Draco soon came out of his castle while buckling his belt, a thoroughly satisfied look on his face. He closed the door behind him that led to a scene of utter carnage and debauchery. If anyone were to look within, they would never see the Five Beauties who were dragged into it the same way again.
"Now, to check on the progress of the Divine Realm," Draco muttered to himself as he rubbed his chin.
Before going into seclusion, one must always ensure that everything was running smoothly and wouldn't cause any interruptions that would force them to come out to deal with it. In this case, Draco decided to casually make an inspection since, even if a crisis occurred, Eva or Shuangtian could easily handle it.
Draco took to the sky above the divine church, casting his Void of Perfection around for kilometers in all directions. From there, he saw a bustling territory, around the size of a small town, growing without any border or wall.
The families of the core members had been brought up to the Divine Realm to accompany them, along with certain mortals like the family of the Five Beauties and various concubines. They formed the initial population of the Divine territory being built and managed by Shuangtian, which showed how dedicated she was.
However, Draco shook his head, quickly understanding the problems Shuangtian had faced so far. The first was that the speed of expansion was limited by the speed of clearing the grey rot by the core members. Despite their hard work over the past week, they had only advanced a few kilometers, between 25 to 30.
After all, they were sticking to the quest Draco gave them, which required 100 kilometers per month, not to mention his rule of only using Divine Laws—no bloodline means allowed. This week of work within the Divine Realm against the grey rot had advanced their laws from the Basic Law to the True Stage, especially in how they handled the Divine Trial.
However, Draco had also strictly forbidden them from using the Trial Score they earned to buy Divine Essence, since the Divine Trial gave out free Divine Essence anyway.
With this much land cleared in a week, how much living space and how many facilities could be created? Thirty kilometers on Earth is the size of the East-to-West border of New York, from Queens to New Jersey. While New York is one of the biggest cities in the world, a "biggest" city on Earth would be about the size of a small town in Boundless.
They didn't even have the area of a large town—how could a magnificent territory be built? If you're wondering why Shuangtian hadn't ported more mortals up to fill the area, it was because she was helpless. The number of mortals that could be brought up was too large to make use of this tiny land.
Not to mention, even with ten years passing and various reforms, as well as boons to boost virility and fertility, there still weren't enough people to fill the conquered lands of Umbra on the main plane. The amount of landmass was just too much; not even 40% of the collective continents under Umbra were occupied or developed.
Draco had considered taking a group of people with excellent genes and forming a large territory full of endless resources and a stable ecosystem for them, then fast-forwarding time in that area by a few millennia.
By then, they should have given birth to generations and greatly exploded their numbers, but something at the back of his mind warned him that such a thing would lead to horrifically unpredictable consequences.
After all, basically every True God knew Spacetime Regulation and could manipulate space as well as time, so why didn't they also mass-produce mortals in the old era and instead relied on natural growth?
Draco could tell it was akin to a monkey's paw situation, where the theory was harmless and the idea good, but the execution would be something no one wanted to see.
Draco sighed and teleported toward the area around Supreme City to check on the Supreme Pantheon. His face became solemn when he noticed that the city, which had been defending itself in a rather dignified manner, was now much emptier and full of tension.
This was incidentally just fine for Draco, who casually pushed open the door and walked in with his arms folded behind his back and a casual smile on his face.
He was curious to see how this former number-one pantheon would react to his presence...
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Meanwhile, in the council hall, there was a ferocious atmosphere filled with the scent of gunpowder. Two True Gods at the highest seats, belonging to those of the Supreme Rank, were standing and facing each other coldly, sparks flying between them.
One of them was a half-dragon, half-human hybrid—a dragon-person. He was humanoid with an impressive height, but his features were those of a dragon. At the end of his hands and legs were sharp green claws, two dark green draconic wings folded behind him, with pristine green scales that sparkled, while his serpentine eyes shone with a violet hue.
He was robed in mage-like attire that was resplendent and colored similar to his scales, boasting his status as well as his means. Interestingly, there was an emblem of the Ancestral Dragon City embossed on his robe, in a place where none would miss it.
Opposite him was basically Eva, but with blonde hair instead of green. Same creamy skin, an inch taller in height, same hairstyle, same golden eyes full of aloof arrogance, same mesmerizing red lips, almost the same beauty—with Eva being a notch superior—and large breasts akin to Hikari, along with the same lithe body as Eva.
Gabriel was basically Eva in an editor, with one or two things lazily changed to prevent copyright strikes.
However, the Queen of Angels was currently blazing with holy white light with golden flecks, her body poised for violence, while the dragon-man opposite her, named Luther, glowed with emerald green light, his face full of utter disdain.
He waved his hand and addressed the tense crowd, who watched without any intention to stop it, many shifting warily in their seats, ready to react if things went out of control.
"You see what I was saying? This so-called Punishment Hall Elder is abusing her authority to vent her anger on the innocent! Just this week alone, ten True Gods have been imprisoned in the Divine Prison based on her judgments, which are biased!"
He turned to everyone, especially the lower-ranking True Gods, with a gleam in his eyes. "With her being like this, who knows when one of you will next be abused by her and locked up unfairly for minor offenses?"
Gabriel laughed coldly. "Minor offenses? Each of those wretched bastards raped one of my angels or abused them because of their inability to fight the grey rot. It's already lenient that I merely imprison them and not castrate them, then parade them around the city!"
Hearing this, Luther faltered slightly but still snorted. "So you say. Who knows what the truth really is? Not to mention, True Gods are valuable right now in the face of our defense against the grey rot—each one a pillar that can prop up the city from demise."
Luther waved his hand dismissively. "And yet, you would willingly dispose of these pillars just because of a minor mistake? How can a True God be compared to a mere angel—a lower species that can only serve auxiliary roles in the city?"
"You!!" Gabriel was furious, not just because each and every angel was her precious family, but also because she herself was an angel ascended to True God. By saying this, wasn't Luther insinuating that she was also of an inferior species?