Green Monster Epic

"I know your followers were involved in the assassination of my loyal followers. If you don't give me an explanation today, then prepare for the outbreak of a divine war! !"

Losanda's majesty couldn't extinguish the anger in Karegos's heart. The great opportunity to increase his divine power level, which he had dreamed of for tens of thousands of years, was destroyed. How could he be willing to accept this!

Moreover, the one who died in this incident was a pope of a major church. If he couldn't make an effective and strong response, the already marginalized and weak Church of War would inevitably become even more marginalized in the human world in the future.

"Hmph!"

Another source of light arrived late. As soon as the main god's thought arrived in the hall, a sneer entered Karegos's ears: "You instigated your followers to go to the Lionheart Kingdom and participate in the coronation ceremony of the new king. Weren't you already preparing for a war of faith?"

"Since you made a choice, then you should have thought about the possible consequences, shouldn't you?"

"Heh heh! !"

Karegos laughed in anger. The light source turned from white to crimson, and he faced Ilmater, the newly arrived God of Suffering, and questioned him with confidence: "My apostle only accepted an invitation to attend the coronation ceremony of a new king. Did that offend you?"

"Then you are really overbearing! !"

"That's because you first..."

"Enough, continuing to discuss these meaningless things is a waste of time! !"

Losanda, with his powerful strength as his foundation, interrupted the argument between the two gods. Then, he directly and frankly admitted what they had done: "The humans who assassinated your apostle were indeed my followers in the Feywild. This matter was indeed a joint effort between me and Ilmater."

More and more light sources appeared around. Even if some gods couldn't come to the scene in person, they would separate a wisp of divine thought and invest it in the Hall of the Gods, listening attentively to what happened.

In fact, regarding what happened at the border of the Lionheart Kingdom, I am afraid that none of the gods present would not know about it. However, everyone is pretending to be ignorant at this time and does not intend to get involved, but they are gathering together to communicate quietly with their consciousness.

Only the God of Justice, Tymora, and the God of Loyalty, Torm, the two main gods closest to Ilmater, stood silently aside, watching the farce coldly, seemingly dissatisfied with Ilmater's alliance with Losanda.

The reason for this is not difficult to understand. Since the last time they planned to harm Silvanus, in order to achieve their goals, Losanda, Tempus, and other gods directly sacrificed the lives of tens of millions of people in the Springlands. This was somewhat unacceptable to Torm, who considered himself loyal to the human race, and Tymora, who pursued justice. Although they ultimately sat idly by and watched Losanda and other gods' actions, it also made them gradually drift away from other gods who pursued human expansion and dominance.

And Ilmater, who had always been close partners with Tymora and Torm, did not discuss with the two main gods this time, and quietly cooperated with Losanda to harm the representative of the God of War in the Feywild. In the eyes of Tymora and Torm, this behavior did not conform to their ideals.

"I am giving you a warning, hoping that you will not be confused on important matters next time and become a breakthrough for my theocratic rule over the Feywild! !"

"The greedy privileged class in the human world, we have given them a good life and a high status, but they are still not satisfied and try to get involved in the foundation of my theocratic rule. This is absolutely intolerable."

"Among us, there is already the apostate, the Frostmaiden, giving the heretics in the human world a place to stay. I don't want another kingdom that is not controlled by theocracy to appear at this critical moment. This will have unpredictable effects on our great cause and the future of mankind."

"As for your losses, we will definitely give you a satisfactory answer, but the prerequisite is that you must obey the overall interests of our command, and there must be no more behavior that may trigger a war between the two faiths as before."

"..."

Under Losanda's majestic tone was an unquestionable attitude, forcing Karegos to carefully consider the conditions proposed by the other party, and he remained speechless for a long time.

Looking around, among the dozen or so light sources in the shape of human figures, many light sources showed faint dissatisfaction with Karegos, obviously they were also standing on the same front as Losanda and Ilmater.

"Then, what kind of compensation can I get?"

