Because once the God of Flame Continent had been completely occupied by their Divine Continent, it would be time for the showdown between their Divine Continents.
That showdown might end within a few months, but it might also drag on for hundreds or thousands of years.
So occupying more cities meant gaining more believers.
When the time came, they would have an advantage over the others in both divine power and troops.
For this reason, these beings who called themselves mighty gods were already doing everything they could to take each city as quickly as possible.
For example, slaughtering cities—specifically picking out a few cities that resisted fiercely, then butchering them clean.
Of course, during this period, they would deliberately let one or two thousand people go.
Their purpose was to have them spread the news that the city had been slaughtered.
That would terrify the other cities, and they could see whether those other cities still dared resist.
Under such circumstances, the soldiers, defending commanders, and priests of many cities usually did not dare resist.
After all, if they surrendered, they could live; if they resisted, not a single soul in the city would be spared.
This allowed these divine kingdom legions to take some cities at an extremely fast speed.
Of course, there were actually advantages and disadvantages to doing such things.
If there were cities that surrendered out of cowardice, then naturally they would also encounter those who would rather die than yield.
And when they encountered those who would rather die than yield, that was absolutely the toughest bone to gnaw.
After all, once the city was breached, it would be slaughtered. Whether soldiers or civilians inside the city, how could they not fight to the death?
They were going to die anyway; killing one more