An agreement that was neither cordial nor friendly but seemed to be a necessary alliance was reached on Hope Terrace. At least in the eyes of the God of the Wilderness, the God of the Cavemen was frightened by his own exaggerated descriptions and had to join the alliance.
In the eyes of the God of the Wilderness and several true gods in the alliance, the average individual combat power of the Cavemen has now surpassed that of humans, but without their own power system and strong individuals, they are already a very qualified cannon fodder race. It is just right to use the Cavemen to resist the coalition led by the God of Mind Flayer.
Lin Xiao was also very sensible and sent an incarnation and more than 500,000 elite cavemen to join the coalition. This number was more than the entire coalition combined.
The cavemen have nothing special about them except that they are numerous. Now Lin Xiao has as many as one billion caveman believers. After the caveman king Onad established the Caveman Kingdom, he began to form regular legions, with each legion consisting of 500,000 soldiers. There are a total of eight front-line combat legions and two main legions in the entire kingdom. There are dozens of local garrison legions with a total of about 100,000 soldiers. The total number of all the troops in the kingdom is close to 10 million.
This is a huge number that is hard to imagine for other races. Among the many races in the Underdark, except for the drow and goblins, the total population of other races is not so large.
There are now more than one billion fourth-generation cave dwellers, more than 200 million of whom live in the area near the royal city centered on Hope Terrace. If necessary, the kingdom can mobilize 20 to 30 million militiamen at any time.
If there is enough time to prepare, it would be extremely exaggerated to mobilize hundreds of millions of cavemen from all over the kingdom to fight.
And this number is only a part of the cave dwellers in the entire Underdark. You must know that even now the earliest missionary group has gone to the deeper part of the second layer of the Underdark tens of thousands of kilometers away, and they are still constantly discovering cave dweller tribes in the distant depths. They are continuously converting these newly discovered cave dwellers into fourth-generation cave dwellers, and spreading the belief of cave dwellers and the god of protection to this area.
It is said that there are billions of troggs living throughout the Underdark.
Some people also say that the total number of cave dwellers living in the entire Underdark is as high as tens of billions. Lin Xiao doesn't know whether this is true or not, but one thing is certain, if the area that has been explored so far, which is as large as the total area of the earth, is fully developed, it will be enough to accommodate billions of cave dwellers.
In the past, the cave dweller tribes were so small and scattered, but there were still so many people. Now that the tribes are expanding and concentrating, it is not excessive to accommodate several times the population.
With the joining of the Caveman God into the melee, a legion of 500,000 Cavemen with a strong average combat power joined the battlefield. The Alliance, which had been at a disadvantage, gradually turned the situation around. This was true whether it was on the mortal battlefield or on the battlefield at the level of true gods. The situation in the Underdark was once again at a stalemate.
But the deadlock was soon broken. In the sixth year of Lin Xiao's entry, the Spider God suddenly died.
Without the restraint of the true god, more than a dozen legendary giant spider monsters with high intelligence broke away from the battlefield.
Legends are definitely top-notch powerhouses in the mortal world. Any legendary powerhouse can influence a small, medium or even large-scale battle. Their coalition forces were able to resist their opponents before, and these dozen legendary giant spiders played an important role.
Now that they have left the battlefield, the strength of the alliance of gods led by the ogres has plummeted.
To make matters worse, not long after, the God of Mind Flayer refined the deity of the God of Spiders and gained the priesthood of spiders, and regained this group of legendary spiders.
The strong men who originally belonged to them turned against them, the war situation collapsed immediately, and the coalition forces were defeated in a decisive battle.
The winner was also decided at the level of true gods. Two of the four incarnations of the gods died on the spot, leaving only Lin Xiao and the incarnation of the God of Wilderness to escape.
At this point, the alliance existed in name only, and members withdrew their troops one after another to defend their base.
The victorious Mind Flayer God reorganized his army and marched to the first layer of the Underdark, heading straight for the Kingdom of the Ogre God. It seemed that he was going to kill the Ogre God, who was the strongest and most resistant, first.
The coalition forces broke through into the Ogre Kingdom with great force, and through the clues they had collected in the past and the words of some former Ogre God believers who had converted, they roughly locked down the location of the Ogre God's sanctuary.
The Ogre God also does not have a kingdom of God, but he still expended a large amount of divine power to open up a sanctuary suitable for petitioners who have transformed their dead believers.
In fact, almost all true gods that do not have a kingdom of God will have a sanctuary to accommodate the souls of believers.
Although the power of faith provided by the praying people is far less than when they were alive, the praying people are immortal and do not need to eat. They can always pray to provide the power of faith. If the number is large enough, it can be considerable.
Some true gods who have lived long enough have accumulated enough petitioners, and may be able to maintain their own godhood level solely with the divine power provided by the petitioners.
Of course, this situation is quite rare. If there were really so many believers, they would not be in such a miserable state.
In the sanctuary of the God of Reptiles, the true god has awakened since his incarnation died after the defeat of the alliance. At this moment, he is lying on his throne, lost in thought.
The true form of the God of Reptiles is a powerful poisonous lizard, who is deified by mortals and lizardmen. His believers are various intelligent reptiles and lizardmen, as well as a small number of humans and alien races. Not only in the Underdark, but also somewhere on the surface there is a huge tribe of lizardmen who believe in him.