Although his tone was still strong, reason had regained control of his brain. Karegos stubbornly raised his head and stared at the powerful main god in front of him.

"The great war with the orcs is about to begin. I don't want our camp to split, so as long as you can follow the overall arrangements, then we can let you obtain enough power of faith through the war to break through your current bottleneck. This should also be the goal you have been pursuing!"

"At the same time, regarding your evangelism in the Lionheart Kingdom, I also make a promise on behalf of Ilmater that I will not deliberately target or suppress your followers..."

Losanda was not surprised by Karegos's choice. Ignoring the surrounding gazes, he directly communicated with Karegos in the spiritual world with his divine thoughts.

The situation is stronger than people. Even if you reach the level of a god, so what? You still have to bow your head when you need to. And it is obvious that Karegos, the war god with a fiery temper, cannot escape this fate. After a battle of divine thoughts in his brain, he can only make up for his losses through negotiations and regain his last bit of dignity.

Ilmater on the side was also not satisfied. Obviously, the situation was more favorable to him, but for the sake of the so-called overall situation, he had to give in to Karegos, the guy who took advantage of the fire.

"Since you have agreed to our conditions, then you must obey our arrangements next, otherwise, all the promises I made to you before will be void! !"

After everything was negotiated in the sea of consciousness, Losanda reopened his mouth and slowly said in front of the gods present in the hall.

"Don't worry, I won't betray the agreement between us! !"

Karegos's tone lacked a bit of high-spirited fighting spirit, and he was somewhat depressed, at least on the surface. But in his heart, he was still relatively satisfied with the conditions offered by Losanda. Since things have already happened and cannot be undone, the ultimate purpose of such a commotion is to obtain certain compensation. Now that the goal has been achieved, he has nothing to say.

"Very good! !"

Losanda was also very satisfied. The other party's attitude of knowing the times was also what he wanted to see.

This time, the followers of the Light personally took action, also because they received instructions from Losanda, the Lord of Servants, in order to first clean up the restless guys among the human gods before the great war of civilization breaks out, so as to achieve the effect of killing the chicken to warn the monkey.

The authority of the God of War was simply too important. If this civilization war broke out, the other side would likely gain the greatest benefit from this war due to the relationship between authority and divine office. However, also because of authority and divine office, the God of War was very likely to interfere in the war, causing it to develop in an uncontrollable direction.

But this did not align with the interests of the other human gods and civilizations. Leaders like Losanda were well aware that completely defeating the Orc civilization and the gods behind it could not be achieved in a single war.

Therefore, before the human gods launched the war, they had already prepared contingency plans. When the war reached a certain stage, occupied a certain number of territories, or annihilated the enemy to a certain scale, they would suspend their offensive actions and re-enter a period of recuperation, consolidating and digesting the current gains.

These were all rational and effective judgments made based on intelligence data from both sides. They were the result of countless deductions and calculations by the human intelligence and strategic systems over the past few decades, and they best served the overall interests of humanity.

After all, the human civilization had many gods and numerous kingdoms. To unite everyone to cooperate against the Orcs required extremely sophisticated and intelligent means and abilities. If the interests between gods and gods, and between countries, could not be properly handled, then the human alliance would inevitably collapse and fall apart.

Therefore, those like the God of War, who possessed both ambition and the ability and authority to create unpredictable harm in war, naturally needed to have their influence on the war weakened from the very beginning.

During the last great war, the God of War and his followers were unprepared, so they could not play an important role in the war. This caused him to watch as a vast and pure power of faith was born in the war, but he had no way to absorb it, ultimately allowing these tempting powers of faith to become the possessions of other gods, and also missing his own opportunity to advance to intermediate divine power.

So this time, Aregos, who had been preparing for hundreds of years, would certainly not be willing to play a minor role again, but would take advantage of the natural advantage of the civilization war aligning with his authority and divine office, to make the flames of war spread even more, thereby helping him step onto a higher stage.

