The collapse of the fifth layer of the barrier had been inevitable.
For this war,
the Old Gods had turned believers against their faith, anchored the divine kingdoms of the deities in the City of Heaven, and destroyed their logistics.
They had prepared Hostile Alien Beasts.
They had cooperated with the Xie Unified Clan, pulling the Game World and the Main God Space onto the war chariot.
During the System Hosts' construction of the Bronze Hall, the people they captured most often were seventh-rank believers from the City of Heaven.
When the Bronze Hall was destroyed, they had even served as battlefield mercenaries, supporting the Old Gods.
The Game World had destroyed God's authority over pollution.
The Main God Space had almost openly targeted those forces friendly with the City of Heaven.
In the end, the War Authority God had prepared was divided. The God of War, who should have been aimed at the Old Gods, split into two, and the two Gods of War began fighting each other.
Loki had also turned a group of fence-sitters against God, forcing God to purge his own ranks.
The Old Gods had exhausted every scheme. If they still could not take down even the outermost barrier of the City of Heaven, they might as well return to the Dream Plane and wait for death.
Immediately afterward, the Old Gods spent a brief hundred years recuperating, plundering the worlds that formed the fifth layer of the barrier in an almost ruinous manner.
Nearly all the resources they plundered became food for believers and monsters.
The Old Gods had no way out, and naturally, neither did their believers.
Every battle was a fight with their backs against the wall.
After merely a hundred years of rest, the Old Gods launched another offensive.
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