MTLNOVEL Chapter 96: The Sorrows of a Nobody
The exact number of material planes is something even powerful beings like the Sovereign cannot count.
All soldiers from the Sovereign Legions have been deployed into the material planes.
The status of the Saint Realm within the God Planes and Supreme Planes has also seen a slight increase.
As long as you can cultivate magic, you can join the corresponding Sovereign Legion and enter the material planes to establish magic academies and spread the Sovereign's faith.
Later on, not only were experts from the God Planes and Supreme Planes entering the material planes, but even experts who had grown within the material planes themselves joined this war.
Because it was widely rumored that Roy, who had reached Paragon, had obtained the Earth Lord Godhead and become a new Sovereign, unable to enter the material planes anymore, thus, seven or eight out of ten experts from the Seven God Planes and Four Supreme Planes participated in this battle for faith.
No one could refuse the temptation of a Lord Godhead.
Today's lucky winner is Nathaniel; who can say that the next lucky winner won't be themselves?
After all, there are currently nearly thirty vacant Sovereign positions.
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Roy paid little attention to the battles in the material planes.
He was currently in seclusion in the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range.
His soul power had already reached over nine thousand times the norm. With seclusion, he could reach ten thousand times in at most a hundred million years, allowing him to form a Soul Golden Core.
Coincidentally, possessing a Lord Godhead could help mask his unique nature.
When he displayed his Sovereign-level strength, no one would suspect that he wasn't a genuine Sovereign.
In Roy's palace in the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range, besides Shelley's Fire Element true form, two more people had arrived.
Atley, the first to swear allegiance to Roy from the Muba Plane, and Nathaniel, who had presented the Earth Lord Godhead to Roy.
Between the two, although Atley's strength was greater than Nathaniel's, Nathaniel held a higher status than Atley.
Of course, whether it was Atley or Nathaniel, both were perceptive and completely obedient to Shelley.
Currently, the two were assisting Shelley in managing the data of the Four Divine Beast Family and were coordinating personnel within the entire family based on the information provided by the clan members.
As more and more Sovereigns entered the fray, the Four Divine Beast Family went from fighting one against four to fighting one against seven.
Except for the Rule Sovereigns, any Four Divine Beast Magic Academy located in the material planes under the command of the Law Sovereigns would be destroyed by any means possible.
Although there were many material planes, the Four Divine Beast Family had made preparations for hundreds of millions of years before the other Sovereigns. In the material planes with Four Divine Beast Magic Academies, the natives considered the Four Divine Beast Magic Academies to be the orthodox path.
If the mages of the Four Divine Beast Magic Academies were not eliminated, the Sovereigns who preached the creation of magic would not be accepted by the natives.
This made the war of faith even more brutal!
Time flowed by as everyone engaged in their battles.
This was the most peaceful and quiet era for the God Planes, yet it was the most brutal, terrifying, and worst era for the countless material planes...
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"Roar of the Wind!"
"Earth Spear Formation!"
"Flame Slash!"
"Violent Tornado!"
"Dance of the Fire Serpent!"
In the Audu Material Plane, people from two different factions were engaged in a fierce battle.
One side consisted of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, plus several hundred mages of the seven elements with varying levels.
The other side, however, was composed entirely of mages of the four elements: earth, wind, water, and fire.
At this moment, these four-element mages, acting as city defenders, were simultaneously dealing with the attacks from the opposing mages while also preventing the soldiers from climbing the city walls.
Powerful spells were unleashed from behind both factions, and each spell that landed, without adequate magical defense from their own side, would instantly cause a large number of soldier casualties.
"Boom!"
"Boom boom boom!"
The violent explosions claimed the lives of hundreds of ordinary soldiers.
"Damn it!"
Seeing this scene, the great general Donald of the Hexiogne Empire clenched his fist and cursed under his breath.
These soldiers were all citizens of the empire! How dare they?
The mages from the Empire's Lord God Magic Academy treated the soldiers as nothing more than expendable resources to deplete the magical power of the mages from the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy.
Despite his inner resentment, Donald dared not lead any resistance.
The current Hexiogne Empire was no longer the Hexiogne Empire of a thousand years ago.
It had been controlled by the mages of the Lord God Magic Academy, becoming a tool in their hands.
A thousand years ago, a peerless expert named Hexiogne appeared in the Audu Material Plane. With absolute military might, he defeated the other two kingdoms, ultimately unifying the Audu Continent and establishing the Hexionei Empire.
