Mordor City.
It was a relatively busy and fulfilling day. Apart from the faint salted fish smell floating in the air above the city, there wasn't anything too troublesome.
During this time, everyone was full!
The price of fresh fish in the tavern had fallen to one-third of the original price. Basically, every household in the city of Mordor had stored some fresh fish, and the rest was urgently made into salted fish and air-dried fish. Soran could still make fish floss with some effort, but a god should not put his energy into it at all. Therefore, Mordor's way of dealing with fish floss was to make dried salted fish. This was the easiest way, and there was no need to worry about table salt in the coastal areas.
Some of the low-grade wizard apprentices in the city of Mordor had already begun to study alchemy. For alchemy, purifying table salt was only the most basic thing.
However, at present, the difficulty of purification was still relatively high. It was not a problem to make white table salt on a small scale.
On a large scale, it was still slightly bitter sea salt.
The high-level core of the city of Mordor did not have the energy and time to spend on such trivial matters. Maybe in the future, they would consider the application of high-end alchemy to the people's livelihood.
This should be the best time for the slaves and laborers in the city of Mordor.
Every day after work, they could eat enough. Not only could they eat fish for every meal, but they could also find a variety of fresh seafood from the big pot.
At this time, people did not like to eat this stuff. Many of them were given to slaves as junk food.
The days passed by like this.
Counting with his fingers, it was getting closer and closer to the second wave of the abyss demons that Søren secretly told them. On this day, something happened in the city of Mordor.
It was noon.
Suddenly, a strange light appeared in the sky, and then this light crossed the sky like a meteor and fell directly to a row of buildings on the left side of the city of Mordor.
"Huh!?"
In the half-elf temple in the center of the city of Mordor, the figure of the chief priest appeared out of thin air. She looked up at the sky with confusion and murmured, "Divinity from the sky!?"
The pale golden light was not very conspicuous during the day.
This light fell directly into a tall building, and then all the light disappeared as if everything just now was an illusion.
Teleportation spell.
The Chief Priestess, who was dressed in a white robe, instantly teleported to the spot where the divine light landed. Then she glanced at the Jian clan in front of her and murmured, "Saruman?!"
The location where the light of divinity fell was the second-largest laboratory in Modor City.
This was a forbidden area for ordinary people because there were many dangerous plants growing here. The light of divinity fell on the sky above Saruman's laboratory. With the strength of the chief priest, he could clearly see the pale golden light inside through the magic light.
The radiance of divinity!
At the same time, a ray of light also rose from the central mansion of Modor City, and then Gloria's figure also appeared next to the chief priest.
"What happened?"
Gloria's expression seemed a little confused. She had always been in charge of the defense circle of Mordor City, so the energy fluctuation just now could not escape her eyes.
The chief priest's expression was rather solemn as he slowly said, "Saruman seems to have obtained some incredible opportunity!"
Gloria was startled when she heard this. She immediately sensed the changes in the laboratory.
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Alchemy laboratory.
Saruman's expression at the moment was sluggish. Everything that just happened was completely instantaneous.
Even he himself had not figured out what was going on until now. He only felt a trace of golden light falling into his body, and then his whole mind underwent an amazing change. It was as if his brain was suddenly enlightened. Many things that he did not understand before could now be understood clearly, and inexplicably, he had an extra spell.
Heavenly spell!
This was not a high-level spell, but it was not invented by Saruman. It was a spell given to him by God or the power of law.
"This!? … "
Saruman looked at his hands in surprise, and then his eyes fell on the test bench in front of him. This was a result of his recent research.
A simpler and more efficient fertilizer.
Because of the purification of alchemy, it seemed to have a hint of pale gold. These small particles were the crystallization of Saruman's third experiment. The yield and effect were much higher than the original simple fertilizer.
Of course.
These alchemy fertilizers were not for crops. As an ambitious wizard, how could Saruman be willing to be a farmer? He purified this fertilizer to further cultivate mutated plants.
In short, this was a fertilizer with a trace of magic to improve one's combat power.
But!
Something unexpected happened. When this alchemy result was completed, he was directly reflected by a spell from the world, and at the same time, he faintly discovered that there was an extra trace of divinity in his body.
Incredible!
Although Saruman's strength improved rapidly after the research, divinity was still something that he yearned for.
There was a trace of expectation in his heart.
Saruman slowly pushed the door of the laboratory open. In front of him appeared the figure of the chief priest and Gloria. Even if he had just obtained a heavenly spell and a trace of divinity, Saruman still knew that he needed to remain humble at this moment. So he bowed slightly to the two legendary women in front of him and said, "Your Excellency Gloria! Your Excellency Chief Priest! … "
"Did the situation just now disturb you?"
The chief priest saw more than Gloria. She smiled and said, "Congratulations! It seems that you have gone further than us. "
Saruman maintained his humility, but there was a hint of a smile on his face.
He knew very well that even if he had obtained a trace of divinity, he was still an insignificant figure to the supreme ruler of Modor city, Søren.
He had just obtained a new starting point, and he was still far away from the future.
"Let's see what ability you have obtained."
The chief priest smiled and turned her gaze to Gloria, who was a little confused, indicating that she would understand what happened next.
Saruman nodded and said, "Yes."
"I also just realized something. Maybe the two of you can give me some pointers."
Some small pale golden particles appeared in Saruman's palm.
This was the result of his research. It was a more efficient fertilizer for cultivating magic plants, and it was also a casting material for a new spell he had just obtained.
Incredible!
The new spell was actually cast with this result as the core material.
