novelraw #285 - Section 285
#285 - Section 285
This is why the Qing Teng Empire has never given up on the wandering plane project, because the gap in strength between the two sides has always existed. The accumulation of the Empire and the gods differs by tens of thousands of years.
Even if the Empire could liberate the productivity of all its people, and each individual would unleash more efficient production than the gods, the believer technology mastered by the Seven Gods is still there.
But from the perspective of the Seven Gods, they are fighting against the entire multiverse, and mortals are just ants that can be crushed at will.
Now, among these ants, there is one that is particularly annoying, buzzing in her ear from time to time, causing Tyberia to have a minor emotional disturbance.
Would she abandon her work, withdraw her savings, and buy a nuclear bomb to evaporate this ant for this little emotional disturbance?
Obviously not. The payout is not proportional to the investment. Gods are not foolish enough to engage in such unprofitable transactions.
Previously, there had never been a case of ants killing gods.
Take it slow. Gods have long lives and have experienced countless ages, believing that they will be the ones laughing last.
But the quiet development of the Qing Teng Empire has actually exceeded all the past experiences of the gods.
This ant now contains a deadly venom. As long as the god carelessly exposes their skin, they will be bitten, and the venom will be released.
Of course, the ant itself does not know if the move will be effective. In their perspective, they cannot even glimpse the full picture of the enemy, let alone grasp their specific location.
They can only target the god with the deepest entanglement based on the information they have already gathered, and then slowly dig out her location, trying to make her expose her skin...
In other words, ants are still ants. They currently do not even have the qualification to attack the gods proactively.
Although the ants have deadly venom, the enemy is wearing a spacesuit, wrapping themselves up watertight, and even remotely controlling drones to hide in the safest place...
This arrogant yet cautious posture leaves the Qing Teng Empire helpless.
They must wait for the gods to make the first move before they have a chance to capture a flaw and deliver a fatal blow.
Looking back at the trap the Empire laid for Tyberia, it is a complete dance on the edge of a blade.
They must attract Tyberia's attention to make her take more actions. Only with actions is there a possibility of revealing flaws.
But they cannot really anger Tyberia to the point of desperation, discovering that there is a problem with this ant and making overly drastic decisions.
So this is a psychological game, also a process of testing each other's bottom line. The Empire is increasing the strength of its fleets, destroying Tyberia's source of faith.
At the same time, they are controlling the trouble created by the System Child on the front lines, indirectly controlling the speed of the Seven Gods' advance.
In addition, the endless battles between the Eternal Night World and the Dark Elves repeat the provocations previously made against Tyberia.
Multiple measures, careful planning, plus a little bit of luck, accurately grasping Tyberia's petty character, only then did they achieve the current situation.
There is no fierce artillery fire, but that deadly venom is finally delivered to Tyberia, affecting her divine kingdom.
Here, Tyberia finally made up her mind to give up the little emotional disturbances she had been accumulating and first stabilize the foundation of her faith.
Otherwise, if the cash flow is cut off, even her deep accumulation may have problems.
With Nali Nier fallen, but thousands of vampires still eyeing her from behind, Tyberia is well aware of how miserable a god can be when restricted by the gods.
The tragic case of the God of Hope, who was forced to work frantically to repay debts, is a prime example.
She was preparing to mobilize her power to go to the diocese when she suddenly noticed a slight inconvenience in the operation of her divine power, and then she detected a strange aura in her divine kingdom: "It seems that a little mosquito has sneaked in? My angels..."
Before the order was finished, Tyberia saw an incredible scene:
The angels serving her, their pure white wings turned black, and their golden spears lit up with the light of destruction.
But the tips of the spears were pointing at her, their eyes completely cold and resentful, staring at her intently.
As if countless overlapping voices resounded throughout the divine kingdom, billions of petitioners and holy spirits said in unison:
"The hour of judgment has arrived, target locked."
Tyberia's golden dragon and chariot also began to change.
Chapter 263: Mortal, You Are Qualified to Look at Me Directly
Tyberia was completely stunned by the changes at this moment.
Her believers, her petitioners, her holy spirits, her divine kingdom, were now fluctuating with a completely unfamiliar aura, and then launching an attack on her?
Of course, with the selfishness and power of a god, this is where her main body is located. Even if all the petitioners were judged, they still could not harm her in the slightest.
But the gift that the Empire specially prepared for Tyberia, the venom that had been delivered after countless arrangements, even the historically reckless Empress was patiently waiting. One can imagine how terrible the effect of this faith virus specially formulated for Tyberia would be.
After affecting the petitioners and holy spirits, because they maintained the operation of the entire divine kingdom day and night, it was equivalent to the entire divine kingdom also being infected with the virus, beginning to reject and disapprove of Tyberia's existence.
