Cthulhu Gonfalon

Chapter 488

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The deep sea water is transparent, like a huge crystal.

Well, this statement is not very correct. First of all, the water here is not sea water but fresh water. Secondly, because there are too many bubbles and too much turbulence in the water, and most importantly, because of the lack of light, it is full of eerie feeling. It really doesn't look like crystal.

Sui Xiong sighed and silently announced that his efforts to adjust the atmosphere had failed.

After wandering around in this dark deep water for almost half a month, even he felt tired. However, boredom comes from boredom, and I have to do business, so I have no choice but to try to enjoy myself.

Facts have proved that Brother Xiong is not good at stand-up comedy, no matter whether it is serious, lyrical or funny, he is not good at it.

He couldn't even amuse himself.

"Heart of Elements... Where can I find that thing?"

Sui Xiong muttered to himself, cruising leisurely according to the map drawn in his mind.

As he cruised, he maximized his detection capabilities, trying to search for any possible clues around him.

If you draw the map in his mind, you will find that his entire trajectory is a set of spirals, turning around and around, slowly expanding the detection range from the inside out, leaving nothing behind, as if The posture of "drawing a map".

This is a stupid way, but it is a helpless choice.

The water elemental plane is full of chaotic waters, with neither mountains nor walls. The landmarks here are warm currents, cold currents, torrents, turbulences, huge whirlpools, bubbles, hot water, cold water, salt water, fresh water, poisonous water... If there is no exact target, even the most powerful god will Here he can only wander around like a headless fly.

In fact, besides him, there are nine other people currently spinning like headless flies in the water elemental plane.

Ariel, the goddess of the sea, and the eight kings of the sea under her command.

After these years of preparations, Ariel has almost built her own Kingdom of God. But He wants to build the Kingdom of God into a fortress that integrates offense and defense. To do this, he needs to add some powerful and unique facilities to the Kingdom of God. The most important one is the "Water Element Cohesion Pool".

It is a special magic facility that can convert the power of magic into mysterious elemental activity, giving vitality to ordinary water and transforming it into water elements; it can also cause ordinary water elements to grow and grow rapidly by consuming divine power. It is an elite creature; even if it is willing to consume more divine power, it can also help the elderly water element elders break through their bottlenecks, step into the legendary realm, and become elemental lords.

As for further entering the realm of demigods, we can only let it happen. If there was really a sure way to cultivate a powerful demigod, the King of the Four Elements would have long ago become the unquestionable strongest among the powerful gods. How could we wait for him, Ariel, to create a water element condensation pool

There was no water element cohesion pool in the divine kingdom of the previous ocean goddess Phorpocus. She built the entire divine kingdom into a fortress, and then used the daily accumulated divine power to either strengthen defenses or to cause random storms. —The Tyrant of the Ocean, the Storm King, the Master of the Storm... Several such titles are enough to explain the problem.

Ariel is not as ridiculous as Pharbokus. She has received many inheritances from Prbokus, including the lessons that Prbokus summed up when he looked back on his life before he died. For the next God of the Ocean, Phorpocus warned her many times that she should never expand her priesthood indiscriminately or expand her faith casually. If it was necessary to expand the scope of her priesthood and faith, it was recommended to adopt the method of attracting followers. One article You can have the most reliable allies, and on the other hand, you can greatly reduce the risk of being controlled by the power of faith and avoid learning from his mistakes.

In view of Phorpocus's instructions, Ariel put herself in the right position from the beginning. He positions himself as the "god of mermaids, the mediator of all races in the ocean, and the leader of the sea gods." He entrusts storms, waves, sea fog, and even various sea areas to the demigods and even legendary strongmen in the sea. He promised that as long as they were willing to live with other sea tribes in accordance with the rules of overall peace, he would provide them with protection and guidance, and help them mediate conflicts when necessary.

At first glance, this set of priesthood is not powerful, but the gods will never underestimate him because of this. On the contrary, more than one powerful god has extended an olive branch to him, expressing his willingness to enter into a covenant of friendship and mutual assistance with him, or at least to live in peace with him.

Although Ariel's divinity may improve more slowly than that of Phorpocus, her divinity will be extremely solid and condensed, and there is absolutely no need to worry about the divinity being contaminated by faith again. Not only that, as he becomes stronger, sooner or later a group of ocean gods will gather under his command to form a sizable pantheon.

