The Era of Gods

The power of Fire Legendary Spells is terrifying; just one could easily annihilate an entire army.

Of course, it’s impossible to use a Legendary Spell like “Skyfall Meteor” to bombard within one’s own Divine Realm. No matter how large the Divine Realm has grown, it still couldn’t withstand the destructive force of such a terrifying Legendary Spell.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, Lin Xiao was playing with a Little Elemental Fairy in the depths of the God Realm Sea, which had expanded dozens of times over. He was cultivating a relationship when he suddenly received a notification from his homeroom teacher that the invasion was about to begin.

He slowly rose to his feet and looked towards the southwest direction of the Divine Realm. As the Divine Realm Master, he could clearly sense that somewhere in the void of the Main Divine Realm’s southwest, an invisible force was twisting space, and a portal was about to take shape.

Also sensing this anomaly was Slarda, who had become a Divine-mandate Hero. The towering hero swam out from the grand temple in the center of Naga City, grabbed the anchor that was placed by the door, slammed it onto the ground, and his thunderous voice spread throughout the city:

“My Lord warns that an evil is about to descend upon our world. In the name of the Supreme Truth and the Creator, we must defend our Lord’s glory and eradicate all that is evil!”

With an oppressive aura, Slarda’s enormous form slowly rose to its full height, lifting the massive anchor towards a direction, and bellowed:

“My Lord tells me, evil will appear there!”

The anchor smashed to the ground:

“Brave warriors, march forth!”

The morale-boosted Supreme Nagas below raised their weapons and roared in unison, their loud cries spreading in all directions. The gathered Small Fishmen outside the city also shouted loudly, as one, who sat atop a unicorn, led the charge to the southwest.

Under Slarda’s guidance, a group of Small Fishmen were already attempting to tame the unicorns, forming a unit of Fishman knights.

However, the Fishmen had no Talent in this area at all—the formation of Fishman knights was utterly useless, except for the fact that as mounts, they could run faster. They could not achieve a unity of fish and horse to become Fishman cavalry capable of fighting on horseback.

This was due to racial Talent limitations; no amount of training could help.

Lin Xiao had considered, for the next genetic modification of the Fishmen, whether he could increase the proportion of terrestrial species, enhancing certain attributes in the Small Fishman and Supreme Naga genes to make them more adapted to land combat.

Although water was initially the main area of the Divine Realm, as he slowly developed, both his Divine Realm and his Clan, as well as various enemies, were all primarily land-based. In future invasions into Different Domains, the majority of planes would be land-dominant, and his main Clan would need to be more adapted to land.

Or perhaps, on the basis of the Small Fishmen, he should create a completely land-adapted branch?

But he quickly dismissed the idea.

It was too time-consuming, too labor-intensive, and too wasteful of Creation Energy.

“We’ll talk about that later!”

Actually, he hadn’t even started thinking about the next genetic modification of the Small Fishmen. However, he had a vague idea for the next phase of modification for the Supreme Nagas: the Storm Giant Card and the Dragon Blood Card he held. The racial Talents of both dragons and giants were exceedingly powerful. If he could extract their strengths and integrate them into the Supreme Naga genes, they would undoubtedly become incredibly powerful.

But it was foreseeable that if he were to integrate these two extraordinary racial genes into the Supreme Nagas, the amount of Creation Energy needed would be far from ordinary. The adjustments couldn’t be done without preparing at least fifty units of Creation Energy.

He didn’t dare to proceed, as running out of Creation Energy mid-modification would be disastrous.

With Slarda at the lead, over two thousand Supreme Nagas clustered alongside, flanked by more than twenty thousand Small Fishmen on both sides. The massive army marched towards the southwest of the Divine Realm following the road that led to the ancient battlefield.

Along the way, the wild grass was trampled flat, and vast open areas were created on the otherwise barren wilderness.

As the army drew closer, they could see a huge invisible distortion in the open wasteland in the southwest of the Main Divine Realm from several kilometers away; rings of invisible distortion waves were slowly spreading. The surrounding weeds and shrubs, affected by the spatial distortion, withered away and turned to ash, forming a massive expanse of dead wasteland.

“Is this due to spatial influence or?”

“Boom!”

The distorted space suddenly swelled violently and, accompanied by a thunderous noise, the expanded space shattered, revealing a hole several hundred meters in diameter. Through the vast hole, Lin Xiao could see another Divine Realm on the other side, where a huge army of Other Races readied themselves for battle on the ground just outside the hole.

“Is this a projection?”

Lin Xiao was quite surprised; whether by sense or sight, the space on the other side of the breach felt like a real Divine Realm, not like the projected invasion the homeroom teacher had mentioned.

Just as he pondered, the shattered space suddenly rippled, like the calm surface of water disturbed by a droplet, immediately shattering the previous sense of reality. The enormous army seemed to flow out from a real painting.

Yes, flowed out.

The other side of the Divine Realm appeared as a vivid sand painting, and as the invasion commenced, the entire painting and sand table seemed to tip over through the breach, squeezing together and becoming distorted beyond recognition.

Yet, after passing through the hole, it miraculously returned to its original form, as if a crumpled painting had been pushed through a small opening into this side and then rapidly unfolded again that was the sensation.

