Chapter 735: Ugesh’s Counterattack

“Oscar is truly cunning—having successfully revived himself long ago, hiding from the three great lords and numerous demon lords, and sneaking into the Abyss undetected, remaining active right before our eyes. His secrecy is truly chilling!”
In Naisus’s palace on the ninth layer of hell, Astymos said to Donald.
Donald shook his head and smiled at the King of Hell, “There’s no need to worry about Oscar. Since he’s become another Abyssal giant, he’s bound to fail to make a significant impact! What worries me is rather the outcome of the battle between Ivan and Ugesh!”
While focusing his attention on the Casselie Plane, he still kept an eye on the war in the Abyss.
Days passed, yet the war between the Three Gods of Light and the Three Abyssal Giants remained undecided—a situation within Donald’s expectations.
In battles between beings at the level of mid-tier gods and above, mortal logic no longer applied. Both sides had nearly equal strength, and neither would risk using their ultimate tactics until they were certain of victory. Thus, their battles seemed like tests of endurance, with fights lasting ten days or even half a month being common.
However, the moment when a true winner emerged in such battles was usually very brief, often decided in an instant.
Of course, depending on the advantages of each side, other possibilities existed. The battlefield changed rapidly, and even someone like Donald couldn’t predict the outcome with complete accuracy.
Still, overall, the Abyssal forces held a slight advantage in the battle between the Gods of Justice and the Abyssal Alliance. After all, the Gods of Justice had only two high gods, while the Abyss had three great lords. Even if the Judge Behistan and the King of Knights Tom joined forces to face the Fallen Monarch Grant, the gap in divine rank couldn’t be made up by sheer numbers.
It was conceivable that if these two mid-tier gods suffered defeats on the battlefield, it could affect the outcome of the entire war between the Alliance of Light and the Abyssal Demons.
Fortunately, both the God of War Behistan and the God of Loyalty and Protection Tom were exceptional warriors. One excelled in offense, the other in defense, and together they could unleash power beyond their individual strengths. The Fallen Monarch wasn’t as purely battle-focused as a high god like the Destroyer Monarch, so the two mid-tier gods managed to hold their ground.

Before the defeat of the two mid-tier gods predicted by Donald could occur, the war took a turn elsewhere.
Heavenly Mountain, as the representative plane of the Upper Realm, is the core of the entire Upper Realm. Even before it was expanded by many neutral deities, it was already the largest plane in the Heavenly Realm.
The term “Heavenly Realm” originally referred to the Heavenly Mountain plane, and only later came to denote the entire Upper Realm.
Heavenly Mountain has always been the birthplace and dwelling place of beings from the Heavenly Realm. It is filled with sacred positive energy in the form of sunlight, whose endless radiance illuminates the entire Upper Realm. It is also the source of the suns in the material worlds and other planes. The suns seen in those material planes are essentially projections of Heavenly Mountain into the material world.
Compared to the radiance of Heavenly Mountain, other distant divine kingdoms in the Upper Realm can merely appear as stars in the night sky.
Due to the presence of powerful beings from the Heavenly Realm such as the Aiciti Clan, the Yakong Deity Clan, and various angels, even the gods have not established their own divine kingdoms within Heavenly Mountain. Those true gods who cherish sacred energy simply base their kingdoms outside Heavenly Mountain. Eighty percent of the righteous true gods and some neutral and benevolent true gods have their kingdoms here. As representatives of the righteous gods, the kingdoms of the Three Glorious Gods are located at the highest points outside Heavenly Mountain.
Now that most of the righteous true gods and Heavenly Realm warriors are engaged in the war against the Abyss, the once bustling Heavenly Mountain is devoid of the busy figures of angels flying about. Most true gods have devoted most of their power to their avatars, making the kingdoms outside Heavenly Mountain seem much darker overall.
Today, a dark and evil torrent, like a nightmare, surged forth from beneath Heavenly Mountain with overwhelming force, heading straight for the kingdoms of the Three Glorious Gods at its peak.
Above Heavenly Mountain, the kingdoms of the Three Glorious Gods stood side by side. Among them, the Dawn God’s kingdom, led by the Dawn Lord—the strongest of the righteous true gods—was the largest.
Its endless radiance seemed capable of burning everything; no other divine kingdom’s radiance outside Heavenly Mountain could compare to it.
The target of that black torrent was precisely this vast Dawn God’s kingdom.
At the head of the black torrent was the God of Orks, Ugesh, the dictator in charge of slaughter and war—a new Abyssal giant. Behind him followed the God of Voodoo, Male, and the God of Barbarism, Sagum, two true gods of orks, along with seven or eight demon lords affiliated with the orcish pantheon, as well as several evil gods persuaded by Ugesh.

The most powerful among the latter is Tia, the Five-Color Dragon God and Lord of Evil Dragons. The remaining ones—Liberman, the God of Vipers, is merely a lower-tier god, Usdunken, the God of the Sky, is a newly risen god, and Elasmus, the God of the Swamps, who is of swamp merman origin, is slightly stronger than the newly risen gods but still weaker than even the lowest-tier lower gods.

Following behind them is a massive army of millions of demons—all demons conquered by the orc godhood in the Abyssal Plane during this period. These evil gods and demon lords dare to invade the realm of the Lord of Dawn because their domains are either within the Endless Abyss or located in extremely remote planes. Even for the powerful Lord of Dawn, Ivan, it is not easy to retaliate against them. With an invincible position and the strong backing of a high-tier god like the dictator Ugshe, they are determined to participate in this full-scale assault launched by the orc godhood against the realm of the Lord of Dawn.

Although no single realm can stand against this powerful force, under Ugshe’s command, this evil coalition does not delay at the other realms in the Mountain of Heaven but heads straight for the realm of the Dawn God. Although Ugshe appears here in his mid-tier god form, his power is still comparable to that of a high-tier god, not to mention having a powerful mid-tier dragon god like the Lord of Evil Dragons, whose combat strength is already close to that of a high-tier god.

“Ivan, today is the day you will fall! It is my, Ugshe’s, blood-red glory that will illuminate the multiverse as the greatest force!”

Outside the realm of the Dawn God, the dictator launches his attack. Though such an attack may struggle to shake the barriers of a large godly realm, it can still disrupt the stability of some internal rules, giving them an advantage when they invade the realm later.

Inside the realm of the Dawn God, everything is silent; even the endless light seems to have frozen, offering no resistance to the attacks from the evil gods and demons outside. It seems that Prince Ivan intends to lure the evil coalition led by Ugshe into his realm before trapping and destroying them. But since Ugshe has come to attack Ivan’s realm, how could he not be prepared to counter it?