While the gods of other divine clans relied on drawing upon the power of faith and souls from their believers to heal their wounds through long slumbers, the individually weaker Horkin gods were frenziedly absorbing the power of faith offered up by the goblins to strengthen themselves!
Since the Primordial Divine War, the Horkin gods had all improved their strength to some extent over the long years. Take Yakeya, the strongest among them. Although his combat awareness and battle experience were still utter trash, he had actually managed to hold his ground before the formidable Green Moon Empress. That proved that he possessed at least divine power equal to hers; otherwise, he could never have withstood her divine majesty.
Moreover, over these many years, the Horkin people had studied the various puppets and alchemical devices made by humans and the various forces of the Origin Realm, and their alchemy had improved enormously as well. Among the divine-grade puppets they produced, there were even some formidable specimens with the strength of Divine Lords. Under such circumstances, the fact that the Horkin Divine Clan had not launched wars of expansion was only because they were obsessed with researching alchemy and had no mind to stir up trouble. It was already the other divine clans' good fortune that they did not take the initiative to attack them—who would dare come attacking them instead?
In the simplest terms, Yakeya laid out the Horkin Divine Clan's current situation to the Green Moon Empress, point by point.
Tilting his head and looking at the Green Moon Empress's pair of white-glimmering eyes, he grinned smugly. "If it's just a straight fight, I definitely wouldn't be your match, even if I possess strength equal to yours! But what if you add my Divine Lord-grade external alchemical battle puppet