Noah remained at the tactical station after Commander Garran dismissed the five planetary lords to prepare their forces. The projection of Caldris’s eastern frontier still hovered before him, displaying mountain passes, rivers, forests, fortified roads, and known military positions.
The others had already moved toward their own workstations, but Noah stayed where he was. His decision had already been made. There was no reason to involve all four goblin empires in a campaign against only one portion of a medieval kingdom.
Caldris would already be fighting invasions from multiple directions, and Noah believed one empire was more than sufficient to destroy the eastern front.
Before contacting Viridian, Noah turned his attention toward something he had barely considered during the accelerated centuries: his Faith Points. When his goblin population was still small, every point had mattered. In the earliest centuries, his followers numbered only in the thousands, and the different tribes had not yet developed stable religions. Three thousand accelerated years had changed that completely.
Through his connection with the Planet Seed, Noah could examine the accumulated faith produced throughout his world’s history. Faith Points were generated through sincere belief over time rather than population alone. One thousand accumulated worshipper-years produced one Faith Point, meaning a thousand faithful followers worshipping him for one planetary year would produce the same amount as one believer maintaining sincere faith for a thousand years.
His early centuries had contributed relatively little. During the first hundred years, the average number of genuine believers was only around five thousand, producing roughly five hundred thousand worshipper-years. Between years one hundred and five hundred, the growing tribes averaged around two hundred fifty thousand believers, adding one hundred million worshipper-years. Between years five hundred and one thousand, the expansion of settlements and organized religion raised that average to roughly two million, producing another billion.
The enormous gains came after kingdoms, trade networks, priesthoods, and continental governments appeared. Between years one thousand and fifteen hundred, Noah averaged roughly eight million sincere worshippers. Between fifteen hundred and two thousand, that figure rose to approximately twenty million. The following five hundred years averaged around forty-five million, while the final five centuries of acceleration reached close to eighty million active believers spread across the four continents.
The accumulated result appeared clearly through his connection.
Faith Points Generated: 77,600,500
Noah had spent relatively little during the three thousand years. He had deliberately avoided solving every problem through miracles, preferring to let the goblins develop independently. His early interventions, limited manifestations, blessings, and divine signs had consumed only a fraction of what he accumulated.
Faith Points Previously Spent: 112,000
Current Faith Points: 77,488,500
Noah studied the total for a moment. The acceleration chamber had not merely granted three thousand years of civilization development. It had also allowed three thousand years of worship to accumulate while almost no comparable time passed for him in the God Civilization.
He then checked the current population of his world. Goblinkind now numbered approximately one hundred two million four hundred thousand. Varkesh contained around twenty-nine million eight hundred thousand goblins, Skargrim twenty-four million six hundred thousand, Viridian twenty-seven million two hundred thousand, and the Luminous Empire roughly twenty million eight hundred thousand.
Noah focused on Viridian. Garran knew none of those numbers. As far as the commander knew, Noah had awakened goblins and used an acceleration chamber. He did not know four continental empires existed, how advanced their governments had become, or how much military power any of them possessed. Noah had no intention of explaining more than necessary.
His perception descended toward the southern continent. The Viridian Empire stretched across river valleys, wetlands, jungles, cultivated plains, and volcanic territories. Barges carried cargo between cities. Soldiers trained inside imperial fortresses. Officials recorded taxes and supplies in administrative centers that would have been unimaginable to their tribal ancestors.
Noah could have selected the exact regiments himself, but he rejected the idea. Viridian had spent centuries developing its own generals, supply systems, military bureaucracy, and methods of campaigning. If Noah had to personally organize every soldier and wagon, then the empire had learned very little during those three thousand years.
Instead, he would give them an objective.
For the first time, Noah prepared a Divine Mandate intended to reach an entire empire simultaneously. Unlike the subtle signs that had shaped early goblin religion, there would be no uncertainty about whether their god had spoken.
The cost appeared through his Planet Seed.
Reaching the whole Viridian population required one Faith Point for every hundred recipients. With twenty-seven million two hundred thousand goblins under Viridian rule, the mandate would require two hundred seventy-two thousand Faith Points.
Noah approved the expenditure.
Faith Points Remaining: 77,216,500
His presence descended over Viridian.
Across the empire, priests stopped mid-prayer, merchants paused in crowded markets, soldiers lowered their weapons, and farmers looked upward from flooded fields. Imperial officials froze over their records while sailors on broad rivers felt the same pressure settle over them. Noah did not appear physically. He did not need to. His voice reached every Viridian goblin with perfect clarity.
"Children of Viridian, hear the command of your god."
Millions fell silent. Some immediately knelt, while others stood motionless beneath the overwhelming certainty that the presence they had worshipped for generations was speaking directly to them.
"For three thousand years, your people have crossed rivers, forests, mountains, and seas. You have fought beneath one sky and believed your world contained the limits of creation. That belief is incomplete."
