The villain queen eavesdropped on my inner thoughts and won't let me lie down?

He finally understood that he hadn't completely fallen from grace; it was just that his past life had been too boring and monotonous. After defeating his enemies and avenging himself, he had lost his life's goal, which was why he had become the person he despised.

But now, he felt that his life had found a new enemy, one that wasn't just in his own plane but throughout the entire universe: to shatter the ancient gods and allow the universe to operate according to his own will, conducting a natural selection of the fittest.

"I shall personally lead the expedition to the God-Slaying Fortress to resist the gods' attacks!"

As a Child of the System, a talent chosen to confront and defeat the gods, he felt that his value in engaging in construction from the rear was very limited.

Although he had managed to stabilize the domestic situation through diplomacy, his outstanding command abilities, especially his keen ability to seize opportunities when facing the Allied Gods, convinced him that it would be an absolutely suitable battlefield for him!

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A plane controlled by a certain god, now occupied by God-Chanting Worms.

In the Qing Teng Empire's battle sequence, these were collectively referred to as dioceses—regions where the gods were still proselytizing.

However, the former dioceses actually had churches; the current dioceses only had a group of worms. Without any clergy to organize them, they would automatically perform rituals and prayers at fixed times, based on the genes left in their bloodlines, sensing the position of the stars, contributing the maximum amount of faith they could provide.

This fixed production process, although not very efficient, was stable enough.

The God-Chanting Worms consumed very little and had no requirements for quality of life, like tireless worker ants.

They could complete the most work and provide faith, making them excellent believers.

Like worker ants, they also lacked the ability to reproduce. The God-Chanting Worms' population expansion was handled by a queen-like egg-laying insect.

In almost all dioceses, the scene unfolding was the God-Chanting Worms expanding their nests, then sending the eggs laid by the queen to be hatched, with the larvae rapidly growing into new builders.

When the specific time arrived, all the God-Chanting Worms would enter prayer, contributing faith to the gods.

Without war or chaos, these worms silently built their territories, expanded their numbers, and expanded the technology that could provide faith.

The gods gradually adapted to the efficiency provided by the God-Chanting Worms, even finding this stable, quantifiable feeling very good.

Mainly, it was worry-free, with low maintenance costs. The God-Chanting Worms required no guidance or management.

This insect swarm structure was cold-blooded and efficient, able to decide the lives of those worker ants in silence, only needing to ensure their safety.

But would the Natural Selection Alliance allow them to remain safe forever?

At this moment, at the pole of this plane, beneath the ice layer, the light of a teleportation array shone.

Xia Na led an elite force of the Tianming Army, aboard a variety of small warships and vehicles designed for use in material plane environments, appearing here.

A warrior with a prosthetic limb, a native of this world, covered in mud and grime, but with incredibly bright eyes, saluted Xia Na.

"Spark Project Seventh Detachment Sixth Group, Private Magellan reporting to you! We have been watching and waiting, waiting for the flame to reignite!"

"Well done! Now, it's our turn to return the favor to the gods!"

Xia Na patted his shoulder, and the warships broke through the ice, sailing into the blue ocean, aiming at the massive nests built by the God-Chanting Worms on the other shore.

Mortals may be weak, but they are also weak and tenacious.

Under the gods' butcher knives, the number of deaths was terrifying, but there were always survivors who persisted in resisting, operating underground, waiting for the moment to strike back.

Although not at the forefront, and not in every world, they were confident that they could use these glimmers of light as a source to illuminate the entire universe.

As long as there is enough time, victory will surely be ours!

Chapter 276: Three-Dimensional Invasion Operation

Holy Spirit Gamma was a follower of the Sea God, formerly a small Naga kingdom's pontiff.

She grew up in the church, living a muddled life, simply taking faith as a matter of course, like eating and drinking, persisting through several hundred peaceful years.

During her tenure, no major events occurred in the church, the country remained peaceful, and the gods did not issue any special tasks. After death, she was taken to the Sea God's kingdom to continue praising the gods.

She continued to drift along for many years, becoming a Holy Spirit, getting closer and closer to the gods, basking in their glory, her heart peaceful and happy.

Until one day, this universe changed. Evil beings incited believers to make trouble, provoking their faith in the gods, making them look ferocious and greedy, wanting to demand more resources every minute and every second, or they would fight to the death.

Alas, how can people not believe in gods?

Gamma couldn't understand it, thinking that the world had changed, and the honest people of the past had also turned bad, even unwilling to bear such a basic responsibility as faith.

Truly a lost generation, hoping that the almighty Lord will quickly eliminate that source of evil, called the Qing Teng Empire, and let the world return to its proper peace!

That was what she had hoped for, but the subsequent developments truly frightened her.

The gods actually began to slaughter believers on a large scale, allowing a new kind of worm to occupy the worlds once inhabited by mortals. Then, because she was a Holy Spirit and had experience as a pontiff, she was assigned the task of managing these worms.

"My Lord is mad, actually using these foolish worms to build a church… No, I can't say such blasphemous words, it's my understanding that is too shallow…"

Every day, Gamma woke up to see a desolate and empty world, with busy worms occupying the fields, occupying the mountains, occupying the oceans, occupying the cities where humans once lived, planning them into messy tunnels and caves, feeling a chill run down her spine.

