The Era of Gods

Chapter 236: New Hero – Tide Lord Akens

Teacher Jin Sisi, the head of the elite class for second-year students at the secondary school, sat solemnly on a crystal platform near the front, listening intently, when suddenly she furrowed her brows and looked down, then quickly raised her head again.

An old voice sounded as its gaze fell upon her:

“Teacher Jin SiSi, I heard you have chosen someone already?”

She knew to whom the voice was referring and nodded respectfully in

response:

“Your Excellency, the principal, yes.”

Whispers of discussion spread throughout the surroundings.

The aged voice continued:

“As head of the elite class, you have the freedom to allocate those top resources as you see fit. 1 shouldn’t interfere, but as an elder and someone who has watched you grow up, I feel obligated to remind you that while you have the right to distribute those resources freely, according to the school’s rules, each allocation must result in corresponding returns. I won’t meddle in whom you choose, but your chosen student must achieve corresponding grades in the midterm exams. If they fail to meet the minimum standard, you will lose the right to allocate that resource next time.”

“1 understand!”

She replied emotionlessly.

“Best to keep that in mind.”

The voice, neither blaming nor biased, simply stated the facts. After delivering

the message to the others, it added:

“This midterm examination is both an assessment of your performance last term and a determinant for the distribution of resources next term. The old man’s rivalry with that fellow from the first school is a minor matter, so you’re all well aware of the consequences of good or bad grades. I won’t elaborate further. Put in the effort!”

“All right, Teacher Jin SiSi of the elite first class in year two, stay behind. The rest of you, the meeting is adjourned.”

The other secondary school class heads stood up, paid their respects toward the center, and one by one vanished from sight, leaving only Jin SiSi seated, unmoving.

Once the others had departed, the aged voice whispered in her ear:

“You’re not very lucky this time. We lost the last round, so instead of ten places in Radiance, the second school can only take four, with six going to the first school. Of the four places, you only have two spots to allocate freely; the remaining two must be competed for with other classes. No objections, right?”

“None.”

“Good, you know there has been dissatisfaction about your sudden appointment as head of the elite class, and many are watching you. The best way to silence them is to leave them without anything to criticize. Work hard!”

“I will.”

“By the way, which student have you set your sights on? Send me their

information.”

“Alright.”

Upon leaving the meeting room, Jin SiSi exhaled softly, and with a flash of red light, the tall figure of Counsellor Zhu Hong materialized. She asked:

“So, how many spots do we have?”

“Two,”

“That’s a bit few, but normal. After all, other classes can’t threaten us. Our only competition is the first school. By the way, if there are only two spots, are Lin Xiao and Gu Xiaoming the only certain candidates?”

“Unless there’s a surprise.”

“The others will either take the in-school exams or acquire spots from their

own clans.”

“Right, are you really keen on that kid?”

Jin SiSi looked at her with a strange gaze, and Zhu Hong quickly waved her hand:

“I mean, the student named Lin Xiao, who you’ve chosen to support?”

“Yes.”

Zhu Hong pondered for a moment and said:

“The student is indeed quite outstanding, but I feel there’s something missing.

Are you sure you don’t want to wait another year or two?”

Jin SiSi shook her head, her expression resolute:

“It’s him. I have a feeling he’s different from the others.”

Shrugging, Zhu Hong replied:

“Alright then, I hope your intuition plays out and you surprise us one day. It was two hours later when Lin Xiao received a reply from his class advisor. He did not question the delay, only inquired about exchanging several cards. Four Golden Mythical Quality cards were exchanged for twelve rare Breeding Cards, and combining three into one resulted in four Golden Mythical Quality Enhanced Breeding Cards loaded into the Divine Realm, each lasting ten years for a total of forty years, conveniently around the time of the midterm exams.

In addition, I exchanged two five-star epic cards for two three-star mythical quality dwarf cards from the head teacher, one with thirty black iron dwarves and the other with ten golden dwarves.

Though fewer in number and thus lower in card level, black iron dwarves and golden dwarves are rare and powerful dwarf races, so the quality of the cards is high.

Lin Xiao now has nine units of Creation Energy left, which may not be enough for major adjustments, but it’s certainly sufficient to allow grey dwarves to absorb the excellent talents of black iron and golden dwarves.

Essentially, grey dwarves are of the same race as other dwarf tribes, with the only difference being a variance in talents.

Using the Creation Rubik’s Cube, Lin Xiao decomposed all thirty black iron dwarves from the black iron dwarf card and ten golden dwarves from the golden dwarf card, consuming two units of Creation Energy from each of the two dwarf bloodlines to extract one talent.

Considering the limited Creation Energy, he did not excessively adjust the genome of the grey dwarves. He simply cleared their cluttered gene pool, made space, and integrated the talents of the black iron and golden dwarves into it, turning them into grey dwarf talents.

