MC's career as foreign lord

He didn't recognize the elf who came to greet him, but that wasn't important. He wasn't there to inspect the actual research of these fellows. Anyway, such a large area in the lower realm was left for these people to mess around with; he only needed the top-tier machines in the lower realm.

Of course, it wasn't that simple. After all, the dwarves were researching various forging techniques and different materials in the lava lake below. Even after the production of firearms, they would research many special gadgets like guns.

The Europeans also hoped that they could build upon their foundation and create even more unique tools. For example, machine guns could be solved with magic, so could other firearms also utilize some magical means?

If that were the case, the gun warfare he envisioned might be unleashed very easily in the near future. The war that originally relied on magic and cold weapons might be completely changed because of firearms.

This wasn't a monotonous situation; on the contrary, it was a very predictable one. Because the emergence of thermal weapons would greatly change the war situation of the cold weapon era, he had no doubt about this.

However, ordinary people in this world would probably find it hard to imagine how much impact such terrifying long-range weapons would have on the gods' camp once they appeared and bombarded the era that still relied on large-scale integrated charges.

Zhou Ren shook his head. This wasn't a question he should be considering. Although he did think a lot, when these weapons really came out and were selling well on the continent, it was probably not far from the time he would elevate the entire Church of the Goddess of Wealth to the main god.

Then a new battle for a brand-new divine system would unfold, and after these battles ended, what would follow would be the second new faith crisis brought about by the virtual world. He didn't believe that these two terrifying disasters would strike together, and those gods would still have the spare time to care about such trivial matters.

Terrifying thermal weapons would destroy most of the faith in this world. When the gods couldn't descend in their true forms, thermal weapons shaped by magical elements would sweep the globe with terrifying power.

They would even rely on the power of the weapons in their hands to peer into some areas that they never dared to imagine before.

Just like that famous saying, when gods can't truly threaten believers, and their enemies have the means to destroy the entire world, maybe you want to maintain your faith, you have to see how many divisions you have in your hands.

He chuckled as he passed by here, looked at the vines and some strange plants that had grown out, and said to the elf beside him, "What kind of research have you been doing here?"

The elf didn't think he was an outsider and happily replied, "We have studied all kinds of plants in this world and obtained some special magical elements from them, which are being added to those ordinary plants. If successful, those plants should be able to be planted in the desert!"

Plant elements from the MC world seemed to be gradually infiltrating other worlds, "If it can really be done, it will be a great contribution to this world!"

He said with emotion, but didn't stay in place, but continued to move forward.

Compared to the dwarves' venue, the elves' research seemed even less presentable, but he was a little curious why there were only some ordinary elves in this area, but he didn't see the figures of the two druids.

Since having this elven base, those two great druids rarely went to the main world. Except for helping Zhou Ren fight once last time, they spent most of their time in this area.

"Are you talking about the two druid elders? They are researching new animals in the top area, so they didn't come!" The guiding elf was very clear, leading Zhou Ren to continue climbing up along the vines from this area. Soon, he climbed to the top, which was the location of the void entrance they had designed at the beginning.

Now this place has been called the Void Entrance, because they have determined that the stone next to this entrance is the legendary Stone of Eternal Life that can never be broken. Even the Creation God's Tablet of Destiny was actually made of this stone material.

Neither humans nor gods can destroy these things in the slightest. Only the terrifying Creation God can obtain such tools.

And above this area, in addition to the monster spawning tower he built at the beginning and some portals regardless of other areas, you can also clearly see a huge green field, and the two druids are in it, as if arguing about something.

"Pigmen and piglins are clearly the same kind of creature, why did they become like this now?" Zhou Ren heard their quarrel as soon as he got close. He didn't expect that they were arguing about a classic topic in MC.

In fact, in the early Nether, there was nothing in this area, only a small number of palaces, a large number of monsters, and an endless sea of lava.

At this time, the Nether was very peaceful and serene. Except for the occasional players who came to destroy the peace here, nothing could continue to aggravate the damage here.

Later, even the races here were divided into types, and they no longer continued such a life, but distinguished piglins and zombie pigmen.

Some people speculate that those dilapidated piglin palaces may be their former residences, but in a great disaster, these Nether villagers have lost their homes and are wandering in the wilderness. Some piglins who have problems with their wandering will gradually become zombies.

It's just that maybe because their combat power is relatively high, even if they become zombies, no race will bother them, so the two races live happily in this area, unlike the villagers and zombies in the main world who kill each other everywhere.

And now they are discussing this issue, "I don't think so, they should clearly be two creatures of different eras, but they just look similar!"

The two druids were also very interested in arguing. After they saw Zhou Ren coming, they nodded slightly, bowed, but didn't leave, but continued to study.

They seemed to want to study how to turn these zombie pigmen into piglins, and in another area, two or three piglins were being held, and some elves who wanted to play were throwing gold into them.

This special material exchange is naturally one of their research projects. The little elves are having a great time, and some grown-up elves are also recording the ratio of their feeding and the things released.

"Have you found anything special here?" Zhou Ren asked casually, but he didn't expect that there was really a gain.

