Chapter 412: The Power of the True Gods
In 1423 on the San calendar, the war for the Thunder Bitwall began. In order to strengthen his authority and perfect Maria's World, Rode, the God of Space and Exploration, launched a war against the Starsoul World. At the same time, the Church of the Dark Night and the Church of the Goddess of Harvest joined the war.
Rode said that all the resources of the Thunder Bitwall belonged to the Goddess of the Night and the Goddess of Harvest. He only needed them to help him win control of the Thunder Bitwall and lead it to Maria's World.
In 1424 on the San calendar, the two parties invested nearly 10 million troops respectively. They even made use of the industrial systems and magic crystal systems of several large kingdoms to produce their weapons and equipment. Several portals were established on the Thunder Bitwall. Numerous combat airships, large airships, and even sky fortresses and mobile strongholds were stuffed onto the battle. However, only the number of losses and damaged items were reported in the end.
The battlefield occupied most of the Thunder Bitwall. One-tenth of the soldiers there were professionals. The losses were so severe that the three churches couldn't accept. Moreover, the mythical wizards who had been afraid of being lost in the Astral World also began to cross the portal into the Astral World. They entered the Thunder Bitwall to fight, putting enormous pressure on the three churches.
In 1425 on the San calendar, Rode, the God of Space and Exploration, decided to enter the Thunder Bitwall. At the same time, he took his Star Kingdom away from Maria's World. He wanted to cross the world and the bitwall to engage in battle himself and assess the battle situation in the Thunder Bitwall.
Rode, the God of Space and Exploration, was the first god to take his Star Kingdom away from Maria's World. Nobody knew what negative impact it would have beyond losing the limits of his authority and the additional power of his world.
If he had really broken away from the covenant of gods and the constraints within the world, would the real power of his True God erupt, or would he become extremely weak and lose the support of the rules?
But Rode still decided to enter the Thunder Bitwall in order to prevent the war from worsening. Only by entering the battle could he really decide the direction and next steps of the war. At the same time, he could determine who the controller of the Thunder Bitwall was.
After a meeting between the gods, and with the support and acquiescence of most of the gods, Rode took control of his Divine Kingdom. He used his authority to open the largest portal in history, letting his Divine Kingdom cross the distance between it and the unimaginable Astral World.
Within Maria's World and inside of its bitwall, stars were orbiting. The Divine Kingdoms were mighty. A huge silver star radiated an intense and extraordinary brilliance. On the surface of the star was the imprint of the God of Space and Exploration. On top of it was stored all of the knowledge about the truth of space, as well as some mysterious and inscrutable divine symbols.
Within the Space Divine Kingdom, Rode sat on the sky of the Divine Kingdom. The Divine Kingdom under his feet was made up of the endless continents of floating islands. It looked like Rode's Bitwall, where followers, saints, those favored by gods, and sacred beasts rested. Now, the whole Divine Kingdom was in turmoil, as if it had predicted what changes were about to take place.
"In the name of Rode, I'll take over all the powers of the Star Kingdom. Out of the control and positioning of the world! Out of the established orbit of stars!" After the command was given by the great Divine Shadow above the divine throne, the Star Kingdom twinkled and rotated. It was so dazzling that it looked ready to burst open.
"In the name of Rode, I command the portal to open. Move towards the Thunder Bitwall!" In the midst of the brilliant light, a portal which moved in waves and layers opened in the bitwall and led to an unknown field.
"Let's go!" The hand of the Divine Shadow stretched out, and the huge Silver Star was moved out of its orbits and away from Maria's World. They lost most of the rules and powers of Maria's World. They only retained their mythical power as they set out towards another far away half-bitwall.
At the same time, the clergymen of the God of Space and Exploration from all over Maria's World felt their divine incantations weakened. A large number of portals failed, space storage devices failed, and the main access to the Rode's Bitwall was sealed off.
Amir, the owner of the Tower of Frost, who recently became a mythical wizard, was one of the top decision-makers of the Wizard Alliance. Because the Wizard Alliance couldn't afford such heavy losses, even when the Arcane Kingdom began to back out, he crossed the Astral World and entered the Thunder Bitwall.
Amir was wearing the white silver robe representing the Master of the Tower of Wizard Alliance. He stood on the ice-blue Mythical Wizard Tower. The pale blue Frost Tower was made up entirely of ice-like blocks, but only when it was touched would one realize that it was actually a special handcrafted kind of crystal with a delicate structure.
The tower was surrounded by more than a dozen sky fortresses, as well as battle airships and bombing airships which were constantly darting down from the sky fortresses. The sky forces, with the Frost Tower as their core, continued to attack the ground and their opponent.
