Chapter 296: Chapter 11: Grand Ceremony Opening, Dragon Race Promotion Ceremony (2)

A sea of people covered the steel ground, while vast numbers of Demon Beasts soared through the low sky, letting out impassioned roars. Among them, the Saint Tier Demon Beasts, there to build the atmosphere, manifested their largest possible elemental forms.

At that moment, colossal beings thousands, even tens of thousands, of meters in size could be seen in the sky, their forms outlining the horizon like vibrant clouds.

And now, the grand spectacle in each area was being captured by the AI’s drones, the synchronized feeds broadcast onto countless screens.

Watching these scenes unfold on the giant screens projected by the Intelligent Mechanisms.

Seated among the more than six hundred thousand spectators of High Tier and above, Adelaide and Sophie were completely stunned by the sight!

They never could have imagined it.

The Star Empire’s claim that it possessed the Divine Favor of six hundred thousand High Tier individuals was actually true!

’Are you kidding me?’

’Six hundred thousand at the High Tier?’

’Never mind six hundred thousand at the High Tier!’

’Back in the Karte Continent’s golden age, they would have been burning incense and thanking the gods for just ten thousand High Tier experts.’

After all, the death rate in the Underground City was extremely high, and every advancement to a new Grand Tier was a life-or-death crisis.

Therefore, to say the entire continent had ten thousand High Tier experts was an overstatement.

Normally, if the entire world of the Karte Continent could maintain around five thousand High Tier beings, it was considered quite good.

And Saint Tier? Even fewer!

At least, in their memories, there had never been a time when the number of Saint Tier beings on the Karte Continent exceeded five hundred.

However, what they didn’t know was that the situation on the Oakland Continent was much the same.

After all, High Tier experts didn’t grow on trees. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Every single High Tier expert was the main defensive power for a city or a region.

Even if the Oakland Continent was stronger than the Karte Continent in its prime, maintaining seven to eight thousand High Tier experts during any peak era was its absolute limit.

As for Saint Tier beings, excluding the Dragon Race, eight hundred was considered the limit.

After all, it was extremely difficult for even a single Saint Tier expert to appear in an ordinary Kingdom, and the Deities themselves would intentionally control the number of Saints.

This was because having too many Saint Tier, or even High Tier, individuals had a significant impact on a region’s Magic Environment.

Therefore, taking the Deities of the Oakland Continent as an example, each deity would deliberately keep the number of even Pseudo-Saints under their command to around five.

Occasionally, a deity might bestow more blessings upon the mortal world, but under normal circumstances, a single deity would maintain a number that could be counted on two hands at most.

’And what about the Star Empire’s situation now?’

’Two thousand at the Saint Tier?’

’What kind of joke is this?’

’And judging by their auras, the vast majority of these two thousand Saints actually followed the orthodox path? Not Pseudo-Saints created through a Deity’s grace?’

’Have we gone mad, or has the world gone mad?’

’Since when did advancing to the Saint Tier become this easy?’

’Besides, could they even supply enough Elemental Life Heart Cores for so many?’

’And on top of that, High Tier experts were appearing in such numbers, as common as dirt?’

’Six hundred thousand???’

’One world? Could even two worlds really support this many High Tier beings?’

At that moment, both of them fell into a deep state of self-doubt.

After all, based on their knowledge, even in the world where their Half-Bodies were undergoing Ascension to Divinity—a world with an advancement system like the Underground City on Karte—the number of Saint Tier experts likely never surpassed three hundred.

’High Tier? Having three to five thousand High Tier experts there would be the absolute limit of imagination.’

At this moment, the two of them finally understood the true weight behind the term "Divine Favored"!

Furthermore, it was only during their recent days in the Empire that they finally understood the source of the Star Empire’s prosperity. This understanding came after they successfully obtained official citizenship through a special channel in the imperial household registration system.

It was actually aid acquired by the so-called Dragon God after discovering another world and subjugating another civilization—a so-called Intelligent Machinery Civilization.

’The result of renovating the entire Imperial Capital, and even the main cities in some of the Religious Country Districts, all in just eight short years?’

’Eight years?’

’Does this mean that the so-called Dragon God conquered this so-called Intelligent Machinery Civilization eight years ago?’

’How long has the Star Empire even been established?’

’In other words, this Dragon God conquered yet another world in a mere fifty-two years?’

This...?!!

"Just as I suspected, the so-called Dragon God behind this Star Empire is extremely dangerous!"

"His Power is mysterious and terrifying, and he also possesses an intense desire for conquest. If the world of our Half-Bodies is exposed, I’m afraid it will lead to another bloodbath!"

Adelaide’s expression was extremely grave, and he even felt an unprecedented sense of crisis deep in his heart.

However, faced with Adelaide’s solemn words and sense of crisis, the woman, Sophie, had no choice but to nod and reply via a secret mental transmission:

"From what we’ve seen so far, this deity is indeed the most mysterious and powerful of all the Deities we know!"

"Six hundred thousand High Tier experts, plus two thousand Saints who have almost all followed the orthodox path... one can only imagine how much more there is to these so-called Divine Favored!"

"To be able to produce so many Strong Persons in the mortal world... even if the former Deities, or even the world where our Half-Bodies reside, completely opened up the channels and lowered the difficulty of advancing through the Underground City, it would be absolutely impossible to achieve in a short time."

"It would be impossible to accomplish in just fifty years, or even five hundred!"

"The impact on the Magic Environment is one thing. The second, and more crucial, factor is whether a mortal’s own Spiritual nature can smoothly transform during advancement. This step, regardless of the world, cannot be accomplished with external help."

"Therefore, from this, it’s not hard to see that this Dragon God either possesses a special Power to help mortals advance smoothly, or the so-called Divine Favored are themselves very special."