"Want to know?"
Baturu looked at all the barbarians who had gathered around him.
"Mmm-hmm,"
Hundreds of thousands nodded in unison, like a group of swaying radishes.
"This is Intelligent Cheat System I've thoughtfully created for you. With this, you'll be as powerful as Heroy, and Heroy's actual strength is less than 10% of what this system provides."
Baturu opened his palm, and a seemingly ordinary soul appeared before all the barbarians.
"Lord Baturu is absolutely right, incredibly powerful, incredibly capable, and utterly invincible."
Just now, Heroy had been fighting ten people at once, patted his chest and assured everyone how powerful this Intelligent Soul Intelligent Soul was. Only those who had experienced it would know how powerful it was; the phrase "transformed to the point of being reborn" was an understatement.
All the barbarians stared at the soul in Baturu's hand, the sound of them swallowing saliva in unison echoing like thunder in a clear sky.
"This Intelligent Soul is incredibly precious; not everyone can obtain it. Only barbarians who have completed all the training courses in the training grounds are qualified to acquire it."
"Now, all you barbarians who have passed through, come forward! I will personally bestow upon you Intelligent Soul, and let you experience what true power is."
The atmosphere had reached its climax, and barbarians, drawn by envious glances, came from all directions, while barbarians further away were also called over by their companions.
Under the watchful eyes of all the barbarians, Baturu slapped Intelligent Soul into the bodies of the barbarians one by one.
The barbarians who had just acquired Intelligent Soul all gaped open, staring in disbelief at everything around them.
Those around them wanted to ask them how they felt, but they were all too stunned to speak and had no time to answer the barbarians' curious questions.
Several barbarians who had just begun communicating with the Intelligent Soul suddenly burst into maniacal laughter.
Regardless of the occasion or how many people were around, they laughed like madmen, with some even drooling without a care for their image, looking exactly like burly men picking their toes!
"If you've had enough, hurry up and come over to thank Lord Baturu. This is the result of Lord Baturu's decades of research to solve the problem of us being unable to learn anything. You should cherish it and be grateful."
Heroy completely and selectively forgot his embarrassing situation when he first came into contact with Intelligent Soul; he was even worse off than these people back then.
But since no one was watching, he could only stand there and reprimand the other barbarians with impunity, using his seniority as a figurehead.
Upon hearing Heroy's reprimand, these barbarians, who had received the Intelligent Soul's message, immediately knelt on one knee before Baturu.
"I swear to serve you to the death."
"Rise, all of you. When you step onto the battlefield in the future, I hope these Intelligent Soul will help you overcome difficulties and conquer everything."
Baturu smiled and raised his hand slightly, gesturing for all the barbarians to rise.
These barbarians, endowed with Intelligent Soul, are the most elite among the barbarians. With Intelligent Soul, their combat power is elevated to a new level. Of course, after being bound to Intelligent Soul, their lives are also bound to the Baturu.
Leo has never helped anyone for free; Intelligent Soul are a form of enslavement!
"My lord, you've always said you want to go to the battlefield. Could you tell us what kind of enemy we'll face?" Heroy noticed that Baturu was in a good mood and asked the question that all barbarians wanted to ask.
Ever since Baturu forced them to study, he has said that war will break out in the future, but he has never said what kind of enemy it will be or where the battlefield will be.
Later, he gave up on letting them study, but then spent a lot of resources making them cultivate, forcing them to improve their strength. All the barbarians could see that Lord Baturu was indeed preparing for war.
But they didn't see any enemies. In the Barbarian World, let alone enemies, even some slightly stronger beasts would obediently lie down and expose their vulnerable bellies when they saw them.
Seeing all the expectant looks in their eyes, Baturu said, "Originally, I was going to tell you when the war started, but since you all want to know now, I'll tell you first so you can be prepared."
"Part of what I had you learn before was about the universe. Has anyone read it carefully?"
They had been looking forward to Baturu talking about war, but when Baturu asked about something they had learned before, half of them immediately lowered their heads, afraid that Baturu's gaze would fall on them. The other half looked confused, not even knowing what the universe was.
"Sigh, you lot, luckily I developed Intelligent Soul, otherwise what future would you have had?"
Baturu once again claimed credit for developing Intelligent Soul, openly criticizing each barbarian.
"In the universe, there are countless worlds of life. Our Barbarian World has reached its limit. We must expand outwards and conquer other worlds. This is the future of us barbarians, and the only way for us to grow stronger."