The huge sanctuary was filled with all kinds of reptiles and lizardmen petitioners. Limited by the intelligence of the poisonous lizards, even if they were deified, their intelligence would not be much higher. They had no plans for their own sanctuary, and the living environment of the believers was extremely chaotic. There were frequent scenes of lizardmen fighting with other believers.
Normally, the God of Reptiles' favorite thing to do is to watch the fights among his believers, but today He did not do that.
The deterioration of the situation at this time made the God of Reptiles wonder whether he should give up everything in the Underdark and return to the surface.
Although giving up the faith in the Underdark would certainly cause one's own godhood level to drop, it was better than death.
At this moment, the God of Reptiles, who was in a trance in the center of the sanctuary, suddenly looked up into the void. Soon, a ripple appeared in the sky of the sanctuary and turned into a light gate that opened, from which a figure shrouded in strong divine light walked out.
"God of the Cryptids? What are you doing here?"
The God of Reptiles asked in surprise.
But within a second, his expression changed and he suddenly got up:
"Your strength? You..."
At this time, Lin Xiao made no secret of the fact that his incarnation had a godhood level of five, which was higher than the real body of the God of Reptiles. Anyone with a normal brain would know that this meant that his real body's godhood level exceeded level ten, and his real body was a medium-level god.
At this moment, the God of Reptiles was filled with indescribable surprise, but he was filled with more fear.
Even though His true form was a lizard with low intelligence, He knew that it was definitely not a good thing for an incarnation of medium divine power to forcefully enter His sanctuary without saying hello.
This is the fact. Lin Xiao took so much effort to find the kingdom of the God of Reptiles not to reminisce about the past, but to kill Him.
The God of Reptiles reacted and opened his mouth, and a stream of divine light sprayed onto the central throne. An invisible wave of rules quickly spread out with the central throne as the center. Lin Xiao felt a pressure pressing down on him, and he swayed slightly and continued to stand in the air.
"That's it?"
The suppression of these rules was so weak that he didn't even need to expend his divine power to analyze the rules. He could just withstand it on his own.
But think about it, it's just an animal with low intelligence that was deified, and it's just a sanctuary, not the kingdom of God. How strong can the rules it weave be? I guess there are only some basic rules such as no-fly zone, slow down, teleport, fly, exile, confinement, etc. There are no advanced rules at all.
Lin Xiao felt relieved now. He stretched out his hands and grabbed in the air. Ripples appeared in the void in front of him. His five fingers inserted into the void, colliding with the rules of the sanctuary and producing dazzling sparks.
As the divine power exploded, a huge hole was torn open in the space, and fully armed cave dwellers rushed in and engaged in a melee with the reptilian lizardmen petitioners who came from all directions.
Although he was not afraid of these petitioners, he could not be careless.
Those who pray can be resurrected in the sanctuary or the kingdom of God. Although their strength is much weaker than when they were alive after being transformed by the sanctuary or the kingdom of God, they have the characteristics of the kingdom of God. No matter how weak they are, their attacks can have an impact on the true God.
Any true God's sanctuary or kingdom has accumulated a huge number of petitioners. If no forces are deployed to resist them, the endless stream of petitioners will fight in a continuous rotation and may eventually wear down an incarnation of a true God.
The petitioners are the source of part of the true god's divine power and are also a major defensive barrier within the kingdom of God. Unless the gap in strength is too great, the kingdom of God must have a large number of cannon fodder to attack the enemy god.
A steady stream of cave dwellers attacked the sanctuary to resist the petitioners. Lin Xiao looked up at the Reptile God guarding the center of the sanctuary, smiled slightly, and took a step forward.
Soon, a deafening roar and the angry roar of the Reptile God were heard in the sanctuary.
This situation did not only happen in the sanctuary of the God of Reptiles. At the same time, in the sanctuaries of the God of Minotaur, the God of Slime, the God of Shadows and the God of the Underground, an incarnation of Lin Xiao and a huge army of cavemen arrived at the same time.
At this moment, Lin Xiao took the opportunity when the God of Mind Flayer was leading the incarnations of his subordinate gods to attack the holy place of the God of Weaker Ogres, and risked sending out five clones to attack his real body.
This is the best opportunity. Once the God of Mind Flayer captures the God of Ogres, His power will expand rapidly. Coupled with several subordinate gods and the inherited kingdom of the Lord of Darkness, it will be very troublesome for Lin Xiao to deal with Him.
These subordinate gods all have weak divine powers. Some of their incarnations have been lost or have gone into battle with the God of Mind Flayer. Now only the real bodies are left in the sanctuary. Lin Xiao said that he could defeat them with just one incarnation.
After all, he has now been promoted to a medium-level divine power, and his incarnation is stronger than their real bodies. Coupled with the bonus of the ancient god's priesthood, even if he has just been promoted to a medium-level divine power, many medium-level divine powers that have been promoted for a long time cannot beat him.
But his opponent didn't think so. After confirming that only one incarnation had invaded his sanctuary, the Minotaur God drew out a semi-artifact axe and raised it high, roaring angrily:
"Come, taste the axe of the powerful Almafa!"
(End of this chapter)