Assessment? No Rush, Let's Pick Some Wool First

Three days passed quickly.

Shan Mu had been keeping an eye on Chen Changhe's ranking.

Zheng Dongfeng had not granted anyone else permission to observe the students' assessment progress.

He merely announced the students' real-time rankings to each homeroom teacher every day.

And he only announced the top ten.

Shan Mu had assumed that Chen Changhe would surely be far ahead of everyone else.

Yet to his surprise, Chen Changhe's name was nowhere to be seen in the top ten.

"What happened to that kid?"

"With such powerful followers, how could he possibly fail to make the top ten?"

Chen Changhe wanted to ask Zheng Dongfeng about it.

But Zheng Dongfeng never gave him a direct answer.

He only told Shan Mu that this failure was a good thing for Chen Changhe.

On the Trial Plane, on Ork Island.

Chen Changhe had officially named this deserted island Ork Island.

The mine at the very center of the island had already been excavated clean.

It had now become a temporary base.

All the ore had been transported into Chen Changhe's Divine Domain.

These three days had not been wasted either.

He had been studying the sealing techniques for Resource Divine Cards.

He could now personally complete the sealing of troop units.

In three days,

he completed three Life Sacrifices.

However, he did not directly obtain any item capable of solving his problem.

Of the three Life Sacrifices,

one gave him the chance to directly raise his Divine Domain Core to level seven.

Once the Divine Domain Core reached level seven,

Chen Changhe's Divine Domain expanded to 1,500 square kilometers.

In terms of area alone, it was already comparable to a miniature plane.

The second Life Sacrifice rewarded him with a divine spell.

Divine Spell: Divine Grace. Bestow the power and wisdom of a god, making your followers' attacks more accurate and lethal while reducing damage taken by 25%.

This was a divine spell with multiple effects.

It was said that this spell had first been used by gods of the Elven pantheon, though at some point, all gods began using it.

However, the effects of divine spells varied across different divine systems.

Compared with the popular versions, the Divine Grace spell Chen Changhe obtained was far more powerful.

It could grant followers courage, patience, ferocity, and perseverance.

It was an extremely practical reward, but unfortunately, it was difficult for it to change Chen Changhe's current predicament.

For the third sacrifice, the option he received was to advance one follower into a Hero Unit.

Chen Changhe chose the Gretchin Ork, Long Nose.

[Long Nose (Hero)]

[Race: Gretchin Orks]

[Rank: Epic]

[Loyalty: 100 (Absolute Loyalty)]

[Hero Aura: Wisdom Aura]

[Hero Talent: Great Inventor]

[Hero Skills: Basic Manufacturing, Flexible Arms, Calm Thinking, Rapid Manufacturing]

The Wisdom Aura could double the comprehension of allied targets within its range.

It was usually of little use, but when learning or inventing things, the effect of this aura was downright heaven-defying.

The Great Inventor Hero Talent increased the quality of technological products made by Long Nose by fifty percent.

Basic Manufacturing, Flexible Arms, Calm Thinking, and Rapid Manufacturing were all passive skills.

These skills granted Long Nose extraordinary practical ability.

For example, right now,

Long Nose was directing a group of Gretchin Orks to assemble a massive steel warship.

Orks were not stupid.

This race possessed powerful abilities in imitation, learning, and even creation.

In the Warhammer World setting, Orks had created many technological constructs that even astonished humans, such as teleportation systems, Dimensional Shock Cannons, Battle Moons, and more.

They were the Warhammer version of a warrior race. Though their inventions were ramshackle, terrible, and cobbled together from mismatched parts,

they still worked remarkably well.

Naturally, Chen Changhe's Orks did not possess such accumulated intelligence.

But Long Nose, having become a Hero Unit, gained an unimaginable talent for invention.

Chen Changhe had merely described a few basic concepts of an iron warship.

Within half a day, Long Nose had completed the blueprint.

Parts were forged one after another in the Divine Domain, then transported to the deserted island for assembly.

Before long, an incredibly bizarre-looking steel ship appeared by the shore.

Because there was not much iron ore available,

only the outer hull was made of steel, while most of it was built from ordinary wood.

Still, it had every necessary component and used steam propulsion.

Its main power source consisted of four enormous boilers, each three meters in diameter.

A huge array of pistons supplied power to every part of the ship.

However, aside from this propulsion system, it also had a design powered by Snotling Orks.

At any time, it could rely on Snotling Orks rowing oars to sail.

The ship was thirty meters long, six meters wide, and roughly five meters high.

Its deck was piled full of rubble.

Its primary offensive force was a large group of Snotling Orks wielding Goblin Horn Guns.

Long Nose had modified the Goblin Horn Guns. Compared with the previous version, they had greater range, a faster firing rate, and more powerful bullets.

These Snotling Orks had all undergone training for some time.

Their shooting might not have been perfectly accurate, but it was already quite good.

"Finally, I can leave this damned island..."

Chen Changhe sighed.

He led several thousand Snotling Orks aboard the steel warship.

They lit the steam engines and sailed toward the depths of the ocean.

Though Fishmen occasionally approached the island over the past few days,

their numbers had been very small.

So far, he had only completed half of the mission's 3,000-kill requirement.

"But that doesn't matter..."

"Once we officially enter the ocean, those Fishmen won't be able to stay away..."

Chen Changhe did not abandon the island.

Instead, he used it as a temporary development base and stationed a large number of Orks there.

The island's iron mine had already been exhausted.

But there were still other resources.

Even if things came to the worst,

smashing up the rocks on the island and hauling them back to the Divine Domain would still be worthwhile.

The island was not small.

It could yield quite a bit of soil and gravel.

To Chen Changhe,

even ordinary soil and gravel were resources that could be put to use.

He would pluck every feather from a passing goose and scrape the ground three feet deep.

Opportunities to profit like this were rare.

He had no intention of wasting one.

"Isn't this kid just too greedy?"

Watching all this from the outside world, Zheng Dongfeng's blood pressure nearly shot through the roof.

Chen Changhe was good in every way.

He just loved picking wool too much.

He even wanted the worthless rocks on the island.

However, Zheng Dongfeng also noticed that the number of Snotling Orks Chen Changhe had deployed was far greater than twenty thousand.

"Generally speaking, no matter how valuable the followers are, it's impossible for every single one of them to become a soldier."

"Chen Changhe can deploy over twenty thousand of these Goblins."

"Then the total population he actually controls must be at least fifty or sixty thousand."

"This kid's follower population is pretty huge..."

Zheng Dongfeng did not know

that Chen Changhe's follower population had long since exceeded thirty million.

In terms of follower numbers alone,

Chen Changhe surpassed the vast majority of the school's Demigod teachers.

Even compared with Zheng Dongfeng himself,

the difference was negligible.

Of course, in terms of combat strength,

the current Snotling Orks were still far inferior to Zheng Dongfeng's followers.

After all, Divine Beings and gods were already two entirely different species.