80 – State of War
Jaina just ignored Luna, who was passed out in the chair, while she stared at me worriedly.
She waved her hand and a faint purple light floated from her fingertips to Luna's head, confusing me.
Noticing my confusion, Jaina explained. "Just to make sure she doesn't wake up during our conversation, don't worry, it's harmless."
Realizing that this spell was just to keep Luna asleep, I relaxed and focused on her.
"After you warned us about the demons appearing in the world, we warned the mages in other kingdoms who already have access to the Internet to keep an eye on it, and we received worrying information." Jaina said as she waved her hand and made a map float down from the shelf next to her and open in front of us.
The practicality of magic is truly fascinating...
Pointing to a kingdom called Galvaris, which was adjacent to Aetheris, Jaina began to explain the information she had received.
"One of our mages in Galvaris informed us that there was a battle between the God of the Sea Winds and the God of the Night Frosts two days ago." She said.
Listening to these gods, I was able to see the faces of two students from the Divine School, who weren't very important and I hardly remembered them, but now that I was an elemental god, my memory was much better.
"Who won the battle?" I asked, slightly interested.
"The God of the Sea Winds, who apparently used the daylight hours to attack Galvaris and win the victory. But that's not the point. Apparently, after dominating Galvaris, the God of the Winds began to return to Zephyros, intending to rest while absorbing more divine power from his followers in that realm, when meteors began to rain down and the largest meteor fell on the capital of Zephyros and some smaller ones on Galvaris."
When I heard about the meteors, I began to worry, especially about the news that the largest meteor might have been the capsule with the most demonic power.
"Apparently the largest meteor fell on the capital of Zephyros and people are fleeing there as if a plague had broken out, with reports of red-skinned demons, but no concrete proof." Jaina explained. "Two small meteors fell on Galvaris and started to make a big mess in that kingdom, and without a god to protect the population, the warriors and mages are not able to defend the common population and many have already started to flee, including our mage who was working there."
With news like that, I had to get serious.
From what Lucy had told me about the demons, what I remembered from the lessons the teachers had taught us, and what I had personally seen, the demons grew stronger with every soul they sucked up and killed.
Considering that a large capsule fell on the capital of Zephyros, it's very likely that a mortal absorbed all that demonic power and became an embryonic demon.
Such a power is greater than even the warlords and archmages.
With such a power and an entire realm to absorb souls, it would only take a few days for the mortal who absorbed the most demonic power that fell into the capsules to become a Rank 9 Embryonic Demon.
Considering that their power becomes 10% more efficient with each level, the power of a Rank 9 Embryonic Demon is at least 50% stronger than that of a Rank 9 Embryonic God...
What's worse, unlike gods like me who need believers to pray to us every week, demons only need to kill believers to become stronger.
They didn't care about the sustainability of the source of their power because they couldn't get stronger twice with the same mortal.
This meant that while mortals were like milk cows for the gods, demons completely ignored the milk that came out of the cow and only cared about the meat.
"Does the wizard have any estimate of the population of Zephyros and Galvaris? How many people have already been infected by demons?" I asked in a serious voice.
"The estimate is imprecise, but it is estimated that at least 50,000 people have become demons in Galvaris in the last two days. As for Zephyros, he can't even imagine." Jaina replied with a heavy voice.
If 50,000 people have died in Galvaris, it's likely that there's already an embryonic demon there, or one will appear in the next few days. As for Zephyros, considering that the largest capsule fell there, the death toll must already be over 100,000.
Even if only 30% of those 100,000 people's souls went to their leader, that would still be 30,000 demon power points for him, which must have already made him a rank 3 embryonic demon...
While gods are considered magicians, using divine power to control the domain of our divinity for ranged attacks, using divine power as a consumable in the same way that magicians use mana, demons are like warriors, using all of their demonic power to improve their bodies and become more and more perfect killing machines.
Unlike gods, who had to store up divine power to use in battle, demons can use it directly on themselves, increasing their base power by 10% for every rank they gain.
If I let the demons continue to spread in the small world, in a few weeks, this world would turn into a demon world, and there would be no believers left to pray to me.
That could not be tolerated.
"Jaina, both Arcantor and the other four kingdoms under me must go into a state of war. Any sign of demons must be reported as soon as possible. An army must be formed in all five kingdoms and everyone must prepare for an imminent battle." I said in the most serious voice I'd used since coming to the mortal world.
Even if it didn't directly affect my life, I would not allow demons to kill my believers, people who put their hope in me.
If I could, I would even use my divine power directly to destroy the two kingdoms that I already knew had been invaded by demons, but considering the strength of the embryonic demons, I should save my focus for them while leaving the weaker demons for my believers to deal with.
I don't have any information on how many embryonic demons there are among the enemies, and even though I have twice the strength of a Rank 9 embryonic deity, if there are dozens of embryonic demons among the enemies, what would I do?
But I wouldn't let them expand any further.
"Do you need Arcantor and Eldoria to send soldiers to Aetheris? That's the closest kingdom to the Demons." Jaina asked.
"Yes, separate a percentage of the soldiers from Arcantor and Eldoria to send to Aetheris, I'll contact the representatives in Valoria and Novera to get them to do the same. In the meantime, the rest of the army must remain on alert so that nothing can infiltrate the four kingdoms. I explained.
Jaina nodded, understanding the gravity of the situation.
"Using normal means of transportation, the same ones used by merchants to travel from one kingdom to another, it would take weeks for the army to leave Arcantor and arrive in Aetheris, but with the magi using spells to speed it up, this journey could be completed in three days at the most." She said, leaving me satisfied.
"Okay, take care of the necessary things in Arcantor and Eldoria and I'll take care of the others. For now, I'll go to Aetheris and stay there with my consciousness, so if you need anything, you can call me on the internet." I explained that I would take my consciousness out of this marble body and leave it in her office, not having time to go back to the church.
Jaina didn't mind and left my marble body in her office, next to Luna who was still sleeping peacefully, unaware of the chaos that would come with the next message.
While Jaina took care of things in those two kingdoms, I sent a message to the King of Valoria, explaining the situation and asking for his support this time, as well as to be prepared for any eventuality that might arise, and then I called Lucy and Zane.
When they heard the news I'd told them, you could see the concern on their faces, but they understood what had to be done and began preparing for war once again.
By the time we had finished discussing and planning what needed to be done, night had fallen and the 40th day of the trial had begun.
There were only 20 days of the mortal world left to complete the trial and only 10 days of the divine world, but even with one-third of the total time remaining, I felt that these 20 days were too few and that they would pass more quickly than I would have liked...
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