Even though Zhang Lisheng's words were spoken in an understated manner, when one pondered over it carefully, the meaning behind it was chilling.
These words made Allison's footsteps become heavier. Unfortunately, after entering the jungle, they were already not far from the perished Tatania tribe. Otherwise, those aborigines would not have been able to live a life of fishing and hunting. Even though her footsteps were unsteady, the beautiful black female officer still soon saw the cruel face of the 'conquest ritual' of the Hellfire civilization.
Tatania was built around a huge clear pool. The originally neatly arranged campsite was now filled with collapsed and burning treehouses.
The Tatania tribesmen who had just been exterminated put down the weapons in their hands and stood by the water source they used to rely on in a daze. They surrounded a totem pole that had broken from the root and had fallen on the woodland in a daze.
Beside the stone pillar, there was a soil that still had traces of freshly dug wet. It was obvious that it had just been dug.
The diameter of the pit was several hundreds of meters and the depth was more than ten meters. At this moment, the bottom was completely covered by pools of blood and corpses. There were even some severed heads that were thrown casually at the edge of the pit like a ball, with their eyes wide open and teeth bared as they looked up at the sky with an unyielding expression.
On the clean and tidy woodland not far away from those heads, there was a completely different treatment of the aborigines' corpses. Their bodies were so clean that there was not even a trace of mud on them. They were the Wizard Li warriors who had died in the war of conquest.
As an intelligence officer who was born in a military family and had served in the Middle East during the early days of joining the army, she had followed the army to guard the foreign world's island. Allison had a very high psychological quality but when she witnessed this hell-like scene with her own eyes, her legs still trembled, almost unable to support her body.
The massacre continued. Hundreds of Wizard Li warriors riding on giant spiders pierced the shoulder of a Tatania captive with their spears from time to time and lifted him up high before throwing him beside the mud pit. At this time, there would naturally be warriors who would cleverly chop off the captive's head and throw the corpse into the blood pool.
"Can I borrow your shoulder for support, Mr. Lisheng?" Her spirit was already stretched to the limit, but the remaining rationality told the black female officer that now was not a good time to show her sense of justice. She closed her eyes and panted for a while as though she could not breathe air. When she felt that she had calmed down a little, she slowly moved to Zhang Lisheng's side and held onto the young man's shoulder before asking in a dry voice.
"Of course," Zhang Lisheng said with a smile, "I'm happy to serve you, Lieutenant Allison."
"Thank you, Doctor. Oh, you don't seem to be afraid of this kind of massacre?"
"Afraid? Ha, if you are a biologist who pursues dissecting all kinds of animal corpses on the laboratory bench as a hobby, you will not feel afraid. Besides, this is not a massacre. All the dead died voluntarily."
"What?" The female officer said in surprise, "The deceased were all willing to die?"
"Oh, Lieutenant Allison, looks like panic has taken away your keen observation," Zhang Lisheng said with a smile. "Look at those Wizard Li warriors, don't they say a few words before they send the aborigines flying? They're asking if the Tatania tribesmen who have surrendered are willing to give up the perished tribe and convert to become a member of the Wizard Li tribe.
If they're willing to convert, then everything will be fine. If they're unwilling to convert, then they can only be beheaded. "
"Oh, I see." Allison nodded and did not say anything silly about why the Tatania tribesmen did not lie. She had heard and witnessed too many suicide bombings in the Middle East and knew how terrifying the brainwashing power of religion was.
As the two of them were talking, the cleansing was coming to an end. The Wizard Li tribesmen began to command the converted Tatania tribesmen to push their former totem poles into the blood pool.
"Doctor, Sweltman hopes to have a look at Tatania's tribal book of history before he destroys it. I wonder if it's possible?" Zhang Lisheng was watching with relish when Someril quietly walked up to Zhang Lisheng and asked.
"Madam Someril, please tell me earlier if you have such a request next time. The ceremony can't be interrupted once it has begun."
"I'm sorry, it's my inconsideration. Can I do it next time?"
"I'll communicate with the chief warrior who leads the army. It shouldn't be a big problem," the young man replied after pondering for a while. The young man pondered for a while before replying. The instant his words left his mouth, a strange 'puff' sound suddenly resonated in his ears. It turned out that the Tatania tribesmen who had surrendered had already thrown their previous' symbol of faith 'into the muddy pool of bloody soil.
When the stone pillar entered the pool, a Wizard Li chief warrior with four feathers on his head also threw the Tatania tribe's heavy and huge tribal book of history into the blood pool. At once, a shrill wail resonated in the air. Billowing black smoke began to rise from the totem pole and the tribal book of history.
The smoke rose faintly into the air and drifted to the pile of Wizard Li warrior's corpses that were clean and naked after carefully wiping the blood with clean water.