Across the empire, priests and scholars listened in stunned silence.
"Beyond your heavens lie other worlds. They possess their own lands, their own peoples, their own kingdoms, and their own gods."
The revelation shattered beliefs that had survived for millennia. Scholars who had debated the nature of the heavens suddenly possessed an answer that none of them could dispute.
Noah continued before uncertainty could overcome the message.
"Upon one of those worlds stands a kingdom that shall oppose my will. I have chosen Viridian to march against it. The Viridian Empire shall prepare for Divine War."
The phrase spread immediately. Soldiers repeated it inside fortresses while priests whispered it beneath temple roofs. In the imperial capital, guards instinctively struck their weapons against the ground in recognition of the command.
Noah understood his followers well enough to know that duty alone was not the only force capable of moving an empire.
"Beyond the road I shall open lie lands no goblin has walked, resources no goblin has claimed, and knowledge unknown beneath your sky. Those who cross in my name and return victorious may bring the rightful spoils of that foreign world back to Viridian."
Depending on who heard it the benigits becomes enticing to each goblins. Priests heard sacred purpose. Generals heard conquest. Merchants heard unknown resources. Scholars heard knowledge no goblin possessed. Soldiers heard glory and wealth.
Noah finished the empire-wide command.
"Prepare warriors, commanders, scouts, engineers, healers, and those who sustain armies. Do not send every goblin capable of holding a weapon. Send those capable of carrying Viridian’s banner into another world and returning with victory."
The divine pressure lifted.
Viridian did not return to normal.
Inside the imperial capital, Emperor Varokh III rose from his throne while ministers and officials were still recovering from the mandate. His dynasty had ruled for nearly two centuries, but no emperor in its history had ever received such a direct command.
"Summon the Imperial War Council."
One minister hesitated.
"Your Majesty, should the High Temple first interpret the meaning of the Divine One’s words?"
Varokh looked at him.
"He commanded war. What exactly do you want interpreted?"
The minister lowered his head.
"Nothing, Your Majesty."
Messengers left the palace immediately.
Noah watched the reaction and decided the military leadership required more information. He narrowed his divine connection until only the emperor and selected senior commanders could hear him. The focused message cost almost nothing compared with the earlier mandate.
He gave them the name Caldris and showed them fragments of the eastern frontier: mountains, forests, river valleys, fortified roads, castles, steel-equipped infantry, cavalry, bows, crossbows, and primitive siege weapons.
"The enemy is humanoid and organized. Their civilization is less developed than yours, but they possess armies, fortifications, and gods of their own."
The mention of foreign gods caused visible unease among the generals.
"Other armies will attack Caldris from different directions. Viridian will break the eastern front. Prepare forces suited to forests, rivers, fortified positions, siege warfare, reconnaissance, engineering, long-distance supply, and medical support. The size and composition of the expedition are yours to decide."
The emperor looked upward even though Noah had no physical form before him.
"Divine One, when will the road open?"
"Soon. When the time comes be ready."
Noah withdrew.
For several moments, the imperial war chamber remained silent. Then an elderly general placed both hands on the map table before him.
"We are being ordered to invade a land that exists on no map."
Another commander answered without hesitation.
"Then we will make the map as we goes."
Varokh looked around the gathered officers.
"The Divine One chose Viridian. We will not answer that honor with hesitation."
Orders spread across the empire within the hour. Provincial commanders were instructed to nominate veteran formations. Engineers specializing in bridges, roads, fortifications, and siege equipment were summoned. Scouts, river troops, healers, logisticians, and experienced expeditionary officers received priority.
The empire did not just mobilize millions.
It began constructing a specialized army.
A name appeared in official proclamations and spread rapidly through military camps across the southern continent: the Divine Expeditionary Army.
Competition for selection became immediate. Veteran regiments petitioned for the honor. Noble officers sought appointments. Priests declared the campaign sacred, while merchants quietly began considering what goods might exist in a world untouched by goblin trade.
Noah watched the machinery of the empire respond without another command. That satisfied him more than blind obedience would have. Three thousand years had created a government capable of converting a few divine instructions into practical military preparation.
He gradually withdrew his perception from Viridian and returned his attention to the Aelwyn facility. Only a short period had passed around him. Caldris’s eastern frontier still floated above his workstation, and Garran remained occupied elsewhere with the other planetary lords.
His Faith Point balance remained enormous.
Faith Points: 77,216,500
To Garran, Noah was still simply a newly awakened planetary lord preparing to deploy goblins. He did not know that an empire of more than twenty-seven million goblins had just begun mobilizing at Noah’s command.
For three thousand years, Viridian had fought for territory beneath its own sky. Now its armies were preparing for a battlefield beyond their world, and the first Divine War in goblin history was about to begin.
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