Volume 4 Chapter 629: All-out War (Part 2)
In this way, as time went by, as more and more gods participated, the scale of the gods' expedition to the Abyss became larger and larger.
But in the initial stage, things did not go as smoothly as they expected, especially for the weaker halflings and dwarf gods.
Because the believers in the kingdom of the gods cannot participate in this kind of cross-dimensional battle, the armies they send out are basically the celestial creatures that are dependent on them, as well as a small number of dragons, titans, giants and other powerful creatures that can survive in other worlds.
While the Overworld was still being invaded by demons and devils, they were unable to organize a mortal army.
In addition, the gods involved are generally kind or neutral, as are the armies they send out. Therefore, they will be weakened in the Abyss and can easily be corrupted and fallen.
Due to these reasons, their efficiency in harvesting soul fragments was not high at the beginning.
Apart from the gods who followed Levi, the only ones who benefited the most were Kelemvor, the god of death, Oghma, who was absolutely neutral and controlled a large number of constructs and golems, and the Cathay pantheon that sent the Terracotta Warriors to participate in the war.
This is far inferior to Levi, who controls both the Subaerotian Clan and the Aichuang Clan.
Even later, the Gaidingtian clan was impressed by Levi's identity and power as the Lord of Mount Heaven, as well as his determination to fight against evil, and completely recognized Levi.
He decided to send his army to join this great cause and share the secrets of the Source of Light that he possessed.
That’s right, the Lion of Heaven, the Lion-Headed Prince of God, Talishid, had already successfully comprehended the origin of light.
The Paradise gave him great power, but prevented him from ever becoming a god. But he was certainly not willing to accept this, so he tried to find another way, and eventually opened up a new path for all the Gaiding people, which was to pursue the path of origin.
But unlike Levi, since he is not a god, he can only comprehend and exert the power of the origin of light in the realm of bliss.
Coupled with the blessing of the Paradise Realm itself, at his peak, he was able to rival the middle-level divine power.
Because of this, he is recognized by the Gaidingtian clan as the strongest and most talented member of the clan in history.
At the same time, with his dedicated teaching, the current Bear-Headed Divine Envoy, Boye, among the Five Lords of Gaidin, also barely obtained a 0.1% share, becoming the second being in Paradise to master this power.
As for Prince Talishid himself, he probably holds a 4.5% share.
Of course, there is still a huge gap between this and Levi who has the support of Paradise Mountain. Levi has already mastered 8%, and this number is constantly increasing with the passage of time.
But Prince Talishid is much stronger than the Queen of Stars - Moville. Moville, who indulges in sensual pleasures all day long, has already wasted her strength. The share she currently controls is less than a fraction of Prince Talishid's.
Yes, even the power of origin cannot be completely possessed permanently once it is mastered.
Because there will always be latecomers joining the competition. If the other party has a better and more profound understanding of the origin, they will naturally have the possibility of seizing a certain share.
But having invested so much, in addition to wanting to join the conquest of the Abyss, Prince Talishid actually had other requests, and they were very big.
He hopes to gain Levi's support so that he can embark on the path to becoming a god.
For ordinary members of the Gaiding Celestial Clan, the status and power bestowed by the Paradise are extremely precious and generous gifts, but for Prince Talishid who has come to this point, it has become a shackle.
Moreover, he had a vague feeling that in the future, if there was no true god in charge, the Gaiding Clan and the Paradise might be in danger.
But if he wants to be deified, he first needs to abandon the identity and power brought by the Lion-Headed Prince. Without his protection, Paradise will become very dangerous during this period, so he seeks help and support from Levi.
In return, whether successful or not, he, Paradise, and the entire Gaiding Celestial Clan will become the strongest allies of Levi and Mount Paradise.
As long as Levi can always uphold kindness and justice, he will be the first to rush forward wherever Levi's troops point to.
At the same time, half of the soul fragments obtained by the Gaidingtian clan from conquering the bottomless abyss will be given to Levi.
The Gaiding Clan will follow the example of the Yakong Clan and the Aici Clan and go to the main world in the name of Levi, the gods of Mount Paradise, and some elven gods who are actively approaching Levi.
They will fight against demons and other evil together around the island of Ulthuan, the continent of Lustria, the many overseas colonies of the High Elves, and even the fortresses near the Antarctic and the Arctic.
There is no doubt that doing so will greatly spread the reputation of Levi and others and help them gain the power of faith.
Before this, based on the treaty signed between the three major celestial clans and the gods, they were not allowed to appear in the main world at will without being summoned.
But now that Levi is the God King of Elves, he can completely appoint the Celestials as the nominal guardians of the temple and the church. Fighting against demons is also for the purpose of daily defense and pursuit to ensure that no one slips through the net.
