Chapter 4 The Magical Function of Gold Finger
The so-called unfolding of the divine domain means that the divine domain originally located within the war lord unfolds and descends into the real material world, and the divine domain overlaps with the real material world.
To put it in a simple metaphor, the divine realm is a city that can be placed in reality.
At this time, the soldiers in the city can go out directly from the edge of the divine domain, and the enemies outside the divine domain can also enter the divine domain directly through the border.
Normally, the War Lord will not risk expanding the Divine Domain, especially to the War Lord apprentice who is not yet strong enough. You must know that once the core of the Divine Domain is broken, the Divine Domain will collapse directly.
But sometimes some fixed resources are found in some plane fragments, such as some rare mineral veins.
Or if you need to formally attack a monster lord, you need a stable logistics base.
At this time, the God's Domain will be expanded, and the civilians in the God's Domain will be used to quickly dig out the fixed resources, or the defense of the God's Domain and direct replenishment of troops and supplies will be used, and the God's Domain will be used as a base to slowly defeat the monster lord.
The divine domain is the territory of the war lord, which is both its weak point and its strongest base.
Li Qing's current divine domain has neither a defense system nor many troops, so he certainly dare not deploy them, but he must be prepared as soon as possible.
Not to mention the distant future, you will soon enter the War Academy and take the field training course. If you find a large amount of resources in a certain plane fragment, will you take it or not?
But now the resources are insufficient. At least the wooden wall surrounding the divine realm has not been built yet, and the army has not been formed yet.
But the army is simple. He now has the promotion runes for twenty imperial infantrymen and twenty imperial archers. He can select strong adult men from his dependents, and then use the promotion runes to digitize their bodies, transforming ordinary mortals into war soldiers.
The most basic type of imperial soldier is the level 5 imperial recruit. After their bodies are digitized through the promotion rune, they will instantly gain a large number of recruit combat skills within the promotion rune and master a series of skills exclusive to professional soldiers.
After the imperial recruits have gone through a large number of battles and accumulated combat experience, they can be promoted to level 15 imperial official infantry, the first rank.
Instantly gain more combat skills and experience, and possess strength that surpasses that of a recruit.
If the Imperial Infantry can survive multiple battles and accumulate enough combat experience, they can be promoted to the second-tier troops, the 25th-level Imperial Veteran Infantry, with even stronger strength.
Correspondingly, the same is true for Imperial Archers, which are only ranged troops.
It is worth mentioning that the promotion runes come with the weapons and equipment required for the troops, and after the promotion, the weapons and equipment will be upgraded to better weapons and equipment at the same time, so the lord does not need to configure additional weapons and equipment.
However, although no additional configuration is required, if weapons and equipment are damaged in battle, the lord still needs to use a blacksmith to repair them, so it is still necessary to have a group of professional blacksmiths in the divine domain.
Not only can it maintain soldiers' equipment, but it can also create various agricultural tools. If the Divine Realm has the opportunity to obtain a large amount of iron ore in the future, it will need to be refined by a blacksmith before it can be sold at a high price.
But that's all matter for the future, so take your time and use up the supplies you have on hand first.
Looking at the remaining 20 Imperial Infantry Promotion Runes, 20 Imperial Archer Promotion Runes, and 5 Imperial Cavalry Promotion Runes in his hand, Li Qing was silent for a moment and decided to promote 10 Imperial Infantry and 10 Imperial Archers first.
The remaining 10 Imperial infantrymen, 10 Imperial archers and 5 Imperial cavalrymen will not be promoted for the time being.
In addition to the insufficient number of 100 adult , there was also a lack of funds.
You don't need to spend money to get promoted, you can convert directly with promotion runes. The main reason is that soldiers require high maintenance costs.
These civilians are all from the God's Realm, and are the private property of the war lords. There are no requirements for recruiting them as soldiers, no salary, and no compensation if they die in battle. All they need to do is prepare food, shelter, and other consumables.
Of course, if you feel guilty about it, you can just give them a small salary and compensation.
This is not an absolute standard, nor is there a strict requirement. It mainly depends on the personal moral character of the lord.
Some war lord apprentices with low morals or who are poor, or heroes without divine domain, may give less compensation money, or simply give nothing.
