The Era of Gods

A deep male voice resonated from within the stone palace, immediately followed by another voice replying:

“I saw two of them, heading down from over the sea.”

“Oversea? Then it’s not really connected with the two senior year students?”

“They must have stumbled upon this world by accident.”

“Right, didn’t the school leadership mention that this year’s freshmen’s first big lecture would be in the Crystal Wall System? It seemed like it was going to be located in this void. Could these newcomers be freshmen?”

The other voice paused for a moment, then said:

“That’s a possibility.”

Speaking of which, the voice suddenly became more relaxed and laughed:

“If so, that would be interesting. The school leaders said to give them a good welcome. Thinking back to when we started school and how we were treated by our seniors, what goes around, comes around. Now it’s our turn.”

“Pass the message to Senior Chu Mo and Senior Yichen, I believe Senior Yichen will be very interested.”

“No problem.”

The same situation was occurring at the northernmost edge of the main continent, in many tribes living within the boundless primitive forest, hunting for their livelihoods.

These tribes were mostly governed by one larger tribe, centered around a huge city located in the middle of the primitive forest, the name of the Dark Forest Guardian echoing throughout the entire forest.

Atop the towering ancient trees, two figures shrouded in Divine Power stood, one of whom, with camouflage emitting divine light and decorations flowing with Divine Power, withdrew his gaze from the distance and said to his companion:

“So cautious, they must be new here. Go chase them away.”

His companion smiled slightly:

“No rush. Don’t you think it would be more interesting to add a few freshmen to our group with the four second-year juniors? It’s boring to chase them away right now. Let’s wait until they’ve developed a bit, almost successfully established a Spatial Waymarker, and then show up. I believe we’ll give our juniors an unforgettable memory then.”

“You’re too bad.”

“Likewise!”

In the midst of the endless sea, the Flying Snake No. was flying rapidly over five hundred meters above the water surface. In the far distance over the flat sea, a massive silhouette was quickly approaching.

This was a large island spanning thousands of square kilometers, the largest of several thousand islands in the area. Initial observations showed that there was a small tribe on the westernmost part of the island. They were not very big, and their corresponding tribal totem should not be too strong to handle.

The battleship slowed down about a dozen kilometers from the island and chose a spacious stretch of beach tens of kilometers wide on the far eastern side of the island to gently land upon.

“First squad, get ready!”

The captain of the naval marine squad aboard the Flying Snake looked sternly at the fully equipped soldiers before him, giving orders as Lin Xiao was observing the surroundings.

This wide, gentle beach had no trees nearby, just wasteland that was flat and bare, making it difficult to ambush—an excellent landing point.

As the hatch opened, a small landing pod about ten meters in length flew out from the Flying Snake No. and drifted towards the island.

Accompanied by a muffled thud, the landing pod fell on the wasteland, spraying up a cloud of pebbles. The undulating gullies and stone behind startled many snakes and insects into a frenzied escape, but two five-to-six-meter-long lizards with brown-yellow skin were also spotted quietly lurking nearby.

The door swung open, and soldiers clad in Enhanced Plate Armor, resembling intergalactic warriors, rushed out quickly. The squad’s second-in-command leaped up ten meters or so to the top of the landing pod and withdrew a short spear about one and a half meters long and as thick as a big thumb from behind his back. Aiming at a target, he threw it forcefully. With a flash of the spear, blood spurted from the ground in the distance. One of the sand lizards with a withered-yellow appearance and five or six meters in length was pinned to the ground by the short spear, its frantic struggles kicking up a haze of pebbles.

Constrained by the rules of Different Domain, their combat style was with cold weapons. Every marine had exquisite combat skills and a variety of combat experience, including hand-to-hand and ranged, with some even possessing a few basic spells.

Although these sand lizards were well concealed, they couldn’t escape their gaze and were easily spotted.

Afterward, the squad members proceeded to eliminate all the hidden creatures within a one-mile radius before they began to deploy four squads, leaving one to hold the position and the others to disperse in all directions to scout the surrounding area.

At the same time, the Flying Snake No. released four detectors, coordinating with the four squads for ground and aerial reconnaissance.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao and his girlfriend stayed inside the Flying Snake No. waiting for news.

Once the squad had finished exploring and confirmed the surrounding conditions and the construction site for the temporary base, they would summon the Clan.

Fifty minutes later, the third squad headed north sent a warning message. The person in charge of Flying Snake No. immediately ordered the warship to take off towards that direction. After flying for about six kilometers, they saw the lush trees in front shaking violently, with enormous roars and the incessant cracking of snapping trees ringing in their ears.

When Flying Snake No. arrived overhead, they saw the third squad entangled in a fight with a twenty-meter-long Giant Lizard covered in fist-sized green bumps.

The creature was a fearsome brown-green, with lumpy scales that were extremely tough. No matter the javelin or crossbow arrow, the squad members couldn’t penetrate its hide, nor did they dare to get too close—if this beast rammed into someone, no one could withstand the impact.

