Vivian, Smith, and the other cadets who had just been invested were completely dumbfounded.
They knew this was the empowerment of national fortune… but this jump in strength was far too terrifying, wasn't it?
They were no longer fledglings who understood nothing.
Grand Divine Cleric, High God, God General, True God, God King, Sage King, Divine Radiant, Divine Oracle, Sage Lord…
…and only then came Sage Master!
Yet a single imperial Sacred Envoy decree had catapulted them straight to that tier!
It might not be a breakthrough they achieved by their own cultivation, but as long as they remained people of the Empire, as long as the Sacred Envoy decree was not revoked, this dreadful power would follow them forever!
This was a rank they might not touch even if they exhausted their entire lives.
No one could recover for a long time.
Hearing their cries of shock, Gloria's heart was equally thrown into a storm.