Losanda, Kampas, and several other gods who strongly advocated for launching a civilization war, naturally paid close attention to unstable elements like Karegos, and were also planning how to control these guys so that they would not affect the overall situation.

It just so happened that the Lionheart Kingdom was constantly eroded by the faithless aliens of the Ice and Snow Kingdom, gradually breeding many threats. In particular, the royal power, under the suppression of divine power, still showed signs of emerging and dividing power, which was even more intolerable to the gods behind the divine power.

As the central assembly point for the human civilization's future attack on the Orc Empire, the stability of the Lionheart Kingdom had a profound impact on future war preparations and layout, and could not tolerate any mistakes. Therefore, cleaning up the royal power class in the Lionheart Kingdom before the war, as well as those lost sheep without faith, was also an inevitable task.

"Everyone, a new great war is about to begin. I wonder if you are all prepared?"

After dealing with Karegos's matter, Losanda slowly scanned around, taking advantage of the opportunity that the main bodies or avatars of the gods were gathered in the Temple of the Gods, and simply prepared to summarize the upcoming matters.

"My believers are ready to move out at any time!"

As the God of Combat, Kampas had long been impatient for war. Although his authority was not as aligned with war as Karegos, it could still reap more power of faith than the authority of other gods.

"We also…"

Except for the God of Justice and the God of Loyalty, the other gods gave affirmative answers in a deep voice.

"Very well, when the transfer of royal power within the Lionheart Kingdom is completed, it will be the time for us to sound the battle horn."

"Humanity forever!"

… … …

In Lionheart City, the capital of the Lionheart Kingdom, an urgent document directly broke the rule that no entry or exit was allowed in the inner palace at night. Sunak, Jorge, and several other important ministers of the kingdom walked into the bedroom of the old King Daizell with pale faces.

"Your Majesty…"

Sunak, the kingdom's prime minister, who had always been known for his maturity and prudence, could not bring himself to utter the shocking news contained in the document in his hand.

"… Ugh, you…"

Clinging to his last breath, King Daizell, who was resisting death for the sake of the kingdom's power transition, raised his head with difficulty, opened his mouth to say a complete sentence, but only managed to utter a few words with all his strength.

Fleming, the second son guarding Daizell, understood what his father wanted to say, quickly got up to support Daizell's body, and said in a heavy voice: "Prime Minister, what exactly happened that alarmed you to rush to the palace in the middle of the night?"

Just seeing the solemn aura displayed by these important ministers of the kingdom now, Fleming, the future king, could not help but be shrouded in gloom.

"Your Majesty! Pope Lees of the War Church encountered an unknown strong attack outside the border of our kingdom, and Pope Lees unfortunately died."

"… Along with Lord Edward, who was sent by our country to greet Pope Lees, and more than 7,000 border guards, all were killed in battle…"

"… What? That's impossible!!"

King Daizell, who was originally dying, suddenly generated a force from nowhere after hearing this shocking news, abruptly sat up from the bed, and also managed to say a complete question.

"… General Milko has already sent a team to urgently transport the corpses of His Holiness Lees, Lord Edward, and others back to the capital, and it is estimated that they will arrive in three days at most."

Every word Sunak said seemed to take a great deal of effort, because he was very clear that this matter had too great an impact on the kingdom's current situation, so great that even he, the helmsman of the kingdom, did not know how to act next.

"… Damn gods, you really are good at scheming…"

Daizell looked up angrily at the arched ceiling painted with gorgeous murals, which happened to be a picture of a god overlooking the sky from the stars. Between the intertwined gazes of the two, a fierce battle seemed to be taking place.

As soon as King Daizell's voice fell, his stubborn, upward-looking head suddenly tilted, and the whole person immediately fell back into the soft bed behind him.

"Your Majesty!!"

"Quick, call the imperial physician!!"

"Please bring the Archmage over…"

The sudden change made the already distraught crowd at a loss, and various cries broke the silence of the palace. Only the twinkling stars in the sky seemed to be observing the chaos of the Lionheart Kingdom with great interest.