Planting a Greenskin, Harvesting a Horde of Orks

Chen Changhe replaced the Humanoid Core (Mushroom) originally installed in his Divine Domain Core with the Heart of the Orks.

His Divine Domain Core was only level 1 and could only equip a single level 1 Sacred Relic.

"What a shame. I've already used Growth Acceleration."

He could not use it again today.

Most divine abilities used by gods had a one-day cooldown.

This day did not refer to a day within the Divine Domain.

It referred to one day in Blue Star time.

One day on Blue Star was equivalent to one year in the Divine Domain.

And that was only under normal conditions.

Many gods used Sacred Relics to accelerate the flow of time within their Divine Domains, thereby gaining more time to develop them.

However, such Sacred Relics were mostly exorbitantly expensive.

Chen Changhe could not afford them.

Chen Changhe hovered above the Divine Domain, looking at the Humanoid Core (Mushroom) in his hand.

A few months ago, he had even sold his ancestral home to buy this Sacred Relic.

Fortunately, through his own efforts during this period, he had bought the house back and earned 600 Divine Power.

To many of his classmates, 600 Divine Power was merely pocket change.

But to Chen Changhe, it was a vast sum of money.

To obtain Orks, he had to wait for the mushrooms in the Divine Domain to reproduce naturally.

That would take some time.

Chen Changhe simply logged out of the Divine Domain and headed to the trading market.

He sold the Mushroom Resource Divine Card he had made earlier, along with the Humanoid Core (Mushroom).

He then bought materials to raise the level of his Divine Domain Core.

By the time he returned home and logged into the Divine Domain again, two hours had passed.

Two hours outside meant a month had passed within the Divine Domain.

As expected, Chen Changhe saw a large group of Orks appearing in the Divine Domain.

They were short creatures resembling Gnomes.

Snot streamed endlessly from their noses as they ran across the ground.

"Waaagh!"

These were Snotlings, a subspecies within the Ork ecosystem.

They stood less than half a meter tall and occupied the absolute bottom rung of Ork society.

"So, a level 1 Sacred Relic can only transform them into Snotlings..."

Chen Changhe was somewhat disappointed.

Compared to true Orks, Snotlings were inferior by far.

He opened the status panel for a Snotling.

[Snotling: Core Kin]

[Kin Talents: Rapid Reproduction, Fungal Cultivation, Spore Reproduction]

[Faith Level: True Believer]

[Power of Faith: 3/100 days]

"3 per 100 days? That's a lot!"

And they started out as True Believers.

These Orks were highly worth cultivating.

Chen Changhe watched the Snotlings in the Divine Domain cultivate mushrooms while shouting "Waaagh!" and hacking some of their companions into chunks, tossing them into freshly dug pits like mushroom spores.

Before long, huge numbers of Ork Mushrooms sprouted from the places where the corpses had been buried.

Beneath the mushrooms, Ork Eggs were rapidly growing.

"..."

Chen Changhe finally understood how they had managed to breed so many Snotlings in such a short time.

"This reproduction speed... what kind of kin could compare to it?"

"Others breed their troops."

"I plant mine straight into the ground!"

"It actually... doesn't seem too bad."

"I just wonder how capable they are in battle."

But even if their combat power was terrible, wouldn't these numbers make up for it?

In the Warhammer Universe, Snotlings and Gretchin had once achieved victories in rebellions against proper Orks.

Chen Changhe suddenly saw a Snotling shout "Waaagh!" as it snapped off one of its own fingers and tossed it into a pit before burying it.

Before the pit had even been fully filled, the wound on the Snotling's body had completely healed, and a slightly shorter finger had grown back.

"With recovery speed like that... even Elite Lifeforms might not compare, right?"

Chen Changhe could not help but break out in a cold sweat.

But immediately afterward, that smug Snotling showing off was smashed into pulp by several of its own kind with Stones, then buried across dozens of pits.

"What a barbaric race."

From above the Divine Domain, Chen Changhe watched it all.

Orks were like this: barbaric, bloody, and utterly fearless.

Otherwise, why would they be called the cancer of the galaxy?

Sunlight shone down on the pits, and the corpse fragments rapidly grew into a vast patch of Ork Mushrooms.

New Ork Eggs grew beneath every patch of Ork Mushrooms.

