Chapter 502: Chapter 96: Authority Cannot Be Contracted, the Cheers of the Giant Dragon World

「Outside the Star Sea.」

The moment the psychic message from Gods Street went out, a vast number of Deities took to the void. Like countless streams of light, they flew in parabolic arcs through the endless darkness, all gathering on one side of the planet.

Now, a great number of Deities, the Dragon Race included, had all appeared.

It was an understatement to call the scene spectacular.

There were just over one thousand non-Dragon Race Deities.

Among them were two Star Gods, over thirty Main Gods, more than one hundred Deities of Powerful Divine Power, over three hundred Deities of Medium Divine Power, and the remainder were all Deities of Weak Divine Power.

On the Dragon Race’s side, the number of Divine Tier Dragons was also quite considerable.

In fact, there were even more Divine Tier Dragons than there were Deities from the other races.

A total of seven members of the Dragon Race had reached the Star God Tier.

There were over fifty Main God Level dragons.

Over three hundred with Powerful Divine Power.

And for those at Medium Divine Power and below, there were also just over a thousand.

It had to be said that after more than 30,000 years of management by the Earth Giant Dragon and the Dawn Giant Dragon, the number of Deities under their command was something the Star Empire absolutely could not match.

After all, despite the vast amount of resources the entire Empire poured in, the Star Empire’s current number of Deities was only close to five hundred.

As for the Dragon Race under Lince’s command?

The number of dragons elevated through his selection process had only just barely broken one thousand.

When it came to the Divine Tier, there were even fewer of them than there were Deities in the Star Empire.

All told, there were only just over three hundred.

Moreover, of the fifteen elder dragons under Lince, nearly half had yet to ascend to Powerful Divine Power.

Therefore, it was easy to imagine that the Star Empire absolutely could not compare to the Giant Dragon World in terms of the sheer number of Deities.

As for quality, there actually wasn’t much of a gap between the two worlds.

Long before the war with the Black Prison Race, and even before the major offensive against the civilizations discovered in the Cosmos Game Public Space, the Star Empire already had eight Star Gods.

And now?

Nearly three hundred years after completely trapping the Black Prison Race in their main world, a large number of Player Deities had now surged in power.

Among them, Brother Cheng Takes Off was rising the fastest.

As a Deity of the Death Law, the larger the war, the more Necromantic Energy he could obtain.

Not to mention, he also had the assistance of a secondary permission from the True Game.

As a result, the current Brother Cheng Takes Off had long since entered the Main God Level and was even on the verge of breaking through to the Star God Tier.

He only needed to choose one of the Star Empire’s Vassal worlds to bear his Star God status, and he should be able to step into the Star God Tier soon after.

Of course, while the other nine Players with secondary permissions were not as fast as Brother Cheng Takes Off, they weren’t far behind.

In short, all ten of the Players with secondary permissions were now Main God Level existences.

Adding in the Deities from the Blood Race World and the Vassal Races, the Star Empire and the Giant Dragon World were more or less equal in their number of Main Gods and Star Gods.

The only area where the Star Empire fell short was the number of lower-tiered Deities.

Of course, when it came to the number of Ancient Gods, the Giant Dragon World fell far short of the Star Empire.

After all, the Star Empire now had a total of fifteen Ancient Gods, including Lince himself and the Giant Serpent God Kukudar.

Among them, Lince was the strongest, at the Constant Authority Level.

The Giant Serpent God was second, still in the process of breaking through to the Authority Tier status—equivalent to a Half-step Authority.

As for the other thirteen Ancient Gods,

the Four Gods, led by the Feathered Insect God, were the strongest.

They were all currently at the level of middle- and high-rank Star Gods.

As for the remaining nine Ancient Gods, not a single one was now below the strength of a Main God.

War is the best catalyst; after all, a vast amount of resources for growth can be obtained through it.

Plundering one world after another, devouring one unsubmissive god after another.

Once these Ancient Gods left their original, savage worlds, they were like beasts unleashed from their cages.

A hundred years was enough to match the accumulated growth of at least two or three thousand years from before.

Not to mention the Star Empire was currently running at full throttle like a ferocious war machine.

Countless worlds were discovered by the Star Empire, and then conquered.

As some of the most prominent Strong Persons, these Ancient Gods naturally received the best and largest share of the resources.

Whether it was a harvest of Divine Power Crystals or the devouring of countless living beings,

it was all enough for them to digest for many long years.

So, what was the Star Empire’s current state? In truth, it was very similar to the Titan Race.

The entire Empire was unscrupulously plundering countless World Communities, taking everything from their various civilizations.

Ostensibly, it was to save and liberate the thousands of oppressed races and civilizations, implementing a policy of ’equality’ for all races where the young are cared for and the old are provided for.

But in reality, it was still plunder.

And it was the most violent form of plunder, seizing all power and resources from the upper echelons of every civilization.

The Commoners, of course, were unharmed; after all, they had nothing worth plundering.

But to be honest, the demographic dividend was also one of the greatest gains.

No matter the Race, there would always be promising Extraordinary seeds, who could one day become Divine Level beings.

And all of these could be considered the Star Empire’s precious assets.

As for exploiting their labor?

That was entirely unnecessary. The Star Empire’s labor force could be replaced by Intelligent Mechanisms.

The only thing the Star Empire really lacked was personnel to supervise and coordinate with the Intelligent Mechanisms.

After all, the Star Empire didn’t just hand over every industry to be managed by Intelligent Mechanisms.

The proper principle was for the various races and the Intelligent Mechanisms to complement each other.

Therefore, in the lower-level industries, the AI of the Intelligent Mechanisms was not permitted to have too much processing power.

This also, in a way, solved the Star Empire’s employment problem.

Of course, it also gave the Empire’s citizens something to do, so as to prevent the entire society from developing an atmosphere of being too idle and averse to work.