The Era of Gods

Chapter 394: Chapter 394: The Fundamental Law of the Totem Lord

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Of course, they indeed had no other intentions; they simply wanted to find a safe place to store some Power of Faith.

Across the entire continent, theoretically, the safest place now was with Lin Xiao.

To Lin Xiao, the faith of an entire province was but a trifle; he wasn’t short on the Power of Faith. Once he was ready, he would definitely continue to expand his territory, and by then, it would be even less of an issue.

Moreover, taking in the two of them meant having someone of the same kind to talk to, which would prevent loneliness.

After all, he was the only bachelor commander at present, with no one to talk to and no one to share his thoughts with.

Time, regardless of how the situation developed, was passing silently by.

The continental situation was ever-changing. The newly established Alphonso Kingdom had been quiet without any significant movements, much to the relief of the neighboring kingdoms.

Unknowingly, two years had passed, and the situation on the continent had undergone tremendous changes. Firstly, after years of internal strife, the Saernos Empire’s situation was gradually becoming clear. Several princes, including the initially rebelling and strongest Second Prince, had met their demise in battle one after another, leaving only two major forces within the Saernos Empire.

The government led by the former Imperial Marshal, and the Seventh Prince at the forefront, Salnoss XIII.

This Seventh Prince, after the Second Prince’s defeat, quickly took over all the royal inheritance. With the covert support of human Descenders, he grew increasingly strong. After a surprise attack to retake the Imperial City a year ago, he had gained the upper hand. It seemed very likely that he could defeat the rebel forces and reunify the Saernos Empire.

In Imperial Capital Sael City, within the Imperial Palace, more than twenty human Descenders gathered. At this moment, the puppet Prince was indulging in pleasures in another part of the palace, completely disregarding the situation.

Chao Ge sat on the throne that only the Emperor could occupy, with over twenty Descenders gathered on either side, casually seated, discussing important matters.

After discussing domestic affairs, Chao Ge immediately asked Xinhua:

“Has the informant from the Alphonso Kingdom sent any intelligence?”

Xinhua nodded and said:

“Half a month ago, they sent information. Everything is as usual. The Alphonso Kingdom has shown no signs of troop movement. Here is the deployment map of Alphonso’s main forces, and it has remained unchanged.”

He took out a map and laid it in front of everyone, pointing to several important marks and saying:

“Two kingdoms border Alphonso Kingdom, the Finland Kingdom and the Sardinian Kingdom. Alphonso Kingdom has only placed one legion at each of the main junctions with these two kingdoms, with the rest of the main forces stationed in the Royal Capital, unchanged.”

Chao Ge stared at the map for a while, then looked up and said:

“Unmoving does not mean it will stay unmoved forever, intensify surveillance.”

Xinhua nodded:

“I will.”

Chao Ge sighed and said:

“Although our territory has now surpassed that of Alphonso Kingdom, our overall strength is still slightly inferior to Alphonso Kingdom, which has been resting and recuperating for several years. We cannot stop keeping an eye on them.”

At this point, someone said:

“This Rore is too oblivious to advance or retreat. There are still the Children of Nightmare and the Child of the Spirit Realm in the plane. At this time, he should cooperate with us to defeat the Children of Nightmare and the Child of the Spirit Realm first.”

“Exactly, I think he has other ideas and wants to swallow the entire plane alone.”

“After all the help Chao Ge gave him, I didn’t expect he would do this…”

“Shut up!”

Chao Ge suddenly interrupted, looking sternly at the speaking Descender and said:

“Don’t speak such words in the future, it’s normal for organizations of Descenders to help each other.”

“But Chao Ge, you helped him, and yet he…”

“He has repaid the favor!”

Chao Ge stated seriously:

“His reinforcement of a thousand troops a few years ago has already repaid the favor. The help I gave him was important, but the thousand troops he provided were just as valuable to me, completely equivalent in my heart. This was enough to repay the favor from before. I hope you won’t bring this up again, and certainly, don’t use it to threaten him.”

He lifted his cup, drank it in one gulp, and said in a heavy voice:

“I know what you all are thinking. But I, Chao Ge, always act with integrity. Even when facing competitors, I wish to defeat them fair and square. Even if I fail, it will be due to my own lack of skill. There’s nothing to complain about.”

The crowd fell silent, their expressions showing both agreement and contempt, but they kept their thoughts hidden and didn’t show them outwardly.

Xinhua was even scoffing internally:

“He wants me to ask Rore for resources while also saving face, such hypocrisy!”

“By the way, has the brother who went back to the Advent Base to purchase promotion materials for everyone returned? Now we have enough Power of Faith but no resources to advance. As long as we unify Saernos Empire, the immense faith will allow us all to promote to Official Totem Masters, and given enough time, everyone might even be promoted to Totem Lord.”

Xinhua quickly snapped back to reality and replied:

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“They have been gone for half a year now; they should be back soon, probably this month.”

“Okay.”

