As the bloody battle raged on, Gaia's advance showed no sign of ending.
Compared to the mages, angels, demigods, and others protecting Ye Ting, Gaia's army was terrifying in number but far inferior in quality.
A mage like Medea, backed by Ye Ting, possessed virtually limitless magical energy. She alone could wipe out an entire flock of Dragons with barrages of magical artillery.
Just like the native gods and spirits born from Gaia, truly powerful Phantasmal Species could break free of Gaia's influence. Though they would usually stand on Gaia's side, that was all.
Only their own will could drive the strong.
Clearly, Gaia had no way to turn them into her lackeys.
Therefore, to counter Ye Ting's high-end forces, Gaia had to dispatch equally powerful fighters.
But where could Gaia find the high-end forces she could summon?
Had all this happened before Qin conquered the world, Gaia could easily have found powerful allies.
The gods scattered across the world, each ruling over their own divine domains—these transcendent beings endowed with divinity—were naturally Gaia's allies.
To gods, Gaia, as the planet's Counter Force, held an extraordinarily lofty status.
For example, within the Olympian Pantheon, Gaia was regarded as the Earth Mother Goddess.
She held a similar status in other pantheons as well.
In fact, aside from outsiders from beyond the stars such as the gods of South America and Greece, most deities had deep ties to Gaia in their origins.
They had once been Gaia's tendrils, terminals she created to manage the surface.
Within an environment of True Ether, many of these spirits eventually escaped Gaia's control, elevating their spirits and spiritual cores to become the land's essences and native gods. Some native gods advanced even further and became deities.
From this perspective, most gods had deep roots connected to