Breaking Through

Light was everywhere, but only one source of light was needed.

Too many facing each other would only dazzle the eyes.

Lin Sheng felt that if the Lord of Light on the other side knew his true form, he would probably agree with this view as well.

Therefore, in order to avoid expanding the battlefield, he decided to first define the conflict as a simple war over faith and divine authority.

If an external war became an internal one—and an internal war within a single pantheon at that—then the gods of other pantheons would have no room to interfere.

To carry out this step of the plan, he first needed to introduce a new faith of light.

Lin Sheng took the elemental lord summoning scroll the old mage had used and casually examined it.

That lava lord just now seemed to be one of the little fellows he had seen when scattering crystals across the Plane of Fire Elementals.

But at the time, the Plane of Fire Elementals had been ravaged terribly by the crystal invasion.

Because the Holy Crystals had not been taken seriously at first, they had spread across an area of several hundred kilometers in just a few days.

By the time the other local powerhouses realized something was wrong, it was already too late.

Thus, the resistance of the Plane of Fire Elementals began.

Four great fire elemental lords had died, more than ten great lava lords had fallen, and over a hundred ordinary lava lords had vanished.

That battle had brutally drained at least a third of the Plane of Fire Elementals' foundational potential.

Had powerhouses from other planes not come later to help suppress it, the losses of the Plane of Fire Elementals would likely have been even greater.

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