Experimental Log of the Crazy Lich - Chapter 650

Chapter 650: Another Battlefield

There were seven Order Main Gods. They were at the very top of all the various Order God Factions. They were unmistakably Gods above Gods. Meanwhile, there were 14 Chaos Main Gods, who each possessed one or even several dimensions, each having their own territory. They had always been viewed as the very top-level existences in the world, living pieces of history. In fact, mortals even viewed them as eternal, just like the rising and setting sun.

However, these top-level existences finally started being changed out in the past ten years, proving that there was nothing truly eternal in the world after all. This also directly changed the power level balance between the Order and Chaos Factions.

During the battle of Hell, the Chaos Faction had lost a Chaos Main God, Ladvioka the Lord of Putrefaction. However, his death was just like the battle of Hell itself—something secret that ordinary people wouldn’t know about. Only those with related benefits and those with well-connected information sources or Godly connections would know that a Main God had died.

Also, Anslo’s betrayal of the Order Faction had tremendously shaken the powerful individuals among ordinary mortals. News of Anslo’s death instantly spread around all the human kingdoms, causing everyone to sigh with how cruel the Holy War was, as well as helping mortals to understand reality…

“So, it’s even possible for a Main God to die…”

As of today, the Order Faction only had five Main Gods remaining, while the Chaos Faction still had 13 Main Gods[1]. Although this still seemed incredibly unbalanced, ordinary people wouldn’t worry about such a thing. This was because the Chaos Main Gods had never attacked in unison in all of history before. Not only that, there would also be differences in power level among the Main Gods. It was universally recognized that the God of Holy Light, who possessed the great majority of belief in the world of Eich, was the strongest Main God of them all.

However, very few knew that the Chaos Faction would have absolutely zero limitations in this Holy War. As long as the Chaos Main Gods desired flesh, blood, and souls from the Mortal Plane, they would be able to participate in this battle of their own volition. It could be said that this Holy War was destined to be the most difficult one in all of history.

The demise of all the Elven Gods as well as the “Elven Empire” attracted the most attention at the start of this Holy War. However, right on the very next day, another piece of news astonished the entire world.

Fenbert. The Mist Mountain, in the Amu Mountain district of San Antonio. However, this city now had an even more famous name: Chaos Abyss Fortress Fenbert.

Eight years ago, the Trolls, a species of Chaos, walked out of the forests here. The Trolls blood-sacrificed all the mortal residents here, exchanging the blood for large numbers of demonic reinforcements. However, the demons weren’t able to leave the mountains before they received a painful blow.

San Antonio invited the Holy Church, which brought angel armies to the defense lines in the Amu Mountains. Both sides started fighting a frontline battle of the eternal Holy War here. Due to dimensional limitations, both sides tacitly limited the highest-level combat strength participating on either side. So, this low-level battle had persisted for eight years already.

But now that the eternal Holy War had truly begun again, all “tacit agreements” naturally vanished instantly. An uncountable number of demons and demon war slaves instantly poured onto this battlefield, and the low-level angel armies were seriously injured. The Holy Church’s defense lines were completely eradicated after defending for 16 hours. The “Holy Warriors” that the Holy Church had been raising as a competitor to the Contract Hero system also suffered serious losses.

After this happened, some people believed that the Chaos Faction had slyly opened up two demon wave portals simultaneously. However, relevant information specialists investigated it, and found that the sudden massive wave of reinforcements had all been from many years of blood sacrifice performed by Fenbert’s Trolls. The demons had slowly but surely accumulated a massive number of soldiers, and then took advantage of the increased Elemental Tide at the beginning of the Holy War, using large numbers of blood sacrifices to summon two Demon Lords to lead their armies.

One side suddenly gained more cannon fodder and high-level combat strength, making preparations for a decisive attack, while the other side still thought that this would only be an “exhibition match”. It was only natural that the Holy Church’s side lost terribly and swiftly.

Yet, the biggest trouble was just beginning.

