novelraw #242 - Section 242
#242 - Section 242
The final answer presented in the chapter of ultimate imbalance was the "Throne-class" Titan battleship, the Eternal Night.
Named a floating fortress, after its volume was increased to a certain extent and anti-gravity technology was mastered, the design of an aircraft with huge wings that needed to glide with the help of aerodynamics was first eliminated.
Magic crystal machinery does not lack output and is sufficient for brute force, but the energy saved by aerodynamics brings weak defense, which outweighs the gains.
Considering the complexity of the real battlefield in the future, not just using it in the Eternal Night world, the Empire's strategic-level floating fortress considered the need for stacked armor and shields, as well as complex requirements such as running and steering, and the final shape referred to sea warships.
The Throne-class is ten kilometers long longitudinally, five kilometers wide at its widest point, bulging at the front and gradually slender towards the rear...
It looks like a mushroom flying into the sky!
Its front is piled with the most advanced composite armor, and it has the Empire's largest fortress-class magic shield generator, with countless magic turrets and missile launchers on the sides, capable of guiding teleportation.
Of course, it has not forgotten the word "strategic". The most important function is to transport combat personnel and vehicles.
The internal space is constructed with space magic to create an oversized cabin five times its actual volume, which can complete the deployment of 100,000 troops and corresponding equipment and supplies at one time.
It was because of its excellent performance that the Eternal Night Empress bestowed the name of Eternal Night upon the first Throne-class, expressing her satisfaction with the new height of the Empire's military industrial development.
Finally, it's not tractors and mining outfits to fool me, huh!
As the live broadcast camera zoomed out, users watching the projection realized that the awards ceremony they were watching was being held inside the Eternal Night!
At the same time, the Eternal Night was hovering over the City of Mysteries, carrying the Empire's important officials and outstanding talents, overlooking the Green Vine Empire!
The moment this news was discovered, the users in the City of Mysteries and surrounding areas directly exited the Fearless Space, walked out of their rooms, and looked up to see the Eternal Night, which was gradually ending its stealth and showing its shape in the night sky.
Its silver-white smooth outer armor reflected the stars in the sky, and many portholes lit up, forming words on both sides through central control gradation:
Long live the Empire!
Countless Imperials cheered on the ground.
Flying in this world is not difficult. Whether it's dragons or magicians, it's not surprising to see strange things gliding through the sky.
But a ten-kilometer-long city appearing in the sky, with an illusionary appearance and countless ferocious gunports, made the Imperials look forward to its glory on the battlefield.
Now that we have seen the future, why not worship it?
The silent five-year preparation for war is over. Announcing one of the super weapons mastered by the Empire at an awards ceremony that can be seen by spies from various powers, even a fool can guess the hidden meaning of the Eternal Night Empress's move:
I and Green Vine are ready. Next, we will show our swords to the world!
Are you ready?
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Kambusak Desert, Serena City.
Outside the War God Temple, Queen Tasika of the Terra Kingdom, who is deeply loved by the orcs, summoned her people to announce an important decision.
In the five years of the Empire's low-key development, the orcs, who started as counterfeit kings, have achieved unprecedented development. Their output in all aspects and the excess profits earned have made them known as Little Green Vine for their national construction.
The name Kambusak Desert is no longer accurate. After countless investments and transformations, it has become the Kambusak Plain, with lush vegetation and a complex water network.
Cities have been built in Terra, disrupting the traditional tribal life of the orcs, and attracting immigrants from various countries and races around the world.
The source of the Terra real estate bubble, the City of Freedom, has now become the most famous tourist city and economic free port in the Eternal Night world, the city with the most developed tertiary industry, and a paradise for the rich.
Here, life is extravagant and decadent, with revelry every night. I don't know how many poor boys get rich overnight, and then go bankrupt in the expansion and become poor in the slums outside the city.
Waking up from the most gorgeous dream, we are still empty-handed.
This is the impression many people have of the City of Freedom.
However, the native people of the Terra Kingdom are not addicted to the enjoyment of the City of Freedom because of Queen Tasika's call, but only regard it as a tool for making money, not as pride.
In the past five years, in addition to the rapid changes in living standards, the basic elimination of famine, drought, and monster invasions, the orcs have also undergone a major change:
They no longer like to call themselves orcs, but began to use Terra people to refer to themselves.
This is an increase in the sense of belonging and identity to the new country. This is the beginning of putting down the barriers between past tribes, and it is also an achievement that Tasika has worked hard to promote, brainwash, and complete with solid political achievements in the past five years.
