The Era of Gods-Chapter 652: The Cooperation Agreement with the Split Claw Dragon Battle Team

Major General Shan Jianfeng greeted Lin Xiao’s incarnation with a smile and a clasped fist:

"Congratulations to Lin Xiao for stepping into the Powerful Divine Power!"

Lin Xiao smiled and waved his hand, saying:

"It’s just a Powerful Divine Power from a medium-sized Crystal Wall Universe. It’s nothing compared to the larger Crystal Wall Universes, let alone the Main World."

Shan Jianfeng pointed to the freshly brewed hot tea on the coffee table in the hall and, taking a seat, said:

"Although it’s a medium-sized Crystal Wall Universe, Powerful Divine Power is still Powerful Divine Power. With this descent, you’ve already taken this step. Once you take the first step, the second will follow. As long as you repeat this step in different worlds and collect the suitable God’s Laws for your True Body to master, it won’t be long before your True Body will also take that step and become one of the top powerhouses in the Main World."

Lin Xiao nodded in agreement.

It wasn’t as if the promotion of the incarnation to Powerful Divine Power meant that his True Body could also ascend to Powerful Divine Power. The level of Powerful Divine Power was entirely different from all the previous levels, because according to the rules set by the Main World Gaia Will, to ascend to Powerful Divine Power, one must plunder God’s Laws from Different Domains.

In plain terms, although the Main World has well-established rules, the children of the God Realm cannot use the Main World’s God’s Laws to ascend to Powerful Divine Power.

This touches upon the core rules of the Main World, which is plunder.

The strength of the Main World is built upon the plundering of resources and laws from Alien Worlds by countless God Realm Kin. The lower-level children of the God Realm plunder resources and the Power of Faith, while higher-level beings like those with Powerful Divine Power plunder the very laws of Alien Worlds to strengthen the Main World.

Every Powerful Divine Power from the Main World must plunder laws that are sufficient to support their ascension from different worlds. Generally, unless one ascends to Powerful Divine Power from a top-tier Crystalline System like the Toriel Multiverse, which could potentially allow one to ascend directly within the Main World, such top-tier Crystalline Universes have rules no less perfected than the Main World.

Note that it might be possible, not definitely possible.

After all, the Main World has been growing stronger, strictly speaking stronger than the Toriel Multiverse. The God’s Laws mastered by the Powerful Divine Power of this world, although perfected, may not be as complete as those of the Main World.

But once one manages to do this, they are just one step away from ascending to Powerful Divine Power in the Main World. Then, it’s simply a matter of perfecting oneself to step into that level of Powerful Divine Power in the Main World.

However, in a medium-sized universe like the CY-00801 Crystalline System, the laws are not fully perfected. Even if one ascends to Powerful Divine Power within this Crystal Wall System, the laws they master would be far from the standards required to ascend in the Main World.

Therefore, even if he ascends to Powerful Divine Power in this world, Lin Xiao’s True Body is not yet capable of ascending to Powerful Divine Power.

But, as Major General Shan Jianfeng said, he has already stepped into Powerful Divine Power once and has overcome a certain threshold. In the future, as long as he ascends to Powerful Divine Power in different Crystal Wall Universes multiple times, accumulates similar God’s Laws from different worlds, and combines the laws of different worlds until breaking through a certain limit, he will naturally be able to ascend to Powerful Divine Power in the Main World as well.

The Powerful Divine Power from the Main World is much stronger than that of Alien Worlds. Shan Jianfeng, for example, is a seasoned veteran who has accumulated experience on several occasions. If he were to descend into this Crystal Wall Universe, he would definitely be able to challenge the Powerful Divine Power of this world by himself.

Shan Jianfeng immediately agreed to Lin Xiao’s request, willing to have the Split Claw Dragon Battle Team cooperate with him.

The two discussed how to collaborate, then chatted for a while before leaving.

Afterward, Lin Xiao left the military district of the Outpost Base and wandered around the recreational area, nodding in satisfaction as he observed the endless stream of people in the plaza.

Over the past two hundred years, the Outpost Base’s foot traffic had recovered a lot. Although it was not as high as when the Giant God Combat Team first established the base, it had returned to about seventy to eighty percent of its former level.

A large number of Divine Realm Kin, who had previously left due to drastic changes at the base, had returned. Many shops that had been closed were now open again. The central teleportation plaza was crowded with a large number of people, roughly estimated to be around a thousand—all Divine Realm Kin.

They were either preparing to descend into the CY-00801 Crystal Wall System via the Teleportation Array, or accompanying the towering teleportation light pillars, some people with great harvests returned from the Crystal Wall System, and just like what the Descenders loved to do the most, many Descenders loaded with loot would set up a stall or directly spread their goods on the ground to start selling as soon as they stepped out of the Teleportation Array.

Flea markets—are a traditional human skill!

Lin Xiao wandered through the bustling flea market, which was not very large but seemed lively, browsing the goods on the stalls like many other Descenders.

Although there was basically nothing that caught his eye, he was enjoying the atmosphere.

According to the information collected by the Outpost Base, the total number of civilian Descenders arriving over the years had exceeded ten thousand. The reason Lin Xiao had not seen even one previously was primarily because he had always stayed in the Dark Territory, and the information indicated that most civilian Descenders were not very strong, with few being True Gods. They did not like going to the highly competitive Primary Material Plane and mostly descended to the many planes outside the Primary Material Plane.