If this continues, what will these worlds, this universe, become?

It was all the fault of that evil Qing Teng Empire, they caused the problem, they gave mortals delusions they shouldn't have, they angered the gods, and now Gamma has to face all this.

Every day, planning the eating, drinking, and excretion of a group of worms, trying to make them reproduce faster and occupy every corner of the world.

To be honest, it was a very simple job because the God-Chanting Worms were so well-behaved and obedient. As long as she controlled the queens, every God-Chanting Worm would perfectly execute the tasks she assigned—as long as that task didn't require a brain.

The sacred F2A connected all the worms. In Gamma's view, this job was actually much simpler than being a pontiff in the past. There was no need for so much profit distribution, just needing to think of some problems that the worms couldn't think of.

Oh right, and security work.

The resources produced by the God-Chanting Worms were to supply the legions composed of Celestial War Beasts, maintaining the safety of this world and protecting Gamma at the same time.

See, how comprehensive is the merciful Lord's consideration?

Although Gamma had not experienced a major war in the past, as a church, she had received basic war education and had experienced the edge of war. She believed she had good experience in how to set up defenses.

Moreover, the God Realm had printed anti-Natural Selection manuals, describing how to prevent the various means of the Tianming Army and Imperial Guerrilla Corps, helping Holy Spirits and angels better defend against enemy invasions and harassments.

Gamma was not the kind of pontiff with great talent and strategy, but she was very patient and meticulous, with very high execution. Following the manual, combined with past experience, she arranged sufficient defensive forces at all possible invasion entrances in the plane she managed and retained mobile forces to support each other.

If the enemy dared to invade, she could support enough time to wait for reinforcements to arrive, right?

In order to cope with the endless harassment of the Tianming Army, the churches of the gods had organized the most elite angels to capture the enemy's movements at any time, so as to respond and disintegrate the enemy's strength as quickly as possible.

At this moment, the gods were not preparing to play any tactics, just the simplest strategy of attrition:

We occupy more planes than you, which means we have more mining points. Even if it's a two-for-one or three-for-one exchange, in the end, the quality and energy we occupy will still be greater, and sooner or later, we will drag the Natural Selection Alliance to collapse.

This was an extremely simple overt scheme, but it was also an overt scheme that mortals had to accept, trying every means to reduce consumption and use priority resources to achieve more results.

The careful Gamma searched all her defenses, the work to be completed, and then began today's prayer.

Holy Spirits do not need to rest. When not working, she entrusted everything to the gods. In the radiant ocean composed of countless Holy Spirits, bathing in the grace of God, she could feel her heart particularly calm.

Still can't figure out why some people don't believe in gods?

Those lowly, foolish, greedy guys should feel the happiness of entrusting their whole body and mind to the gods, it's so wonderful!

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The Tianming Army fleet, using super-large-scale stealth techniques, silently cut through the waves, crossing the long distance from the polar regions to the temperate mainland plate, landing on the coastline.

Not far away, there was a port city belonging to this world's country, once home to nearly a million people who had built a prosperous and thriving civilization.

Now, those people have all fallen under the gods' butcher knives, but the former city still remains.

The vast open space, the uneven buildings, provided more three-dimensional space, becoming the nesting base for the God-Chanting Worms. This world's "new masters" were using their vigorous vitality to tirelessly repeat labor, trying to occupy the relics left by the previous world's civilization as much as possible.

"These worms…"

Many of the native warriors responsible for leading the way showed deep-seated hatred.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's population had died, and they all had parents and relatives who died at the hands of the gods. More importantly, the country and civilization no longer existed. So many destroyed and beautiful cities were now occupied by worms that couldn't even learn addition and subtraction. What a mocking scene!

"Prepare to attack, prioritize searching for queens, release pheromones to concentrate them, and then use area attacks to eliminate them."

Xia Na didn't have so much time for sentimentalism. She had seen too much of what the world looked like after losing the maintenance of mortals these days. The rapidly decaying and decaying beautiful cities could no longer touch her.

Or rather, her heart was numb. Now her only task was to destroy the enemy's production bases as much as possible, consume as few resources as possible, and inflict as much damage as possible on the enemy.

The Tianming Army had always been disciplined and open-minded. There was no strict hierarchy between superiors and subordinates on weekdays, but unity was maintained by common ideas rather than the physical, coercive, and monetary inducements of traditional feudal armies.

Therefore, they always allowed open discussion on how to solve problems. All soldiers who had participated in the battle could talk about their feelings and find methods based on their experiences. The tactical deployment was flexible and changeable, and they could quickly find ways to deal with these God-Chanting Worms.

The wisdom races took a long time to develop and form combat power, but the combat power brought by command, under the Tianming Army's past cost-free education investment, had begun to return to the battlefield.

Not only were there brainless God-Chanting Worms, but even ordinary guard units, the Allied Forces of Angel Elites, and various possible variables on the battlefield were fully controlled by the soldiers of the Tianming Army.

