The Era of Gods - Chapter 245

Chapter 245: Chapter 245 Bart’s Trump Card
 

The Supreme Naga’s ascension to Asura Naga was most visibly marked by a sudden increase in appetite, as well as a surge in the Power of Faith provided.

Originally, the Power of Faith provided by the Supreme Naga was slightly less than that of Humans, but now, after ascending, whether in terms of strength or species hierarchy, they have surpassed Humans, and the Power of Faith provided has skyrocketed, reaching about twenty times that of Humans.

In other words, a True Believer who previously could only provide just under one point of Power of Faith could now provide about twenty points.

However, they still can’t compare to Dragons. Even now, as merely a casual believer, Black Dragon Nejelanmu, who follows Lin Xiao, provides several hundred times the Power of Faith of Humans, which is more than ten times that of Asura Nagas.

From this, it is clear that there is still a significant difference between Asura Nagas and the Dragon Clan.

But then again, Asura Nagas are more numerous than Dragons and have a much stronger reproductive capability.

Even if the reproductive ability of Asura Nagas were to be weakened, it would still be far stronger than that of Dragons. If they can’t match the quality, they can make up for it in quantity.

About ten thousand Asura Nagas are equivalent to two hundred thousand Humans and about two hundred and twenty thousand former Supreme Nagas. The Power of Faith gained from them every day…

Let’s just say, even if they are all just True Believers, he can harvest two hundred thousand points of Power of Faith from his Clan every single day.

In fact, many of the Core Races are at least Devout Believers, with at least one-fifth being Fanatic Believers, so the actual daily harvest of Power of Faith from the Core Races alone is nearly one and a half million, far surpassing all other Clans in the Divine Realm and serving as Lin Xiao’s largest source of Power of Faith.

Additionally, nearly ninety thousand Small Fishmen provide approximately two hundred and fifty thousand points of Power of Faith.

The Wise Goblins provide around eighty thousand points of Power of Faith.

Let’s momentarily ignore the Grey Dwarves.

Altogether, Lin Xiao can harvest about one million eight hundred thousand points of Power of Faith from his Divine Realm in a single day.

With various reasons causing fluctuations, he can harvest around six hundred million points of Power of Faith over a year. Calculating at one point of Divine Power coalesced from one million points of Power of Faith, he can collect up to six hundred points of Divine Power a year.

This number is already stronger than the average Demigod who has recently condensed their Godhood.

If placed in the Outland, it would barely be enough to support the faith requirement of a native New God.

With an abundance of Power of Faith, it’s like ordinary people becoming wealthy; naturally, many things can be done.

For example, occasionally opening the ancient colosseum to train the Asura Nagas.

The recently ascended Asura Nagas are mostly at Fifth Level, which is the just matured state, with less than a hundred and thirty at Sixth Level, and apart from Slarda, not a single one at Rank 7, It’s basically an ascension on their previous base.

But their strength is much stronger than before.

After all, they are barely stepping into the threshold of a transcendent species, a powerful species capable of challenging those beyond their level.

Although the gap between Fifth Level and Sixth Level, the common and transcendent cannot be bridged by overcoming level differences, it only takes two or three Asura Nagas to challenge an ordinary transcendent species, and in terms of combined military might, they are many times stronger.

Unfortunately, there isn’t an opponent to test their hands against at the moment, and Lin Xiao lacks a concrete understanding of his Core Races’ strength, which is somewhat regretful as he walks in brocade by nightfall.

It’s worth mentioning that during the second evolution of the Supreme Naga, they also received a substantial amount of feedback from the Creation Law.

But this time, there was neither feedback on Divinity nor were there any new Godhoods added; it seemed as if nothing was gained.

However, this does not mean that the modification and evolution failed to deepen the understanding of the Creation Law or that the feedback was insufficient, but rather…

Lin Xiao had an inkling of a certain change, as if a qualitative change was occurring, but it has not yet become apparent.

He realized that this time, there might be a great gain, but he’s just a little short of a qualitative change. Perhaps it will take another adjustment, or perhaps after another test on either the Grey Dwarves or Small Fishmen, and accumulating enough insight into the Creation Law, that might be enough to trigger a qualitative change.

There’s no rush for this; he plans to rest for a bit before attempting again.

Exiting his Divine Realm, he received a message from his little aunt, who said she’d be very busy in the coming months. Her elite class’s homeroom teacher was giving her and a few other students additional coaching, and she wouldn’t be able to meet for the time being.

She had mentioned this before, and after thinking, he replied with a red heart.

Leaving the dormitory, he wandered aimlessly around.

There were few pedestrians in the campus, most of them in a hurry, seldom sitting down for a chat, and even fewer like him and Shen Yuexin dating.

After aimlessly making a round, he stood at the edge of the Floating City for a while before turning back to the dormitory.

Just as he entered, a sudden inspiration struck him, and he snapped his fingers:

“Got it.”

He opened his wristband and sent a message to someone.

Suddenly, the screen popped open, and Yun Shaoning’s projection appeared before him. He seemed to be eating, frowning as he spoke:

“Lin Xiao, do you need something?”

Lin Xiao chuckled and said,

“Lately, I’ve been bored. Should we have a one-on-one simulation battle to train our clans a bit?”

Yun Shaoning looked him up and down with an expressionless face and spat out two words:

“Boring!”

After saying that, his projection flickered and disappeared as he voluntarily cut off the connection, leaving a disheveled Lin Xiao.

