The Era of Gods

Chapter 643: Chapter 643 Attacking God Country

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As the most central protection of God Country, the will of the master of God Country is constantly attached to it. No one can secretly decipher the rules here without the master’s knowledge, not even Lin Xiao.

Around the Divine Palace, on the platforms at the spires, there stand more than a dozen Golden Beast Statues towering at twenty to thirty meters high, their ferocious faces and massively swollen muscles emit a heart-throbbing wild aura.

There is no need to guess; these are undoubtedly one of the God Guards of the Divine Palace.

Just as Lin Xiao has many Powerful God Guards around his Divine Palace, gods like to capture some extremely powerful creatures to guard their True Bodies.

Around these Golden Beast Statues, on the golden pyramid steps below them, there are thousands of patrolling Beastmen exuding a strong aura, all of them at least Level 15 strong Beastmen or fierce beasts.

This giant pyramid has more than ten levels, each level with thousands of strong Beastmen, which means nearly two hundred thousand Level 15 and above strong Beastmen or fierce beasts across the layers.

The power level of these Divine Realm guards is at least above Level 15, many of which are Level 18 or even above Level 20, exuding a powerful presence.

Bear in mind that Level 20 is the level of legendary warriors. At a rough glance, there seem to be no less than a thousand legendary Beastmen within this God Country, a truly terrifying accumulation over thousands of years.

At this moment, Zoel suddenly spoke to the God of Plunder, Dominique:

“With so many legendary Sanctuary warriors, no wonder the Barbaric God has not elevated his God Level in a thousand years. It turns out all the Power of Faith has been used here, how utterly ignorant!”

Lin Xiao heard but did not respond, whereas the God Guard of Wisdom and Knowledge spoke up:

“Perhaps it’s not ignorance, merely a matter of self-preservation.”

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The other incarnations of deities who heard this either shook their heads in disagreement or nodded in approval. Lin Xiao showed no emotion.

Apart from a very few special True Gods, none of the True Gods are truly foolish. Gods like the Barbaric God and Strength God who did not elevate their God Level only avoided doing so as a self-preservation tactic, lest they provoke certain deities. The four Godhoods of the Barbaric God – barbarism, strength, conquest, and plunder – each conflict with the Godhoods of other deities.

It is manageable at a lower level, but once the Divinity level is raised to Medium Divine Power, and the control over the Godhood reaches a certain threshold, it will inevitably lead to conflict with other powerful True Gods.

For instance, the Chief God of the Beastmen possesses the Godhoods of barbarism and plunder, while the War God of the Beastmen once held strength and conquest. Not long ago, the Chief God of the Beastmen defeated the War God and took over his Godhood. Now, the Chief God’s Godhoods entirely cover those of the God of Barbarism and Strength, creating total conflict, leaving no room for the latter to raise his Divinity level.

It is worth mentioning that the Main Deity Position of the Chief God, upon ascending to Powerful Divine Power, was derived from the combination of all Racial Godhoods of the Orcs, not the other Godhoods.

Having said this, Lin Xiao does not agree with such a passive survival strategy. After all, the world operates on the rule of survival of the fittest. Passivity will eventually lead to annihilation, and avoidance cannot solve problems.

Nonetheless, Lin Xiao dared not underestimate the Barbaric God Harken. After all, he is a level eight deity with Weak Divine Power – his strength is certainly not low. Otherwise, he would wait until one of Harken’s incarnations of God was dead and another was entangled before attacking. If all of Harken’s incarnations were present, he would not deploy merely one incarnation to the battlefield.

With the stronghold advantage and several incarnations present, even if Divine Power sends only one or two incarnations, they would not be able to breach Harken’s God Country.

Harken’s God Country was in daylight, but still, there hung four brightly shining stars in the sky, forming a constellation that corresponded to the four major Godhoods that the God of Barbarism and Strength Harken possessed – barbarism, strength, conquest, and plunder. Around the constellation, countless chaotic rays of light swirled, signifying the chaotic alignment of the God of Barbarism and Strength Harken.

With a thought from Lin Xiao, countless golden threads converged from the air to form a massive golden light gate before him. In a matter of seconds, a Space Gate to the Dark God Kingdom was opened, and several divine beings shrouded in white light emerged. These divine angels were transformed from the Cave Man Pray-ers. He chose the most devout Caveman believers, who were fervent in their faith in life, and bestowed Divine Power upon them to transform them into angels to war for the God Kingdom. The numerous angels within the God Kingdom of all the gods are essentially the converted believers.

In the Dark God Kingdom at that moment, tens of millions of Caveman Angels had been amassed. As he had been unable to ascend to Powerful Divine Power over the years, he had an abundance of Divine Power left over, which he converted into Faith Waterfalls and Oceans of Faith, providing enough Divine Power to create these angels.

Although most of them were not very powerful, being around Level 10, numbers do matter.

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The Ground Dwellers had no other advantage but their numbers.

Similar to the divine guards like the angels within the Barbaric God’s kingdom where he was currently situated, there were only around two hundred thousand of them. Although these guards were far stronger than the Ground Dweller angels, their numbers were too few.

