Chapter 1015: Five Years of the Great Tribulation
Although the spatial rift connected to the hell of the Thor plane was blocked, its indirect impact on the Ashane continent was only unfolded one after another in the next few years.
The entire continent of Ashan, the next five years were a year of great tribulation.
Either they die of drought, and there is very little rain throughout the year, and the two major rivers, the Jacob River and the Donao River, have almost dried up and stopped flowing, and in many places there is no harvest.
Either they are waterlogged, and the rain is terrible throughout the year, and the Jacob and Danube rivers are all flooded, and all the grain crops are smashed into the ground by the rain.
And these natural disasters usually have accompanying disasters, such as locust plagues after a major drought.
After a big flood, it is often prone to plague and so on.
Although the Eternal Night Warlord had made a series of layouts a long time ago, Sean even wanted to borrow the energy of Abigail's plane to nourish the crops in his own territory to survive this crisis.
However, in the face of full-scale natural disasters, it still seems too weak.
In dry years, without sufficient water for irrigation, even if there is sufficient energy, it is impossible for plants to grow, let alone harvest food.
In a flood year, no matter how well your crops grow, an untimely heavy rain can wipe out months of hard work for the people.
In particular, the grain producing area on which the Eternal Night Army Leader relied the most, the Danube Plain showed its poor ability to resist disasters.
Compared with the Jacob River, which is more than 5,000 kilometers long, the Donao River, which is only more than 1,500 kilometers, is a full two-thirds shorter, with fewer branches flowing in and more branches coming out, and nearly 30 percent of the water flow comes from the Andes Ring Mountains, which also causes its water potential to fluctuate very much.
In dry years, it withers more than half a month earlier than the Jacob River.
In flood years, it is more ferocious and more likely to flood than the Jacob River.
These five years were called the five years of great disasters or five years of natural disasters and five years of hardship.
In the past five years, the various forces have no energy to develop outward, and in the face of disasters, the internal problems exposed have caused them to be overwhelmed, including the Eternal Night Military Leader.
During the five-year disaster, the biggest problem exposed by the Eternal Night Leaders was the racial problem that Sean and the others were trying to divide and eliminate.
The racial problems of the Eternal Night Army Leader before were not acute, and it had a lot to do with their thriving development trend.
Although the merger into the Eternal Night Commander has had a great impact on their way of life, most of these changes are benign, making their lives more stable and wealthier, even if there are occasional unsatisfactory in life, they will not take it too seriously.
But when life becomes difficult, some problems that don't seem to be problems begin to come to light.
For example, the issue of rationing of grain, which was implemented in the first year of the fifth year of the Eternal Night Expedition.
If it is distributed according to the head, it is obviously unfair to the Kentana barbarians, if they are rationed according to the amount of ordinary people, they will be starved to death, and there are many differences between their own races, after all, the average height difference between the three major races of sea hunting, nomadism and mountain is twenty centimeters.
If the distribution is based on height and volume, the workload is too vast, and the number of places that can be deceived will increase dramatically, and it will be difficult for even the Eternal Night Commander to achieve the actual statistical distribution.
The easiest way to do this is to ration according to race, but in doing so, it will attract the resentment of other races.
After all, in the case of limited food overall, if someone has an extra portion, they will have less.
Not to mention, there are still differences between individuals, and some ordinary people have the stature of a Kentana barbarian, which was rare in the past, but it is not news now.
Some people, stimulated by the energy of the spell, although they did not have the ability to awaken and cast spells, their bodies had secondary or even tertiary development.
Although in the process of specific implementation, the Eternal Night Military Leader has formulated a series of supplementary regulations to adjust according to the actual situation, so as to take care of all aspects as much as possible.
However, the current size of the Eternal Night Army Leader is too large, and it is impossible for this kind of policy involving the whole people to be perfect, and it is quite good to be able to satisfy most people.
By the time many problems are discovered and corrected, the hateful race has already been bought.
And as the disaster continues, it keeps fermenting, and in the hearts of many people, there are cracks that are invisible to the naked eye.
The five years of the catastrophe have indeed dealt a heavy blow to the fast-growing Eternal Night Army Leader, so that they have to temporarily stop the development of many aspects and spend more energy on the livelihood of their own people.
If you take a longer view, you will find that the past five years have also been beneficial to the Eternal Night Commander.
The disaster drove many people who were unwilling to leave their comfortable and stable lives from their homes.
The flow of people in the Eternal Night Army is mainly diverted in three directions.
One is naturally the Huayu Plateau, which has just been occupied, although it has also been affected by some natural disasters, but the relatively unique geographical environment makes this kind of disaster much lighter than other military leaders.
Although before this, under the conscious organization of the Eternal Night Army Leader, there has been a boom in development, but the speed is still relatively slow, after all, there are still a few people who are highly conscious and willing to take risks.
The five years of the catastrophe have greatly accelerated this speed.
Not only did it solve the problem of food and clothing for the leaders of the Eternal Night Army who were developed here, but also greatly supported the territory with the surplus food.
In the fourth and fifth years of the five years of the Great Tribulation, seventy percent of the food distributed by the Eternal Night Army came from here.
The other direction of diversion is to join the ranks of opening the sea.
Although the Eternal Night Commander has been committed to the development of the East China Sea for more than ten years, for many people, the maritime industry is still a new industry.
Sailors and seafarers, have always been in short supply.
In a normal state, if you want to reverse the old thinking, I am afraid that it will take several generations of hard work.
