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

Moreover, they reproduce fast, eat simply, and use quantity to make up for the lack of faith power contribution.

What's more, if mortals rebel every day, revolt for no reason, engage in battles and attrition, and provide combat power to hostile mortals, the final calculation would show that the benefits they bring are not as good as the God-chanting Worms.

Beings at the level of gods do not consider humanity when calculating things, but rather value efficiency the most, choosing the development direction that is most beneficial to themselves using game theory.

"Evil yet beautiful transformation, all the transformations are just right, yet leave no hope... I can only say, our enemies are too terrifying!"

Lydia analyzed the data of the God-chanting Worms and the samples they captured, praising them fanatically at one moment and trembling with fear the next, her emotions constantly fluctuating.

She was a little frightened by the Six Gods' grand scheme.

Roger tried hard not to think about how many lives disappeared in the process of the God-chanting Worms replacing mortals, and only thought about the butterfly effect triggered by this step, which made him shudder:

"It's completely not the same level of thinking, completely not the same level of confrontation. The God of Knowledge must be an economics genius. His response is indeed despairing."

Originally, they wanted to attract and reform more believers, relying on the power of time to turn the enemy's power into their own. As long as they persevered, the advantage would be on their side.

But after only killing one Tebella, the enemy's mortals reacted so violently, suppressing their greatest advantage in defeating the gods:

Because they are also mortals, they know the needs of mortals better than the gods, and in the end, they will definitely use the ocean of people to submerge the gods.

As a result, the gods were very decisive and directly evaporated the ocean.

It's a headache. Such an enemy can be described as cutting off the fuel under the cauldron.

"Have all our efforts been in vain? I suddenly understand Nalinair's despair. He, he has always been like this. No one knows what he is thinking..."

Shana was the most unable to accept this.

This "he" refers to the God of Knowledge.

Because he and the God-King are pursuing transcendence beyond this universe, their sights are too high, and even the closest angels cannot understand their intentions.

And now, in order to achieve the established goal, the decisions made by the God of Knowledge are also quite ruthless and merciless, moving forward without leaving any retreat for himself.

Aside from the Tianming Army being the main force in executing the Starfire Project, just seeing the lives of those believers getting better day by day and working hard on the front line every day, she felt that this long-term effort was meaningful.

The Tianming Army researched so many technologies in order to smoothly advance the Starfire Project, weakening the enemy's power and strengthening their own power as much as possible.

The goal she has been striving for is to give those believers who do not know what a good life is like a brand new future.

After killing Tebella, their battles went very smoothly. The enemy, facing the betrayal from within the church, appeared sluggish and powerless, unable to compete against the huge number of believers.

At that time, Shana believed that as long as they persevered, a better tomorrow would definitely belong to them.

As a result, the Six Gods came up with a completely unexpected answer, and after calculating the cost, they directly killed the believers who might betray them.

This made Shana very aware that she wanted to give those believers a better future, but instead made them lose their lives, unable to reach the beautiful shore.

"This is not your fault. You have done your best to help those people. The reason why you didn't achieve your ideal is only because our enemies are too inhuman."

Roger comforted Shana, but his words were also quite lacking.

After all, he was also very uncomfortable about this. Many members of the Darknight Guard were directly lost, and the good situation they had worked so hard to create was completely gone.

The only way they could offset the resource advantage of the gods was to give full play to the numerical advantage of mortals and achieve a curve overtaking in the shortest possible time through subjective initiative.

But now, such calculations are gone. It is indeed the Qing Teng Empire's actions that led to the Six Gods' overly drastic reaction.

He was comforting Shana, but wasn't he also comforting himself, as if he saw hundreds of millions of dead souls flying around him, telling their grievances.

"I know, those gods are too high above, calculating the value of every mortal with numerical precision, so they made such decisions when the situation changed..." Shana said, getting angrier and angrier, and couldn't help but punch the table, "So because of this, they are even more unforgivable!"

Roger nodded: "Indeed, the gods' reaction also made us see clearly that this is a war without any compromise. Any retreat by mortals will lead to more exploitation."

"So, let's continue fighting, everyone! We have never had a way out. We used to have illusions, thinking that the gods' greed could be satisfied, and we might be able to force the gods to compromise and build a better order. Now it seems that they are simply bottomless pits!"

Silence filled the conference room. Similar ideas of compromise had indeed appeared in the minds of many people. The empire also often debated how far their war with the gods should go.

If the gods' greed could be contained, could the two sides reach cooperation to reduce the consumption of fierce battles?

The cruelty of war often leads to reflection, especially when the enemy is still in the invisible distance, high above, the gods, who in the past had a glorious image and unimaginable strength.

