With the help of a powerful soul that was thousands of times stronger, Lin Xiao easily lit up the beam of dawn light and successfully condensed his true spirit.
The remaining blood of the ancient Titan god in the Cube of Creation was extracted and integrated into his own body. His body expanded rapidly and uncontrollably, becoming larger and larger. At the same time, a dazzling halo slowly spread out from under his feet, and continued to expand as his strength grew stronger.
The unique halo of the Dawn Wizard is also a manifestation of the unique identity of the Dawn Wizard. Any Dawn Wizard will have this halo after being promoted.
The halo is equivalent to the domain of a demigod. When unfolded, it can suppress the enemy and amplify itself. The specific intensity of the amplification depends on one's own strength and the witchcraft mastered.
The original wizard aura has only one suppression function, choosing one from several basic rules such as strength, speed, defense, etc., or the unique rules mastered by the dawn wizard, if any.
But every time a wizard is promoted, he can choose to either strengthen the original rules or add another suppression or amplification rule.
Lin Xiao chose the most common speed law. His own speed within the halo will be increased by up to 200%, the speed of friendly forces recognized by him will be increased by up to 100%, and the enemy's speed will be suppressed by up to 100%. The greater the gap in strength, the higher the suppression.
He didn't care too much about the halo. He didn't rely on it to fight the enemy anyway. It mainly depended on his own strength.
As all the Titan ancient god blood that had been accumulated before was completely integrated, and coupled with the condensation of his true name, his body began to gradually shed his mortal body and transform into the level of his true body.
This true body does not refer to his real Titan body, but to a certain special physical state. In this world, when one's own strength reaches a certain level and meets certain conditions, one can condense a unique body in the world. This unique physical body will be called the true body and possesses extremely powerful power.
The fusion of the blood of the ancient Titan God is absolutely unique in this world. Therefore, when all the blood of the ancient Titan God accumulated in the Cube of Creation was fused, Lin Xiao found that it was possible for him to condense his true body.
It's just that he has just been promoted and his bloodline has just been integrated. There is only this trend. If he wants to truly condense his true body, he has to wait until he completely masters this bloodline before he can start to condense his true body.
At this moment, Lin Xiao stretched out his hands covered with golden runes and raised them. The surrounding sea water was slightly stirred, and turbulent undercurrents surged with it. The sea surface with a diameter of five or six kilometers centered on him was slowly lifted up.
A few kilometers away, a sea snake man covered with fine blue scales and wearing an exquisite robe stepped on the water. He looked at the tens-meter-tall golden giant standing on the sea and the rising sea level and exclaimed:
"What a powerful force!"
Beside him were several powerful sea tribe members and a human general who was wrapped tightly in blue armor. Another female sea snake said to the human general:
"We all know about the human within the empire who is about to be promoted to this level, but it seems that we have never seen this human before."
The human general also replied with a puzzled look on his face:
"I do know all the powerful people who are about to be promoted within the human race, but I have never seen this one."
The leading sea snake man laughed and said:
"There's no need to dwell on this. It's not important. The key point is whether he is willing to serve the empire."
He said to the human general:
"You and he are of the same race. You went to negotiate with him on behalf of the empire and asked if he was willing to join the empire."
General Lanjia nodded, raised his leg and took a step forward. He turned into a ball of blue water and disappeared into the water.
In the middle of the sea, Lin Xiao, who was adapting to his own strength, suddenly paused and turned to look to the right. A few seconds later, a ball of sea water rose up and transformed into a human man wearing blue armor. He performed a strange etiquette that he had never seen before and said in a deep voice:
"I am Lan Yu, the commander of the Sixth Legion of the Sea King Empire. I am here on the orders of King Haixiong to invite you to join the Sea King Empire."
"Sea King Empire!"
It is the only ruling force in this world, and both sea creatures and humans are under its rule.
Lin Xiao pondered for a moment, looking like he was considering what he was saying, but actually he was just pretending. Knowing a little about this world, he knew he had no choice.
After thinking for a few seconds, he replied,
"It's an honor to serve the Empire!"
"very good!"
King Haixiong was very happy to hear his response and said with a smile:
"Then from now on, Your Excellency will be a member of the Empire."
Lin Xiao slowly gathered his strength and responded with a smile.
He had this consideration a long time ago, otherwise he would not have been promoted openly at sea.
