It had been seven days since the first battle in the Earth Elemental Plane where the new generation replaced the old one. According to the speed of the original fire seed's transformation, most of the ten thousand elemental creatures were still waiting.
But in fact, there were only a few elemental creatures who had not undergone the transformation. They all looked at their companions who had undergone the transformation first with envy. They were undergoing various adaptive training in order to familiarize themselves with their new bodies.
For the time being, no one expressed dissatisfaction with the transformed bodies of the robots. The only complaints were from a group of pocket-sized little fellows who bragged all day long that if they had not undergone the transformation in their complete state, they would also be leader-level robots today.
But these words were just words to be taken lightly. Those who knew the ins and outs of these little fellows would know that these little fellows who liked to boast had never fought on the battlefield and had surrendered with just a little injury. But no one exposed them. Anyway, everyone knew that they would not be dissatisfied with the owner of the fire seed, the magician from the Maze Land, just because of those boastful words.
The reason why the transformation progress could be accelerated was that the difficulties encountered in the beginning, the obstacles of carrying out multiple transformations at once, were unknowingly overcome.
Originally, using the fire seed to transform multiple elemental creatures at once would cause their souls to contaminate each other. This was the main reason why the transformation speed could not be increased.
But the fire seed, or rather, this growth-type artifact that contained the will of all the robots, seemed to understand its own shortcomings. In the process of transforming the robots, the fire seed was also undergoing changes that even Lin Xiang was not aware of.
During one of the transformations, a newly joined leader-level robot proposed to give him more of his original companions to carry out the transformation of the fire seed at the same time. Of course, the previous failure was used as a warning to the other party, but the leader-level robot was quite stubborn and said that he was confident that he would not have the original shortcomings.
Of course, Lin Xiang did not want to discourage this mysterious self-confidence. Moreover, Lin Xiang intended to give the robot a try when he arrived at the unreasonable part of this idealistic world. If he could really succeed, it would save a lot of time.
Since it was just a try, of course, it was impossible to increase the number of people in one go. Instead, he would first let two elemental creatures who were relatively less damaged undergo the transformation of the fire seed at the same time. If they were really so unlucky and another accident happened, the souls of these two elemental creatures with relatively strong core conditions would not be too seriously contaminated with each other, and it would be easier to deal with the aftermath.
Surprisingly, the process went quite smoothly, and there was no contamination of the souls. Two normal robots, you are you, I am me, nothing unusual happened. Therefore, in the next batch of modifications, Lin attempted to increase the number of people undergoing the modification at the same time.
First, it was three, then four, and the number increased in sequence. He observed the pattern. Also, the reason why it couldn't be used in the past, but now it could be used. What was the difference between the fire seed and before?
In the end, Lin discovered a magic array pattern that wasn't there before on the intricate Exquisite Sphere. Moreover, these runes weren't the original runes that had automatically extended from the original runes. These runes had a brand-new function and were related to one's soul. Although he didn't fully understand it yet, Lin still decided to record this new magic array so that he could study it in the future.
With the first discovery, it was not that difficult to test the upper limit of the number of people who could be modified at the same time. Of course, Lin would not directly conduct human experiments to see how many people he could invest in at once. Instead, he would test the data from various aspects and deduce the possible value of the limit.
Based on the principle that there was nothing wrong with being careful, Lin would rather be slower than have any problems during the modification process and damage the elemental creatures' confidence in the modification, or spend a lot of effort to deal with the aftermath.
And all the modification processes were not fixed in one place. Apart from the pocket-sized robots, even the normal robots needed external materials to supplement during the modification process. Therefore, Lin and the elemental creatures and robots were like nomads. When the mineral resources in an area were more or less plundered, they would move to the next location.
In addition to adaptive training, the robots that had been modified were already familiar with their new bodies, or the robots that were eager to test themselves in actual combat, a few of them in small groups, spread out, and set off in different directions. Their targets were, of course, the elemental creatures that had not been modified.
Those creatures that had fallen behind would become their touchstones, and after they were defeated, they would be brought back to accept the modification of the fire seed and become their new companions. This also saved the majority of the troops the trouble of having to take a detour in order to collect the elemental creatures that could be modified by the fire seed.
After all, there were many settlements with relatively small populations. If it weren't for the fact that an army of tens of thousands of people could be cleaned up along the way, it would be impossible for them to deliberately change directions just for a few dozen people. At this time, a small auxiliary force was quite useful. The reason why someone didn't do this at the beginning was that there weren't enough people in the beginning, and they didn't support splitting up at all.
Now that there were more than ten thousand robots, it was easy to divide into several large groups and conquer in different directions, not to mention a bunch of small groups to fight guerrilla warfare. But there was only one fire seed, which limited the possibility of rapid development of the robot race.
And those voices of "create more fire seeds" only existed in the elemental creatures that had not been modified yet. When they transformed their life form into a member of the robot race, they understood that there could only be one core of the entire race, and there should only be one.
Creating more fire seeds was like making a declaration of division of the race. It was just like between the robots and the primitive elemental creatures. Although no one said it clearly, they understood that this battle for the route was already a situation where only one side would die. Before one side completely disappeared from the Elemental Plane of Earth, the war would not stop. After all, the resources they were fighting for were the same thing.
Here, it didn't refer to mineral deposits, materials, or other foreign objects. Those things were only used to enhance the physical strength of the elemental creatures. What the two major forces would fight for in the future was "population." If one side increased, the other side would inevitably decrease. And in order to create more fire seeds, the robots had to constantly increase the number of companions. After all, if they created more fire seeds, they would be the ones to gain the most direct benefits.
In fact, even Lin couldn't see clearly whether this path had an end or not.
Maybe he had created an extremely aggressive race, and the high-tech kind at that … This thought came to his mind from time to time.
On this day, the place where the army was stationed was a bay.
The unique landscape of the Elemental Plane of Earth was the Lava Sea. There were also high tides, low tides, and waves crashing against the shore. The difference was that the beach was not a good place to play. Because the sea of the Elemental Plane of Earth was a low-temperature magma that would melt all tangible substances into it. At least Lin had never heard of any creatures in this sea or any ships that could sail on it.
The purpose of coming here was, of course, to modify the Snake King and the elemental creatures attached to it. Because this sea was not only dangerous, but it was also the place with the most abundant resources in the Elemental Plane of Earth. It was just that if they wanted to mine this place, they would need some methods. Otherwise, they would only become a part of this sea.
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