The alarming increase in frontline troops is not just an exaggeration.
In fact, the Human Federation, the Pale Church, and even some online bloggers have all conducted professional calculations and have begun to anticipate and plan for all possibilities.
However, faced with a situation where both technology and individual power are utterly powerless, all plans and predictions have failed to find any way to buy time.
For the human race to survive the invasion of these Aberration life forms, there are only two options left.
First: Release that self-imposed, Pale God.
Second, increase the birth rate so that the number of births always exceeds the number of deaths each year.
As the war dragged on and various data came to light, the Pale Church and even the Human Federation finally began to worry.
While troops were being continuously sent to the front lines, families in the rear were already encouraging childbirth.
"Effective immediately, childbirth will exempt individuals from work, and the government will fully support pregnant women and newborns. All entertainment and living facilities will be fully provided by the government. Men can also obtain work exemption rights by having children, and marriage restrictions will be lifted, no longer limiting them to monogamy."
A notice issued by the Human Federation Government caused a huge uproar.
The focus of the controversy is not on the fact that pregnant women are supported by the Human Federation Government, but rather on the Church's encouragement of childbirth.
The situation is being broadcast live, and everyone knows how critical it is. Under such circumstances, who in their right mind would think of having a baby? Wouldn't that just make the child suffer after birth?
However, the fact that you don't have to work after having a child is indeed an extremely tempting condition.
This is especially true for those who are selfish and only want a better life for themselves.
Initially, the proportion of people in production was not high, but under the direct dual management of the Pale Church and the Human Federation Government, not only was government support provided, but a monthly contribution fund was also distributed, allowing them to use this money to enjoy a higher standard of living.
With such enticing incentives, this loophole was completely opened.
Therefore, while nearly 10 trillion people were dying every day on the front lines, a massive production movement was taking place in the rear.
The breeding curve is growing rapidly, and even shows a vertical upward trend.
Such a birth rate puts immense pressure on the system. In order to ensure the living environment of residents under such a birth rate, the Human Federation has no choice but to continue to expand into surrounding star systems, vigorously develop and build space cities, so as to relocate the population, add new residences, and at the same time be able to migrate to the rear of the battlefield, further and further away from the battlefield.
Therefore, Subspace Jump technology has completely removed barriers, and almost an endless number of spaceships perform Subspace Jump every day to transport materials, people, and laborers, thereby maximizing the speed of building galaxies in more distant space.
It's laughable, really. The Pale Church waged the Hundred Years' War because the Human Federation Government allowed births and free Subspace Jump, even leading to the Endless War and directly contributing to the creation of Aberration. Now, they're using the same tactics as the Human Federation Government, even if their goal is simply to ensure the continuation of human society. But how can that not be ridiculous?
Even more ridiculous is that decades ago, the high-ranking officials of the Human Federation used spaceships to escape human society via Subspace Jump, heading to unexplored star systems to escape for their lives. However, none of them were able to escape, all being corrupted by the Soul Particle attracted there. Now, humanity is carrying out large-scale interstellar colonization in the rear and other directions, with hundreds of millions of people migrating via warp jumps. Countless Soul Particle have been brought back from the Subspace, yet to this day, not a single city that has expanded outwards has been affected by Soul Particle. It's as if the birth of monsters like the Aberration has been locked in place on the front lines!
Is this a blessing from the gods, or a curse? Some people have already begun to have doubts.
While the Human Federation's rear-area reproduction and expansion plans are in full swing, the front-line battlefields are suffering repeated setbacks.
In just five years, the size of the frontline garrison has reached 250 trillion, and even the entire Adam Two Star System could not accommodate such a huge population, so it has shifted towards the Adam One Star System to form a joint defense system.
The number of Aberration is enormous. The Aberration that have emerged from the void have completely encompassed half of the entire Adam One Star System and Adam Two Star System. The annual replenishment of the garrison population reaches a terrifying 240 trillion, truly leaving only one in ten alive.
Even though the Human Federation now has ample resources, the sheer scale of the war and the high death rate are enough to make even Human Federation with a population of 1.47 × 10²⁰ tremble with fear.
They can afford to wait now, but what about fifty years from now? A hundred years from now?
The marching and demonstration in the rear disbanded again. The people who used to yearn for war and shout for holy war now huddle in their homes or factories like quails. They would avoid the Pale Church's conscription office, afraid of being seen and arrested into the army.
This actually increased the birth rate, as many people wanted to use it to escape military service and war.
Countless people pray to the Pale God day and night at home, fantasizing about the Pale God's return and yearning for the Pale God's past rule.
The Qing Dynasty is gone, and now they know how to become eunuchs. These incredibly ignorant humans were insatiable even during the reign of the Pale God. It's utterly laughable.
But now, no matter how fervent the prayers, they cannot elicit the slightest pity from the high and mighty Norton.
In this endless despair, time slowly passed.
With the war on the front lines becoming increasingly unsuccessful, the number of new troops stationed each year has been increasing exponentially. In just ten years, a military force of up to 50 quadrillion troops has been needed to barely maintain the situation.
This means that 490 trillion people need to be deployed to the battlefield every year.
