Chapter 19: Expanding the Divine Realm
Li Qing waited for a while, and when most people had gathered in front of the tower, he shouted:
"Okay, it's up to you guys."
There are definitely more than fifty people, but that doesn’t matter. A few more won’t matter. The stored food is enough anyway.
Then Li Qing transferred ten first-level infantrymen and ten first-level archers, all of which were ordinary templates.
Then a pile of food and clean water were moved from the temporary warehouse on the first floor of the Divine Realm Tower. This was food for the lumberjacks and soldiers.
The tutor will not prepare food for them, so they have to be self-sufficient.
It can be said that the training has begun from now on.
Otherwise, the mentor could just send a few mages to flatten the ground easily, and there would be no need for them to chop it slowly.
He withdrew his will from the divine realm, and with his hands he grabbed and pulled. A transparent vortex emerged and quickly stretched into a light gate.
Then a First Order Imperial infantryman wearing thick cloth armor, holding a thick wooden shield in one hand and a sword in the other walked out.
Twenty soldiers filed out, with five infantrymen and five archers in a group, and two groups separated to the left and right. Only then did a farmer holding a lumberjack axe carefully stick his head out of the light gate.
"Hurry up!"
At the urging, the farmer came out cautiously and looked around nervously.
At this time, the other sixteen war lord apprentices also called out their men and lumberjacks one by one, ten infantrymen and ten archers, all of whom were first-level.
Before the summons, they had already taken their positions, each in a different direction.
At Li Qing's command, a total of 74 farmers rushed to the trees of various sizes within his area with axes, hammers, saws and other logging tools.
The rest did not require his command, it was just logging.
There are more than a dozen war lord apprentices. You summon dozens of lumberjacks, and I summon more than a hundred lumberjacks. The total number added up is over a thousand, and the logging efficiency immediately increases greatly.
Soon several smaller trees were cut down and piled together.
Later, he would bring these trees into the divine domain, use the energy of the divine domain to purify the chaotic energy in the trees, and then...
"No, can the space in the palm be purified?"
Li Qing suddenly had an idea. He pinched his chin and walked to the pile of trees to think about it. He then reopened the door to the divine realm and called in a group of farmers to move all the trees into the divine realm.
Then, a vortex suddenly appeared above the trees in the open space of the divine domain and expanded rapidly. A powerful attraction sucked all five trees, which were only as thick as thighs, into the vortex.
With a thought, the space in his palm was activated, and the five trees he had just collected were directly shattered into powder.
With another thought, the water in the trees was extracted and gathered into a ball.
The chaotic aura that seeped into the trees was also extracted and gathered into a thin black airflow.
Then these wood fibers, including bark and leaves, quickly aggregate and condense into a tightly bound piece of wood.
“It really works!”
The total mass of the wood blocks is smaller than that of the five trees mentioned above, because the mass of leaves and bark is not as high as that of solid wood. If they are all converted into high-density solid wood blocks, the volume will definitely shrink.
“It’s amazing!”
The decomposition of this thing was really thorough, Li Qingchen was convinced.
Thousands of laborers worked together to cut down trees, and their efficiency was very high. In just two hours, they had cut down hundreds of trees of various sizes. Moreover, because the trees here did not grow closely together, there was a lot of space for cutting down trees. Seventeen people plus the instructor's several hundred lumberjacks worked together, and soon they reached the edge of the flare.
But that’s not enough.
Because the mentor's divine domain is about ten kilometers in diameter, even if only a part of it is projected, it will still be two or three kilometers in diameter.
But it's not a big problem.
More than a thousand lumberjacks worked for two whole days. Li Qing alone cut down thousands of trees of various sizes. He did not stop until he was about fifteen hundred meters away from the magic airship.
He collected all these trees into his divine domain, and then used the space in his palm to transform them into more than 200 cubic meters of wood.
And magically, 12 cubic meters of sap were extracted from these tree trunks and leaves to make clean water. It was simply magical.
He had cut down the trees to the designated position, and most of the apprentices in other directions had also cut down the trees to the designated position.
After all the apprentices had finished felling the trees, the instructor asked them to collect all the felled trees and roughly level the ground.
Some leaves, broken branches, not very high wooden stakes and so on will not affect the expansion of the divine domain. These small things will be directly covered by the divine domain after it descends.
Then, everyone took all the civilians and subordinates back to their own divine domains and returned to the magic airship.
The magic airship slowly rose into the air and stopped at an altitude of about two hundred meters.
