Chapter 487 Refining Divine Nature
Seeing that Odaye was still very reserved, Richard took the initiative to open the topic and asked: "I heard from the guards that you are selling flour in Venus Castle?"
Odaye's selling flour in Venus Castle is also a big news in this city.
After a war, although Kanas Castle has recovered its vitality and has more than 200,000 people, it is still a traditional city after all. There are relatively few things every day, and it seems calm.
As a hereditary noble, Odaye personally talked about business with merchants, which immediately aroused public discussion in Kanas. Even Richard, who was in the official residence, heard about it.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Odaye replied with caution. He was still very nervous in his heart, afraid of saying the wrong thing. He had to think over and over again in his heart every time he said a word, trying to be concise and concise so that people could not hear any mistakes.
"You don't need to promote a small amount of flour. Did you move the flour mill to Rex Province?"
Odaye nodded and said, "Your Majesty guessed correctly. Last year, I made a decision to start building a factory. Three months ago, I moved the steam machinery to the vicinity of Beren Castle. The factory has been running smoothly in recent times. Because of the large production capacity, I personally came out to expand the market and promote flour."
Odaye, Imorton and other capitalist nobles are the aristocracy supported by Richard. In fact, Richard cares about them very much. After hearing Odaye talk about this topic, Richard said a few more words with interest.
"You private capitalists are indeed much more proactive than the directors of state-owned factories. In the past two years, the Rex Province has actually been short of flour. Faced with this new market, the directors of state-owned factories did not move at all without the command of their superiors. If the restrictions are completely lifted, they will not be able to compete with you at all.
I was going to issue an order to move a state-owned flour mill to Rex Province. Since you have already set up the factory, there is no need to move. The military logistics supply contract will also be given to you, but you must be clear in your mind that the quality of the supply must be guaranteed.
Once you are If you are found to be passing inferior goods off as good ones, I will make you pay a fine of more than ten times.
You have earned a lot of gold coins, and now your social status has also been improved. You have become part of the ruling class of the country. You must maintain social order and assume social responsibilities.
The contract slaves seconded to you will eventually become free people. You should treat them with kindness and not exploit them too harshly. Population is the property of the country, and you cannot let a large number of people die in your factory. You must remember to put people first.
Do your duty well, and I will protect you. "
After the two finished talking, Richard personally escorted Odaye out of the gate of the official residence.
Now Richard's life is very busy and regular. He spends two hours practicing breathing techniques every morning, and then handles the government affairs accumulated during the day until seven o'clock in the evening.
From seven to nine o'clock is private rest time, and after nine o'clock, he will meditate for two hours. After meditation, he will read the new papers published by the Mage Association. It is almost twelve o'clock in the night when he falls asleep.
Richard has monopolized power and could have enjoyed a good life. He is dressed in fine clothes and surrounded by beautiful women. His words and deeds can control the lives of countless people. But he still resisted the temptation of money, beauty, power, fame and fortune. He was able to persist in such a boring life, which shows how amazing his self-control is.
After sending Odaye away, Richard looked at the clock and found that it was almost eight o'clock. He thought carefully and found that no one needed to be received today, so he simply notified the guards to close the door of the mansion and took time to refine the divinity of the Undead Lord.
It has been fourteen months since he followed Catherine to refine the residual soul of the Undead Lord. For fourteen months, Richard has been slowly refining the divinity.
Because the divinity contains the remnants of the consciousness of the Undead Lord, there are greater risks in the process of refining. Not only does it require strong mental power, but also requires amazing will. Only by being able to withstand the invasion of the Undead Lord's residual thoughts and the erosion of the memory of the gods can self-awareness be ensured and mental power can be improved.
Richard's mental power is already seventy-six points, which is at a very high level. Normally, this level of mental power has exceeded the legendary second-level magician, and is far stronger than the legendary warrior, enough to refine the divinity.
In fact, as long as the mental power exceeds 20 points, it has reached the minimum standard for refining divinity.
