novelODS Chapter 10 The Unclaimed Divine Realm
Chapter 10 The Unclaimed Divine Realm
"Recently, I can sense that everyone has basically completed the integration with their familiars, and there has been significant progress in the cultivation of the divine realm. However, there are still a few students among you who are difficult for me to evaluate."
The divine magic teacher stood on the podium and tapped the blackboard.
"Some students haven't even reached the God Realm's saturation point in terms of the number of their followers. Instead of allowing their followers to reproduce, they keep fighting in the God Wars, which has caused their followers to die out. Other students are so engrossed in role-playing in the God Realm that they start dating their followers, wasting the divine power they would have used for development, and in the end, they end up with nothing."
A burst of laughter came from the audience. The above examples, if not promising godhood, are certainly far removed from ordinary people.
Until the divine magic teacher glared angrily at the students.
With a divine power in their gaze, a sense of fear, like being watched by a primal beast, crept into everyone's heart, and the classroom quieted down a little.
"I won't name names. But I must remind everyone that the midterm exams are coming up soon. The resources the school is providing for top-ranking students are much more abundant than in previous years. These are not things that can be easily bought. If you miss out, you'll regret it for the rest of your lives."
The teacher realized then that he had set his expectations too high for his students. In the stage of becoming a divine seed, only by obtaining extraordinary followers could one stand out. However, countless divine seeds in the world were stuck at this step, either because their initial followers were inadequate or because they lacked resources. Even worse, some had sufficient followers and resources but were still stuck at a crucial point, unable to enable their followers to achieve transcendence.
"Sigh, you guys really should learn more from Pan Xiaopang in this regard. His retinue has already achieved transcendence. In addition, there is another classmate in our class who I see has also completed the process of divine rebirth."
The atmosphere in the audience immediately became lively, and several students huddled together and whispered among themselves.
"No way, Pan Xiaopang has already transcended the ordinary?"
"His family members already have extraordinary professions, so isn't it normal for him to recover so quickly? Besides, his family isn't short of resources. Look how many bottles of divine power recovery potion he's drunk." A male classmate said with a disdainful look.
"Easy for you to say. Weren't your initial servants also natural-born goblin berserkers? How come you didn't become a transcendent?"
The boy looked embarrassed and stammered, "I...I fought too many god battles...I don't have enough summoned creatures..."
The people around suddenly realized what was happening and almost burst out laughing.
"Well, so that guy I mentioned earlier who's always fighting like a god, it's you! No wonder you've been acting so strangely lately!"
At this moment, a female student in the front row turned around and joined the discussion: "Never mind him, aren't you curious about who the person hiding their identity is?"
"It must be the class monitor, right?" someone whispered, pointing to Liang Jiu in the front row. "I feel like he's gotten a lot more handsome lately."
"Huh? Isn't he always like this? Are you sure you're not mistaken?" Another classmate wearing glasses looked at Liang Jiu with some suspicion, then shook his head dismissively. "The class monitor's destined companion is pure human. He probably hasn't even completed his productivity liberation yet. Where would he get the resources to cultivate superhuman units? It's probably someone else."
front row.
Liang Jiu quietly flipped through the textbook in his hands, ignoring the whispers about him from the back row.
He used his divine power to open his own panel.
Name: Liang Jiu
Rank: Divine Seed
"Divine Realm: Plains (Gray)"
"Talent: Evolutionary Hunter (3% chance of advancing the game), Bowen"
"Family: Human? (Mortal Rank 3712) (Transcendent Rank 1 7)"
"Family Traits: [Strong] [Inherited Memory]"
Progress is only 3%. As expected, without experiencing the divine war, the progress of [Evolutionary Hunter] will be slow. Although there are some ferocious beasts in the divine realm that can be used by his followers for practice, the survival threat they provide is no longer sufficient. Moreover, those ordinary prey cannot provide Liang Jiu's followers with excellent traits.
Civilizations may gradually lose their drive to progress when they are complacent, but excessive disasters can destroy their foundations. Only the gods themselves can determine the balance between these two extremes.
"In order to accelerate everyone's training of their spouses and prepare for the upcoming midterm exams."
The magic teacher's voice rose in the front, drowning out the whispers in the back.
"The school has applied for some special resources from higher authorities to open a level three unclaimed divine realm for everyone. Students who are interested can come to me after class to apply for the qualification to explore. There are limited spots available, and the ticket price rented within the school is much lower than that of the external trading market."
These words immediately caused an uproar in the classroom. Even Liang Jiu released his divine power and looked at what was in front of him.
Unclaimed divine realms are different from the terrain divine realms sold on the market. The latter are only a part of the terrain, containing simple ecology, while only top-tier terrain divine realms can naturally contain extraordinary elements such as magic.
Its essence is a tool. When the number of followers in the divine realm reaches its saturation point, the deity can use the terrain divine realm to expand the area of the divine realm and increase the theoretical upper limit of the number of followers.
The former, the Unclaimed Divine Realm, is a divine realm left behind after the death of a deity. Because its followers still exist, it continues to be maintained and developed by the power of faith.
The risks of accessing a god-less realm are far less than those of a war of gods.
Without divine guidance, the local retinue is like a body without a brain, acting only on instinct. Dealing with a group of creatures without divine protection is far easier than fighting a cunning opponent in a divine war.
Moreover, it was a godless realm of a third-level god.
Its divine realm is home to extraordinary beings and is also a breeding ground for extraordinary resources that cannot be bought on the market.
Even if we can't fully analyze and obtain its unique extraordinary path, simply leading people in to plunder extraordinary resources would be a huge gain for students still in the God Seed stage. It would also make the awakening of extraordinary relatives much easier in the future.
But how could such a precious treasure be used by ordinary poor students? It is usually owned by the government and large families, and the number of gods who can access the divine realm is strictly controlled to ensure the renewable nature of resources. Now that the school can actually produce a level three unclaimed divine realm, it must have paid a huge price.
Liang Jiu had inquired about it in the market.
Renting a level-three unclaimed divine domain for 43 minutes (exactly one month within the domain) costs 20 Federal Credits. Let alone an orphan like him, even someone as well-off as Pan Xiaopang couldn't easily afford to rent an unclaimed divine domain.
Even a hero can be brought down by a penny.
However, the price of the unclaimed divine realm provided by the school would likely be much lower, which might be within Liang Jiu's expectations.
But then the magic teacher in front of them said, "The school currently offers a price of 88,000 for half an hour. If you need it, you can apply for it from me."