Granzoa's Infinite Restoration
The problem with the Goddess Department’s war strategy was simple: High Elves possessed eternal lifespans. They rarely formed couples or bore children, and the World Tree consumed vast amounts of vitality. New offspring were only produced during the earliest stages when protection was essential. As a result, their numbers grew with painful slowness.
Granzoa’s solution was forced migration. She activated the assembly decree for every High Elf and Elf scattered across the Middle World, then exercised the Dimensional Authority she had obtained to teleport them through space and gather them in the Great Forest.
The High Elf Queens who had risen to Intermediate God rank naturally took command, and the High Elf population swelled at a dizzying pace. Thanks to the Cosmic Tree granted by the God of Dimensions, they even fed its sap to ordinary Elves to trigger their evolution. Already they were reclaiming their former glory.
Countless beams of spatial light ferried entire clans of High Elves into the Great Forest. Upon linking with the colossal World Tree they received Granzoa’s divine power baptism and became her believers. The total divine power and vitality poured into the process had already exceeded tens of billions.
Yet it was a miracle created by the continuous manifestation of her Infinite Restoration authority, which returned all expended divine power to its unused state.
In less than six months she had restored five hundred million High Elves who had been condemned by the Spirit Gods after betraying the God of Dimensions—the very deity who had become the God of Elves.
No god in the Middle World could restrain her. Even demigods were helpless before Granzoa, direct descendant of the Round Table’s highest goddess and a being at the Main God level. With no interference, the work accelerated still further.
Images of the five High Elf Queens who had ascended to Intermediate God rank appeared before her. They bowed their heads and delivered their reports in turn.
“Lady Granzoa. The migration of the southern Elves is complete. The number of High Elves in the Great Forest has now surpassed one billion.”
“The eastern and southern High Elves have also finished migrating. Estimated time required is one week.”
“All migrating Elves are drinking the sap of the Cosmic Tree and transforming into High Elves. Sleep education on faith is being conducted simultaneously during the change, and their conversion into believers is proceeding smoothly.”
Now a supreme deity and subordinate god of the Dimensional Lord, Granzoa could wield Dimensional Authority to a meaningful degree. The ninety-percent power reduction she would normally suffer in the Middle World was greatly lessened.
With five newly ascended Intermediate God High Elf Queens and an empire of five hundred million High Elves, no force among the High Elves of other regions could possibly resist them.
Even with half its military strength lost, the High Elf Empire’s remaining power still surpassed the entire human empire.
Of course, the massive relocation of every High Elf could not avoid friction with human empires that used some High Elves and Elves as slaves or citizens. Wars broke out. Yet as long as the victims still drew breath, Granzoa’s divine power healed every wound completely. The injured rose again, the dead had their souls returned to the World Tree, were reborn without exception, and were sent back into battle. In the end, every foe surrendered.
Thousands of High Elf Little Queens equal to 7-Circle transcendents, together with an elite legion of tens of millions whose numbers never dwindled no matter how fiercely they fought—the human empires could not withstand such a force. Moreover, they possessed no means to stop High Elf Queens who had become 8-Circle Intermediate Gods.
The only human to reach 8-Circle, the former hero, now served as pope to that terrifying former War God. Even he could not fight against subordinate gods. Swallowing their tears, the humans could only liberate their Elves or hand them over.
The divine power shortage that should have crippled the operation simply did not exist before her Infinite Restoration authority. After pushing with full force for an entire year, she had nearly restored all the empire’s losses.
Her Innate Divine Power stood at 1.5 billion, yet the ability she displayed with her transcendental authority known as “Infinite” taught the High Elf Empire exactly why the High Elf Queens obeyed her without question. They were rapidly turning into fanatics.
Nevertheless, problems always arose.
“We have received reports of collective resistance from the northern High Elves, who insist on protecting their homeland. We will dispose of the ringleaders.”
The Great Forest was bountiful and vast. Supplemented by the World Tree, it could support a population of ten billion. Yet the great wars triggered by the opening of the Demon Realm’s gates every century were simply too dangerous. Naturally, some Elves preferred to live among humans rather than fight.
Granzoa’s answer to such defiance was always the same.
Purge.
“Eliminate every High Elf who refuses the migration order. Return their souls to the World Tree, educate them thoroughly, and rebirth them. Dispose of the Elves who followed them and refused to migrate as well. We have no need for cowards who reject battle or those who reject me.”
