Downgrade?

Ryu slowly rose, his aura quietly becoming more oppressive. The things that he had claimed for himself, he had no intention of allowing anyone to touch. If others thought they could just take as they please, they were in for a rude awakening.

Even if Ryu didn't have such an intimate connection with the Chaos Plane, he would never allow the exploration of an all new plane to fall into the hands of the Martial Gods.

A new Plane didn't just represent new land, it represented a wealth of resources that had never been tapped into, a wealth of treasures humans and beasts hadn't tread upon, and a whole host of Heavenly Laws that had yet to be explored.