Chapter 721: Enemies Meet Again

The Abyss faces an unprecedented crisis, with the three giants mobilizing together.
“Ivan, even you, who claim to be a glorious true god, resort to despicable ambushes. I suggest you join our great Abyss faction instead. With one more giant, the will of the Abyss will surely be in great trouble!”
The Lord of Dawn didn’t even bother to respond to the insults from the Fallen Monarch. His focus was entirely on his old rival, the Dictator Ugesh, whose anger boiled over the moment he saw him.
Unlike the composed Fallen Monarch Grant, the mad and impulsive Destroyer Monarch had transformed into a fierce two-headed baboon. Disdaining Grant’s nonsense, he roared and charged at the three glorious gods across from him.
With this outburst by the Destroyer Monarch, the powerful leaders on both sides—the three glorious gods and the three Abyss giants—engaged in direct combat for the first time in this war.
As one of the two supreme gods among the gods of justice, Jerome, the god of justice and warriors, snorted coldly as he faced Ostasius, the Destroyer Monarch, who was also at the supreme god level.
As a representative of order and justice, Jerome was a strict and powerful true god. Though his doctrines were rigid, he was relatively tolerant toward beings other than his followers. Thus, among the three glorious gods, he was the most popular among warriors.
Similarly, despite having less experience among the supreme gods, Jerome’s combat skills, enhanced by his domain, made him one of the strongest. According to statistics compiled by the gods in their free time, he ranked high among them.
Although only Jerome’s supreme god avatar had descended to the Abyss, he managed to hold his own against Ostasius, the most unreasonable andwidely recognized strongest of the Abyss’s three giants, thanks to his immense power and skilled combat tactics.
At the supreme god level, an avatar is no longer restricted by its own rank. It can draw on the powerful strength of its true form at any time—this is one of the reasons why supreme gods are invincible compared to lower true gods. Even if one reaches the peak of a mid-tier god, it would usually take two or three peers working together to have a chance of defeating an avatar of a supreme god.
Unsurprisingly, he saw his old rival Ostasius charging in without understanding the situation. The Fallen Monarch spat out a contemptuous curse: “That foolish madman! May he perish here!”

As he spoke, he glanced at the other side’s new Abyssal Overlord, the Orc God Ughesh. Seeing that this higher-tier demon god was already holding his signature weapon, the Bloodthirsty Spear, and rubbing it while his eyes burned with eagerness as he stared at the true god across from him, Grant had no choice but to draw his own weapon and prepare for battle.

The true god of justice didn’t make the Fallen Monarch wait long. Soon, two incarnations of true gods joined forces to attack him. The one who appeared was Behistan, the God of War, the weakest among the Three Glorious Gods. As an intermediate god’s incarnation, he teamed up with another pillar of the true gods—Tom, the King of Knights, God of Loyalty and Protection—to confront the Fallen Monarch Grant.

Although both were intermediate gods, they were among the strongest of their kind, having reached the pinnacle of intermediate godhood. With full force, they could even rival higher-tier gods. Though these two intermediate gods might not be able to overwhelm a demon lord at the level of a higher-tier god like the Fallen Monarch, with the help of their divine weapons, they could easily hold Grant at bay for a while. Moreover, the Fallen Monarch wasn’t going all out either due to his own concerns.

To the cunning and suspicious Grant, he wouldn’t expend too much strength unless the other two giants achieved a decisive victory, otherwise he would suffer setbacks later. After all, from the very beginning, the three giants were destined to be rivals, each wanting to devour the power of the others and become the sole Abyssal Monarch. So once one of them was weakened, the other two wouldn’t hesitate to take advantage.

This meant that even when facing common enemies, the three giants couldn’t work together as seamlessly as others. As the new Abyssal Lord, Ughesh—the Orc God Dictator who had seized the position of the Fallen Monarch with the support of the Abyssal Will—had only been in the Abyss for a short time. He hadn’t developed much coordination with the other two Abyssal giants. As for the Fallen Monarch, at least his reason still held sway over his consciousness. But Ostasius, the God of Destruction, had his will almost entirely corrupted by the laws of destruction. He could stay conscious for no more than three days in a hundred years, making him completely uncommunicative.

Thus, Ughesh, who wasn’t good at thinking to begin with, decided to rely on his own strength in this battle. After Ostasius attacked, he couldn’t suppress his hatred and fury toward his archenemy, the Lord of Dawn. Roaring, he launched his attack.

Ivan, the Lord of Dawn, showed no mercy even toward his old rival, immediately delivering the most devastating counterattack. With the power of a supreme god, he unleashed an endless glow that instantly dispersed the atmosphere of death laws and negative energy that had filled the once gloomy Ninth Layer of the Bone Wasteland. A strong positive energy and extreme sacred power filled most of the realm. Apart from the powerful true gods engaged in battle, those on both sides were forced to retreat from the Ninth Layer to avoid being affected by their clash.

At the same time, the Lord of Dawn provoked his opponent verbally. “Ugsh, after falling once, you’ve become increasingly foolish. You’ve even resorted to the power of the Abyss to regain your status as a supreme god. How do you still have the right to fight me?” “Die!” Fueled by rage, the dictator went completely mad, turning all his anger into attacks. Though this orc god hadn’t lost his sanity like the Destroyer Monarch, he was indeed incited to intense fury by the Lord of Dawn.

Battles at this peak level among the three great powers were not something ordinary beings could participate in. Even the remaining true gods and demon lord warriors on both sides stepped back to watch from a distance, fearing being caught in the crossfire.

Donald, the Lord of the Natural Deities deep in Hell, was carefully observing the battlefield on the Ninth Layer. It was the first time he had seen the God of Slaughter and War, Ugsh, take action. Even before falling into the Abyss, this tyrant known as a dictator had been one of the three most powerful forces in the camp of darkness and evil, alongside Benson, the God of Conspiracy of the King of Lies, and Elsa, the Goddess of Night.

However, after the fall of the Banai Magic Empire a thousand years ago—because it threatened human survival in the main world—he was framed and killed by the human gods. He remained silent for a thousand years until he successfully revived not long ago. But due to this dictator’s low profile, Donald never had the chance to fully understand this evil god who could be considered an enemy. This invasion of the Abyss by the Glorious Alliance was a great opportunity for him.