearl's terrifying desire to devour surfaced once more.

"Fine. This one goes to me first. For the next one, whichever of you contributes more will get it." Audebeu smiled. "If I gather the badges needed for the third Sovereign Artifact first, I'll help you afterward as well."

Sean and Torres had no objections. The three remained where they were, waiting for the Sovereign's Might in their bodies to dissipate. Otherwise, wherever they went, they would be glaringly conspicuous.

Torres smiled. "Livas was an emissary of the Radiant Lord God from the Bright God Plane. The Light Law excels at souls and speed, not physical attack or defense. If he had chosen a Defense Sovereign Artifact, it really would have been difficult for us to kill him."

Audebeu said, "He probably thought that with an Offensive Lord God Artifact, he'd have a better chance of obtaining enough badges in the Plane Battlefield. It was a gamble."

"Too bad he gambled himself to death."

Sean was actually in much the same situation. Before Beirut appeared, once those experts who had trained their souls to the peak obtained a Defense Sovereign Artifact, they would have virtually no weaknesses.

But while they had no weaknesses, they also had no advantages. Killing others would become difficult as well.

To pursue two Sovereign Artifacts, many experts might take such a gamble. If they won, they would truly stand at the pinnacle.

It was simply too dangerous. In the original story, if Leis Jing had not been the son of a Lord God, he would probably have been killed long ago.

A few minutes later, the Sovereign's Might dissipated. Audebeu said, "Let's go. A major battle just took place here. Someone may come over."

"Shouldn't we set up an ambush?" Sean asked in return.

Audebeu smiled. "Anyone daring to come investigate is either a peak expert or part of a team. It'll be too difficult to kill them. The three of us aren't actually that strong as a team. Don't ambush someone else only to get ourselves killed."

"That's true." Sean nodded.

He glanced at the Sovereign Artifact on the ground but did not take it. He had now discovered another problem: when he was with his companions, how was he supposed to secretly take a dead person's Sovereign Artifact?

Moreover, he could not take the Sovereign Artifacts of the Seven Star Fiends he killed himself. Their divine clones were outside, and if the Lord Gods could not find their own Sovereign Artifacts, they could still trace the clues back to him.

The only solution seemed to be picking up Sovereign Artifacts from people killed by other teams—and he would need to leave his current team?

If he could do that, then as long as a Lord God's divine sense did not discover him while he collected a Sovereign Artifact, he would be safe. That possibility should be low. After all, Linley had undergone soul mutation in the Plane Battlefield for decades without being discovered by any Lord God.

But how to leave the team was also a difficult problem. It did not seem easy for him to bring it up.

Several decades later, the three-man team encountered two more enemies on the Netherworld side. But after exchanging blows, they discovered that they simply could not kill them. After wasting several drops of Sovereign's Might, they could only give up. Most of the others, meanwhile, were on their own side.

"Looks like we need to go over there." Audebeu looked toward the Star River.

"Then let's go." Sean agreed.

Torres nodded as well.

After the three reached an agreement, they came to the Star River, found a suitable route, and crossed directly. Their luck was good. They did not encounter the enemy's army and successfully slipped into the other side.

On enemy territory, all three began lying low. They hid in a cave and used Death God Puppets to search for targets.

A hundred years passed in the blink of an eye, yet they still had not found a suitable target. The Plane Battlefield remained exceedingly desolate.

"There are enemies!" Torres said again. "Three of them."

"Three? Who are they?" Audebeu asked.

Torres closed his eyes for a moment before opening them. "It's Benfield from the Heavenly Realm. One of his companions destroyed my Death God Puppet."

"Benfield? That damned turtle shell? We can't kill him either." Audebeu immediately lost interest and wanted to go back to sleep.

Suddenly, a powerful surge of energy erupted nearby.

"Sovereign's Might." Sean was also surprised. "Benfield used Sovereign's Might to find us."

As long as one did not fear exposing oneself, then after seeing a Death God Puppet, using Sovereign's Might would naturally make it very likely to locate whoever was hiding nearby.

"Prepare for battle. Sean, protect Torres." Audebeu knew they would certainly be discovered and reminded him, "Benfield has two defensive Sovereign Artifacts, and his Soul Attack is extremely terrifying."

"I know." Sean nodded.

Leaving aside the fact that Benfield had appeared in the original story, even if he had not, Sean basically knew all the peak experts of the God Planes.

"Haha, Audebeu, Torres, and you must be Sean, the one who just became a Lord God Emissary." A mocking voice rang out.

Boom! The earth above the cave split apart as a burly horned man wearing gauntlets slammed down.

Suddenly, a black spear shot through the collapsing rocks and stabbed directly at the horned man. Boom! The two were blasted apart by the recoil.

A peak expert of the Destruction Rule faced a peak expert of the Earth Law. Both possessed Sovereign Artifacts suited to their attributes, so neither had much of an advantage.

Sean directly confronted Benfield, because he knew the other woman possessed a Soul Defense Lord God Artifact and was a special divine beast. Torres, who had an Offensive Physical Lord God Artifact, was the most suitable opponent for her.

Benfield looked at Sean but did not attack immediately. Instead, he asked, "I heard you killed Tashan, the emissary of the Black Tortoise Lord God of the Four Divine Beasts, and slaughtered over a thousand members of the Four Divine Beasts Family. Haha, if we weren't enemies, I'd even want to invite you for a few drinks."

"You have a grudge against the Four Divine Beasts Family?" Sean was in no hurry. In any case, it would be hard for either side to determine the outcome of this fight.

Benfield sighed. "Not really. But those people are always offending my family. Yet all I can do is endure it. It makes me extremely unhappy."

"Haha, it seems the world has suffered under the Four Divine Beasts Family for a long time." Sean smiled, then looked at the battles on either side. "Why don't we stop? There doesn't seem to be any point in continuing like this."

"Under normal circumstances, I'd agree." Benfield smiled faintly. "But things are different now."

"What do you mean?" Sean was about to ask when he suddenly noticed several more experts sneaking closer from ten thousand meters away. He recognized them as experts of the Augusta Family.

Without another word, Sean immediately sent a mental message. "Audebeu, Torres, run! Other experts are approaching nearby."

"What?" Audebeu and Torres did not doubt his message. They immediately unleashed their strongest attacks, then retreated at high speed.

Before Benfield and the Augusta Family could react, the three immediately fled in three different directions.

PS: Please vote with your monthly tickets.