Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan-Chapter 207 - 170: Powerful Divine Power Deity, Concession and Alliance?
This was also why the Giant Demon God, Gaius, and even the other deities who had arrived earlier didn’t immediately make the connection.
Furthermore, even if they had made the connection, with their power, and as deities not native to this world, thoroughly investigating the changes in the rules was not something they could accomplish in a short period.
"There’s no point in talking about this now."
"But there is no doubt that this world has been invaded at the level of its very rules."
"This also proves that the opposing world definitely has a Main God, and likely not an ordinary one at that."
"To possess such power and yet not choose to occupy the Star Realm immediately... Heh, you few can consider yourselves lucky."
Divine Matty of the Divine Academy laughed, exasperated.
"This wasn’t a failure in battle. A situation like this is simply too inconceivable."
"For them to have a Main God and still resort to such methods, they must be wary of the Empire’s true strength."
"Though Lord Gaius is at fault, the circumstances are understandable."
"The key now isn’t to assign blame, but to figure out how we should handle this."
"Dean Matty, since you are here, do you have any good ideas for this matter?"
Upon hearing this, the Giant Demon God, Matty, was so angry he had to laugh.
"Now you’re asking me what to do?"
"Things have already come to this, and after so many years in this world, our Empire still hasn’t produced a single New God."
"How can we possibly compete with them for authority over the rules?"
"Forget it. Let’s retreat for now."
"Leave behind a beacon and eliminate all spatial anchors that could lead back to the Empire."
"After this, we can only hope His Majesty—or even the other two Majesties—can free themselves to have a proper discussion with this civilization about the matter."
Hearing the being of Powerful Divine Power, Matty, order all the deities to withdraw from this world, the Giant Demon Gods were genuinely stunned.
"We’re just retreating like this?"
"We’ve invested so much in this world. We’ve even lost many of the Empire Gods in our bid to completely occupy it, and now we’re just giving it up so easily?"
one of the Giant Demon Deities said, his expression extremely grim.
"What else can we do besides give up? We can’t just stay here and let this civilization’s Main God wipe us all out in one fell swoop, can we?"
"They’ve taken advantage of our Empire. Good, very good. To be able to silently erode so many of the rules... I seriously suspect that this civilization on the other side was probably targeting us from the very beginning of our conquest of this world."
"Otherwise, none of this makes sense. The speed at which the rules were eroded is just too fast."
Another one of the Giant Demon Deities spoke up, offering their speculation on the matter.
"That speculation isn’t impossible. It could be that when the Empire targeted this world, the other side just so happened to be targeting it as well."
"The Empire didn’t discover them and made the first move, while those guys just waited in the shadows for the right opportunity."
"And look, now they’ve truly succeeded, and without losing a single soldier."
The Giant Demon Gods all spoke at once, each one exceptionally furious.
But at this moment, Divine Matty of the Divine Academy suddenly sighed.
"Alright. Whatever the reason, the Empire has run into a tough opponent this time."
"But it’s hard to say if this is ultimately a good or bad thing. After all, while it seems we’ve suffered a great loss, this has also served as a wake-up call for us."
"We must never underestimate any of the countless civilizations in the Star Realm."
"Even in a Mana environment where Magic Power is scarce, the Empire must be even more cautious before dispatching troops."
As his words fell, the deities all fell silent.
Indeed, the Giant Demon Empire’s losses this time were too great.
However, Karte World could be abandoned. After all, no matter how you looked at it, the Empire had no chance for the time being.
But the New World that the Empire was conquering—the Giant Demon Empire had to win that one!
No matter the cost, it would be worth it.
After all, the mortal technology of the other side was simply too coveted by the Giant Demons.
As long as they took that world, in the eyes of the deities, the Empire could still come out ahead.
However, while discussing the details of abandoning this world,
the Giant Demons still planned to leave two deities behind in this world.
Not for confrontation, but for surveillance.
At the same time, these two deities would no longer remain in the orbital space of Karte World.
They would choose to hide on one of this world’s three moons.
From there, they would conduct surveillance while quietly waiting for the Empire to find an opportunity to return and settle the ’rights and wrongs’ of this war with the civilization.
At the same time, this deity from the Divine Academy, Matty, would also pay the price to perform a Divine Descent once as the mortal Giant Demons retreated.
Not for any other reason.
It was simply because this deity was very curious about the power of the Ancient Species.
That’s right.
He wanted to test the strength of Lince, the only member of the Ancient Species to have appeared on Karte World so far.
If there was an opportunity, his thought was naturally to kill one of the Ancient Species.
If he could bring its corpse back to the Empire for research, that would be even better. It would also help compensate for some of the Empire’s immense losses this time.
Of course, before that, Giant Troll Matty would not make a move against Lince immediately.
Because he was still thinking that if the opportunity arose, he first needed to have some communication and dialogue with the deities of the opposing civilization.
At the very least, he had to let the other side know that the Giant Demon Empire was not to be trifled with.
They would remember what happened this time.
And sooner or later, they would pay it back.
If the other side still held even a sliver of fear for the Empire,
and was willing to withdraw from this world, or even willing to cooperate with the Giant Demon Empire to occupy it jointly, then the Giant Demon Empire would accept it.
They could even form an alliance.
After all, judging by the current situation,
Giant Demon God Matty felt that this civilization now indeed had the strength to cooperate with the Giant Demon Empire.
Among the countless civilizations of the Star Realm, it wasn’t necessary for one to be solely dominant.
If civilizations of similar strength could cooperate to advance into the wider worlds of the Star Realm, that would naturally be a good option.
And in fact, from the very beginning, the Giant Demon Empire had such judgments and plans when it advanced into the Star Realm.
Therefore, the arrival of the Giant Demon God Matty at this time
still carried a twenty to thirty percent intention of forming an alliance.
Especially after learning that the other side had already seized more than a third of the authority over the rules,
this inclination toward an alliance grew even stronger.
It went from twenty or thirty percent to nearly ninety or a hundred percent.