Any effective method, once verified, would spread throughout the entire unit in a very short time, completing a major upgrade and change in thinking, methods, and equipment.

Like a monster that could constantly upgrade and evolve, the number of Tianming Army might no longer be able to increase indefinitely like in the past when there were massive believers who could defect.

But rich combat experience and sufficient material support, formulating targeted tactics against the enemy's characteristics and models, were also the root of their unlimited increase in combat power, allowing them to achieve more and more brilliant battle damage ratios.

They also had very effective methods for targeting large God-Chanting Worm settlements:

Elite individual soldiers advanced, solving the queen at the fastest speed.

In the chaos, release false pheromones, allowing the God-Chanting Worms, temporarily losing command, to be divided and concentrated to designated areas.

Ambush artillery and magic to bombard them, quickly retreat after completing the slaughter, and avoid the Celestial War Beasts and Angel Legion.

Then search for new God-Chanting Worm settlements and repeat the above process.

This was a simple but very efficient combat method.

After proficiency, a thousand-man force could eliminate hundreds of millions of God-Chanting Worms.

After all, this thing had limited intelligence and was set to be too obedient. After the pheromones of communication were cracked, it was too easy to target.

The reconnaissance magic guards rose, illuminating more areas, discovering the God-Chanting Worms that were breeding and building in different areas, and began the ruthless slaughter.

Although these worms were ignorant and unaware, looking chubby, with smooth shapes and beautiful lines, their unhurried movements did not seem evil, and even had a sense of uniformity and beauty.

But the soldiers of the Tianming Army showed no mercy in eliminating these substitutes for believers.

They were the gods' most loyal lackeys, the cornerstone of never betraying, the porters of the power of faith. If they were not eliminated, more partners would fall under the gods' forces in the future.

The efficient targeting tactics were executed very smoothly. Today's God-Chanting Worms still had not been updated and did not have the means to resist their attack procedures. The tactical manual did not need to be modified.

And Gamma's perfect defense was mainly aimed at frontal invasion warfare, thinking that the Tianming Army would enter from several major population directions, and the defensive forces were arranged in those directions.

After all, she wasn't a native of this world and had never imagined that a group of people would be alert before the butcher's knife of the gods fell, directly delving into the most bitterly cold land and holding out until now, just to guide the arrival of the Tianming Army through teleportation.

In order to maintain secrecy before the outbreak of the war, the Tianming Army didn't even use strategic-level fortresses, instead opting for conventional vehicles used within the material plane, so it wasn't until the God-Chanting Insect tribes around the coast were attacked that Gamma realized a guerrilla force had snuck into her home.

She didn't dare to be negligent and immediately sounded the alarm for help, while also shifting her defensive forces to the rear, striving to prevent the enemy from destroying the construction results she had painstakingly planned as much as possible.

She wouldn't empathize with the God-Chanting Insects, but they were crucial pawns for her to complete the god's mission; she couldn't afford to have them all die off.

But a world was simply too large, and the low efficiency of the God-Chanting Insects meant that the defensive forces they could support were limited, and even the rapid response of the elite angelic support took time.

In that time, it was enough for the Tianming Army to disperse into small groups, spreading out to wreak havoc, hitting and running, so that Gamma's controlled Celestial Warbeast Legion, despite having more power than the enemy, could never catch up.

This feeling could be described as terribly awful. To avoid further losses, she had no choice but to deploy more frontal defensive forces, trying to intercept the Tianming Army's guerrilla teams.

On the coast, in the temporary command center, a magical military map was unfolded before Xia Na, using blue to show the location of each small team.

At the same time, the number of pursuing troops was marked in red. By comparing this with the total number of God-Chanting Insects currently in this plane, one could roughly estimate how many enemies were chasing them, eating their exhaust fumes.

Xia Na had casualty figures in front of her, as well as the glorious results they had achieved, but now these contents could no longer move her.

Continuous warfare and constant casualties had rapidly turned her into an excellent commander, calm and cold, just waiting for the enemy to mobilize their forces to a critical point.

She kept her own losses within a certain range, while also provoking the enemy, stimulating them to surround and block her.

The red dots on the map grew more and more numerous, and the Tianming Army's dispersed guerrilla teams had less and less room to maneuver, like prey entering a hunter's trap.

But the most brilliant hunter often appears in the form of prey.

The enemy had too much power on the battlefield, which would inevitably lead to the defensive strength against the outside world dropping to a very low level.

Even the enemy commander seemed very flustered, not even leaving a reserve team, just to prevent her construction from collapsing, entering a state of chasing her down at all costs…

Xia Na pressed the Soul-Simulating Bracelet, connected to a hidden channel, and sent a pre-edited encrypted message:

"Our lure mission is complete. Calling in second fleet for fire support."

Before the countless defensive fortresses of this world's teleportation channel, a huge teleportation array appeared.

Based on the God-Slaying Ship, a complete fleet formation appeared in the sky.

Originally, this number would not have been able to break through the enemy's fortress group defense.

But now, the enemy had mobilized a large number of mobile forces to play hide-and-seek with the Tianming Army on the ground, possessing a large amount of firepower equipment but not enough personnel to operate it.