Once they matured, the Ork Eggs would crack open, and the creatures inside would crawl out as new Orks.

"Check the status panel!"

Chen Changhe opened his status panel.

[Name]: Chen Changhe

[Age]: 18

[Current Realm]: Divine Being

[Core Kin]: Mushrooms, Orks

[Divine Name]: Mushroom God

[Godhead]: None

[Divinity]: 1

[Divine Domain Core]: Level 1

[Divine Domain Area]: 10 square kilometers (50% plains, 30% mountains, 20% lakes)

[Kin Population]: 10 billion ordinary mushrooms, 50,000 Orks (Snotlings)

[Faith Value]: 98,711

[Divine Power Balance]: 170

[Equipped Sacred Relic]: Heart of the Orks, level 1 Sacred Relic. Once equipped in the Divine Domain Core, there is a certain chance that mushroom-type kin will transform into Orks during reproduction.

[Divine Arts]: None

[Divine Artifacts]: None

[Divine Abilities]: Growth Acceleration, Life Sacrifice (Unique).]

He had not realized it until he looked. Once he did, he was shocked.

"Didn't I only have 300 million mushroom kin left after the sacrifice?"

"They've grown to 10 billion so quickly?"

It seemed to be the effect of the Snotlings' Fungal Cultivation ability.

This was an absolute godsend for agriculture.

The Mushroom Men had all disappeared.

Chen Changhe did not even need to ask why.

"They were definitely all chopped into pieces by these Snotlings and buried underground."

Mushroom Men were not Orks.

Once chopped to death, they could no longer reproduce.

"These little things are really dangerous..."

He needed to properly knock some sense into them.

Otherwise, if Chen Changhe introduced new kin, there was a high chance these fellows would ruin them.

If he could not handle them, even his avatar might descend only to find these idiots plotting to bury him.

"They need to understand."

"Other than Orks, no one is allowed to be buried in the ground!"

"And... Mushroom God doesn't seem like a suitable divine name anymore..."

Now that he had Orks as a brand-new core kin.

Chen Changhe would inevitably abandon his original mushroom kin in the future.

In the Warhammer World setting, Orks worshipped two identical gods called Gork and Mork. Gork was said to be "brutal but cunning," while Mork was "cunning but brutal."

"Whether it's Gork or Mork, I don't like either name."

"With Orks as my core kin, I'll definitely have to follow the path of war in the future..."

"Then... should I change my divine name to God of War?"

"Simple, direct, and clearly fitting."

Every Divine Being had one free chance to change their divine name.

However, few people used that opportunity casually.

The choice of divine name directly affected the efficiency with which a god obtained Power of Faith.

Chen Changhe chose to change it without hesitation.

The moment his divine name changed, all of his kin received the information.

The Power of Faith provided by the ordinary mushroom kin to Chen Changhe fell sharply.

But the Power of Faith provided by the Snotlings directly increased by one-third.

"Waaagh! God of War!"

"God of War is here! Grant us divine war! We are willing to become the warriors of the God of War and Waaagh together!"

"Kill them! Take them down in the name of the God of War!"

To celebrate.

The wildly excited Snotlings once again began a civil war.

They paired off and slaughtered one another, limbs constantly falling to the ground.

Most of those severed limbs would turn into spores and complete another round of reproduction.

This beloved activity was their favorite pastime.

Chen Changhe watched the Snotlings, uncertain whether he should stop their underhanded antics.

The scene was too bloody for him to bear watching.

"But... the Snotling population has increased again."

"In such a short time, they've reached 100,000."

After all, the genes flowing through Orks were filled with a love of battle.

Forcibly stopping them would only cause their faith to decline.

In the end, Chen Changhe chose to turn a blind eye.

"But when the chance comes, I should still send them out to fight other people's kin."

What skill was there in always hacking at their own people?

Since he had chosen God of War as his divine name, his divine arts and divine office should develop in that direction.

Otherwise, he would not be able to condense a War Godhead.

Chen Changhe fed all the consumable materials he had bought to the Divine Domain Core.

He successfully raised the Divine Domain Core to level 2.

After the Divine Domain Core leveled up, the area of the Divine Domain also increased substantially.

It reached thirty square kilometers.

[Divine Domain Area]: 30 square kilometers (60% plains, 30% mountains, 10% lakes)