“Damn, he’s that cautious?”

At this, Lin Xiao was at a loss for words. His plan had died on the spot.

Since Yun Shaoning was not fooled, there was nothing he could do. The others weren’t very familiar to him and there were no particular debts of gratitude or grievances, so it wasn’t quite appropriate to hoodwink them.

In the time that followed, besides attending classes, Lin Xiao spent most of his time in the Divine Realm, focusing on the situation of the Asura Nagas.

As time passed, with the concerted efforts of many clans, the Main Divine Realm saw changes almost daily, and as years went by, the changes grew more significant.

After being promoted to Asura Naga, they had, so to speak, evolved from snakes into dragons. Their habits had changed drastically compared to before, and the existing Naga City had become unsuitable. Over the years, the Nagas had been searching for a suitable location to establish a new Naga City.

Seizing this opportunity, Lin Xiao issued a Divine-mandate to move the Church’s core from the Main Divine Realm to the space of the Heaven Divine Realm above it.

Over the years, the ecological system of the Heaven Card in the Main Divine Realm had gradually transformed this Divine Domain Space, and now it had become a large Divine Domain Space with a diameter exceeding fifteen kilometers.

Slarda led a large number of Devout Believers to this place and launched a massive construction project, intending to establish a Holy Ground of Belief.

In the vast ocean depths of the Main Divine Realm, Black Dragon Nejelanmu had just awoken from his slumber. He lifted his head high and let out a mighty roar. Stretched out his colossal body, protruding from the dragon’s nest and gazing at his territory, the gigantic figure flew out towards the open sea.

However, as he flew past a small coral reef, the passing Black Dragon suddenly paused, turned around, and circled back to hover over the coral reef. His huge pupils widened as he gazed down at a small group of Asura Nagas and Small Fishmen that looked remarkably similar to himself, feeling utterly bewildered.

The stopping Black Dragon startled the Nagas and Small Fishmen in the coral reef, and a dozen Asura Nagas quickly formed a formation, gripping their weapons without a hint of fear as they stared at the Black Dragon.

The two sides locked eyes for a short while, and the impatient Nejelanmu extended his massive dragon claw and pressed it down.

When Lin Xiao noticed the anomaly and turned his gaze here, what he saw were the countless Asura Nagas converging. Under the leadership of several dozen Sixth Level Naga warriors, the small island where the Black Dragon’s nest was located was tightly encircled. The wounded Black Dragon Nejelanmu hovered over the nest in the center of the island, letting out angry roars at the Nagas outside, yet he hesitated to dive bomb or return to the nest.

“Damn, what a character!”

With the privileges of a Divine Realm Master, he reviewed everything that had just happened. A dozen Supreme Nagas daring to attack a Black Dragon on their initiative, and several dozen Sixth Level Naga warriors, along with a few hundred Supreme Nagas, managing to defeat the Black Dragon head-on was quite unexpected—as much a relief as it was a pity.

He felt reassured that their strength was within expectations, but lamented that the Nagas’ reproduction rate was too low.

After many years of observation, the reproduction rate of the Supreme Nagas had nearly halved compared to before, which could be described as a drastic drop.

Out of more than ninety-nine hundred Asura Nagas, only about a hundred and forty offspring had been born in the past five to six years. The speed of reproduction was incredibly slow.

This was even with the reproduction speed boost from the Divine Domain Heaven Card. Without it, the speed would’ve been even more realistic.

This forced him to constantly expend the Power of Faith to use the Divine Extraordinary Ability ‘Reproduction’ and artificially aid them in increasing their reproduction speed.

Fortunately, he had this Divine Extraordinary Ability, which was not affected by race. As long as the body was disease-free, conception was certain, and this prevented him from feeling completely desperate.

The confrontation between the Asura Nagas and the Black Dragon Nejelanmu did not escalate into violence, as he reminded Slarda to call a halt.

Although the combat power of the Core Races had surged following their evolution, and the role of a Rank 7 Black Dragon was not as significant as it used to be, it was, after all, a Black Dragon—a rare source of Air Combat Power. It was worth keeping around, as the Divine Realm was not lacking in sustenance.

The days that followed were a calm period of nurturing and growth.

Lin Xiao spent a million Power of Faith every day to open the ancient coliseum to train the Asura Nagas, and every two days, he set aside a million Power of Faith to use the Divine Extraordinary Ability ‘Reproduction’, effectively ensuring that a new Asura Naga offspring would be conceived every two days.

If natural reproduction was also considered, then about two hundred newborns could be born within a year now, which was several times faster than the previous rate of a hundred and forty offspring over five to six years.

But still…

“It’s still too few.”

Two hundred a year, two thousand in ten years, twenty thousand in a hundred years. Even if the base number increases and the speed picks up a bit later on, it won’t be by much—the rate is still too slow.

Lin Xiao felt that he needed a batch of Breeding Cards.

He still had eight card slots unused. Originally there was one remaining, but over the last two months, six were added. With special recruit privileges adding one each quarter, he now had eight in total, but he didn’t have many cards at hand.

After returning from the Divine Realm, he took stock of his cards. He had six Golden Mythical Quality Five Star cards, one Orange Legend Quality card, and two Purple Epic Quality Five Star cards.

After some thought, he sent a message to his homeroom teacher.

At the edge of the Floating City, in the central tower among the many high towers, more than a dozen figures surrounded by divine light sat on crystal platforms, listening to someone in the center shrouded in divine light…