Chapter 31: Lin Xiao’s Talent
Two hundred Lizardman Archers erged from the portal and lined up in a formation that stretched three to four hundred ters. His eyes narrowed as he looked towards the center of the Lizardman Archers, where there were several taller figures of their kind, each holding a larger bow. Under his watchful gaze, these larger Lizardman Archers, spaced hundreds of ters apart, drew their bows and released an arrow into the sky in unison.
Of course, they were not shooting at him but performing a long-range lob shot.
Each piercing attack flew over two hundred ters high before slantingly descending into the charging group of Fishn, imdiately toppling over a dozen of them.
As the Clan charged, seven volleys of arrows rained down in succession, claiming the lives of hundreds of Fishn before they could reach halfway.
When the distance was reduced to about one hundred and thirty to forty ters, the regular Lizardman Archers also nocked and drew their bows to begin lob shooting. A sky filled with arrows fell, and a large number of Fishn were struck down mid-charge.
Yet, not a single Fishman showed fear. Their unwavering faith caused them to montarily forget their fear, and driven by the Nagas behind them, they charged towards the Lizardman Shooters while bellowing chaotically.
Decades of change, following the death of successive generations of Fishn, including the Fishman Leader incarnation that Lin Xiao occasionally used who also perished of old age, the newly-born Grey Mist Fish People had completely surrendered to the superior strength of the Black Scale Nagas. By now, the Grey Mist Fish People had entirely beco subjects of the Black Scale Nagas, and Lin Xiao’s Divine Realm was dominated by the Black Scale Nagas, with the Grey Mist Fish People serving them.
In terms of racial combat power, the Lizardman Archers were definitely stronger than the Fishn, but there were too many Fishn. More than two thousand Fishn were projected from the entire Divine Realm, converging from all directions into a dense and overwhelming mass.
After releasing over a dozen waves of arrows, the Fishn had closed in to within a fifty-ter range. The Lizardn were planning on launching a couple more volleys before creating distance to kite the enemy. Unexpectedly, at that very mont, the leading group of Fishn suddenly surged forward with explosive speed, much like warriors charging into battle. In the blink of an eye, they closed the fifty-ter gap and crashed fiercely into the unprepared Lizardman Archers, knocking many of them to the ground in disarray.
For Lin Xiao, these two rounds posed no challenge at all, simply because he now had too many mbers in his Clan.
Not to ntion the Black Scale Naga, just the Fishn alone numbered over two thousand, enough to pass this elimination round.
In less than two minutes, the constantly advancing Fishn overwheld and subrged the group of Lizardman Archers.
The second wave… ended just like that, with the actual main force of the Divine Realm, the Black Scale Naga, not having to move at all.
The leaders of the Black Scale Naga shouted instructions for the injured and the exhausted Grey-scale Fish People, who had perford the Salted Fish Charge, to fall back. The other Fishn chaotically ford several square formations behind the portal, waiting for the third wave of enemies to arrive.
In the Void, Wu Hai had just left a student’s sub-dinsion.
The thought of this student’s Clan’s performance had him shaking his head.
In terms of strength, they were not weak, with nearly a thousand Grey-skinned Tree Frog People, including First Level Tree Frog warriors. However, they struggled so much against an assault of only five hundred Kobolds. When a single Magician’s fireball exploded, so Frog People were even scared into retreating.
What did this show?
It showed that this student’s training of their God Realm Kin was severely lacking.
While the Clan’s size t the standards, the cultivation of faith was gravely inadequate. To fight for the Deity they believed in, yet still have deserters when holding an advantage was unacceptable, Wu Hai thought as he continued to shake his head in disappointnt.
Of course, the comprehensive strength of this student’s clan ant they wouldn’t be eliminated after the third round, but in his heart, he had already determined that this student’s future prospects were limited.
As a reserve deity, the most important aspect is the managent of believers’ faith, for faith is the most crucial to a deity.
If one can’t even manage the faith of their own clan, how can they, in the future, conquer the natives in the different domains?
Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but recall his student, Lin Xiao. The managent of his God Realm Kin was exceptionally good; all mbers were True Believers with a high ratio of Devout and Fanatic Believers. Not just in his class, but even within the whole grade, he was ranked at the very top.
Though Wan Chuan and Yuan Hong were stronger than Lin Xiao, they fell short in believer cultivation compared to Lin Xiao; they lacked his talent in this area.
In the eyes of senior demigods and higher beings, the ability to cultivate faith in believers was a talent as well-considered a hidden talent.
The school taught theoretical classes on this subject. Throughout the tens of thousands of years of the Main World’s history, countless Deities had erged, and there were millions of courses on how to cultivate believers’ faith. Apart from the classroom, there were plenty of free resources online; none of this was secret.
However, even if all students cultivated their followers according to the theoretical courses, the outcos varied from student to student using the sa thods.
This puzzled many, including several potent True Gods and a Deity of great divine power, who had researched this issue extensively. But in the end, they couldn’t co to a conclusion, and that great entity only said one thing: “Cultivating faith is also a talent!”
In Wu Hai’s eyes, Lin Xiao’s talent in this area was extraordinary.
Thinking this, the horoom teacher Wu Hai suddenly stopped his steps towards Wan Chuan’s domain and changed directions. He suddenly wanted to see how this student was currently performing.
He rembered that this student had perford very well in the last foundation-level test. His clan, the Fishn, was weak, but that powerful burst skill left a deep impression on him. He was curious if the student could continue to perform well in this final exam.
In the north of the Half Plane, a three-ter-tall teleportation gate stood on a barren land. With the shimring of light, Pigge Pign, around one ter and eighty-nine centiters tall and very robust with pig heads on human bodies, erged from it.
The Pigge Pign were a type of beastn, belonging to an interdiate race among the beastn. They were sowhat stronger than humans but not by much. Their true strength lay in their formidable reproductive ability, ranking them at the top amongst all beastman races.
The third wave of enemies consisted of Pigge Pign, and because of their formidable strength, the total number was only slightly higher than the second wave, with three hundred regular pign plus thirty elite pigman warriors, but their overall strength far exceeded the second wave.
The threat level of this wave was about seventy to eighty percent of what Lin Xiao faced in the extra test of the foundation assessnt. As he had passed even the additional test, not to ntion this one, the current strength of his clan was far greater than before.
Over three hundred pign erged from the portal and gathered in front of it. Thirty elite pign roared loudly while wielding clubs and spiked maces. After a brief rallying, they charged towards the dense crowd of Fishn.
Above the Vault of Heaven, where mortals could not see, Lin Xiao leaned forward, gazing down and stroking his chin in thought before opening his mouth to issue a Divine-mandate.
The Fishn, who were preparing to counter-charge, suddenly stopped, quickly parted, and hundreds of Black Scale Naga holding fine iron short spears swam out. Their long tails swished, and their thick scales screeched against the sandy ground. At the shouts of a few Naga leaders, they dispersed and charged toward the approaching Pigge Pign..
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