GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 1929: Tussle And Grapple.



The war was so intense that not even the resurrection of the ancient titans made the allied army pause.

There was another wave of ancient titans while they were fighting, but the gods only gave Gemmis more divinity while they continued killing orcs.

This negligence made Gemmis and many divine cities to run out of divine energy. Half of Gemmis was destroyed and some divine cities were directly uprooted before the ancient titans were killed.

The gods still didn't give up. They didn't give up either when what they had feared happened. The Apocalypse pantheon gained control of all five towers after four years of intense fighting.

At this point, they were running on fumes, but they felt they couldn't retreat after losing so much. Besides, if the Apocalypse Pantheon could achieve this while being besieged on all sides, what would they be capable of when the gods retreated?

The solution to destroying 9 Crowns was still to wipe out the orcs. So they made a last-ditch effort to do that. Unfortunately, it didn't work because the Apocalypse Pantheon had become too strong for them.

The control of all five towers granted them an extra 20% bonus on Strength, Speed,

Endurance, Domain, and Authority. Plus the original gained from each tower, they had a 30% boost for each attribute.

The gods wanted to give up, but they had to persevere because of their world gods. But even their world gods had to give up the fight after another four years of failures because the

Apocalypse Pantheon gained control of all 5 towers again.

The Apocalypse Pantheon became so powerful that the losses to the gods couldn't be overlooked anymore. Each one of them had lost more than 9 Crowns now.

In fact, the Apocalypse Pantheon had begun to counterattack after they had exhausted all they had. The allied army decided to retreat immediately.

It is true that both sides lost a lot in the war.But the fact that one side was gaining a lot made the war unpalatable. The allied army couldn't just keep throwing the lives of their mortals away anymore. So they ran away with their tail between their legs.

But they didn't give up on harassing 9 Crowns. The gods decided to change their plans. They decided to unite further by making a super religion and a super pantheon.

It was an attempt to create a god powerful enough to rival the 9 Crowns. The god kings were to disband their pantheons and form one pantheon made of previous god kings.

They were to bring all their believers and resources together to support one person. It was a good idea but there were some delays in the execution because the gods couldn't decide on who would be the super god king.

While their world gods were hashing out the contract and arrangements, the Apocalypse Pantheon chased after the remnant of the allied army and made sure that none of their mortals would be able to return.

The orcs were finally able to return to their kingdom. But 9 Crowns went further than that. He annexed every kingdom around the Orc empire and expanded his nation.

Then he chased the gods all the way back to their territories. The fact that they couldn't defeat him together, meant that they could handle him alone. It was the right opportunity for him to pay them back for what they did to him.

He couldn't nullify their claim to their lands as that would require an army of mortals. He needs his mortals to recuperate. Making them fight in far away foreign lands will prevent that. So he and the Orc bandits went alone to harrass the gods.

The war ended after eight years of fighting. But the Apocalypse Pantheon was still fighting the gods. Thing became so bad that the gods couldn't spread their faith in the mortal realm in peace anymore.

In the past before the war, the gods couldn't leave their cities for fear of being killed by the Orc bandits. They could only hide in divine cities where they couldn't be harmed. Now, their believers and priests also had to hide in the mortal realm.

This forced the world gods to come to an agreement. A super religion was finally created. But things were already too late by then.

The Apocalypse Pantheon had already become the undisputed Supreme Pantheon and 9 Crowns had been dubbed the god of gods. The best that the super religion could achieve was eek out a living. It couldn't prosper.

Still, they were not willing to give up just yet. They can't give up since the alternative is death. But they have decided not to rely on mortal war, not for another 40 years when the mortals have reproduced for two generations.

This led to a period of prosperity in the mortal realm. It was total prosperity for the orcs while it was relative peace for other races. Their peace was relative because 9 Crowns was wiping out cities at random.

The gods had to pay tributes of divinity to 9 Crowns in secret or admit publicly to their believers that 9 Crowns was indeed the god of God's. Only then could they have peace.

9 Crowns was indeed the most powerful god in the Northern Divine Realm, but to admit it would be to sabotage their future as gods and undermine the power of the super religion that they spent great effort to set up. So the gods decided to pay 9 Crowns some divinity in secret.

On the surface, they didn't admit defeat. In fact, they told their believers that the war had ended in a draw. They refused to admit that 9 Crowns is the god of gods or that they lost to him and his pantheon. This gave some ignorant people false confidence.

One of the groups of ignorant people are the players, or otherworlders, as they are sometimes called. Due to their false confidence, the war hasn't ended for them. They are still determined to destroy 9 Crowns.