Cthulhu Gonfalon

Chapter 264: Chapter 134

According to the God of Light’s plan, the war attacking the Sun God would take place at the same time as the final battle between the Orc Empire and the Eagle Kingdom. At that time, all the Gods would have their focus distracted by this large battle in the human world, thus creating the best chance for them.

Sui Xiong had some thoughts about this. He felt that they had many allies and therefore a huge advantage. They could attack all at once until they reached higher ground; the Sun God might even give up before team fighting was necessary. But the God of Diplomacy told him that although everyone was fighting for justice and truth and they were not afraid of sacrifice, it was still better not to have anybody die unnecessarily.

“So then mortals should be sacrificed?” Sui Xiong asked Wor after the God of Diplomacy left. “It still feels wrong somehow.”

“I felt that using the big war in the human world would increase the probability of winning the Gods’ war. I think the strategy is workable,” Wor said. “The Orcs and humans would fight after a period of time anyway; 50 or 60 years if it was short, and 100 years in the long run. We don’t even know how many times they’ve fought each other. It doesn’t seem to be a big thing anyway if there is one more fight. In comparison, attacking Cloud City is actually more dangerous. The scale is much bigger, and this is more important.”

Sui Xiong thought for a long time and nodded his head unwillingly.

“What about our original plan? The plan to gather and protect refugees,” he asked.

“These matters can be passed to the church to deal with,” Wor said matter-of-factly. “The battle attacking Cloud City needed both Your Highness and me. Just the two of us. But the job of gathering and protecting refugees in the human world is indeed work for the church. These two matters can be done at the same time, they do not interfere with each other.”

Sui Xiong pondered for a while. This was reasonable.

Moreover, it seemed that they could use the job of gathering and protecting refugees to cover their attack on Cloud City. Nobody would think that the two Gods of Void Mask, Sui Xiong and Wor, would attack the Sun God when the Void Mask Church was busy transferring and settling down refugees.

What a perfect diversion!

However, jobs Sui Xiong and Wor could have done to help would then depend on the church members. That meant that the workload would increase immensely, and everyone would be working very hard.

Sui Xiong hurriedly took time before the war started to hold meetings and arrange work. He temporarily became a construction worker and built houses for the refugees to stay in.

In the pursuit of efficiency, this time he built apartments that were in Earth’s style. They had four floors each, with eight units on each floor. Each unit had three rooms and one hall, with a total area of about ninety square meters. This type of apartment really had no aesthetic feeling whatsoever but was effectively livable.

Sui Xiong even made basic furniture for the apartments. They were all rough and of solid wood. They would most likely be a selling point if they were placed on Earth, but here they could only be used for everyday needs.

In half a month’s time, he had finished building about 1,000 apartment buildings. It was enough to accommodate a few thousand families.

Housing accommodation was the most difficult thing to ensure for the refugees. Once this was settled, the rest was easy.

Clothes? The refugees had their own clothes. The weather in the Void Mask Theme Park was temperate within the magical array. The winter clothing from the Eagle Kingdom was enough.

Food? In addition to the fact that they could search for food from the Eagle Kingdom, the Void Mask Theme Park had enough food stored as well. More importantly, Arcaian had already researched large sized mushrooms that were edible. As long as everyone ate in moderation, the mushroom production would be able to keep up.

Of course, it was definitely not pleasurable to eat only mushrooms. But they would have to make do, and the remaining problems would have to wait. Moreover, they actually had more than mushrooms to eat. During this time Wor had been busy moving cargo between the ocean and land. He had been collecting large amounts of seafood and freezing it as a reserve. Although Sui Xiong did not allow him to collect too much as he considered the balance with the ecosystem, it would at least be enough for a non-staple food.

With mushroom as staple food and seafood as a supplementary food, Sui Xiong felt this dietary standard was pretty high. It was definitely healthier than having instant noodles for every meal.

And travel was not a problem at all! The total area of Void Mask Theme Park was small, so there were not many places the refugees could move around to anyway. Besides, the refugees would most likely need to use all their time to farm and ensure food production.

Ensuring clothing, food, accommodation, and travel was settled, then. All that was left was the matter of transporting the refugees over. If Sui Xiong was around, this problem would not be difficult to solve. They could borrow his divine powers to temporarily widen the portals. But at that time, Sui Xiong would be convincing the Human Gods to group up on the Sun God. So He could only ask all his church members to work overtime for a while.

“How nice would it be if we could start transporting people now!” Looking at all the busy people, he imagined how hectic it would be when there was a huge influx of refugees flowing into town. Sui Xiong felt a little guilty.

But the believers of Church of Void Mask did not feel that way. When they found out that His Highness would only help them in managing the overall situation without taking part, they felt their spirits rise. The fight in them had increased by at least 10%.

All this time, Sui Xiong liked to be hands-on. Sure, he did a good job; in efficiency and quality, he was superior to mortals. But when a God was so great and so hardworking, it left his believers a little frustrated. The other Gods only sat on their thrones to receive offerings and worship from their believers. But their own God was always busy working all day, and his believers only reaped the benefits. The switch of character made them feel upside down; they and even doubted the value of their existences. Especially those who had planned to sacrifice themselves for religion, who were ready to explore the wilderness in extremely cold weather. Instead, they ended up in a place where the mountains and land were beautiful, the birds and flowers were lively, and there was no shortage of food and water. Plus, the work was easy while the pay was great. It was just like heaven…

They thought, Hey, this is great, but dear God, have you ever considered everyone’s feelings?! If you’re so good at everything, what do you need believers for?!

It was different this time though. His Highness of Void Mask finally did something that Gods should do: sit on the throne, overlooking at everyone as they did their jobs. And so, the long-accumulated passion and fighting spirit were released in all the believers. This allowed them to immerse themselves into their work with 120% efficiency. It was like a sun bear who saw a colony of bees, who was so exhilarated he could take part in a comedy action film.

They went deep into villages and spoke with farmers who were most vulnerable; they visited those open-minded territory leaders to discuss and arrange matters of taking refuge; they even went to speak to His Highness of King Woods and the Eagle Kingdom, to talk about “saving some kin for the Eagle Kingdom.”

The one who volunteered to do the last job was Jose, who already had over 50 children. However, his negotiation skills were obviously not on par with his child-bearing skills. Hugh, who had quick reflexes, used a bright light to temporarily blind all the Eagle Kingdom experts’ eyes. Fafnir got there quickly to pick them up. If it were not for his best buddies, he would have been chopped to pieces, leaving his goal of giving birth to an entire village unaccomplished.

But things were always wonderful. He had been at the top of the expert realm but could not step into the legendary realm for the longest time. Finally, he realized his path when he was almost killed under King Woods’ sword. He stepped into the legendary realm the second day after he came back to the church and became a legendary expert who had strong powers and long lifespan.

In this way, he was finally confident in completing his goal.

One of his two best friends was already a legendary creature who had lived for 1,000 years. It was conservatively estimated that he could last 1,000 years more. Another one of them was a mortal, but he had been chosen as a voter by the God of Art and Culture. His estimated lifespan could potentially hit four digits. Among the three of them, Jose was still probably the one who would die soonest.

Just like that, the final battle between the human and Orc army finally began in the midst of the mess.

On the other side, the war between the Gods was also beginning to follow…