Although the scope of this pursuit is a bit large, considering that Levi is now a powerful god and has single-handedly led the war against the Abyss, the gods will give him face.
However, Levi also knew that if the time was a little longer and it affected the faith of other gods, the goddess of magic and the god of nature who did not participate in the expedition of the abyss might take the lead in protesting to Levi.
But it doesn’t matter. This kind of large-scale missionary work will make a lot of money even if it only lasts for one day.
After a brief consideration, Levi agreed to the other party's request.
Levi could fully understand why Prince Talishid did not make the same choice as Moville. After all, the situations of the Gaidin and Aici tribes were completely different.
Moville has always been playing by herself behind closed doors, and given her personality, she basically has no friends. It is not surprising that she made such a choice when the entire Star King's Court was still under the threat of Slaanesh.
While Prince Talishid upholds the pride of the lion, he also maintains good friendships with many gods of the good camp, such as Tyr, Lathander, etc. It is indeed unlikely that he will directly submit to Levi.
Even if Levi rejected him, he would most likely seek help from the above-mentioned gods. Since he had more choices, he had the confidence to negotiate with Levi.
However, Levi did not care much about this. As long as he could use it, whether as an ally or as a subordinate god, it would be acceptable.
But apart from this, Levi also made a small request to the other party, that is, under the right conditions, the other party should help introduce Levi to the Zoo and let Levi meet the animal lords.
Theoretically, every kind of animal in the Zoo has an animal lord of the same kind, and there are at least hundreds or thousands of animal lords there.
Somewhat similar to Paradise, the Beast Garden also bestows some blessings on the animal lords, so that when they are in it, they can basically possess the power of demigods. This is an extremely large force that even the most powerful divine power cannot ignore.
When in the Beast Garden, there are too many animal lords and there are conflicts among them. They may be killed, but the souls of the animal lords can then be reincarnated into other animals of the same kind and continue to survive.
Of course, once out of the Zoo, the animal lords were basically ordinary legends, or maybe even lower, and they were easily killed at that time.
If you die outside, you are completely dead. This is very different from the demons in the Abyss, so they basically never go out .
But this is not absolute. In the past, the Zhendan pantheon has successfully abducted several animal lords, such as the Prime Minister Turtle who is currently serving Minglong - Yinyin.
Levi also had a similar idea. He wanted to snatch out a few animal lords related to dinosaurs and throw them to Lustria or Paradise Island.
In this way, with their assistance, both the Lizardmen and the Amazons will be able to better control various dinosaurs.
Or if we could trick a few of them into coming over and having them serve as subordinates of the gods of Mount Heaven, that would also be a great thing.
However, these animal lords also have some obvious weaknesses, namely the upper limit of their potential, which has not been completely changed even after being deified.
According to the news from the Zhendan pantheon, they had made many efforts to naturalize their many animal lords, but they could only remain at the demigod stage.
They cannot master or possess more power. If given by force, these powers will either continue to be lost or they will be in danger of exploding.
Therefore, it is completely impossible to create multiple racial gods at one time by supporting these animal lords and thus control stronger power.
Ordinary demigods will only become prey to gods and other powerful beings.
Levi also expressed his understanding of this. If it were really that easy to produce racial gods in large quantities, this opportunity would not have come to them.
But it doesn't matter, he didn't have high expectations of them. Essentially, he just wanted to find a few animal trainers!
Prince Talishid agreed to this with a pat on his chest. Their Gaidintian tribe had a good relationship with most of the animal lords, except for a few scavengers such as vultures, with whom they had a bad relationship.
This is the nature of the Gaiding Celestial Clan. There are no scavengers of the Gaiding Celestial Clan in their paradise.
Thus, the deal was concluded, and Prince Talishid began to prepare for the relevant matters. His ambition was not small, and he wanted to directly become the racial god of the Gedintian tribe.
In this way, relying on his past prestige, even if he does not develop any believers in the main world, relying solely on his own people is enough to maintain his existence.
And once he becomes a true god, he will become Prince Talishid forever.
This also made Levi have an idea again.
The three major celestial clans have always been known as one. If Prince Talishid can plot against the racial god of the Gaidin celestial clan, then is there a similar possibility for the Yakong celestial clan and the Airi celestial clan?
But this matter cannot be rushed, because Moville is much inferior to Prince Talishid in all aspects, and she is still in the chaos camp. If she is really deified, who knows how much trouble she will cause.
On the Heaven Mountain side, ever since the first generation of Watchers fled to the main world, the remaining Lords of Heaven are all in their dozens. Whether it is strength or wisdom, there is obviously a big gap between them, and they cannot be relied upon for the time being.
If one really wants to seek the relevant clergy position, I'm afraid Levi can only do it in person.
Unfortunately, he has been too busy recently. If he wants to completely sit on the throne of the God King, the elven pantheon will definitely require him to invest a lot of energy.