Furthermore, because of the influence of the environment, the faith that Tyberia solidified, stored, and constituted her body began to be less flexible and slowly eroded.
This is what truly terrified Tyberia.
Any god would feel fear when their body appears in an uncontrollable state.
Because they are the strongest in the world, whether it is the path of the professional or the path of the gods, they must thoroughly study, master all the information, and accumulate tens of thousands of years of experience to stand at such a height.
It's like a calligrapher suddenly discovering that they can't hold a pen anymore, and even the most basic strokes are problematic. How can they continue to maintain their shock?
They should be able to control every muscle in their fingers and arms, but now those limbs seem to no longer be their own. Both themselves and the world present a strange aura.
"Ah... ah, what have you traitors done!"
Tyberia's fear turned into anger, and her divine power summoned terrifying flames, which rose from the divine kingdom, instantly evaporating countless petitioners. Even the holy spirits did not send their attacks to Tyberia, hastily defending themselves.
"Defensive form!" The Eternal Night Empress also immediately adjusted the sub-system of the Phantom Demon Pill, changing her outfit with one click, switching to a full defensive form, and dodging towards the outer periphery of the divine kingdom.
Although she came to challenge the Goddess of War, her moment to strike has not yet arrived. Let the Goddess of War and her followers have a civil war first to consume her strength.
At the same time, she waited for further infection of the divine kingdom, and then she began to reinforce the divine kingdom, preventing Tyberia from teleporting.
Originally, the divine kingdom should be the exclusive domain that strengthens the god's combat power to the limit. Even in battles between gods, they would not easily cross into the divine kingdom of other gods to fight.
Often, only when occupying an absolute advantage and conducting the final battle would such an action be taken.
But the existence of the faith virus, layer by layer affecting the divine kingdom, now the Conqueror's Canyon has very limited bonuses to Tyberia.
Because the divine kingdom is also composed of the power of faith, and these faiths are all disgusted with Tyberia, no longer recognizing her, how can they support her and strengthen her?
The infection of the divine kingdom continues to deepen. Next, it will become neutral, and further down, it will become full of rejection of Tyberia, making her combat power in Conqueror's Canyon even worse than in ordinary planes.
With the sensitivity of a god, they will definitely avoid such a situation, so the Eternal Night Empress is now arranging a hand in advance, not letting Tyberia escape.
Turn your home field into my home field, and then let's have a fair and just battle!
At this moment, Tyberia was blocked by the angels she created and cultivated.
Only those angels, because they were strong enough and had a closer distance to God, truly flew to Tyberia's side.
Using the spear of destruction to break through Tyberia's defense, and then burning the already alienated divine power, turning it into a wonderful attack that would evaporate and resonate with more divine power, erupting in Tyberia's body.
This result is like a gas leak, choosing to smoke a cigarette to calm down.
Tyberia's body appears to be an incomparably beautiful, charming, and graceful blonde beauty, but in reality, in the eyes of the Eternal Night Empress and the angels, it is a ball of light composed of terrifying energy.
Simply from the perspective of material accumulation, the Goddess of War's main body is even comparable to a super-giant star, containing terrifying light and heat, and its eruption could even directly destroy many planes.
And now the Empire has found a way to burn divine power. Those angels, at the only moment in their long lives when they have self-determination, chose to launch an attack on Tyberia in the form of a charge, choosing this suicidal method:
Burn my own divine power to create even more terrifying flames and explosions in Tyberia's body!
Even if it can only cause one ten-thousandth or one hundred-thousandth of the damage to Tyberia, this is also the last highlight moment of our angels' life dominated by the gods!
One angel after another exploded in Tyberia's body, her body almost became translucent, and her body contained light spots more dense than stars.
Divine power releases terrifying energy, tearing her body apart. This damage effect is almost all double true damage—
Detonating it in Tyberia's body, and using her own divine power as energy, amplifying one point of damage into hundreds of points, causing a chain reaction and layer-by-layer amplification.
It's like the butterfly effect. A small angel flaps its wings, but leaves a storm in Tyberia's body.
"Bastard, bastard, bastard... who the hell is plotting against me? Is it endless?"
Tyberia's pain spread throughout her body, and more importantly, the loss of faith, which directly exploded an astronomical figure, making her heart ache so much that she couldn't breathe!
The battles of the past three hundred years, slaughtering hundreds of millions of lives, have not caused her so much consumption of faith.
Ironically, because of this round of operations, she felt a fatal crisis, so Tyberia did not think that the Qing Teng Empire was attacking her.
How could those mortals do this?
It should be a primordial god or an immortal demon god who has revived and is taking revenge on her.
So the direction she is looking for is such an ancient existence, ignoring the Eternal Night Empress hidden aside.