They stood like a giant in the sky, instilling confidence and motivation in the Wizard Alliance's soldiers who had to fight fiercely on the ground. Upon seeing the ice-blue Tower of Frost, a batch of wizards and mana-guru legions rushed up to their opponents desperately. From the sky, the sound of artillery and guns was heard constantly.
The Elemental Battery above the Tower of Frost emitted ice-blue rays. Anywhere that the light passed over became instantly frozen. The ice spread rapidly over the land. Mountains and garrisons were frozen under the irradiating light. Thousands of despairing people were frozen into ice sculptures.
In the sky, the sky fortresses and mobile strongholds, under the ice-blue ray, instantly froze, transforming into ice crystal and breaking apart as they fell to the ground below like hail.
Icey-blue light constantly traveled through the earth and sky, and even a rainstorm was frozen at that moment. These horrible scenes made legions of soldiers and professionals from the Divine Kingdom feel hopeless and desperate.
"From now on, the situation works in our favor!"
"This is the power of the Mythical Wizard, and this is the power of the Mythical Wizard Tower!"
"No one will be an opponent of the Wizard Alliance, not even the so-called Divine Kingdom!"
Amir, the mythical wizard, looked down from the top of his Frost Tower. Behind him were rows of respectful wizards. To them, Amir was no different from a god. He was practically the ruler of the Thunder Bitwall.
The Wizard Alliance Corps and the Arcane Corps on the ground were also constantly rushing to the original base camp of the Divine Kingdom. The Divine Kingdom Corps, which had lost its air supremacy, was also losing under the artillery and airship bombardment of the Wizard Alliance.
At that moment, the sky of the Thunder Bitwall suddenly set off a violent wave. There was a huge eddy above the whole sky and, even from a great distance, one could feel the intense fluctuations in the sky.
With the fluctuation came the dazzling light. It illuminated the whole world like the sun. A shining star descended from the Thunder Bitwall. At the same time, the professionals following the God of Space and Exploration felt their divine incantations become several times more powerful in an instant. Their power had increased by an unimaginable extent.
"What is that?" There were doubts among the soldiers of the Wizard Alliance who had never seen such a scene like this before.
"It's the Divine Kingdom and the gods! The gods have descended to our world!" Everyone in Maria's World knew what this symbolized.
"The True God himself has come to redeem us!" Crowds of soldiers who had suffered from artillery fire and other disasters knelt to the ground and wept bitterly.
"Please punish these demons and devils with destruction and eternity in the abyss!" Soldiers who had lost their comrades in battle shouted and cursed wildly.
Amir and the warriors inside the tower with him looked up one by one. They had heard of the Divine Kingdom from legends and records, but they were actually seeing it for the first time.
"Is this the Divine Kingdom? It looks like... no, it's not... isn't it just an altered Floating-Space Tower?" The wizard in his black robe was shocked as he marveled at the sight.
"How can it be possible? That's a mythical alchemy tower! Ordinary mythical beings couldn't support such a huge mythical wizard tower. Only a legendary Level Eight Mythical Floating-Space City is on par with that!" The Level Five Wizard standing behind Amir immediately made an educated guess.
Amir was fixated on the Divine Kingdom in the sky. The huge star was shrouded. It looked like an entire continent falling out of the sky. It was concealing the whole world. The strong divine waves it emitted created an illusion of people falling into the infinite abyss, unable to see its end.
"This is the Star Kingdom! Is this the so-called Divine Kingdom?"
Just then, a murderous voice came from the Star Kingdom. "Open the Realm of God!"
"Invade and take over the half-bitwall!"
The lights of the gods poured out of the vast star in the sky and illuminated the whole Thunder Bitwall as if it was daytime. The whole world changed instantaneously under the projection of the Divine Kingdom. The Realm of God with the rules and authority of a Level Eight True God had begun to invade the half-bitwall, just like when Rode had invaded and offered sacrifice to the Death Indicator Bitwall.
The intense brilliance enveloped the whole world, and the power of the Realm of God brushed past the Frost Tower, immediately recognized. The Frost Tower was targeted by the Star Kingdom before it could respond.
A space whirlpool erupted in the center of the Frost Tower, detonating and destroying the entire Frost Tower. The tremendous power rotated and kneaded the Frost Tower into a mass, and then it was engulfed. It was like seeing a tin can be crushed under someone's foot.
"True God... it's a Level Eight!" After the death of Amir's body, one of the coffins at the bottom of the Wizard Tower was lifted up and a figure identical to Amir appeared, rebirthed through mythical power.