Chapter 621: Goddess of Strategy Ascends to God

With every word she spoke, her body became brighter, and an invisible flame began to burn from the inside out. Countless invisible forces gathered from all directions and gathered on her body. These forces were the best fuel for the invisible flame in her body. With a bang, it turned from a small flame into a blazing fire, but no one felt the heat, only the sacredness, only the deep wisdom like the sea, which seemed to be brewing countless plans and strategies, and hiding countless secrets in this world.

This is the divine fire, the fire ignited by faith. If there are not enough people who believe that she can be competent for the divine duties of strategy, planning and tactics, this fire cannot be ignited, and this is the foundation of the deification. If you don’t even have this, you are not qualified to continue.

The voice of Ms. Strategy came again from the burning divine body.

"No matter the apparent power comparison, the one who uses the best plan, strategy and tactics will win the war. Any fool can win by luck, but only a strategic master can ensure victory and keep it going. This is strategy."

This is exactly what Gavin quoted from Lady Strategy. However, Gavin quoted this sentence first, and now the goddess of strategy said it later, and regarded it as the fundamental core of the strategic godhead, which always gives people a very strange feeling.

A bright light that ordinary people cannot see directly with their naked eyes condensed and formed in the core of Lady Strategy.

The whole world seemed to be still at this moment. Everyone stared at this scene blankly, even if they couldn't see the shape of the thing in the center of the light, but they still couldn't move their eyes away, because even the goblins knew what this thing was.

Godhead.

Strategy godhead.

This is what countless lives dream of. It is the root of a god in legend. If you can obtain a godhead, even if it is a fragment, after swallowing and digesting it, you will be qualified to step into the ranks of the gods and become a new god.

Only ignorant fools would believe this legend. It is difficult for a quasi-god to condense his godhood. He must have enough believers to support him before he can step into the ranks of gods.

How could he step into the ranks of gods with a fragment of godhood?

It is more likely that the soul consciousness is assimilated by the fragment of godhood and becomes a sacred carrier of it, used to protect it until it finds its true home.

"War is composed of a series of battles. Losing a battle does not mean losing a war. Find out the enemy's weaknesses, recognize your own weaknesses, avoid the opponent's advantages, and play to your own strengths. Only by using my strengths to attack the opponent's weaknesses can victory be guaranteed. This is the tactic."

Immediately afterwards, the second priesthood fragment belonging to his godhood was embedded in it.

"Prepare for peace in times of war, prepare for war in times of peace, find the enemy of your enemy as your ally, and be prepared to compromise. Life is a series of small conflicts, accompanied by occasional outbreaks. Be prepared, and have a contingency plan ready. This is the plan."

Then comes the third piece. The three will complement each other and constitute her way of war, her godhead.

Just when the light on her body was extremely bright, countless people burst into huge exclamations.

"Madam, be careful."

"Your Highness, there is an assassin."

"Behind you, be careful behind you."

Just behind the goddess of strategy, a thin man emerged silently. His specific appearance could not be seen clearly. All people noticed were the fiery black eyes and chalky white skin, as well as the crazy smile that could not be covered by the mist. A rose-red long sword was silently stabbing at the core of the Crimson Knight, the godhead that had not yet been fully condensed.

This reminder from the crowd was useless. It seemed that Ms. Strategy was gathering her godhood and ascending to godhood in front of them. In fact, her real body was not here at all. From beginning to end, they only saw a refracted shadow, even when she was assassinated.

Ms. Strategy seemed to be completely unaware of it, or even if she was aware of it, she was powerless because this was the critical moment for her to gather her godhood and she had no way to fight back.

No, to be more precise, even in her prime, she could not dodge this sword because the gap in strength between the two sides was too great.

The other party is not only a god, but also a powerful god. He has many names and nicknames, such as Prince of Lies, Prince of Madness, Dark Sun, Black Sun, God of Madness and Lord of Three Crowns, but the most common name is Xirik, the God of Conspiracy and Dispute, the number one madman in the continent of Faerun. He does things without any reason, just because he likes it. However, this time he is not arbitrary, because he did not act early or late, but had to wait until the Goddess of Strategy was almost condensed before taking action, which means that he was spying on the Goddess of Strategy's strategy, plan and tactics. These divine duties are not only complementary to him, but also because he has too many conspiracies and too many plans, and he does not want others to know, and of course he does not want this divine duty to fall into the hands of others.

"Roar!" A terrifying roar resounded throughout the world, and everyone felt the anger from the bottom of their hearts.

A huge blood-red battle axe appeared out of nowhere and blocked the sword of the God of Conspiracy Xirik, blocking the Prince of Lies's sword. At this time, a huge human figure wearing scarred and bloodstained plate armor and a war helmet appeared beside Ms. Strategy.

The next moment, the tall and strong man swung the blood-red battle axe in his hand at the God of Conspiracy. The speed of the swing was so fast, like a storm, that people could not see the shape of the battle axe in his hand. In front of his attack, the God of Conspiracy had no ability to fight back, and could only defend himself awkwardly.

