The Era of Gods

Chapter 489: Chapter 489: The Energy Master Alemente

Shen Yuexin was in Stormwind City, the capital of the Human Kingdom in the Eastern Continent, while he was in the Lightning Hill of the Western Continent, separated by an Endless Ocean.

If it were the game recalled by Lin Xiao’s memory, taking a ship or a flying boat and with a blink of an eye, he could traverse the Endless Ocean. However, in this real world, it was definitely not that simple. The vast Endless Ocean seemed even wider than the Pacific Ocean, so the thought of crossing it by ship was wishful thinking; ordinary ships could not withstand the storms of the ocean.

After asking in the world channel for several days, he found that so far, no one could cross the continent on their own from one side to the other. The few who could cross the continent did so through special quests, then were teleported by powerful mages with teleportation spells.

The problem was that these tasks were only released occasionally and were not daily tasks. Not only did they require extremely high reputation, but there was also a daily limit on the number.

But what troubled Lin Xiao the most was that too many people wanted to cross the continent; hordes of them were waiting in line, and he might not be able to secure a spot, nor did he have the time to keep waiting. He could not just hang around here for months or even longer, right?

So, after discussing it with his girlfriend, he decided not to be in a such hurry and to level up first. It was said that once a mage reached Level 60, they would learn various portal spells and could teleport directly to major cities.

Being Level 55 and only five levels away from Level 60, the difficulty of leveling up was harder than anyone could imagine.

In this real game, there was no concept of level cap, so leveling up was far more difficult than in the Warcraft world he remembered.

Of course, there was no level cap, but once their levels reached the racial limit, such as a Kobold’s maximum level being only Level 50, they could continue to gain experience and level up after reaching 50, but the required experience would be ten times more than before.

That meant once the racial level limit was reached, increasing the level required ten times the effort, and this multiplier increased every five levels.

A Kobold needed ten times the experience to go from Level 50 to Level 55, and a hundred times the normal experience to go from Level 55 to Level 60. Going forward, the multiplier would increase tenfold on the existing basis, such as a thousand times, ten thousand times.

Based on this geometric progression, players of lower-race species like Kobolds were unlikely to have much of a future.

Unless they changed their race or evolved their racial bloodlines.

For example, a Kobold becoming a Dragon-blooded Kobold, or a Goblin gaining powerful demon blood to become a Demon Gnome, increasing the racial strength and level limit.

He went to Mooncolor Town to learn horsemanship; one could only learn basic knight skills at Level 30 and purchased a warhorse that increased his moving speed by 60% for transportation.

However, due to slight differences in moving speed between different races and classes, the same mount could have slightly varying speeds for different riders, though the difference was not substantial.

He visited the main city of the Western Continent, Alemente, where Lin Xiao had spent several months mainly practicing the professions of Tailoring and Enchanting.

His main focus was on Tailoring, directly buying materials from the auction house to level up his skill by sitting and grinding.

Enchanting was just a side focus since the profession required continuous dismantling of equipment to gather materials to make enchantment supplies, which was very costly.

After dismantling some low-level, cheap equipment bought at the auction house, he did not continue to practice. He planned to wait until later when he could dismantle equipment acquired from grinding and looting in dungeons, taking it slow.

The Moon Xiao Crystal Wall System, Moon Xiao main plane.

Standing in the void, Lin Xiao’s gaze was fixed on the main plane. At some point, various cataclysms had started to occur on the main plane – earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis triggered by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions – with increasing frequency, already beginning to affect the entire main plane’s spatial structure.

He knew this was the result of his continuous extraction of the world’s origin. As he kept on drawing it out, these disasters would become more frequent, continuously damaging the whole world until its destruction, an irreversible trend.

Lin Xiao had begun to consciously spread rumors of the apocalypse among his believers, though not many believed it now. However, it was foreseeable that with the increasing severity of the cataclysms, disbelief would turn to belief.

The problem now facing Lin Xiao was how to arrange for these believers in the future. The New Moon Domain was a good plane before, but he could not hold onto it; moreover, they had given him so much that he couldn’t resist. Reflecting on it now, he felt somewhat ashamed.

In the south of the Moon Xiao main plane, hundreds of thousands of natives from the New Moon Domain had seamlessly integrated into this new plane. Under the guidance of priests, they had completely abandoned their previous tribal way of life. In the highlands of the southern Mountain Range, they built a city, cleared forests, cultivated land, defended against attacks from Underground Insects, and developed quite well.

This location was deliberately chosen by Lin Xiao; beneath the southern highlands was a vast Underground World, inhabited by a large population of Insects.

He purposefully settled them here to use the Underground Insects as a means to hone them.

Bloodline Magicians needed constant battle and training to fully awaken and elevate their bloodlines.

More than a thousand kilometers north of Dragon City State was a Human Kingdom. These thousand kilometers served as a buffer zone and expansion area between Dragon City State and the world of humans. Once they grew in population and extended their lands to this region, they could commence trade with the Human Kingdom.

According to his estimates, it would take several million people for Dragon City State to grow to this point, ensuring enough strength to resist the covetousness of the Human Kingdom.

