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The Gods froze as they saw eighteen wings behind this figure. It was clear that this person was not from Arboriel.
"An alien God? Impossible! The laws have sealed the whole planet so how could you have entered?"
"More importantly, what race is that?"
Shock replaced the Gods' sadness as they stared at Celestia's divine incarnation.
"It wasn't easy." Celestia whispered and turned to Phoebe, her expression indifferent, "I am ordered by my Lord to discuss cooperation with you."
"Who are you? Who is your Lord?" Phoebe asked warily, though she doubted this was a demon's trick. This figure radiated Holy Divine Power, absolutely incompatible with the evil demons.
"I am Celestia. I serve the Lord Almighty, the God of Creation. We're from the Endless Continent, and we're here to save you."
"The Endless Continent?!" Joy erupted across the Gods' faces. During the Ancient Era, Arboriel and Endless Continent had been allies against the abyss.
"We thought the Endless Continent fell too! So they actually repelled the demons and survived!"
A Tree Elf Goddess exclaimed, "But the Laws sealed this planet, how did you enter?"
"The seal has been lifted." Celestia stated.
The Gods erupted in amazement. The seal lifting meant that if they could break through the demons' blockade, they could leave this dying world.
"This is the best news we've heard in a hundred thousand years!"
Phoebe's eyes shone with hope, "Thank you, your timing is perfect."
Moments ago, she'd been ready to die, yet hope had arrived so suddenly.
Celestia got to business, "My Lord's Imperial Army is clearing the first layer of the underground. Soon we'll attack the second layer and destroy those demons. But on the third layer are two Supreme God Tier Demons."
"Miltonic and Dantean." Phoebe confirmed, "Both ascended by devouring our planet's laws."
"My Lord has another Supreme Goddess besides me. We three kill those two and the remaining Demonic Gods will then fall easily."
Phoebe was tempted. Three against two meant victory was likely, but she hesitated. She wasn't alone. Thousands of Gods and tens of billions of creatures depended on her. If they lost, Arboriel's inheritance would end forever.
With the seal lifted, she could easily escape with everyone without risking a battle. Moreover, once the demons discovered that the seal was broken, they'd summon reinforcements from the Abyss.
Celestia seemed to have read her thoughts and said, "Think about it. When we enter the second layer, and you don't participate, all consequences will be yours to bear."
She glanced at the Eye of the Abyss corrupting the planet's laws, then her divine incarnation dissipated.
"Your Holiness…" The Gods looked at Phoebe hesitantly.
The Forest Goddess fell silent, weighing her options: risk everything in a slightly advantageous battle, or flee her homeland as a defeated survivor.
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Location: First layer of the underground, Arboriel.
Haru, Celestia, and Yvonne stood in the sky above a blood lake stretching 10,000 meters across. Countless souls struggled within it, and the evil Abyssal Aura surged from its depths.
"My Lord, this is the passage to the second layer." Celestia said.
Hundreds of figures suddenly erupted from the blood lake near the battlefield where the Sisterhood Collective alliance was fighting. These were all different types of demons. Some towered dozens of meters tall with wings, scales, horns, and tails. Others were barely visible human shapes shrouded in a black fog.
Some appeared beautiful and provocatively dressed. Others took pure alien forms like corrupted dragons, while a few moved like shadows through the void.
"Huh? There seems to be a human presence here!" A demon with keen senses detected an abnormality. As a mere mortal, he couldn't sense Haru's aura, but sensed the girls of the Sisterhood Collective alliance hundreds of kilometers away.
"Humans? No, there are even Nature Elves, Dwarves, Beastmen… how did so many races get into the first layer?"
A demon suddenly exclaimed, "Wait, not only do they have an alien aura, don't Nature Elves only live in the Endless Continent?"
"But wasn't Arboriel sealed by the… Could it be that the seal has been lifted?!"
Their breathing became rapid. Surprise and ecstasy warred within them. If the seal had truly been lifted, they could finally contact the abyss and request reinforcements. Most importantly, they could finally return home after a hundred thousand years.
"Retreat! Immediately return and tell the Lords that the seal has been broken!"
A shadow-like demon dove back into the blood lake. The lake's abyssal forces blocked spiritual communication between layers so they had to physically cross it to contact their masters.
As for the remaining demons, they greedily eyed the battlefield.
"I haven't tasted humans in thousands of years. Although those alien humans have a few newly ascended Gods, they're pathetically weak. With my late-stage Lower True God Tier strength, I can suppress them easily."
"Capture the Goddesses alive and slaughter the rest!"
After a brief discussion, the demons attacked, some flapping their wings, others becoming black mist, while a few directly teleported towards the Sisterhood Collective alliance's Castle Lords.
There were only about a hundred demons, but even the weakest among them was a peak Demigod, with five Gods. Though merely Lower True Gods, their dozens of thousands of years of combat experience made them vastly superior to newly promoted Goddesses.
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