Fanatics of the Magic Academy

Under the leadership of the fourth Ancient Dragon, relying on the solid foundation laid by the first Ancient Dragon and the accumulation of the previous two Ancient Dragons, the path of the Ancient Dragon followers was finally pushed to the fourth stage.

They have almost reached the height where the first generation of ancient dragons once stood.

With the combined blessing of the blood of the ancient dragon and its own faith, the first generation of ancient dragons possessed an overall strength that was roughly between the middle and high levels of the fourth tier.

Now, the followers of Gu Long have finally stepped into this field through their own efforts.

However, it was at this time that the fourth Gu Long realized an unavoidable problem: population.

The current population size is insufficient to support the continued development of this path to the peak of the fourth tier.

The ultimate goal of the Ancient Dragon followers is to slaughter all the alien beasts in the world, including the Ancient Dragons.

That would require pushing the road development to at least the fifth or even sixth order.

Exploring a completely new path is never a matter for one person or a small group of people.

It requires a sufficiently large population base, from which a sufficient number of fourth-tier powerhouses emerge, to pave the way forward through countless collisions, trials and errors, and breakthroughs.

However, the number of fourth-tier powerhouses among the Ancient Dragon followers is far from reaching that level.

This is a matter of population size. Even if the followers of Gu Long possess the superiority of the replicability of the path, they cannot conjure people out of thin air.

Moreover, in a society that operates on the principle of killing to sustain itself, the natural population growth of Gu Long's followers is already ridiculously slow. The fact that the population can maintain positive growth is already quite abnormal.

Population, population, and damn it all, population.

Population has become an obsession for the fourth Gu Long.

Even if he overrules the objections and forcefully implements the policy of recuperation and development, he will not see significant growth in the short term.

But at that moment, things took a turn for the better.

As the path of the Ancient Dragon Followers progressed to the fourth level, their influence expanded significantly.

Further away, they encountered another group of humans.

In that era, a niche and perverse civilization like the followers of Gu Long was ultimately an anomaly; a divine system was the choice of the vast majority of humanity.

This group of humans follows a pantheon; their faith rests on a fourth-tier alien beast that frequently appears in this area.

A god with the appearance of that strange beast was born from their thoughts.

The moment the followers of Gu Long saw this deity, they couldn't suppress their desire to kill him.

It is above humanity, which qualifies it.

The appearance of the strange beast is another factor.

Humans need to be sacrificed to maintain power; the buff is fully stacked.

Driven by the ideology of "human supremacy and the slaughter of other races," the followers of Gulong have an extremely high desire to kill gods.

However, they had no experience in killing gods.

Although they possess firsthand information about god-killing left by the first generation of ancient dragons, the followers of the ancient dragons have a certain understanding and knowledge of the nature of the gods.

However, they were unable to replicate the feat of the first ancient dragon killing a god.

Because the original Gu Long first believed in a god, and then applied to the god for free combat through prayer. If he won, he would sacrifice his blood to the god; if he lost, the god would die.

Finally, before his faith completely collapsed and before death came, he fought desperately for God.

Moreover, by that time, the Ancient Dragon God had very few followers left.

Only the original Ancient Dragon remains as a believer capable of causing physical mutations; the remaining Ancient Dragon followers, barely clinging to life, are all shallow believers at the level of sacrifices.

Therefore, the existence of gods is very weak.

Yes, believers can be categorized into casual believers, believers, and fanatics.

For example, Rose's parents were shallow believers; their bodies couldn't even undergo any transformation, and they could integrate into the magical world normally.

Only believers and fanatics, whose bodies have become alienated, deserve to be called believers.

In a divine system, the sacrifices are often shallow believers, and they will not die from a breakdown of faith even if the god dies.

Only believers die because their faith collapses.

Therefore, the path of the first generation of ancient dragons to kill gods is basically impossible to imitate.

How can this be imitated by the followers of Gu Long who believe in "human supremacy and the slaughter of other races"?

Why should they first kneel and worship a god who looks like a strange beast and lives by sacrificing humans with blood?

Should they first become believers of that god?

What a joke!

However, besides slaughtering alien races, what the Ancient Dragon followers are best at is...

Another thing is to imitate other races and then turn their power into one's own.

Even within the followers of Gu Long, there are various factions of power.

Some follow the bloodline path, some imitate the ancient dragons purely through faith, and some rely on the inheritance of the ancient dragon's blood.

There are also various schools of thought that are mixed together.

In their long-term battles with various strange beasts, they also used their faith to imitate the power of other strange beasts.

Now, in their quest to kill gods, they have turned their attention to strange beasts that specifically target souls.

Amidst the rising craze for god-killing, ancient dragon believers used these soul-bound beasts as models, employing the high level of physical control granted by their faith to imitate, explore, and study their power.

Some extremists have even incorporated the blood of these strange beasts into their own bodies, attempting to directly control this power.

Of course, not everyone has the "super-adaptive" trait of the original Elder Dragon.

Even the original Gu Long himself probably wouldn't dare to be this reckless.

Therefore, a significant number of the ancient dragon believers who attempted to directly absorb the blood of the soul-side alien beasts went insane.

After all, these creatures' power is specifically targeted at the soul. If they fail to contain it, their souls are damaged, and it's reasonable for them to go mad.

But in the end, they succeeded.

Ancient Dragon followers have indeed developed an attack method that can target soul-like beings and have perfectly integrated it into the Ancient Dragon belief system.

They developed attacks targeting spirit-state creatures, such as [Death Lightning] and [Death Spark].

Thus, under the leadership of the fourth Gu Long, Gu Long's followers began the second "God-killing Movement" following the first Gu Long.

This was an organized and planned act of genocide.

Why do you need a plan for killing a god?

With so many fourth-tier and third-tier powerhouses, why would we need an organization and a plan if we all rushed up together to be used as cups by that brain-dead god?

But what if the fourth Gu Long could become the supreme leader? His thoughts went further; what he wanted was a large population.

He wanted to preserve as many people as possible under this god and incorporate them into the ancient dragon faith system.

According to the records left by the first generation of ancient dragons, the faith of believers does indeed collapse after the death of a god, but if a new faith is inserted before that, it will prevent the collapse of faith.

Therefore, the fourth Gu Long decided to use this as a basis to save as many humans as possible after killing the gods.

As for why humanity needs to be saved, don't worry about that for now.

However, when the fourth Gu Long decided to carry out the plan, he thought of one point.

Is it possible that the original Elder Dragons' faith had actually collapsed, but they were "hyperadapted" to this collapse, which gave them the opportunity to change their faith?

......

The usually astute fourth Gu Long fell silent.

This "Superadaptive" trait shouldn't be that sinister...