According to the records of the Dawn Church, there was once a five-ring magician who refined divinity. Some legendary warriors have also successfully refined divinity.
Especially for the dead gods, the self-consciousness contained in the divinity is seriously weakened, and some even have only some memory fragments. As long as the willpower is strong and not lost in the memory of the gods, you can obtain part of the knowledge of the gods by refining the divinity, and greatly improve your spiritual power.
The Lord of the Dead has long died, and the residual soul has been refined into divinity by Catherine.
The danger of refining the divinity of the Lord of the Dead has been reduced a lot, and in order to be safe, Richard has prolonged the time of refining divinity, so there is no sequelae.
Now, after fourteen months, the divinity given by Catherine has been refined by Richard for the most part, and from this little divinity, Richard has also obtained a lot of mysterious knowledge. It's like watching a movie in my mind, and I have experienced the life journey of the Lord of the Dead for more than four hundred years.
Every day of refining divinity was a wonderful journey for Richard. His consciousness was involuntarily immersed in the memories of the Undead Lord, spending several months to a year or two.
If it weren't for the protection of the ancient god's power, which could pull Richard's self-consciousness out of the memory of the Undead Lord, it would be hard for Richard not to be immersed in it, as if he was watching a long movie.
After all, Richard had lived for less than seventy years in his previous and later lives.
Once immersed in the memory of the Undead Lord, it is difficult to wake up the self-consciousness. If you are not careful, you will be replaced by a new consciousness, and your life and soul will become the nutrients for the rebirth of the Undead Lord.
Relying on the protection of the ancient god's power, and Richard's extended time to refine the divinity, he finally succeeded in refining the divinity of the Undead Lord without any danger.
After refining the divinity, Richard opened the attribute panel in his mind. He found that his mental power increased by five points, and it was already eighty-one points. Strength, agility, and physical strength also increased to a certain extent.
The most special thing is that the divine power attribute appeared on the attribute panel.
Richard sank his soul into the mental power space and found that there was indeed a mysterious power in the mental power space. This power was closely related to magic power and could even be transformed into each other.
Richard pushed his soul and carefully transformed part of his magic power into this mysterious power.
The attribute panel changed immediately, the number of the divine power attribute became one, and the magic power decreased by ten points.
Richard continued to transform the divine power, and when the divine power attribute reached five points, he continued to invest magic power, and the number of the divine power attribute would not change again.
Combining previous knowledge, Richard thought to himself: "It seems that I can also use a part of the deep power of the source sea. In addition to demigods and gods, only a small number of divine creatures can use the deep power of the source sea. Could it be that I am getting closer to divine creatures myself?"
Divine creatures are generally the followers or descendants of gods and demigods, who can use the power of gods.
Richard can use the power of killing to strengthen himself, and can clearly see his own attributes. In fact, he is a divine creature. Now he has divine power, and his life essence is closer to divine creatures.
After possessing divine power, Richard began to experiment with the power of divine power.
Richard went directly to the military training ground and found a large open space. He put a little divine power into the rune template of the magic missile, and immediately found a ball of powerful energy released from his fingertips, then flew over a distance of 500 meters and hit the open space accurately.
Instantly, a violent explosion came from the playground, and the hard soil was immediately blown into a one-meter-deep pit.
Richard came to the explosion site and secretly estimated in his heart: "The destructive power caused by this magic is about more than 100 degrees, which is stronger than the general six-ring magic.
Is this the power of the deep level of the source sea? If I convert all my magic power into divine power, the lethality may increase four times. I am afraid that even the demigods will be terrified to release the starlight bomb with divine power."
Then Richard did more experiments in the training ground. He first put a little divine power into the fireball template, but found that the divine power was too little to activate this spell template.
Then he increased the divine power to three points, and then successfully released the divine power version of the fireball.
In an instant, a fireball the size of a window fiercely bombarded the martial arts field, like a bomb, lifting large pieces of soil and releasing white smoke.
The power of the divine fireball was indeed extremely terrifying, with a destructive power of 300 degrees, and the spell strength was higher than ordinary legendary magic.
