Chapter 1464: Kill the God

The clear threat couldn’t have been heavier. Mortals or people with poor senses could mistake Khan’s casual behavior for weakness, but that didn’t apply to the representatives at the meeting.

Moreover, Khan’s side of the meeting featured an arrangement of fellow monsters. Liiza and the Royal Guards couldn’t even try to pass as pushovers, and the Emperor was even worse. That couldn’t be in question after witnessing the destruction his mere voice caused.

Still, as much as that fearsome front could deter anyone from complaining, Dean Ulluw, Muhsin, the Kros’ sphere, Mazatl, and Pa-ankh never really planned to do that in the first place.

After all, no one knew the Nak hid such a power. Even after Khan went public about the mission that species had implanted in him, everyone had ignored the matter, mainly focusing on preparing for the eventual war against the mysterious, universal enemy.

The chance to achieve godhood did sound appealing, especially in the face of a universal threat. Still, Khan had been the one to discover it. He had been the only one who pursued it despite risking sounding like a madman.

Therefore, the representatives couldn’t complain about the fact that an opportunity they didn’t know about and had never considered was now gone. At most, they could call Khan selfish, but that wasn’t the place for such shameful political maneuvers.

Every representative knew they would have seized that opportunity for themselves in the end. Khan had come first, and pretending to be offended about that wouldn’t get them anywhere. The meeting didn’t host any of those petty characters, either.

“Prince Khan of the Nognes family,” The tall sphere was the first to speak in its robotic, manufactured human voice. “Are the True Chaos and this enemy a byproduct of the mana?”

“Short answer, yes,” Khan confirmed. “The complete answer is a bit more complicated.”

Khan hoped the short answer would have been enough, but already knew it couldn’t be. The topic had moved to the True Chaos, which everyone had to learn about in great detail. Chances were that one species might find more effective methods to fight it.

Also, the silence and complete attention that followed Khan’s statement displayed the representatives’ interest in the subject. They all wanted to know what that complete answer entailed.

“The mana I ate and what we all wield aren’t the same,” Khan explained. “The former was its purest, unpolluted version. It was the embodiment of the original energy we have all mastered.”

Truth be told, Liiza understood those subjects better than Khan, but only he could act as a bridge among species with such different perspectives on the mana. That wasn’t exactly easy, forcing him to dust off everything he had learned from his time in the Harbor.

“That original version was for all intents and purposes a being,” Khan continued. “It was an ethereal and vast existence very different from us, but similar nonetheless.”

Explaining the complete nature of the white-azure spinning sphere would be pointless there, so Khan focused on themes everyone could understand.

“The mana wanted to get stronger,” Khan stated. “Just like we evolve, the mana wanted to reach even higher levels of existence. The True Chaos was the result of that attempt, making it superior over the mana in basically every way.”

Khan let a few seconds go by before adding something else. “It’s also why the True Chaos is so effective against the mana. It is mana, just in its superior form.”

Despite the lack of scientific wording, the troublesome nature of that statement didn’t go unnoticed.

A natural enemy was problematic to deal with, but the challenge was ultimately solvable. The mutagen alone had already brought hope of achieving just that.

Yet, a superior energy would inevitably be harder to deal with. The allied front wouldn’t only have to fend off the innate annihilation their mana suffered from. It would also have to close the gap with that power difference.

In short, it wasn’t a matter of finding ways of fighting water with fire. The allied front was a single flame trying to deal with an ocean. It was outclassed both in nature and level of existence.

Khan’s statement was also reasonable. The representatives didn’t stay idle while waiting for the meeting to start. They had gathered pieces of information from the previous battle, which corroborated what they had just heard.

Ordinary troops might be able to fight the True Chaos’ warriors with the mutagen, but defeating the Kings demanded far more than that. Only existences that had transcended the mana could hope to succeed in those battles.

Of course, everyone knew the situation had been dire ever since Khan and Liiza’s battle against the two scouts. Things were simply worse than the representatives had initially hoped for.

“Now, the True Chaos’ nature does bring two good news,” Khan announced, showing his forefinger and middle finger.

“Since our mana is different from the original version,” Khan said, lowering his middle finger, “We all can transcend the innate weakness toward the True Chaos. Some of us already did.”

The mana had the potential to evolve, so the same went for its different iterations. Actually, the latter would theoretically have it easier to overcome the natural weakness toward the True Chaos since they already were a departure from the mana’s original version.

Getting there was the problem, especially for species like humankind. Their approach to the mana was too standardized to provide any meaningful change.

“The second good news involves the True Chaos itself,” Khan added, lowering his forefinger. “I can’t confirm it yet, but I think the Scarlet Eyes are no army. It’s just the God and watered-down versions of his True Chaos.”

Khan immediately realized his statement wasn’t as reassuring as he had hoped it to be. After all, the True Chaos’ warriors and Kings still existed, and they were strong.

“This species is one being and one energy,” Khan added. “Just like the mana had the Nak, the True Chaos has avatars that express its power to a certain extent.”

Those additional details didn’t help Khan’s cause, but he voiced one last line that could summarize the silver lining he saw in that terrible predicament.

“Basically,” Khan explained. “If we kill the God, the True Chaos might be no more.”