Similar discussions took place in different locations. Children of Nightmare, Child of the Spirit Realm, all were discussing the continental situation and preparing for further advancement. However, no matter the aspect, they couldn’t avoid the currently strongest, Lin Xiao.

As the first power to unify a kingdom, he received attention and importance from all forces. Every entity had spies in Alphonso Kingdom gathering information and sending it back.

Lin Xiao knew this but didn’t care.

He was following the magnanimous path of a King, crushing with absolute strength. Tricks and conspiracies were useless as long as his own power was strong enough.

As this royal path unfolded, with more thorough preparations and his personal strength gradually increasing, especially recently, he felt that he had become strong enough to touch the threshold of Totem Lord. With the constant support of resources from the Yan Huang War Zone Number Five, his incarnation was finally at the limit of an Official Totem Master and was about to advance to Totem Lord.

About to advance, it seemed like just one more step, but in reality, this step wasn’t so easy to take.

After all, in the Totem Civilization Universe, the Totem Lord is similar to the other civilizations in the Divine Realm taking the step of Opening the Divine Realm. The Totem civilization did not have a mature and perfected method of opening, and Lin Xiao himself did not have detailed information about this aspect.

Although he had stayed in the White Tower Sect before, he had never accessed the core of the Sect. He only had a concept of how to advance to Totem Lord and no understanding of the actual procedures.

It was like he clearly understood that having a child required the cooperation of a man and a woman—the man providing gold, the woman providing an egg, and the combination of the two nurturing an embryo.

But knowing was one thing—understanding the structure and composition of gold and egg, and why they could nurture an embryo, he was clueless.

So he decisively went to ask Lisha. After hearing Lin Xiao’s questions, she was very surprised and said,

“You’re advancing to Totem Lord? If I remember correctly, before your descent, you weren’t even an Official Totem Master? Where did you get the resources for the advancement? No, wait, do you have a method to contact the outside to obtain resources? But that doesn’t make sense, the outside…”

Her series of questions showed just how surprised she was, her puzzled look was incredibly cute.

Lin Xiao waited for her to finish and calm down before slowly responding with due etiquette,

“First, indeed, I am about to advance to Totem Lord. Second, I have no means of contacting the outside world. Third, although I can’t contact the outside, I have ways to obtain resources. I can’t tell you what specifically, but I can offer you some of the resources you need, for a fee.”

Upon hearing this, she joyfully said,

“That’s fantastic! I’ve already accumulated a lot of the Power of Faith, but I can’t advance without resources. If you can provide some for me, I’m willing to tell you everything I know.”

“That’s good, tell me what materials you need to light up your Talent, and I’ll prepare them for you.”

“The Totem Model I’ve condensed is the Ice Spirit, a high-level demon of the ice elements. I’ve already lit up three Talents and need to light up three more. The first is a legendary-grade ice material, any type is fine, the higher the quality the better.

The second is a core from an elite Ice Element. Of course, if it’s from an elder Ice Element, that would be even better.

The last is a legendary-grade or higher life form of the ice system, like an Ice Element Elf or a Blue Dragon, etc. Again, the stronger the better.”

“Hmm, is there anything else?”

“That’s enough, those three are sufficient for me to advance to an Official Totem Master.”

“And after becoming an Official Totem Master?”

Unexpectedly, Lisha simply waved her hand and said,

“It would be great if I can advance to an Official Totem Master. This realm will become quite dangerous before long. My brother and the others have already sent people to leave this realm for the Advent Base realm to buy advancement materials. But with people’s complex minds, those sent will have their own ideas. The news is bound to leak, and many Descenders will surely come here. By then, this realm will be very complicated and chaotic. Anyway, if things look bad, I will leave immediately and not stay here.”

“Oh, and I can say with absolute certainty that the news about this realm will leak. You’d better prepare early to face the impact of more powerful beings.”

At this point, Lin Xiao’s expression was already quite solemn. He nodded and said,

“Don’t worry, I have an idea and will take countermeasures.”

“That’s good. Come over here, I’ll teach you a few methods for advancing to Totem Lord.”

“There are several methods?”

“Of course.”

By the time he left, it was early morning the next day. Returning to the church with a heavy heart, Lin Xiao pondered for a moment and then ordered a Messenger to invite Afonso.

Although he had created Afonso, Lin Xiao was very careful in his actions, giving Afonso and his other important subordinates enough respect.

He had exchanged confidences with Lisha all night. Although they were alone together and in the process crossed some boundaries, doing some wonderful things, he still asked all the necessary questions.

According to Lisha, the key to advancing to Totem Lord lies in Opening the Totem Territory, which in their terms means opening up a separate space, like the Son of God realm opening their own Divine Realm. As for the specific Divine Realm opening method, Lisha only had a general makeshift method; the core foundational methods unique to major factions were known to her but not in her possession.

Each faction opens a different Totem Territory. For example, the White Tower Sect that Lin Xiao had joined had a method corresponding to the meditation method he learned, capable of opening a territory that corresponds to the meditation method.

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