Chapter 22: Rapid Growth
Untamed Forested Mountains
Sera shouted “haha! YEAH!” as she unleashed spells from her hand left and right from wind blasts to lightning bolts very basic elements of magic controlled through the tips of her fingers.
She could even fly for a limited altitude and time but the feeling is inexplicable something that flying with Banshee could not even compare.
With an army of Stone Golems at her beck and call she feared nothing as long as she remains on the outskirts of the Untamed Forested Mountains and not provoke the sleeping horrors of legends that might be sleeping over yonder.
Sera Hawke led 5,000 Stone Golems as back up as she threw spells in her wake, the Golems were mostly for carrying the materials from the monsters and plants they come by. In the past 5 years living in here she had planned to clean up the place of monsters before they group up to form a tide but Sera has always been on the defensive due to lack of Golems.
But now that she has broken through the Foundation Establishment stage along with several of her subordinates she no longer need to worry about the Stone City’s defense as she moved out and make a more aggressive claim on the territory.
“power at the tip of my fingers” she said with a wide smile but ended up shaking her head as she suddenly realized that this world is far far more dangerous that she could even imagine something like even nuclear weapons would even be not on the top of the power rankings.
She managed to snap herself up out of stupor in to thinking that she has become an almighty being or something along those lines. “No, I need more preparations maybe around a thousand of Core level Golems before leaving this place”
Sera has long planned to visit the Eastern Continent to learn more of its secrets but her weakness prevented her from traveling there and that is without anyone attacking her on her way there, Sera has read through the books on Narud’s Library that natural barriers that separate the continents could easily rip even Grand Wizards to shreds which is one of the main reasons the Continental Isle did not even bother mounting a counter attack after the war 800 years ago.
Sera Hawke swept through the area with relative ease along with her 5,000 Stone Golem Army though weak they are quite numerous and with all things considered such as the strength of the monsters in the area made her even more confident.
It has been already 5 years since she first arrived here in the Untamed Forested Mountains though she managed to create a large fortune worth of materials for herself in this past 5 years her development of her golems have slowed down the strongest she have are the Sentinels but that is only because they have cutting edge technology A.I. that could analyze enemies and fight accordingly.
Golems on the other hand needed to be build from the ground up with precious materials that are not only conductive to magic but also compatible to the spell model. Her current strongest Golem that she made from the ground up in this world is Medusa which was part of the Sentinels but because of its untimely destruction back on Kaladia City Sera opted to create more Knight Golems rather than spend precious materials to create one Medusa.
With Sera’s modified cultivation method she mostly got the best of both worlds of Wizards and Cultivators mainly she no longer need to do incantations to unleash spells nor would she have any more need to do complicated hand seals to to them either.
She only needed to make a simple hand gesture for a specific spell and magic would flow through her veins and meridians to form the desired spell.
But even after her break through the foundation stage she is still not used to fighting right now she is only fighting because she knew full well that she can easily win and even if she could not there are 5,000 Golems waiting at her back.
“making powerful Golems would take a while, good thing this place is rich in resources. Something that even I cannot consume in several thousand lifetimes” she said as she stroke her chin in thought
The Knight Golems she have right now has the strength of a foundation level but due to certain limitations it could not full well use all of its potential such as casting magics for long range, the only advantage these Knight Golems currently have against foundation level Cultivators would be a ridiculously sturdy body along with a few close range spells but at the end of the day these Knight Golems does not have the same A.I. capacity as the Sentinels Making their fighting ability severely limited to close quarters combat.
“i wonder how long it would take to make an army of Core Formation level Golems. Alright time to go back” she said with a sigh
Carrying a huge load from the harvest Sera and her Stone Golem army returned to the Stone City to store everything for later processing.
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Lavant Kingdom
After 5 years of initial cultivation of the common populace of the Lavant Kingdom even General Yohmu could not help but admire all his hard work even he is a Nascent Soul level Cultivator and does not need too much sleep several sleepless weeks of continuous teaching still took a toll on him at least mentally.
So much people wanted to learn cultivation to increase their standards of living that he and the Eastern Continent alliance elders could not cope with such innumerable demand. Despite the remaining 45 years as deadline for the blood sacrifice he still concentrated the hardest when in came to teaching the common people cultivation.
With a heavy and tired sigh “at least with this method we could harvest enough blood just in time for the blood sacrifice although unfortunately it would not be enough to fix each and every dragon veins in the Eastern Continent” he said as he shook his head
“yes, indeed but at least by using this method it is no longer our fault when the blood harvest comes short we have already done what we can in such a limited amount of time” one elder said
“yes yes! How can we harvest enough blood when the enemies have all ran away and tucked tightly inside their walls we don’t have enough forces to push through and the mainland isn’t even willing to send any more reinforcements they cannot blame us on this!” another shouted
After 5 years of teaching the common people cultivation and seeing that several million of them successfully managed to cultivate the Eastern Alliance Elders under General Yohmu became even more motivated in their work not just because they admire their own effort but because this venture has to be successful anything less and it would be their heads.
And after another 5 years making it a total of 10 years since they started teaching cultivation to the people of Lavant Kingdom 100,00 citizens managed to make a breakthrough the foundation establishment stage.
In just 10 short years so many people broke through foundation establishment stage this news alone not only put the Easter Cultivators in a dilema but also in shock. There were several dozen Kingdoms in the Continental Isle and although the Lavant Kingdom was relatively powerful in this region that does not make each and everyone of their citizens talented in cultivation.