Since the demon side obtained victory in this battle, they naturally obtained lots of flesh, blood, and souls with their victory. The Demon Lords enacted their highest-level blood sacrifice, and directly opened a semi-permanent Chaos Abyss portal. Now, the “demon wave” had truly arrived.

This was how the Chaos Faction would attack during the Holy War. They would use slaughter and war to obtain flesh, blood, and souls, and use this to summon even more forces for even more slaughter and sacrifices. Once the snowball effect began, it would be comparable to how an Undead Calamity would constantly multiply itself.

Normally, demons in the Mortal Plane would have to pay a constant price to remain here. It would be impossible for them to stay long, so they would typically just slaughter and rob a little before returning to the Chaos Abyss, just as if they were bandits. However, the demon army during the Holy War would become dimensional invaders who would trample over everything. The danger level was incomparable.

The end result was that even though the combat results at the Moonwheel Capital weren’t too bad, the defense lines in the Amu Mountains had been destroyed completely. Losing the entire Amu Mountains wasn’t only a serious blow against the Holy Church—the entire interior of San Antonio was now also threatened.

San Antonio was the human mega empire with the least preparations made for the Holy War. Yet, they were forced to be the first human empire to meet the demons’ sudden attack, and unlike the brainless demon war slaves of the demon wave, it was a Demon Noble-led demon army at the new Abyss Fortress Fenbert. These were actual weapons of war with power, intelligence, and strategy.

The Chaos Abyss portal at the Moonwheel Capital was still within the demon wave. Any low- or mid-level demons who took that portal to the Mortal Plane would pay the price of losing their intelligence. However, this semi-permanent portal here didn’t require any extra price, making it far more attractive.

It was likely that countless Demon Lords interested in the Mortal Plane would start taking action now, bringing their personal armies into the Mortal Plane in an effort to obtain as much as possible early on in the Holy War.

“…This is still acceptable. At least San Antonio has a powerful foundation. They can probably still handle it.”

Although this news was still acceptable, the next piece of news was rather confusing, and made me tense.

“There’s evidence of activity in the Demon Abyss, of the Magma Chamber district in the north of the former Mist Kingdom. Witnesses have reported seeing dark cultists and high-level demons appear there.”

I was familiar with this location. Karwenz had previously guarded this place as a prince of the Mist Kingdom. It was also the place where Karwenz later opened up a Chaos Abyss portal to summon demons and eradicate seven countries.

All these places that the demons invaded were places weak in Order. Invading these places would save on sacrificial resources required. The demons were using the classical strategy of “safe and reliable”. Judging from the information, it was quite likely that a major demon army would appear there. Not only that, ever since the Mist Kingdom was destroyed, the Demon Abyss had fallen silent. There wasn’t anyone on guard there anymore.

Although Reyne didn’t say anything when she heard this piece of news, it was quite evident from her expression how anxious she was. It was likely that she felt a fire burning in her heart that urged her to instantly return to the Northlands.

Yet, not only could we not proceed forward at high speed, we would be slowing down even more a few hours later.

Our airship squadron was currently slowly passing over the snowy mountains. Once we passed the Herit Mountains, where almost nobody lived, we would need to release the elves from our airships and make them walk the rest of the way wherever they wanted to go. At that time, unless we didn’t care one bit about how we released the elves, it was only natural that our airship squadron’s speed would be reduced to one as slow as molasses.

However, it wasn’t only bad news that we received. As our airship squadron went higher in altitude, those fire element inferno dragons finally seemed like they were unable to take the cold—they started giving up. As long as we passed the snowy Herit Mountains, we would enter all the human kingdoms’ territory, and no longer have to worry as much about those chasing after us.

Meanwhile, we had also gained some uninvited guests along the way.

[1] Theoretically it should be less. Author seems to have forgotten that ‘Gaar’, the failed experiment and backup body of Cynthia (later with her soul) had been lost in the void in the battle of hell. Also 2 of the Devil Lord Main God had switched over to Hell…