The first point is the original function of the artifact, and the second point is the repair function, which has been strengthened. The artifact can be used to directly interfere with any place in the main material plane, including functions such as changing the climate, which is quite magical.
But the most powerful point is the third one. Through this artifact, he covered the Shadow Magic Net to the main material plane, directly overlapping with the magic net controlled by the God of Magic. In the future, the main material plane can also use the Shadow Magic Net. This is absolutely unacceptable to the God of Magic. It can be predicted that within a few years, the God of Magic will launch a war against the dark pantheon.
It is worth mentioning that this function can only be detected by the God of Magic who controls the magic network and three powerful gods, but other true gods cannot detect it.
These three points are only the temporary functions of this artifact. As his strength grows, the power of the artifact will also increase.
But no matter what, this main artifact is only an auxiliary artifact and cannot directly increase his combat effectiveness, so he will need to forge another combat artifact in the future.
He stretched out his hand to grab the Magic Net Planet, and the artifact with golden light flew towards him rapidly, disappeared in a flash in his right palm, and then a tiny Magic Net Planet pattern appeared on the back of his hand, which would not be noticed if you didn't look carefully.
He stretched out his hand again, and a golden light flew out from the back of his hand and turned into a pure golden light ball that hung in front of him and slowly rotated. He pointed his finger, and dense runes on the surface of the light ball flew out and spread, quickly transforming into a huge virtual main material plane topographic map.
In the center is a huge main continent, surrounded by endless ocean, dotted with islands of all sizes, the largest of which covers an area of several million square kilometers.
It can be seen from the virtual map that in the extremely distant ocean in the east of the main continent there is a subcontinent that is only about one-fifth the size of the main continent.
That continent is filled with poisonous insects and poisonous fog, and is not suitable for the survival of many intelligent creatures in the main plane. Only some barbaric races with a certain resistance to poison are scattered on the edge of the island. No true god is interested in developing faith there.
Lin Xiao quickly retracted his gaze to the main continent, which was larger than the total area of the entire earth. He stretched out his golden finger and lightly tapped a point on the main continent. The map in front of him quickly zoomed in, and the area where his finger was pointed appeared in front of him.
This scene reminded Lin Xiao of the high-precision satellite monitoring of the planet, which can accurately locate any location on the planet with an error of no more than one centimeter.
His artifact has this function, which can accurately locate any place in the main material plane. The key is that this positioning function is achieved through the shadow magic net covering the main material plane. In theory, any place covered by the shadow magic net can be observed.
In other words, as long as the camera is close enough, he can use this artifact to observe the internal situation even if it is a thick castle. It is very powerful.
The eyes followed the fast-moving camera across the main material plane, and the camera images passed by quickly.
Mountains, rivers, forests, castles, farmlands.
A group of knights riding on war horses and wearing thick armor, waving their swords, rushed towards a group of farmers wearing linen clothes and holding pitchforks. A brutal massacre took place before his eyes.
When these farmers were about to be killed, chaotic shouts were heard in the distance, and more farmers rushed over with pitchforks and sticks.
"Peasant uprising?"
The camera has passed by for a long time, but this scene still remains in Lin Xiao's mind.
Compared with the peace in the religious area he managed, where even the cave dwellers had a life of food and clothing, humans on the surface still lived in the Dark Ages of the Middle Ages, with the nobles and the church as the rulers and serfs and slaves as the oppressors.
Aliens and monsters in the wild are eyeing the world covetously, ambitious people with ulterior motives are starting wars, and those who come from foreign lands are fighting for faith. The whole world is in chaos.
"Um?"
The camera that was sliding past quickly stopped and quickly rewound to the sky above a city. Lin Xiao's gaze fell on the huge church in the center of the city, and the familiar emblem from the God of Magic. This area was ruled by the God of Magic.
Although it is not the core faith parish of the God of Magic, it is also a secondary area.
Because of the special nature of the God of Magic's ministry, his main believers are mages and warlocks. The number of believers is extremely small, but the quality is very high, and his faith is spread throughout the entire material plane.
Because he controls the magic network and has a special priesthood, his believers basically do not conflict with other true gods. Most of the churches of the God of Magic are located in the dioceses of other gods. Its core diocese includes an empire, five kingdoms, and more than a dozen duchies. The believers of the Dark Pantheon have to deal with the armies of this empire, five kingdoms, and more than a dozen duchies.
The Caveman Kingdom has recently been building a huge underground fortress and several secondary fortresses, as well as a large logistics area near an underground passage on the first level of the Underdark not far from the main diocese of the Magic Pantheon. Now, there are five million caveman soldiers and more than one million underground race soldiers gathered there.
There are countless powerful people from all races, including more than twenty legendary strongmen, including eleven black dragons and six red dragons, all of which were found from all over the Underdark in the past two hundred years, and they signed the Dragon Covenant with a solemn promise.
Among them, what Lin Xiao valued most was a group of more than 500,000 cave giants and more than 300,000 shadow mages.
