Soul of Burning Steel

Starfall 841, April 16, 7:35 p.m., the void surrounding Mycroft's world.

In the Holy Mountain Fortress, Pope Igor of the Seven Gods stood at the observation window, silently watching the Void Battleship 'Intrepid' not far away slowly pass through the observation range of the Holy Mountain Fortress, flying towards the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Field go.

Now, replacing the elemental life that Barnier temporarily shaped, the battleship Intrepid, equipped with 5,000 elite crew members and more than 500 superhumans, is running smoothly. Long-distance teleportation experiments.

In this regard, all the crew members and the accompanying Transcendents were extremely excited, because this was the first time in the history of the Mycroft civilization in the Starfall Era that they drove a huge ship dedicated to void warfare to conduct an expedition to a distant place. Drill, no matter who can join this historic scene will feel the blood boil.

"What a group of energetic kids."

The old pope smiled and watched the battleship gradually leave, out of the range of his conventional observation organs. The old man nodded slightly, turned around, and sat back behind his desk.

On the polished red hardwood desk, there were several reports with different fonts and different printing materials. Eagle picked up these reports and began to read them.

"Northern Hergamos Empire, Starfall 826 census report...except for the northern region, the central part of the empire, which has almost all suitable living zones, and the total population of the south is about 110 million, and the population growth in 826 The rate is close to 10%, which is as high as 9.7%.”

The old man squinted his eyes and scanned every line of the report—the population of the Northern Empire was growing rapidly, which should be due to policy-related reasons. At that time, the empire was still engaged in wars between orcs. The orcs crushed. And even with the continuous bloody wars with the orcs, in 41 years now, the total population of the empire has more than doubled to an astonishing 250 million.

The 250 million is the total population of the central and southern regions of the empire today. There are still some ordinary people in the entire empire who have not been registered, and the four northern collars have not been counted. The number of people in these places is not large, but it is by no means Where will less go.

After reading this report, the old Pope quickly picked up the next report, and this report was the census of the Eastern Plains.

"The Eastern Plain Starfall 819 census report... the total population is 270 million, and the specific population growth rate cannot be calculated clearly, because the White Tower of Guantian, the Seven Luminaries Council, and the urban circle around Hailong City, the three forces are all involved. Do not share information with each other."

But even so, it can be seen from recent data that the population of the Eastern Plains has doubled in the past 22 years, and there is a lot more, and now has a total population of just over 600 million. Naturally, there are still many places in this area that have not been surveyed, but the impact is not great.

Without paying too much attention, Eagle continued to look at the population report in his hand, and this time it was Xishan: "Xishan area, the 823 census report of Starfall... 210 million, the number is good, but the population growth rate Just over 4%."

The Xishan area is originally a mountainous area, which is not suitable for human survival. However, because the history of the Xishan area is the oldest, the total population is not bad, and neither the dragon disaster nor the cult has caused real harm to the Xishan area. However, the major Wars between kingdoms are a common event that consumes the population, and there is indeed a shortage of arable land, so until now, the total population of Xishan is only 440 million.

Finally, there is the Far South.

The old pope raised his head and looked towards the far south region, which is most suitable for human survival. Twenty years ago, in the year 820 of Starfall, the census of the Far South was over.

Except for the Eternal Forest and the Commercial Alliance, the entire Far South is basically a fertile plain. Although this kind of terrain is difficult to resist the beast tide of the Black Forest, on the fertile land, no matter how it is planted, the luxuriant grain will be the fastest growing population. A solid backing—the census 21 years ago proved that the population of the Far South was quite large at that time. Excluding the elves and business alliances in the Eternal Forest, the total population of the Far South was as high as 250 million.

If it weren't for the dragon disaster that killed millions of people, displaced tens of millions of people, and caused great turmoil in the entire southern region, the population that can be supported in the far southern region is by no means limited to the current 400 million people. According to that time Professional scholars predict that the Far South will become the center of the world in the future, with a total population of more than 700 million.

The above data are purely human populations, and counting intelligent races such as elves, dwarves and branched half-elves, gnomes, goblins, etc., more than 20 years ago, the total population of the Mycroft world was about one billion, and now, The total population of the world is about two billion, which has doubled. It has experienced several natural disasters, the murloc war, the annual black forest invasion, the orc war, and the dragon disaster. It can be seen that, Even after suffering, Mycroft humans still thrive in this world.

"But it's not much."

After reading the four reports in his hand, the old pope couldn't help but whispered to himself—two billion people, it seems like a huge number, but in fact, this number is really small, especially compared to the rapid development of the Mycroft world. Judging from the degree of civilization, this is indeed the case.

