Strictly speaking, the strongest among those of Heaven's Mandate should have been the Mother of Sea Monsters.
The Mother of Sea Monsters had occupied the Storm Sea for so many years. Had the others of Heaven's Mandate never thought of killing her?
Of course they had, but there was nothing they could do to her.
Even though she had no reason, even though her need to devour the Storm Ancient God's corpse kept her confined.
Even without reason, fighting on instinct alone, the Mother of Sea Monsters could stand on equal footing with the others of Heaven's Mandate.
That showed how powerful she was.
But because the Mother of Sea Monsters had no consciousness and had been tethered here by the Storm Ancient God's corpse for over ten thousand years,
she was never included in these matters.
Now, the Mother of Sea Monsters had not only devoured the Storm Ancient God's corpse but also drawn upon living beings' fear of the Storm Sea during the Age of Exploration, along with the rudimentary faith of the sea monsters that had kept reproducing over those ten thousand years, to ascend to Greater Power in a single stroke!
And through some unknown maneuver by the Fate Overlord, she had also gained reason!
It was hard to say who was stronger now, her or the War Overlord's true body.
But it was no exaggeration to say that, throughout the entire Main Plane, she would be the strongest being for the coming year.
A year was enough for her to slaughter her way from one end of the world to the other!
The Mother of Sea Monsters slowly turned her pitch-black, grotesque face toward the utterly horrified Wizard Speaker:
"...Enemy... kill..."
Those halting words sent a chill through the Wizard Speaker.
Without the slightest hesitation,