The God of Glass was extremely aggressive and expansionist, and once He had conquered the Kingdom of Uzi, His next step would surely be to investigate the Apostles who had died in the Overlap Zone.
Losing three apostles one after another was a great loss for any god of the gods.
Without a passageway, the gods and their apostles couldn’t enter the Shard World, but they could engage in some minor manoeuvres. Just like [Whistle Blower], dropping some harmful species to disgust people.
One couldn’t wait for the enemy’s fist to hit their face before trying to fight back.
Lu Yao decided to take the initiative to enter the war and destroy the Bosein first.
Defy the enemy strategically, but pay attention to the enemy tactically.
He inquired in detail about matters related to Sarina.
The Bo God was a genuine God of the Gods, and was fundamentally different from a Trainee God. Lu Yao’s past experience in divine warfare was no longer very applicable here.
After thinking for a while, Sarina opened her mouth and said, “The Gods have four abilities: building God Palaces and Totems, drifting in the Divine Kingdom, ranking in the Temple of Gods, and shaping God Bodies.”
The Divine Palace, which was the progression of the idols, could accommodate other idols to gain genera.
Totems are extensions of miracles, and different gods can make different totems. Totems would better shelter believers and produce some incredible special effects.
Divine Kingdom Drift refers to the fact that the gods formally enter the Crawl Zone with one side of the world, and will begin their drift journey in the Realm Dimension.
During this process, the gods could adjust the direction of the divine Kingdom’s drift, or they could burn the power of faith to drive the entire divine Kingdom to move forward faster.
However, since the object of action was a world – even if the divine Kingdom was only a part of a fragmented world – it would require the consumption of a large amount of faith to slowly propel it and fight against the power of the Realm Dimension. This was the origin of the Crawl Zone.
For most god kingdoms, drifting was the norm. Only when they encountered danger would the Gods frantically burn their faith to pilot the divine Kingdom to quickly evade and steer.
To be ranked in the pantheon of gods was to leave one’s name in the pantheon of gods, and from then on, one had a ranking sequence amongst the gods, with the level of ranking being related to divinity and god body.
The best of them would be recruited by the main gods and title gods to become their subordinate gods.
Finally, the gods would be able to mould a divine body. Anywhere in their God Kingdom He could instantly travel to.
Lu Yao summarised it as: hugging, rowing, ranking and building small numbers.
What reassured him was that the Gods couldn’t really control their own worlds either, and even rowing a boat was hard enough, completely lacking the ability to edit the world in the background like [Golden Wilderness].
The Gods were like piloting a small, clumsy sailing ship, searching for new worlds in the ever-changing sea.
The vast majority of the time, they were drifting, avoiding some dangerous ships and turbulence.
Sometimes, they would engage in gangway battles with each other, like the Glass God Realm and the Uzi Kingdom, where the winners went through and the losers fell.
In the process, the strongest would stand out and get taken in by stronger title gods or even main gods. From then on, they would have an organisation, backed by a strong dependency, and would be able to grow further in peace and stability.
The title gods basically adopted a free-range approach to their subordinate gods, in order to utilise the growth potential of each divine kingdom and subordinate god.
There was also a drawback to this, and that was that it was difficult for the gods to receive timely rescue from the title gods when they were in danger. The only way for all the Subordinate Gods to gather together after being conscripted was if the Righteous God initiated a large-scale divine war.
That is to say, the Glass God was now in a state of falling alone.
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After figuring out the macroscopic status of the Gods, the next step was to specifically land on the Bo God.
Lu Yao jumped his perspective to the war front.
One by one, the villains of the Dauntless Empire were arranged in neat squares. They wore uniform lockjaw armour, carried large round shields, and held spears or bows and arrows, steadily advancing under the command of their officers.
The imperial army had a clear division of labour, there were mounted scouts specialising in scouting around, there were the first line of shield bearers and spearmen, there were archers protected in the centre, and in the rear many militiamen were in charge of supply wagons, with mules carrying sacks and sacks of grain, forming a long transport line.
The entire battlefield was dispatched in a calm and orderly manner.
Among them, there was also a large transcendent creature [Sand Lizard].
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[Sand Lizard LV12]
Life value: 343/343
Mana: 1/1
Damage: 10
Defence: 15
Speed: 5
[Thick Skin
Innately possesses a high life value.
[Sense of Smell]
Sharp sense of smell to detect enemies’ traces.
[Endurance]
Possesses excellent endurance as it can keep moving for long distances under hunger, thirst, weight or injury.
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Sand lizards have mediocre combat panels, but they have been constantly domesticated and trained to be synergistic creatures well suited to the needs of armies.
Some of the Sand Lizards had been fitted with a large crossbow machine on their backs, which was strung by the soldiers and then fired stout crossbow arrows that could destroy the ground-based stone fortresses created by the Wuzhi people from a long distance.
Lu Yao looked to the other side again.
Compared to the Empire, the Wuzhi Kingdom was a bit of a crotch puller.
The first thing was that the Wuzhi people fought by throwing stones – that’s right, it was dumbfounding to watch Lu Yao.
Initially, the stones they threw weren’t ordinary, they were a special weapon that would shatter once it hit the ground, and then cause an explosion.
