GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 1928: Cornered Beasts.



Unlike what the gods expected, the 9 Crowns wasn't cowed by the array of gods against him. In fact, 9 Crowns and the orc bandits took the fight to them.

This is something the 9 Crowns had always been doing to neighboring kingdoms. They were always searching for traces of the religion of other gods to remove them. But this time, they didn't need to search.

The gods had combined their might, which made them a fearsome foe but also a bigger target. Legion literally couldn't miss with a target this large.

What's more, a domain doesn't miss. It is an area of attack spell, so it couldn't be dodged. When combined with an army of mortals packed like fishes in a barrel, using a domain of fire was as if that barrel of fish was thrown into an incinerator. The death toll per second was enough to make gods cry.

It was just enough to make them cry, but no gods cried. Their hearts ached, and they cursed bitterly, but they didn't cry.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

At first, things went well for the allied army. They were able to rob 9 Crowns of world power. But as they expected, 9 Crowns was still deadly without world power.

9 Crowns didn't fight them with normal divine spells or use physical attacks against them. He and the orc bandits only used domains.

Apart from the wide area of damage that domains are capable of, they have two features that make them a nuisance. The first feature is that there can only be one domain in an area. The second one is that anyone in that domain will be damaged as long as they are not the owner of the domain.

The second feature meant that the gods couldn't use a domain to protect their army. Their domain will harm the mortals as well as other allied gods.

9 Crowns, on the other hand, had no such worries. He wasn't protecting anyone, so he could go all out. The first feature also meant that when he went all out, as the god with the highest authority, no other god could displace his domain. Only his domain can ravage everything else.

9 Crowns alone went to fight the gods. He entered the area where wielding power had been robbed and used a domain to make them lament. He killed and killed and killed.

The gods wanted to retaliate, but they couldn't because the other orc bandits and 199 other gods were waiting for them outside the area with robbed world power.

With world power, they would be making things easy by going to fight the other orc bandits. So they had to deal with 9 Crowns or suffer in the hands of the orc bandits.

The gods did everything they could to mitigate their losses. They scattered their armies so that 9 Crowns wouldn't be able to get them. But that was playing into the hands of the orc bandits.

It was a case of being stuck between a rock and a hard place. Things would have been different if 9 Crowns had been stubborn and had refused to give up on the orc kingdom. He would have been restricted in his actions.

But he didn't do that. So they have to keep chasing his believers while enduring his onslaught.

It was not a pretty sight at all. The earth and sky were ravaged and burned. Both gods and mortals died in droves.

Even the gods of the Apocalypse Pantheon suffered because their pantheon spire was attacked. Many of them lost their altars and had to rebuild new ones.

Legion could have prevented this, but they didn't bother. They were too busy with the war in the mortal realm. They refused to take the bait to protect their assets and pantheon in the divine realm.

The two sides tussled and grappled for a long time. This period of time was a dark time for the mortal realm. Gods and mortals fought for weeks, which turned into months, and then years. Both sides of the war lost a lot.

On one side, the Orc Empire lost 10% of their population when the heroes of their enemies and other gods began wreaking havoc on it. Despite all the precautions they took, they still lost some of their believers.

Legion captured and trapped the heroes in coffins buried deep beneath the earth. This effectively neutralized the heroes. But it came at a great cost. They lost almost 200,000 believers, 11 priests, and Warsaw.

On the other side, the alliance army lost divinity, domain, priests, oracles, faith, heroes, divine energy, and more at the hands of the Apocalypse Pantheon.

Both sides lost divine energy because of the war, but one side gained more things than the other. However, the allied army didn't give up.

They had lost a lot, but when the losses were distributed between them, it wasn't as much as what 9 Crowns had lost. Plus, their world gods were breathing down their necks and urging them to continue attacking 9 Crowns.

Their dedication was finally rewarded when their main army reached the Orc Empire. This meant that whatever claim that 9 Had over the land had been nullified. It also meant that the Orcs had nowhere else to retreat to.

The orcs were already at the edge of the continent. They couldn't escape anymore. They had to stand and fight.

The saving grace was that the allied army had lost more than 95% of their troops and manpower. So they were not as fearsome as they were before. The orcs could still fight back and were not easily overwhelmed.

Not that the gods were planning to overwhelm 9 Crowns. They had that plan before, but they have changed their minds. Now, they will be content with preventing the orcs from growing and developing.

They were content with harassing the orcs. And thanks to the fact that 9 Crowns had to protect his believers, he couldn't leave the range of their world power robbing tool.

Even so, the ensuing battle was intense. The orc bandits fought like cornered beasts. They fought with all they had.