Over seven hundred years ago, a group of people entered the Audu Material Plane from another plane. They established the first magic academy in Hexiogne—the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy.
This was also the first time the people of the Hexionei Empire learned about this method of cultivation.
Although the cultivation requirements for mages were much higher than those for warriors, the destructive power wielded by mages was far greater than that of warriors.
For a time, being a mage became the most popular and powerful profession in the Hexionei Empire.
Centuries later, four mages successfully advanced to the Saint Realm and became the new deans of the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy. After stepping down from their positions, the dean who founded the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy left the Audu Material Plane, which brought a sigh of relief to the upper echelons of the Hexionei Empire.
It wasn't that they were being unreasonable; the strength of those four deans was simply too terrifying.
Hexiogne, the emperor of the Hexionei Empire and the strongest God-level expert on the Audu Material Plane, was utterly powerless against the four deans.
After the departure of the four powerful deans, they left behind words that left the entire Hexionei Empire bewildered:
"Peace is but temporary; war can arrive at any moment."
"If, one day, you are attacked by followers of other Sovereigns, you may send someone above the Saint Realm to the Infernal Realm to seek help from the Four Divine Beast Family."
Was the Four Divine Beast Family the same family that founded the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy?
What kind of family was it?
Judging by their words, this plane was merely one among billions that their family had casually chosen.
Did other planes also have Four Divine Beast Magic Academies?
With such questions, the new deans of the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy conveyed this message to the emperor of the empire and then paid it no further mind.
More than three hundred years ago, another group of new individuals descended upon the Audu Material Plane. Upon learning that the original deans of the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy had departed, they found the emperor of the Hexionei Empire and expressed their willingness to establish a new magic academy to prevent the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy from having a monopoly.
No emperor wants to have a force under their command that they cannot control.
The Four Divine Beast Magic Academy was precisely that.
The mages who graduated from it valued the honor of being a mage more than their loyalty to the empire.
The newly established magic academy was directly named the Lord God Magic Academy. It was formed by one person from each of the seven Sovereign Lords, teaching the seven elemental magics: Earth, Wind, Water, Fire, Light, Darkness, and Lightning. With three more elements than the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy, it quickly gained immense popularity.
Unlike the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy, mages who graduated from the Lord God Magic Academy would join the Hexionei Empire and become imperial court mages.
As the people from the Lord God Magic Academy occupied most of the important positions within the Hexionei Empire, they began to declare the mages of the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy as "heretics" and launched an attack on the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy, aiming to kill all its mages.
At this point, the empire was stunned.
I asked you to establish a magic academy to counterbalance the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy, not to hijack me into eradicating it.
Unfortunately, by this time, many crucial positions within the Hexionei Empire were occupied by mages from the Lord God Magic Academy, making it impossible for the emperor of Hexiogne to change anything.
This was because the founding emperor of the Hexionei Empire had left the Audu Material Plane via a planar teleportation array not long after the deans of the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy departed.
The current emperor was merely an eighth-level warrior. Facing the Lord God Magic Academy, which possessed Saint Realm experts, he had no power to resist.
Thus, the Hexionei Empire, due to the Lord God Magic Academy and the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy, began a war that lasted for ten years.
Because they controlled the empire's high command, despite being established five to six hundred years later than the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy, they used despicable tactics such as controlling ordinary soldiers to attack and deplete the magical power of the mages from the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy. In these repeated assaults on the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy, they gained a significant advantage.
Over ten years, the student losses at the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy were substantial.
Currently, they have been pushed back to the point where only the magic academy itself remains as their stronghold.
If the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy is breached, the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy will cease to exist.
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"Based on today's situation, if we don't intervene soon, the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy won't last much longer."
In the deans' office of the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy, the four deans were holding a meeting.
"Those people from the Lord God Academy are truly insane."
The dean of the Azure Dragon branch, a middle-aged man wearing a blue magic robe, said, "They don't even treat ordinary soldiers as human beings!"
"Heh, you're only realizing that now?"
The dean of the Black Tortoise branch, a charming woman who appeared to be in her thirties, snorted coldly, "From the very beginning of the war against our Four Divine Beast Magic Academy, the Lord God Academy declared us heretics. What did I say back then?"
"The deans of the Lord God Magic Academy are different from our deans at the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy."
"The Lord God Magic Academy, from the outset, contacted the emperor of Hexiogne and cultivated mages who took over various important positions in the empire. Ten years ago, they directly declared our Four Divine Beast Magic Academy heretics..."
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