Chapter 3: Building the Divine Domain
The real Blackrock Spire War Academy is within that plane fragment. When the time comes, they will need to study while training in the plane fragments surrounding that plane fragment group.
Unlike other conquered planes, the plane fragments surrounding the Blackrock Spire War Institute have never been conquered.
That was when the strong men in the War Academy used the Mage Tower built by the academy in the center of the plane fragment cluster to pull over some drifting broken planes flowing through the plane fragment cluster and fixed them around the plane fragment cluster. Now, a large plane fragment cluster with a total scale of thousands has been formed.
After the end of the last era, all planes of the multiverse were shattered, and the current era is a rebirth on the remains of the previous era.
This also means that many of the planes that were shattered in the last era still exist. They are drifting in the chaotic virtual sea, eroded by endless chaotic aura like the breath of the abyss, causing the remaining creatures inside to be extremely brutal and warlike.
But correspondingly, there are still some resources or traces of civilization left over from the last era in these planes.
Of course, the probability of encountering remnants of civilization from the last era is very small, and one cannot expect to be so lucky as to encounter one in ordinary small plane fragments, but it is real that there are the resources they need in the plane fragments.
In the words of Instructor Fang Hai, the main source of resources during the study at the War College is the plane fragments surrounding the War College.
At the same time, the combat experience needed to train heroes and upgrade soldiers also relies on the monsters in the plane fragments.
In addition, if you are lucky enough, you may have the chance to find legendary treasure chests in some plane fragments.
As a gift from the new era, some plane fragments condensed into a treasure chest with the remaining origin in the plane before they were broken. It contained various treasures. As long as one was found, it would be a huge profit for the newly promoted war lord students.
Li Qing took all of Teacher Fang Hai's words to heart. They were all valuable experiences.
Half an hour later, Li Qing left the complex building with an exquisite leather bag in his hand, which contained several cards.
An Imperial Infantry Promotion Card Pack contains ten Imperial Infantry Promotion Runes, which can promote ten human civilians to Imperial Infantry.
An Imperial Archer Promotion Card Pack contains ten Imperial Archer Promotion Runes, which can promote ten human civilians to Imperial Archers.
An energy card contains 100 units of elemental energy, which can charge the energy pool of the divine domain. There is enough energy to activate the divine domain barrier, or use the divine domain energy to cast powerful spells to defend against enemies.
A population card contains 100 human civilians, who can be taken into the divine domain and become its followers. Population is needed both for operating the divine domain and for converting human troops.
A resource card contains 10,000 kilograms of rice, 1,000 kilograms of meat, 1,000 kilograms of vegetables, 100 cubic meters of wood, 100 cubic meters of stone, and 1,000 cubic meters of clean water.
And 100,000 yuan in financial aid, which can be used to purchase necessary supplies.
“It’s really a great gift pack for beginners!”
Although this set of resources is simple, it covers some of the things that newcomers need most in the early stages, and is especially important for civilians who have no family support.
After coming out of the comprehensive building, Li Qing did not go back immediately. Instead, he walked past the teaching building to the front of the school and saw a small airship hovering over the huge playground.
It has a steel frame structure, covered with a thick artificial skin and painted blue with the four big characters "Blackstone Bank" written on it.
In addition, there are six vehicles powered by elemental energy on the playground. Judging from the logs and names above, they are all private lending institutions and local trading companies. At this time, many students are gathered around these vehicles.
Li Qing was not surprised to see these things. He had seen them several times during his years in the academy.
The main purpose of these companies coming to the academy is to sponsor the new war lords or heroes every year, especially the war lord apprentices and heroes of civilian origin. They have no family support and no source of funds. If they want to develop rapidly in the early stages, signing cooperation agreements with these trading companies is a good way.
One party provides money and the other party provides manpower, and the cooperation is a win-win situation.
To be honest, if he didn't have a family, no matter how much support he had, Li Qing's choice at this time would be the same as that of other promoted people of commoner origin.
After rejecting several company employees who greeted and inquired about the situation, Li Qing came to the bottom of the airship, where there was a temporary bank counter.
He went to the counter, took out a card and a certificate of promotion from the academy, and applied to receive the funding package that his family had deposited in the bank.
It's not that the family is so efficient, but that the family has already deposited a large number of novice resource packages in Blackstone Bank. As long as a younger generation of the family can successfully get promoted, they can come with the token to receive a standard promotion resource prepared by the family for its members.
