Feng Chou took advantage of the opening of divinity to the rules and used his perception to explore the rules of the world corresponding to divinity. He found that it was very easy to go deep into the rules of the world.
Feng Chou used the method of a monk to extract the "Advanced Tracking Spell" from the divinity of tracking.
However, Feng Chou found that when he left the authority bestowed by divinity, the effect of the Advanced Tracking Spell was not as powerful as he imagined. It was just an upgraded version of the ordinary tracking spell. Perhaps some of the divine spells bestowed by the gods who had the domain of tracking to high-level priests included this spell.
Spells extracted from other divinities also had similar characteristics. For example, some of the spells he extracted from the divinity of slaughter were very similar to some of the death spells of the necromancers.
Without the authority bestowed by divinity, even if mortals understood the rules, they could not pry too much power.
Spellcasters without divinity prying the rules was like moving things. How much power (mental power) you had was how much you could move. When you had divinity, casting spells was like directing things to move. How much you could direct depended on how much authority you had.
Both pry the same rules, but the results obtained were completely different!
In the next few years of conquering and plundering, Feng Chou obtained a lot of divinities, including the divinities of strength, hunting, killing, thunder, storm, death, and so on. There were also some new divinities, such as the sun, weather, soul, and life.
Through studying divinity, Feng Chou found a way to use and make artifacts.
To make artifacts, you first had to make a magic equipment that was the same as the domain of divinity. With a magic weapon of the same domain, it would be easier to inject divinity into it.
The amount of divinity a artifact could contain depended on the depth of the rules contained in the artifact itself and the material of the artifact.
For the former, it could be understood that the rules contained in the magic weapon were like a water bag, and divinity was like water. The size of the water bag could only hold as much water as it could. If you filled more, the bag would burst.
The requirements of the artifact's material came from the pressure of the artifact itself when the artifact released its power. If the material of the artifact itself was not tough enough, it would be destroyed after a certain number of times.
Using a divine artifact was even simpler. You either had the same kind of divinity, or you had mastered the same kind of rules.
Feng Chou perceived the corresponding rules through the Sun Staff and soon extracted some of the rules in the Sun Domain. He planned to turn some of the spells into seals, such as "Scorching Sun Explosion", "Burning Sun in the Sky", and "Eternal Blaze".
"Scorching Sunburst" was a Level 8 AoE spell. It could create a violent explosion at a specific location. The explosion's shockwave carried blazing heat and boiling positive energy!
"Scorching Sun in the Sky" was a terrifying level 9 spell. This spell could summon a dazzling sun. This sun would cover a certain area with a high temperature that could melt stone. The positive energy was so strong that it was suffocating. At the same time, the dazzling light it produced would blind all light-sensitive creatures.
Apart from the spellcaster and his designated people, no one could survive under such blazing sunlight.
Eternal Blaze was a legendary spell, and an extremely difficult one at that. It was the signature spell of Elemental Lord, a legendary profession.
In Feng Chou's eyes, Eternal Blaze was the otherworldly magic version of an atomic bomb!
The principle of the spell was to create an extreme environment with a Level 9 spell and inject the four elements into the environment at the same time, triggering a terrifying polymerization reaction and releasing the most intense energy.
Discovering that "Eternal Blaze", a legendary spell that was necessary to advance into Arcana Lord, could be directly learned through the Sun Staff, Feng Chou simply studied the files of Elemental Lord together. By verifying the two, it was possible that he could grasp "Eternal Blaze", a legendary spell that baffled most Elemental Lords, and the Sun Staff while he advanced into Elemental Lord!
In the next few years, Feng Chou explored the corresponding rules with the Sun Staff and studied the files of the legendary class "Elemental Lord". With the support of his 65 points of intelligence, he made rapid progress.
In the meantime, the conquest of the islands in the southeast of the Mediterranean Sea went on in an orderly way.
The conquest began with Qiankun Pagoda's oracle. Qiankun Pagoda would issue detailed orders according to the terrain of the target area, including how many cavalrymen, how many infantrymen, and whether warships were needed …
After the troops were mobilized, Qiankun Pagoda would report the details of the target to the commander of the troops and the staff camp. The staff camp would deduce and formulate a battle plan, which would be approved by the commander of the troops.
The approved battle plan would be returned to the staff camp, and the staff camp would make short-term targeted training and acting plans according to the battle plan.
The preparation period for each conquest would be around three months. With the support of the Universe Tower's airlift and the principle of a lion hunting a rabbit, the battle would usually only take one or two months to complete.
After the battle, the troops would take turns to rest.
After ten years of battles, the human tribes on the islands in the southeast of the Mediterranean Sea were basically cleaned up by Feng Chou.
In these ten years, Feng Chou not only gained a large number of people, but also completed the construction and perfection of the military system.
Feng Chou divided the military under his command into navy and army. The navy implemented the fleet system, which meant that the fleet commander had the overall military and political power of the fleet.
The army implemented the staff camp system, which meant that the mobilization and command of the army belonged to the staff camp, which did not have the authority to directly lead the army.
In the army, the highest officer who directly led the army was the legion commander, and a legion had between three to five thousand people.
Although there were generals and marshals above the legion commander, these were only temporary positions during wartime. Usually, these senior officers were stuffed into the staff camp as the chief of staff or deputy chief of staff. Only during wartime would the staff camp appoint generals or marshals according to the scale of the war.
During wartime, generals would normally command three to five legions, marshals would command several generals and more than ten legions.
When the war ended, generals or marshals would return to the staff camp.
The highest authority in the staff camp was the joint chiefs of staff.
In order to balance the military, Feng Chou also established the Ministry of National Defense, which oversaw the logistics of the military.
The reason why the army was balanced step by step and the navy was because the navy's combat power mostly relied on ships, and once the navy went ashore, their combat power would be greatly reduced, so the navy was less of a threat to the regime. The army was different, and if there was a mutiny, the consequences would be unimaginable. Therefore, Feng Chou planned ahead and set up such a military system.
After ten years of plundering, the population of Hunter Island had reached around five hundred thousand.