In order to accumulate more strength, Lin Xiao relaxed the communication conditions of the Shadow Magic Network, allowing cavemen with certain qualifications to meditate and communicate with the Shadow Magic Network, and gain the ability to cast various shadow spells.
Although the fifth generation cave dwellers have integrated some of the characteristics of the mind flayer, and their innate mental and spiritual power are stronger than that of ordinary humans, it does not mean that they can become a magician.
No matter where you are, a mage is synonymous with wisdom. The key is to be smart. You cannot become a mage if you only have excellent mental power but a low IQ.
Moreover, when Lin Xiao trained the fifth generation of cavemen, he never thought of making them too abnormal, nor did he significantly enhance their IQ.
Although their brain capacity has increased and their IQ has continued to rise with repeated genetic modulation, there is no special modulation in this aspect, so the increase is limited and definitely not enough to make all cave dwellers have high IQs. In terms of average IQ, they are inferior to humans, but stronger than orcs.
It is quite difficult to become a wise wizard under such circumstances. The entire caveman empire has a population of 13 billion, but there are less than one million shadow wizards in total. This is under the relaxed conditions. If they are to be trained as real wizards, there may not even be ten thousand of them.
But even if the conditions are relaxed, these shadow mages are still not as good as orthodox mages, and their average combat power is not as good as orthodox mages.
But this was no problem for Lin Xiao. He didn't need that kind of orthodox magician at all. What he needed was a large number of military mages who could be combined together to form a large-scale spell barrage to suppress the enemy.
Most of the time, wars between gods are first started between believers on earth, and it is rare for gods to directly attack each other's kingdom at the beginning.
It's not that there's something wrong with the decapitation tactic, it's mainly because the gods are extremely difficult to kill while hiding in their own kingdoms. The main purpose of the war of mortal believers is to defeat the mortal army of the enemy true god, and then destroy the faith of the enemy true god, so that the enemy god loses the source of faith and becomes weak.
You have to know that maintaining a kingdom of God requires divine power. Most true gods have the habit of storing divine power, but they absolutely cannot store too much.
In the war between gods, if the opponent's source of divine power is cut off, the kingdom of gods can only rely on the divine power accumulated previously to maintain its power. After a long time, the divine power will be insufficient, and the power of the kingdom of gods will decline. Until the supply of divine power is completely cut off, the kingdom of gods will slowly collapse, the divine nature will be weakened, and the level of divine nature will decline.
Theoretically, if we continue to surround him, we can weaken a powerful god into a demigod.
Both the Dark God System and the Magic God System are extremely powerful. They have huge kingdoms of God and huge faith areas that are sufficient to maintain their kingdoms. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to break through each other's kingdoms of God, even if Lin Xiaozhen has been promoted to a powerful divine power.
The kingdom of God provides a very, very large bonus to the true God. An incarnation of powerful divine power may fail when entering a kingdom of God with weak divine power, not to mention a kingdom of a pantheon with a main god of medium divine power.
Or a powerful medium-level divine power like the God of Magic.
Therefore, this great war between mortals must be fought, and must be won.
It can be foreseen that this is a war that may last for dozens, hundreds of years or even longer, so sufficient preparations must be made.
As early as hundreds of years ago, the Cryptid Empire had been preparing and stockpiled huge amounts of food and elite troops. Now, with a population of 13.3 billion, the Cryptid Empire has nearly 50 million permanent regular troops and tens of millions of local troops. Every year, a large number of militiamen receive training or retire, and hundreds of millions of troops can be mobilized at will when needed.
In addition, the underground tribe can mobilize millions of troops together, and their combined strength is definitely stronger than that of the God of Magic.
But their battle for the priesthood is not just a battle between their two pantheons. A large number of true gods will definitely be affected and join in.
The God of Magic is a senior true god who has lived for tens of thousands of years. He has made many friends over the years, and there are definitely a large number of true gods among the gods who will join in the war of gods. At that time, he may face more true gods besides the God of Magic's pantheon.
Obviously, this is very unfavorable to the dark pantheon, and Lin Xiao needs to change this situation.
A few days later, the golden light left the dark kingdom of God and entered the surface.
Come to the Pompeii Empire in the south of the main continent on the surface, which is the area of worship of the God of Vengeance.
The data collected over the years shows that the God of Vengeance is one of the most powerful enemies of the God of Magic. He is at level twelve in terms of godhood, which is also a medium level of divine power. More than two thousand years ago, the Magic Pantheon fought against the God of Vengeance and robbed the God of Vengeance of two entire kingdoms.
If the God of Vengeance had not decisively surrendered to the God of Chaos, one of the three most powerful gods, he might not only have lost the last imperial diocese, but he himself would have perished.
This is definitely a deep hatred. For the past two thousand years, the God of Vengeance has been constantly causing trouble for the God of Magic, but without the support of the God of Chaos, he can do nothing to the God of Magic.
(End of this chapter)