The return of the Deity-level powerhouses changed the course of the entire war.
Catherine returned to the Yulan Empire, O'Brien returned to the O'Brien Empire, Loa.
Those names alone were enough to give the soldiers on the front lines a substantial boost in morale.
The War God had returned. The High Priest had returned. The news was like a shot in the arm.
Beirut's ironclad rule remained in effect: Deities were forbidden from taking action on the battlefield. This was an ironclad rule of the Yulan Continent, and no one dared defy it. But Deity-level powerhouses had never relied on fists alone.
Large quantities of low-level artifacts were distributed.
But what truly turned the tide were Loa's attack scrolls.
Those scrolls were the same type as the one Linley had used on Holy Island back then.
Loa's Wind Divine Clone had been studying the fusion of the speed profound mysteries of fusing fast and slow with the wind space profound mystery in the Necropolis of the Gods, and his command of the Laws of Wind had risen another level since then. He had taken the time to seal power into a dozen or so scrolls.
Whenever a scroll was torn open, countless azure wind blades spread across a radius of a thousand zhang. This was not an attack aimed at a single target, but an indiscriminate, area-wide attack of laws. On a head-on battlefield, one scroll was equivalent to a barrage at the level of an ultimate forbidden spell.
On the O'Brien Empire's front lines, a Saint from the War God Sect tore open the first scroll. Wherever the wind blades swept, undead soldiers fell like wheat before a scythe. Even the protective battle-qi of the Saint puppets could not withstand more than a few hits, leaving them no choice