I, The Dragon Overlord

Chapter 528 - Complicated Machinations of True Gods

In the Heavenly Mountain Fortress of Dawn, the Morning Goddess Lorentia, who was on top of her royal seat, watched the developments in the Astral Realm with surprise.

“And so it seems I don’t even need to act.”

Lorentia’s expression was strange. In fact, she was the one god who was most torn. In the ideal scenario, Marzalis and Louie would have both come away with losses.

If the God of War defeated the God of Dragons, then the human population under his control would free up, thus allowing the human gods to breathe a sigh of relief. This extra population would allow the many human gods to gain more believers and even give birth to new gods, thus allowing humans to continue to occupy the position of the most important race in the world. This was in line with her justice as a human goddess.

At the same time, Louie’s defeat would tear his divine authority apart, stalling his increase in strength. For the Goddess of Morning who treated Selune as a rival, it was in her interest for Selune to lose a powerful ally.

However, if the God of War won over the God of Dragons, then the power of the God of War would increase. At the same time, the Goddess of Earth would regain her full divine authority. In the human divine system, the only ones who could contend against Lorentia were Marzalis and Chauntea. If the two were victorious this time, then they would become even stronger rivals in the human divine system.

At the same time, the war would soon brew between humans and beastmen, creating large human casualties. As a goddess of the good faction, this was not something she was willing to see.

It could be said that no matter who won between the God of War and the Dragon God, Lorentia would have gains and losses. The most she could do was stay neutral, but because of Louie’s request, she made a promise to make a move only once.

Seeing that the situation had been settled, the Morning Goddess accepted the result.

“Eh? His Highness Louie still wants me to make a move?”

Just then, the Goddess’ eyebrows knitted tightly. Her gaze went past the Fortress of Dawn and into Dragonblight, feeling a moment of astonishment at Louie’s request.

Louie had already obviously won, so why did he still need her help?

The Goddess of Morning was puzzled, but since she had made a promise, she had to complete the agreement. As she had seen before, the situation had already reached a conclusion. Even if she did help, the situation would not change nor bring about a different result, so she was just completing her agreement.

With this in mind, the Goddess of Morning retracted her gaze from Dragonblight and looked to the Astral Realm. Louie had requested for her to fight against Marzalis for ten breaths of time alone.

Lorentia vaguely felt a conspiracy a brew, but when she thought about it carefully, even if Marzalis could not go anywhere in ten breaths, Louie would not be able to do anything in ten breaths either.

‘Is His Highness Louie just angry at His Highness Marzalis and hoping to embarrass him?’

After thinking about it, Lorentia could not think of a different reason. Perhaps this was just the result of Louie’s arrogance.

So she sent four incarnations into the Astral Realm. With her four incarnations and Louie’s three remaining incarnations, even stalling for a few days could be done let alone ten breaths.

……

In the Astral Realm, the situation had turned into a three-way.

Gorsh, Marzalis, and Louie stood on their own sides. From looking at the situation, Louie was the weakest of the three. After being besieged by the other two, the incarnation’s divine power was already quite low, while Gorsh and Marzalis had lost a considerable amount of divine power but were still able to keep their incarnations intact.

If Louie did not have the divine authority of time which allowed him to create incarnations quickly at the expense of divine power, perhaps he would be the one to suffer the most.

The incarnations of the gods were rechargeable batteries. If only divine power was depleted, it was easy to replenish, but if the incarnation died, then it would take a lot of time and energy to recreate.

It was not easy to create incarnations, otherwise, the Goddess of Magic would not have laid low in her divine kingdom after Louie killed all of hers.

“Your Highness Louie! The situation has reached its end. There is no more meaning in continuing this fight. If you fight in anger, you will only lose this incarnation, which is not worth the loss. Why don’t we have a temporary cease-fire?”

“The world is unpredictable. Even the gods can not really predict the future. In the Pantheon, I originally thought that I would not come into conflict with Your Highness Louie, but I did not expect the results to be like this.”

Marzalis’ voice was like a loud bell that roused people’s spirits, but Louie would not be deceived by him. The so-called God of War was not only physically strong but also strategically wise. To some extent, wars were also associated with cunningness.