Everyone leaned over to the edge of the airship window and looked down, just in time to see the mentor slowly rising up, and then his whole body was shining. Transparent streams of light swarmed out of the mentor's body and landed on the ground, quickly outlining the outline of a huge castle made up of transparent streams of light.
The style of the castle was very strange, unlike any castle Li Qing had ever seen.
Instead, it is centered around a tower about a hundred meters high in the center, with circles of buildings expanding outward, with a total of three floors.
As more and more light poured in, the castle began to solidify.
At a certain moment, the castle that had already been completely formed suddenly shook, and an invisible wave spread outward with the giant tower in the center of the castle as the core. Wherever the invisible wave went, the castle began to appear in the material plane and turned into substance.
In less than thirty seconds, a huge castle appeared in the empty and barren jungle.
In the center of the castle is a huge tower of 100 meters. The tower is made entirely of obsidian with a layer of transparent light on the surface and circles of dazzling lightning halos surrounding the tower.
There is a circle of core buildings surrounding the tower, and outside the buildings is an open space, about two hundred meters apart. At a glance, it looks like various training grounds and barracks.
In the middle ring there is a stone wall more than 20 meters high, on which are placed many war weapons and guards, and inside the wall is a circle of buildings.
Outside the city wall is the third level of space, with a diameter of about 500 meters, which is divided into several large areas.
The outermost circle is a stone wall that is about ten meters wide and twenty meters high. It is filled with various war weapons such as crossbows and catapults, and there are even powerful magic cannons at regular intervals.
This magic cannon uses the magic circle inside to accumulate energy and fires different spells depending on the type of magic circle inside the cannon.
The most common basic magic artillery is fireball, a super classic spell with great power and wide range, and it is very useful.
The radius of the entire castle is about one thousand meters and the diameter is two thousand meters. It is only a part of the mentor's domain and also the most core part.
The rest is most likely non-core areas such as farmland or forest, so there is no need to project it down.
Of course, this is the official war lord who can choose which areas to project. Apprentices like Li Qing do not have that ability yet. Once they descend, they can only project everything in the entire divine realm and cannot choose for themselves.
Once the divine domain is projected, it appears in the real plane, which means that the divine domain can be attacked.
Once the projected divine domain is destroyed by the enemy, the War Lord will suffer a severe blow.
If the core tower of the central divine realm is destroyed, the divine realm will also collapse.
Therefore, the divine domain projection is the powerful trump card of the war lords and their core lifeline. Once it is destroyed, the consequences will be very serious.
The mentor's divine domain completed its projection, and the magic airship suspended in the sky flew over a huge square on the outer ring of the castle and began to slowly descend.
There are many young men and women around the square. They are all heroes and professionals who entered the Mentor's Domain early on. Their levels are not high, and the highest is only about level 10.
When the seventeen war lord apprentices got off the magic airship, they saw their instructor and several assistants waiting for them to gather. The instructor's first words surprised Li Qing.
"Your training has officially begun when you leave the War College. You will have two months to prepare. During these two months, you need to complete the basic meditation courses, the required basic courses for the path you choose, and the preparatory preparations for the training."
"In two months, you will leave the castle and explore another large plane not far to the north of this plane."
"You have four months to explore, then find a suitable place to project your divine domain and establish a fixed camp."
"I don't care whether you use wood, mud walls, or stones to build the camp. Anyway, you must complete the construction of the camp within six months from now. After six months, the restrictions will be lifted, and the apprentices of the other five mentors will have limited competition."
"You can attack your opponents, destroy their camps, and plunder their stored resources."
"But you are not allowed to attack the War Lord Apprentice who has already hidden in the core of the God's Domain. You are not allowed to directly destroy the core of the God's Domain. In addition, you are not allowed to join forces with others. Only one-on-one duels are allowed."
"The six mentors will use the power of Blackrock Spire to monitor you. Don't take chances. Violators will be severely punished."
"Every time you defeat an apprentice, you will get 50 points. The last place gets 100 points, the second place gets 200 points, and the first place gets 300 points."
After saying this, Nie Yang paused for a moment to let everyone digest the news.
When everyone had digested it, he continued:
"We will go to the counselors later. They will tell us where to live for the next two months. Also..."
"I have already arranged the rankings for this year's freshmen. You can apply for subsidies at any time. If you disagree with the ranking, you can apply to challenge any ranking you disagree with after two months."
"If we can beat the opponent, we will directly replace the opponent in the ranking."