So some people would also think that if mortals and gods could deter each other, perhaps there would be no need for a final decisive battle, and only a compromise that both sides could accept would be enough to build a new future.

Give mortals a little more breathing space, and mortals can also allow the gods to provide limited faith, gain power while giving the soul a place to belong, and the two sides can cooperate to build this universe—after all, it is vast enough to accommodate both gods and humans, right?

This anti-war sentiment, and even some support for sympathizing with the gods, believing that they were originally good people, but were poisoned by the power of faith and became like this, we should give the gods a chance to reflect and reform, and after the empire becomes stronger, there are actually more and more followers.

They always feel that mortals can negotiate with the gods, and we have chips that can face both sides directly.

As a result, most of the mortals in the universe were directly wiped out, the anti-war sentiment instantly disappeared, and those kind people who worried about the gods and offered them advice all remained silent.

Mortals are not qualified to negotiate with the gods, because those gods simply do not want to regard gods as objects that can be communicated with and compromised.

This is very similar to the aloof saying: Destroy you, what does it have to do with you?

The cruel massacre is in front of us, and the low intelligence and disgustingness of the God-chanting Worms are also in front of us. The mortal world has finally clearly realized that the gods disdain to come to their negotiating table.

The power they possess cannot force the gods to compromise.

Any thought of compromise, any weakness that wants to coexist, is a great disrespect to those who gave their lives and were squeezed clean of all value by the gods!

"So everything has two sides. The gods disrupted the previous layout, but also made our will unprecedentedly unified."

An elegant voice rang inside and outside the atmosphere-oppressed conference room. The Eternal Night Empress walked in slowly, her eyes swept over the many generals fighting on the front line of the God-slaying Fortress and in charge of commanding the Tianming Army, and solemnly promised:

"Do not hesitate, I will fight with you to the last moment, and the empire will fight with you to the last moment."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

All the generals were pleasantly surprised to see the arrival of the Eternal Night Empress and stood up to welcome her.

At this time, the role of the leader is reflected.

When everyone is confused about the future and does not know how to deal with themselves, they need a heroic figure like the Eternal Night Empress to stand up and lead everyone to continue moving forward.

The night has never ended, and even the previous hope of light was an illusion. Now it has entered an even darker moment.

But the light they hold in their hands has never been extinguished.

How to protect these flames, how to use the priority chips to complete the next battle, how to find new comeback points in the enemy's absolute advantage, they still have many opportunities to try, and countless people are willing to fight with them and pursue them...

...until they find the answer!

Under the chairmanship of the Eternal Night Empress, the meeting resumed.

At least with the God-slaying Fortress cooperating with the God-burying Maze system, plus the previous Starfire Project, the counterattack of the Tianming Army, and the combat results of the System Child, they still saved many planes and were not completely slaughtered by the Six Gods and replaced with God-chanting Worms.

And the low intelligence of the God-chanting Worms and the slow speed of obtaining faith will also bring the effect of hurting the enemy a thousand and self-damaging eight hundred to the Seven Gods' actions.

The gods seem to be omnipotent, but they have one major weakness, which is that they cannot directly use the power of faith.

This seems to be a major weakness left to them by the creator in order to limit the gods from being too extraordinary.

This is what leads to the fact that the gods still cannot do without the foundation of believers.

The church system based on the God-chanting Worms, although there is no possibility of being persuaded, their combat power is also very low. As long as they break through the defenses of the Prayer Warriors and Holy Spirits, they will bring more destruction to the enemy's parishes more smoothly.

"So, we are not without a chance of winning, are we, everyone?"

The Eternal Night Empress made a summary, watching the front-line generals of the empire regain their morale. When she lowered her head, she revealed a face full of fatigue.

Suddenly, she missed the fool-the-people policy, those reckless men who only wanted to fuck the War Goddess's asshole!

Now the proportion of mages among her subordinates is getting higher and higher. Even military generals have a higher level of education than in the past.

Ability is improved, reason is improved, analytical ability is improved, and it is more difficult to fool them when they are firm in their beliefs.

Even with her charm, it took a lot of brain cells to save the collapsing morale.

But at least with her stabilizing the military's morale, showing the determination to fight to the end, and seeing the weak side of the Six Gods, their defenses can still be maintained for the time being.

As for more future situations, they need to wait for the Seven Gods to make their moves, and then analyze them on the spot.

Now the initiative in the battle is not only in the empire's hands. The Six Gods' move of cutting off the fuel under the cauldron has saved many scenes.

The meeting ended, but the Eternal Night Empress did not leave, but beckoned to Roger.

Obviously, she had something to say to him alone.

If it were before today, Roger would definitely be flattered, but the things that have happened now have not given him any desire in that regard.

