Huge Resource Shortfall

With the gains from Chaos World added in, the number of mid- and high-order mages in Mage World had actually been increasing at dozens of times the previous rate.

However, growth on this scale rested upon World Ranch. Yet worlds grew extremely slowly. Even with Mage World raising them on an industrial scale, after the first batch had been harvested, subsequent output would decline and remain at a relatively stable level.

Every world was a bottomless pit. Raising worlds consumed countless times more resources than raising gods.

Beyond that, it had also brought a controllable natural disaster: Greenskins. What others saw as a calamity could instead be put to use by Mage World.

Greenskins were also excellent experimental material and a source of troop replenishment for mages.

Of course, that was limited to Necromancers. Other mages would not dare incorporate Greenskins into their legions. A natural disaster was still a natural disaster. Unless they wanted their legions fighting every day, they had better not add Greenskins to them.

Moreover, Greenskins could reproduce on their own. Add a few Greenskins today, and tomorrow you would reap a whole heap of them. In the end, you might not be able to afford to feed them at all.

Not to mention the crucial Life-Extinguishing Sword Qi. Every high-order mage now had a share of it, and everyone who had used it said it was good.

Furthermore, Life-Extinguishing Sword Qi solved the issue of the upper limit for many mages other than Mechanical Mages and Necromancers. In other words, when trapped at a bottleneck, their strength would no longer improve as slowly as before. Like Necromancers, they could now accumulate power laterally.

The combat strength of Peak Sixth Order mages would no longer be limited to the Sixth Order. Even if they could not