"However, each person only has three challenge opportunities each time. You are not allowed to challenge apprentices with lower rankings than you, and you are not allowed to challenge the same apprentice multiple times. In order to prevent meaningless challenges, anyone who challenges an apprentice with a higher ranking than themselves needs to pay a challenge fee."
"The top three and below will all receive 100,000 yuan."
"Challenge the bottom 200,000."
"Challenge the second place with 300,000."
"Challenge the chief for 500,000."
"Oh, that's a good idea!"
Li Qing was still wondering what to do if someone challenged him for no reason, and now he has a solution.
They were the last in the list, and 200,000 for a challenge was not much for the rich, but it was a lot of money for the war lord apprentices who came from a civilian background. In this way, if they were not sure, they would definitely not challenge casually.
Of course, if you are really determined to take on the challenge, you don’t have to be afraid. 200,000 yuan at a time, and if you do it a few times, the income will be higher than the tutor’s subsidy.
After saying this, the instructor walked away, leaving the apprentices looking at each other in bewilderment.
At this time, everyone looked at the crowd. Among their seventeen War Lord apprentices, there were two whose auras were particularly powerful than theirs. They were the chief and second in command whose bloodlines were already revealed and could awaken at any time.
The chief among them is named Zhang Jishan, who is about to awaken the bloodline of a middle-level moon elf, which gives him a great advantage in the mage profession.
The second place is Cao Wenyuan, and he is about to awaken the lower bloodline of the Steel Armored Giant Bear, which is very advantageous in melee professions.
Normally, Zhang Jishan could not defeat Cao Wenyuan's steel-armored giant bear in the early stage. Although this bloodline is only a lower-level bloodline, it can greatly increase its physique and strength once awakened.
However, the Moon Elves cannot add any specific strength in the early stages.
The reason why they are the first and second place is mainly due to their strength within the divine realm.
Both of them have good backgrounds and are already quite powerful compared to the apprentices under Master Nie Yang. Even without the bonus of bloodline, they are still stronger than other apprentices.
Only Li Qing, the last one in the ranking, was promoted by his mentor purely because of his strong mental talent.
It is estimated that in the mind of Instructor Nie Yang, Li Qing has the highest potential among all his apprentices, but his current strength is not strong. The reason why he was forcibly promoted is because the subsidy for the second place is high.
Even if he was challenged and brought down by others during the first replacement, at least he had received a subsidy.
You have to know that the tutor's subsidy cannot be distributed as he pleases. There are still rules. Even if he has his eyes on a certain apprentice, the apprentice has to be able to support himself. He can only give the greatest benefit within the rules, but cannot ignore the rules and the principles of fairness and justice and give large subsidies at will.
This will definitely make other apprentices dissatisfied, and the families behind the apprentices will also be dissatisfied.
If this gets out, everyone will know that you as a mentor are unfair, and no one will dare to come under your name in the future.
Of course, tutors can rank randomly for the first time, and this will not cause any objection.
The crowd didn't stay here for too long. After all, there was no way to challenge now, so there was no point in saying anything.
Led by three instructors, they entered the teaching area on the middle floor of the castle. The three instructors showed them around to let them know the locations of dormitories, classrooms, laboratories, libraries and other areas, and then gathered again in the auditorium.
Here the counselor asked them to introduce themselves to each other so that they could get to know each other.
Li Qing's self-introduction attracted everyone's attention, after all, he was one of the top three.
But they just paid more attention to him and remembered his appearance, and no one did anything stupid like provoking him.
Young people are just impulsive, not brainless.
After the acquaintance, we disbanded on the spot.
Everyone left and returned to their dormitories.
Their dormitory is located on the second floor of the second ring of the castle. It is an independent two-bedroom and one-living room apartment with a bedroom, study, toilet and kitchen.
There are only 17 war lord apprentices in such a big castle, and the living space is still fully occupied.
As for the heroes and professionals, they were not treated as well as they were. They lived on the outermost floor, in small single rooms. Not only did they not receive any subsidies, they also had to pay high tuition fees to study with their tutors.
In the dormitory, Li Qing opened his personal terminal and began to check the class schedule.
He chose the mage profession, so he had to learn a lot of courses, including more than ten required courses.
In addition, he is also a war lord, so he has to take more than a dozen compulsory courses related to war lords, a total of twenty or thirty courses.
But if he wants to achieve something on the path of a mage, especially since his mental talent is as high as five stars+ and his mentor has high hopes for him, he will have to learn many elective courses related to mages.