— — "Fertility!"
A faint magic aura emerged. With the magic aura emerging from Saruman's body, the pale golden particles dissipated with the wind, and then turned into a little light and fell into the soil in front of him.
There was no change.
At least it seemed that there was no change, but the people present were not ordinary people. The chief priest's expression suddenly became serious, and then she smiled and said, "Congratulations!"
This was the second time she said congratulations.
The ground did not seem to have changed much, but in fact, it had changed. The land had become more fertile.
It wasn't an offensive spell.
The effect of the spell was to use the experimental results that Saruman had just completed as materials to cast an effect similar to 'fertility', making the barren land more fertile.
It did not look good.
But the meaning of this was very deep.
Because this belonged to the realm of the gods, Saruman's research had begun to feed back to the material plane. The Temple of Agriculture had taken away the first batch of fertilizers he had developed and had begun to promote them in many places.
The field and clergy of the Goddess of Agriculture included [Fertility]!
On the other hand, the core of Saruman's God-given spell was a vague [Fertility]. This was an ability that belonged to the Fertile Domain, but it was more of an unnatural domain. It was a result of human effort.
This was the feedback of the laws and mortals.
It seemed that the first batch of fertilizers that Saruman made had begun to give him some information that belonged to the realm of the gods.
As the high priest who was in charge of the temple for Søren, the chief priest saw more things. What Saruman got was not just a spell and a little divinity, but a ladder that might allow him to become a god.
[Fertility] Field!
This seemed to be a new field. If Saruman could further affect reality and gain a little faith for himself, then he might be able to master the [Fertility] clergy.
It was a Priesthood that could affect all farming races!
Maybe it was not strong enough.
But for a mortal, it was already a great opportunity!
…
[Note: Saruman gained 1 point of divinity and the spell 'Fertility'.]
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The material plane had its own rules.
Just like the Druil, who was active in the Desert of Death all year round, they might be able to become [Tree Shepherds] through natural feedback and master the [Plant] Field.
What happened to Saruman now was a kind of feedback from the material plane!
It was a seemingly insignificant feedback.
However, it was the ladder that Saruman used to become a god. This was the orthodox way for the natives of the material plane to ascend to godhood. After gaining this point of divinity, Saruman had the possibility to become a demigod.
By influencing the entire material plane little by little, he could gradually accumulate the original divinity and then slowly transform into a demigod.
Without the help of other gods, this process might take up to a hundred years. After becoming a demigod, Saruman would need to establish a small church of his own or an organization that would serve and follow him. This way, he would slowly cultivate the power of divinity, and after a hundred years, he would step into the realm of a false god.
At this time, if he publicly announced that he was a god, he would be attacked by other churches as a [False God].
But if he continued to develop slowly and continued to spend hundreds of years accumulating his own strength and faith, when his existence had been known and accepted by more and more mortals and gods, Saruman, whose strength had reached the critical point, could ascend to godhood, master the [Fertility] Field and clergy, and finally become a [Minor Divine Power] god. Of course, the premise of all this was that he could live, his divinity and field would not be plundered by other gods, and he would not die in the hands of powerful legendary adventurers.
The time spent during this period could be as long as hundreds of years.
In the long history of the material plane, there were also some mortals who became divine creatures through this opportunity, and then slowly entered the realm of gods.
Some of the [Minor Divine Power] gods in the Pantheon temple appeared in this way.
However, these [Minor Divine Power] gods were very weak. After becoming a true god, they often needed to serve and follow some powerful gods so that they could ensure their own safety and not be killed by other gods who coveted their power and clergy.
If there was no Avatar Crisis, Saruman might have been absorbed by the gods with the [Fertility] clergy as their servant or subordinate god, just like the Minor Divine Goddesses who were sheltered by the Goddess of Agriculture. One of them was the spiritual incarnation of nature, a Minor Divine Goddess who was promoted from a Divine Water Spirit hundreds of years ago.
However.
It was now the time of the Avatar Crisis, a period of great danger but also full of opportunities.
If Saruman could get the help of other gods, then the time for him to accumulate divinity and clergy would be greatly reduced. For some powerful gods, hundreds of years of accumulation was just a matter of spending a little power to promote. People like him who had the seed of divinity were far easier to become gods than other mortals, and the cost of promoting him was much smaller.
Saruman had a very high starting point.
But the foundation of this starting point was not stable. He must first master the power of the [Fertility] realm before it was possible to further touch the realm of gods.
As a wizard, Saruman was still a little weak.
Although his strength had improved rapidly during this period, his wizard profession level was only about level 17, and there was still a long way to go before he could reach the realm of the legendary realm.
Without touching the threshold of the legendary realm, it was difficult for him to become a real divine creature.
Even with today's opportunity, he needed to make a lot of effort to enter the legendary realm, and then it was possible to peek at the threshold of the demigod realm.
There was no doubt.
Saruman was very lucky because it was the Pantheon of Agriculture who was responsible for promoting the fertilizer he made. The operation of a church was a bit special in itself, and it was naturally completely different for those mortals who were affected by the fertilizer. If these things were handed over to a chamber of commerce to operate, then the mortals who received the fertilizer would not have some belief changes that were biased towards the realm of gods. Saruman would not have been able to get the divinity that he had today, let alone peek into the realm of gods so easily.
No matter what.
He was indeed standing on a new level now. As a mortal who had the potential to become a god, the city of Modor would definitely give him more attention and resources in the future.
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(PS: Two in one chapter. The extras have been updated.)
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