With an army of over 3.5 million Gulu Beast, the terrifying image of the Stigmata Wizard commanding countless slaves to conquer one world after another has already begun to emerge!
As for the number of Official Wizard, there are only a few hundred. They are of little use on the main battlefield. Their main role is to coordinate command, follow orders, and use their wisdom to solve unexpected emergencies.
The main force for the offensive is still the Gulu Beast army; the entire campaign plan must be built around them.
Leo practically counted on his fingers what other resources he could still utilize.
Charlotte promised to compensate him with 500,000 level-one mechanical slaves. When Leo asked for this compensation, it was to make up for his lack of strength in the great war.
"Go and compile a list of the gunpowder and laser weapons on New Earth, and conduct attack data tests. We are only conquering a miniature world; 90% of their creatures are below level one in strength. New Earth's weapons can harm them."
"Tell the wizards on Earth to start developing high-rate-of-fire weapons with an attack power of 500 or more."
"The relevant knowledge can be obtained from us, but the materials used in its manufacture can only be sourced from the New Earth."
With his strength too weak and his funds pitifully scarce, Leo could only rack his brains for solutions. The most powerful weapons on the New Earth were naturally hydrogen bombs and nuclear bombs, but Leo did not want to rule a world that had been flattened by nuclear explosions.
Doing so would significantly reduce the benefits. Weapons like nuclear bombs can be used, but only in critical situations and not indiscriminately.
Below nuclear weapons are naturally high-powered missiles such as thermobaric weapons. Unfortunately, the world of the God of Jackals has no satellites, so the missiles cannot be precisely guided and their destination is unknown after launch.
Furthermore, the creatures from another world are not ordinary humans; they can sense danger in advance and avoid it early on.
Given just a little time, they can run several kilometers, making slow-firing weapons like artillery unsuitable.
The best way to deal with them is with weapons that have a fast attack speed and a range of only a few kilometers, so that even if they are fast, you can keep up with them.
Leo's ideal weapon was the close-in weapon system from the warships he used in the Jeft World, with its perfect rate of fire and attack range.
His performance in actual combat in the Jeft World was very good.
Unfortunately, its attack power is a bit low; it doesn't even exceed 300 points, let alone 500, making it unable to handle slightly stronger opponents.
"All Official Wizard currently stationed abroad are hereby ordered to return. Five years from now, we will conquer the other world."
"Order all apprentices to strive for advancement to High-Rank Wizard Apprentice, and tell them that only High-Rank Wizard Apprentice can accompany the main force to conquer the other world."
"Take out all the resources within the academy and distribute them in advance to the High-Rank Wizard Apprentice who are willing to participate in the expedition. After the battle, the value of the resources they consumed will be calculated based on their battle merits."
"For mid- to Low-Level Wizard Apprentice who are willing to participate in the expedition, resources will be allocated to the academy to train them based on their past performance, with the aim of promoting them to High-Rank Wizard Apprentice before the war."
"As for those apprentices who are unwilling to participate in the expedition, cease the supply of resources and do everything possible to support those apprentices who are willing to participate."
"At the same time, cease all other resource consumption by the academy, making way entirely for the conquest of the world war."
" The New Earth Wizard Academy also followed orders, sparing no effort to train High-Rank Wizard Apprentice. For apprentices who did not receive resources, resource supplies would be restored after the other world was conquered."
"Tell everyone that we need to tighten our belts for the next five years. As long as we conquer this world, and have the resources of another world to support us, everyone's efforts will be rewarded many times over."
"Territory, resources, slaves—you can have whatever you want."
"I will put all the personal assets I've accumulated over the years into the academy's treasury, and use them all to train and develop a conquest army."
Leo's series of orders and decisions thrilled Meng Jie, who felt as if he were witnessing the rise of humanity on New Earth.
After Meng Jie left, Leo Xi put all the resources in the Shadow Space, except for some valuable materials, into the academy's warehouse, with a total value of over 500,000 energy crystals.
This money could train tens of thousands of High-Rank Wizard Apprentice within five years, which would mean that they would have tens of thousands more troops when they conquered other worlds.
If there aren't enough Official Wizard, then we'll make up for it with High-Rank Wizard Apprentice!
According to Leo's idea, if these High-Rank Wizard Apprentice were armed with weapons from Earth, they could also unleash powerful strength.
Yaoyao looked at the pitiful academy warehouse with only a few resources. No wonder Leo only used the resources to train High-Rank Wizard Apprentice and stopped the consumption of other projects. He was really too poor. 90% of the warehouse was empty.
"This is the most important moment of our lives. I have some money here, so let's use it to train the army first."