It's not just the Li family, all families in human civilization are like this.
After receiving the family gift package, Li Qing also received a small gift package that his father had saved for him.
In this way, he had three novice resource packs in his hands, and his start was much better than that of ordinary people.
After getting the things, he immediately turned around and prepared to go back to the dormitory.
After receiving the gift package, he couldn't wait to return to the dormitory and to the newly opened divine domain.
"boom!"
The dormitory door was locked, and Li Qing couldn't wait to open the gift packages from his family and parents.
Soon several cards were spread out on the table. After checking them, Li Qing let out a sigh of relief.
"good!"
The family gift pack includes 10 Imperial Infantry Promotion Runes, 10 Imperial Archer Promotion Runes, 100 units of elemental energy, 200 human civilians, a resource card, and 100,000 financial aid.
The parent gift pack only has three cards, namely 150,000 financial assistance, a tool card, and... 5 Imperial Cavalry Promotion Runes .
With a thought, Li Qing's figure gradually faded.
The next second, on the second floor of the central core crystal tower of the divine realm, countless clear lights gathered and condensed into the shape of Li Qing.
Holding a dozen cards in his hand, Li Qing rubbed the cards into a fan shape with his index and middle fingers. He swept his eyes through the cards and pulled out two energy cards.
Turning around, I walked down the suspended spiral staircase to the first floor. The space on this floor was exceptionally spacious. It was estimated that the total area should be about 500 square meters. It had just been opened up and had not been divided out yet, so it would have to be arranged later.
Continue down the stone stairs for about ten meters and you will come to a stone gate.
Open the stone door and you will see the underground floor of the tower, which is where the energy pool is located.
At this time, the energy pool layer is a large central pool. The bottom edge is made of transparent crystal material to isolate the energy. Only a thin layer of golden energy is flowing on the empty bottom of the pool.
Beautiful, gorgeous, but also full of danger.
This is a bit of divine power transformed from the residual energy when the divine realm was opened up.
A normal energy pool will be covered with a thick barrier to prevent the energy in the energy pool from rioting when excessive energy is extracted.
It's just that there is only so much divine power in the divine realm right now, so it's impossible to riot even if we want to, so there's no need for the time being.
Li Qing took out two energy cards, each of which stored 100 units of elemental energy, or pure mana, which could be directly drawn out to cast spells.
It is worth mentioning that the energy pool in the divine realm can store any energy, and divine power is also a type of energy.
However, under normal circumstances, it is difficult for newcomers to obtain things like divine power, and elemental energy is commonly used.
In addition to this pure elemental energy card, another way to replenish energy is to invite a powerful mage hero or mage professional, who can cast spells to draw elemental energy from the nearby elemental plane to fill the energy pool.
Of course, if there is no elemental plane, other energies will also do.
For example, the positive energy of heaven.
Negative energy from the world of the dead.
The abyssal energy of the abyss.
If one has the ability, one can even capture some powerful life forms and imprison them in the divine realm, using magic arrays to draw power day and night to provide energy for the divine realm.
It is said that some powerful war lords directly captured powerful elemental lords, powerful demon lords, or even gods, sealed them up and continuously extracted their energy.
Li Qing stretched out his hand and grabbed, and a thin layer of golden divine power at the bottom of the energy pool began to gather on one side of the energy pool. Then, through his authority as the lord of the divine realm, he raised two crossed light curtains in the energy pool, dividing the entire energy pool into four parts.
Divine power occupies a corner of it.
Then he took out an elemental energy card and threw it into the energy pool. With a thought, the card collapsed, and surging elemental energy gushed out like a tide, quickly covering a quarter of the energy pool to the wrist.
After using two elemental energy cards, one quarter of the energy pool has taken shape.
At the same time, the divine domain panel was also slightly updated. In addition to 1/100 of the divine power, the divine domain energy also showed data of 200 units of elemental energy.
The energy pool is divided into four parts. In the future, if you continue to accumulate divine power, one grid will be occupied, and elemental energy will occupy one grid.
Leave the other two grids alone for now and use them later if you get a new energy source.
If you can't find any other source of energy, just dismantle the elemental energy.
After coming out of the element pool, Li Qing pondered for a moment and took out two population cards.