Generally speaking, apprentices of war lords who have just opened up the divine domain or are poor will not get salaries. For example, Li Qing doesn't have much money now, so he doesn't plan to get any, and will only increase their food standards.
When the territory develops and becomes rich, we can provide some salaries and pensions, which can boost the morale of the soldiers.
Although their salaries are of little use now, when the divine domain expands in the future, it will be equivalent to a small world. At that time, there will be millions of people living in the divine domain, and a complete society will be formed. At that time, there will be an economic system within the divine domain, and this salary will come in handy.
“I’m really poor!”
Li Qing pinched his chin. The 250,000 cash on hand would not last long. He would have to find a way to make money quickly after entering the War College.
Transforming soldiers was simple. Li Qing gathered twenty adult men of white name quality and lined them up in a row. He walked past them with his hands behind his back and said loudly:
"Master, I need to train a group of soldiers to protect your family. Soldiers no longer need to work and have plenty of food. Are you willing?"
After hearing Li Qing's words, the civilians, who were originally uneasy, nodded with joy on their faces.
For these natives who were born in the primitive and wild plane, becoming the private soldiers of the noble lords is definitely a channel for advancement, so why would they be unwilling?
It's good that there is no rejection. Li Qing turned around and came to the first dependent man. He stretched out his hand and a ball of white light with complex internal patterns faintly visible in his palm pressed on his brain. The white light quickly merged into his body. Immediately, a large amount of white light threads flew out of the man's body, quickly forming a huge light cocoon that wrapped him.
Li Qing took a step back and watched the light cocoon slowly change with a normal expression.
The edges and corners of the human-shaped light cocoon slowly deformed, and its size gradually grew larger.
About ten seconds later, the light of the light cocoon gradually faded from strong to dim, until it became transparent, revealing a...
“It’s amazing!”
The light disappeared, and the farmer in linen clothes disappeared. Instead, there was a warrior wearing leather armor and a leather hat, holding a round wooden shield in his left hand and a one-handed sword in his right hand, and his eyes looked sharper.
The promotion rune comes with weapons and equipment. When you accumulate enough combat experience and get promoted in the future, your weapons will also be updated with the promotion.
Empire Recruits (Normal): General melee infantry of the human camp, the most reliable backbone force on the battlefield.
Level: Level 5.
Basic skills: One-handed LV1, running LV1, shield LV1.
Advanced skill: Chopping.
Slash: Charge for 1 second, aim at the target in front and cause 100% additional damage, cooldown time is 30 seconds.
After observing the attributes, Li Qing asked the new recruit to step aside and began to promote other subordinates.
It only took ten minutes to promote ten imperial recruits.
Then he started promoting ten new imperial archers, which also took ten minutes.
Empire Recruit Archer (Normal): A common ranged soldier in the human camp, the most basic ranged force on the battlefield.
Level: Level 5.
Basic skills: One-handed LV1, running LV1, archery LV1.
Advanced skill: Charged Arrow.
Charged Arrow: Charges for 1-3 seconds, causing 100%-200% additional damage to a single target, with a cooldown of 30 seconds.
The recruit archers also wore leather armor and leather hats, but had no shields. They only had a short bow, two pots of arrows, and a one-handed sword.
After the promotion, Li Qing turned around with satisfaction, gave some encouragement, and then ordered the twenty soldiers to be divided into two parts, one part to guard the core tower in the center of the divine realm, and the other part to patrol around the divine realm.
There is no captain at this stage, and he plans to let them compete in martial arts among themselves after a while to decide a few captains.
At this point, the foundation of the Divine Realm has been laid. The next step is to earn more resources to operate and expand the Divine Realm.
Turning and entering the tower, Li Qing looked at the empty first floor of the tower, thought for a while, turned around and asked a few servants to move some stones for him to make a bed.
The stones in the resource pack are all standard one-meter long, wide and high stones with smooth surfaces. Four pieces can be put together to form a temporary bed, and two more pieces can be put together to form a table, and the temporary lord's mansion is built.
With too few resources at hand, there was nothing he could do in the territory for the time being. Li Qing asked two infantrymen to guard the door and sat down on the cold stone bed. He flipped his right hand, and a vortex appeared in his palm, with a ball of light floating up and down in the vortex.
"How do you use this thing?"
Now that he has some free time, Li Qing has to study this golden finger carefully. After all, it is the foundation for his future survival and success.