It was just that the explosion was very weak, and it wasn’t easy to make, and the quantity was small, so more Imperial soldiers were injured by the stones instead.
So the Wu Ji people simply changed their strategy and directly used stones. Stones didn’t need to be processed, they were everywhere, but in large quantities. The Wuzhi people were not small in strength and could throw stones from a long distance.
But the range was not comparable to bows and arrows and sand lizard crossbows.
The arrows of the Imperial Army were usually lit with fire, and as soon as they touched the black ooze on the Uzi’s body, they would burst into flames, allowing them to come into contact with outside moisture and subsequently explode.
The large crossbow bolts fired from the Sand Lizard crossbows were even able to directly pierce the Uzis’ bodies, causing them to immediately explode.
In addition, the Uzis also had a special method of warfare, which was the use of earthbound boats.
The Earthbound Boats would drill holes from the ground, causing the ground to collapse, resulting in the Imperial Army’s march being blocked and casualties.
However, with the scouts constantly probing, this kind of ambush was gradually becoming ineffective.
Lu Yao observed for a long time.
In terms of battlefield performance, the Dauntless Empire’s attack on the Wuzhi Kingdom was indeed a descending blow, and the former looked to be experienced, advancing and retreating in an appropriate manner, steadily controlling the situation.
The latter is desperately trying to find ways to slow down the former, but is constantly being eaten up by the land and population.
If it wasn’t for the fact that the imperial side didn’t want to pay too many losses, it would have been able to run all the way over.
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Lu Yao looked further away.
The previous batch of 11 Wuzhis had been placed by Isabelle deep underground next to the Dragon Nest in the north, allowing them to wait for the time being. With the Troll Elders of the Dragon’s Nest keeping an eye on them, there was no worry that anything would go wrong.
After completing all this, Isabelle folded back and dived into the Empire’s hinterland.
The Uzis were more spread out, usually each with their own space, the ground was always dangerous to them, and so far there was only one decent city.
Nowadays, the Earthbound Boat was the equivalent of their house, which could be moved and shifted at any time. To say it is a kingdom is actually a bit of an overstatement, more like a loose underground tribe.
On the Dauntless Empire’s side, the population was highly concentrated.
They also had only one city, and that was the capital, Crystal City. All the towns and villages were centred around this giant imperial capital, with it as the absolute core.
Looking down from above, the U-shaped Glass God Realm had Crystal City at the absolute centre, surrounded by a circle of roads and villages spreading outwards.
Isabelle had learnt two spells with [Spell Guess].
One was Tree Demon Joti’s [Change of Shape], which could change its appearance, making it easy to sneak around and spy for information; the other was Scaled Horned Gastropod Giant Snail’s [Flame Charge], a flame spell that could also burn opposing mana, which was effective in actual combat.
She entered the outskirts of Crystal City and disguised herself as a mute old woman begging.
Through observation and listening, Isabelle first learnt the local language, then gradually changed into different identities, figuring out the current situation of the empire through various means.
Isabel reported, “My lord, the total population of the Fifth Fearless Empire is about 320,000, of which 70,000 are soldiers. 40,000 of the soldiers are all militia and auxiliary soldiers used for backup and supplemental logistics, and the remaining 30,000 are regular soldiers.”
Lu Yao silently thought, more than twenty per cent of the population were soldiers, just the resettlement and food and pay for these soldiers was a huge expense every single day.
At the imperial level, the biggest hidden danger was logistics.
Isabel continued, “Before the start of the war, the empire had already declared a wartime state, and all food and supplies were focused on the frontline soldiers.”
“The food in the rear farmlands will be collected by the empire and every farmer and merchant will be given a wartime levy price, and war vouchers will be issued as a supplement.”
“The same goes for industries such as cotton and hemp and mining and metallurgy.”
“Once the war is over, the empire will cash in the proceeds from the war through war vouchers to compensate the civilians who contributed on the home front during the war.”
“The empire has always functioned this way, so the civilians are often full and hungry during the war, but as long as it doesn’t last long, it’s tolerable.”
“When they really don’t have enough to eat, the civilians will also choose to join the army to go to the front line, and the soldiers are instead less likely to starve.”
“The empire is already used to wartime mobilisation, and quite a few of them are eager for war, because war is the key to enabling ordinary people to get rich and promoted.”
“The last time there was a war, according to the Empire’s records, was more than two hundred years ago. So this divine war between the two worlds has made quite a few soldiers in the empire very excited.”
Isabel paused as the dialogue box continued to pop up above her head.
“The Glass God’s divine palace is in Crystal City, the Chief Apostle Soter is the current Emperor of the Fifth Empire, and the Glass God stays in the divine palace almost all the time. In addition every surrounding village has built altars to provide the Glass God with the fire of faith.”
“On the Transcendent power level, Crystal City breeds Sand Lizards, the Glass God detests disobedient Transcendent species, and it’s rumoured that all Transcendent beings in the wild have been completely exterminated by the Apostles.”
An idea popped into Lu Yao’s head.
After he repeatedly deduced it, he felt that the approach he had conceived was feasible.
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Half an hour later, Lu Yao returned from outside carrying a small plastic box.
He rubbed his hands together and sat down in front of the computer.
Lu Yao put on a pair of rubber gloves and grabbed one of the insects out of the small box.
This was the vanguard of this battle.