In Marzalis’ opinion, Louie would agree to his proposal, because at this point, they no longer had a reason to continue fighting. Both sides should each stop and go back to reorganize themselves then have skirmishes and battles afterward. This was what immortal gods did. For them, taking revenge after 10,000 years was never too late.

Marzalis knew that when he appeared to intervene, the two sides would completely become enemies with almost no chance of making up, unless something big happened that would allow them to put aside their former grudges.

“Although I also think that I should lay down on this, but…”

Louie suddenly smiled and shouted loudly, “Your Highness Lorentia, what are you waiting for? Now is a good time to strike.”

“Haiz…”

As Louie’s words fell, a woman’s sigh echoed in the Astral Realm, and then morning light suddenly shone on everything in this boundless Astral Realm. All the darkness covering the stars turned pure white. Four goddesses draped in holy light appeared as if they were angels of salvation. These were the four incarnations of Lorentia.

As soon as she appeared, the Goddess of Morning said nothing. She wielded her sledgehammer and smashed at the God of War.

This sledgehammer was the Goddess’ true divine weapon ‘Aurora Orator’ which was equally powerful to Selune’s ‘Four Moon Staff’ and Shae’s ‘Disk of Darkness’.

Lorentia hoped to hurry up and leave after fulfilling her promise. She did not want to let herself get too involved in this strife, but since she made a promise, she would not abandon it. As a result, she would use her all to stop the God of War for ten breaths.

Seeing the sledgehammer, Louie was sweating a bit. These weapons used by the goddesses were more bizarre and more ferocious than one another. The Goddess of Morning and the Goddess of Silver Moon seemed to love smashing people, while the God of War seemed to have a more normal weapon.

“Your Highness Lorentia, could it be that you and His Highness Louie have also allied?!”

Marzalis’ expression changed when he saw Lorentia. The first thing he thought of was that Lorentia and Louie had made an alliance, but he quickly realized that things should not yet have reached this point. If the two of them were allies, Lorentia would not have stood aside when Louie was in danger. She would have been the first to come out to help.

At this time, Chauntea who had been watching the Astral Realm made a move and sent her incarnations to the Astral Realm.

“Your Highness Marzalis, let me help you!”

Chauntea had considered things clearly. In the current era, her relationship with Lorentia was no longer as good as it was in the past. The two of them had already drifted apart. Without this powerful ally, Chauntea needed to find a new ally. The Goddess of Magic was originally the best choice, but while the magic network had not yet been established, the Goddess of Magic was not particularly strong. On the other hand, the God of War was a possible ally for her.

Now that the both of them had enmity with Louie, it was a good chance to become allies.

“Good, then I’m counting on you, Your Highness Chauntea!”

Marzalis also thought so. Being able to pull in Lorentia’s former ally was great news for him as someone who was fighting Lorentai in the dark. At the same time, the two of them could confront Louie together to reduce their losses.

The relationships between gods were like roller coasters with ups and downs. At any time new alliances could form and break. Allyship and enmity were fluid constructs.

Seeing Chauntea join in, Lorentia made some calculations and prepared to send her remaining incarnations as well. Even though the God of War had help from the Goddess of Earth, stopping him for ten breaths was a trivial matter for the goddess.

But before the incarnations of the Morning Goddess came, Gorsh who had nothing to do laughed loudly, “Your Highness Louie, Your Highness Lorentia, since His Highness Marzalis has a helper, let me also help you!”

For the Beastman God, Marzalis was an enemy that he had to defeat. Now that there was no common interest between them, they would naturally become adversaries. Moreover, he could not wait to fight and beat up a god of the human divine system. That way, the beastmen could take advantage and rise.

The Astral Realm once descended into chaos, but the two sides had a great change in personnel. Louie, who was originally on the weaker side, suddenly gained two helpers and became stronger than ever.

When Louie saw that Marzalis’ incarnation was stalled and had no chance of moving, he knew that battle was now going to be a stalemate for ten breaths and showed a grim smile.

In the Hall of Order, Louie’s true body suddenly moved!