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Chapter 1020 Divine Ability Vs Concept.

The best way to kill transcendents is to inject their soul bodies with laws. This will make their existence impure. It will slow down their healing and bring them to their limit quicker. This also has the advantage of using a lesser amount of energy and power. 

The efficiency of brute force reduces as life evolves. A Sovereign of law with a body of law can still be forcefully broken apart with brute force. But brute force becomes largely useless against an Origin god. 

Laws are what give brute force efficiency. They are what give power the sharp edge needed to cut down a tree better than a club. Rinoz doesn't have the sharp edge needed to efficiently use her raw power. She lacks any sort of Authority. So she will need the assistance of Origin weapons to harm Origin gods at all. 

She is but a brute. Power without the means to exert it is power wasted. She can rely on her raw power and her divine ability to bully Sovereigns. Sovereigns haven't fused with their concepts so they can still fall victim to her divine ability. 

If not for the raw power that she has, then her divine ability wouldn't be able to harm Sovereigns at all. It is because her divine ability is lesser than the lowest grade of origin weapon. The lowest grade of origin weapon contains at least 1% of fully activated law fragments of a single pure law. Her divine ability doesn't have that. It has scattered law fragments fused together in a facsimile of an incomplete concept. 

Her divine ability is similar to that of the concept of a titan of law. The major difference is that her incomplete concept doesn't have any Authority. What's worse is that she doesn't even know anything about the laws that make it up. So how can her divine ability match up with a top-grade artifact with a complete concept? 

She got the answer to that question today. No matter how much she attacked the gate with it, it won't break open for her. She tested this hypothesis several times. She refused to believe the word of the fountain of life so easily. 

The gate was bombarded with as much power as she could summon. She even drew upon the boost that she bestowed on her army. The Warrogs dimmed while she became brighter. But all her attacks amounted to nothing. There wasn't even any crack on the gate.

Fenrir thought to himself with slight pity, "We have lost."

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Back To Ragnarok.

"So she was a bust at the end of the day. There was nothing to fear after all." Ragnarok said. "I was right. The child of the plane was overrated."

He can hear the continuous bangs of ineffective explosions from where he is. They are the evidence of the validity of his disdain for her and her title. He once expressed that disdain to the Emperiti Primogenitor and he was rebuked for it. He doubts Emperiti will do so now. 

He expected that she would fail. Others might not have any information about the power that the title of the child of the plane brings but he knows. He knows that the power can only boost what the wielder is already capable of. It can't do more than that. There needs to be a foundation to take advantage of the boost. Rinoz lacks that foundation because of her age.

The demon god grumbled inaudibly in his mind.

Ragnarok asked with a hint of amusement. "What are you unhappy about? Shouldn't you be happy now that I won't be killed by her?" 

"I was hoping that she would be able to pressure you with the threat of death and make you finally see reason." The demon god admitted.

"Is that why you wanted me to stay close to the surface?" 

The demon god didn't reply. It grumbled again. 

Ragnarok laughed. "It is your fault that you found me such a good place to hide. I noticed the top-grade gate but I didn't think much about it. But you, in your infinite wisdom chose this place for me to hide. And you also pointed out her weakness. Your arrangements led to her downfall. I must say that I might have misjudged you. You might be a great god."

The demon god ignored his teasing. It said, "Actually if I was so great, I should have known about her weakness before it became so glaring."

"So you have some gaps in your knowledge after all. No one is omniscient after all. How could you know about her when you haven't ever seen an existence like hers? She is unprecedented. She is not only a child of the plane, she is also a paragon. Tell me, how many children of the plane have you encountered?" Ragnarok asked.

"Several actually. It is the common defensive response of the will of a plane against an existential crisis. So I have actually fought several children of the plane. But I have not seen one created from the fusion of a paragon and the title. Races with paragons are very rare. I expected better from her. She is honestly a disappointment."

"Do you see? You have weaknesses just like everyone else. You might be a big shot capable of making the will of planes quake in fear but you are still ignorant about a lot of things. You still have a long way to go before you are perfect. How can I then become your slave and limit my future forever?" Ragnarok said.

The demon god sneered and said, "You are very lucky that Emperiti cares a lot about the devil's pit and built the barricade around it with top-grade origin artifacts many years ago. If she didn't, then you wouldn't be mouthing off now."

"Then I have to thank her. I find her hospitality to be of the highest quality. The defenses must have cost a lot to make."

"Yes, they cost a lot. Vampires can't forge and they can't use origin artifacts either. Emperiti kidnapped the descendant of an origin god and threatened to turn the descendant into a "soulless vampire" unless the origin god forged the defenses for her." The demon god explained.