Especially after accepting many of Corellon's believers, it also means that Levi needs to make a lot of efforts to gradually change Corellon's name in the hearts of these believers to his own name and completely complete the change of faith.
He didn't necessarily want the other party to forget Corellon's past achievements, but when it came to faith, it was better to be pure.
While he was busy, the gods also gradually made progress. After they gradually obtained soul fragments and made them into constructs, things gradually began to change.
Because the constructs have extremely strong resistance to the corrosion of the Abyss.
Moreover, they were created to be consumables, so as long as they can obtain enough soul fragments before death, it will be enough for the gods.
It doesn't matter whether they are corrupted or not.
In other words, most of them would not live to that time, and would be sent to the battlefield in advance by the gods who would notice and give them a glorious end.
After realizing this, the enthusiasm of the gods became noticeably higher, and they began to invest more power in this expedition. Several layers have been destroyed as a result, and several demon gods have fallen.
Among them was Yeenoghu, the gnoll god who was severely beaten by Levi and had the shackles of time stolen from him.
Although his strength was not that great, on the day of his death, at least a dozen gods participated in the battle or watched the battle, which gave him enough face.
Levi didn't ask about his priesthood fragments or anything like that. As a type of beastmen, gnolls were widely distributed and there were quite a few of them in the main world.
Just like the snake people, the cruelty and bloodthirstiness in the nature of the gnolls make it almost impossible for them to become members of the good camp. However, their strength and potential are not very high, which makes it difficult for them to really get along in the main world.
It was at this time that Levi learned that Yeenoghu and the Zerg Prince were actually very firm allies.
Even though the Zerg Prince had been beaten so badly in the Kingdom of Avandor before, he still provided support to Yeenoghu. It is very rare for a demon to keep his promise so well.
But not only did he fail to help, he ended up dying together with them.
However, it was not the gods who took action, but Demogorgon, known as the Lord of Demons.
The opponent, whose lower body was like a lizard and the upper body was like a two-headed baboon, was an enemy of the two guys in front, so he took advantage of the chaos to kill the Zerg Prince completely.
However, his actions were not all smooth sailing. When he was looting the Zerg Prince's lair, he encountered the Queen of Chaos and the wolf spider Miska who came with the same purpose.
The two sides fought again until both were defeated and finally stopped fighting.
Levi could only sigh, no wonder the bottomless abyss had so many layers, but was always beaten up by the hell with only nine layers.
These demons from the Chaos Camp cannot be said to be completely brainless, but most of the time, they will allow their impulses to dictate their behavior, even if there is not much benefit to be gained.
However, the Fox Goddess was unexpectedly resilient. Even when facing the siege of Lady Golden Heart and the Goddess of Love Shuni and their respective relatives and friends, she did not fall.
Of course, this is not only relying on her own strength, but also on her charm.
After learning that if they could help the Fox Goddess successfully resist this crisis, they would have the chance to become her lover, many demon lords and demon gods participated enthusiastically.
For example, the Firelord - Kadum, the Forsaken - Alex, the Howling Lord - Ilysidahul, and so on.
But the most famous among them is the Dark Lord - Graz'zt .
Even though they are all demon gods, their strengths vary. Graz'zt is the best among them because he possesses reason and wisdom that many demon lords do not have.
Almost all the gods even believed that among the demon lords, none was more human than Graz’zt, and his own strength was also strong enough, which made him even more powerful.
He was like a human tyrant, ruling the 45th, 46th, and 47th layers of the Abyss, and also developed some evil sects.
Therefore, after becoming the Demon God, his strength was still among the top ones, and the gap between him and other demon lords even widened further.
More importantly, Grazzt was well-known for his strong desires and his sluttish nature, so he certainly couldn't resist this temptation.
This gave the Fox Goddess a rare chance to catch her breath.
But everything has its pros and cons, and this also allowed the gods to gain a new ally, the goddess of wealth - Waukeen.
Wakin had been imprisoned by Graz'zt for more than ten years. Given Graz'zt's strong desire, one could easily imagine how much humiliation she had suffered.
It’s not that she is so chaste, the point is that she was forced, which is the greatest humiliation for God.
This kind of humiliation can only be washed away by the blood and death of the other party.
In the past, Graz'zt was hiding deep in the Abyss, and it was obviously impossible for Woking to succeed in his revenge with his own strength. But now that she has such an opportunity, it would be foolish of her not to seize it.
So she not only sent out all the beings in her kingdom that could cross dimensions to participate in the war, hired a large number of constructs and energy angels from Levi, she even recruited some dragons, and even openly launched a bounty in the main world.
No matter it is gods, mortals, or any other existence, as long as they can kill a combat incarnation of Graz'zt, she will give the other party 1 million gold coins and a fragment of the godhead at one time.
