Chapter 2393: Chapter 1064: Gathering of Elites
In this comprehensive extermination operation, the most distressed were the King of the Jackalweres and the Ghoul King, especially the former.
As a creature, the jackalwere is more concentrated than ghouls and has a wider range of activities, making it easier to be targeted for strikes.
Moreover, ghouls, as undead hunters that exclusively prey on intelligent life, have always been the focus of attacks by intelligent beings; this time, they were just incidentally caught up.
The number of jackalweres in Felen is neither too high nor too low.
As a key target, they may not be completely wiped out, but they have certainly suffered a severe blow.
Just the souls of jackalweres harvested by Gaven number over three hundred thousand.
This is an extension of the divine war; those jackalwere souls killed by the slaughter undead are directly taken into Gaven’s Undead Slaughter Territory, rather than heading to Yenogu’s Realm of the king of the jackalweres.
Not to mention, there were also a large number of indirect casualties in this process.
Whether killed by ordinary soldiers or jackalweres who died in monster-infighting.
Their souls must follow the normal process.
Yenogu’s demon sacrifices will send their souls on a direct route to Yenogu’s Realm.
In a very short time, Yenogu’s Realm added nearly a million new jackalweres.
"This despicable bastard is nothing but a devil in human skin, daring to wage war against my believers on the Material Plane. I will grind him into dust!"
The entire Yenogu’s Realm echoed with the furious roar of the King of the Jackalweres.
He did not rejoice over the sudden addition of a million jackalweres to Yenogu’s Realm, but was rather heartbroken.
Because this means that the Material Plane will have millions fewer jackalweres.
Whether it’s the Lower Plane led by the Bottomless Abyss and The Nine Hells, or the Upper Plane led by Mount Heaven.
They are merely the destinations for souls, yet lack the ability to create souls themselves—birthing and creating souls do not equate.
Their reproduction in the Upper Plane and Lower Plane is more of a special application of soul energy; not all souls can be molded into new life, as some heavily damaged souls return to the purest form of soul energy, permeating these mental planes, and souls continually diminish over time and through rebirth.
In the multiverse, there is only one place capable of creating souls—the Material Plane.
If the Inner Plane (fire, water, air, earth) is the material foundation of the entire multiverse.
Then, the Material Plane is the soul foundation of the entire multiverse.
Without the Material Plane, there would be no Upper Plane and Lower Plane, and the entire multiverse would be a desert of souls.
This is why both the gods and demon devils value the Material Plane so much and go to great lengths to vie for control there.
Because controlling it means possessing a stable source of souls.
As for how souls are created, it remains an eternal mystery even for the True Gods, accessible only to the high God of Gods.
On the Material Plane, these million jackalweres are like chickens laying eggs, set to produce millions or even tens of millions of new jackalweres in the coming decades.
Once in the Bottomless Abyss, they become disposable commodities.
If the war against the enemy succeeds, it’s acceptable; he can scour more soul energy and recruit more jackalweres.
It’s feared to be like the previous expedition to the Plains of Bone, where more than two million jackalweres were wasted for nothing.
Fattened the enemy, fattened the Ghoul King, while he himself nearly lost everything.
The more the King of the Jackalweres thought about it, the angrier he became, and the angrier he became the more he thought, until he waved his hand, and Yenogu’s Siege immediately flickered with powerful magic aura, piercing through the sky and shining on the Ghoul King’s Court of the Lost Souls.
The next second, the Ghoul King appeared before the King of the Jackalweres.
The King of the Jackalweres, his hair standing on end and eyes red, berated, "Didn’t you receive my Jackalwere Army and immediately launch a full-scale counterattack against the enemy? You devoured the feast without leaving a morsel, where is the counterattack?"
He couldn’t deal with his enemy, so he unleashed his fury on his servant.
"Your Majesty, it’s not that I don’t want to retaliate, but the enemy we’re facing this time is somewhat too unusual; they’ve not only exploited the advantages of the undead to an extreme but also compensated for their shortcomings to the greatest extent.
They’ve turned their territory into an iron fortress, and if I rashly charge in, I’d only be delivering souls to the enemy, making them stronger and thus harder to deal with."
The Ghoul King was equally aggrieved; it wasn’t only the King of the Jackalweres who was impacted in the Material Plane.
The ghouls exterminated in Felen, though not as numerous as the jackalweres, suffered from just as extensive an area of impact.
His loss was smaller simply because there are fewer ghouls in the Material Plane than jackalweres.
Critically, the enemy changed their combat strategy from swallowing whole to consuming piece by piece, cutting into his territory bit by bit through the Skeleton Road, dragging out the hiding ghouls inside and converting them into nutrients for their own domain.
If this continues, it’ll be no time before the enemy pushes their Skeleton Undead Army right to the front of his Court of the Lost Souls.
The King of the Jackalweres pointed angrily, "Fools, you are only giving the enemy more time to prepare, allowing them to consolidate their forces and become more powerful and more difficult to deal with!"
