Genesis: Starting with Growing Mushrooms

Chapter 123 The War Between Light and Darkness
March, 1281, the year of the Butterfly Clan.

The capital of the Holy Empire was suddenly struck by a plague, and the winds of freedom turned into the winds of plague.

"Plague, purify it quickly!"

Many priests began using purification magic to fight the plague with light.

This is a battle between light and darkness.

The number of dead and injured was countless; more than ten million people died in just ten days.

The newly appointed candidate for the position of God of Light, Phobos, has repeatedly purified the capital from plagues using divine objects of light.

But gradually, he found himself unable to keep up.

At this moment, the Plague Queen Lilith finally made her appearance:
"A dark age is coming! The God of Light is dead, and the next God of Light has not yet been born. You cannot stop me."

In city-states around the world, demons who had been hidden for many years broke free of their angelic bodies and transformed into a vast army of demons, sweeping across the capital with unstoppable force.

The opposing side is not a foolish villain. They have been lying low and accumulating power for hundreds of years. With one burst of power, they are determined to destroy the Holy Empire in an instant, turn the world into hell, and cover it with eternal darkness.

"Your Majesty, retreat immediately!"

"The plague is too terrible. It spreads too fast, and our magic of light can't purify it at all!"

"Yes, your divine artifact can only purify one million troops and protect one million troops from infection!"

"However, a million-strong Holy Temple army that cannot be infected is no match for all the infected and corrupted demons in the world!"

"The world has fallen. We leave with the divine artifact of light. This artifact must not fall into the hands of the enemy."

With the help of countless Holy Guards, King Phoebus of the Angels led a million elite Holy Temple troops to temporarily avoid the enemy's advance and fled the royal city.

However, the Demon Box still fell into the hands of the other party.

"We finally got it back!"

Lilith revealed a cunning smile. The first thing she did after obtaining the dark artifact was to go to the Temple of God and begin to kneel before the statue of God.

She knelt respectfully, as if receiving divine mandate, proclaiming her legitimacy as the heir to the world:
"God, we are all your followers!"

“I have also cultivated your mysticism, transforming into a plague from the gods.”

"And now, I will find a new host for this dark artifact, to become the second Demon King, who will also be your servant god!"

Behind her were four corrupted wind god candidates.

A God belonging to the lineage of Hell is being established within the divine system.

Soon, she bestowed a divine artifact upon the highly compatible Demon King candidate, thus officially assuming the throne of the Demon King.

"I am the new Demon King Goliath!"

A new demon king has been born.

He is the disciple of the Plague Queen, and as the new source of evil, he begins to infect the world.

November of 1281, the year of the Butterfly Clan.

Rella finally adapted to the new realm, summoned the remnants of the God of Light and the newly appointed King of Angels, Phoebus, and led a million troops to fight against the demon army.

"Although we only have a million soldiers, we will not be infected by the plague!"

"The light of enlightenment surrounds us!"

They set off from Qingfeng Territory, winning battle after battle, and transformed into a single blade to once again charge towards the capital!
The enemy's winds brought plagues one after another.

They purified it time and time again with the magic of light.

In just six months, the plague turned more than 90% of the people in the capital into demons.

The disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves is too great.

But the demons' army was inherently cruel and undisciplined, even robbing their own supply troops.

This caused the corrupted demonic subjects in the local cities to not help their army. In the ensuing infighting, they suffered repeated defeats and were defeated by the weak.

"Demons are inherently cruel and vicious; they are incapable of cooperation. How can they possibly block the light?"

The heroine Rella raised her divine sword high and led her army through the enemy lines.

"kill!!"

In the royal capital, the Demon King Goliath has a compatibility score of 94, which leads him to be greedy, cruel, and licentious, even harboring evil intentions towards his female teacher, Lilith.

Upon hearing of the battle at the front, the newly enthroned demon king couldn't help but curse:
"Useless! A bunch of useless trash! Even with so many of you, you can't defeat the enemy! Keep killing! Send out more troops!"

March of 1283, the year of the Butterfly Clan.

After two years of continuous fighting, the entire land was engulfed in flames.

The new world war thus erupted to its climax!

As many as 60% of the population was wiped out.

Some of the deaths were due to the angelic legion's attack.

Some of the deaths were due to the demon race's belligerence and infighting.

But their belligerence also led to the formation of a demonic hierarchy within their race: Lesser Demons, Greater Demons, and Demon Lords.
Their brutality transformed the demons into an elite race, making them even more powerful!

After years of war, the angels' army gradually dwindled to just over 300,000, while demons infected the entire land, their numbers growing ever larger.

"The plague is terrible."

