Calamity Dragon, Starting with the Cultivation of Knight Families

Chapter 173: Gods and the World Coexist, the Secret of Conquering the Astral Plane.

The Troll Empire actually has more than sixty gods.

Three main gods and five powerful deities.

This was the pinnacle of power for the entire Troll Empire, no, the Torbjörn Empire.

Trolls are just what Link calls them.

These trolls have their own names.

They claim to be from the Tobien race, and also from the planet Tobien Empire.

According to the troll governor.

At its peak, the Tobien Empire had nearly 150 deities when it ventured into the Astral Plane.

There are thousands of demigods, and over ten thousand saints.

However, nearly 80% of them are false saints or false gods.

Those who truly have a chance at becoming gods are the other 20% who achieve sainthood or demigod status through their own efforts.

The Tobien Empire naturally cherishes beings who achieve Saint and Demigod status solely through their own power.

Therefore, in general, when waging war against foreign enemies, the commanders used as "line-filling babies" on the front line are often pseudo-saints as the main force and pseudo-demigods as the auxiliary force.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, powerful individuals who aspire to become gods are actually well protected by the empire.

Just like this troll governor right now.

Often, it is only after the empire has almost completely conquered a world that these individuals who have become saints on their own are assigned to clean up and garrison the new world.

Of course, most of the Saint-level and Demigod-level beings are still in seclusion on the Imperial Star, trying their best to improve themselves.

Everything was in preparation for ascending to godhood in various new worlds.

Just like the continent of Calter now.

It's actually in the astral plane.

At this very moment, at least a hundred demigods, under the protection of several deities, are doing everything possible to condense the divine laws belonging to the world of Calter.

Once these demigods can truly condense the divine laws belonging to the world of Calter.

Then, once they have solidified and integrated these divine qualities into themselves as much as possible, they can begin to attempt to ascend to godhood.

This is what is known as the new god.

They are also the gods of the new world.

After all, in the words of the Tobien Empire.

There is a limit to the number of deities a world can contain.

The number of deities that each world can nurture varies depending on the total amount of mana magic in the world.

In the lower-level Mana world, the magical environment is generally limited to supporting a number of deities, ranging from none to a handful.

The magical environment of a medium-sized Mana world can nurture at least dozens to hundreds of such creatures.

After all, even in worlds with medium-level magic, there are different energy levels, and compared to worlds with low-level magic, the energy level is a level higher, so there are relatively more deities.

As for the magical environment of the higher Mana world, the Tobien Empire predicts that there will be at least three hundred, or even a thousand, deities.

Any more than that would be beyond the current imagination of the Tobien Empire.

As for how to know how many gods each world can support.

In this respect, to use the words of the Tobien Empire, when there are no more demigods in the world who can guide the world's rules and ignite the divine fire, it means that all the divine positions in the world have been divided up.

The number of deities is not directly related to the laws of the world.

Because the myriad worlds of the astral plane are all under the control of a larger world, namely the laws of the universe.

Therefore, the laws governing different worlds are essentially the same.

What truly influences the number of deities is the magical environment.

The magical environment determines everything.

Because the great power that so-called gods were able to wield at the beginning of their ascension to godhood was ultimately borrowed from the power within the world.

All of these powers are gathered from the will of the World Mana.

If there are too many gods, the world's environment will not be able to support the consumption of these gods.

This explains the varying numbers of different deities in different worlds.

But gods, in the end, are not simply 'parasites' of the world.

After all, the laws of the world give rise to the existence of gods, essentially to make the world a better place step by step.

Therefore, it is only at the beginning of their ascension to godhood, when their divine power is weak, that gods need to rely on the power within the world.

Once a deity reaches intermediate or even powerful divine strength...

The deity can then begin to use another kind of power to empower itself.

This power is also known as 'Star Energy' by the Tobien Empire.

The so-called 'star energy' does not refer to the energy of planets, but rather the energy of the astral plane.

What is astral energy?
It's actually quite easy to understand; it's nothing more than cosmic radiation energy or dark energy.

Any energy originating from outside a planet is collectively referred to as 'stellar energy'.

How does a world with magic maintain the magical environment inside its planets, and how does it prevent it from decaying?
That is the fundamental world rule known as the Will of Mana by the Tobien Empire in the world with demons. In fact, it constantly absorbs 'stellar energy' during the planet's operation.

It is the fundamental rules governing the planet that transform stellar energy into magic!

That's why extraordinary beings and extraordinary lives have appeared in the world.

Stellar energy is so violent that it cannot be directly absorbed by mortals.

The planetary will of Mana resolved this issue by calming the stellar energy's rage and ultimately transforming it into a gentle secondary energy that spread throughout the world.

Therefore, the true function of the gods.

It actually became apparent at this time.

Yes, deities are merely auxiliary tools for planets, designed to enable them to absorb more and faster energy from beyond the astral plane.

This gradually and continuously raises the overall energy level of the world.

As long as a planet's energy level continues to increase, the number of deities a world can nurture will naturally increase.

Therefore, from this perspective, the gods and the world actually have a symbiotic relationship that complements each other.

Therefore, only after a deity has successfully ascended to godhood will he be 'expelled' from the world.

Furthermore, they will not easily allow gods to return to the interior of the world, in order to prevent the occurrence of damage to the interior of the world that might result from a war between gods.

In this respect, the Mana Will of the Demon World remarkably maintains the same basic rules.