Because they like the current life from the bottom of their hearts and identify with the current rulers, the orcs who were separated for various reasons in the past can accept that everyone is now people of the same country and accept the new name of Terra people.
Unity is strength. Past practice has taught them this truth and pushed Tasika's reputation to an unprecedented peak.
Terra people like to drink. As new types of spirits become popular, they enthusiastically call Tasika the Queen of Knockout Donkey.
Tasika instructed the propaganda department, no matter how much the people like it, prohibit the spread of this outrageous title!
Today's Queen Tasika is not wearing a gorgeous royal robe, but a suit of armor, holding a golden spear, representing her identity as a religious leader and a saint of the Goddess of War.
As night fell, magic lights lit up in the square, where at least a thousand people gathered.
Everyone looked forward to Tasika, the moment when the queen was so solemn was becoming increasingly rare.
The assistant walked to Tasika and informed her that the Green Vine Empire had made the Eternal Night public.
Tasika excitedly raised her spear and looked at all the Terra people.
Everyone, today I want to announce a secret to you, a secret buried in my heart for five years, about my father and the real reason for the deaths of the former chiefs of the various tribes..."
Tasika told the story of the Green Vine Empire's invasion that day, when Old Josda used Serena City as bait to kill the high-level members of various tribes in the city.
The Green Vine Empire fought upright, and we couldn't beat them, so we admitted it and will fight again next time! But the gods we believe in treat us as pawns and bait. Are the lives of Terra people not lives?
"Your Majesty, please don't say any more, you are speaking blasphemous words!"
The new War High Priest stood up to stop Tasika from continuing, but was immediately pinned to the ground by the palace guards.
Even the Knights of the Church did not stand up to help him, but supported Tasika, the saint.
What Tasika said was too true. Everyone had some guesses about the strangeness of the battle that year.
It turned out that Green Vine was not too insidious, but we had spies!
Everyone was boiling.
"The mere War Goddess, it's okay not to believe in her!"
Tasika tore off the badge representing the identity of the saint from her armor and stomped on it twice.
She took the torch from her guard and lit the War God Temple:
"The development of our Terra has never relied on the favor of the gods, but on our own hands!"
In the raging fire, she finally revealed her cards.
I'm not a believer anymore!
At the same time, Terra closed its borders, prohibiting all foreigners from entering or leaving.
The Eternal Night world is accelerating!
Chapter 218: Tebella Doesn't Want to Let It Go
The vast multiverse, a certain material plane.
The Four Gods Alliance, led by Tebella and others, watched this world outside the plane barrier, feeling a burst of toothache for the slow speed of the war's progress.
Because the God of Hope changed from being unreliable to being what a god should be, the combat power of their alliance increased greatly, and they had a good time of rapid advancement and crazy harvesting of faith power.
But later, they found that these wars to invade planes were becoming more and more difficult to fight.
Even an inconspicuous plane would accidentally pop out a few super strong people who did not believe in any gods from beginning to end and firmly stood on the opposite side of them.
In the past, when encountering these "spiky heads", the Seven Gods' usual method was to buy them off, promising them status and strength. Relying on the Seven Gods' accumulation and the disguise of the righteous gods on their bodies, they could always easily obtain the halo of world righteousness and gain the allegiance of these strong people.
Anyway, the Seven Gods were originally hostile to each other when they appeared.
Because of opposing this god, joining the camp of another god is a very common choice for intelligent creatures in this universe.
Only gods can fight against gods. Compared to the immortal lives of gods, mortals can do too little. It is still necessary to hug the thigh to lie down more comfortably.
But in fact, the Seven Gods camp has harvested almost all the gods in this universe who have the will to resist, so no matter how those world's spiky heads choose their camps, they will accidentally become the Seven Gods' thugs.
Strategically occupying an absolute advantage, it is actually very simple and smooth for the Seven Gods to win the war.
The Seven Gods' biggest reliance is the accumulation of countless worlds and countless years.
Once a plane is taken down, the souls of believers will ascend to the god kingdom to become prayer warriors, and those powerful opponents will also be collected by the gods for waste utilization, and their souls will be armed into powerful soldiers.
So no matter how powerful a plane is, it is impossible to win against the Seven Gods who have been running away for tens of thousands of years.
The problem facing the Seven Gods is how much strength it takes to occupy one.
Although their accumulation is strong, it is absolutely undesirable to use unscrupulous means to take down a plane, because their goal is to capture the entire multiverse, so they need to use as little cost as possible to keep their war machine running forever.