Under the slightly pale sunshine of early spring, the black smoke gradually corroded and turned all of the Wizard Li's dead corpses into thick keratin. In the open air, the liquid keratin soon solidified into a short yellow and blue stone pillar that was only two to three meters high.
After the totem pole was successfully condensed, the Wizard Li warriors riding on the giant millispiders immediately began to brandish their weapons and loudly ordered the defeated foreign Hellfire tribesmen to come forward and worship. As more and more people worshipped, the stone pillar began to grow slowly.
Looking at the Wizard Li totem that was growing bit by bit, Zhang Lisheng, who had not felt any divine power flowing in his body for a few days, had a joyful smile flash across his face.
At the same time, the Wizard Li warriors suddenly felt the protection of the god returning to their bodies. The Tatania tribesmen who had just converted also clearly felt that they had become different from before. By the time they stood up from the mud in astonishment and moved their bodies that had become more powerful and flexible in high spirits, they could not help but let out a series of exclamations of amazement.
At this moment, the Wizard Li warriors' attitude towards these converts had changed completely. Even though the scene was slightly chaotic, they could only watch everything silently without any sign of anger. They understood that their mission had temporarily ended, and it was now time for those carefully selected tribal headmen to perform.
The orderly division of labor made the Wizard Li's war of conquest appear to be extremely efficient. The divine power that Zhang Lisheng could provide to the war after he became a real 'god' made this efficiency more sustainable.
After more than a month of arduous campaign, even though he could only use it covertly, the young man's understanding of the 'divine power' that he mastered had become completely different from before.
First of all, he realized that before he occupied a certain Hellfire island, the scope of his' divine power 'was closely related to the size and height of the totem pole.
For example, when he conquered the first Tatania tribe on Scorpion Island, he realized that the divine power in his body began to gradually disappear after he left the chimney-like totem pole for two to three kilometers. Now that he had divided his forces to occupy about half of the island, the young man could already faintly feel that the scope of his divine power had already enveloped the entire island.
Secondly, Zhang Lisheng realized that when he cast his divine power, other than using the soil and water as a medium to bestow strength, courage, endurance, and tenacity to his believers, he could also use the soil and water to create powerful creatures at will.
Unfortunately, it was not worth it to use this ability on the battlefield. This was because the young man also realized that he actually needed to consume the power of faith when he cast his divine power. Not only that, but the more power of faith he consumed, the more obvious the effect of the divine power he cast.
The power of faith consumed to create a short-lived uncontrollable soil creature was almost the same as the consumption to support 40,000 to 50,000 Wizard Li warriors to fight to their heart's content under the divine power's enhancement. Of course, this was not desirable at all.
When Zhang Lisheng first learned about the relationship between 'divine power' and 'power of faith,' he once regretted it very much. He felt that he should not have given all the Wizard Li tribesmen three long-term enhancements for no reason. Later on, he finally understood that the essence of these two was like sheep and wool.
The divine power he used on his believers was like feeding sheep, and their faith in him was like the wool collected from the sheep. As long as it was fed moderately, there would only be benefits and no harm.
In fact, ever since the young man bestowed the long-term enhancements on his believers, the Wizard Li tribesmen's piety had indeed increased a lot, and the number of fanatics had also increased.
Unfortunately, no matter how devout their faith and powerful the enhancement of divine power were, it was impossible for them to turn the warriors into killing machines that never needed to rest. After frantically plundering the territory for more than 30 days, the Wizard Li tribesmen finally stopped the war temporarily. At this time, the long tail and more than one-third of the body of the giant scorpion entrenched in the Hellfire Sea had already become their hunting ground.
In the huge hot spring cave of a foreign tribe that had just been captured at the forefront of the battlefront, Zhang Lisheng soaked in the hot water and stretched his body comfortably.
Zhang Lisheng soaked in the hot water and stretched his body comfortably. Beside the hot spring, hundreds of Wizard Li's four-feathered chief warriors were kneeling respectfully with their heads pressed against the wet and slippery ground.
"235,751 casualties is an acceptable number," The Wizard Li's god grabbed a handful of wild fruits from the wooden tray floating in front of him and stuffed them into his mouth. With a satisfied expression, he said, "Even though the casualty rate is higher than the last war of conquest, Scorpion Island is still the third largest island in the Hellfire Sea.
It's impossible for us to occupy such a huge island when the enemy is caught off guard. The more the war goes on, the greater the obstacles we'll encounter will inevitably be. "
"Your wisdom is enough to illuminate the entire starry sky, Your Great Majesty." A short and small aborigine at the frontmost row of the kneeling chief warriors said respectfully without raising his head, "Nearly 40% of the warriors under my command who have died only lost their heads in the recent battles. The Scorpion Island tribes that I've met these days no longer have less than 200,000 people."
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