In short, once you become a god, regardless of whether you are a native deity or not, Mana's will is to maintain an attitude that no god will be allowed to return.

Even if they could return, the constant 'watching' and suppression imposed by the world's rules would be even more terrifying. As for the benefits of the gods conquering the astral plane, these naturally became apparent at this point.

For the local world.

The creatures of the native world conquer the astral plane, and once they succeed, they can use the magical environment of other worlds to nurture the gods of their own race.

Then, the native world can rely on these newly created deities to help it absorb star energy more quickly, that is, to strive to complete the next stage of world ascension as soon as possible.

As for native creatures...

One more world means more land and more magical environments to cultivate more people and more power.

This is how a snowball effect occurs.

One day, certain civilizations, or even the world itself, will be able to touch the essence of all things, that is, the astral plane, the ultimate universe.

And at that time, perhaps a truly great being will emerge.

He will be all-knowing and all-powerful, and like the Creator, He will possess the power to control and create everything.

It must be said that the trolls of the Torbjörn Empire have truly made significant progress and gained considerable knowledge in their exploration and research of the world.

They have even figured out most of the truth about how the world works.

But on the other hand, it's absurd that this world hasn't even completed the 'modernization' revolution of magic.

At their current stage, by analogy, they have barely reached the level of the early industrial revolution in a world without magic.

Therefore, a world with gods, or even a world with too many powerful gods, might actually create more obstacles to the progress of civilization.

Otherwise, how could the mortals of that new world that the trolls were conquering be so fierce?
Simply listening to the troll governor recount their general campaign in the new world, Linko was utterly speechless.

This is ridiculous! A low-magic world has actually developed 'mecha technology'?
Although they are not the mechs that Lin Ke imagined, these guys can mass-produce legions with power comparable to demigods by relying on external armor.

Don't even mention how confused the troll gods were.

If Lin Ke were replaced, he would be completely bewildered.

Even with Lin Ke's current understanding of demigod power.

Mechs with demigod powers are definitely more useful and more deterrent than nuclear bombs!

A demigod's strike could destroy a city like child's play.

It possesses extremely high mobility and even various unreasonable abilities of superhumans.

This is nothing more than a humanoid augmented version of a nuclear bomb.

Given the mechanical operation of real-world nuclear bombs, let alone touching them, even a Saint-level being might not be able to hit them.

As for how the Saint-ranked members of the Troll Empire of Tobien achieved elementalization through their own power.

in this regard.

In fact, it leads to the same goal as the Auckland mainland, albeit by a different route.

They are still elemental beings.

It is also known as the essence of the elements.

The elemental spirits of the Tobien Empire still exist today.

Moreover, they are all 'artificially cultivated'.

Although it is troublesome to cultivate, it is also very rare and extremely precious.

However, there are other ways to obtain them.

For a peak ninth-tier being, purchasing such a thing with a lifetime's savings is certainly possible. However, in the Tobien Empire, trolls without a background must rely on equivalent battle merits to qualify for it.

As for the current world of Cartes...

This thing is now temporarily extinct.

Because the rules of the world of Calter were made somewhat special by the native gods of this world.

Elemental essences can only be obtained in dungeons.

The reason for this is that the gods of this world all like to use elemental spirits as 'pets'.

Therefore, in this world, all the elemental spirits were originally kept by the gods in their own divine kingdoms.

Mortals who wish to obtain the crystal cores of elemental spirits must rely on the blessings of the gods.

Clearing the Nightmare Dungeon is the second option.

In short, by the time the troll gods had killed all the gods of this world, the elemental spirits had already been completely looted by the troll gods.

Therefore, there are no elemental spirits in the current world of Calter.

As for the elemental spirits in the ocean?
Those were nothing more than a group of puppet creatures created by the God of the Sea using divine rules after his fall.

Consuming these guys' elemental cores is not only useless, but in some ways it's even poison.

In short, the information obtained from the troll governor is extremely useful for Linko at this stage.

But how much of what this guy says is true or false is unknown.

But thinking about it, the fact that they could speak so closely suggests that nine parts of it are true and one part is false.

In other words, the current overall strength of the Troll Empire should be fairly accurate.

Three main gods and five powerful deities.

Among them were even sixty deities of medium or lower divine power.

Not to mention the number of demigods and saints.

Compared to the mainland Auckland, such an opponent is truly terrifying.

Fortunately, these guys can only show off in the Astral Plane.

In this world that they have not yet taken control of, even if they were to descend, it is hard to say how much power they could actually unleash.

But they could never have the strength to approach that of a god; at most, they would only be able to maintain the demigod level.

The suppression of world rules is no joke.

Even though its high-end combat power was unusable, the sheer number of Saint-level warriors still made Lin Ke frown.

Therefore, Lin Ke still hopes that the advance of the battlefield can be faster.

At the very least, Lin Ke needs to guarantee that he can directly advance to the Saint rank in the second phase of the battle.

Once He reaches the Saint rank, even if a god descends at a great cost, He can maintain His mortal strength at the peak of demigod status.

Then Lin Ke is also worth a try.

They could even turn the tables and kill the enemy.

So, after asking the troll governor all the questions he could, Linco temporarily imprisoned him in his belly using a spatial cage.

Thus, Lin Ke immediately used the power of the contract to turn his attention back to the various battlefields on different continents.

(End of this chapter)