The current situation alone is enough to give him a headache. The Eternal Night Empress taking the initiative to see him is not because he has figured it out, but because of the situation they are facing, they must have more communication and cooperation. Relying on tacit understanding alone is not enough.

It's like you can play casually in a noob game, but in an evenly matched opponent, you must turn on voice communication.

Roger still clearly distinguishes between public and private, and calmly walked outside with the Eternal Night Empress.

Everyone present pretended not to see anything and lowered their heads to sort out documents.

The picture of Roger taking the initiative to hold the Eternal Night Empress's hand during the operation to invade Conqueror's Canyon is still widely circulated among the upper echelons of the military.

Leaving that deep conference room, Roger and the Eternal Night Empress strolled in the exquisitely planned, sci-fi-style vertical city of the God-slaying Fortress. She took the lead in speaking:

"If I die, I will leave the empire to you."

Roger: ???

Chapter 273: Your Majesty, Escaping is Shameful

Roger had never imagined that when he and the Eternal Night Empress met again, the first sentence she said would be so explosive, directly dispelling the little bit of ambiguous atmosphere that already existed.

This kind of entrusting the orphan is purely a relationship between monarch and minister. She obviously wants to temporarily put aside those problems between the two of them.

Roger didn't joke either, and said seriously: "Your Majesty is the core that unites the empire. Perhaps we should switch positions."

"Don't consider it from this angle, but rather from the perspective of theoretical lifespan. I can't lead this empire forever. You are more suitable to survive the potentially long years of dark resistance."

The Eternal Night Empress talked about her life and death without any taboo. The strands of silver mixed in her golden hair were not concealed in front of Roger.

Strength always comes with a price.

Her lifespan is due to the hidden dangers caused by forcibly improving her strength during the early years of conquest, and there is still no perfect solution.

The intensity of battles in recent years has not been high, and the consumption of her remaining lifespan is not large, which is much more relaxed than in the game plot, and such a tragedy will not happen.

But in the decisive battle against Tebella, bearing the curse of a powerful god, she must have consumed a lot of her remaining time.

So if the battle with the Six Gods persists, for the stability of the empire and the sustainability of various policies, a successor with sufficient prestige is needed to bear this pressure.

The Shelley family was either killed by the invaders or by the Eternal Night Empress herself in that almost country-destroying war.

Moreover, she did not want to develop the Qing Teng Empire into a family world, and electing the most outstanding and suitable new monarch is more in line with the long-term interests of the empire.

Roger has always been the best candidate in the Eternal Night Empress's heart. The prestige accumulated intentionally or unintentionally over the years, coupled with the Second Imperial Fleet completely controlled by him, and the current God-slaying Fortress, are all chips that can suppress all opposing voices in the country.

"So, you have been waiting for this day?"

Roger recalled many of the Eternal Night Empress's operations and suddenly realized that if this was the situation, she had once again perfectly avoided the choice of emotional problems.

Hey, I'm gone, what problems do you still have to bother me with?

The Eternal Night Empress shifted her gaze, seemingly unable to meet the burning and reproachful look in Roger's eyes, and looked into the distance, "What I think isn't important. What's important is how powerful the enemy is and what kind of response they'll make, isn't it?"

"So you're using death to escape?"

"How could I be? It's just that for the sake of victory, some sacrifices are always necessary..."

"Why can't Your Majesty look me in the eye when answering?"

Roger interrupted her roughly, and the accumulated pressure of these years also erupted, surprisingly able to completely suppress an Empress in terms of aura.

He knew that sacrifice was inevitable. Whether it was the Eternal Night Empress or himself, either could fall in the increasingly deep war to come.

War is inherently uncontrollable, the ultimate means of solving problems.

But the Eternal Night Empress's current state was obviously one of giving up and using death to escape the problem of emotional choices.

She might even be secretly applauding the Six Gods for making such a brilliant decision, right?

The Eternal Night Empress lowered her head under Roger's gaze. After a long time, she said with some grievance, "It would be so much better if you weren't such a bastard."

With one sentence, Roger's aura was also suppressed.

Admittedly, the Eternal Night Empress showed cowardice and ostrich-like behavior in emotional matters, but if he were a perfect person, she wouldn't have to be so conflicted.

So, in the final analysis, am I the root of all evil?

He bit his lip, his mood also becoming somewhat complicated. At least he couldn't be as condescending as he was just now, scolding the Eternal Night Empress.

When love runs deep, it's not just about possession, but also instinctively considering the other person and thinking about how she can be happy.

If he becomes the root cause of the other person's unhappiness, what right does he have to say that she's doing something wrong?

She quickly raised her head, glanced at him, and seeing that he still felt guilty, at least not completely shameless and thick-skinned, couldn't help but snort.