Chapter 761
Is our military god the biggest traitor?
Thus, a silent yet far more dangerous civil war unfolded within the Allied forces.
The military genius did not make a big show of it; instead, he deliberately created the illusion that the front lines were in disarray due to repeated defeats.
[But deep within the command headquarters, an extremely meticulous network of probing has been quietly laid out.]
Each true god-level military order was broken down into fragments of both reality and illusion, and distributed to deities of different levels and factions.
For the same operational objective, three completely different execution plans will be prepared, with the final decision made by the military genius himself.
[Furthermore, the God of War began frequently summoning different generals to assign top-secret missions within the closed divine realm. In reality, each conversation was a meticulously designed logical trap, with subtle clues unintentionally revealed in their words—clues that only a true traitor would attempt to pass on.]
[The military genius is like a director orchestrating a drama on the darkest stage, using localized setbacks on the real battlefield as a price to transform the Allied forces into a giant reaction vessel, awaiting that one ripple of illogical information to emerge.]
Each defeat in a small-scale battle made God's heart more unsettled, and made the watchers in the shadows more anxious.
The war god is waiting, waiting for that figure, or those figures, lurked in the shadows, to be tempted by intelligence and compelled by the situation to take greater risks to deliver a message.
This struggle over transparency and concealment has spread from the vast battlefield of space to every crevice where the allied forces' divine power flows.
[The Red Heart Society, however, remained silently standing behind the defensive line.]
In September of the Extraordinary Calendar 8122, a truth that even shook the eternal divine status of the God of War was gradually revealed through countless rounds of meticulous planning and cruel probing.
With supreme authority and strategy, He wove a vast net covering all the gods of the universe, and secretly tempted each and every true god individually.
Whether they are top-tier beings perched atop the throne of divinity, or third-tier gods hidden in the shadows of the laws of nature.
Every interaction, seemingly ordinary—whether strategic consultation or force coordination—actually conceals hidden agendas.
Every fluctuation of divine thought, every enigmatic response, was captured and analyzed by the God of War's divine will, as cold as a finely tuned mechanical wheel.
However, as the trials continued, the result was like a frigid current from an abyss, rising against the tide and completely freezing the core of His will.
[Regardless of who His target was, and no matter how top-secret the information was, or how knowledgeable only the true God could know, the Red Heart Society, which should have remained hidden behind the veil of the gods, seemed to have known everything all along.]
The second true god knows the secrets of the third; top-tier beings are fully aware of the weaknesses of their distant peers.
The forbidden knowledge possessed by the gods, knowledge capable of igniting divine wars, was strangely intertwined with the shadow of the Red Heart Society.
Are all the gods in this universe truly of pure heart?
This conclusion itself is the greatest paradox and absurdity.
The God of War, who wields the power of war and strategy, should possess a divine will as constant as an immortal star, yet he is now engulfed in unprecedented turmoil.
The chain of logic begins to contradict itself in the face of absolutely anomalous facts.
Since the possibility that all the true gods are traitors is so absurd that even the most basic laws of probability cannot accommodate it, then the only terrible and outrageous answer that can barely fit into this distorted reality is the least likely one.
The problem lies with the one who is provoking!
A thought that even He Himself found chilling arose!
Surely it's not that I'm the one with the most righteous intentions?
[He, the sharpest blade and the strongest shield of the spirit realm's will, the absolute commander of the era's conquests, has never had any connection with that Crimson Heart.] [His divinity, recalling every moment of the past, finds no trace of the Crimson Heart's aura.]
[I do not possess any divine power to incarnate and go to the Red Heart Society, nor is it possible that I could be analyzed by the Red Heart Society.]
Could it be that my memory has been interfered with?
[Have some important memories been erased?]
However, in a stark comparison, the option that the God of War is the traitor seems one ten-thousandth more believable than the idea that all the true gods are traitors.
[Besides the one being tested, only He Himself knows all the details of the test plan and top-secret intelligence.]
When all external possibilities are disproven one by one, the only remaining internal possibility, no matter how incredible, becomes an isolated answer suspended on the ruins of logic.
This realization brought not fear, but a near-collapse-like sense of absurdity and nihilism.
If we can't even trust ourselves, if even the commander himself might be a flaw he hasn't even realized he possesses, then how can we possibly wage this massive war that gathers the power of the three realms?
Every military order and every deployment may have already reached the ears and eyes of the Red Heart Society through some unknown, proprietary channel.
Before the war had even reached its climax, the commander's foundation had already crumbled.
After a long period of divine torment and self-examination, the God of War made his decision.
In March of the 8354th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, He voluntarily resigned from His position as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces, surrendering the War God Seal, which represented supreme authority and responsibility.
[His successor was a war lord from the depths of hell, renowned for his pure desire for destruction and conquest.]
This god acts violently and directly, advocating absolute power and crushing the enemy, and scoffs at the war god's sophisticated and complex methods of probing and intelligence gathering.
However, history presents its most poignant irony at this moment.
Since the War Lord took over the command of the Allied forces, the previously paralyzing intelligence synchronization that had haunted them like a ghost and suffocated even the gods has actually begun to show signs of delay and error.
[The Red Heart Society's response revealed, for the first time, a noticeable information gap.]
The allied forces' several medium-sized advances on the outskirts of Star Abyss yielded some minor victories, despite the fact that these advances had not been anticipated.
This subtle yet crucial change struck the hearts of the gods like a thunderclap.
Suspicious gazes, inevitably and with immense weight, fell upon the retired military genius.
Could it be that this period of war nightmares, this predicament that has caused the gods to distrust each other so deeply, is truly just a grand drama orchestrated by the God of War himself?
Did He secretly transmit everything, while feigning to guide the investigation, dragging the allied forces into an endless vortex of suspicion?
The vast waves of thought from the will of the Three Realms collided violently in the void, examining this possibility.
However, the will of the spirit world, seated at the origin of the spirit realm, denied this accusation after a long silence.
[Because this matter also violates the most basic logic.] (End of Chapter)