"How incredible…"
The black and red vortex in Chu Hao's eyes slowly turned as he looked at the distant Heaven soldiers.
"Pure creatures, completely brainwashed."
"Beings who have fully merged their faith into the depths of their soul seas."
Chu Hao muttered to himself as he recalled a certain figure he had encountered during the third test of the Endless Abyss world.
A man who would rather burn his own soul and body together, completely vanishing from this world, than sink into the Abyss.
Magnus.
Even after watching his subordinates fall into the Abyss, he had still clung to his pure faith.
During that battle, it was the first time Chu Hao had ever faced an army driven by faith. In that war, the total power of the Endless Abyss was cleansed by those terrifying warriors to a noticeable extent.
Or rather, the very dimensional structure of the Endless Abyss had been elevated slightly by that war of faith.
Although this improvement was only a fraction — perhaps a few ten-thousandths — it was still the only time the Abyss itself had ever been wounded.
That battle had left a scar on the Abyss.
But during that same war, Chu Hao also came to understand the core structure of faith — and how angelic belief could influence the sea of the soul and supply divine fire to the gods.
In short, Chu Hao had a deep impression of those warriors who held "devout faith."
That was why he felt so curious about the soldiers before him — the faithful troops led by the Punishment Angel Peter to fight the Zerg.
What intrigued him most was that the devotion of these faith warriors was no less than Magnus's — perhaps even greater.
And their sheer number was staggering.
The entire battlefield was filled with tens of billions of soldiers, each no less devout than Magnus himself.
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"I'd love to corrupt a few of these beings… just to see how they'd react."
Chu Hao's eyes swept greedily over the countless strong soldiers before him.
Every Heaven soldier who fell under his gaze involuntarily trembled.
Even though they stood in the middle of a deadly battlefield, Chu Hao's mere stare made these devout yet weaker beings feel a deep, inexplicable panic.
For as the master of the Endless Abyss, even a single glance from Chu Hao carried an innate "malice."
And the source of that malice was something these creatures could never comprehend.
But just as Chu Hao was watching the soldiers like toys, an angel entered his sight.
A true angel.
Not like Peter — who possessed divinity and a divine office — but one of those born from Heaven Mountain, created to command mortal armies.
Her appearance was unlike the indescribable angels Chu Hao had seen in the trial worlds.
She looked more like a genetically optimized humanoid being — though with wings.
"…."
Chu Hao's lips curved upward.
That was because the angel had sensed his gaze — and followed it to locate him.
She had fiery red hair, long legs, and an expression that seemed permanently annoyed.
She raised her sword and gave it a little shake in Chu Hao's direction.
The meaning was clear.
"Keep staring, and I'll kill you."
Unlike mortals, angels had far stronger senses and vision.
But Chu Hao didn't feel the slightest irritation. To him, the little angel's threat was laughable — like an ant telling a tank it would destroy it.
So he merely watched her with amusement, without the slightest thought of retaliation.
Still, this little interaction made Chu Hao realize something new.
Though these "ants" were pitifully weak, the being behind them — the Punishment Angel — was an immense existence.
An entity so powerful that even its ants dared to bare their fangs at him.
"…."
Chu Hao turned his gaze toward the distant Punishment Angel who was overseeing the Heaven Army's progress.
That being wore a solemn expression as he observed the battle before him, ignoring everything else.
It was clear that his only goal in bringing such a massive army here was to exterminate the Zerg.
As for Chu Hao and the other weak gods who were dragged into this Zerg war…
In that angel's eyes, they were no different from insects on the roadside.
And at that moment, Chu Hao faintly began to grasp a few secrets about the mutation of the secret realms. But rather than those secrets, what concerned him more was why Peter had sealed off the entrance to the embryonic multiverse, trapping them weak gods inside.
In truth, Chu Hao already had a good idea of the answer.
But before he could confirm it fully, he decided it wasn't yet time to turn against such a powerful god.
After all...
Those tens of billions of Heaven soldiers had only just begun to be consumed by the Zerg.
Neither the Zerg nor the Heaven Army were forces that Chu Hao, sealed as he was, could afford to confront head-on.
With that in mind, Chu Hao calmed himself, cleared his thoughts, and continued his observations — this time focusing on the Heaven soldiers' combat style and physical structure.
Unlike ordinary warriors from other worlds, every one of these Heaven soldiers had undergone technological augmentation.
Without exception, each had gone through multiple body surgeries and chemical enhancements. Some even had exoskeleton implants beneath their skin, designed to increase defense and physical endurance.
It seemed that, in the eyes of Heaven Mountain, the best way to conquer the Zerg world was through the power of technology.
But just as Chu Hao was examining these Heaven soldiers, a message from the infinity-shaped world passed through the Abyss's initial screening and reached him.
It was from the demon prince, Fabuti.
He and his siblings had successfully taken control of the entire world.
The rare rule had been secured.