Supreme Lord: I can extract everything!

Chapter 1040  Tekur in the Expanse

The Divine Lifeforms of the Tekur race were pulled away from the hundreds of planets spread across Tekur's lands in the vast cosmos. Only a few were left behind to protect the borders where the Super Awakened and Divine Subordinates wreaked havoc. However, the defenders were so few that Michael's forces could bulldoze through them, conquering entire planets within a few weeks. That was what they could have done if not for the Divine Tekur being in the Origin Expanse, fighting the Azure Quetzalcoatl, the Divine Beasts, and the remaining Untamed Forces. Some members of the Untamed Forces were already strong enough to deal with the average Divine Awakened of the Tekur race. However, there were simply too many Divine Lifeforms among the Tekur race to block them all.

Therefore, the Super Awakened and the Divine Subordinates were pulled away from the Tekur's planets to return to the Origin Expanse, where they could continue fighting the Tekur. All that changed was their scenery. The rest remained the same…almost. The fighting style of many Tekur changed upon entering the Origin Expanse. They fought more valiantly and suicidal. It was almost like their lives were worth less in the Origin Expanse as it was the case outside it.

Or maybe…what changed wasn't the importance of their lives but something else: The residents.

The Tekur Summons may be important for the Awakened as they provided the Tekur Lords with Soul Power and the needed resources to become truly powerful, but the living Tekur was far more important for the grand scheme. They were crucial to the Tekur Queen and her most important power: Her Soultrait.

That being said, the Divine Tekur fought very…interesting.

Kaleb coated his body in the Frozen Nova Armor and shrouded his blade in the strongest intent of Frozen Nova. It was important to note that Frozen Nova had been upgraded to 8-Star from his gains against the Supreme Human Alliance and the Tekur in the last few days and weeks. Kaleb had been fighting tirelessly, rewarding him with enough SoulStar Fragments to go crazy. And that was something Kaleb certainly did. He created the Essence of Frozen Nova – not a Divine Essence but not unlike the powers a Demi God can access when they first tap into their Divinity Seed's power. Kaleb Zenovia's power had already changed a little. His Divinity Seed was being altered, transforming into something much stronger than the average Awakened can acquire under normal circumstances.

However, Kaleb did not care. He was still feeling like a lackluster powerhouse. He was strong but not powerful enough to play with the truly powerful beings in the universe. That was not enough for him. Kaleb needed more! He unleashed Frozen King alongside Emperor Poison and Frost Titan's Soullife Arts and combined their power with the Frozen Nova Essence, which coursed through Kaleb's body. His body was thus poisoned by his own Soultrait, but that wasn't to induce self-harm. No, Frost Titan's hidden power was to negate and consume all ice-attributed poison and transform them into pure power. The power was added to Kaleb, who appeared before a Divine Tekur with a wide grin on his lips. "You are going to die!" He rumbled, his aura spreading far, killing thousands of Higher Lifeforms long before they could respond to the rapidly expanding aura. They couldn't even block the aura before their bodies were frozen to the core. They shattered, and the energy influxes entered Kaleb's Energy Pillar. Still, he kept smiling as his blade whizzed through the air. The Divine Tekur blocked the initial blow, but his bladed arm froze where Kaleb hit him. The Divine Tekur cursed and used his Soultrait, a light-attributed power that coated his body, reinforcing every property of his body considerably, but the effect was lackluster. All his power did was postponing the inevitable. The Divine Tekur, just like most of the Tekur deployed to reinforce the Tekur Lords in the Origin Expanse, were Awakened, Rogues, or Subordinates. They weren't Lords anymore. The Lords were either protecting the most important asset of the Tekur Queen – her subjects – or tending to their territories in the Origin Expanse. That being said, Kaleb, the Super Awakene and the Divine Subordinates had a shocking advantage compared to them. They possessed stronger Soultraits and had thus more Soul Power accumulated within their Symbols. They could wreak more havoc with their unique powers, whereas the Tekur could only unleash their racial techniques through ordinary energy to deal with their enemies.

Kaleb was about to kill the Tekur before him when a winged Divine Tekur appeared before him. His wings expanded and released an eerily bright light which shone upon the other Divine Tekur, whose body had been mantled in a similar light before. The two Tekur combined their forces to deal with Kaleb, which was only possible because the Divine Lifeforms deployed to the Origin Expanse numbered in the thousands. It was difficult to tell how many Divine Tekur had been sent as reinforcement, but there were certainly more than one thousand. That was more than the 160ish Super Awakened and 400ish Divine Subordinates who had survived the constant fighting of the last few years. But while the numbers of Michael's strongest forces had dwindled slowly, their combat experience against strongest enemies – multiple powerful enemies – had skyrocketed.

Each of them was strong enough to fight several powerhouses simultaneously, especially after Michael upgraded each of their Soultrait Symbols by a full rank or half a rank before throwing them into the battle against the Divine Tekur.

No matter how hard the Divine Tekur tried to defend themselves, their efforts were crushed by massive Frozen Nova crashing down on their bodies, killing them on the spot. After all, Kaleb had already advanced to a Divine Lifeform. He wasn't the same weak Higher Lifeform like he had been before. His blood, sweat, and tears pushed his prowess to the next level, granting him exactly what he had desired. Power.

However, Kaleb wasn't the only one who acquired power in recent years. The power of most Super Awakened had skyrocketed in recent years. Most were either pushed toward the Peak of Tier-6 or managed to initiate their Divine Ascension to acquire their Divinity Seed. Not many had yet a fully formed Divinity Seed, but it was only a matter of months before the last one acquired enough energy to complete the process.

Many Super Awakened and Divine Subordinates acquired tremendous power over the years, and the sudden boost through Michael's SoulStar Fragments changed the pace of the battles in the Origin Expanse drastically.

The tides of the battles pulled more into Michael's favor until too many Divine Lifeforms had died. The Tekur Queen couldn't take it anymore.

She understood who had attacked her and why it happened. Once the Tekur Queen connected all dots, including the clues of the events in the past, she decided to take care of it once and for all.

Michael and his people had to die, otherwise, more of her children would die a gruesome death. That being said, the Tekur Queen was not afraid of inflicting pain to her enemies. If anything, she enjoyed torturing her worst enemies the most!