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"I pity the kids of this rite of passage." Legion-7 said for the umpteenth time. "You are just like the dragon bullies that participate in the trial of heaven."

That made Legion-5 shrug without guilt. He said, "They have to show me why they are Supreme or they will drown in the shadow of despair."

The young Supreme beasts can surely combine different divine abilities to threaten him so he is not going to underestimate them, but his existence as a giant to be overcome is not disputable. He is the challenge to beat not the other way around. They need to up their game if they don't want to drown in the shadow that he will cast on them.

He doesn't even need to use the comprehended laws to gain an advantage. He is already ahead of them and his advantage will remain until they become Origin gods. They would have combined all the seeds of power then and truly become Supreme. But until then, his dominance has to be challenged.

And during the process where they throw everything they have at him, he will learn and become stronger. So at the end of the day, the young Supreme beasts are not his competitors, they are just going to test just how invulnerable and without weakness he is.

He is looking forward to it honestly. After all, if he can't handle whatever they use to try to take him down, he should not hope to be able to match world gods and their supreme laws.

So he said with excitement, "Let's get this rite of passage going. We have a plane to conquer and some gods to hunt."

Next, he put up the last seed of power in the exchange section of the reward list. It is the seed of power that belongs to the switch race. With it, they will be able to gain control of world power which is something they lack so it should be very valuable.

Every supreme beast can see it and they can make offers to him in exchange for it. He will sell it to the highest bidder. By the looks of things, that price will be very high because someone added information that Legion-5 didn't know. They said that the switch race gain an increase in the refinement of Origin essence as Origin gods. It increased the value of the divine ability.

Legion-7 said to him, "These young things should not be underestimated. They are not wise but they are hardly ignorant. They have connections to information that we may not know."

He was pitying them earlier but he has changed his tune now. They didn't know about the ability of the Origin gods of the races of the plane that finish the full awakening of their divine ability because they were not told by the Supreme Alliance. So they were ignorant of that knowledge but a young Supreme beasts knew.

It could simply be because they are more active than him in the plane and we're able to acquire more information or that they have a better source of information that he can't gain by speaking with the inhabitants of the plane. Either way, Legion-5 was not concerned.

Legion-5 just shrugged which is the same reaction he gave earlier when Legion-7 expressed false concern for the young Supreme beasts. He said again, "They have to show me why they are Supreme or they will drown in the shadow of despair."

His attention was diverted at that point by the notification from the base.

[First Battle Suit completed. Please Inspect]

His base had entered its production mode. Energy from the engine room was redirected to the printing press to create battle suits. More bots were also created to mine for resources.

He inspected the battle suit with his divine sense and he didn't find anything wrong with it so he didn't order the base to make changes to its process. Next, he checked his base for anything out of place before he rushed out of it.

He left his base into his hex for the first time since he began assimilating divine abilities. The first thing he did was to examine his surroundings for traps. He didn't find any and there were no stalkers or intruders. Then he turned his attention to the adjoining hexes where there were two other bases.

"It seems my neighbors are doing well," Legion-7 said after seeing their bigger and stronger base.

But then he saw golems within their bases.

He said, "I was wrong. They must be doing extraordinarily well if they are even rich enough to acquire golems. I am very envious."

Legion-5 said with a grin. "I think it is time for me to go and collect rent. It is the cure for envy."

The hexes of his two neighbors have changed. The environment around their bases is being prowled by hundreds of bots searching and digging for ores. They have also produced autonomous golems or robots and not battle suits like he did.

Golems are more powerful than battle suits. They don't require manpower to use them so they can be used alone without manpower and they are completely loyal but that makes them expensive. Battlesuits on the other hand are hollow for manpower to wear like heavy armor so they are cheaper.

Legion-7 agreed with his suggested cure. "The fact that they are rich enough for golems shows that they are rich enough to be extorted."

Legion-5 said as he flew over their place, "No. The fact that we are envious of them is enough for us to extort them."

These two bases are on the hexes connected to the sea of despair. Unlike him who employed a transcendent merchant group and stayed couped up in his base, these two employed merchant groups with Sovereigns and have been very busy refining the resources they gained.

Sovereigns search better and faster than titans of law and they have better connections for the acquisition of resources so these two bases have left him behind in terms of manpower. But that obviously isn't all there is to strength or he won't be so brazen as to approach them for rent.