Capítulo 1181: Chapter 1181: Respecting Their Wishes
It must be acknowledged, gods are indeed gods, even if their territories are lost, their personal enhancents are gone, and they are suppressed by world power. Yet, the Dark God still dragged his heavily injured body and persisted in battle for three days and nights.
During this period, Jera had already been elevated by the power of the territory, almost infinitely close to the divine level.
Even so, he was still no match for the opponent. When the Dark God was finally killed, his entire body was shattered beyond recognition, with no intact part visible.
Jera wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stood up with his severely injured body, knowing that his organization had finally secured a foothold.
“We, have won.” With Jera’s words, everyone began cheering wildly; this was a god-slaying feat. Before coming here, many had prepared themselves for certain death and had even left farewell letters.
They fought for their beliefs; for the happiness of their families.
Even if they failed, they believed they could use their lives to buy sufficient ti for developnt.
Most people never imagined they would truly succeed; this was the greatest achievent.
“Yes, we have finally won, but our work is not finished. The Dark God’s territory is vast, fully controlling it will keep us busy in the days ahead,” said soone beside him.
Jera looked at the people around him and said apologetically: “Thank you all this ti. Because of my personal decision, we suffered such heavy losses. I am ashad.”
“No, you cannot bla yourself. It was a collective decision of all of us.”
Although they said so, their expressions were still somber. Dangerous affairs like this certainly couldn’t be entrusted entirely to newcors. In reality, those who charged in front were all veterans like them.
On one hand, they joined earlier, having accumulated strength over ti, thus their power was stronger.
On the other hand, it was originally for the developnt of the Divine Sect, for the growth of future generations. As the first to join, they naturally had to lead the way in potentially sacrificial endeavors.
Didn’t you see Jera, the Pope, charging ahead in every battle?
Jera was rely heavily injured due to his great strength, but among the first batch of five demigods after Jera, three died in this fight.
One of them battled against two demigod experts, eventually dragging away a dead one. The other two were injured at the start of the battle and later died fighting the Dark God.
Such losses are enough to make anyone feel heartache.
“Sir, I, I don’t want to turn into that…”
Suddenly, while helping the soldiers with treatnt, Jera heard soone beside him speaking.
The soldier’s injuries were severe, clearly difficult to save. Although Jera could heal him, he couldn’t do so due to the high expenditure. With so many injured people now, he had to conserve his strength to save more people.
If he healed this one person, then more others would die.
Jera very much wanted to heal him, but he understood that sotis he had to make choices.
The people nearby were in a dilemma because they understood his aning. He didn’t want to beco undead after death, even though he’d be an undead with thoughts, many still couldn’t accept becoming sothing like that.
Jera paused and then nodded, saying: “Respect their wishes; everyone here is our companion. If they don’t want to continue living as undead, we have the duty to let them rest in peace.”
“Additionally, list how many people don’t want to beco undead after death. Record it for the future; if anyone sacrifices, we will purify their corpses and bury them, with their nas recorded in our annals.”
Purification is a special empowernt using dedicated Light Magic.
Once empowered with this force, the corpse bones cannot be summoned again to beco undead.
While this power can be broken to use the corpse bones, the thod yields results akin to ordinary corpses, with no mory retention nor consciousness.
Upon hearing these words, many people’s moods changed, and the atmosphere shifted.
Until rest ti ca, soone approached Jera.
“Pope, this won’t work. Based on our statistics, more than half of those who sacrificed do not want to beco undead. If we do not convert them into undead, we will lose a lot of manpower.”
Jera shook his head: “No, we cannot calculate entirely like this; they are our brothers, and we can’t go against their wishes. We can easily get forces by rearing so animals and later keeping their bones.”
“While feasible, it takes ti, and currently these…”
“Stop, rember we are humans, an army with thoughts, not those nobles akin to beasts.”
Seeing Jera respond this way, the visitor had no choice but to shut his mouth. Although everyone understood the reasoning, the real issue was the dire shortage of manpower.
Due to insufficient higher power, they could only rely on vast manpower to pile up against strong enemies.
This battle, despite appearing mighty and easily victorious elsewhere besides the main battlefield, was based on massive losses of the Undead Army.
This ti, they lost more than half their forces, yet they expanded their territory significantly. How do they defend it now?
In the chaotic region, they now hold one-fifth of it. But people elsewhere have started to unite against them. Whether other gods are involved behind the scenes is unknown.
However, based on their analysis, if the chaotic land continues like this, it indicates more than one hidden god. This ti, they might confront multiple gods simultaneously.
Even if gods don’t leave their territories to actively attack, their armies are nurous.
In neighboring territories, changes have started, the most obvious being the surge in army numbers.
Even utilizing the corpses of dead enemies this ti, it is far from enough. They’ll have to explore whether the corpse bones remaining in the wild are adequate.
Although usable, many are broken and decayed beyond usefulness. Large-scale hunting of animals isn’t feasible either, as massive deaths could lead to adverse changes which they’ve begun experiencing.
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