This ball of light is a manifestation of the golden finger, and inside it there is an independent space with a diameter of about 100 meters.
The edge of the space is an inaccessible chaos, and from time to time, points of light fly out of the chaos and fall into the space.
The light spots that had accumulated before had been absorbed by Li Qing when he opened up the divine realm, causing his soul strength and willpower to surge several times.
However, he has not yet learned the extraordinary powers, and cannot sense what benefits this surge in soul strength and will will bring to him.
You will only know this when you enter the Blackrock Spire War Lord Academy and systematically study various supernatural powers.
At this time, two more light spots accumulated in the space, floating unconsciously in the empty space, but Li Qing did not collect them. Instead, he entered the space with his consciousness and carefully felt the interior of the space...
"Huh?"
The moment his consciousness entered this space, a piece of information about the function of this space naturally appeared in Li Qing's mind.
He was certain that this information was not there when he accidentally entered the divine realm before.
"Is it because the gold finger has been activated?"
He didn't dwell on it, but quickly absorbed the information, and then a hint of surprise and...pleasure appeared on his face.
"What a magical baby!"
The function of this thing is very simple to explain, that is, it can decompose, strengthen and synthesize any substance from the root.
To give a simple example, you can decompose some broken weapons, remove impurities, and then obtain an extremely pure iron ingot. If you add some necessary elements, you can directly synthesize a refined steel ingot.
Alternatively, two identical or different things can be forcibly combined into one thing.
For example, if two one-handed swords are forcibly merged together, they can form a one-handed sword with double the mass and density, or they can form a long sword with the same mass and density but a larger sword body.
As for strengthening, it is related to the light spots in the space.
These light spots can be collected and integrated into living things or props to directly strengthen their essence.
The more light points that are integrated, the greater the enhancement.
However, these light spots can only condense 1 to 2 points every day.
“It’s a little less.”
But it’s not a big problem because this thing is not complete now.
Although he didn't know the origin of this thing, Li Qing could feel that it was incomplete and seemed to be damaged. If it could be repaired, it might be able to condense more light spots.
There are only two spots of light now, which are too few. Li Qing plans to wait until more are accumulated before using them.
Now he was going to experiment with some of the basic abilities of this treasure, first understand its specific effects, and then decide how to use it.
After thinking for a while, he went to the door and asked several of his infantrymen to carry ten wooden pillars into the lord's hall and place them inside.
Then he walked to the horizontal wooden pillars, stretched out his right hand, and a vortex appeared in his palm, which quickly expanded to a diameter of one meter. A powerful attraction came out, and then a scene that surprised Li Qing happened.
As the attraction spread, the five-meter-long wooden stake actually shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye and flew into the vortex, being sucked into the space.
When his consciousness probed into the space, the wooden stake did not shrink, but remained the same size as before.
“It’s amazing.”
Next, all ten wooden stakes were put in one by one, and then...
Li Qing pinched his chin, and with a thought, a layer of twisted flames suddenly appeared on the surface of two of the wooden stakes. The next second, a tangible wave swept over, and the two wooden stakes immediately collapsed into two balls of light mist.
This is the decomposition function.
Then, with another thought, the two balls of light mist merged into one under the control of an invisible force, and then formed into a...
Li Qing suddenly had an idea and controlled the shape of the light mist from the original round wooden stake to a square piece of wood.
The light mist condensed and quickly turned into a square wooden entity that was five meters long and half a meter in diameter.
"This is good!"
Saves the effort of reshaping.
"No, it's not just useful for this."
Li Qing suddenly thought of entering the War Lord Academy in half a month. At that time, in addition to being exposed to extraordinary powers, he would also need to learn various extraordinary subjects, such as alchemy, engineering, runes, mutation, blood science, mechanics, forging, engineering and other subjects. This ability would be useful in all of them.
Decomposition can quickly process various materials and directly extract the purest materials.
The synthesis success rate is 100%, and there is basically no need to worry about the risk of failure.
This means that he can use this space as his assistant to help him quickly master these extraordinary subjects.
Or to go a step further, you can use this to help yourself quickly master a large amount of extraordinary subject knowledge, disguise yourself as a genius in this area, gain more attention and attention, and thus obtain more opportunities and resources.
