Life Sacrifice, Orks

Chen Changhe's body vanished from the landing pod and was ushered into his Divine Domain.

Through a god's-eye view, Chen Changhe could overlook the entire Divine Domain.

Every corner of the Divine Domain, apart from the lakes, was covered in mushrooms.

Besides mushrooms of all sizes, there were also little people with mushroom heads busily at work.

They constantly harvested mushrooms, packed up the harvested ones, and never showed the slightest sign of fatigue.

With a casual swipe, Chen Changhe pulled up the attribute description of a Mushroom Kin.

[Mushroom: Core Kin]

[Kin Talent: Rapid Reproduction]

[Faith Level: Universal Believer (Mushrooms possess no intelligence and are eternally fixed at the Universal Believer faith level). (Faith levels are divided into Universal Believer, True Believer, Devout Believer, Fanatic Believer, and Saint)]

[Power of Faith: one hundred-millionth/100 days]

"Other than being numerous and growing quickly, they're useless..."

The permanently fixed Universal Believer faith level limited mushrooms' prospects as kin that could provide Power of Faith.

Even animal kin such as locusts could provide hundreds of times more Power of Faith than this.

And locusts could also raise their faith level.

Even if they merely became True Believers.

The amount of Power of Faith they provided would increase dramatically.

Not to mention that, as ordinary plants, mushrooms had no combat ability whatsoever.

Although some poisonous mushrooms contained deadly toxins.

They had no ability to move.

No matter how toxic they were, it was useless.

Other people's kin were not idiots. They would not grab poisonous mushrooms and chew on them like mad.

Not to mention their opponents' gods could control their kin remotely.

Such an absurd mishap could never happen.

Therefore, the only use for these kin was to be sold as resources.

Chen Changhe's main source of income came from purchasing and reselling mushrooms.

Some Divine Beings needed mushrooms to feed their kin.

Chen Changhe efficiently turned the mushrooms packed by the Mushroom Men into resource cards and stored them away.

He planned to take them to the market and sell them later.

Live off the mountain if you live by the mountain; live off the water if you live by the water.

As the Mushroom God, all he could do was sell mushrooms.

These Mushroom Men had been transformed by Chen Changhe using the Humanoid Core.

Compared to ordinary mushrooms, Mushroom Men were much stronger and provided considerably more Power of Faith.

However, they still used the Ordinary Lifeform template, and were the frail, combat-incapable kind at that.

They could only carry out agricultural activities within the Divine Domain.

Once battle broke out, their combat power would be infinitely close to zero.

Suddenly, Chen Changhe thought of something, and his eyes widened.

"No... When I logged in, it seemed like the attribute panel showed an additional divine ability called Life Sacrifice."

"And it was a unique divine ability."

Had he seen it wrong?

Or...

He hurriedly opened his attribute panel and clicked the entry to view its detailed description.

Life Sacrifice: Sacrifice the lives of creatures in exchange for products of equal value. The exchanged products are generated randomly during the sacrifice. (Can be used once per day.)

"This is..."

"My golden finger?"

"My golden finger finally showed up?"

When he had been at his weakest and most desperate, a door had finally opened beside him.

Chen Changhe had waited eighteen years. Just as he was ready to give up and coast through life, the door finally opened.

Chen Changhe was so happy he nearly jumped up.

Eighteen years!

Did anyone know how he had spent those eighteen years?

"I knew it! How could I, a transmigrator, possibly not have a golden finger?"

He wondered whether it came with a system too...

Chen Changhe called out for quite a while, but no one responded.

He could only accept the fact that he did not have a system attached to him.

"Fortunately, this Life Sacrifice golden finger is powerful enough."

"With such a heaven-defying golden finger, as long as I work hard, I'll definitely become a powerful god."

Chen Changhe first activated another of his divine abilities—Growth Acceleration.

Growth Acceleration: Infuse Divine Power to accelerate the growth rate of creatures within the Divine Domain. The effect depends on the amount of Divine Power Points infused. (Can be used once per day.)

Divine abilities were equivalent to the innate talents of Divine Beings.

