Nearly a hundred years had passed since the Divine Realm and the Spirit Realm joined forces and declared all-out war on the Star Alliance.
Throughout these nearly hundred years of fighting, the Star Alliance had indeed been forced to retreat step by step. The battlefields in the Void Sea and the Chaos Sea, its two main fronts, had been breached time and again, bringing them ever closer to the Star Alliance's borders.
The pressure on the Star Alliance, both inside and out, had grown greater and greater. Some within its ranks had even begun to speak of inevitable defeat.
But the Divine Realm and the Spirit Realm were clearly having a hard time of it too.
Each realm was far weaker than the Star Alliance on its own. Only by joining forces could they gain the upper hand.
Thus, both the Divine Realm and the Spirit Realm knew full well that they had to commit everything to this all-out war and seek victory—to defeat and crush the Star Alliance once and for all, even swallow it whole.
That was why the gods of the Divine Realm and the Elemental Spirits of the Spirit Realm had been taking desperate measures from the very beginning. The former had expended vast amounts of faith power to bring forth large numbers of pseudo-Eighth-Tier gods, while the latter had squandered the Elemental Sea's essence to produce countless pseudo-Eighth-Tier Elemental Spirits!
Their goal was to overwhelm the Star Alliance with absolute strength, defeat and crush it as quickly as possible, and swallow it whole.
But nearly a hundred years into the war, though they had continued to win, their victories had fallen far short of what they had hoped for.
Indeed, after nearly a century of fighting, they had suffered countless deaths and losses among their