An army of thirteen thousand Centaurs, regardless of Rank and all clad in thick, spiked armor, fully equipped with a Horse Chopping Knife, a long spear, a bow, two quivers, and a satchel of javelins, composed of nothing but heavy cavalry.

There were no weak vassal troops nor auxiliary forces in sight, only pure Centaurs.

Over ten thousand soldiers were endless to the eye. Thirteen thousand Centaur heavy cavalry with strength ranging from Level 3 to Fifth Level deployed over five kilometers long, forming an incredibly long charge line and launched an attack towards them, and that might…

“Is this the power of the top elites from The Affiliated School of Huiyao’s elite class!”

Just with this cavalry unit capable of both offense and defense, adept at close and ranged combat, there would be no need for any secondary or supportive troops. With this mounted archery unit, they could easily suppress nearly half of the Silver Contestants at the Summer Camp.

Luckily, Slarda and the others were some distance from the portal, the three to four kilometers was enough for them to make preparations.

The few Priests quickly blessed them with various statuses, while the Fishman Magicians swiftly summoned Water Elements to gather.

Lin Xiao wasn’t idle either; he immediately summoned the Flame Lord Kurbert. A vast whirlwind of flame unfolded in the center of the battlefield, and from within the whirlwind, a roar filled with oppressive might, like a rumbling thunder, sounded:

“Great Creator, Kurbert heeds the call!”

Before his arrival, flames and lava erupted from the flame whirlwind, rapidly spreading out to form a vast expanse of molten land.

As the massive body of Kurbert slowly materialized, a faint red light burst forth from the flame whirlwind like lightning, signaling his promotion to Hero.

Rank Legend!

As a living Flame Lord with Divinity among Fire Elements, having transformed an entire Divine Domain Space into his territory, Kurbert’s power had risen. He was officially promoted to a true Flame Lord, with the strength of a Rank 7 Legendary Hero.

In truth, this was just the beginning. As the area of the Flame Divine Region continued to expand, once his power transitions from a Flame Lord to a ruler of the entire Flame Divine Region—a Flame Monarch—he would naturally ascend to a Mythical Hero.

But that was for the future. For now, he had to serve the great being in his heart and first crush the enemies before him.

Unnoticed by Lin Xiao, within the Divine Realm Void, two powerful wills emerged from nowhere outside the Main Divine Realm’s Crystal Wall, taking the form of the class teacher Jin Sisi and the counselor Zhu Hong.

The two True Gods, intending to observe the battleground of the Main Divine Realm, immediately noticed the anomalies within this Divine Realm. Their robust wills quickly scanned the entire realm and its subsidiaries. The robust Zhu Hong said in surprise:

“This student’s Divine Realm… is extraordinary!”

Standing beside her, the class teacher Jin Sisi, her pupils radiating divine light as she observed the surroundings, spoke indifferently:

“Not bad.”

Zhu Hong’s gaze pierced through the Divine Realm’s Crystal Wall and fell on Lin Xiao, nodding as she said:

“Indeed, not bad. This student is called Lin Xiao; he seems to have been brought over by Lord Xia Yu from the Super Newcomer Summer Camp, quite unexpectedly outstanding.”

“Incidentally?”

“Yes, I’ve heard he was helping that esteemed sovereign with a pickup.”

The two fell silent for a moment, tacitly avoiding the subject as Jin Sisi sized up the vast Divine Realm and said solemnly:

“It seems it was not merely incidental.”

Zhu Hong nodded and added:

“Of course, Xia Yu’s character does not allow just anyone to call on him. I heard that this student Lin Xiao received a great fortune during the last phase of exchanges at the Super Newcomer Summer Camp; he has big luck and considerable potential.”

Jin Sisi, who previously hadn’t paid attention to the Super Newcomer Summer Camp, asked:

“Let’s hear it.”

“He inherited a Divine Kingdom fragment left by a pioneer of the Earth United Nations era, along with an extremely rare treasure. It is said that the pioneer once possessed Powerful Divine Power.”

She did not elaborate further, but Jin Sisi scanned the Divine Realm once more and nodded:

“His Divine Domain Space is strong enough to accommodate Rank 7 lifeforms, and its energy level can also give birth to Rank 7 creatures. He’s a promising seedling.”

While they were exchanging these words, within the Divine Realm, Lin Xiao had already issued his Divine-mandate to Kurbert.

Thirteen thousand Centaur heavy cavalry, their strength ranging from Level 3 to Fifth Level and fully armed, posed a significant threat to any second-year high school student of any school at this stage, even Lin Xiao felt somewhat daunted.

It was not a matter of not being able to defeat them, but even if they could be defeated, the losses would certainly be significant—it was a direct invasion into the Divine Realm.

Thankfully, the Flame Divine Region had already been developed. The moment Kurbert was summoned, he immediately ordered his underlings to call forth their minions, and a never-ending stream of fire creatures burst forth from the Flame Divine Region, wantonly spreading fire, turning a large expanse of land in front of the battle line into molten territory, forcing the Centaur heavy cavalry to forcibly stop. They pulled javelins from their backs and hurled them toward the fire elements amid the lava flames.

No matter how formidable they were, they dared not charge into the molten land; even a Rank 6 Supreme Naga would face death if they jumped into the molten lava.

Their halt allowed countless fire elements to disregard the javelins raining from the sky and begin to converge.. With each Large Fire Elemental or Transcendent Level Super Large Fire Elemental at the core,