The deep seawater was transparent, like a huge crystal.
Well, this statement was not very correct. First of all, the water here was not seawater, but fresh water. Second, there were too many bubbles and turbulence in the water. Most importantly, because of the lack of light, it was full of a gloomy feeling, not like a crystal at all.
Sui Xiong sighed, silently announcing that his efforts to adjust the atmosphere had failed.
After wandering in the deep waters for almost half a month, even he was tired of it. However, although he was tired, he had to do something serious, so he could only try to enjoy himself.
As it turned out, Brother Xiong was not cut out for a monologue. Whether it was a serious direction, a lyrical direction, or a comical direction, he could not do it.
He could not even amuse himself.
"Elemental Heart … Where can I find that thing?"
Sui Xiong muttered to himself, according to the map drawn in his mind, swimming unhurriedly.
While swimming, he exerted his detection ability to the maximum, trying to search for any possible clues in the surroundings.
If the map in his head was drawn, it would be discovered that his entire trajectory was a series of helical lines. He turned one circle after another, slowly expanding the detection range from the inside to the outside. Everywhere he passed, he did not miss anything. It was almost like he was drawing a map.
This was a stupid method, but it was a choice he had no other choice.
The Water Elemental Plane was filled with murky water bodies. There were no mountains or walls. The landmarks here were warm currents, cold currents, torrents, turbulent currents, huge whirlpools, bubbles, hot water, cold water, salt water, and poisonous water … If one did not have a specific goal, even the most powerful god could only wander around like a headless fly like Sui Xiong.
In fact, at present, there were nine other gods in the Water Elemental Plane like a headless fly, besides him.
The Goddess of the Ocean, Ariel, and the eight sea kings under her command.
After years of preparation, Ariel had almost completed the construction of her Divine Kingdom. But she wanted to build the God Kingdom into a fortress that could attack and defend, so she needed to add some powerful unique facilities in the God Kingdom. Among them, the most important was the Water Element Agglomeration Pool.
It was a special magic facility that could transform magic power into mysterious elemental activity, giving life to ordinary water and turning it into water elements. It could also accelerate the growth of ordinary water elements by consuming Divine Power to quickly grow into elite creatures. In fact, if one was willing to consume more Divine Power, it could even help the old water elemental elders to break through the bottleneck and step into the Legendary-realm, becoming Elemental Lords.
As for further entering the demigod realm, it could only be left to fate. If there really was a way to cultivate a Demigod Master, the Four Great Elemental Kings would have become the strongest among the great Divine Powers long ago. Why would they wait for Ariel to come up with the water element agglomeration pool?
There was no water element gathering pool in the divine kingdom of the former Goddess of Ocean, Verbocus. She built the entire divine kingdom into a fortress, and then used the daily accumulation of divine power either to strengthen the defense, or to randomly raise storms — Female Tyrant of the Ocean, Lord of Storms, Master of Storms … A number of such titles were enough to explain the problem.
Ariel was not as absurd as Verbocus. She had received a lot of Verbocus' inheritance, including the lessons Verbocus summed up in her life before she died. For the next Goddess of the Ocean, Verbocus repeatedly warned her not to expand the priesthood at random, and not to expand the belief. If the scope of the priesthood and belief must be expanded, it was recommended to use the method of roping in the gods. On the one hand, she could have the most reliable ally, and on the other hand, it could greatly reduce the risk of being controlled by the power of faith, so as to avoid the example of Verbocus.
In view of Verbocus' warning, Ariel put herself in the right position from the beginning. She positioned herself as the "God of Mermaids, the mediator of the sea races, and the leader of the God of the Sea." She assigned storms, waves, sea fog, and even various parts of the sea to the demigods and even legendary masters in the sea. She promised that as long as they were willing to live in peace with other sea races, she would give them shelter and guidance, and help them mediate conflicts when needed.
At first glance, this priesthood did not seem powerful, but the gods would never look down on her because of it. On the contrary, more than one great Divine Power had extended an olive branch to her, indicating that they were willing to form a friendly and mutual alliance with her, or at least to live in peace.
Although Ariel's divinity might be promoted slower than Verbocus', her divinity would be unusually solid and condensed, so there was absolutely no need to worry about the situation where her divinity was polluted by the belief. Not only that, as she became stronger, sooner or later a group of sea gods would gather under her command, forming a sizable God System.