The shortcomings of such a divine system are also very obvious. The lack of high-end force is its fatal flaw. After all, the strongest person in the entire divine system is Ariel herself. Lovely Lil's own fighting ability is limited, but she has a ridiculously powerful "mentor". This mentor and his good buddies combined may easily take up two of the top three most powerful gods - maybe even the first and second place.

With the two strong backings of Mask of the Void and the God of Justice, is high-end military force still a problem

Including Ariel herself, she thinks so. She has positioned her Kingdom of God as a mobile fortress that can retreat to a "sanctuary" at critical moments. The core part of this fortress needs to be highly mobile. When necessary, it can move all the believers in, then throw away those unimportant corners and run away at a speed that will stun the enemy.

As for those unimportant corners, they will all be transformed into countless water elements by Him in one go. As for how the enemy should deal with these thick-skinned and stalking elemental creatures, that is something the enemy should worry about.

In order to achieve this goal, He not only needs to build a water element condensation pool, but also needs to build what may be the largest water element condensation pool in the world so far - after all, He wants to turn most of the Kingdom of God into countless water elements at a critical moment Yeah...

Making the water element cohesion pool larger has another benefit. That is, if the battle is not particularly fierce, just creating water elements can meet the needs of the "cannon fodder" level, and there is no need to send too many divine envoys.

It is true that the divine envoy can be resurrected, but resurrecting the divine envoy requires divine power. If you calculate carefully, using water elements as cannon fodder is definitely more cost-effective than using divine envoys as cannon fodder.

This was Sui Xiong's suggestion. He tended to use elemental troops. For example, in several battles, he used elemental mass-produced cannon fodder legions. Why? It’s not just a matter of “province”.

Thousands of divine envoys rushed up, one after another, and sacrificed their lives without mercy. Although it looked very powerful, what was flowing away behind them like running water was all precious divine power!

In contrast, elemental troops can absorb elemental power to grow and resurrect. Although the single-body force is weaker than the envoys built with pure divine power, if the quality is not enough, the quantity can be supplemented.

Facts have proved that his idea is still very useful.

That's why Ariel wanted to build a huge water element cohesion pool, and also create for herself such a large cannon fodder army that would make the enemy's scalp numb.

Of course, this thing can't only be used in wartime. It can usually be used to cultivate divine envoys, or it can also be used to create the weaker water element to act as a handyman for the Kingdom of God.

As for the low intelligence of elemental creatures, that is not a problem - believers can be allowed to act as commanders, with good minds responsible for issuing orders, and those with poor minds responsible for execution, and division of labor and cooperation.

Overall, Ariel's design is very good and can be used in both war and peace. The only problem is that to build such a huge water element condensation pool requires an amazing amount of materials.

Ordinary materials are fine, the most troublesome thing is the elemental heart.

To be precise, it is the heart of the water element.

The origin of this thing is very simple - if a water element dies, a water element heart may be produced in its corpse.

The problem is that, generally speaking, elemental creatures have no concept of "lifespan".

They will also grow, getting bigger and stronger. However, they do not die due to aging.

It is said that there was once an extremely powerful mage who imprisoned the weak earth element and used powerful magic circles to make it age continuously. After nearly a thousand years of this, the mage himself is almost dying of old age, and the earth element is still much the same as when he was first captured.

If you want to make elemental creatures die of old age, you must first give them a "life span". That means pushing it beyond its limits—in other words, into the realm of legend.

Unlike ordinary creatures, elemental creatures will have a "lifespan" after entering the legendary realm.

This has its advantages and disadvantages, but given the opportunity, almost no elemental creature would refuse to step into the realm of legend.

Admittedly, that would cost them almost eternal life, but even elemental creatures with relatively low intelligence know that what determines how long a person can live in this world is generally not lifespan, but strength.

There is no telling how many elemental creatures without strength will die every day. And among the elemental lords who enter the legendary realm, not one of them may die in a year.

Not to mention, "becoming stronger" is the innate nature of all living things, no one is exception!

Once an elemental creature enters the legendary realm, it can grow into an elemental lord. An elemental lord at the lowest level can probably live for tens of thousands of years. If he is lucky enough to die, he will leave behind the elemental heart.

… It would take about a hundred such elemental hearts to build the giant water elemental pool designed by Ariel.

So, take your time and look for it.