By the end of the first day, the casualties among the twelve Ancient Clans had already exceeded ten million.
Compared to the twelve Ancient Clans' total population of tens of billions, a mere ten million casualties amounted to little. But those ten million dead and wounded were the twelve Ancient Clans' finest, toughest, most powerful warriors! Among them were large numbers of each clan's elders and senior elders—the true elite of the twelve Ancient Clans!
What was more, such losses had occurred with the forces of Heaven Mountain, Hell, and the Penglai Five Islands providing support; with the Osmanthus Tree delivering timely rescues and treatment; with the Tranquil Jade Toad risking its life to spit out toad fluid with potent healing effects to save lives. Yet the mighty twelve Ancient Clans had still suffered ten million casualties, over ninety percent of them dead. Such losses were hard to accept.
Compared to the Primordial Divine War, the scale of today's war was at most equivalent to a minor regional battle from that war that had stretched on for ten thousand years! And this small-scale regional battle had inflicted such grievous casualties upon the twelve Ancient Clans in just one day!
Of those losses, the Gods from the original divine faction accounted for roughly ten percent; the remaining ninety percent had been inflicted by those strange lifeforms of the Hidden World Alliance! Powerful beings from countless past cosmic epochs, brimming with hatred for humanity, with venomous resentment toward humans etched into their very bones—these countless members of the Hidden World Alliance had unleashed astonishing destructive power.
On the first day, the Angel Legion of Heaven Mountain suffered losses measured in the tens of billions! Twelve billion angels below the eight-winged rank were crushed into fragments; over thirty million eight-winged and ten-winged angels