This Giant Dragon is So Powerful!

Chapter 426: Chapter 114: Frost Floating Island

It’s been eight years since the true forms of Mother of Deep Red and the Dark Frost Giant Lord descended upon Tal for a great battle.

In eight years, with the medium-sized Gate of the Abyss operating at full capacity, the total number of demons that have arrived in Tal has approached ten billion.

To be more precise, the area invaded by demons should be the Tal Main Continent and some shallow sea regions.

The deep sea and the many islands scattered above it remain as peaceful as ever.

The only change is that the actions in the deep sea have become slightly more frequent than before the demon invasion, and a shift in target has occurred.

Originally, the three major sea empire often engaged in wars, intending to consume the increasingly numerous creatures of the deep sea, but with the demon invasion, the abyssal aura began polluting Tal, and the three major sea empire could no longer sit still.

Their beautiful homes were on the verge of being bit by bit turned into garbage dumps. How could they endure this?

They couldn’t endure it!

Therefore, the three deep-sea emperors, Mermaid Empress, Sea People Emperor, and Naga Empress, met and eventually unified the front to make a decision:

The three sea race empires would cease internal consumption and conflicts until the demons were expelled, and meanwhile, each empire would be responsible for clearing the demons in their respective areas.

Actually, the best way to root out the demon invasion is to destroy the Gate of the Abyss.

However, the three deep-sea emperors automatically ignored this point.

Because the Dark Frost Giant Lord continues to sit at the Gate of the Abyss.

With the ferocity of chasing after the Mother of Deep Red, the three sea races could destroy the gate in only one way:

By contacting the deity they worship (deity-like, divine spirits), either to descend with a divine power avatar or send down a divine envoy.

But, gods are not entities summoned at will by their believers, nor are they summoned at the convenience of believers faced with adversity.

Or to put it more accurately, gods require you to endure hardship.

Only then can devout power of faith be born.

Chaotic general faith is essentially garbage, poison, difficult for gods to utilize; only devout power of faith can have some wondrous effects on gods.

This is also why Tal Plane is a territory governed by the Deep Sea Gods, yet still hosts other races, rather than letting the deep sea engulf the continent and transform Tal into a deep-sea world.

This is the tacit understanding between the gods of the Star Realm.

When there’s no external pressure, when believers enjoy peace, unhindered, how are gods supposed to harvest faith?

Billions of casual believers do not have as much impact on divine spirits as ten thousand fanatics!

Just like the kobold’s racial god, "Kurtumak," this great being of middle divine power.

Kurtumak is quite famous in the Star Realm.

Because he loves to descend his avatar into the Material Plane, granting knowledge to those wild Kobold tribes, enabling them to rise from hardship and oppression.

The non-divine beings deem Kurtumak’s actions as mere affection for his race.

But other divine beings naturally know that behind Kurtumak’s actions lies a means of self-benefit.

When oppressed Kobolds receive guidance from their racial god’s divine avatar in moments of despair, what is the outcome?

Fervor, immeasurable fervor.

Kurtumak relies not merely on the widespread Material Plane Kobolds to reach middle divine power tier, but primarily on his vast number of fanatics and numerous deeply devout souls, transcendent and everlasting saints!

If not for the generally weak potential and strength of these Kobold believers, Kurtumak would undoubtedly reach powerful divine power Level 1.

Of course, the downside is, if the Kobolds were as strong as giants or dragons, they wouldn’t face as much hardship, naturally eliminating the boon of fanatic and saint emergence.

Weakness invites hardships, making devout faith more easily born.

Strength provides more faith power to divine beings, though less easily births devout faith.

This can be seen in the divine power tiers among various racial gods.

The two most famous Dragon Race gods, Tiamat and Bahamut, both wield only weak divine power.

The Elf Race god ranks include a multitude in weak and middle divine power.

Human Race gods come in numerous weak, middle, powerful divine power categories.

Dwarf Race gods also include a batch of middle divine power, with Main God even at powerful divine power.

.... Tal Main Continent, Southern Region.

Compared to the completely fallen Northern and Eastern Regions and the severely plagued Western and Central regions, the Southern Region currently suffers least from demon invasion on the main continent.

As for the reason?

Because Black Nest is here.

In the early years, during the initial one or two years of the demon invasion, Black Nest was not conspicuous on the entire continent, let alone in the Southern Region.

But over time, as Black Nest continually dispatched forces to clear demons from the center of the Dark Forest, the territory under Black Nest’s control grew ever larger.

Until three years ago, when the area occupied by Black Nest exceeded fifty million square kilometers, only then did the demons of the Eternal Night Cold Winter Plane, and the few surviving forces on the continent pay attention to Black Nest.

Fifty million square kilometers isn’t actually large, considering the continent’s total area exceeds hundreds of billion square kilometers. The issue lies in that this fifty million square kilometers controlled by Black Nest is well-developed land suitable for habitation by most creatures.