This thing uses special magic to seal the conquered alien humans in a card, where the flow of time slows down and the metabolism of living things also slows down, which is equivalent to quick freezing, ensuring that the sealed population can survive for a period of time.
This is commonly known as the shelf life.
Cards like this have a shelf life, usually about a month. If the creatures sealed in the card space exceed a month and are not strong enough, they will easily die.
The two cards in Li Qing's hand were newly sealed not long ago and are still very fresh.
He unlocked the card, stretched out his hand and threw it, and the card collapsed in the air, turning into a large ball of white light and falling down. When the white light disappeared, a large group of men and women wearing very old linen clothes were revealed.
Population cards like these are carefully selected, half men and half women, and most of them are over 18 and under 50 years old, and can still work and have children.
Two cards, 300 people in total, half men and half women.
They are all indigenous people selected from the conquered planes. They look pale and poorly dressed, but at least they are in good health.
Most of these civilians were of gray quality, and only 48 of them, less than one-fifth, were normal white-named people who could be transferred to soldiers.
Among these 48 people, half are women and there are only 32 men. He has 35 military promotion runes, which seems not enough.
But it’s not a big problem. He still has 350,000 starting capital on hand, so he can buy a batch.
Looking at these confused and helpless humans who had just arrived, Li Qing's mind moved, and he communicated with the energy pool in the divine domain with his will to draw 5 points of elemental energy, which turned into the power of wind and slowly rose up around him, and said loudly:
"From now on, you are all my people. Work for me, and you will all have food to eat and a house to live in!"
The civilians who were still confused were shocked when they saw Li Qing slowly rising. They bowed to him and shouted words like "Lord".
These were the human natives who were plundered by the war lords when they conquered foreign planes. They were all honest farmers. They already knew their fate before being sealed, and when they saw Li Qing display his extraordinary powers, they immediately submitted.
Li Qing did not do anything weird. He took out two resource cards and opened them on the spot. Immediately, a large amount of packaged supplies appeared in front of him out of thin air. This also stunned the ignorant civilians, and they looked at Li Qing with more respect.
Both resource cards are the same, totaling 20,000 kg of rice, 2,000 kg of meat, 2,000 kg of vegetables, 200 cubic meters of wood, 200 cubic meters of stone, and 2,000 cubic meters of clean water.
The rice is packed in large cloth bags, 50 kg per bag, and a total of 400 bags are stacked together.
The meat is a combination of pork, chicken, and fish, all of which are air-dried meat that is easy to preserve. You have to buy fresh meat yourself.
Green vegetables are composed of common green vegetables such as cabbage, Chinese cabbage, radish, potato, etc.
The so-called square of wood is not what ordinary people imagine, but refers to a large piece of wood with a diameter of 50 cm and a length of about 5 meters. 200 square meters of wood means 200 large wooden stakes that are 5.5 meters thick and 5 meters long.
The stone is not square as most people imagine, but a standard cube with a length, width and height of one meter each.
There is not much that can be done, but there will definitely be no problem in building houses for these gods’ followers to live in in the early stages.
The last tool card contains a lot of sundries, pots and pans, knives, axes, chisels, etc., basically various living tools, as well as 20 each of hoes, felling axes, cutting saws and other construction tools.
The dependents and civilians were asked to take the pots, pans, and utensils first and prepare to cook.
Knives, axes, chisels, hoes, felling axes and other tools were left beside the high tower of the divine realm, and would be collected later on a per-person basis, and would have to be returned after the work was done.
Next, Li Qing asked these 300 civilians to elect 10 leaders from among themselves, that is, 10 groups, each with 30 people. In the future, Li Qing would assign tasks to the leaders, and the leaders would then decide the division of labor in their own groups.
Except for highly professional jobs such as blacksmiths and carpenters that require specific professions, most civilians can do jobs such as logging, building houses and farming, but the efficiency varies.
The first task Li Qing assigned was to build fifty cabins for them to live in temporarily, and then build more when more wood was available in the future.
As expected, in the future he will form these civilians into families, one man and one woman, with each family living in one house, and by then there will be 150 families.
And in the future, more people will be purchasing and more houses will be needed.
The houses are built on the western edge and are connected around it. The back of the houses will be thickened and reinforced. When the divine domain is expanded into reality in a foreign land, these houses will be the first line of defense for the divine domain.