This even was hurriedly reported back at the mainland of Eastern Continent to receive further instructions on what to do with this talented individuals should they be part of the blood sacrifice or should they be nurtured in their respective sects, there are a lot of ways to remove or alter one memory especially now that they are still weak.
Back at the Eastern Continent it took several days of intense debate on what to do with these 100,000 people from Lavant Kingdom.
“we already have too many cultivators here in the mainland what use are there to bring more much less foreigners!”
“yes, I agree we are in this situation of unstable dragon veins due to too many cultivators why would we need more competitors”
“tsk tsk tsk, you old fogies are too ancient that your line of thought has been left in time these 100,000 TALENTED individuals could extend the strength of our sects!! not every generation could we produce talented people and yet the Lavants could break through even without using precious medicines or even cultivation near a dragon vein. If you don’t want them then fine more for us then!!”
“i know who you father is young Musashi but you should still manage your manners these are your elders still. Even though I agree to take some of the in I can’t see how all of us could provide for them even if we alter their memories what would happen to our long time disciples?”
“hm hm. Yes I see now how about we only 10,000 of the best for nurturing and the rest could join the blood sacrifice?”
With that they entered a quiet and tranquil deliberation thinking every angle of pros and cons and how much benefit they could rake in for themselves.
“hmmm, after several days of time for consideration have you finally come up with a solution?”
“i the head of the Body Forging Sect agree to take in 1,000 of those Lavant people”
“ I represent the Blood Claw Sect to take in 500”
“ I represent the Crescent Blade Sect to take in 5,000 people!”
“ I….”
After several more days General Yohmu finally got a reply from the Mainland of Eastern Continent to take in 10,000 of the best Cultivators in Lavant Kingdom.
For some reason General Yohmu had a sigh of relief when at least some of them could be spared. It could be said that they have a soft spot for talented people at the very least 10,000 of them could be groomed to be more useful for their respective factions benefit.
After receiving the instructions form the Mainland Eastern Continent they wasted no time in announcing in all of Lavant Kingdom’s territory about the Eastern Cultivators taking in 10,000 direct disciples.
In just half a day the news spread all over the Kingdom like wildfire with the only requirement of being a foundation establishment stage they could finally become an Immortal. This news kick started a fire in the hearts of the people who were already at the 9th layer of QI refining stage while those people who are already at the foundation establishment stage were more relaxed.
In this past 10 years the citizens of Lavant Kingdom took Cultivation lightly as nothing more but a means to an end like making them hunt more efficiently or simply playing around with dangerous beasts.
In the past there was no sense of urgency in their cultivation but now that they have suddenly had a shot at becoming an Immortal their blood started boiling and forced themselves to prove to the masters that they are also worthy to be taken as a disciple of an Immortal.
In the recent weeks more and more people managed to make a breakthrough from the 9th layer of QI refining stage to the foundation establishment stage after a frenzied cultivation spree. The Eastern Cultivators could only be baffled at their cultivation speed its not like there are something special about the people here nor their environment.
“now how should we choose? There is too many of them now all of a sudden it’s almost unbelievable” said General Yohmu
“what do you have in mind? Most of them have never been in combat before”
“oh, no no no you miss understood me. I don’t plan anything troublesome like that I was thinking that. I was thinking that we give them a cultivation method and choose from them who cultivates the method the fastest”
“isn’t that too simple?
“hmp! Their memories would either be erased or altered.They are not really going to become disciples of the sect more like unemotional living puppets that do nothing but cultivate day and night and obey our orders. As long as they are fast at cultivation that would be enough to maintain the sects in the Eastern Continent in the next generation as a secret force of some sort”
While the elders of the Eastern Continent alliance are discussing nefarious plans for the citizens of Lavant Kingdom the unaware people are elated at their new found power and are showing it off to other people.
While the others are more concentrated at cultivation to get the chance to become a disciple of an Immortal and then maybe in the future they could also become Immortals as well such are the fantasies going through the minds of the people right now.
No matter how fast they broke through the foundation establishment stage cultivation is still hard and required absolute concentration and understanding of the methods they have just received from the Eastern Cultivators.
It would likely take several more years before they could select the 10,000 disciples from this people to bring back to the Eastern Continent.it’s not that it was especially hard but a common citizen from the Continental Isle suddenly Cultivating methods from the Eastern Continent is virtually unheard of so it was only natural that these people not knowing the cultivation methods take more years to understand them.
Untamed Forested Mountains
“ahhh! Now this is the life I have been missing all this time” Sera said as she slurped magical fruit juice from the forest
In these 10 years of living here at the Untamed Forested Mountains all of her subordinated finally managed to breakthrough to the foundation establishment stage, all thanks to the magical monster meat and the magical plants left unattended and lying around the are for them to harvest and consume.
Even the old Wife and Husband Lydia and Peter who is not even considered to be talented at cultivation managed to make a breakthrough speaks volumes on how rich this place is in terms of resources.
If the outside world discovered the rate of their development here on the outskirts of the Untamed Forested Mountains then there would be another set of expedition to conquer parts of this ancient land.
The sheer amounts of resources Sera Hawke has amassed here alone is already quite enough for the bigger factions to make a move against her. The rare plants that could aid a lot of people in their cultivation and the monster parts that could be used to refine weapons all of this things is enough for people to forget about the invasion and attack Sera Hawke should they get even the slightest idea of what she is doing right now.