The Era of Gods

16 Chapter 16 Choice
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
His true body returned to the Divine Palace, and immediately a powerful strength suffused his entire body.

This was the blessing of the entire Divine Realm, akin to how traditional deities within their own God Country received the augmentation of the rules of God Country. In the Main World, new human gods could obtain the dual blessing of God Country and Divine Realm, which was much stronger than the old ancient gods.

Within this God Country, Lin Xiao certainly did not fear the incarnation of the Snake People Demigod.

But the problem was that the incarnation of the Snake People Demigod wouldn’t foolishly run into the God Country. All he needed to do was to slaughter all species within the Divine Realm, and Lin Xiao’s strength would weaken to the extreme, naturally leading to the collapse of his God Country.

Therefore, the Divine Realm was extremely important to new gods, a matter of life and death.

Fortunately, the Human Federation’s protection of newly divine lives was very comprehensive, usually not allowing them to face too dangerous enemies at the high school stage, and there were always teachers watching to prevent accidents, just like this time.

Of course, even the most comprehensive protection had its flaws. Just like this time, if it weren’t for the teachers’ oversight during the examination period, if Lin Xiao usually created a Snake People Card to summon monsters to train his Clan, and if an accident happened, that would spell doom.

Therefore, every year, quite a number of students ended up dropping out of school or even perishing due to various accidents.

Within the Divine Palace, Lin Xiao sat on the only relatively ornate divine throne. The entire Divine Palace had only this throne that was somewhat luxurious, with all other places being quite simple.

Already accustomed to all of this, Lin Xiao did not care about these details at all. As soon as he sat down, his attention immediately concentrated within the Creation Magic Cube.

Inside the boundless Magic Cube floated two corpse mountains. His thoughts settled on the Fishman corpse mountain and the Snake people corpse mountain, pondered for a moment, and he silently chanted in his heart:

“Disassemble!”

Immediately, a mysterious force surged within the Magic Cube, and the corpse mountains began to disassemble, quickly melting layer by layer and ultimately all the corpses turned into nothingness, leaving only two blood lights.

When his consciousness landed on these two blood lights, a slight smile appeared on Lin Xiao’s face:

“Just as I thought!”

The two blood lights were indeed what he had anticipated: one was a special Grey Mist Fish People bloodline with twice the reproduction speed and survival rate of a normal Fishman, and the other was a regular Snake people bloodline.

Now, all he needed to do was to spend a certain amount of Faith value to turn these two bloodlines into two rare Bloodline Cards.

However, Lin Xiao did not do so. Instead, after some thought, he suddenly said:

“Refine!”

The blood lights explosively turned into two pools of blood mist. Following that, the force of the Creation Magic Cube surged, and the blood mist began to fade slowly. Under the influence of an invisible force, a certain power from within those two bloodlines was respectively extracted and formed a total of five differently colored light spots above the original blood mist.

These represented the pure Bloodline Origin, the Snake People life Branding, the pure Bloodline Origin, the Fishman life Branding, and the reproduction rules.

In other words, one Snake People Bloodline Card was made of the pure life origin plus the Snake People life Branding. Now, Lin Xiao was using the Creation Magic Cube to extract them separately, even isolating the Five Star Breeding Card that had been fused into the Fishman bloodline.

After completing these steps, he took out the two-star Cod Card and directly disassembled it into pure Creation Energy for later use.

A two-star card was merely a waste of a chance to use, in his eyes, and he did not value it.

Next, Lin Xiao fell into deep thought.

Because he now had two choices, whether to focus on the Fishman or the Snake People.

Indeed, by refining both bloodlines, using the Creation Magic Cube, which could be said to possess the power of Creation, he could choose to merge these two species’ bloodlines into one.

There was no problem in terms of technique, the key question was which one to prioritize.

On a personal level, he was biased toward the Fishman, after all, it was his first Clan, and he had grown fond of them.

But the limitations of the Fishman were too great, which was detrimental to future development.

If he chose the Snake people, they were indeed stronger, but it also meant that he would have to start over, and the Snake people were land creatures, which there was currently no suitable environment for in Lin Xiao’s God’s realm, and even after the final exam ended and he got that Divine Realm Card—enriching the Earth within his Divine Realm, the environment still didn’t seem suitable for the Snake people.

Furthermore, there wasn’t enough food inside Divine Realm…

Well, this issue wasn’t too significant.

The main point was that if a second species emerged in his Divine Realm, he would have to start from scratch, requiring a series of cards to cultivate an environment suitable for the Snake people, to arm them, and to foster faith and population numbers, among other things.

All this would take time, and now there was less than a month left until the final exam, which translated to just over twenty years within the Divine Realm. The growth rate of the Snake people just couldn’t compare to that of the Fishman; in twenty odd years, it was impossible to train a combat force, which would greatly affect his immediate strength and his performance in the final exam.

“YY my ass, this is truly a happy problem indeed!”

Lin Xiao rubbed his forehead and decided to postpone making any decisions for the moment, and that he would ask his father for advice when he got home after the exam.

His father was a High-Level Demigod with a wealth of experience in this area, and he was sure to have some good suggestions.

At the same time, he might as well ask his dad for some nice things; having such an awe-inspiring father and not utilizing his help would be a waste.

Sometimes Lin Xiao really wanted to criticize those novels where the main character’s parents or Clan were incredibly powerful, yet they did not use Clan resources, miserably scrambling for resources everywhere, causing trouble, all in the name under the pretense of self-improvement, which was just idiotic.

If it was impossible to utilize them, that was one thing, but not using them when he could was just a foolish move.

In a Divine Realm not much different from Lin Xiao’s, the view was filled with desert, and only in the center of the desert was there an oasis surrounded by mountains on three sides.

At the moment, the only exit of the oasis was breached, the wooden fence knocked down, with corpses scattered everywhere.

Dense swarms of Goblins wielding sticks, bone spikes, and other random weapons rushed into the valley oasis, while dozens of injured Desert Lizardmen fought as they retreated. Within the valley, many young and old Lizardmen stood behind the fence by the small lake in the center of the oasis, holding weapons and watching in terror as the Goblins poured in.

Above the Divine Realm, a golden figure invisible to mortals looked down at the battlefield below with a bitter face, especially at the towering Bear Goblins. After a long sigh, he looked up and said,

“Teacher, I’ve lost.”

The voice of the homeroom teacher, Wu Hai, rang out:

“Are you sure?”

“Positive!”

“Alright then.”

The next second, a dull drum sound came from the horizon; following that, all the Goblins in the oasis stopped in their tracks as if hitting the pause button. Then they all became ethereal, transforming into beams of light shooting into the sky, and the oasis was restored to calm.

Inside the Divine Realm, the homeroom teacher Wu Hai retracted the card in his hand and shook his head:

“What a pity, he was ranked in the top ten of the class two months ago. A single rash act severely weakened his strength, and now he can’t even pass the regular tests.”

Zheng WenZhuo also shook his head:

“With the final exams next month, he probably has no chance. One misstep leads to a series of missteps; it will be difficult for him to catch up later.”

Meanwhile, in another Divine Realm, hundreds of Swamp Lizardmen were besieging a Two-headed crocodile about seven or eight meters in length.