Through many experiments, Richard has figured out that he only has five points of divine power in his body, and can release a five-ring spell of divine power version at most once.
Because of the use of divine power, not only is the destructive power of the spell equivalent to eight times the original spell, but the spell range and casting distance have increased by more than five times, and the power is very considerable.
Although there are only five points of divine power, it can pose a threat to legendary magicians and has become a killer in Richard's hands.
For a period of time afterwards, Richard also used the flame staff, lightning staff, life staff, and world staff to release divine power spells, and found that the four staffs can still have a bonus effect on divine power spells.
However, compared with releasing ordinary spells, the effect is reduced.
First, there are the two crystal staffs of lightning and fire. The added effect is very small, and the power can only increase by 5%, which can be said to be pitiful.
Then there is the world staff. When using this staff to release wood-attribute divine power spells, it can still increase the effect by 20%, and the consumption of divine power can also be saved.
The best effect is the life staff. When using this staff to release life-type spells, even if divine power is used, the power will increase by 50%, and the consumption will be reduced by 30%.
This added strength is like an artifact. However, the scope of use of this artifact is very narrow. After all, the types of life-type spells are pitiful, and most of them are healing spells. The power is far from that of the artifact bell in Marta's hand.
Although it is not widely applicable, it is a treasure of artifact level after all. Richard carefully placed it in the Starlight Bottle and did not dare to give it to Wendy, Annie and others easily.
The four legendary staffs owned by Harland were all spoils of war seized from the ogres.
The shapes of these four staffs are very rough and simple. Basically, they are slightly modified with materials above the legendary level, and no advanced alchemy technology is used. Although Richard knew that the Life Staff was the highest level before, he never expected that this staff would have such a powerful blessing effect on divine power spells.
The materials used in this staff can be compared with the scepter of the goddess of dawn.
The World Staff, which is actually inferior to the Life Staff, is made of the same materials as the branches of the World Tree, but this staff has not been tempered by divine power and cannot activate the origin of the World Tree. Therefore, the power of the two staffs made of the same materials is very different.
Richard refined the divinity of the Undead Lord, not only increasing his mental power by five points, but also awakening the divine power characteristics. In his soul, the memory of the Undead Lord for about five hundred years was added.
Although the five hundred years of memory are very messy, a large part of it is the memory of the Undead Lord being sealed and fighting wits and courage with Princess Marta, but there are still very precious knowledge and experience in it.
First of all, there is a part of the memory that includes ancient wizard texts and languages of various regions of O'Farland, which completes the knowledge of the legendary lich that Richard got.
In addition, there are a large number of complete undead spells, such as the legendary magic of resurrection of the dead, transformation of dead energy, soul infection, and crystal condensation. If this part of the inheritance is obtained by a necromancer, he can be promoted all the way to the realm of the Undead Lord.
The third part is the inside story of the azure plane.
Back then, the four Undead Lords joined forces to kill the three native gods of the Azure Plane, and then the Azure Plane was infected.
The Azure Plane is not far from the Dawn Plane and has a natural plane channel. It was through the Azure Plane that the Undead Lord entered the Dawn Plane.
As a result, the Undead Lord just made some noise and was defeated by the seven gods and the Rule Wizard. One of the four Undead Lords was shattered, and one escaped but was sealed in the Dawn Plane by O'Farland. Only two Undead Lords returned to the Azure Plane safely.
Now the seriously injured Rule Wizard has been killed by Catherine, and it is unknown whether the two Undead Lords who escaped to the Azure Plane broke out in a civil war.
The remaining knowledge includes some secrets of the wizard era, such as the entrance location of the underground world, and the Undead Lord's knowledge and experience in the super-large planes such as the underworld, the abyss, and the four elements.
Of course, most of the memories are useless information, which Richard collected together and then deleted and forgot.
After all, more than 500 years of memories were stuffed into his brain. Although this process lasted for seventeen months, it still gave Richard a splitting headache. Only after deleting the huge amount of useless information did he feel a little relieved.