Cthulhu Gonfalon

Chapter 488: Chapter 28

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The deep seawater was transparent just like a giant crystal.

Well, that was not true. First, the water here was not sea water, but fresh water. Second, there were too many bubbles, too many turbulent flows in the water. And most importantly, because of the lack of light, it was gloomy. It was not really like a crystal.

Sui Xiong sighed.

For nearly half a month in the dark water, he was bored. However, it was necessary to work. He was just trying to enjoy himself.

In fact, Sui Xiong was not good at performing monologues, regardless of them being serious, lyrical or funny. He couldn't even amuse himself.

"The Heart of Elements… Where can I find that?" Sui Xiong talked to himself and swam slowly according to the map drawn in his mind.

As he swam, he maximized his detection ability and tried to search for any possible clues around.

If the map in his mind was drawn out, he would find that his whole trace was a spiral line, turning around and around, slowly expanding the scope of detection from inside to out. There was no omission.

It was a silly way, but there was no other choice.

The plane of the water element was a chaotic area with neither mountains nor barriers. The landmarks here were warm currents, cold currents, torrents, turbulence, huge whirlpools, bubbles, hot water, cold water, brine, fresh water, and poisonous water. If there was no guidance, even the most powerful god like him could only swim like a headless fly.

In fact, at present, there were nine other gods in the Water Element Plane: the Goddess of the Ocean, Ariel, and her eight sea kings.

After all these years of preparation, Ariel almost built her own God's Kingdom. But she wanted to make the God's Kingdom a fortress of attack and defense, so she needed to add some powerful and unique facilities to it. The most important one was the "Water Element Condensation Pool."

It was a special magic facility that could transform magic power into mysterious element activity and give life to ordinary water and make it into a water element; it could also expend magic power to promote the growth of ordinary water elements to quickly grow into elite creatures. If you were willing to consume more magic power, it even could help the elders specialized in water elements break through their bottleneck, step into the Legendary Realm and become a Lord of Elements.

As for becoming a demigod, there were no shortcuts. If there were any exact ways to cultivate a demigod, the rulers of the four elements would have become the strongest. Was there really no way for Ariel to make a Water Element Condensation Pool?

There was no Water Element Condensation Pool in the former Goddess of Ocean, Vorpocus' God's Kingdom. She built the whole kingdom into a fortress and then used Divine Power to strengthen the defense or to set off storms in disorder. The "Despot of the Sea," the "Monarch of Storms," the "Master of Storms"—such titles were sufficient to illustrate the problem.

Ariel was not as absurd as Vorpocus. She had many legacies of Vorpocus, including the lessons that Vorpocus summed up in her life. For the next god of the sea, Vorpocus urged her not to expand the clergy and belief arbitrarily. If she wanted to expand the scope of the clergy and belief, she could adopt the method of aligning with other gods. One advantage was that she would have the most reliable allies. The other was that she could greatly reduce the risk of being swallowed by the power of belief.

In view of Vorpocus's advice, Ariel had put herself in the right place from the very beginning. She positioned herself as "the God of Mermaids, the Mediator of all Ocean Races, and the Ally of Sea Gods." She distributed such things as storms, waves, sea fog and even sea areas to all demigods and legendary masters in the sea. She promised them shelter and guidance as long as they were willing to live with other sea races in accordance with the general rules of peace, and to help them when needed.

At first glance, the clergy was not powerful, but other gods would never underestimate her. On the contrary, many powerful gods expressed their willingness to make alignment and share mutual assistance. At least they could live in peace.

Although Ariel's deity rose more slowly than Vorpocus's, her deity would be exceptionally strong and concise. There was no need to worry about the contamination of divinity by faith for her. Not only that, with her strength, sooner or later, a group of sea gods would gather under her leadership to form a pretty large-scale god system.

The weakness of this system was also obvious. The lack of high-end force was fatal. After all, the strongest one in the whole god system was Ariel. Although Ariel only had a limited fighting capacity, she had two strong "mentors." Her mentors would probably be the top two among the gods.

With the strong backing of the Void Mask and the God of Justice, would high-end force still a problem?

That was what Ariel herself thought. The Void Mask told Ariel the idea of building her God's Kingdom as a fortress. This meant that her God's Kingdom would be able to retreat at the critical moments. The core part of the fortress needed to be highly mobile and able to move all followers in when necessary and leave the unimportant parts there.

As for these unimportant parts, these could be transformed into countless water elements immediately. As for how the enemy should deal with these thick-skinned water element creatures, that was the enemy's problem.

In order to achieve this goal, she not only needed to build the Water Element Condensation Pool, but also to build the largest one in the world. After all, it needed to turn the God's Kingdom into countless water elements at the critical moments.

Making a Water Element Condensation Pool bigger had another advantage. If the battle was not particularly fierce, it just needed to create some water element creatures to fight. There was no need to send many Oracles to fight.

It was true that Oracles could be resurrected, but resurrecting Oracles required a lot of energy. So it was more economical to use water element creatures than to use Oracles.

This was Sui Xiong's suggestion. He tended to use element creatures as his troops. For example, in several wars, he used element creatures as his troops. Why? Nothing but economical.

Thousands of Oracles rushed up and died one after another. That seemed impressive, but they were all precious Divine Powers.

In contrast, element creatures could grow and revive by absorbing element power. Although element creatures were weaker than Oracles, one can win the battle by quantity.

Facts had proved that his idea was very useful.

That was why Ariel wanted to build a huge Water Element Condensation Pool and create element creatures troops. Of course, element creatures were not something that could only be used in wartime. They could be used to cultivate Oracles or to act as a handyman of the God's Kingdom.

As for the deficiency of mental capacity of the element creatures, that was not a problem. Followers could act as commanders and give orders, and element creatures were responsible for working.

Generally speaking, Ariel's design was very good. They could be used both in wartime or peace. The only problem was that building such a huge Water Element Condensation Pool required a huge amount of materials.

Ordinary materials were easy to get, but the most precious one was the Heart of Elements.

Specifically, it was the heart of water elements.

The origin of this thing was simple. If a water creature died because of age, it might produce a water element heart in its corpse. The problem was that element creatures did not have the concept of "life spans."

They would grow and become stronger. But in any case, they wouldn't die of aging.

Once before, there were powerful magicians who imprisoned some weak element creatures and used powerful magic to keep them senile. After nearly a thousand years, these magicians were dying of old age, but these element creatures were almost the same as when they were captured.

To make element creatures die of old age, we must first make them have a life span. This means breaking its own limits. In other words, we need to help them step into the Legendary Realm.

Unlike ordinary creatures, element creatures would produce a life span when they stepped into the Legendary Realm.

This was a good thing and a bad thing. But as long as there was a chance to be a legendary master, few element creatures would refuse.

Certainly, that would make them lose eternal life, but even element creatures with relatively low intelligence knew that it was not life spans but strength that determined how long a person could live in this world.

There were lots of element creatures without strength dying every day. But for the Lord of Elements who were in the Legendary Realm, not even one would die each year.

Not to mention that "becoming stronger" was the nature of all living creatures. There were no exceptions!

Once element creatures stepped into the Legendary Realm, they could become Elemental Lords. Even an Element Lord at the lowest level could live for thousands of years. If he was lucky enough to die, he would leave behind the Heart of Elements.

It took about one hundred Hearts of Elements to build the huge Water Element Condensation Pool that designed by Ariel.

She just had to be patient.