The Era of Gods Chapter 7

Chapter 7: Placement Test, Start

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Wu Hai announced expressionlessly. Then he flipped his hand, and a stack of cards exuding a faint golden light spewed out from his palm and flipped over before him.

He said, “This time, the placement test will be more difficult than in the past, but basically, it will be within your talents. Considering that some of you are indeed somewhat behind in power level, if you feel that you cannot pass the test, you may get in touch with me to forfeit. However, if you forfeit, it means that your test will be discontinued, and I will grade you according to your performance before you give up.”

After a slight pause, he took out another thinner stack of cards from his pocket, flipped them over, and continued, “Due to the increased difficulty of this placement test, extra rewards will be added on top of what is normally given. Students who rank between 11th and 20th place will be rewarded a designated 1-Star card, and the top ten will be rewarded a designated 2-Star card. The third place will receive an extra 3-Star card on top of the 2-Star card, while the second place will receive an extra 4-Star card on top of the 2-Star card.”

Arriving at this point in his speech, he paused slightly and continued amid the surprised and expectant eyes of the many students, “The first place in this placement test will receive a designated 5-Star card, which will greatly enhance your power level. So, my students… do your very best!”

Lin Xiao noticed that his teacher’s gaze had settled on the top five in the class. For students in the middle and lower reaches like him, his eyes directly skipped over them.

Sure enough, poor students weren’t taken seriously!

Although he had long been used to it, he still felt pissed about being ignored like that.

This further strengthened Lin Xiao’s determination to ace this test. His teacher’s attention wasn’t the point, it was mainly because of that 5-Star card. That was some great stuff.

One must know that, for divine lives like them, who had just established their Divine Realm and weren’t even demigods, the highest grade of cards they could use was 5-Star. Cards, five stars and above was referred to as Demigod Cards, while those commonly used by True Gods were called God Cards.

The number of cards each student could use during senior high was limited. This meant that only by using high-level cards could one maximize their strength gain.

At the moment, the class teacher’s voice sounded once again, “The rules of this placement test are the same as before. Now, you may return and prepare yourselves.”

Upon finishing, he flicked his sleeves. Lin Xiao could only feel a strong gush of energy pouring toward him. Having no command over himself, he flew out of the hall. Before leaving the hall, he vaguely saw that, unlike him, several of his classmates didn’t leave. Wu Hai and Zheng Wenzhuo were also still in the hall.

“Mr. Wu Hai is so biased!” He heard one of his classmates complaining.

He shrugged and didn’t respond.

According to the norms of previous tests, the teacher would begin to insert Test Enemies to invade the students’ Divine Realm on the second day after the announcement was made. Hence, students could either enter their Divine Realm to conduct prep work immediately, or they could wait until the next day. But usually, students would enter their Divine Realms right away to prepare early.

Lin Xiao had the same thought in his mind. He promptly entered his Divine Realm Log-in Cabin and initialized the connection.

Arriving at his Divine Realm once again, there were more than a dozen new-born Murlocs. However, more than a dozen old Murlocs had died. The overall number was evened out, but he had lost a few believers.

Fortunately, in the wake of the birth of a new generation of Murlocs that would receive religious education from an early age, the new Murlocs would at least become Shallow Believers once they hit adulthood, while nearly one-third whose faith was genuine would become True Believers.

And, as they grow older, all True Believers would acquire the pre-loaded ability, Salted Fish Spike, and have their strength immensely improved. This phenomenon had the Shallow Believers greatly motivated, causing a considerable portion of them to have their faith improved, and thus turning them into True Believers.

As of now, there were 654 Murlocs in the tribe. Among them, there were 19 Fanatic Believers, 68 Devout Believers, and 116 Shallow Believers, while the rest of the 451 Murlocs were all True Believers.

That ratio was pretty good. After all, the lifespan of a Murloc was too short. With a short life span of more than ten years and less than twenty, there was no chance to gradually strengthen their faith. Generally, a True Believer was the pinnacle.

A standard human Shallow Believer could provide 0.1 points of Worship Value per day, while a weak race like Murlocs could provide only one-fifth of the Worship Value of humans.

Hence, one could say that the 0.02 points of Worship Value a Murloc Shallow Believer would provide every day was almost useless.

A True Believer could provide 0.2 points. Although the amount was still very little, at least there were quite a lot of Murlocs, and they reproduced quickly. The 451 True Believers at present could together provide Lin Xiao with 90.2 points of Worship Value per day.

A devout believer could provide 1 point of Worship Value per day. Now, there were 68 devout believers in the Murloc tribe, which could provide 68 points of Worship Value per day.

In the meantime, Fanatic Believers could provide 10 points of Worship Value a day. He now had 19 Fanatic Believers, who could provide him 190 points of Worship Value a day. Even with the fewest numbers, they provide the most Worship Value. Therefore, high-quality believers were the most precious asset a God could have.

Putting it all together, relying on these Murlocs, Lin Xiao could gain about 350 points of Worship Value every day.

However, that mentioned was the most ideal situation. In fact, the Worship Value he was gaining every day was stable at around 270 points.

This was mainly because, in order to maximize the provided Worship Value, believers must pray earnestly in accordance with the rituals formulated by the church. However, everyone knew the nature of the Murlocs. To let them pray earnestly according to the formulated rituals was even more difficult than him ascending to the Heavens itself. This was their instinct, and it couldn’t be changed. Thusly, Lin Xiao’s daily harvest of Worship Value would only be between 60% and 70% of the theoretical amount.

But even so, with the 278 points he was accumulating every day, added to the Worship Value that he accumulated previously, the amount of Worship Value he had at present had already exceeded 500,000 points.

Seems a lot, right? But it wasn’t enough at all.

Putting aside the fact that transactions between Divine Realm players were conducted with Worship Value as the currency when. they weren’t. bartering, and also the cost to upgrade Spawn and other miscellaneous expenditures, 500,000 Worship Value was actually not too much by itself. Should the amount be converted into Divine Power, it wouldn’t even make 1 point of Divine Power.

According to the ratio of Worship Value to Divine Power, only 1,000,000 points of Worship Value could be converted into 1 point of Divine Power. These 500,000 points couldn’t even be converted into 1 point of Divine Power yet.

However, although it wasn’t even 1 point of Divine Power, 500,000 Worship Value was still pretty great for new divine lives that had just established their Divine Realm for less than a year.

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As he expected, as soon as his cheating cube was activated, he was about to take off.

Previously, over the course of more than a hundred years, he had only accumulated 1 point of Divine Power. Now, in less than seven or eight years, he already .5 points of it accumulated. This speed was many times faster. Besides, this accumulated speed would continue to grow faster and faster, apace with the development of his Divine Realm. In two years, when the College Entrance Examination was around the corner, it wouldn’t be impossible for him to gain Worship Values at the rate of 1 point of Divine Power per year.

With a bit of emotion, Lin Xiao buckled up his energy and first expended 654 points of Worship Value to issue a Sacred Decree, which value was equivalent to 1 point expended per believer.

The expend wasn’t too hefty as of now. When he garnered more believers in the future, the consumption of Worship Value would be immense. If he had hundreds of thousands of believers, one Sacred Degree would cost him hundreds of thousands of Worship Value.

So, by that time, Sacred Decrees would usually be conveyed directly via a God’s Chosen People.