Because he was now facing another powerful divine being, Tempus, who was known as the King of War. His seemingly ordinary axe slash actually contained a thousand changes. If he was distracted for a moment, he would be chopped to pieces on the spot. The title of the first in single combat in all of Furen was not boasted, but was earned by the axe in his hand.

This sneak attack by Xirik was just stirring up a hornet's nest. Whether the lady of strategy was his illegitimate daughter or not was not mentioned for the time being. She was promoted by the King of War and created the seed of the future war for the God of War.

Putting all this aside, the God of Conspiracy dared to attack the people of his war god system, which was a great disrespect to his God of War. This matter was definitely not something that could be resolved by a fight.

Both the phantoms of the God of Conspiracy and the God of War were short-lived. One chased and the other fled. In the blink of an eye, they completely disappeared. It was unknown whether the battlefield was moved or because it was beyond the coverage of the projection of Ms. Strategy. I believe the former is more likely. After all, this is a battle between two powerful gods. The movement is absolutely devastating. What they saw was just the tip of the iceberg. In the unknown world, the two did not know what kind of big collision would happen.

Seeing this situation, the people who were originally lifted up could not help but fall down.

As for the person involved, the Lady of Strategy seemed to be completely unaware, and she carried out the third step step by step, and said loudly again: "Strategy is the board, plan is the line, tactics are the pieces, my kingdom is called the Gun Board Chess Fortress, and you will be the first batch of petitioners here."

A huge shadow appeared out of thin air behind the Goddess of Strategy. It was a huge chessboard, and castles and fortresses shaped like chess pieces rose from the ground on it. The images of these chess pieces were more like international chess, but the chessboard was Chinese chess, and there was a river similar to the Chu River and Han River on it.

In Faerun, Gun Board Chess generally refers to those chess games with chessboards and chess pieces, including Gobang, checkers, watermelon chess, go and chess, etc., but most of the time it refers to international chess. The Lady of Strategy also has another nickname, the Grandmaster of Grab Board Chess. She has a heartfelt love for Grab Board Chess, and believes that it can train a person's strategy and tactical ability. Her holy emblem is a red Gun Board Chess Knight chess piece.

Now she has directly integrated the Gun Version Chess into her kingdom of God, turning it into a huge Gun Version Chess. According to the various peculiar characteristics of the kingdom of God, people have reason to suspect that the Gun Version Chess Fortress is not just as simple as a Gun Version Chess board. Those chess pieces and buildings are likely to be able to move like chess pieces, and even use them as a real chessboard to play a game. Everything on them will be chess pieces, but such a chess game is obviously not prepared for mortals. Only gods can play a game with the strategy lady as chess players.

At the same time, the shadow of a bridge slowly rose from the ground and crossed the middle of the river. The shape is the same as the bridge of man and god where the conqueror army is now entrenched, and there are even a lot of shadows on it.

"It's Philip, it's Philip, hahaha... That's great, it's really great, that guy is not dead, he is now the goddess's petitioner."

"It's Alma, it's really him..."

"I saw Aka..."

There were countless excited exclamations from the conquerors of the Bridge of Gods and Humans. Although they didn't know how far away they were, even across a plane, they could clearly see the phantom faces on the Bridge of Gods and Humans in the Goddess of Strategy's kingdom. It was not that their eyesight had improved, but that the Goddess of Strategy did it on purpose, telling them that the souls of the conquerors who died in the previous battle had been directly taken away by her. This was her privilege of ascending to the Goddess today, because these souls were the foundation of her kingdom.

The Goddess of Strategy spoke again: "The brave should be rewarded. Noble warriors, you now have two choices. One is to stay in my kingdom of God and reincarnate as a petitioner or even a heroic spirit here. The other is to endure the pain of resurrection from the dead and continue to live as a mortal."

Petitioner is a special name. Excellent believers who were devout during their lifetime will be taken to their respective kingdoms of God by the messengers of God to be reborn and gain eternity in the kingdom of God. The petitioners of each kingdom of God have their own particularities. For example, if you become a petitioner in the kingdom of dwarves or gnomes, no matter what race you were in your lifetime, you will become a dwarf or gnome there. The petitioners who go to the Nine Hells are called soul shells. They will present a distorted, painful, and corrupted horror.

There is no way for petitioners to leave the Kingdom of God. They will not age and die naturally, and will be in the best state of life. They can be killed. Although they can be resurrected in the Kingdom of God, except for a few special Kingdoms of God in Shura Field or Joseph Garden, in other Kingdoms of God, every time a petitioner is resurrected, his soul essence will be swallowed up by the Kingdom of God (usually losing one life dice). When the life dice is completely reduced to zero, he will be completely swallowed up by the Kingdom of God and become a part of the Kingdom of God.

These petitioners are closely tied to the gods they believe in. When the gods fall and the kingdom of God is destroyed, the petitioners of this kingdom will also die, unless there are other gods and kingdoms willing to accept them. Therefore, the petitioners will actively help their gods to protect their kingdoms, and even form a legion of petitioners. However, they rarely leave the kingdom of God to fight. That is the business of the heroic spirits and even the gods. As for the heroic spirits, they are the petitioners with extraordinary strength. They are no longer trapped in the kingdom of God and can go outside to perform various special tasks of the gods. The gods' messengers are more powerful alien humanoid creatures.

