The Lightning God smiled at Astel's attack as a barrier of lightning rejected the attack.
"This lightning is difficult to see, but it is constantly protecting my body moving at the highest speed. As long as I have this protection, you can't reach my body. Your power isn't enough to break it."
The Lightning God was very proud of the lightning barrier, but that wasn't the reason why he was famous.
His specialty was using attacks at high speed, and that was the reason Astel wanted to kill him quickly.
Although the attacks were extremely quick, the power was more than enough to kill and ordinary Great God. If the Lightning God discovered someone related to Yale, he could kill them before they noticed that someone attacked.
The positions of every member were already planned, so they were the furthest possible of the Lightning God, but he was a high-priority target to kill anyway.
Yale and Kroh were forbidden to attack until the end, and Alrein was already quite busy with all his targets, so he suggested leaving the Lightning God to Astel.
"Let's see if your defense is that good. I think it will be broken quite quickly."
Astel didn't seem to care about that barrier of lightning, but the Lightning God thought that he was just bluffing. After all, the Lightning God knew better than anyone how strong his defense was.
The Lightning God saw that Astel was just a Great God, so even though he considered that Astel wasn't an ordinary Great God, he wasn't strong enough to break his barrier.
"Keep trying if you want, but you will never break it. I think it is time for me to attack."
As he finished speaking, he noticed that something was wrong and looked down at his body.
His head had been detached from his body, but the barrier was still unbroken.
"Impossible..."
That was the last word he was able to say using all his remaining strength.
"I told you this would be quick. Your defense isn't perfect. It is quick, but there are gaps. Of course, it is virtually impossible to attack thought those gaps unless you have a lot of luck, a miracle would be needed. However, although I prefer to consider myself his best friend and right-hand man, I am still considered someone who learned directly from Alrein, the Miracle God. Even the Minor Miracle Divinity can destroy your defense with enough tries."
The Minor Miracle Divinity wasn't as strong as the True Miracle Divinity. Alrein would have broken that defense in an instant. However, as something that affected luck, it couldn't be underestimated.
The chances of making a miracle were lower, but that was only when compared with someone like Alrein, the chances were still incredibly higher than someone who didn't have the Minor Miracle Divinity.
In that short battle, Astel attacked thousands of times until he had succeeded, but someone else might not have managed to succeed even in millions of tries.
If the Lightning God hadn't tried to show-off his defense, Astel might have needed more time, but that was all. Astel wasn't a True God because he didn't want, he could advance whenever he felt like it, but being a Great God worked well enough to make his opponent underestimate him.
"My job is done. Guessing by the reduction of the universe, the end of the war isn't too far. Those fools thinking this war will last millions of years and battling according to that thought would suffer greatly."
Although Astel didn't know all the truth about the plan of the Time Faction, he knew that winning the war wasn't the objective.
If the Time Faction wanted to win the war, an army wasn't needed. Kroh, Alrein, and Yale were strong enough to put an end to the war with the least number of casualties and in a short span of time.
Astel believed that Kroh alone would be able to fight the war on his own if he tried, and that possibly the other two could as well.
The Time Divinity, the Miracle Divinity, and the Dimensional Divinity were just too strong.
However, he had the feeling that Kroh was still the most dangerous of the three. He couldn't explain it with words, nor he knew about Kroh's true level, but Astel's intuition was so good that surprised Alrein a lot of times, like when Astel saved him from the Existence Eraser.
Wyba and Barha finished their battle without any difficulty soon after Astel killed the Lightning God.
There were a lot of deaths on both sides, but that was because others tried to help Wyba and Barha despite them not wanting help, and they ended up being slaughtered by the rebels.
Wyba and Barha weren't just cute, they were also extremely strong. With their opponent unable to attack them, they could have killed them all far quicker if no one helped them.
However, both were tired after that long battle, so they decided to rest instead of looking for more opponents. That was a serious matter in a war, but Yale predicted that something like that would happen, so it was already on the plans.
They had already provoked the death of a lot of members, so they had done enough work.
The more people died, the quicker the universe continued to shrink. The speed was relative to the total number of deceased people inside, so it only increased as time passed.
Some more years passed without any important development besides Alrein killing some rebels that eradicated the groups assigned to them, but on Alrein's universe, it was still at the start of the battle.
Graenk and the real Battle God clashed several times using diverse weapons and martial arts, but both seemed to be on par with each other despite the real Battle God's initial advantage.
The reason was that Graenk was battling on a place he knew perfectly while his opponent had never been there, so as long it wasn't just comparing raw power, Graenk could be at the same level as his opponent.
When they started to battle, the rest also started.
The number of people defending where the rebels appeared was less than the rebels, so some managed to slip off, but all the defenses weren't centered at one point, so they were intercepted after that.
The strongest ones of Alrein's universe tried to stop the strongest ones of the invaders, so those managing to slip off weren't that strong compared with them. Anyway, no one was weaker than a Minor God, so they were still though opponents for the people of Alrein's universe since there weren't so many Minor Gods there.
"No one will discover me here. Now I just need to look for a place related to Yale or Alrein and torture people there as much as I can, and I will be rewarded."
He was a Great God, but he wasn't specialized in battling, so he wasn't that strong. However, he excelled at not being discovered and torturing others.
"So, those are your plans. Sorry, but you have already fallen on my trap."
The Great God was frozen when he heard that voice, and a second after that, someone appeared in front of him.
"Impossible! You should be on the main battlefield!"
The Great God was scared to death. He knew that he couldn't survive if he faced the person in front of him.
"Don't worry, this is just a weak incarnation. I am just here to observe your reaction. You fell on the trap anyway. I don't need to act."
The person smiled, and the Great God felt as if that smile was the most devilish thing he had seen before he was slowly crushed into nothingness by dimensional walls.
"Those fools. Although I am letting others defend this universe, there is no way I don't leave traps on the places purposely left without defense."
The one speaking was Yale. He had left several incarnations to observe the universes related to him.
Of course, he had also filled them with deadly traps. Those traps were also the reason the people of Alrein's universe could endure against the invaders despite being overall weaker in power.
In a short time, thousands of the invaders died, but the death count of the people of Alrein's universe was still at zero.
Yale and Alrein were extremely partial, they didn't doubt to sacrifice others for the sake of the whole multiverse, but they didn't plan to leave people of their universe to die.
What seemed to be a not too difficult invasion turned out to be into a calamity for the invaders. The people of the universe only needed to guide them to the traps, and the invaders would die.
"As expected of Yale's traps. They are super effective."
Shirk was really amazed by how easily they killed a bunch of Gods and Minor Gods despite them all being at most Minor Gods.
"Shirk, stop speaking and go to lure some more. My golems are already dragging a lot, but there are some that just ignore them."
George has deployed and an army of golems to make up their lack of numbers, and they had been guiding the invaders to the traps. He was the one who provoked the death of the highest number of invaders despite being just a Minor God with the Minor Golem Divinity.
The natives of Yale's planet had been working together. The strongest ones were at the main battlefield, but there were still several remaining there.