"If we stay in our own world and never go out to see it, perhaps one day invaders will descend upon our world, and then we will be the ones enslaved."
"There's a lot of profound knowledge here, about the morphology of the universe, life systems, the origin of species, and the sociology of the universe. If you want to study anything, you can ask the Intelligent Soul; they all have good explanations."
As Baturu uttered the words "war," all the barbarians blocked out the last part of his speech, their minds replaying the thought of waging war against other worlds.
"Sir, what time is it? What world is the other side in? I want to be the first to sign up!"
Heroy was so excited when he heard that war was going to be waged against the others that his body turned an unnatural red. Large-scale wars had long since ceased in the Barbarian World, and all battles were limited to a very small area.
Their cultivation and strength improvement are mostly due to the power inherent in their Bloodline, leaving them with great skills but nowhere to use them.
Now, suddenly hearing that a world war is about to break out, it feels as if every bone in my body is making a piercing crackling sound.
"The time will be three years from now. Multiple worlds will wage war, and not only me, but also many gods will participate. This is an opportunity for our Barbarian World, and also for you—an opportunity to become gods, or something else entirely."
Baturu's gaze seemed to have drawn out the most primal desires in the barbarians' hearts; no barbarian could resist such temptation.
They had reached their limit, feeling no room for further growth. The constraints within their bodies were eroding their fighting spirit, as if their lives were destined only for death.
But now Baturu has given them another path: world war!
"Of course, we have too many barbarian warriors, so we can only select the best. The first batch will definitely be barbarians who have undergone training and been awarded Intelligent Soul. You will be able to exert greater power on the otherworldly battlefield and will also be the commanders of the barbarian troops."
"As for those barbarians who don't train hard and aren't strong enough, perhaps once we conquer the world, they'll only be able to follow behind and observe."
Baturu truly mastered the art of manipulating human nature to the extreme, first stirring the blood of every barbarian to boiling point, and then kicking them into an abyss of Ice with a single sentence.
No barbarian could tolerate such differential treatment; they couldn't imagine their comrades walking past them to fight in another world while they could only stand by and watch.
There was no need for further explanation; the barbarians trained like madmen, given that they had only three years to complete all the training courses.
" Baturu does have some tricks up his sleeve. If he can advance to level four in front of all the barbarians, his prestige in the Barbarian World will be unparalleled. Combined with his Intelligent Soul, even if he can't advance to the Supreme Lord level later, he can still get a share of the pie from the Barbarian World."
Leo took in everything that was happening in the Barbarian World, and the smooth progress made Leo nod in satisfaction.
He couldn't accept waiting until he became the Supreme Lord to receive his reward, and his level five advanced intelligence prompted him to start planning his contingency plans ahead of time.
" Atiya has come to report on the situation, and she also brought several children they had with the Water Elf. Do you want to go and see them?" Yaoyao reported as Leo's consciousness returned.
"No need. Leave those children here and let Atiya go back. Tell him that as long as he does his job well, I will not only not make things difficult for him, but I will also continue to support him."
Leo knew why Atiya had come; he was simply afraid that Leo might kill him at any moment, so he seized every opportunity to frantically express his loyalty.
"Since being enslaved, he has hardly had a good night's sleep, living in constant fear of dying silently."
"If he doesn't properly express his loyalty during this once-in-a-decade opportunity to report on his work, he might die of depression," Yaoyao.
"The situation in the Snowfield World and the Black Domain World has stabilized. If he dies, another Snow Elf can take his place."
After Black Soluo wiped out all the demons of the Black Domain World, he used wizarding magic to enslave all the high-ranking Snow Elf during the celebration.
Unbeknownst to the ordinary Snow Elf, their two worlds had already come under Leo's rule.
Leo not only dispatched a large number of Gulu Beast and drone mechs to the area, but also demanded that resources be handed over every ten years.
To verify his initial, impulsive guess, he even sent over the Water Elf he had bought at a low price from Beast Blood Boiling.
They were both elves, and both water-type, so there was no racial barrier between them, and they easily had offspring.
Atiya knew how much Leo valued his descendants, which is why he used the once-every-ten-years offering as an excuse to protect the young descendants of both races, and thus teleported to the Shadow Plane through the Black Vortex.
It's a pity that he didn't even get to see Leo Leo before being casually sent back by him.