Immortality and happiness are the paradise of the kingdom of God that people often talk about, at least for those mortals, so the petitioners are also called the people of God.

"I am willing to stay in the Kingdom of God and serve His Highness."

"I want to be resurrected. I still have dreams to realize. I will continue to serve the lady in the mortal world, spread your gospel, and guide more people to convert to your arms."

"I want to be resurrected."

"I want to stay."

"I want to be resurrected too."

The souls of the soldiers of the Conqueror Army who died in the battle made their own choices. Only 20% chose to stay, and 80% chose to be resurrected.

Although the Kingdom of God is beautiful, they still have too many concerns and too many dreams in the material plane. Before these are resolved, how can they feel at ease to stay in the Kingdom of God?

The current situation is like the new king ascending the throne and granting amnesty to the world. It is a rare opportunity, so we must seize it firmly.

"As you wish." The Goddess of Strategy waved her sword heavily, and countless sacred lights fell. Corpses flew out from the bridge of the God-Man Bridge, from the turbulent river, or from the pile of corpses. The scars on their bodies recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then souls fell from the sky and returned to the bodies of their original owners.

"Ahhh... I'm alive again, hahaha... I'm alive again, thank you for your grace, I will live up to your expectations and use the sword in my hand to implement your strategy and your plan."

"Hahaha... I can continue our unfinished journey. If I can't witness the Conqueror Army complete this Conqueror Road, I will not be willing to die, thanks to the grace of the lady."

"Thank you for the gift of the lady..."

"Thank you for your kindness..."

The soldiers of the Conqueror Army who came back from the dead shouted excitedly, and did not forget to pay the highest respect to the Lady of Strategy. No matter how high their original belief in the Lady of Strategy was, it reached an unprecedented peak at this moment. It is estimated that many will become fanatics and regard believing in the lady as their lifelong career in the future.

This can be considered as a strategic means of the Goddess of Strategy. This move is called "scattering beans to make soldiers". They are now the petitioners of the Gun, Board and Chess Pass, but they are just one person. But if they go to the material plane, when they come back again, it is very likely that they will not be one person. Many people will join the ranks of their believers under their influence. These devout believers will be more useful to her if they are alive.

"Give me back what belongs to me." Another roar sounded, and a blurry blood cloud rushed towards Ms. Strategy. Exaggeratedly thick arms stretched out from the blood mist, and each hand waved a different weapon. "This time, without the protection of that idiot Tempus, I wonder what else you can do?"

"Garagos, you are still alive. You are the stupidest idiot. You are used by the God of Conspiracy without knowing it. What he cares about most is not my strategy and planning priesthood, but your plunder and destruction priesthood, which is the most suitable for his strife priesthood. If you stay in your nest honestly, you can still survive by chance. Since you show up again, I will replace the War King to completely end you." Ms. Strategy was not surprised when she was attacked, as if everything was expected by her.

In fact, when she was attacked by the God of Conspiracy Xirik before, she did not show any surprise. The roar of the God of War Tempus was more because of provocation, not because of surprise.

Lady Strategy controls the priesthood of strategy and planning. Any planned behavior, especially those directed at her, is difficult to hide from her eyes. Even if it is suppressed by the God of Conspiracy with his conspiracy priesthood, how can she live up to her planning priesthood without making a few emergency plans?

Not only is the God of War Tempus guarding her, but even her preparations for this ascension are far beyond ordinary gods.

Many gods can't wait to do so as soon as they feel that the number of their believers meets the level of igniting the divine fire and raising the kingdom of God. The final result is that they leave themselves with huge security risks, not to mention the various accidents that may occur during the ascension process-because when ascending to the gods, it will inevitably cause the world where they are located, or even the multiverse, to shake, and completely expose their whereabouts to the gods. Those hostile or gods with the same priesthood will certainly stop it, unless this kind of ascension is directly promoted by the sacred and magnificent will of the multiverse, Io, such as the conspiracy god Xirik just now, such as the current magic goddess Mistra.

Therefore, becoming a god is not just about having the required strength, but also about knowing how to deal with people. Do you have powerful allies among the gods who are willing to lend you a helping hand and block the enemy's attacks for you at critical moments?

At this point, Ms. Strategy has a natural advantage. She is a member of the war pantheon, and her main god and her father will naturally provide her with protection.

Even if she passes this level under the protection of the gods' allies, ignites the divine fire, and raises the kingdom of God, it does not mean that everything is fine.

Since the strength of the gods is closely related to the number of believers, those hostile gods, when they find that they cannot solve their opponents from the root, often turn their black hands to the believers of this god. Once a large number of his believers die and the number drops to the point where the kingdom of God cannot be maintained, it will also be the moment when the newly condensed kingdom of God collapses and the godhead shatters.