Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 2073 The 'Waste' of Development

Clearly, there's a reason why the Fire Mage Corps only has one hundred official members.

With over a hundred of them, and given the need for conscious training, it would be difficult for Gillespie and his team to manage them all.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Great Zhou Buddhist School has a short history and its system is not yet mature.

Assuming that Geert has ten more Transcendent Realm mages under his command, it would be much easier for him to have each of these ten Transcendent Realm mages lead a small mage team and guide their cultivation, while he would be responsible for guiding the Transcendent Realm team leaders.

Unfortunately, the fire mage corps of the Great Zhou Dynasty cannot do this at the moment.

Once the elven mages arrive and report for duty, the situation should improve considerably, since there are still several Transcendent Realm experts among them.

Little did anyone know that Bogner's problems had already surfaced before that.

On a larger scale, this matter concerns the upper limit of one hundred official members in their fire mage group, and affects their growth.

In the field of magical cultivation, they may not be considered geniuses, but to be selected as official members, they can certainly be called 'excellent', as each of them is cultivating with the goal of reaching the transcendent realm.

From a holistic perspective, the Transcendent Realm is considered an entry-level skill in the field of mage cultivation.

But everyone has to admit that it's not easy to even begin a path to becoming a mage.

In addition, this teaching method, which accepts all problems and provides answers directly, will also consume a lot of the leader's training time.

Members need to cultivate, and the leader needs to cultivate even more, since the leader is the core of the mage guild.

Answering a lot of questions from group members ended up taking up my own cultivation time, which is a case of losing more than I gain by trying to gain something small.

Bogner's current situation is that he is delaying his own training and is also hindering the growth of the group members.

Geerte didn't take charge of the situation, but he didn't abandon Bogner either; at least he shared all his experience in this area with Bogner.

What Bogner will accomplish after that is no longer his concern. Since he has become the commander, he must bear some responsibility.

At the same time, Bogner himself will grow, and then we'll see how far he can go.

Time slipped by unnoticed during this process...

In the spring of the 107th year of the Imperial Calendar, after more than half a year of hard work, and with the Elven race's submission, there were still many things to do and arrangements needed to be made in all aspects. Only now have they completely taken over the reins.

The elves of the Elf race have now been quickly assigned to various positions that require their services.

The problem with doing this is that it would scatter the Elven race on a large scale, dispersing them to various cities in the Great Zhou Dynasty, which would be detrimental to the overall reproduction of the race.

The benefit is that it can effectively improve the work efficiency of various special departments in the Great Zhou Dynasty!
Clearly, Zhou Xu chose the latter when faced with this choice.

However, it will take another six months to a year for these deployed spirits to truly begin to exert their power.

After all, it takes time for people to adapt to a new job and a new life.

In response, the internal development of the Great Zhou is currently stable, and Zhou Xu is not in a hurry at all.

He's now in a snowballing phase; as long as no one interrupts him, his snowball will only get bigger and bigger.

Time flew by, and it was already the second half of the year. The project to merge the Giant Eagle Breeding Ground and the Giant Eagle Rider Training Base, which we mentioned last year, was successfully completed. Although it was called a project, there wasn't actually much to do.

More importantly than that, all the Giant Eagle Knights transferred from the Great Zhou Dynasty have now successfully completed the inheritance trial of the Ancient Elf Tree and officially obtained the rank of 'Giant Eagle Knight'.

Compared to their previous unofficial status, they are now officially recognized as Giant Eagle Knights.

Simply adding passive enhancement items can easily increase overall combat power by more than 15%, and this is even before the enhancement items are fully unlocked and upgraded.

Preliminary estimates suggest that with the upgrade fully unlocked, a 30% enhancement should be achievable without any issues.

And this is clearly not their limit. Don't forget, the path to advancement for the Giant Eagle Knights has been confirmed: to become a Swift Eagle Rider!
Once the trial of the Elven Ancient Tree's inheritance is completed, the inherited power of the Elven Ancient Tree can cause the giant eagle to evolve into an extraordinary creature and be granted the rank of 'Swift Eagle Rider'.

Due to their large population, the Elven race has always prioritized elite troops.

Even in the old civilization, the Swifthawk Riders were the ace force of the Wood Elf race, and advancing to a higher level would probably not be easy.

Zhou Xu wasn't in a hurry about this.

The lifespan of the elves is what it is, and once the giant eagle successfully evolves into a superhuman creature, its lifespan will naturally be greatly extended.

This illustrates that this is a special type of soldier that requires a significant investment of time and effort to train.

Given the Elven race's track record, the training period for this unit might take at least several hundred years.

Therefore, Zhou Xu has already calmed down about this matter.

In any case, training special units like the Giant Eagle Knights in the fantasy world doesn't actually require a huge daily financial expenditure. The biggest problem is that it takes a long time, making it impossible to achieve large-scale mass production.

Zhou Xu's current mindset is, 'It won't cost much anyway, I'll just practice while I'm at it; who knows, it might come in handy later.'

Of course, the Giant Eagle Knights, after the successful merger of the two sides, have already demonstrated some value.

Besides strengthening their Great Zhou's giant eagle knights, thanks to the incorporation of other giant eagle knights from the Wood Elf clan, Great Zhou's giant eagle knights are finally able to form a respectable hundred-knight squad.

If everyone shares the spoils, we can basically say goodbye to the predicament of not having enough Giant Eagle Knights like before.

Moreover, this is clearly not all. Within the Wood Elf race, besides the existing Giant Eagle Knights, there are many others suitable for Giant Eagle Knight training.

Although they are currently only receiving the most basic introductory training and have not yet reached the rank of Great Eagle Knight, we can still expect their Great Zhou Great Eagle Knight force to expand further in the next few years.

At the same time, in the winter of that year, another fragment of the world was pieced together on the outskirts of their Great Zhou territory.

The location is on the outermost edge of the original female warrior tribe's territory, and extends all the way to the northeastern region of their Great Zhou.

It's worth mentioning here that the territory of the female warrior tribe is roughly composed of two parts: forests and mountains.

The mountainous region was originally used by the female warrior tribe to raise men. Respecting the female warriors' culture, Zhou Xu didn't touch it at first.

Later, with the influence of the Great Zhou culture, the female warriors' marriage concepts also changed. They no longer needed this, so the Great Zhou sent people to incorporate the primitive tribes living in the mountains, and incidentally opened up a new map.

The piece that's been pieced together right now can only be seen after crossing the mountain range; it's on the other side of the mountain.

(End of this chapter)