The changes in the Divine World continued, growing more intense with every passing day.
The Evil Gods had suffered heavy blows, and the deities of the Lawful and Good Alignments were striking one after another, steadily weakening the Evil Gods' influence.
The Orc Pantheon had fared the worst, caught between the Dwarves and the Elf Race and suffering catastrophic losses in a short time.
For this reason, the number of Orcs spread across the Prime Material Plane had plummeted.
And that wasn't even the worst of it.
The new Orc regime represented by Lueranno was expanding its territory throughout the Prime Material Plane, its influence growing by the day.
The already desperate situation of the entire Orc Pantheon had only gotten worse.
After all, the Orc Pantheon had maintained its rule solely through Gruumsh's overwhelming power.
Under these circumstances, deities like Shargaas, who had submitted because they feared Gruumsh's might, began quietly making contact with Lueranno.
It wouldn't be long before the Orc Pantheon fell apart.
The Nine Hells!
The Hells were just as unstable.
Asmodeus had suffered the World's Retribution, and his power level had fallen.
His decline had made the lords of the other eight layers of Hell restless.
Asmodeus, the embodiment of Lawful Evil, no longer had enough power to uphold the workings of Evil Order. And while recovering from his injuries, he also had to draw power from Hell itself.
Under these circumstances, the Will of Hell had begun to tacitly allow the other eight lords to make their moves.
These dangerous signs converged, leaving Asmodeus with no choice but to stop recovering and engage in political maneuvering against the many lords of Hell!
Devils were creatures of absolute Order. If they could win through politics, they would never resort to violence!
But these political