’Theoretically speaking, anyone who is in my Alphaverse can become a god without suppression from the Rules of the Highest Will...’

Kael was realising his value and he was also seeing why he was in a dangerous position.

There were many reasons why he was still alive right now and one of them was the rules.

Also, it was very likely that the Highest Will had already prepared enemies that would cut down Kael very soon right from the start.

There was a stark chilliness to all this if one took the time to think.

’The Highest Will doesn’t hate me...’’ Kael thought, ’I’m just a variable in his plans. A variable that he simply lost control over.

Finally, Kael shifted his eyes and looked at the hovering bar above his head.

It was gold and blinked repeatedly.

[Reincarnation Access: Locked.]

The bar shone with a dim glow and was plastered at the top of the forums for not just Kael but all lions, and vassals, to see.

This was what Reincarnation had asked for, the thing that Kael found too costly to give.

Reincarnation wanted Kael to give her access to himself and his system.

Yes, her main goal was the system, it has always been the system. The Alphaverse was just something that no one ever expected to happen.

As at the time she reincarnated Ruda, Kael had not yet created the Alphaverse so one couldn’t say that it was the Alphaverse that made her act that way.

Reincarnation had already seen that Kael possessed a lot of advantages that could allow him to survive the craziest scenarios.

She was placing a bet on him by offering to integrate the power of Reincarnation into his system and his civilization.

Kael smiled with a cold light flashing in his eyes, ’She is not completely certain that I will survive the wipe out, but she wants access anyway.

Surely, she must have given this same condition to a lot of other powerful creatures, but I don’t know what she offered them in return.

As for me...’

Kael waved his finger and the golden screen changed.

It was the list of Primordials currently under his command.

It was far from incomplete.

With time, Kael.was confident that he would eventually find all of them, except the gods of course.

But did he still have time? With that imminent clean-up that could come at any time?

Right now, Kael couldn’t even step out of his Alphaverse without being bombarded by attacks from everywhere.

He could only send weak clones, other lions, and his vassals. Or he could draw them into the Alphaverse to deal with them.

This was sure to multiply the amount of time Kael needed to find every Primordial that he needed.

Reincarnation on the other hand already had this information as well as a full map of the whole universe.

Not all the Primordials were easily collectible like the ones on Planet Gadi but they could still be tracked.

At least, Reincarnation knew their birth point, that was more than enough information and would be really helpful to Kael.

But Reincarnation wanted access to Kael’s system and powers. She wanted to place a figurative back door into him so that she would spread her powers to great lengths.

Reincarnation was not asking to pledge allegiance. No, she wanted a partnership where she would just be able to go and come into Kael’s life as she wanted.

All for the information of the Primordials.

Kael was very silent about this. It was way too costly. He would be giving up control and it was like having two kings in one kingdom.

Reincarnation never assured him that she wouldn’t try to control some things because she knew it would be a lie.

"Hmmm," Kael stood up from the crystal throne with his eyes narrowed.

One thing was certain, he would not compromise, not for the Highest Will, and certainly not for Reincarnation.

He was going to find those Primordials.

Kael took a powerful step forward and the space and time fabrics collapsed and folded around his body. He disappeared, leaving the Crown of Defiant Ancestors resting on the seat of the Crystal Throne.

What Reincarnation may or may not soon find out is that she had given Kael leverage.

Knowledge is power.

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Far from the Apex Pyramid.

The former headquarters of the Strings of Fate Coalition still stood.

There was a small red star at the center with countless floating islands rotating around the star in layers and patterns.

On one of the larger floating continents, Priya, Memphis, Nalii, and Olivia, stood around each other as they shared multiple screens around them.

On other floating islands that hovered close to them, familiar figures could be seen.

Ozia, Silas, Xu Ying, Teez, Gabby, and many lions and lionesses who have been with Kael from the time of Exalon.

They numbered in the hundreds and stood as representatives for Clan Alliances and coalitions.

Looking around, there was no honey in sight, only a few shuttles and arkships parked far away and they didn’t seem like carrier-type vessels for holding liquids.

So, where was the honey?

Priya looked at one particular screen with her grey eyes, eyes that would make some assume that she was blind.

The slit on her forehead hid the third eye tightly, putting a seal on the terrifying spiritual weight she possessed.

Priya and the rest were given admin-level access to the system so they could do their jobs well.

This admin-level access was what they were using to navigate the back end of the Exchange and Mission features.

Priya was focused on assessment, checking thousands of lions and lionesses every instant and judging whether they were worthy of receiving the True Honey. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Meanwhile, Olivia and Memphis were tracking the groups of lions and lion prides who were currently on a mission to extract as much honey from Hive Heaven as they could.

The gates between Hive Heaven and Leonine Heaven had been removed from the Biggest Balls Galaxy and moved to Leonine Heaven.

This allowed seamless transportation between the two heavenly realms while the Hive Heaven was being integrated.

The bees in Hive Heaven, after having been conquered and subjugated, were immediately oppressed beyond measure by the lions.

They were not allowed to go to the Leonine Heaven but the lions could go and come freely from Hive Heaven.

That was the least that the lions did to the bees.

Walls were torn down, towers of honeycombs and beeswax were brought down and taken away without care for the well-being of the bees.

And what could they do? Their leader, the Queen Mother had been spared by the All-King, and now, she was busy trying to reproduce more Bee Queens to help her manage what was left.

She didn’t have the time or privilege to dictate what and how much honey could be taken. And even if she could, the lions wouldn’t listen to her. It may even cost her her life.

Luckily for them, Nalii was tasked with tracking the integrity of the Hive Heaven. The bees needed honey to continue doing what they were doing and it would be bad for everyone if they were drained of everything to the point where they could not work anymore.

Once the honey extraction was becoming too dangerous for the bees, Nalii would detect it and set missions for the lions to stop.

Already, some missions required honey to be extracted from particular parts of the Hive Heaven as other parts like the nurseries and some palaces were spared.

The lions who were doing the extraction had specific missions and the rewards were something different from what they had been receiving for a while now.

Crab coins.

Recently, users of the system have started noticing that things like Conquering Points and Hunting points were now being used less as rewards, and Crab Coins were replacing them all.

The Crab Coins came from the Crab System which was maintained by the Primordial Crab of Money.

All this was a strategic decision agreed upon by all in the League of Primordials and their intentions were based on many factors.

Most importantly, the All-King approved of this gradual change and transmission.

And it was for a very good reason.

Right now, a seemingly infinite amount of Crab Coins is held in the private account manager by the Primordial Porcupine of Banking.

Those Crab Coins were now being funneled into the lion system by Memphis and Olivia to fund the missions for honey.

The honey that those groups of lions in Hive Heaven were extracting was being brought back to Leonine Heaven and loaded into the System Space that was now existing solely within Kael’s pocket space for now.

This was just the beginning of all systems integrating into each other in such a way that they couldn’t exist without each other.

Those Crab Coins were given to the lions in exchange for completing the mission and they also got to keep some percentage of the honey they took.

All Priya had to do now was distribute the True Honey and make sure that there would be actual observable progress and an increase in average lion power level in the near future.