Chapter 38: Population Explosion!

Under the collective charge of the Centaur army, this group of Tier-One dwarves simply could not withstand such an impact.

They only resisted for a short period before they completely lost the ability to fight.

The Centaurs gathered all the dwarves together and then a Centaur team that specialized in transporting prisoners of war was responsible for escorting them.

Just like that, the population of the divine kingdom greatly increased.

During this period, the Centaurs already raided several dwarf cottages and captured more than 100 dwarves.

Dwarves were very ugly creatures.

But their intelligence was not ordinary.

Dwarves could forge equipment and even do business.

Of course, those were dwarves with a higher degree of intelligence.

The dwarves around here were the lowest level ones. They could only make furs or stone tools.

This was still of great significance to the divine kingdom currently.

Winter would come eventually, furs could help them resist the cold.

At the same time, they could use the fur from their prey to not waste resources.

It was a pity that Lorne was still in his cultivation session.

Otherwise, he would definitely use the dwarves as a foundation to prepare a live sacrifice.

After all, this was a troop that could produce equipment.

Apart from the dwarves, under Nia and Anna’s collaboration, the Centaur army also took a few wooden houses.

These wooden houses were elven nests.

As everyone knew, elves were natural forest hunters.

As long-range troops, they would have an irreplaceable position in a weak divine kingdom.

Finally, there were the Centaur nests.

Fifty kilometers outside the kingdom in the forest, there were many wandering Centaurs.

To the current divine kingdom, they were very important battle resources.

Anna also understood this very well.

Hence, when she was conquering the outside world, she already planned to attack the Centaur nests.

However, after such a long time, she still had not launched an attack.

This was because she had to take into account the Centaurs’ fighting will.

Without the appearance of their god, the Shamans in the divine kingdom could not change their minds.

Thus, Anna only recorded the location of the Centaurs’ lair.

She wanted to wait for the day when her god descended before launching a crusade against the Centaurs’ lair.

…

Just like that time flew by.

Soon, it was the third year.

Lorne, who was cultivating in the City of Gods suddenly opened his eyes.

In an instant, divine light appeared and thunder rumbled.

A smile gradually appeared on his face.

“So, I see why refining the soul is so important now…”

After cultivating his soul, Lorne had a clear understanding of the benefits.

Cultivating a god’s soul could make a god’s divine spell more powerful.

At the same time, it could allow the god to use more divine spells.

Yes, divine spells could not be used unlimitedly.

For example, if the god’s soul was not powerful enough, then the effect of a high-level divine spell that reverses time would not be truly displayed.

But if the god’s soul was extremely powerful, then even if he cast an ordinary divine spell, the final power displayed would be much stronger than that of an ordinary god.

“Divine power, divine spell, divine body, divine soul, the relationship between them all complement each other.”

If he wanted to become powerful, then he had to improve in all aspects.

This was because a weak divine body would not be able to support a powerful divine soul to display its full strength, and it would not be able to support the tremendous pressure when using divine spells.

After thinking this through, Lorne had a clearer understanding of his future.

“Has it been this long?!”

Lorne looked at the time and was slightly shocked.

Who would have thought that 20 days had already passed?

This meant that in his divine kingdom in the World of Believers 480 days had already passed!

After not paying attention to them for such a long time, he did not know how their current situation was.

But to be honest, Lorne was not worried.

After all, with Nia around and having such a large army, even if they encountered a divine kingdom that had been born for ten years, they would still have the capabilities to fight.

What Lorn was curious about was the current population of his divine kingdom.

“There are so many?”

Lorne sensed that his channel of faith now had more branches.

Compared to before, there were actually two times more.

In other words, there were nearly 1000 believers in his divine kingdom now!

Although most of the believers’ level of faith was very shallow, this was still an extraordinary achievement.

It was also because of the increase in believers, during this one year, Lorne accumulated a huge amount of wealth.

At the current stage, there were a total of 950 believers in the divine kingdom, even though most of them were cursory believers. Adding everything up, they could produce 3,100 points of Power of Faith every day.

Today, after 480 days, they brought Lorne a total of 1,488,000 points of Power of Faith.

Since he finished his cultivating session, all these points of Power of Faith could be used towards his divine kingdom.

Lorne once again found the dwarven god with whom he made many transactions before and bought a batch of equipment from him.

There were also some special items.

All in all, it cost about one million points of Power of Faith.

As for the remaining 500,000 points, Lorne bought some skill books.

Shamans could learn the simplest divine spells while ordinary believers could only learn lower-level skills.

The value of these items was very low.

About 10,000 points of Power of Faith could buy one.

Lorne bought 50 skill books.

Then, he left the City of God and came to the World of Believers.

Just then, a request was sent to Lorne along the channel of faith.

Believers could communicate with their gods.

There were two ways.

The first was to pray.

For example, when the orc chief leads the other believers to perform a sacrifice. At this time, they could pass the message to their god.

The other type was through the disciples and holy spirits!

After reaching the level of a disciple, they could rely on the channel of faith between themselves and their gods to pass the message.

And this time, the message came from Lorne’s disciple, Nia.

Accept.

“Master, you’re back?”

“Yes.”

Lorne said, “Please report the situation.”

“Yes.”

Nia said, “Since you blessed us a year ago, I led the Centaurs to sweep the surrounding forest. There are many nests in the dense forest. After my search and the Centaurs’ ground surveillance, we finally found 18 orc tribes and 45 kobold caves…”. “… “…”

There were so many of them!

Lorne’s eyes lit up.

Under normal circumstances, there would only be about 50 monsters guarding a monster lair.

The number of kobolds was slightly higher.

All in all, there were at least 5,000 combat units.

Of course.

If there was a battle, there would be death.

By estimating a rate of 40% casualties, there should be about 3,000 people who were captured!

No wonder the population of the divine kingdom suddenly increased so much.

It was all because of the large number of prisoners of war.