Meanwhile, at the headquarters of the Black Plain Empire...
There, the five surviving Gods of this world had gathered with Gloria at the army headquarters in the old Yellow City.
Inside the quasi-Spatial Kingdom where this place was, which was the entrance to the Spatial Kingdom of Minos, the group was at the place where the many corpses of their companions or ancestors lay.
Four of the five Gods there were in their best fighting condition, having used and exploited the opportunity Gloria had given them with the two Divine Medicines she had passed on to Willow.
By dividing these two medicines into ten parts, each of these Gods had ingested one part of each medicine and spent the last few months trying to assimilate the benefits they brought.
A single Divine Medicine was so valuable that it could even help Gods, or rather, Sovereigns, become stronger!
These people in the Spiritual World didn't know it. Still, in the world Minos was currently in, resources of the same classification as Divine Medicine were used to produce pills and potions for Sovereigns.
Just because these resources were used to help someone ascend from the end of the Mortal Journey to the beginning of the Divine Journey, it didn't mean they couldn't continue to help newly ascended people to the Divine Journey.
Therefore, even though these five had only shared 2 medicines of this quality, they had been able to earn quite a bit in the past few months.
Aarav, Willow, Vico, and Aurae had not only recovered from their injuries and reached their best state, but they had even become a bit stronger than before!
As for the level 100 dragon, he hadn't used much of what he had consumed, as he had used most of it to heal many of his injuries. But he had left his exhausted state for the current one, in which he had about half of his energy left.
This dragon still needed some time to recover, but he was already ready to fight again!
Due to the end of the recuperative seclusion of four of the five, Gloria had called this meeting at her organization's headquarters, probably the safest place in the world at the moment.
She has been at the same level since Minos' departure and will not advance any time soon. Even with resources, immortal energy, the Spatial Kingdom, and time on her side, Gloria would still need about five years for a new breakthrough.
On the other hand, Abby had used up many resources in the past few months and was not far from reaching level 91. Her breakthrough could come at any time!
But the group's greatest hope was Callie, who was expected to advance in another year or two at the most.
Anyway, facing the five of them, Gloria got right to the point. "We must prepare for another major attack. I know everyone here has places to protect and be, but the enemies will surely target where we are in no time.
To win this war, we'll have to outlast them in the short term and give Callie more time."
Everyone there already imagined that the enemy specialists were doing more or less the same as they had been doing during these months of seclusion. It was very likely that they had already finished their cultivation and were preparing for their next move against the Spiritual World.
Everyone there thought so and could imagine Gloria's request for them to stay in this place to protect Abby and the Spatial Kingdom.
Willow commented. "We're going to surprise the enemies, that's for sure. They probably won't expect us to be at our best. That will give us some advantage in the next level 100 confrontation."
"Still, it will be a tough fight. Even with Abby's help, our numbers won't be good. The enemies are individually stronger than us, and our resurrected level 100 allies don't have the ability to last long enough to completely change the fate of our battles." Vico said as he looked at Gloria and his 11th-stage companions.
Aarav already knew about Gloria's plan and said. "We won't be able to defeat them in this battle. It's too early for the war to be over. It's unlikely that any more Gods from The Adamant Land will come here, but dealing with these opponents will be difficult enough that one battle won't solve our problems.
However, if we make them retreat in defeat like we did last time, we can make one or two of them fall in battle and force the survivors to go back to cultivate for a few months. That will give us time to wait for Callie's progress."
Aurae thought about it and clenched her fists, feeling that when Callie reached level 100, and they could easily use the Ice Age against their enemies, it would be time to turn the war completely in their favor.
"This is the best plan we have. Let's stay here and prepare for the next level 100 attack." She said as she looked at the level 100 dragon, the one most likely to dislike this proposal.
The dragon agreed. "Fine, let's stay and fight. How many resurrected Gods can we count on for the next confrontation?" He asked Gloria.
"We have four level 100 bodies with us right now. We'll be able to bring two of them and keep the other two for a future emergency." Gloria replied, looking at the Gods' corpses that the forces of the Spiritual World had managed to send to this place.
There were none left. All the others had either been used or lost to history.
Once Abby used these four corpses, they would only have themselves!
"But these corpses are those of ancient beings who don't know about our situation. One of you will have to make them understand that we need their strength." Gloria made that clear.
"I can do that," Aurae commented since she was the one with the best mental powers in this group and also the strongest in the Spiritual World under the current circumstances.
The level 100 dragon had more raw power than her when he was at his best, but he was only half as strong.
Therefore, the group agreed to stay at the Black Plain Army base and wait for the stronger enemies to attack.
While the aliens wanted to destroy them and end the war, they wanted to prolong the battle while they still didn't have enough abilities to eliminate the enemy leaders in the Spiritual World.
Meanwhile, Gloria could only lament her weakness and inability to help the group beyond commanding the empire's forces from the shadows.
She thought about Minos and Ruth every day, but she could do nothing to know what they were doing. Anyway, she really trusted them and knew that they were somehow working to resolve this war!