The shortcomings of such a God System were also very obvious. The lack of high-end force was its fatal weakness. After all, the strongest person in the entire God System was Ariel herself. Cute Lil's own combat power was limited, but she had a ridiculously strong "mentor." This mentor and her good buddies combined might very well take up two of the top three positions of the great Divine Powers — they might even be the champion and runner-up.
With the two strong backing of the Void Mask and the God of Justice, high-end force was not a problem.
Even Ariel herself thought so. "She" positioned "Her" divine kingdom as a mobile fortress that could retreat into "Sanctuary" at critical moments. The core part of this fortress needed to be highly mobile. When necessary, all the believers could be moved in, and then the unimportant corners would be abandoned, and they would run away at a speed that would stun the enemy.
As for the unimportant edges and corners, he would transform them all into countless water elements in one go. As for how the enemy should deal with these thick-skinned and persistent elemental creatures, that was something that the enemy should worry about.
In order to achieve this goal, she not only needed to build a water element agglomeration pool, but also needed to build what might be the largest water element agglomeration pool in the world so far — after all, at the critical moment, she would need to transform more than half of the God Kingdom into countless water elements …
There was another advantage to making the water element agglomeration pool a little bigger. That was, if the battle was not particularly fierce, the "cannon fodder" level could be satisfied by just creating water elements, and there was no need to send too many oracles.
It was true that oracles could be resurrected, but resurrecting oracles required Divine Power. After careful calculation, using water elements as cannon fodder was definitely more cost-effective than using oracles as cannon fodder.
This was Sui Xiong's suggestion. He was inclined to use elementalized troops. For example, he had used elementalized mass production of oracles as cannon fodder in several battles. Why? Wasn't it because of the word "saving"?
Tens of thousands of God's Envoys rushed forward, one after another, sacrificing themselves without mercy. Although it looked very mighty, what flowed out from behind like water was precious God's power!
In contrast, elementalized troops could absorb elemental power to grow and resurrect. Although their individual force was weaker than oracles made of pure Divine Power, they could make up for the lack of quality.
It turned out that his idea was very useful.
That was why Ariel wanted to build a huge water element agglomeration pool, and also to create such a large number of cannon fodder that would make the enemy's scalp numb.
Of course, this thing was not only used in wartime. Usually, it could be used to train oracles, and it could also be used to create the weaker water elements as handymen in the Holy Kingdom.
As for the low intelligence of elemental creatures, that was not a problem. Believers could act as commanders. Those who were smart would be responsible for giving orders, and those who were not smart would be responsible for carrying out tasks.
Overall, Ariel's idea was very good. It could be used in war or peace. The only problem was, to build such a huge water element agglomeration pool, it required a shocking amount of materials.
Ordinary materials were fine, but the most troublesome thing was the elemental heart.
To be precise, it was the water elemental heart.
The origin of this thing was very simple. If a water elemental died of old age, then it was possible to produce a water elemental heart in its corpse.
The problem was, in general, elemental creatures did not have the concept of "lifespan."
They would also grow, growing bigger and stronger. But no matter what, they would not die of old age.
It was said that there was once a very powerful mage who imprisoned the weak earth elemental and used a powerful magic array to make it grow old. After almost a thousand years, the mage himself was dying of old age, but the earth elemental was still the same as when it was first captured.
To let an elemental creature die of old age, it must first have a "lifespan." This meant that it had to break through its own limits. In other words, it had to step into the legendary realm.
Unlike ordinary creatures, when an elemental creature stepped into the legendary realm, it would have a "lifespan."
This was good and bad, but as long as there was a chance, almost no elemental creature would refuse to step into the legendary realm.
Of course, it would make them lose their almost eternal life. But even elemental creatures with relatively low intelligence knew that in this world, it was not lifespan that determined how long a person could live, but strength.
Many elemental creatures without strength would die every day. And among the elemental lords who stepped into the legendary realm, there might not even be one that died in a year.
Not to mention, "becoming stronger" was the innate nature of all creatures, no exception!
Once an elemental creature stepped into the legendary realm, it could grow into an elemental lord. A low-level elemental lord could live for about ten thousand years. If it was lucky enough to die of old age, it would leave behind an elemental heart.
To build the huge water element agglomeration pool that Ariel designed, about a hundred such elemental hearts were needed.
So, take your time to find them.
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