In the seventh year after the third generation of cryptmen appeared, a group of cryptmen with a total number of about 20,000 did something unprecedented. When a team of about 200 drow raiders attacked the tribe, the tribal leader made a bold decision and led his troops to take the initiative to attack and fight the drow raiders in the wild.
In the end, the drow raiding team was surrounded and killed at the cost of more than 3,000 casualties.
This was a miracle for the former underground dwellers, something they had never experienced before.
This miraculous achievement ignited the emotions of all the underground people. At this moment, Lin Xiao could sense that the faith of the underground people in the entire faith range had become stronger. Among them, the one who attracted his attention the most was the leader of the tribe.
After completing this miraculous battle, the power of faith of this underground man suddenly increased by a thousand times, and in an instant he was comparable to a Shura Naga fanatic.
And this is just the growth of faith. What attracted Lin Xiao's attention more was the transformation of this underground man himself.
After completing this miraculous feat, he was blessed by some mysterious power and transformed from an ordinary caveman into a hero, a caveman hero.
After becoming a hero, this caveman named Onard suddenly seemed to have become enlightened and his wisdom soared.
Onard cut off the heads of all the drow he killed and personally escorted them over a thousand kilometers to the holy land of the crypt people - Hope Terrace, where he worshipped the god of the crypt people.
Lin Xiao accepted the sacrifice with great joy, and expended a little divine power to create a crown semi-artifact and a scepter semi-artifact to give as gifts. He also named Onard as the king of the cavemen and ordered him to lead all the cavemen.
This is indeed a great thing. Having a caveman hero with powerful military force and wisdom to lead the cavemen means a powerful assistant for Lin Xiao.
He was not worried about the loss of power. He was a god, and what he wanted was the faith of the cavemen, not the control of a mere race of cavemen, which meant nothing to him.
If possible, he would like a bunch of heroes to emerge among the cavemen, but unfortunately this is impossible. If there is a hero, it means the explosion of the luck accumulated by the cavemen for tens of thousands of years.
Onard, who was born with wisdom, quickly sent messengers to make Hope Terrace the capital. In the ninth year, he officially established the Kingdom of the Cryptmen and was crowned king.
Onard, who has become king, is even more active than Lin Xiao. He constantly sends envoys to other places in the second layer of the Underdark to look for crypt dwellers and help other crypt dweller tribes establish large gathering places to resist the drow raiding teams.
Internally, he asked the cavemen to study forging and other technologies and start making metal weapons. Under Lin Xiao's conscious teaching, the cavemen craftsmen quickly mastered the metal forging technology. Various metal weapons and armor began to appear. The technological level of the entire cavemen kingdom grew rapidly, and its strength became increasingly powerful.
If possible, Lin Xiao hopes that this rapid development can continue.
However, with the official establishment of the Cryptmen Kingdom, or more precisely, after the battle in which Onard was born, the Cryptmen Kingdom came into the eyes of the Drow high-level officials.
Although only the major drow families have their eyes on the more powerful third-generation cryptmen, they believe that the cryptmen at this time can replace the dirty goblins and become new high-quality slaves.
After two years of comprehensive reconnaissance, eight drow cities conspired to form a coalition to attack the capital of the Cryptmen Kingdom, Hope Terrace.
The news soon spread to the Caveman Kingdom. The Cavemen at this time were no longer the weak race they used to be. At least in the second layer of the Underdark, the Cavemen were already the most powerful race and had the courage to form a team and leave the tribe.
Some underground people discovered the gathering coalition forces, and the news reached the kingdom in advance, so Lin Xiao naturally knew about it as well.
But at this time Lin Xiao was not worried at all. He just issued a divine command for a full-scale counterattack and sent the minotaur Jonila to enter the royal city with many war weapons given by God.
The incarnations of Lin Hong and Lin Bao had already arrived. They brought a total of four tenth-level giant god soldiers, forty eighth-level legendary diamond golems and obsidian golems, and two thousand six-level extraordinary steel golems, which were equivalent to two thousand fifteen-level top professionals or above.
The True God cannot personally take action in the Battle of Believers, but these golems are not prohibited.
At this time, Lin Xiao already had more than ten million third-generation cave dweller believers, which was just a drop in the bucket compared to the more than one billion cave dwellers in the entire Underdark. However, this was because there was not enough time. The faith had only expanded to this extent since the beginning. If he wanted to include all the cave dwellers in the entire Underdark in the faith, it would probably take hundreds of years to complete even if the expansion continued without stopping.
After all, this main material plane is really too huge.
Lin Xiao could foresee that when the number of his cavemen believers reached about 100 million, the accumulated power of faith would be enough for him to be deified.
After all, the power of faith provided by the current cavemen has reached about a quarter of that of normal humans. A devout human believer provides about three points of power of faith every day, so a devout caveman believer can provide about 0.8 points of power of faith every day. Normally, 100 million cavemen can gain 80 million points of power of faith, which is equivalent to an income of 80 points of divine power a day.