Now that his strength has been promoted to that of a fourth-rank dawn wizard, the resources for promotion that he had accumulated before have basically been used up. It will be very difficult to be promoted again in the future. If he relies on himself to find and accumulate resources, it will take a very long time. Therefore, joining a large force is an inevitable choice.
As the most powerful force in this world, the Sea King Empire not only rules all the territories in this world, but also often invades other worlds through space cracks. This is exactly what he values.
Conquering a world would definitely yield a vast amount of resources. If he were in it, he would definitely gain a huge amount of resources, among which the most useful to him would be the souls of alien creatures.
Although he had given up on following the path of the Soul Apostle, the Lord of the Strange World and the Soul Apostle gave him an inspiration.
The soul power he devoured of 200,000 souls allowed him to be promoted to a Dawn Wizard with some energy left over. What if he could accumulate millions of souls?
Or hundreds or even tens of millions of souls?
Is it possible to force a breakthrough and promotion in one go if enough souls are accumulated and devoured?
It is hard to say, but it is very likely, after all, it has been proven before.
It seems that humans are really complicated animals. Before, Lin Xiao was so determined not to devour souls and follow the path of a soul apostle, but after he actually devoured souls and greatly improved his strength, his determination wavered.
"Sure enough, my will is not strong enough!"
But he had no choice. Time waits for no one. It is impossible for him to take the traditional route and spend hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of years to slowly advance. By that time, the opportunity would be gone.
Of course, he would never go down the path of Soul Apostle. He has the Cube of Fortune to purify his soul, so how could he be controlled by others?
After joining the Sea King Empire, Lin Xiao was assigned to the imperial military as a senior staff officer, a nominal position with extremely high status but no real power.
This is the necessary path for all the strong people who have just joined the empire. No one will give you real power and a high position from the beginning.
Lin Xiao had no objection to this. He could take this opportunity to understand the structure and power structure of the Sea King Empire, and also take some time to condense his true body.
The promotion is over, but the growth in strength is not over, and the power of bloodline has not been fully developed.
The main power of the Sea King Empire is divided into three parts. The most powerful ones are the Sea King and the eighteen Sea King princes, who control all the military forces of the empire.
Strictly speaking, the major legions of the empire belong to the empire, but in fact they are respectively controlled by the Sea Emperor and the Eighteen Sea Kings. These Sea Kings vary in strength, with the weakest one controlling a powerful legion, and the strongest Sea King being as strong as the Sea Emperor.
It is worth mentioning that the empire's legion commanders, deputy legion commanders and division commanders are all powerful warriors at the level of fourth-level dawn wizards. Lin Xiao has been promoted to a dawn wizard and is qualified to become a division commander, but he is a newcomer and it is impossible for him to become a division commander.
The number of imperial legions is limited, and each one has his own position. It is impossible to become a division commander before a new position appears.
The location where Lin Xiao appeared was in King Haixiong's territory, but that did not mean he was King Haixiong's subordinate. Instead, he belonged to the Imperial Military, unless he was willing to serve under King Haixiong.
In fact, after he arrived at the capital of the Sea King Empire, before he settled down, he met many messengers from the Sea King and the Sea Emperor in succession, all of whom offered conditions to win him over, but he agreed to none of them.
Lin Xiao refused cleanly and decisively, not afraid of offending anyone. As a dawn wizard, he was the strongest man except the sea kings. As long as he didn't make a big mistake, no one could do anything to him.
The Sea Emperor and the other sea kings would not and could not do anything because of his rejection.
In the following days, Lin Xiao remained as low-key as ever. Every day he either went to the Imperial Library or stayed at home.
The capital of the Sea King Empire is a super-large underwater city built in the sea. A huge magic array wraps the entire city and sinks it into the sea. There are several huge islands around the giant city, and several imperial legions are stationed on the islands and in the nearby sea.
Lin Xiao's residence is located in the imperial capital, but he likes to go fishing on a nearby island whenever he has free time. He looks like a person who is not interested in worldly matters. Over time, the top leaders of the empire all know that this powerful man who has just joined the empire seems to be very idle and has no ambitions.
Three years passed unknowingly. One day, when Lin Xiao was preparing to go out fishing, he suddenly received an order to go to the Sea Palace to meet His Majesty the Sea Emperor.
Lin Xiao immediately knew that his leisurely days were coming to an end. The Sea King probably couldn't bear to see such a powerful man like him hanging around all the time, so he found something for him to do.
