Yale was really shocked, but he recovered in a minute and decided to try again.
That time he prevented that the bells rang, but he didn't gather the citizens.
Yale just put Wyba on the Storage Space and left the city without being spotted by the army.
As Yale expected, if he only picked one person, the army didn't notice anything strange.
However, once he appeared in front of the passageway, he was again surrounded and killed.
After being forced to Time Leap again, Yale was sure that the reason for the ambush wasn't that the army notified them.
There was another reason for the ten strongest of the Sacred Empire, discovering where he was after teleportation, but Yale couldn't guess it.
In the next tries, Yale used different approaches, including teleporting to different locations instead of trying to go back to Tenir's castle, but the end was always the same.
The ten strongest were always surrounding him no matter where he teleported.
Thinking that maybe there was something tracking his teleportation, Yale gave up on teleporting back and just ran, but at some point, he was surrounded anyway.
Moreover, after several tries, he discovered that unless he saved everyone in the city, Tofesh would appear to stop the bomb, so Yale knew that he needed to save all the citizens to save Tofesh.
He tried to run to Tofesh country once disregarding everything else because, in that way, he would be able to teleport there in the next try and inform them, but the country was far, and he was always intercepted by the ten strongest of the Sacred Empire before he reached it.
At that point, Yale was sure that they weren't tracking him because he went to save Wyba. After all, in that try, he didn't go to Yale's Kingdom at all.
He could only consider that there was something on his body helping the ten strongest of the Sacred Empire to appear so quickly, but if that were the truth, he wouldn't be able to succeed without being able to escape from them.
However, the difference in strength was so big that he was always killed before being able to react even though he knew that they would attack him.
The main problem was that the ten strongest of the Sacred Empire were attacking together and their attacks were too well synchronized.
Escaping from one of them was something that Yale believed possible, but from the ten of them, it was impossible with his strength.
Thus, Yale decided to try something different.
Instead of trying to save Wyba, he rushed directly to the Sacred Empire.
The ten strongest detected that he was going there, but they just laughed thinking about how stupid Yale was since the place was well protected.
Thus, they didn't go all to stop him. Only three of them went out.
It would be a problem if Yale fled to Tenir's castle or managed to get help from the Otref Kingdom, so they went all of them, but fighting on their own Empire, they didn't fear that something could go bad.
Yale went all out, but although he wasn't killed instantaneously like before, even with the abuse of Time Leap to avoid all the attacks, he died again once he wasn't strong enough to endure one of them.
Despite Yale's ability controlling the time, he couldn't see the future on that battle. If it was seeing the future of a mortal, Yale could predict his whole life with a gaze, but the stronger was the target, the more difficult became predicting it.
Moreover, if someone strong interacted with someone weak, the difficulty in predicting the future of the weak one also increased.
The opponents were ninth level immortals in contact with a Goddess, so there was no way Yale could see their future.
As for his own future, it was impossible. Even Great God Kroh could only see a minute in advance of Yale's future.
Although increasing the level made predicting time more difficult, Great God Kroh wouldn't be restricted by such things, with that kind of power, even a Great God's future was easy to unveil.
However, the strongest the chances of someone to obtain the Minor Time Divinity the more difficult it turned to predict even for Great God Kroh.
People with that kind of potential were easily discovered by Great God Kroh and then observed.
Of course, there was another kind of people that Great God Kroh couldn't read, and those were the one sin Tenir's situation. Tenir's future was death, but after making a deal with Great God Kroh, his future was undetermined.
However, that wasn't by Tenir's skill, but because Great God Kroh influenced him too much.
It was different from sending a curse in the form of God's Punishment. Any person who made a deal with Great God Kroh would have an undetermined future until it managed to fulfill it.
In the same way, those serving Great God Kroh directly would be in a similar situation due to Great God Kroh's influence.
Although Yale lost, he tried again, and then another time, until he lost the count of how many battles fought with them.
He knew that he couldn't win, but he wanted to use them for training.
It wasn't impossible mastering more Minor Divinities hidden in seclusion, and even in battle, it would require a lot of luck or a long time and time was something that Yale had.
Only his mind went back, so it would be impossible to train to ninth level immortal and then use Time Travel. That was leaving aside that Yale hadn't created a training method that convinced him enough.
However, Minor Divinities were knowledge, so even after using Time Leap, Yale conserved them.
The number of times that Yale battled with the ten strongest of the Sacred Empire was counted in millions, but no one else could have such kind of dangerous battles in that high number, so Yale's progress was simply monstrous.
At that time, Yale was still unable to win against the ten, but in the last tries, he really managed to at least kill one of them before dying, which was a great advance.
Moreover, he was turning more proficient on using Time Leap on a battle which turned more difficult that the attacks of his enemies hit him.
Just beside the portal leading to Tenir's castle after his last Time Leap, Yale opened the system to check his progress.
[True Name: Astel.]
[Used Names: Yale. Liye.]
[Membership of the Council of Gods (unusable).]
[Immortal Level: 8]
[Minor Divinity: Ice. Reincarnation. Crafting. Sword. Space. Water. Earth. Metal. Lightening. Archery. Whip. Lance. Hammer. Axe. Fire. Wind. Light. Darkness. Life. Death. Rod. Poison. Illusion. Martial Arts. Battle. Elemental. Perseverance]
[Pre-divinity Bottleneck: Time.]
His number of Minor Divinities had increased a lot, and there were even some he obtained without looking for them, and he wasn't sure about the exact conditions to obtain them.
The Minor Battle Divinity seemed to be related by the number of difficult battles he had, but he only noticed that he had it when he checked the system, so he didn't know when he obtained it.
The Minor Elemental Divinity seemed to be related to the combined use of different elements, but it was the same as the Minor Battle Divinity, Yale didn't know when he obtained it.
The last unexpected one was the Minor Perseverance Divinity, which seemed to be related to Yale repeating the same thing millions of times without giving up, but that was the last one in the list and Yale like in the two previous ones, didn't have any idea about when or how did he obtain it.
At that moment, Yale was hundreds of times stronger than before, and he was confident that he wouldn't lose in a battle against Awat even if there weren't any restrains.
However, in front of the combination of the ten strongest of the Sacred Empire, it wasn't enough.
When Yale tried again to rescue Wyba and the citizens, he was able to barely survive the first hit of the ten strongest, but he died at the second one.
When he obtained the Minor Space Divinity, he tried to teleport to the Otref Kingdom, or at least to the nearest place without teleport restriction, but there the ten strongest also appeared, so Yale knew that looking for external help was impossible.
Only those with a token made by the king could teleport inside the Otref Kingdom, and those tokens were bound to the wielder, so there was no way for Yale to obtain one unless he went to ask the king to make one for him, but it wasn't possible in his current situation.
"Since we reached this point, there isn't any other option. Increasing my power more doesn't sound possible, and even if I increased it a bit, it wouldn't be enough."
Yale knew very well that increasing the Minor Divinities to Divinities was extremely difficult, and even obtaining some of them, it would be difficult to face those ten. After all, the strongest one had obtained some Divinities, so Yale would still be at a huge disadvantage in front of the ten of them.
"With my current capabilities, it should be possible to execute my last plan. Sacred Empire, don't blame me, but left me with no other option."
Yale had a plan in mind to execute in case that everything else failed, and he felt that it was already the moment to use it.