"If killing is not for survival or profit, then it is meaningless."
"We have no way back."
"I know most of us don't qualify as good people in the conventional sense. Everyone has their own calculations. But for the sake of your own investments in this land, for the billions of biological specimens here, there can be no holding back this time."
Words like these had been spoken too many times already. This time, the escalated conflict was unfolding across the entire world.
More and more "Dangerous Species" were being discovered. At least nine beings on the level of that phoenix had already been unearthed.
They were all existences far beyond Rule-level, each faintly accompanied by divinity. Fortunately, Earth's evil gods tended to cluster together, giving the Eastern Kingdom's True God Church plenty of methods involving scouting divine offspring and divine artifacts. It seemed that the strongest batch had been discovered first.
The powerful surged forth. Not even on the Plane Battlefield had the Eastern Kingdom's combat forces ever assembled so completely.
Once their own potential bankruptcy was involved, those who put profit first rushed to the front. They understood best that effort brought rewards. Yet when this concerned the future of billions of living beings, those idealists who cared nothing for profit charged even faster.
Quasi-gods, eighth-rankers—none of the top powerhouses could stay out of this. One legendary big shot after another was truly enraged. Or perhaps they had been frightened into a frenzy.
No one could afford to lose. Fear drove them to slaughter with all their strength.
At this moment, energy eruptions had become so frequent that even the front lines had stalled. They were worried that a sudden whirlwind would sweep through and wipe out everyone at the front.
"We all have no way back." Perhaps