"Whichever controls the plague, light or darkness, will prevail in its spread and hold the balance of power!"

The angels felt despair.

The plague brought terrifying numbers, and they were no match for it.

Just then, God's messenger, the Father, came into the army of light:

"I have Cupid develop a brand new arrow of love that can greatly increase your fertility and make up for your depletion!"

Therefore, the angel race began to retreat and replenish its population.

The two sides began to form a war situation of division.

The angels have always guarded the last piece of pure land. The God of Light has the power to purify with a million troops, so they are not infected by the plague.

"Attack! Kill them!"

The Demon King Goliath is ambitious and has great power, but he is also very cowardly and unwilling to go to the front line.

Lilith looked at her apprentice and fell silent: "Useless, truly useless! The demon race is utterly hopeless!"

"The other demons are alright, their purity isn't high enough, but the purest Primordial Demon King is a complete embodiment of greed, evil, cowardice, and ingratitude."

Lilith was extremely distressed.

He had endured hardship for hundreds of years, and then he got off to a winning start.

She immediately assassinated the God of Light and infected the four candidate Wind Gods responsible for spreading her plague.

She was convinced she had already won.

lose?
How could it be possible to lose?

But who knew that the new demon king would make her lose so badly!
June of 1293, the year of the Butterfly Clan.

The Angel Empire launched another attack, initiating another decapitation strike.

Charging into the demon capital, and about to besiege the city, the demon king Goliath is enraged:
"Where are the other great demon lords? Where did they go? Those damned traitors, they wish I were dead, don't they?"

"A heartless and ungrateful bunch of bastards!"

He hurriedly went to ask his teacher Lilith to personally take action, using the deadly poison that killed the God of Light back then to assassinate the current God of Light and the heroine Rella.

Looking at the other person's agitation and anger, Lilith said softly, "Aren't you the same? You betrayed them before, sending them to their deaths."

Demon King Goliath didn't care at all. "Teacher, this is our nature as demons! Light excels at unity and sacrifice, while darkness excels at betrayal and individual bravery!"

"It is precisely because we are adept at betrayal and live in a treacherous hellish environment that so many of us have become strong individuals!"

Upon hearing this, Lilith continued, "Then why don't you, as a powerful being, personally go to the battlefield?"

Goliath, as if it were a matter of course, deflected, saying, "Of course it's your poison that makes it easier to defeat the opponent."

"Alright."

The Plague Demoness Lilith was completely impatient. "A toxin that can kill the God of Light is extremely rare. Fortunately, in the past few years I have used mysticism to cultivate a quantity that can kill both of them. I'll go and make a trip!"

Lilith was getting impatient.

A pure-blooded demon king is utterly disgusting.

She planned to use the Demon King's power to corrupt God, then discard him like a used tool and seal him away.

Because the other party has gradually lost control, and their greed and ambition have grown day by day.

Wow!
In the Demon Capital, Lilith transformed into a wisp of black smoke and charged towards the enemy army.

High in the sky, Rella and she confront each other:
"The Plague Demon King? Your essence is infection. Once I purify you and make you a subordinate of our Light Clan, and cleanse the demonic scourge, I will make you repent before my brother's grave!" Rella understood.

There is only one way to win this battle: purify the plague demon with light.

Light and darkness—whoever controls the power of transmission will win.

As for killing the other party?
The other party is a chosen one with a 100% compatibility. If we kill her, the divine object will easily go berserk and out of control, and we may not be able to capture and suppress it quickly.

Sealing her is the best solution, to let her experience the taste of an eternal prison and live in endless pain.

“You have no kindness or conscience now.”

Rella said coldly:
"Therefore, you have no feelings of pain or regret! I purify you with light, make you kind, and you will feel remorse."

I will make you live in endless pain and torment, imprisoned in an eternal cage; this is a fate more painful than death.

Lilith was utterly disdainful.

"Since you want to fight, then let's fight! How can a mere mortal, even if he breaks through to the same realm, be a match for a god?"

This is a matter of perspective, not a matter of right or wrong.

Although she hated the Demon King's greed and cowardice, she was already a demonized being, so naturally she had to stand on the Demon King's side.

Although the Demon King is a hopeless good-for-nothing, and she has to be constantly on guard against him, fearing that he might stab her in the back.

"kill!"

Without further ado, both sides swiftly took action.

This battle will determine the outcome!

The Plague Queen unleashed her most powerful, god-slaying poison, declaring, "No living being can defend against my poison; not even God can withstand it."

"Any body of flesh and blood must be subdued by me!"

An endless black fog of plague began to spread out, covering Rella.

But when the fog cleared, Rella remained unchanged.