Moreover, Tyberia does not have much time to dwell on this blunder caused by arrogance, because the angels' suicidal attacks are not the end, but just a beginning.
The flame that uses her divine power as fuel has not stopped, but is burning more and more vigorously.
Tyberia's expression changed several times, and she found that the divine methods mastered with divine power as the foundation would only add fuel to the fire no matter how she operated, and there was no way to extinguish the flames in her body.
The operation she wanted to complete was like hoping that the immune system would defeat a virus that specializes in attacking the immune system.
At least for a short time, she couldn't think of a suitable way to directly eliminate the flames burning in her body.
Can't she just lie flat completely and wait for a miracle of self-healing?
Having experienced storms and rich combat experience, Tyberia knew that this was the time to make a decision.
She was also ruthless enough, and finally chose to isolate those flames, then limit their movement and concentrate them, and then cut off the part of the body that could not be saved.
In the scene of the divine body manifesting, Tyberia cut off her legs, and golden faith flowed out like blood, burning into black flames.
Although her body was instantly repaired, the faith she had accumulated over the years had lost at least one-third, which was a loss that could never be recovered.
"Damn it!"
Tyberia was as mournful as a bereaved parent. This time, she was completely enraged, and the rationality in her mind was fading.
This series of methods, and not knowing where the enemy is, has already caused her such losses. The pressure is too strong.
At this moment, her divine kingdom, Conqueror's Canyon, has become empty from its original liveliness, and even the lava has begun to lose temperature and turn gray-black, with a tendency to solidify.
And the rules running in it are changing in a direction unfavorable to Tyberia.
The divine kingdom she had worked so hard to build was destroyed.
The petitioners and holy spirits who dared to attack Tyberia after being infected with the faith virus were all killed by her subconscious counterattack. Those angels also self-destructed. In her perception, Tyberia found that only she was left in the vast divine kingdom.
The remaining fire has not been extinguished, and is still burning everything related to faith and divine power. The smoke that rises carries resentment towards the gods, forcing Tyberia to spend more power to expel it.
This series of methods completely exceeded her past combat experience, and finally she noticed a trace of strangeness.
The taste is wrong.
The methods between gods are not this taste. They will use divine power to the extreme, but cannot create a power that, if it exists, will pose a huge threat to themselves.
If her opponent is a god, how can they control such power and carry out such a hidden arrangement?
"Mortals? Qing Teng Empire?"
She finally realized that the real enemy threatening her divine kingdom at this moment was not some terrifying existence that had revived, but the mortals she had always regarded as a small problem.
When did those mortals, who were as weak as ants and whose lives were as short as meteors, have the power to harm gods?
The Phantom Demon Pill, mainly red, covered with black and dark gold patterns, and composed of countless Qing Teng flower branches, appeared in Tyberia's vision, and the flashing light faintly echoed in the Conqueror's Canyon.
"Your Excellency, the Goddess of War, you finally answered correctly."
The voice of the Eternal Night Empress sounded. After years of waiting, she finally created an unprecedentedly weak moment for the Goddess of War and came to her.
"You... go to hell!"
The Goddess of War sensed that her own divine kingdom, which should have been her home ground, had become a tool for the empire to suppress her. Overwhelmed by anger and fear, she unleashed her full power.
Her ruthlessness and decisiveness were actually a cover for her fear, fear of that mortal empress who had once only wounded her projection but now possessed even more terrifying means, means that she truly couldn't withstand if unleashed.
The Eternal Night Empress communicated with the Illusion Demon Pill, adjusting the parameters of the subsystem in real-time to adapt to the current environment of Conqueror's Canyon.
Simultaneously, space fragments constrained by pure magical power appeared in her mechanical palm, forming a spear that seemed to contain countless stars revolving within.
This was the most powerful offensive weapon that the Illusion Demon Pill could control. An eighteen-meter-tall body was not considered particularly huge in this world, so the accompanying spear was not terrifyingly long.
However, the energy contained within was like the condensation of countless worlds, causing Taibella to feel a sense of oppression.
Those shattered pieces of space originally possessed the attribute of cutting any known substance, and now, under the constraint of the field, they vibrated and rotated, achieving a constant, piercing shriek that wrapped around the ears, further enhancing the destructive power.
"Spear of All Wishes, Sever!"
The spear shot out like a dragon, and the Eternal Night Empress, piloting the Illusion Demon Pill, transformed into a stream of light and illusion, charging towards Taibella.
Taibella's body was covered in golden armor. This was her true form, cultivated and perfected for tens of thousands of years. So what if it was the strongest weapon in the world, an unstoppable spear?
Her accumulated strength was hidden within her body, bringing terrifying recovery power, which was her trump card.