I Have a God Simulator

The Divine Kingdom rumbled continuously under the impacts from the external Gravel World, and the King of Bamboo Reed's mind was buzzing.

'How did things turn out like this?'

'This isn't right.'

'Not right at all.'

...

'The situation was clearly excellent.'

The Bamboo Corps had the front lines firmly under control. The Bamboo Beasts were pushing forward, and the Bamboo Birds circled in the sky, taking in the enemy's every move.

Although the tomb clusters had formidable defenses, they lacked offensive capabilities. One by one, they were toppled in the bloody battles waged by the Bamboo People warriors. The Ghouls protecting the tombstones were all slain, and the Ghosts fled in a panic.

Everything was going according to plan.

Probing attacks, feints, frontal assaults, repeated charges to break their formation, compressing the enemy's depth, and maintaining pressure behind their lines... All they had to do was proceed step-by-step, and in less than ten years, they would have completely dismantled the Ghost Realm's defensive line of tomb clusters. Then, it would no longer be a threat.

Having lost the final bastion of its Divine Kingdom, the Ghost God would be forced to enter the battlefield personally. Otherwise, its fall would be inevitable.

That would be the day the King of Bamboo Reed completed his grand conquest.

The Ghost Realm was a Divine Kingdom with clear strengths and weaknesses.

It could construct tombstones that spat Nether Fire and could guide Gravel Worlds to collide with other Divine Kingdoms. Both were outstanding long-range attack methods; distance was the Ghost Realm's lifeline.

Once the Ghost Realm was occupied, all its technology and related civilization would be incorporated into the Bamboo Reed Kingdom, bringing about a great leap for his Divine Kingdom.

The King of Bamboo Reed silently congratulated himself on his earlier decisiveness, for accelerating the launch of the Divine War.

He hadn't given the enemy a chance to set up or react. By engaging in a direct, side-by-side Divine Kingdom battle, he had bypassed their long-range world attacks.

Every step of the strategy had gone so smoothly.

But he never would have imagined that his plans would be shattered by a natural disaster.

A small Gravel World flew in from somewhere and crashed into the two Divine Kingdoms, throwing their various Rule Powers into disarray.

The clear skies behind them vanished in an instant. The heavens were stained a filthy lead-gray, the clouds all transformed into serpentine columns of smoke, and the firmament began to crack, with brown dust drifting out from the fissures.

The King of Bamboo Reed immediately understood that the Ghost Realm could not hold out.

The Ghost God had even resorted to a tactic that would cost itself a thousand to kill eight hundred of the enemy, launching another Gravel World in a suicidal attack.

The King of Bamboo Reed sneered.

'He's getting desperate.'

'Does he really think I'll be intimidated?'

'Save it.'

'Let's just see who breaks first.'

The second impact followed shortly after.

The force and destructive power of this one far surpassed the last, shattering most of the Gravel World that had previously fused with their borders. Huge chunks of rock tumbled from the sky.

The aftershocks from the tearing of the boundary alone created a dense web of cracks across the skies of the Bamboo Reed Kingdom. Clouds turned into sharp sheets of ice that fell from above, causing numerous casualties among the Bamboo People and Lumin.

The soil on the ground began to rapidly turn to sand, and moisture coalesced into droplets that flew, drop by drop, toward the sky.

The King of Bamboo Reed gritted his teeth and held on, ordering Zhur Nan to quickly lead the Bamboo Corps to stabilize the rear and protect the Lumin.

The third impact came right after, scattering the sunlight into fragmented bands. Some areas would ignite under the light, while others, though seemingly basked in warm sunshine, were actually so frigid that the ground froze into a layer of ice.

The King of Bamboo Reed couldn't take it anymore.

'This Ghost God must have something wrong with his head, blowing up his own Divine Kingdom along with mine.'

'This Divine War is impossible to fight.'

'You're ruthless!'

'Don't lower yourself to the level of a madman.' This was the thinking of any normal God.

Gritting his teeth, the King of Bamboo Reed announced a retreat.

But the fourth impact had already arrived.

He was completely numb.

The King of Bamboo Reed saw that the situation in the neighboring Ghost Realm was no better than in his Bamboo Reed Kingdom. It had completely turned into a swampland, with vast floods submerging large swaths of tomb clusters. Those fire-spitting tombstones that had given him such a headache were now all underwater.

The Ghouls, however, were emerging from the water and rapidly digging drainage ditches.

'They're reaping what they sow.'

A wave of satisfaction washed over the King of Bamboo Reed.

But when he turned back, he saw raging flames erupting from the cracks in the ground of the Bamboo Reed Kingdom. His own situation wasn't much better.

He no longer had the luxury to worry about anything else. He too began to perform Miracles, helping his Apostle deal with the various natural disasters and trying to save as many Bamboo People and Lumin as possible.

At that moment, an enemy Extraordinary Being suddenly sought out the Apostle Zhur Nan. The individual stated that the Ghost God wished to formally end the war so that both Divine Kingdoms could deal with the natural disasters together.

The King of Bamboo Reed remembered this fellow. His name was Yan Jiu, an Extraordinary Being known as a Sand Walker.