Because population is the resource of civilization,

Thinking of this, Eagle couldn't help recalling the "Dreadnought-class Void Battleship" that passed by not long ago,

A 'Dreadnought-class Void Battleship' with all the power of civilization and optimized intelligent system by legendary mages, just to make it move requires at least 5,000 well-trained professionals to operate it. And if you want this battleship to have sufficient combat effectiveness, then you need about 400 silver-level conventional armed operators.

In addition, the battleship comes standard with 50 golden superhumans and three extremely strong ones. If you can, you can even let the legend sit in the town.

——It sounds like the battleship does not need many people, that is, five or six thousand people.

But this idea is completely wrong.

In fact, in order to support these professionals and extraordinary people to board the ship and fight, the logistics alone requires hundreds of thousands of people to support such a war machine-and this number is actually quite small, if there is no huge force from another world High-quality metal mines save people the difficulty of mining, and smelting becomes relatively simple. Then such a war machine needs at least two to three million people as logistics support to operate properly.

Even now, this kind of behavior can be regarded as militarism. In ancient times, this kind of staffing would have been impossible.

After all, if there are only fifty gold powerhouses, if the data from more than 20 years ago are used to calculate, it would take a population of close to six million to have such a large population. And the three extreme intentions need a population base close to 25 million people to exist.

A legend... Haha, out of 100 to 200 million people in an entire empire, there may not be one, it all depends on luck.

This is the 'Law of Fifty' in terms of the number of Transcendents decades ago.

Human beings are the black iron race who will reach the black iron rank as long as they become adults, but only one of the "fifty adults" can embark on the path of the extraordinary and become a black iron senior who first touched the extraordinary power.

And among the "fifty extraordinary people", only one person may be able to become a silver-of course, this number is not accurate. In areas with a high level of civilization, four or five of the fifty extraordinary people may be able to advance Silver, and now that number is going up again - but that was the world average over twenty years ago.

Next, among the 'Fifty Silver Ranks', only ten can become senior silver ranks who truly possess extraordinary power, and among these ten senior silver ranks, only one gold rank may appear, and it may not even appear.

In the end, only one of the 'fifty gold-ranked' can touch the category of ultimate intention. It is only possible, but not guaranteed, because the gap between gold and extreme intention is really a world of difference.

As for extreme intentions to legends, there is really no rule. It mainly depends on luck. If you are lucky, among the ten extreme intentions in Xishan back then, two legendary powerhouses, Barnier and William, can be produced. For example, the royal family of some kingdoms in Xishan has not waited for one for hundreds of years.

The above are all pure theories. In fact, because of the closedness of inheritance, the major forces hide the extraordinary power skills. From silver level to gold level, it is impossible to enter one of fifty, but one hundred, two Enter a hundred. And in some wild areas with weak inheritance, this ratio will be even crazier.

This is an extremely terrifying pyramid structure. There is only one gold-level person among hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people—of course, this is just an average number. In a territory of 10,000 people, at least the nobles can have many high-level silver knights and gold-level patriarchs. But having said that, it is not surprising that there is not a single gold in a million people. After all, having potential does not mean that one can receive professional education, so that talent will be wasted.

Just like the little berserker maid in the Radcliffe family, she obviously has the possibility of advancing to a high gold rank, but without Joshua's discernment, she will at best be a short, ordinary maid in the future.

"But now, it's very different."

The old Pope Igor raised his head and looked out the window. He stared at the silver light mist floating in the void. This energy frenzy called the Great Demon Tide swept through the entire multiverse, filling the entire world's galaxy with high-density free energy. .

The arrival of the Great Demonic Tide, the rich resources gained from opening up different worlds, the opening of the Professional Academy and the popularization of extraordinary ways, as well as the diffusion of the extraordinary inheritance with Joshua as the core, have made ordinary people in the world of Mycroft become The possibility of being a transcendent has been greatly improved.

And that's the most important thing!

Leaving aside the issue of advancement, as long as there is only one extraordinary person out of the original fifty people, and only one extraordinary person appears among the ten people, then the extraordinary potential of the Mycroft world will increase by five times out of thin air—if all the people If you can cultivate extraordinary strength, then the improvement is fifty times!

This basic level of growth is extremely terrifying, but what is even more terrifying is the current status of the Mycroft world.

"Now, the ratio of ordinary people to superhumans is already close to this number."

Whispering to himself, Igor lowered his head again and looked at another document in his hand.

In the past ten years, the entire Mycroft world has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the biggest change is that there are far more extraordinary people appearing than before.