This income is actually not very high. Normally speaking, it is far from enough to maintain a true God.
Judging from the fact that a newly deified god with a godhood level of 0 needs a thousand divine powers a day to maintain his godhood level, it is likely that most of the divine powers obtained by the true gods in this world are not enough to maintain their existence.
In fact, the main reason why there are tens of thousands of true gods in this world is that most of the true gods do not have a kingdom of God.
The divine power maintenance fee of one thousand per day includes the maintenance fee of the godhead and the kingdom of God, among which the maintenance of the kingdom of God accounts for the largest share. The same is true for a true god like Lin Xiao, the son of the divine realm, except that the kingdom of God is replaced by the divine realm.
If the kingdom of God is not used, the maintenance cost is only about one-tenth, that is, the maintenance cost of the divinity of a newly deified god is only 100 points of divine power.
In other words, most of the so-called gods in this world are weak divine powers without a formal kingdom of God, and most of them are beings with a godhood level between 0 and 4.
As long as the number of believers of the third generation of cavemen reaches about 100 million, the power of faith obtained by Lin Xiao will be enough to maintain his incarnation as a god in this world.
After all, most of the third-generation underground dwellers are not just devout believers, but a considerable number of fanatical believers.
Moreover, the demand for believers will continue to decrease with the emergence of the fourth and even fifth generation of cavemen in the future. When the cavemen are trained to be stronger than humans, perhaps only one million cavemen believers will be enough to support the existence of a true god. By that time, with the increasingly large number of cavemen, when
Lin Xiao thought of this, he felt that this race that was once looked down upon had a bright future.
The coalition forces of the eight drow cities can be said to be very powerful, but the third-generation cavemen at this time are no longer as weak as they were before.
After several months of wrangling and delays, the Drow coalition finally managed to reunite. Under the command of the Caveman King Onald, a million Cavemen gathered near the capital.
So when the coalition of more than 20,000 Zorga and nearly 50,000 servant races arrived not far from Hope Terrace, they were surrounded by millions of cave dwellers.
Killing a million pigs can tire a person to death, not to mention that the cavemen at this time were not weak. The average combat power of the third generation of cavemen was not inferior to that of humans. Under the leadership of the caveman heroes, supported by the belief of defending their homes and supported by tens of thousands of years of blood feud, the explosive power shocked even the gods.
Countless cave dwellers rushed forward one after another, fearless of death, and would thrust their crude weapons into the enemy even if it meant they would die together.
Even though there were a large number of mages in the drow coalition who cast large-scale spells to kill countless cave dwellers, and even though there were a large number of priests of the Lord of Darkness in the coalition who bestowed various beneficial buffs on the drow, there were too many cave dwellers to be killed.
Until the end, the drow priests prayed to the Lord of Darkness. Just when the incarnation of the Lord of Darkness was about to descend, Lin Bao's incarnation descended in a large drow city on the third layer of the Underdark, and immediately attracted the attention of the incarnation of the Lord of Darkness.
Compared to the battlefield here, the city with hundreds of thousands of drow elves is more important.
Although the Lord of Darkness is a medium-level god with five powerful incarnations of God, in most cases there are only two incarnations stationed in the kingdom of God all year round to guard the kingdom of God and the sleeping real body. The other incarnations basically have something to do, either traveling in the void and foreign planes looking for opportunities, or plotting some conspiracy. There is usually only one incarnation that can respond to the believers at any time.
In the end, after paying a heavy price of more than 250,000 cavemen killed, countless more injured, and Lin Bao, the incarnation of his subordinate, seriously injured and missing, the drow coalition was completely wiped out except for a few drow priests, mages and other two or three hundred high-ranking ones who escaped.
An unprecedented epic battle ended, and the entire Underdark was in an uproar.
It was at this time that the drow on the third layer of the Underdark, as well as other races in the Underdark, discovered that the Cryptmen, a race they had always thought to be extremely weak, had unexpectedly become so powerful.
As the various races and the gods behind these races turned their eyes over, they naturally discovered the underground people and the protective god Lin Xiao hiding behind the underground people.
Not long after, Lin Xiao sent the minotaur Jonila to the first layer of the Underdark to show goodwill to the gods of various races in the first layer, seeking to join their alliance to fight against the brutal Lord of Darkness.
The god of the Minotaur tribe was the first to agree, followed by the god of the Gray Dwarf tribe. In order to achieve internal unity, the remaining gods all agreed that the Cryptmen and the God of Protection should join the alliance against the Lord of Darkness.
At the same time, one of Lin Hong's incarnations sneaked into the fourth layer of the Underdark, exposing the existence of the Son of the Zerg God Realm hidden in the Mind Flayer Kingdom of the fourth layer of the Underdark. This immediately attracted the attention of the Lord of Darkness, and he had to temporarily turn his attention to this alien god who was stuck between his own kingdom and his believers.
(End of this chapter)