“Lord, we have made a great discovery! We've found that the flames of souls can scorch most monsters. Even some demons will be directly annihilated by the flames of souls. They can't even be resurrected or embedded in the Wailing Wall. This is truly a world-destroying flame!”

As the saying goes, 'the east is not bright, but the west is.' Zhou Ren probably didn't expect that the greatest benefit for the elves wouldn't be from studying animals or plants, but from studying those two blue flames that even liches were unwilling to approach too closely.

Indeed, humanity's desire for exploration is endless. Even Zhou Ren kept his distance from such blue flames. He would place soul fire in some areas of the territory to destroy items.

Because even when this flame burns, it won't ignite the surrounding wood, and it also has a certain brightness. Apart from looking a bit dark and deep blue, there aren't actually too many problems.

But listening to them, if they explore according to this research method, these blue flames actually have some inexplicable uses?

“So, what exactly are they used for?” Zhou Ren asked. He then saw one of the people researching the flames suddenly turn around and give him a faint smile, but even that faint smile made his hair stand on end, as if he had encountered a natural enemy.

“Hiss!” He had encountered this feeling before, but it was usually only when encountering a god. Now that he had encountered it, the identity of the person in front of him was obvious.

“I didn't expect that Lord would have such a refined interest today?” Zhou Ren said. He never thought that the Abomination Dragon, famous for its cruelty and violence, would become such an unremarkable elven researcher.

“It's not exactly a refined interest. I discovered a secret in this flame that other souls find hard to detect, so I was interested in coming over to take a look!” Noxiel said.

“Oh?” Zhou Ren was curious. This demon lord wasn't exactly idle. Theoretically speaking, he should have countless things to do, such as going to find trouble with that minotaur. But he put all his attention here, which means that this blue flame is indeed more important than other things.

“If I can really figure this thing out, I should be able to go find trouble with that Dragon Mother!” Noxiel said. If he hadn't said that, it would have been fine, but saying it really gave people a shock.

Like gods, the enemies mentioned by this Abomination Dragon are basically gods. It seems that he hasn't forgotten to make trouble for Tiamat.

“You really are tireless!” Zhou Ren said, but he didn't know what to say. However, according to the current pattern, this seems to be a good thing, isn't it?

At least Noxiel himself doesn't have any major problems. He just wants to cause trouble for Tiamat, which can be considered a good ending.

However, Zhou Ren was a little curious as to why this Abomination Dragon could mingle with these elves and still gain their respect?

Perhaps in the eyes of others, these long-eared people are just difficult to get along with. However, Zhou Ren deeply knew that after tens of thousands of years of being the overlords of the world, the elves' arrogance in their bones was very difficult to resolve.

“Next, we will conduct in-depth experiments on the flame, finding some special plants for us to deepen the flame!” Just as Zhou Ren was pondering these things, he saw that the flame in front of him seemed to have undergone orderly transformation under the other party's command.

Many elves seemed willing to listen to his command, holding a series of plants and materials in their hands, all of which were thrown into the flames.

Noxiel wasn't idle either. He picked out a wisp of flame from the fire, held it in his hand like that, and then suddenly extinguished it.

“Yes! It's this kind of stinging sensation like a soul!” The ruler of the abyss is indeed different from other worlds. Even testing the flame uses such a brutal method.

Zhou Ren suddenly had some admiration for this Abomination Dragon. He glanced around to confirm that there was nothing he needed to do, and then he slowly turned and left.

He didn't need to go in and pay attention to the research of this group of people. Just like the dwarves' firearms, he only needed to come and find an answer in the end.

As a lord, he didn't need to become a special researcher himself. He only needed to understand how to use these things and ensure that they could be used at critical times.

He had never forgotten the real purpose of his coming here. If he remembered correctly, the deeply hidden Nether Bees' nest should be in this area.

Although he didn't know what the Nether Bees could do now, it didn't prevent him from catching all these bees back first. He had all kinds of materials on him, so he wasn't afraid that he couldn't make a bee-catching net.

So, soon he had several Nether Beehives and Nether Bees in his hand. Even if these bees weren't of much use, it was still good to use them to collect pollen.

He also took the time to run to the place in the Netherworld where various demons were imprisoned to take a look. Even though Noxiel was already researching flames here, he still didn't forget to launch a war in the abyss.

This war, which swept across several abyssal planes, was indeed in full swing. With the help of the dragon army and the flame demon army, coupled with various war materials purchased from Zhou Ren's territory at a high price, their battle this time was actually a lossless crush.

A large amount of resources was plundered back by the demons, and various huge and brutal materials also came to this world without hesitation. Similarly, there were also various flame demons that Zhou Ren bought at a high price.

With more demons as templates, he could more quickly distinguish which demons could burn for a long time, and which demons could only burn for a certain period of time. How long could projections and real bodies each burn?

Then they discovered a way to maximize the use of demons: burning the demons' real bodies in various furnaces in the Netherworld, and then letting them constantly release projections in the main world to burn their essentially divided bodies.

They were all contributing to the development of the territory, and doing it twice at once. Presumably, if these demons knew in the afterlife, they would be very happy, right?

Zhou Ren thought so, and it wasn't early, so he quickly left here and returned to the main world.