According to the current ratio, out of ten people, one extraordinary person can appear. Because of the great demon tide and the spread of inheritance, at least one of these ten extraordinary people can advance to the silver level.

And among the twenty-five silver ranks, it is entirely possible for a gold rank to appear!

In the year 841 of Starfall, 2,500 ordinary people can produce one gold powerhouse. This ratio is 50 more than the number of gold powerhouses in the "law of fifty" era decades ago. times!

Of course, this is a theoretical calculation. After all, there are still many places in the world that do not have professional colleges. Even if they are opened, most extraordinary people will enter the brand-new magic energy factory and become workers in the factory, not for combat. However, roughly calculated, the number of gold powerhouses that may appear in the future is about 30 times that of the original.

The number of gold-ranked powerhouses in the entire world swelled from a few thousand to nearly a hundred thousand in an instant—the expansion speed surpassed that of blowing a balloon.

This huge change can also be seen from Winterhold College. Excellent graduates can basically achieve gold, and don’t panic if you don’t achieve gold. As long as your talent is not too bad, you can work in the post for a few years Accumulate resources, and it is also possible to break through gold.

Although the extreme level realm is not affected by energy density, if the base number of gold powerhouses changes, the number of its existence will naturally change-and this kind of change is that a few decades ago, there were no more than one gold powerhouse in the world. There are hundreds of extreme intentions, but after a few decades, there will be about 700 extreme intentions in the world.

One Jiyi out of 300,000 people is much more than one born out of millions or even tens of millions of people.

"It can even be said that the quality of this population has begun to approach the era of glory."

In the data of the integrated large information base, the deeds of the Guangyao Era are recorded, and among them, what shocked the legendary powerhouses of the Starfall Era is the normal state of that era that "gold is not as good as a dog, and the ultimate intention is everywhere" in the Starfall Era. , the noble and powerful gold and ultimate power, in that glorious era, can only be regarded as the lord of the community and the lord of the city.

Putting down all the reports in his hands, the old Pope Igor couldn't help sighing: "But being close doesn't mean meeting the standard... Even the population quality of the Mycroft civilization has leapt many times compared to ten years ago. But the population is still not enough."

A rough calculation, counting the logistics of hundreds of thousands of people, plus the follow-up subsidiary factories, resource mining, personnel training, various types of weapon design and training... Counting these messy things, the Mycroft civilization needs roughly One million people are needed to maintain the perfect operation of a dreadnought-class void battleship.

In this way, even if the population of the world is counted, at most the number of dreadnought battleships in the early 2000s can be maintained.

But is it possible? The entire civilization exists only for the void fleet? Except for those civilizations that have migrated to the void fleet and wandered around the world's galaxy, such as nomadic void civilizations like the Shepherds, no civilization will do this. War is not everything for civilization, and they need other civilizations. Domain services are used to maintain social stability.

Dividing one-tenth of the population is already very militaristic - and in this way, the number of Dreadnought-class Void Battleships suddenly becomes two hundred, and the resources for building two hundred Void Battleships, if changed Form a mixed fleet, then the number is about 5,000.

Five thousand large and small void fleets... Is this number really enough for a civilization that is determined to go to other worlds and galaxies?

Don't be kidding - just thinking about this incident, Igor rubbed his head with a headache.

During the Era of Glory, a legendary powerhouse would command hundreds or even thousands of mixed fleets. Now that the Era of Starfall has put all its might into civilization, at most it will fight a small-scale battle in that era— — What's more, the current Starfall Era simply can't produce so many battleship commanders and well-trained crews.

"But now, there is no time for us to save and give birth."

As one of the leaders of the civilization, Igor sat in his seat and sighed deeply. He raised his head melancholy and looked at the 3D star map of the world made of holy light hanging in front of the desk.

That being the case, they have only one choice.

Thinking of this, the old pope stretched out his hand, and lightly tapped three points on the world galaxy map.

——Shepherd, Shalt World, Sixth Abyss.

Eight-legged fungi, Shalters, and abyssal demons.

"Since our population is not enough, we can only rely on other races, civilized population... It sounds like slave traders hundreds of years ago, but there is no way, even if it sounds unfair... But the establishment of servants, or foreign mercenaries, is imperative."

Eagle stared at the star map.

Joshua stared at the star map.

All legendary powerhouses, leaders of great powers, and even gods are all staring at the star map in front of them.

When a civilization completely leaves its mother world and steps into the void, their vision will broaden, and their needs will increase rapidly. This is an inevitable sublimation, and the price must be borne.

And now, it is time for Starfall Mycroft civilization to make a choice.

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