Such a massive population, even for the colossal Human Federation, is beginning to put some pressure on it.
However, this is only the beginning.
There is a general pattern to exponential growth: before the base number is built up, each increase is extremely small, but after the base number is built up, each increase becomes incredible.
The same applies to the front-line battlefield. In the early decades, no matter how much the number of Aberration increased each year, the Human Federation was always able to coordinate the deployment of corresponding troops to fill the gaps on the battlefield. No matter how much the numbers increased, the size of the garrison on the front lines was unlikely to exceed one hundred trillion. The number of troops dispatched each year was only a few trillion, and no matter how much it fluctuated, it remained within this range.
However, once it truly broke through the 100 trillion mark, the order of magnitude changed.
In the 120th year since the beginning of the Endless War, the size of the frontline garrison has finally exceeded one hundred billion people.
Since then, the number of troops deployed has completely changed. The units of measurement have changed.
Previously, the figures jumped to tens of trillions, but now they've become 120 trillion, 160 trillion, 230 trillion...
This seems incomparable to the birth rate of 200 billion people per year, but this exponential jump, along with the logistical and operational pressures brought about by the annual increase, has completely overwhelmed the strategic depth of the Adam Two Star System.
One hundred and twenty years after the start of the Endless War, the front lines were finally overwhelmed by the overwhelming pressure of new additions and the fact that the Adam Two Star System could no longer meet the overall strategic depth requirements.
With another year of exponentially increasing Aberration, the Adam 2 galaxy has been completely lost.
This was not a defeat in the front-line war, but rather the reason why the excessively large army was unable to enter the Adam Two Star System and participate in this intergalactic war.
In the year 3460 of Norton, amidst the anxious waiting in the rear cities and the despairing gaze of the frontline troops, the Adam Two Star System underwent a complete distortion, evolving into yet another Sixth Stage Aberration!
Subsequently, this Sixth Stage Aberration, which had no second Abraham to contend with, recklessly and slowly traversed the universe toward the human star system. At the same time, its dense, whip-like tentacles continuously sprayed out countless waves of Aberration, sweeping across the human battle lines in all directions.
The war has entered a period of intense conflict.
One after another, the ultimate weapon of mankind, the ' Gore ', capable of destroying a planet, was continuously sent to the front lines.
Since the birth of that Sixth Stage Aberration, also known as the Star System-Level Aberration, the explosions in the universe, much like those of the sun, have never ceased.
For 360 days a year, the Human Federation released Gore every three days to stop the invasion of this Sixth Stage life form. Endless space fleets were continuously pulled from the production line and deployed to the front-line battlefield.
Human forces have erected an extremely long front spanning five small star systems to prevent any Aberration from entering the human galaxy from any direction.
Such a long and narrow battle line resulted in an extremely large troop deployment.
In just a few hundred years, the size of the frontline garrison reached a terrifying 530 trillion.
With such a terrifying number of troops, the number of new troops stationed on the battlefield each year would reach a staggering 100 trillion, and the total number of troops needed to be replenished to the front lines each year would reach 52 trillion.
What level is this? It means that the annual losses from the war are almost equal to the annual number of newborns.
This means that the human race is standing on the precipice of imminent destruction, where even the slightest disturbance could lead to utter annihilation!
Not to mention that this exponential increase is still ongoing.
Even though the Human Federation's birth rate is experiencing another surge, in a war of this magnitude, the focus has shifted from birth and death rates to logistics, production, supply, public morale, and all other aspects of the conflict.
The Human Federation is no longer as leisurely and calm as it was hundreds of years ago. Instead, it has been firmly bound by the chains of war, just like Abraham dragging his palace forward, suffocating and extremely heavy.
In the face of such intense warfare, in order to fill the logistical shortages and replenish the troops, and to ensure the continuation of the human race, the Pale Church began to use increasingly harsh methods a century ago, and today, it has completely changed.
Previous pro-natalist policies have been completely abolished, and what we are facing now is forced childbirth!
Every human woman of childbearing age must give birth every year. At the same time, due to the high physical strength brought about by evolution, these pregnant women also need to enter the factory to perform high-intensity work during pregnancy to ensure the operation of logistics.
Male citizens were resettled in batches: some were sent to the front lines as soldiers, some to military camps as reserves, some were sent to other star systems to expand territory, and some were forced into factories for labor...
Even today, conscription is based on age. Humans who have lived for thousands of years are now being sent to the battlefield to give newborns more years of life, just like pigs that are raised to maturity and then slaughtered when they reach their age.
In short, the elderly have opportunities to work, and the young have opportunities to engage in activities.
The strong and healthy elderly were sent to the battlefield, while the young people gave birth and expanded the territory in the rear.
Even children as young as five or six were sent to military factories to produce army leather shoes...
Humanity, amidst this ever-increasing population loss, has stepped utterly into an abyss of despair!
Amidst humanity's despair and struggle, the Human Federation trudged through its first millennium without Norton.
Another thousand years have passed...
A tall, slender, and strangely shaped figure stood silently before the gleaming French windows, murmuring bizarre syllables incapable of human speech. Gazing into the distance through the glass, the body, unlike any other, radiated an eerie sense of the divine...