Not long ago, he had tried to obliterate this person with a Miracle—the Sand Walker had caused considerable trouble for the Bamboo People.

But then, a Level 99 Divine Descendant Giant had appeared out of thin air, leaving the King of Bamboo Reed completely stunned.

He was certain that was not the Ghost God's power.

Otherwise, the enemy could have just sent that giant, and it could have ended the war all by itself.

The experienced King of Bamboo Reed sensed that a powerful God had intervened from behind the scenes. It was just that the natural disasters had come so quickly, he hadn't had any time to think about it in detail.

Although the Sand Walker had powerful backing, he still observed the proper distance and duties between a mortal and a God. He paid a formal and polite visit to Zhur Nan.

"...Please inform the Lord King of Bamboo Reed that the Lord Ghost God sincerely hopes to end the war."

Zhur Nan replied just as politely, "I will report this to the Lord God."

After deliberately waiting a few days, the King of Bamboo Reed finally signaled for Zhur Nan to give a reply, indicating his agreement.

"Excellent."

Having received the answer, the Sand Walker immediately turned back to deliver the message.

The reason for the war no longer mattered. What was important now was to end it as quickly as possible and deal with the pressing disasters.

The King of Bamboo Reed later learned that the Gravel World impacts had nothing to do with the Ghost Realm after all. They were simply a startling phenomenon caused by the periodic changes of the Vortex World itself.

Of course, he would never admit that starting the Divine War was a misunderstanding.

With the Sand Walker shuttling back and forth as an intermediary, the two Gods quickly transitioned from hostility to a ceasefire, and then to mutual cooperation.

If a God was too concerned with face or acted on impulse, it meant they had either just entered the Divine Hall of the Gods or hadn't yet experienced the cruel beatings of the Crawling Area.

Both sides were veterans. Their pivot to cooperation was instantaneous.

In fact, because they had come to respect each other on the battlefield, their collaboration was even more harmonious.

The Bamboo People and Ghouls rushed to the most difficult front lines for dredging and rescue work. The Funeral Race and Lumin jointly developed a method of combining bamboo and tombstone structures. They used bamboo frameworks to withstand the impact of the floods and the soil and bricks from the tombstones to counter the flames erupting from underground, ensuring the Divine Kingdom's safety.

The damage to the Divine Kingdoms caused by the natural disasters was gradually brought under control, and everyone came to accept this new, larger, shattered world.

The two Divine Kingdoms and one broken Gravel World, far from being destroyed by the repeated collisions, were now tightly bound together. Their Rule Powers, in a constant cycle of breaking and mending, were slowly fusing into one.

Whether they liked it or not, both Gods understood that they would have to coexist in Symbiosis for a considerable time.

This was reality.

The new Divine Kingdom was composed of two small Divine Kingdoms and half a Gravel World. A columnar belt from the Gravel World happened to lie between the Bamboo Reed Kingdom and the Ghost Realm, and both sides used this as a border, maintaining their autonomy.

What the future would hold, no one knew.

They were only clear on one thing.

Right now, neither could afford any more losses. They had to rest and recuperate, restore their populations, and rebuild their Divine Kingdoms.

What's more, a Main God was looking down upon this place.

...

Compared to war, the post-war cleanup required more skill and Patience.

This was especially true now that there were two Gods here who had just been bombarded by Gravel Cannons. They were undoubtedly paying extremely close attention to all the changes in their Divine Kingdom, and that included the suspicious outsider, Yan Jiu.

If they were being watched, Gods could sense the presence of other Gods.

This was an experience Luh Yao had gained from his Subordinate Gods.

Therefore, it wasn't convenient to inform Yan Jiu of many things directly.

But this wasn't a problem either.

Luh Yao directly opened [Rule Repair] and, within the entry for [Ghost Realm], found [Sand Walker].

Under the local Sand Walker entry, there was only one sub-unit entry: Yan Jiu.

Through the backend interface, Luh Yao gave the Hero Yan Jiu a new directive: to devote himself to advocating for peace and mutual development in the local Divine Kingdom.

After receiving the Oracle, Yan Jiu immediately got to work, indirectly accelerating the arrival of peace between the two Divine Kingdoms.

The two great Divine Kingdoms entered the post-disaster reconstruction phase.

Currently, the Bamboo Reed Kingdom was suffering from an extreme water shortage. The Bamboo People's reproduction rate had plummeted, as all the moisture had been expelled into the outside world by the previously shattered Rule Power. To this day, the relevant rules remained severely damaged.

The Ghost Realm, on the other hand, was severely flooded. Its tombstones were submerged underwater for long periods, causing serious damage, and forcing the Funeral Race to frequently carry out repairs and relocations.

In this Divine Kingdom Adhesive, they couldn't just carry out a massive water diversion project. The disasters in each region were due to systemic deficiencies and accidents in the rules, which had to be treated at the root.

As the saying goes, if you're going to help, see it through to the end.

Luh Yao decided to help them one more time.

Calamity Beasts, though a disaster, were also a product of rules. They could increase Rainfall and also curb floods.

'A targeted deployment of a batch of Calamity Beasts over there... perfect.'