There, competition was minimal, and there were hardly any Indigenous True Gods, let alone True God Level Descenders from Other Races.

They did not have the great ambition like Lin Xiao to conquer this world. Their greatest wish was merely to achieve Divine Enthronement in this world—just the Divine Enthronement was enough.

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Then there is no need to go to the primary material plane where gods are everywhere and other races’ descendents abound; any world with a decent population will suffice.

In plain terms, as the de facto major general and battle team leader of the fifth war zone, Lin Xiao’s experiences now diverge completely from those of the common descendents who aren’t even True Gods.

Unconsciously, he has become an esteemed figure even in the eyes of ordinary descendents.

"Brother, how much are you selling this squad of steel golems for?"

Three Sons of the Divine Realm, wearing exquisite armor and carrying large swords, stood in front of a stall, pointing to a string of small dolls displayed on the second shelf and inquiring.

The dolls were just carved from ordinary stone and had no enchantments; what they were really asking about wasn’t the dolls themselves but the squad they represented, which consisted of twenty steel golems.

The size of the steel golems varied from four to five meters depending on the manufacturing process and model, and such large figures couldn’t possibly be displayed. These small items typically served as stand-ins for such large constructs.

Lin Xiao didn’t care about a squad of steel golems; what caught his attention were the various dolls filling the vendor’s stall, ranging from small stone golems to diamond golems or black lustrous stone golems as mighty as Rank 8 legends.

He hadn’t paid much mind before, but now, taking a closer look, he realized that not only were the items for sale extraordinary, but the stall owner himself was no common figure.

It turns out the vendor was a Great Arcane Mage, who was not only a Son of the Divine Realm but also had advanced on the path of an arcanist.

Simply put, it meant that some Sons of the Divine Realm did not take the path to Godhood, instead turning to become arcanists.

This was not a rare case; not every Son of the Divine Realm would make it to the end to achieve Divine Enthronement. In fact, out of tens of thousands of Sons of the Divine Realm, it’s possible none would succeed in the end.

Thus, some flexible-thinking Sons of the Divine Realm started looking for alternatives since Divine Enthronement was so difficult.

The most common alternative was to become an Indigenous God.

When we mention the hardship of Divine Enthronement, it refers specifically to the difficulty Sons of the Divine Realm face; Lin Xiao can relate to this. Establishing a religious district under the scrutiny of an alien world’s will is indeed challenging, but if one lowers their aim to become an Indigenous God, the difficulty significantly decreases.

It is still tough, but not as nearly unattainable as it is for the Sons of the Divine Realm.

As for the second path, it lies in becoming a mage, evolving into a powerful, legendary mage, a myth mage, and even a rare Great Arcane Mage—that’s also an option.

A myth mage is an ultra-legendary mage with strength comparable to a True God’s, possessing many advanced spells researched from the Main World and having a track record of direct confrontations with True Gods of the Son of the Divine Realm, thereby earning the title of myth mage.

The number of myth mages is quite small, much less than True Gods of the Sons of the Divine Realm, but it indeed represents a path to power.

Apart from these common choices, there are also many Sons of the Divine Realm who, by various means, have acquired True God level strength. As is widely known, the Chaotic Void Sea contains a vast number of Crystal Wall Universes with countless power systems, among which the Pantheon System is mainstream, but there are also many branches.

Many Sons of the Divine Realm who find the path to True Godhood blocked and lack the talent to become mages turn to these different domain systems.

For example, wizards or the sequence profession system Lin Xiao had seen in that strange world—these professions all have their presence in the Main World.

Unfortunately, these professions are mostly scarce in number, but collectively they are considerable and have their independent social circles that are usually invisible to outsiders.

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The stall of the Great Arcane Mage Son of the Divine Realm was filled with various golems, both in quantity and quality, attracting many descendents to observe, with many unable to resist making a purchase.

Golems like these are always a hot commodity, no matter where, and though Sons of the Divine Realm have kin from the Divine Realm who can be called to battle, who would willingly use them as cannon fodder? This is where various magic puppets can come into play.

After observing for a while, Lin Xiao noticed that in just a short time, the stall had sold more than two thousand stone golems and five or six hundred steel golems, with ten diamond golems sold out, and even more players were lining up to place custom orders.

Lin Xiao made a note of his name and instructed his subordinates to inquire about him.

He planned to cultivate a number of mages within his battle team, selecting some Sons of the Divine Realm with a talent for magic from the battle team’s reserves. The team would provide resources to foster their growth as mages.

Although if Main World Gaia is conquered in the CY-00801 Crystalline System, there would be plenty of Indigenous mages at his disposal; however, limited by their lifespan and confined to their own system, they are only suited for activities within their world and not with the battle team.

Aside from issues of lifespan, the crux of the matter is that Indigenous mages rely on the Magic Net for casting spells until they become legendary mages, and this Magic Net does not exist in other worlds, making their usefulness significantly diminished, valuable only within their own world.

On the other hand, mages cultivated from Sons of the Divine Realm don’t have this problem, as they don’t need a Magic Net. Provided they have the talent, each one could be a Great Arcane Mage with their own Divine Realm.

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