So they create the illusion that they are hostile to each other. Before the official invasion begins, they first let the target carry out internal friction. When the forces on all sides are completely disabled, they open up and enter the field, easily harvesting and achieving five kills.
Then that plane is either built into a believer breeding base, or directly kneaded into a void plane according to the plan. The Seven Gods' army can make slight adjustments and rush to the next world with the same script.
Originally, the same routine was tried and tested in this multiverse, and the Seven Gods camp quickly grew stronger. With the cooperation of the church forces that had been laid out long ago, how could forces that had not walked out of a single plane have the possibility of resistance?
But it is this panacea routine that is gradually becoming ineffective.
It's not that they can't win, but the consumption is getting bigger and bigger, and their profits are getting smaller and smaller.
If it continues to develop like this, I'm afraid it will lose money to fight a plane, so what are you fighting for?
The Four Gods Alliance found that there were more and more strong people who exceeded the general strength of the plane. The most annoying thing is that they don't believe in any gods and also spread the truth that these gods are in the same group.
Even if not everyone believes it, but only with such doubts, the Seven Gods Church can't provoke a world war in the target plane, and it is difficult to create a scene of easy harvesting.
If this is the case, then the Seven Gods will come with a wave of autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, and take away the resistance forces of this plane in one wave, which is actually just consuming more blue energy.
But these strong people who emerged in the world have extremely strong personal strength and are extremely cautious. Before growing up, they fill up their life-saving skills, like cockroaches that can't be killed. Every time they appear, they will be more powerful.
At the same time, they are also very charismatic and have the ability to organize production. Several of these strong people cooperate and quickly pull up a well-equipped army in a very short time. Those weapons appear out of thin air like magic tricks.
The Four Gods Alliance has every reason to suspect that they are being targeted.
They don't want to gnaw bones, they just want to fight with the wind.
Except for the God of Knowledge, the main purpose of the remaining six gods in waging war is to harvest more faith power.
But because of the existence of these spiky heads, the cost of attack is rising in a straight line, and the cost cannot be recovered. The six gods are a little reluctant to continue fighting and want to digest the land they have already occupied.
Even if the four gods form an alliance to keep warm, the cost of gnawing bones is getting higher and higher, and the gums are bleeding.
They must think carefully about what they have encountered.
Is this area particularly difficult to fight, or has the entire universe become like this?
If it is the former, are they preparing to find a way to exchange battle zones with the other gods? Anyway, it's better to lose a friend than to lose myself.
If the remaining planes in the entire universe will upgrade to hell mode when they are fought to a certain extent, then they will have to apply to the God of Knowledge to change the strategy, at least to give more rewards, right?
These gods have been played by Nalineer too much, and they have learned to calculate one by one, and they are very rationally aware of why they are fighting, and they will not get carried away by setbacks and start another game, but flexibly want to change the track.
While the four gods were fighting on the plane, they were discussing their future way out. Suddenly, Tebella froze.
Not only outside the plane, but the avatar on the battlefield that was fighting with the resistance forces also seemed to be fixed in place because of being too surprised, and was besieged by the enemy on the spot.
"Sister La, what did you think of?" The God of Hope immediately asked with concern.
Because there is enough bad water, Tebella serves as the military advisor in the Four Gods Alliance and can always think of some problems that everyone ignores, so her opinions are also valued by the other three gods.
Things that can make her so discolored must be very important, right?
It took Tebella a long time to recover, and she said hatefully: "It has nothing to do with you, one of my temples was burned by the saint!"
The three gods showed puzzled expressions. Saint, isn't that only the most devout believers can serve? How could they burn the temple of the god they believe in?
Tibella didn't seem keen to talk about it, tilting her head to look at the Sea God: "You should prepare yourself; I'm afraid there's a big problem in the Eternal Night World. Your little Saintess isn't simple either..."
"F**k!"
Before Tibella could finish speaking, the Sea God cursed aloud.
She also sensed that her idol in the Naga Empire had been pushed over, and the power of faith there had been directly cut off, indicating a very serious problem in the church.
However, thanks to Tibella's reminder, the Sea God, although angry, didn't have her thinking paralyzed by excessive surprise like Tibella did.
She calmed herself down. The opponent's preparations were quite thorough, carried out precisely on time, and their understanding of divine power and faith reached a very high level, giving her no chance to counter.
She had been careless!
"What are you going to do about this?" the Sea God asked.
"I'm still considering it, but I definitely can't let it go like this."
Tibella's eyes were full of venom.