Extracting the talents of the two types of dwarves consumed four units of Creation Energy, and clearing and merging the grey dwarf gene pool also consumed four units, using up a total of eight units of Creation Energy to give birth to a new dwarf race with a blend of three dwarf talents.

Since no adjustments were made, the newly born dwarves did not look any different, except for a dark golden skin color, but their potential and strength indeed underwent a huge change.

The talent from the black iron dwarves is known as Black Iron Blood immune to bleeding, poison, disease, and curses from anything below legend; it reduces a certain amount of physical damage and enhances resistance to critical and lethal hits.

The talent from the golden dwarves is known as Golden Bloodline-immune to curses, fear, charm, and blindness from anything below legend; it reduces a certain amount of magic damage and increases resistance to all spell effects. Lin Xiao remembered that golden dwarves had a powerful talent called Son of Earth; if he had enough Creation Energy, he could try to uncover it. Unfortunately, Creation Energy is limited, and he can’t continue to delve deeper.

For now, there’s no way; he’ll just remember it and see next time he has enough Creation Energy.

The newly fused dwarves were named by him as Earth Dwarves, possessing two powerful talents in one body, their strength…

“This is pretty strong!”

Black Iron Blood reduces physical damage while Golden Bloodline reduces magic damage and spell resistance, adding to a host of immunities… He was surprised to find that the Earth Dwarves, after merging these two talents, had quite a high combat prowess.

With this talent, armed with elite weapons and equipment, they could absolutely be the core troops in the Divine Realm, fully capable of replacing the previously envisioned Zoel Elves.

This was an unexpected joy.

As long as their numbers grow, they will definitely be a formidable force. For the time being, these Earth Dwarves are placed in the Earth Divine Realm. They are fond of this environment filled with rocks and minerals. He does not know how many minerals he has scavenged from that underworld, almost filling up this vast Earth Element Domain. Now they are establishing a camp at the foot of a mountain made of mineral stones, and they are energetically digging and building a city.

This group of dwarves currently has no leader, and their level of faith is not high, with most being general believers and less than one-fifth being True Believers, and only a dozen or so Devout Believers, the lowest compared to other clans in the Divine Realm.

Slarda is already preparing a group of priests to go there and boost faith. He does not demand they match other clans, but at a minimum, all should be True Believers or above to meet the standard.

This is Lin Xiao’s minimum requirement; his God Realm Kin cannot have any believers below True Believer.

Following that, time was somewhat uneventful, with the subsequent theory classes leaning towards about crafting golems and automata, as well as the application of various war machinery in combat.

Therefore, the main content of the fifth major class involved them manually crafting various puppets and golems, combined with War Machinery dueling, with each student allocated the same materials and challenged to create various golems for combat.

This lesson was just up his alley. Owning the Tower of Truth, with the backing of an entire race of Wise Goblins, he was top-notch both theoretically and practically in this field, outperforming even some college seniors who were not adept in this area.

While other students were using Stone Golems or Armored Golems, he brought out the wisdom of Steel Golem crafting, an expertise painstakingly developed by the hero Alemente of his kin, and swiftly earned his fifth very distinguished spot.

With that, all five major classes of the previous term came to an end, and he and Gu Xiaoming were the only two who received excellent evaluations in all major classes.

One day, Lin Xiao’s will was projected in the Earth Divine Realm; after decades of reproduction and construction, a population exceeding twenty thousand Earth Dwarves finally established a huge Dwarf City within the Divine Realm. A majestic statue of the Main God of Truth and Creation was reverently brought to the city center by over a hundred Earth Dwarves, as twenty thousand devout Earth Dwarves knelt and gazed upon it.

Slarda personally descended to preside over the city-building ceremony in the Earth Divine Realm, and Lin Xiao expended over ten million Power of Faith to bestow a large-scale miracle, significantly boosting the faith of countless witnesses.

Main Divine Realm.

Thanks to his decades of relentless use of Reproductive divine transcendental abilities, along with an Enhancing Breeding Card that enhanced Reproduction speed by five hundred percent, and the strong advocacy for childbirth, the total number of Naga warriors had doubled, exceeding twenty thousand.

With a larger base number, the reproduction rate also increased. Although it was not too fast, it was certainly an improvement from the few dozens per year before.

Out of nearly twenty-two thousand Naga warriors, there were 1,254 children, with the rest being adult warriors.

After opening the ancient arena for over thirty years, even considering the low probability of advancing to Transcendence, non-stop training over the years resulted in a Divine Realm that now had more than two thousand one hundred Sixth Level Naga warriors and thirty-six Rank 7 Naga knights.

This was still without real combat experience. If there were enough battles, a large number of the eighteen thousand plus Rank 5 Naga warriors would break through their limits and advance to Sixth Level Transcendence. In addition, numerous Sixth Level Naga warriors would breach their limits and ascend to Rank 7 High Transcendents.

By this time in the Divine Realm, the Black Dragon Nejelanmu had long lost his initial pompousness and become very low-key.