If the original body is killed, in addition to the above rewards, she will also do her best to help the other party become a god.
After studying the way of wealth for so long, she is almost able to develop a new related priesthood.
When these words came out, not only the entire main world was in an uproar, but even the gods were very interested.
Normally, the combat effectiveness of gods of wealth is basically at the bottom among gods of the same level, and may be slightly stronger than those of art, poetry and the like.
But Wojin is too rich, and all kinds of equipment and consumable items directly increase her combat effectiveness.
Gold coins do not really mean much to the gods themselves, but they are very meaningful to all things in the main world.
For example, this time in order to gain knowledge and power from Levi, in addition to some resources for forging artifacts, Waukeen also gave Levi 5 million gold coins in one go.
This is of great significance to Fear Rock, Paradise Island, and even the continent of Lustria.
So as long as Waukeen offered a high enough price, the gods were willing to make a deal with her.
While the gods acquired a large number of constructs and began to expand the scale of the war like a snowball, Levi had already begun to popularize the manufacturing method of energy angels on a small scale.
The real good things, of course, should be given to their own people. This is also a rare opportunity for the new gods to catch up with the old gods.
At the same time, Levi also used the Holy Words of Creation and the extraordinary divine power of insight into private matters to obtain the true names of many demon lords.
Together with gods like Tyr, he successfully made Mammon, the Duke of Greed on the third layer of the Nine Hells, and Dispater, the Duke of Iron on the second layer, the new victims, which made the Lord of Hell even more resentful.
Tyr also wanted to make a concerted effort to completely kill all the demon lords except the Lord of Hell who had already been deified.
Unfortunately, it did not happen.
Because the fourth layer of the Nine Hells is jointly governed by father Belial and daughter Firna, who share power.
After many of their colleagues died in battle, they certainly knew the crisis, so they tried to use the power of hell to confuse each other's real names, causing Levi's forced summoning to fail.
The Princess of Hell on the sixth level, Gracia, was deified as the Queen of Lust with the help of the Lord of Hell.
The source of the fragment of his godhood is also quite interesting. It is none other than the weak divine power of the goblins - the collaborator - Baigriyek.
The gods joined hands to fight against the minions of the Lord of Hell in the main world. The first to bear the brunt was naturally Set, and the second was the God of Goblins who suffered the most, because he was only a weak power of a god of rank 1.
Seeing that there was a good chance that he would be completely surrounded and killed, the Lord of Hell took the initiative to help his daughter ascend to godhood.
The main god of the goblins and hobgoblins, Magnubiye the Fire-Eye, simply protested a few words and did not take any actual action.
On the one hand, it was because he didn't have much friendship with that guy, and there was no need to speak up for a dead god who was no longer worth anything.
On the other hand, it was also because he was being invaded by the greenskin gods led by Gruumsh.
The greenskin gods have always had certain ambitions towards goblins, hobgoblins, bugbears, and even the kobold gods. They want to conquer them in order to strengthen the overall combat power of the greenskin pantheon.
In addition, he had just been beaten up by Levi and had lost face in the entire Zodiac Sky Crystal Wall System. Geumus also wanted to take the opportunity to regain some face.
Even though they had just suffered a crushing defeat, their power was not something the goblin gods could resist.
The last target is Bayer, who has been fighting on the front line against demons for many years, known as the General of the Nine Hells and the commander of the first layer of hell.
Since he came to power after betraying the previous lord, and seemed to have used the previous lord's real name in the process, he also attached great importance to this matter.
He tampered with his own real name and the eight powerful demons known as the Eight Dark Demon Generals.
Therefore, when Levi summoned, he directly summoned five demon generals to block this fatal disaster for Bayer.
But although Bayer was secretly rejoicing, the Lord of Hell became even more angry, because this loss was no better for the entire hell than the death of a devil lord.
So after careful planning, he finally launched a counterattack: the Watchers who had left Mount Paradise and headed for the main world disappeared abruptly.
When the Lord of Pearl Heaven, the Prophet ILSol, who had been responsible for observing, looking after, or supervising the other party, reported the matter to Levi, he immediately saw through the truth.
But Levi smiled instead. With the addition of the gods, the current defense of Mount Heaven is not at the same level as when the Watchers were still there.
Especially since Levi believed from the beginning that this must be a hidden danger, he made great adjustments to the defenses of Paradise Mountain. At first glance, there was not much difference from before, but in fact many places were traps prepared for insiders like the Watchers.
What's more, the Watcher originally believed that he would have a chance of being redeemed once he gave up his identity and status, but that was always what he believed, the Zhendan Pantheon never said that!
However, we still need to make more preparations. If the Watcher really falls into the hands of the enemy, then the matter of Guanglong Shenzhu will no longer be a secret...
