When news of the fall of Garden of Eden and the massacre of countless people spread, an explosive torrent of public opinion swept across the entire Human Federation.
The importance of Garden of Eden is on a completely different level from that of the previously destroyed planet Adamxis Planet.
This is humanity's home planet, the birthplace of the human race, and the location of both the Human Federation and the Pale Holy See. It can be considered the capital among the capitals of the Human Federation.
Therefore, when Adamxis Planet was destroyed, there was not a word of discussion in the media, but the fall of Garden of Eden instantly put it in the spotlight.
It is said that the high-ranking Human Federation Government who escaped were so frightened that they filled their entire pockets with excrement, which dripped down as they walked.
The normally harmless Pale Church suddenly went berserk, and only then did the public realize its formidable power.
Compared to this, the so-called Pale Crusade initiated by the Church College of Cardinals is as laughable as a child parading through the streets.
The voices that once vehemently mocked the Pale God and even the Pale Church on the internet have been silenced overnight. Now, everyone on the internet expresses pity for those compatriots in Garden of Eden who died under the ravages of the Pale Church, yet they are cautious in their words, not daring to utter a single word that would offend the Pale Church.
In just a few days online, a new group of believers emerged, all of whom declared themselves to be loyal to the Church, and some even claimed to be undercover agents who had infiltrated the Human Federation...
How ridiculous! In the Garden of Eden, humanity displayed the utmost fear of power over virtue.
Regardless, the holy war has begun.
The Human Federation Government temporarily formed a new parliament and made hundreds of space jumps to get as far away from Garden of Eden as possible, lest the Pale Church go mad again.
However, the Holy War of the Pale Church has already begun, and it will only escalate further.
Since the Garden of Eden Heresy was destroyed, wars have frequently broken out within the Human Federation.
This war was far larger in scale than the so-called Pale Crusade Holy War of yesteryear.
Because the Pale Church has long been established in every interstellar city, town, and village. Its believers make up more than 60% of the Human Federation.
Therefore, this is a total war, and every interstellar city and town will be at the level of war.
From the start of the war, people have been dying every day and every night.
The Pale Church mobilized its followers to launch a frenzied attack on local Human Federation Government departments. Although there were no restrictions on killing local residents, it is undeniable that such a crazy approach could not be understood and even provoked widespread hostility.
Even some believers themselves have reservations about this and refuse to listen to reason.
Regardless of the circumstances, the scale and intensity of this war were unprecedented in human history.
The daily casualties across all the planets and cities in the various star Human Federation reach tens of billions!
However, this number is insignificant compared to the sheer size of the population.
With a total population of 1.47 × 10²⁰, even if each person gives birth to one child every 100 years, there would be 4027 trillion newborns every day. This is just a drop in the ocean compared to the total human population.
Therefore, the Pale Holy See gathered a vast fleet of space warships and assembled them at the location where the Human Federation Government had fled, intending to annihilate it in one fell swoop and thus return to the old Church system.
Unfortunately, the Pale Church always adhered to His Majesty's will, and its ships did not use space jumps. Even though it had gathered a massive fleet of hundreds of billions of ships, mobilized from various planets in the universe, and formed an encirclement to attack the Human Federation Government, it would take the fleets from the nearest planets several years or even more than ten years to get there. It would take nearly a hundred years to get from Garden of Eden.
Therefore, even though the Human Federation Government suffered heavy losses due to the Church in various regions and could only barely gather a portion of its fleet to hastily engage in battle, it was still able to maintain its strength through a war of attrition.
But this led to a continuous stream of wars.
Almost every day, the Pale Church sends new fleets to the star system where the war is taking place, joining this grand siege.
But almost every day, their casualties were enough to compensate for the number of personnel sent by this fleet, thus maintaining a balance of power where neither side could gain or lose ground.
Forty years have passed in a flash, and countless people have died or been injured within the Human Federation.
The daily death toll is at a level of horror that was previously unimaginable.
However, this number of deaths is still insufficient compared to the overall reproductive intensity of the human population, and is far less than the population that can be compensated for by births.
Even though the war has lasted for fifty or sixty years and countless people have died, the population has not decreased with each battle; on the contrary, it has increased.
The overall territory occupied by the Human Federation Government is increasing day by day because they can use space jump technology to provide instant support and enhance production in the rear through reproduction and space jump alien colonization.
In contrast, the Pale Church issued harsh orders to prohibit all procreation and the power of spatial leaps.
The Pale Church, which originally managed to occupy some star system cities, continued to swarm outwards due to its proximity. However, it gradually depleted its internal personnel due to a lack of replenishment, resulting in a weakening of its control over the local areas. Often, when it reached a certain critical point, the Human Federation would use space jump technology to instantly teleport troops to launch surprise attacks and seize the territory, thus causing its territory to shrink continuously.
During this period, the reputation of the Pale Church deteriorated. Even though the Pale Church always adhered to its doctrines and laws, never conscripted soldiers, and never violently attacked civilians, it was constantly criticized and insulted because of the Garden of Eden massacre and the increasing wars.
They claim that its existence violates the survival instincts of the human race!
To claim that its current behavior is so similar to that of the Holy Lord Empire of the past is the greatest contempt for human rights and the greatest shackle on human prosperity!
Even some believers within the Church, and even those from the lower and middle classes, have begun to agree with the Human Federation's definition of the Pale Church, feeling that it has returned to the old theocratic papacy, perfectly in line with the system and practices of the former Holy Lord Empire.
The world is a great cycle. Norton, the progenitor who overthrew the tyrannical rule of the Holy Lord Empire in the past, is now the creator of yet another Holy Lord Empire. Isn't this a cruel twist of fate?
Fifty years passed quickly amidst this increasingly fierce war.
Finally, the vast fleet assembled by the Pale Holy See, numbering in the tens of billions, arrived at the battlefield...