Supreme Lord: I can extract everything!

Chapter 1043  Weakening Faith

"She's growing weaker," Hiraku commented after a while. He was exhausted and in pain. The Rescue Fighters had been killed, torn into shreds long before help arrived.

That weakened the Super Awakened and Divine Subordinates drastically. Nonetheless, fewer people died. "Our people are dying, though," Mekhaz responded, grinding his teeth underneath the Living Armor. He charged the Tekur Queen, while Hiraku used his connection to the surroundings – alongside some Elementals' help – to control the ground and blood around them, creating a pool of blood filled with mud to slow the Tekur Queen for a quarter of a second. That was all they needed to reach her.

[Our people might be dying, but we can wear her down. Let's focus on stalling for time. That's all we have to do in the first place. The others are doing everything else.] Hiraku commented to the surrounding allies via Whispering Energy.

The Azure Quetzalcoatl wasn't with Hiraku and the rest, but that was not because she was too afraid to join them. If anything, the Azure Quetzalcoatl wanted to join the fight against the Tekur Queen more than anything. However, her help was needed against the Tekur Nests and the masses. Since the Red Dragon was on the verge of dying, the Azure Quetzalcoatl had to jump into the fray with thousands of Elementals on her back. The Elementals released a massive barrage of fireballs and other large-scale attacks into the surroundings, killing rows of Lesser Tekur instantly, while High Tekur sustained some damage. They were set on fire and would burn to death if they couldn't eliminate the fiercely burning flames.

At the same time, the Azure Quetzalcoatl would burn the foundation of the Tekur Nests to cinder. Many powerful Tekur died to the Azure Quetzalcoatl's flames, but more importantly, nobody strong enough to stop the Azure Quetzalcoatl was left. The Divine Tekur had all been killed, and a few dozen Divine Subordinates motivated this to push further and wreak havoc, just like the Azure Quetzalcoatl. The rest tried to deal with the Tekur Queen, but while she sustained some more or less grievous injuries, she still stood strong, towering over everyone else with her tremendous power.

[IF she keeps growing weaker, we can kill her soon. Let the Seven Hells Army do the rest of the work and prepare for a final attack!"

The Super Awakened and Divine Subordinates could keep going to wear the Tekur Queen down, and that was what they did, but their priority was something else. They noticed the Tekur Queen wavering and growing weaker little by little. She was not exhausted, thus the Super Awakened and Divine Subordinates could tell that their plan was working.

The Tekur Queen was actually growing weaker. But why? Her Soultrait, Faith, was at fault.

The Faith of her living subjects – thus not including her Summons – augmented the Tekur Queen's power.

Michael wanted this Soultrait to fuse it into his main body and upgrade it, hopefully removing the 'Summon exclusion' clause from the Soultrait Symbol's power. It would push Michael's combat prowess tremendously, completing the final piece to his final goal: To fight and overpower the Primal.

However, Michael did not move his main body to acquire the Soultrait. He did not personally do anything to overwhelm the Tekur Queen and weaken her by removing the asset that empowered her Soultrait Symbols: her living subjects.

Instead, Michael ordered Sylth, the Thorn Merchandise, the Nest, and a few dozen other organizations to work for him. The exchange was very simple and purely transactional. Michael gave Slyth and the others multiple Soultrait Symbols, hundreds of them, some pushed up to 7-Star, with one of the Soultrait Symbols even being 8-Star. Instead, Michael ordered Sylth, the Thorn Merchandise, the Nest, and a few dozen other organizations to work for him. The exchange was very simple and purely transactional. Michael gave Slyth and the others multiple Soultrait Symbols, hundreds of them, some pushed up to 7-Star, with one of the Soultrait Symbols even being 8-Star. They received all of that for removing a disgusting cockroach-like cretin like the Tekur. Of course, the corpses of the Tekur would be given to Michael once everything was done, but that mattered little right now.

Important was only that multiple organizations attacked the Tekur outside the Origin Expanse, slowly but steadily killing them. And as the number of faithful living subjects decreased, the Tekur Queen's power dropped. It was a slow process but the weaker the Tekur Queen grew, the easier it was to stall her. The easier it was to inflict injuries!

Sylth, the Mercenaries of the Seven Hells Armies, and the other organizations hired by Michael attacked the borders to the Tekur's lands, surrounding them with more than a thousand warfare spaceships and close to 500 Divine Lifeforms once the Tekur Queen left her throne to defeat Michael and his people in the Origin Expanse. First, Sylth and others were about to attack the Tekur's lands when the Divine Tekur left the Fortresses and barracks, but they decided against it when Michael informed them to wait. That was the smartest move they could have done. Michael's Super Awakened and Divine Subordinates were pulled away from the Tekur land and deployed to the Origin Expanse, where they could fight and defeat the Divine Tekur much more easily.

The Tekur Queen must have sensed her mistake and chose to get up from her throne and attack the Origin Expanse as well. That was when Sylth and others jumped into the fray. They waited only until Michael gave them the go and bombarded the defensive lines of the Tekur – now not manned by powerful Divine Tekur anymore – and obliterated the Fortresses and barracks with a barrage of plasma missiles and other powerful artillery.

The damage inflicted by the spaceships was already tremendous. Since they were warfare spaceships, they could destroy entire countries with a series of bombs, grenades, and the like from high up in the sky. The spaceships were thus used to destroy the most-populated places above the ground, whereas Sylth and her forces dived down to the planets and entered the deeper parts underground, where the eggs and a large portion of the population lived.

Annihilating planets filled with trillions of Tekur wasn't easy on the heart but everyone knew about the pest of the Tekur. It was just that nobody had ever bothered attacking them because the Tekur Queen understood which unions and alliances she could attack and whom to avoid. To her misfortune, she didn't avoid the Tritan Alliance. The Tekur Queen would have never suffered this much if she had done that. She wouldn't be growing weaker with every passing minute.

However, there was little she could do. Every minute, tens of thousands of missiles impacted on the surface of the countless planets the Tekur Queen had conquered during her reign. The missiles killed dozens of enemies upon impact. Most, in fact, inflicted even more damage, obliterating hundreds of Tekur at once. Still, there was more damage done. The aftermath of the impacting missiles wreaked more havoc, killing even more enemies.

Then there was the power of the Awakened. Michael had promised those with the highest contribution some 'gifts'. The gifts were well known by everyone and appreciated as well. Everyone loved acquiring more Soultrait Symbols and upgrading their existing Soultraits, after all! n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

That being said, Sylth and the Awakened did their utmost to kill as many enemies as possible, which inevitably weakened the Tekur Queen.

Inside the Origin Expanse, the effect of the millions of Tekur's deaths every minute was clearly noticeable. It was only a minuscule alteration in power, but the drops of power accumulated until everyone noticed them.

From that point onward, the Tekur Queen's reign ended, whether she wanted it or not!