Chapter 17, Consumption and Deficit

Later, Du Yuan, who was confused about Li Sheng's actions, learned what Li Sheng was doing when he came out to inquire about the news.

Standing on the periphery of the square, Du Yuan's mouth twitched as he looked at the showy guy waving his arms in the distance.

He seemed to be underestimated too much. Although this was a good thing, it was very annoying.

He sold himself to deal with this war, and the showy guy on the opposite side was still doing that mutual aid association and recruiting people in the square?

Du Yuan smacked his lips and shook his head. Forget it. Since this guy didn't take it seriously, let him not take it seriously. The rats under his command really need time now.

It would be better if this contempt lasted longer.

Compared with superficial and shallow emotions, Du Yuan cares more about some more practical things.

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In the clan world, the caves were dug smoothly. Soon, three caves, two large and one small, located deeper in the mountains were dug out by the slave rats.

Luminous moss and cave mushrooms were planted.

But as the ratmen's planting operation progressed, a problem arose and they were in trouble.

There were not enough materials to cultivate luminous mosses and cave mushrooms.

Although the cave mushrooms and luminous mosses selected by Du Yuan were not delicate things, and even the requirements were very simple, whether it was rotten meat, fertile soil, trees, weeds, or other things, they could all be well cultivated.

But there was nothing in this barren mountain, and although the forest not far away was rich in materials, the scattered sentries and the built wooden walls blocked Du Yuan's covetous eyes.

In response to such a dilemma, Du Yuan gritted his teeth and took out most of the faith value stored in the altar. The life blessing used for treatment and manifestation was fixed by Du Yuan in the two large caves in a manual constant way to forcibly support the cultivation of cave mushrooms.

The small cave was used as a delivery room, and the natural cave where Du Yuan's altar was placed was separated and used specifically for sacrifice and cultivation of blood mushrooms.

Du Yuan's approach is undoubtedly a waste. Not to mention the poor conversion ratio of the divine arts used for healing to plant cultivation, the consumption of faith alone is enough to make other apprentice gods heartbroken.

Every bit of faith is precious, especially for apprentice gods. The most critical step for apprentice gods to become demigods is to collect enough faith and burn the accumulated faith into the long steps to ascend to the gods in a short period of time during the grand sacrifice. Step on the long steps and complete the first transformation from mortals to gods.

There is a problem with this step. The faith required for burning does not have a fixed reference but a value without an upper limit. In short, the more faith you have, the better.

And this faith is not the most critical point. The perfect soul, the prosperity of the clan, and the key opportunity are all important factors.

Du Yuan is still far from the step of demigod. There should be no problem with the perfect soul. Since Du Yuan awakened his talent, he can clearly feel that his soul is tending to perfection at a very fast speed.

This process was quick and natural, so Du Yuan was able to meet this requirement very quickly, but the prosperity of the clan was a bit difficult. In the ceremony of ascending to the demigod, at least 10,000 believers had to pray at the same time and pray fervently, so as to outline the appearance of your god in this world.

This kind of ascension ceremony does not require those shaken shallow believers, but those truly devout believers. Ten thousand is the minimum requirement.

And for the group of ratmen in his hands, three ratman believers can be comparable to a standard intelligent race believer, which means that the starting point is 30,000, and this is just the starting point. For the trainee god, the more believers, the better.

However, Du Yuan is not particularly worried about this, because ratmen have no other advantages. The biggest advantage is that they reproduce quickly.

If there is a suitable environment, the population will expand at an unimaginable speed, and it is not difficult to gather 30,000 believers.

But the mysterious opportunity made Du Yuan a little confused, because this is the most vague one among those conditions, according to the description of the teacher of the God Academy.

If you are ready to be promoted to a god, then you should start to pay attention to opportunities. It may be a whim, or it may be vague guidance, a whim decision, or a sudden event.

The teacher mentioned three cases of being promoted to a demigod.

One is that when watching his family building a town, he suddenly had an insight, and then took this opportunity to hold a grand sacrifice for the establishment of the town and successfully promoted.

The second is that after defeating a hostile race, he suddenly grasped the feeling of promotion during the battlefield sacrifice.

The third is that after killing a wandering epic creature, he suddenly had a feeling.

These three opportunities are not related to each other, which makes people confused, but since it is a mysterious feeling, Du Yuan does not think too much, just let it go.

Now the more important thing is the confrontation with Li Sheng.

How should I put it? Even Du Yuan, who allowed his family members to sacrifice blood and rush towards the evil god, still felt a little pain for the consumption of faith.

If Du Yuan could gain 500 faith points through the prayers and sacrifices of the rats in a month, then Du Yuan would have to consume 700 faith points to manually provide for the mushroom farms in the two large caves.

A complete deficit, supported entirely by the accumulated faith before.

Relying on a few bloodstains, Du Yuan now still has 4,000 faith points, and the deficit is 200 per month, which is still manageable.

The accumulated faith is fading every day, but Du Yuan did not act rashly, but let the rats quietly accumulate strength.

The rats also did not waste Du Yuan's investment, and their numbers began to expand rapidly.

With the current food output of the rats, it can feed about 8,000 rats, which is doubled compared to before.

Du Yuan observed that there were about 300 lizardmen at the edge of the forest, about 100 professional warriors inside, and there must be many more entrenched in the depths of the forest. The lizardmen tribe under Li Sheng had a scale of at least 800.

After all, professional warriors do not work and need to be supported. The ability of lizardmen to support warriors must be better than that of humans. It is not as exaggerated as that of humans, where 20 farmers are needed to support one professional soldier.

But seven lizardmen are also needed to support one lizardman warrior.

Du Yuan's ratmen are even more extreme. It is normal for a one-month-old rat to be sent to the battlefield. In the current ratman tribe, there is no particularly clear dividing line between ordinary ratmen, slave rats, and ratmen warriors. The difference comes from the improper rats of white rats and spear rats.