The initial interactions would definitely involve war; only when they could not be conquered would they sit down to talk.

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To convince the human kingdom of the Moon Xiao main plane to abandon their current power system and switch to the bloodline sorcerer system, they’d have to be thoroughly persuaded, and that would undoubtedly take a considerable amount of time.

“Hopefully, it can be done before the plane is destroyed!”

Withdrawing his gaze, Lin Xiao focused his consciousness into his own Divine Realm.

Within the Main Divine Realm, two gigantic orbs—one large and one small, one gold and one silver—hung suspended in two different locations.

The orb radiating dazzling silver starlight hung above the center of the Star Spirit race; this was the Star Spirit leader, Alemente.

The other, an extra-large golden metal sphere emitting blinding golden light and measuring over two kilometers in diameter, was situated in the center of the Divine Realm; this was Slarda.

After returning to the Divine Realm at the end of the War, Lin Xiao had bestowed upon them fifty and a hundred units of Divinity, respectively, as well as all the Divine Power he had accumulated over time, igniting their Divine Fire using the Minor Deification Technique along with the High Authority Power to forcibly advance them to Demigods.

But these two were far too powerful, with extraordinary potential that surpassed any others within the Divine Realm. After the Divinity and Godhood were bestowed and their Divine Fire ignited, they both transformed into giant Light Cocoons, and there had been no other reaction since.

Lin Xiao had been waiting for what felt like years until today when he sensed a slight fluctuation in the silver orb embodying Alemente. The Star Spirit was about to awaken.

Silently observing the orb, the ripple grew stronger and stronger, the silver starlight became more and more intense, and the power fluctuations that were vaguely discernible also grew more potent—a divine strength even greater than that of Kurbert, the Flame Lord.

After what felt like an eternity, the silver orb suddenly exploded. The surging star power burst forth, and Lin Xiao narrowed his eyes—the Eye of Truth clearly saw a colossal figure of light slowly unfurl amidst the infinite divine starlight.

Having ascended to Demigod, Alemente’s form had significantly changed, having completely transformed into a being of energy.

Star Spirit—Alemente: Possesses the Star Spirit race’s deity, Magic Divine Position, Mage priesthood, Star priesthood, and the ancient gods’ priesthood power.

As the leader of the Star Spirit race and their first Demigod, Alemente could gather faith from the Star Spirits and all Mages. Moreover, he possessed the power of an Ancient God’s Divinity—one of the four fundamental foundations composing the world’s Godhood. As long as the world existed, he would continuously acquire Divine Power.

The four fundamental foundations of the world’s Godhood are Time, Space, Energy, and Matter.

Earth, fire, wind, and water are the four fundamental energies, and together with positive and negative energies, they form the Energy aspect of the foundational Godhood.

Lin Xiao’s expectations for the Star Spirit race were exceedingly high, to the point where he had even bestowed upon them the ancient Energy Deity.

As for Slarda, the ancient Deities he was prepared for him were Matter and War.

Indeed, Slarda would possess both Matter and War as his ancient Godhoods.

Fortunately, he had merged with the Origin Core of the Crystal Wall System; as the newly born micro Crystal Wall System itself, he was entitled to bestow any ancient Godhoods.

As the Divine Realm Master, Lin Xiao held the Minor Divine Enthronement Technique together with Supreme Authority Power. Combined, these could directly condense seeds for nearly all priesthoods.

Indeed, the various priesthoods that the previous Demigods possessed, such as Alemente’s Magic and Star priesthoods, were still only seeds. They would have to expend Divine Power, or refine the actual priesthoods in the future, to fully acquire these priesthoods.

For instance, Kurbert, as the Flame Lord, would immediately possess the formal Flame priesthood, which is very powerful.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

However, the priesthoods of Fire Element and Lava Volcano are currently just seeds, indicating that he only needed to use enough Divine Power to derive and gradually master these new priesthoods without any other stringent conditions.

This is the magic of combining the Minor Divine Enthronement Technique with Supreme Authority Power—it directly provides them with templates for priesthoods.

The newly transformed Alemente was not yet a match for the Flame Lord Kurbert, but his potential far exceeded that of Kurbert. It was foreseeable that as soon as a few priesthoods materialized, his strength would surpass the Flame Lord.

As for Slarda, there was no need to mention his potential; even before igniting his Divine Fire, he was already stronger than the current Flame Lord, and it would be even more so after his transformation.

However, due to Slarda’s immense strength, his transformation was not yet complete—he was still within his Light Cocoon.

Inside the Light Cocoon, Lin Xiao sensed that the energy intensity was still rising without any sign of stopping. Not waiting around, he turned his attention elsewhere, deciding to deal with other matters first.

His will returned to the core of the Divine Palace within his Divine Realm, from where he attempted to contact the fragment of his consciousness that descended into the Star Soul Crystal Wall System.

That fragment of consciousness, usually quite indistinct, had recently strengthened a bit though still not enough to enable direct communication.

Uncertain whether the fragment was too weak or the shielding and suppression of the Star Soul Crystal Wall System was too strong, Lin Xiao had tried communicating when he first descended, but there was no response as if a mountain stood between them.

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