"No, how did you do that?"

Lilith showed a hint of shock.

From her perspective, even the God of Light couldn't withstand this poison, so how could the God of Light's mortal sister possibly resist it?

“I asked God to give me unchanging strength.”

"Plague cannot erode my eternal and unchanging state."

Rella's expression turned cold. "The plague also has a divine object that can restrain it, and that is immortality!"

Lilith was startled to see that her most powerful poison ability had been broken.

She originally believed that her infectious power was invincible.

This has nothing to do with power; even God, whose power is beyond comprehension, cannot escape her deadly poison.

But now, there is a divine object that can restrain it!

Lilith remained calm. "My plague poison can not only kill others, but also forcibly unleash my potential. I can still defeat you!"

The two sides began a contest of pure, hard power.

This battle lasted for a full ten days.

Rella's fighting skills are astonishing; she can defeat stronger opponents despite being the weaker one.

The battle lasted a long time, with no clear victor, and both sides returned to their respective camps severely wounded.

Upon returning and seeing his severely injured teacher Lilith, Demon King Goliath was utterly terrified. "I want peace! I want peace!"

Lilith was furious: "Are you crazy? Our army outnumbers theirs by a hundred times!"

"But they won't listen to me!"

"No peace talks, those angels will storm the capital directly, and no other demon lords will help me! They're all waiting for me to die, waiting for my divine artifact to fall out, and then they'll become the new demon king!"

The Demon King Goliath is cowardly, pleasure-seeking, and skilled in intrigue and scheming, as well as in assessing situations.

And so, the two sides began to negotiate peace.

The Angelic faction accepted the other side's request for a ceasefire, and both sides entered a period of peaceful development.

Lilith was also extremely disappointed and left the Demon City in anger, filled with resentment: "The Demons are a bunch of useless trash, fighting amongst themselves."

"Now, I have nowhere to go."

"God doesn't seem to target his own followers, but he's clearly secretly favoring the Valkyrie, granting her unchanging divine power. Otherwise, how could she possibly be my match?"

But she could also understand that she had killed the other party's apprentice.

Her intention was to corrupt God and make him evil, so that they could forgive each other.

But now, this generation of demon kings is utterly useless!

However, even with the Demon King's incompetence, the plague continued to rapidly corrupt the entire land.

Lilith is a workaholic.

She turned giants into dark giants, dragons into evil dragons, elves into dark elves, and sirens into dark creatures called Nagas.

Even the fairies have turned into dark fairies.

This era belongs to the dark age!

Light can only hide in a corner.

Lilith also began to shift her focus:

"Originally, I wanted to eliminate the Light Angels, who are our natural enemies, first. Now, I can only deal with the gods of water and fire, and the earth god, and so on!"

But when she arrived at her destination, she found that the place was deserted.

"Damn it, they actually went to the underworld beneath heaven to seek God's protection!"

She was furious, and the resentment in her heart made her even more susceptible to evil:
"Everyone follows God, and God should remain neutral towards His followers!"

"But now, he's openly taking sides!"

"God, I curse you! I will invent the most vicious poison to corrupt you!"

The hatred in her eyes intensified.

the other side.

Above the Sea of ​​the Dead, around the Tower of Babel, various giants gathered.

"What should we do?" Vulcan Agni couldn't help but say, "The darkness is too terrifying; even we are getting infected."

Varuna said, “Although we possess divine power, darkness can corrupt us, turning us into dark water and fire gods.”

They were all very worried.

The darkness is too powerful.

No, what's powerful isn't darkness, it's the infection.

The power of darkness and light is equal; the power of infection amplifies the darkness.

If they are infected on the side of light, then the Demon King will only be able to support a million-strong army of darkness and protect them from being invaded by the light.

"The Demon King, though cowardly, is still getting stronger."

At this moment, Rella walked back and said, "Don't think he's stupid. He's very cunning. He wants to become stronger before he kills us, so he's been hiding."

"But now that darkness is everywhere, his growth rate is even faster than that of the God of Light!"

"Our growth rate cannot keep up with theirs."

Rella's words plunged everyone's hearts into despair.

As time goes by, they will only become weaker and weaker.

That's why they chose the plan of a quick decapitation strike.

"What should I do?"

"The only way to fight against darkness is for the God of Light to become stronger."

"But this kid is only a candidate right now; he hasn't become the next God of Light yet!"

Everyone was filled with worry.

“Go ask God, after all, He is an all-powerful God,” Rella finally gave.

Soon, God descended from the Tower of Babel. He was dressed in white and had an ordinary aura, like any other young man you might see anywhere.

"I have a way to go and live on another land."

(End of this chapter)