“We shall obey.”
In this way, every High Elf and Elf who refused to leave their homeland was purged. Their souls were returned to the World Tree while all vitality and resources were concentrated upon the Great Forest. The numbers involved reached tens of millions, and the divine power required for rebirth was equally enormous—hundreds of billions. Yet nothing could hinder Granzoa.
Other gods limited by vitality and divine power could never dream of such feats. For her, however, evolving tens of thousands of Elves into High Elves and recovering divine power on the scale of tens of millions through rebirth was meaningless before the Infinite Restoration authority. Bold purges were therefore possible.
Moreover, with High Elf Queens who were 8-Circle yet possessed power reaching 9-Circle taking the lead, such rapid restoration and development could be achieved.
“There has been movement from the Dark Elves. They are expanding their forces into the forests the Elves have vacated. Large Dark Elf clans aiming to occupy the emptied World Trees have also been detected.”
“Relocate every World Tree to this place. Leave forests outside the Great Forest to natural growth. Sever the vitality of the World Trees and let the shameful Dark Elves wither. Consult the will of all World Trees and seal any that do not consent.”
Her will traveled along the Cosmic Tree and reached every World Tree. All those who understood the nourishment offered by the Great Forest’s refined vitality immediately agreed. The wars against the demon race would bring them no harm, and once the High Elves surpassed one billion they would enjoy guaranteed safety and explosive growth. There was no reason to refuse.
Knowing how Granzoa had built and developed the High Elf Empire, they saw no need to hesitate. Above all, they understood that her threat of sealing was no empty boast, so they could not refuse.
The sole remaining problem was how to move their colossal bodies, but Granzoa’s enhanced authority shone even brighter here.
Transcend space with Dimensional Authority.
Infinite Restoration—activate.
Restore all expended divine power.
Continuous wide-area spatial movement—!
Paaaaaaaah—!
A divine miracle descended upon the Middle World. Dozens of colossal World Trees were transported into the Great Forest in a single instant, taking the very land in which they had rooted with them.
The World Trees roared as they established themselves around the outskirts of the Great Forest like a living wall. This was a miracle wrought by divine power, not the magic power restricted within the Great Forest. Spatial movement inherently disrupted natural laws and therefore belonged to sorcery; for the divine race to activate it on such a massive scale was almost impossible.
It could not compare to the Dimensional Lord moving stars, but she had grasped and studied Dimensional Authority, developing it to this level through relentless research.
Over the past year, after suffering a humiliating backlash while attempting to subjugate the High Elf Queens, she had desperately honed both her authority and divine power. She was now stronger than ever before.
By making the High Elf Empire more prosperous than in the past, her karma had risen from extremely evil to neutral. Once it reached extremely good—when the number of High Elf believers exceeded two billion and the empire achieved more than double its former prosperity—she could return to the Divine Realm in splendor as a highest-level goddess once more.
She could feel it. The act of implementing even a fraction of Dimensional Authority, which required an extreme amount of calculation, had linked with her Infinite Restoration and opened the path to becoming not merely Main God level, but a true Main God.
She had finally crossed the wall of a standard Main God, the minimum condition set by her proud and powerful mother goddess.
She could return not as the highest goddess of the Round Table, but as a true Main God. At last she could challenge that Sly Raccoon Main God of the Divine Realm for control of the heavens. With the full support of every female main god and goddess, victory would be hers.
Granzoa could now freely wield wide-area spatial forces she could never have touched in the past, manifesting Infinite Restoration without limit—not merely upon herself but as a spatial concept.
With this Dimensional Authority and the power of her Infinite Restoration, she would never fall behind the Sly Raccoon Main God if their divine power was equal. With the full authority support and parallel divine power linkage of the Round Table’s highest female gods and the top goddesses, she could overwhelm even the Sly Raccoon Main God and the primordial God of Combat.
No matter how many combat gods attacked, none could defeat her, who could maintain infinite divine power with no depletion of vitality. Complete domination of the Divine Realm would be possible.
Then she could become the perfect ruler of the Divine Realm.
That was why Granzoa’s eyes burned with fierce fire.
As she renewed her resolve, the thirteenth wing—the proof of a Main God—shone with translucent light behind her.