As Flying Snake No. hovered above, the pilot decisively ordered to charge the ship’s cannon while the squad below swiftly retreated.

“Boom!”

As the energy in the cannon condensed to its limit, accompanied by a thunderous roar, a dazzling column of energy blasted the Giant Lizard. A single shot blew a nearly two-meter-wide and half a meter deep crater into its back, scattering dark red blood and flesh all over the sky.

The Giant Lizard immediately took a heavy blow; its huge body staggered and toppled a large tree as it looked up at the Flying Snake No. hundreds of meters in the Vault of Heaven, letting out a roar and spewing a stream of dark green venom skyward.

This venom had an incredibly long range, able to reach heights exceeding five hundred meters, but unfortunately, Flying Snake No. had already activated its defensive Array and raised its Shield. The venom could only hiss as it corroded upon hitting the energy Shield, unable to penetrate it, and a lot of the venom that fell corroded a large area of trees into nothingness.

Subsequently, Flying Snake No. chased the Giant Lizard for several kilometers, firing a dozen or so more shots before they finally managed to obliterate the incredibly resilient Giant Beast.

At the moment of the Giant Lizard’s death, Lin Xiao noticed that its Soul did not dissipate but could still condense into a solid form.

However, it was only a Non-existing tree, and its form began to waver and disperse when touched by the mountain wind.

Lin Xiao considered for a moment and decided to capture this Soul.

Normally, when creatures of a Foreign Dimension die, their Souls dissipate or enter the underworld of the current world, but the fact that this dimension’s creatures could re-condense their Souls after death was an anomaly, perhaps worth studying when there was time.

As for the corpse, it was not considered. The Giant Lizard’s body contained deadly poison and was not edible. Besides, after being bombarded by the ship’s cannon—comparable to a ninth-ring Spell—it was already blasted so badly that it was not recognizable as a lizard anymore, and even Undead magic could not revive it.

The following two days were spent exterminating all the Fierce Beasts and Warcraft within a radius of ten or so kilometers. Then, at a certain distance from the shore, they set fire to burn away the underbrush. The Flying Snake No. slowly descended, and the landing troop disembarked to begin the construction of the temporary camp.

Lead by the deputy leader Feather Snake, the Mage Squad used Petrification to Mud Magic to turn a large amount of stones into mud. Other members dug and shaped the mud into rectangular panels that were two meters long, one meter high, and thirty centimeters thick, or into pillars several meters long and thicker than a person, before solidifying them back into hard stone using Mud to Stone Magic.

Afterward, the legendary Mage Feather Snake used magic to lift a plot of ground measuring one hundred meters by one hundred meters and did not stop until he had raised it to a height of twenty meters.

These stone panels and pillars were then transported to the elevated platform, which was one hundred meters long, one hundred meters wide, and twenty meters high, and assembled into sturdy stone houses.

In the time that followed, Feather Snake raised four such platforms in all four directions and then gathered the strength of all the Mages in the squad to raise a central platform that was two hundred meters long, two hundred meters wide, and thirty meters high. They connected the platforms with stone bridges to form a single structure.

Then, they enclosed these five platforms with a stone wall ten meters high and five meters wide, totaling more than five kilometers in length, and thus a sizable temporary camp took shape.

This so-called camp could actually be considered a fort, all of which was built in less than a month.

This is the power of the Master of Law; without the Mage Squad, it would be impossible to build a camp of this scale.

Without the Mage Squad, the remaining ninety warriors, each at least Rank 6 in Strength, would probably take a year just to construct the five-kilometer outer stone wall, let alone consider completing it.

If ordinary people were to build it, it would be impossible without several thousand people spending several years on the project.

Once the base was established, Lin Xiao immediately began the follow-up actions—that was to establish the Spatial Waymarker and connect with the Outpost Base as soon as possible.

While it was easy to build the base, establishing the Spatial Waymarker was not so simple.

The biggest challenge was creating the materials needed to establish the Spatial Waymarker, which was the most troublesome part.

Although the Waymarker is indeed a type of Array, it is much more sophisticated than a typical Array. The required materials are incredibly precious. Despite collecting so many precious minerals and Magic materials along the way, only a few pieces of Mithril were usable. Other materials, such as Magic Sapphire, were not suitable.

Even though Magic Sapphire is one of the main ingredients for making magic ink, the Spatial Waymarker’s requirements were too high, and the ink made from Magic Sapphire was not up to par. Special magic ink had to be made from even better Magic gemstones.

In other words, he now needed to search for the materials to build the Spatial Waymarker in this Different Domain.

There are mainly four types of materials needed: gemstones with spatial attributes for ink ingredients, mixed with the essence blood of powerful creatures with Supernatural Powers at least of the Legend rank, like Dragons and Titans, for example.

Then, Mithril and Essence Gold serve as the base. These two materials are considered common amongst all the precious Magic materials in various Foreign Dimensions, yet they are still required in quite substantial amounts.