This talent had contributed immensely to Chen Changhe's ability to increase the Mushroom Kin population to 13 billion in less than a year.

This time, Chen Changhe directly infused 10 Divine Power Points.

Life energy throughout the Divine Domain surged dramatically, and all kin entered a phase of rapid growth.

They grew, reproduced, and multiplied without end.

The ordinary Mushroom Kin population reached 20.3 billion.

The number of Mushroom Men also reached 3,000.

"Ten Divine Power Points. Each point requires one million units of Power of Faith to condense."

Normally, Chen Changhe would never have been so extravagant.

Using 10 Divine Power Points only increased the ability's effect by roughly two times compared with using the minimum of 1 Divine Power Point.

But he could not afford to worry about that now.

"The moment of miracles begins now—"

"Life Sacrifice!"

The divine ability activated, and an enormous blood-red magic formation appeared above the Divine Domain.

He directly sacrificed 20 billion ordinary Mushroom Kin. Their bodies dissolved into specks of nothingness, while their life energy was absorbed into the blood-red magic formation.

In an instant, the blood-red magic formation released a dazzling radiance.

The sacrifice was complete, and three options appeared before Chen Changhe.

Option One: 30,000 Gnoll warriors, Elite Lifeforms.

Option Two: Abyss Recruitment Scroll ×1

Abyss Recruitment Scroll: A reward bestowed by the ruler of the Abyss. It can be used to recruit a Hero Unit from the Abyss to serve you.

Option Three: Level 1 Sacred Relic, Heart of the Orks. After being loaded into the Divine Domain Core, it grants a certain chance of transforming mushroom-type kin into Orks during reproduction.

Without hesitation, Chen Changhe chose the third option.

Thirty thousand Elite Lifeform Gnoll warriors were quite good.

As far as he knew, none of his classmates possessed that many Elite Lifeforms yet.

And Gnoll warriors were powerful fighters.

But Chen Changhe could not afford to support that many Gnoll warriors.

The Abyss Recruitment Scroll was also very good.

Hero Units were special kin. They were smarter and more powerful.

With the same level and template, Hero Units were roughly dozens or even hundreds of times stronger than ordinary kin.

A Hero Unit with an Ordinary Lifeform template could effortlessly crush a group of ordinary kin with Elite Lifeform templates.

Not to mention one from the Abyss.

Everyone knew that anything produced by the Abyss was bound to be top quality.

But Chen Changhe also knew.

The vast majority of Hero Units from the Abyss were professional traitors.

Backstabbing was standard procedure for them.

Even if he recruited one as a Hero Unit, his current strength would be insufficient to suppress it.

"Besides..."

"Option Three is Orks!"

Orks, Greenskins, were a fictional intelligent race from the tabletop wargames Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy.

Legend had it that Orks were created by two gods.

Their genetic material consisted of a plant helix and an animal helix.

This gave them tough green skin capable of photosynthesis, as well as the most important trait of all—an asexual means of reproduction—while allowing them to think and act freely like animals.

"Strictly speaking... Orks are also special half-fungus, half-beastfolk beings."

In the Warhammer World setting, Orks were the most brutal and warlike race in the Milky Way Galaxy.

As biological weapons, Orks reproduced through spores.

When their hair and skin flakes fell into the ground, given the right conditions, those "seeds" would begin growing things that resembled shiitake mushrooms...

And eggs would grow beneath those mushrooms, with new Orks inside those eggs.

Furthermore, Orks possessed the peculiar "Ork Believe-It Power."

This ability manifested as "Probability Distortion," twisting the probability of events that were originally infinitely close to zero toward 100%.

Ork Believe-It Power was a force born as long as Orks generally believed in something. It was a typical power of subjective belief.

For example, as long as Orks all believed that dear readers would eagerly bookmark and vote for this book, its bookmarks and votes would keep increasing.

As long as Orks generally believed that the red carp in "red carp and green carp and red carp" swam faster.

Then it would very likely become reality.

That was the tyrannical aspect of Ork Believe-It Power. As long as all Orks believed you could do it, you really could.