Yaoyao turned around and disappeared. The next second, countless materials appeared in the academy's storeroom.
Leo had always been curious about Yaoyao's secret stash of treasures, wondering how much she had secretly collected over the past thousand years.
What Leo saw was,
The Black Tomb World contains the Eyeless Spider corpse, along with a large quantity of energy metal ore; the Rota World contains broken metal golems; and the Giant World contains energy crystals and various precious medicinal herbs...
You can find similar materials here for any world that has been conquered by Yaoyao.
Leo looked closely and saw that the item Yaoyao took out was even more valuable than his, reaching almost 600,000 energy crystals.
600,000 energy crystals—this is a godsend for the currently impoverished academy!
Is there any left?
Seeing Yaoyao return, Leo asked with a smile.
"It's all gone, everything's gone. Even the mice that entered my little treasure chest are coming out crying." Yaoyao looked at the things in the storeroom, heartbroken. She had painstakingly collected everything bit by bit, and every single item held her hard-earned memories.
"It's alright, I'll make it up to you double when we become successful."
Leo patted Yaoyao. With these materials, he could train another 100,000 troops, which would increase his chances of winning the war by several percentage points.
Having just emerged from the academy's storeroom, Leo arrived at the Green Cottage within the academy in the next second.
Charlotte was a member of Green Cottage and obeyed its Green Cottage, but Leo could only consider Charlotte's actions as her own and dared not implicate Green Cottage.
Like the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard, Green Cottage was also an entity he couldn't afford to offend. After all, behind Green Cottage was the Tower of Elements Supreme Lord, and anyone in the entire Wizard World who knew this would dare to offend Green Cottage.
Don't even mention that he's just a Level Three Great Wizard; even Stigmata Wizard would have to pretend to be deaf and dumb in the face of such a thing.
"A loan, a loan in my name."
The first thing to do is to raise money. The college can no longer borrow money from Green Cottage, so Leo has to borrow in his own name.
"Dean, Vice Dean Charlotte already took out a loan in your name when she was still here, so you can't get an energy crystal from Green Cottage now," the manager of Green Cottage said apologetically to Leo Xi.
"Since you're here today, Dean, could you please repay the interest that the academy owes this year? It's overdue for more than sixty days."
"..."
Leo never expected that instead of getting a single penny, he would be pressured to repay the money.
Although there is the New Earth and a vast territory, the academy's expenses are outrageous. Just looking at the more than five million apprentices and the more than three million Gulu Beast, one can imagine how much money Leo has burned through here.
At this point, the college was already in serious deficit, with debts exceeding 300%, and was on the verge of bankruptcy.
However, Leo showed no sign of stopping and continued to burn money.
"No money? Once I conquer that world, I'll have the money to pay you back." Leo stood up straight with an air of self-righteousness, displaying the shameless behavior of someone who owes money and refuses to pay, completely lacking the sophisticated demeanor of Legendary Great Wizard.
"..."
This time, it was the Green Cottage manager's turn to be speechless. It was the first time he had ever seen someone so blunt about not paying back debts.
"Give me a thousand reconnaissance robots," Leo threw out two golden dragon scales. He didn't have a single energy crystal left; he had put them all in the academy's warehouse to train apprentices, so he could only use these relatively precious materials to buy them.
Thanks to the golden dragon Hadesang, he saved Leo's last shred of dignity!
reconnaissance robot
As the name suggests, it is used for reconnaissance. The images that Leo saw on the mothership before each expedition were intelligence transmitted back by the reconnaissance robots.
This is a robot specially developed by wizards to gather information from other worlds.
Leo currently knows nothing about the world of the God of Jackals and must first use a reconnaissance robot to investigate.
Only by striving to have a thorough understanding of the world of the God of Jackals, and knowing both oneself and one's enemy, can one minimize casualties on one's own side.
The reason he shamelessly begged the Mountain Range Guardian for help was to gain the time to prepare over the next few years.
The shopkeeper of Green Cottage kept testing the dragon scales' attributes, and after tinkering for several hours, he respectfully handed a wizard's ring to Leo.
Smiling, he said to Leo, "Dean, these are a thousand reconnaissance robots and their accompanying intelligence-gathering devices."
"If Dean has any other high-grade, rare materials like these, you can hand them over to us for processing; they can be used to offset the loan!"
Seeing that the materials Leo casually pulled out were so high-quality, the manager of Green Cottage immediately changed his attitude, transforming from a debt-collecting jerk into a warm and welcoming shopkeeper.
"When I have the money, I will definitely pay you all off in one go."