Chapter 234 - 45: Za Sowing Seeds; Bloody Battle on the Plains (Part 2)
Chapter 234 - 45: Za Sowing Seeds; Bloody Battle on the Plains (Part 2)
In these not-so-large oval wooden houses, every now and then a Sha Hua Fishman would emerge.
Clearly, this was a village of Sha Hua Fish People.
Udi recklessly unleashed his Spiritual Power, his High-level Caster Level spiritual power was enough to envelop this not-so-large island.
Soon, Udi filtered out the target he needed, and in a flash of movement,
In an inconspicuous small fishman hut, a young fishman was prying open clams, scraping out the meat, preparing food for the day.
Silently, Udi landed in front of the fishman boy, who was taken aback and then terrified, kneeling down,
"My lord, don’t kill me," the fishman boy trembled, speaking in the language of the Sha Hua Fishman tribe.
Udi, with the Language Mastery Spell passive, could naturally understand what the fishman boy said, but it was precisely because of this that Udi was a bit surprised.
"I thought you would scream and call for your tribe," Udi grinned.
"My lord, because I know if I do that, I will definitely die," the fishman boy trembled, his tone tense.
"Interesting, a good seedling," Udi laughed heartily.
The fishman boy heard the laughter of the mighty Black Scale Dragon Man, feeling nervous and relieved, reminding,
"My lord, doing this might attract other fish people here,"
Udi stopped laughing and said casually, "Don’t worry, I’ve set up a barrier here... Boy, I think you’re not bad, have potential, how about becoming my servant?"
The fishman boy was slightly taken aback, but quickly caught on, knowing he had encountered an opportunity, and without hesitation knelt down, his face excited,
"I am willing!"
Udi emitted a laugh of unclear meaning, his pointed, sharp scale armor fingertip lightly touched, forming a Servant Contract with a drop of blood and a shed old dragon scale, entering the fishman boy’s mind.
"In the future, eat more meat, strive to grow stronger, and develop your fishman tribe," Udi smiled.
Although the fishman boy didn’t understand why the Black Scale Dragon Man in front of him was encouraging him to eat more, hearing that the other wanted him to develop his own tribe made him pause in confusion.
This fishman tribe wasn’t his... No, what the master meant was for him to become the leader of this fishman tribe.
The fishman boy quickly caught on, just as he was about to speak, a severe pain surged from his bloodline and marrow.
The Dragon Vein transformation had begun.
Udi glanced at the fishman youth writhing on the ground, his figure disappeared, appearing in the fishman tribe’s hatchery room, casually leaving some Dragon Blood for the dense cluster of fish eggs to absorb.
Having done this, an Any Gate appeared in front of Udi, and he stepped through, disappearing without a trace, during which the Sha Hua Fishman Warrior standing guard outside the hatchery noticed nothing amiss.
In the next moment, Udi appeared in the sky above, continuing his search for nearby Sha Hua Fishman villages.
For every Sha Hua Fishman village he found, Udi would use his Spiritual Power to roughly filter and select the fish people with reasonable potential, then contract them as his servant followers, before proceeding to the tribe’s hatchery room to scatter the power of the void.
Among his contracted followers, some fish people were as weak as the previous fishman youth, holding low positions within the tribe, while others were not weak, being of Middle Level or even Advanced status, either as the tribe’s strongest warrior, tribal chief, or tide priest.
In a short time, Udi had contracted about a dozen Sha Hua Fish people as followers, and millions of fish eggs had absorbed the faint Void Dragon Blood.
High above the sea, Udi, in his invisible dragon-man form, mused to himself,
"With these seeds, it should be enough."
As a Black Dragon, a Water Attribute True Dragon, how could he not have water element followers?
Previously, due to insufficient strength and the dangerous sea region, Udi had not taken action.
Now, with his strength increased and the continent descending into chaos again, Udi remembered this matter and decided to come to the sea.
"Before becoming a Lord and controlling an Abyssal City, the Abyss is merely a temporary foothold, and without new Material Plane coordinates, it’s only viable to establish a sub-base in the Tal Plane," Udi muttered in his heart.
In the Tal Plane, the sea area covers nearly eighty percent of the world’s area.
To some extent, the resources of the Tal Sea Region far exceed those of the land.
Udi chose to contract with the Sha Hua Fishmen for their enormous potential for war development.
From egg to Sha Hua Fishman with combat power takes only a year, and growing to a competent Sha Hua Fishman Warrior takes six years.
In terms of growth speed, Sha Hua Fishmen can’t match goblins or kobolds, as goblins can gain combat power in a month or two, while kobolds take a bit longer but not by much.
However, in terms of reproductive capability, Sha Hua Fishmen far surpass goblins and the like.
A female Sha Hua Fishman can lay several hundred to several thousand eggs at once, a frightening fertility rate that goblins and kobolds can never match.
Of course, laying so many eggs doesn’t mean that many will mature normally. In Sha Hua Fishman tradition, each tribe has a centralized hatchery where all eggs are uniformly hatched.
Newly hatched Sha Hua Fishman larvae appear only in fish-like forms, without limbs.
Sha Hua Fishmen don’t provide food for these larvae, so they undergo a brutal struggle within the hatchery, growing by fighting and consuming other larvae. During this process, a very few larvae with unstable bloodline genes may mutate, developing into bizarre forms such as four arms, white skins, or with serrated shark heads.
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