A protracted war had erupted in the Astral Realm!
Beyond the Prime Material Plane, countless Arcanists piloted Floating Cities, hunting down the avatars descended by the Deities. Countless elemental cannons flashed across the Astral Realm.
Every day, stars could be seen falling in this war, along with Floating Cities exploding in the Astral Realm.
Yet the battlefield beyond the Prime Material Plane had not drawn many eyes. Both the Arcanists and the Deities had focused their attention on the Prime Material Plane.
Within the Prime Material Plane, the Arcanists spread knowledge, deepening ordinary lives' understanding of the Deities. Once ordinary people learned the true nature of the Deities, their awe and worship of them naturally began to dwindle.
The Churches' clergy began deploying on all fronts to hunt down the Arcanists spreading knowledge. But, as before, the Arcanists rarely fought head-on. For them, undermining the Deities' faith through knowledge was the most cost-effective approach. Fighting tooth and nail was, by contrast, unwise.
With the Wizard spies guiding them, the Arcanists also frantically spread knowledge among the oppressed and enslaved races. Without the Deities' protection, those races had been living on borrowed time. Now that they possessed the power to control their own Fate, they would never give it up!
Compared with the Deities' closed-off ways, the Arcanists' efforts to spread knowledge and power as widely as possible were far more popular among the common folk.
The Arcanists also joined forces with some Demigods to ascend to Godhood in a frenzy, tearing apart the Godheads of Greater Divine Powers—and even Great Divine Powers!
Even if only a small number succeeded in ascending to Godhood, the damage to the Greater and Great Divine Powers was still terrifying!
Their wholeness was compromised, and their Divine Power began to plummet.
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