Chapter 897 (2/2)

“You would have to allow each side more time to prepare for the battle and to stock up their resources. This way, it will be a more hostile and intense battle,” Javier probably had already gotten the answer from the aforementioned “friend” and answered without hesitation.

Sui Xiong frowned and thought for a longer period of time before replying, “What if I continue to oppose the battle, then?”

“You are too busy. You won’t be able to find a good opportunity nor have sufficient energy to do so,” Javier said.

“Time is not the issue here.”

“In that case, you could change the battle around. Instead of it being a battle of life and death, it could be broken down into several small-scale sub-battles. Economic warfare could be included as well.” This time, it was Javier’s turn to hesitate before he could reply. “In that case, it wouldn’t be like the past where bodies lined the street and fresh blood flowed everywhere. However, realistically speaking, if you were to do this, there would be a greater quantity of victims and deaths in the long run.”

Javier paused for a second before continuing, “My “friend” requests for the God of War to estimate the death toll if the humans and Orcs were to engage in one ultimate battle. After all, in the past few years, they have already been attacking each other, and many have already died because of this conflict.”

As he spoke, he glanced at the God of War, Wenner.

The God of War was of course clued in on who this “friend” was, and he nodded. Using his priesthood, he retrieved materials from this world’s core and did some calculations in his head.

After he did so, shock became clearly written on his face.

“I think it’s safe to assume that the God of War has made the necessary calculations? The exact statistics are not needed. I would just like to know which method is best,” Javier said.

The God of War sighed and said, “The current killings’ death toll exceeds that of a potential one-off battle. It exceeds by a lot, actually.”

He thought for a while before adding on to his point. “In reality, if the humans and Orcs continue their current state of killings for 300 years, the death toll will exceed a one-off battle. If they continue for 1000 more years, the death toll would be quadruple that of a one-off battle.

All the gods fell silent as they were unsure as to what to say toward these statistics.

“Actually, this situation is similar to when someone is injured. When the wound has suppurated, one needs to choose between opening the wound to remove the pus or to cover up the wound,” Javier said. “Of course, with Void Mask’s capabilities, the wound could possibly be covered up very well, and one may not be able to identify it. However, nevertheless, there is no way to fully treat this wound, is there? Since there is no way to fully heal it, why not change to a method that would cure it? Although it would be painful, it would at least be effective.”

Sui Xiong was silent and did not speak for half a day. He could of course force his way through and argue that he would settle for any solution that was not war. Yet, what good would that do?

The war between the humans and the Orcs would definitely need to be solved somehow. There was the fact that the humans and Orcs had completely different values and societal mindsets. Even if this were two similar neighbors back on Earth, they would still fight till one side lost in order to achieve actual peace.

This “friend” had a clear and logical attitude towards the current issue. Even if Sui Xiong stopped or prevented an actual war between the humans and Orcs for now, they would still fight eventually no matter what. Even if Sui Xiong continued to oppose an actual war, he would also eventually have to change his methods and defeat the Orcs till they were no longer aggressive.

Sui Xiong really could not find a good enough reason to go against this logic and these gods. The most important thing was that even if he could convince these gods, he could not guarantee that this would not be an issue again in the future.

Perhaps, just as this “friend” had said, instead of letting the humans and Orcs continue to be enemies and kill each other permanently, they should be allowed to fight one giant war and identify a clear victor. The victor could stay on the Main Plane and the loser would leave for a faraway place. Effectively, the conflict would then end there and then.

This was better in the long term!