The Sea Palace is located in the center of the imperial capital. The control core of the super-large wizard formation in the imperial capital is in the Sea Palace.
Lin Xiao had met this Sea King once when he first arrived, but he was wearing thick armor and couldn't see his appearance clearly. All he knew was that he was an extremely tall sea creature. It was said that his true form was a huge dragon whale. Lin Xiao didn't know how big he was exactly because the Sea King hadn't taken action for many years.
The Sea Emperor was extremely decisive and went straight to the point without much nonsense.
"After discussion with the Imperial Military Department, we are promoting you to the rank of major general. We are planning to appoint you as the deputy commander of the 13th Army and commander of the 3rd Division of the 13th Army. Please take up your post within one month."
"Your subject obeys your command!"
Lin Xiao accepted the order with doubts.
He had heard of the Thirteenth Legion, which was one of the main legions of the Empire under the command of the Sea Emperor, and ranked second among the four legions controlled by the Sea Emperor. There were five fourth-level dawn wizards in the legion, and a fifth-level legion commander. This core legion...
"Why did you transfer me there?"
With doubt in his heart, Lin Xiao left the imperial capital with the appointment letter and headed for the Thirteenth Legion's base, an imperial fortress more than 4,000 kilometers away from the imperial capital.
It was not until he arrived at the headquarters of the Thirteenth Legion that he immediately understood why he was transferred there.
In addition to recruiting himself, a fourth-level dawn wizard, the main reason was that the 13th Legion suffered heavy losses while performing a mission some time ago. Two of the five fourth-level warriors who went into battle were killed, one was seriously injured, and the rest were all injured.
In order to maintain the strength of the legion and guard the passage connecting to the alien world where the 13th Legion is stationed, he was transferred here to serve as deputy legion commander.
Lin Xiao didn't know what the specific mission was. It was a secret mission not open to the public. He only knew that it was very dangerous and it seemed that it was not over yet.
With the order from the Sea King and his powerful strength, it only took Lin Xiao half a month to successfully take over the Third Division and become the deputy commander of the Thirteenth Army of the Empire and one of the powerful generals of the Empire.
The Imperial Thirteenth Legion has a total of five divisions, each division contains about ten battalions, and each battalion has a strength of about 10,000 troops.
That is to say, a division has at least 100,000 troops. The 13th Corps has five divisions and direct combat battalions. The strength of different divisions varies, and the total combined strength is about 600,000. Add to that twice the logistics and auxiliary troops, and the total strength is close to two million.
A huge cross-world empire that rules a huge world and colonizes a large number of foreign worlds has only thirty or so legions in total, and each legion has two million troops. This is normal. After all, the standard combat power of each legion is calculated based on the ability to attack a weak world alone.
Even the legions of the major military regions in the human main world, in addition to the official members at the level of true gods, also have a large number of reserve forces at the level of demigods.
In addition, if the major war groups gain a foothold in each world, they will generally train a large number of indigenous troops. Any mature war group can easily mobilize millions of indigenous troops.
The key point is that these indigenous troops are not ordinary soldiers. Most of them have been professionally trained and have sophisticated equipment. Many of the elite are powerful wizards.
Although Lin Xiao's Giant God Corps has nothing now, once he captures the Crystal Wall Universe CY-00801, he can immediately pull out a large and powerful indigenous army.
Speaking of which, Lin Xiao found that he has become quite busy since he was deified. Not only are his several incarnations too busy to spare, but now even his real body is forced to take the risk of leaving the divine realm and the main world. But he has no choice. Fate always forces him to be busy. If he really has free time, it means that he is not doing very well.
Most of the members of the Thirteenth Legion are ordinary soldiers, but each division and each battalion has a large number of extraordinary professionals, including many second and third level wizards.
Wizards are the mainstream profession in the wizarding world, but besides wizards there are actually other professional systems, or different systems of different worlds and different races are collectively called wizards, but they are subdivided into different categories.
For example, there are warrior or knight professions that specialize in strengthening the body, magic professions, or bloodline professions, or wizards who strengthen themselves by fusing the flesh and blood of powerful creatures, etc.
For example, in the world where the Sea King Empire is located, the mainstream professions are bloodline wizards and enhancement wizards. Most of the sea creatures tap into the power of their own bloodlines to strengthen themselves, and the upper limit of their bloodlines determines the upper limit of their own strength.
(End of this chapter)