After Lin Xiao summoned his Ground Dweller Angel Corps, other deities also summoned their divine guardians or God Guard warriors respectively.

Zoel and God of Plunder Domnique summoned elite Zor’s Master Assassins, one after another. These legendary-level elite assassination masters possessed formidable assassination skills, each holding two curved blades imbued with deadly poison. Once summoned, they quickly faded and disappeared, becoming completely imperceptible to the naked eye.

War and Victory God Russia summoned golden-armored warriors, veterans of countless battlefields. As a deity of war within the divine system, his followers came from various races of the Dark Territory. The only criterion for selection into his Guard was exceptional combat skills combined with unwavering belief in victory, making every one of them an elite warrior with formidable direct combat power.

As for the God of Wisdom and Knowledge, he didn’t summon divine guardians or God Guards. Most of his followers were scholars and cultural academics with a few mages. Lacking powerful followers, he directly used true name summoning spells.

Such divine arts allow the summoning of some ancient and unknown powerful creatures, provided that one knows the true name of those beings. As the God of Wisdom and Knowledge, his greatest advantage was his knowledge. He was aware of the true names of most creatures, including some of the most notorious ones like the Demon Lord, Grand Devil Lord, Ancient Evils, Antiquities of Hatred, Hundred-Armed Giant, Divine Aberration, and other frightening existences.

Of course, he wouldn’t dare summon creatures as notorious as the Hundred-Armed Giant. Such ancient chaotic beings had killed even those with powerful divine power and were extremely difficult to control. Summoning one would mean certain death for the Barbaric God and leave no escape for them either.

This time, the God of Wisdom and Knowledge summoned a hundred Thunderstorm Worms, a type of powerful creature not found in the Primary Material Plane. Usually, they could only be seen in the Chaos Plane, Wind Elemental Plane, or some special planes abundant in Wind Elements.

Thunderstorm Worms were ethereal creatures with bodies like mist, making them immune to physical attacks. They resembled long loaf-shaped worms made of clouds, black in color with white stripes, and covered in many gray shadows.

Most of the Thunderstorm Worms living in the Wind Elemental Plane were about a dozen meters in size, while those from the Chaos Plane could grow up to twenty to thirty meters in length. When they flew, infinite sparks of lightning erupted from their bodies, and the thunderous sounds they emitted carried far and wide.

These ancient powerful beings possessed a certain level of intelligence. They couldn’t speak but understood the common tongue, Wind Clan language, and Dragon speak. They could easily pass through anything, and anything they passed through would suffer thousands of thunderstorm attacks per second. Only a force field could stop the advance of these terrifying creatures.

Their attacks ignored any physical defense, and only spells and energy attacks could harm them. If they weren’t destroyed in an instant, they could recover from any injury within ten seconds—even if half their body was obliterated, they could fully regenerate.

These troublesome and terrifying creatures had one advantage: they would absolutely obey the summoner’s orders. Unlike many ancient beings that liked to defy commands or even turn against the summoner, they were one of the most favored beings by summoners. However, most mages didn’t know their true names and hence couldn’t summon them.

At the command of the God of Wisdom and Knowledge, the hundred-plus Thunderstorm Worms dispersed. Lin Xiao was about to cast a Divine Art when suddenly, the rules of the entire Divine Realm shifted, the summoning light gate jerked as if about to collapse, and he quickly reached out to steady it.

Simultaneously, the top of the massive pyramid in the distance burst into a dazzling golden light. A blinding beam of golden light shot upwards, transforming into a silhouette enveloped by endless divine power. Harken’s Power Incarnation had appeared.

Having reached this point, if Harken hadn’t noticed, he might as well have been dead.

A group of human True Gods’ Incarnations of God sneaked into his own Divine Realm without a word during the full-scale Divine War between humans and orcs. The purpose was self-evident—without any pointless conversation, Harken’s Power Incarnation closed his eyes, and a vast and boundless surge of divine power instantly spread throughout the entire Divine Realm.

Suddenly, the entire Divine Realm erupted. Countless Prayers living within the Divine Realm converged toward them from all directions, some running along the ground, others flying.

Within the Divine Realm, as long as the master of the Divine Realm allowed it, even an ordinary person could gain the ability to fly like a bird, regenerate limbs with amazing rapidity, and recover physical and mana almost instantly. Moreover, if the Divine Realm was powerful enough, or the master of the Divine Realm was willing to expend more divine power, they could also give the permited individuals the ability to teleport instantly and resurrect.

This was the advantage of having home field in the Divine Realm at play, achievable simply at the cost of divine power.

The first wave of Prayers to pounce consisted of the most ordinary Prayers. The Barbaric God Harken had no illusions about eliminating the invaders with them, but they could at least wear down the invaders’ strength a bit.

Keep in mind that Prayers within the God Country could resurrect if they died, but those from the Dark God System who died outside their Dark Divine Realm couldn’t be resurrected—a loss of one was a loss of one.

The main force of Harken’s Divine Realm consisted of those powerful Prayers as well as the mighty Divine Guards and God Guards stationed at each level of the pyramid; these were his trump cards.

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