The disaster year has greatly accelerated this state, and even food is not available, where is there so much room for consideration?
Compared with the sea-going trade, the fastest growing is inshore fishing, which has the lowest limit, as long as there is a sampan, you can go out to sea to fish and subsidize the family.
The last direction is the East Odin steppe, which is gradually beginning to be purified.
The people who were shunted here were mainly Kentana barbarians, who were physically and culturally fit to develop in the direction of safari.
Although the Odin steppe has also been affected by the disaster, the area here is vast enough, and the most important feature of nomadism is that they live by water, and where the grass grows fat, they will go.
However, in the hands of the Eternal Night Lord, the nomadic life has also played a new trick, called planned nomadism.
Although these nomadic tribes are still chasing water and grass, they no longer rely on the previous nomadic experience, but rely on the macro-control of the Eternal Night Army, which tribe rushes to which designated area for grazing and farming at what time period.
It sounded like an impossible task, but the Eternal Night Leader didn't have any difficulty in doing it.
What they relied on was the vast network of roots of the Ashane World Tree that unfolded one after another under the East Odin savannah.
Just as the goddess Abigail had promised, the surface part of the Ashane World Tree voluntarily stopped growing after it had grown to a certain extent.
Because if it grows again, it will become the biggest destroyer of the Ashane plane, affecting the operation of the entire planet.
But every moment, a huge stream of energy poured in from the Abigail plane, wanting to merge into the Ashane plane in the gentlest way.
The easiest way to do this is to transform into a part of the Ashane World Tree, and then return to nature in the form of a plant withering.
It just so happened that the Eternal Night Warlord needed to purify the East Odin savannah, which naturally became the direction of the spread of the tree root network.
In fact, Sean knows very well that the roots of the Ashane World Tree are constantly spreading and growing, and there is another layer of deep meaning - it is closely related to the core law of the goddess Abigail controlling the Ashane plane.
It is believed that spreading the East Odin savannah with the roots of the Ashane World Tree is just the beginning.
As long as she is given time, this network of tree roots will surely spread over the entire continent of Ashan, and even the entire planet's surface.
The recent frequent crustal fluctuations on the Ashane continent are inseparable from this matter.
But this fluctuation, in the long run, is beneficial and harmless.
After all, the Ashane World Tree only knows about the dead things that grow wildly, but instead it will fully integrate the local geological conditions, not only avoiding those important mountain ranges, but even taking the initiative to repair and strengthen the local terrain.
With the existence of this huge network, some small leyline changes in the future are basically impossible, even if they are inevitable, Sean and they will be the first to know.
The Ashaan World Tree does not compete with local plants for nutrients.
First, the depth of roots of the two is not the same.
Unless necessary, the roots of the Ashane World Tree will not easily go to the surface, and will not intersect with ordinary trees at all.
The second is that there is no way to measure the Ashane World Tree with the concept of plants, it needs more than simple water and minerals, but things that ordinary plants cannot touch.
Third, the material energy that generated the Abigail World Tree was mainly provided by the Abigail plane.
That is equivalent to an energy transmission pipe, and even if only a small part of the energy is spilled out of it, it is enough for the surrounding plants to use.
The place where the root network of the Ashane World Tree is dense is often the cleanest place where the shadow energy is purified and the water and grass are the most fertile.
Sean is happy to see this happen.
In order to win Sean's support, the goddess Abigail gave him control of the very high Ashane World Tree, only below her.
To be more precise, the Ashane World Tree is now controlled by Sean, and the general direction of the growth of the root network is controlled by him.
Goddess Abigail's main energy now is to transfer the souls of intelligent beings in the Abigail plane, as well as to comprehend and control the core laws of the Ashane plane, and she has no energy to care about the Ashane World Tree at all.
After all, the goddess's energy is also limited, and she can only give priority to things that others can't do for her.
Since gaining control of the Ashane World Tree, many things in the magical realm of the Eternal Night have begun to shift.
First of all, the core consciousness network of the Second World is gradually being transferred to the Ashane World Tree.
Under normal circumstances, the Ashane World Tree will give birth to self-awareness, after all, it is a transcendent being, and during the seeding period, Sean felt the spirituality contained in it.
However, the intervention of the goddess Abigail directly led her to a fork in the road, and her self-consciousness for the sake of condensation was absorbed by the goddess Abigail, and she completely became the doppelganger of the goddess Abigail in the Ashane plane.
Although the self-consciousness of the Ashane World Tree has not been born, such a terrifying life form, the self-consciousness still exists.
More precisely, the part of the Goddess Abigail that remained on the plane of Ashan.
And this part of the manipulation was opened up to Sean by her.
Sean is naturally not polite, and directly uses it as the basic software and hardware of the consciousness space, plus the Ashane World Tree integrates the characteristics of some laws of the Ashane plane.
The second world built on it is worthy of its name, with all the senses of pain and taste, and all the laws of the real world can be perfectly replicated here, but Sean did not do it.
The reason, of course, is the repetition of the same old tune.
One is consumption.
The closer the second world is to the real world, the greater the consumption of all aspects, whether it is the power of the law that needs to be consumed and the software and hardware occupied when building, or the energy that needs to be consumed in the process of operation.
After all, everything in the second world is based on energy, and the stimulation of soul consciousness is also simulated through energy.
Although now with the Ashane World Tree and the Abigail Plane in Collapse as their source of energy, they don't have to worry about running out of energy at all, for decades or hundreds of years.
But Sean is still in line with the principle of saving, and there will be more places to use energy in the future, among which the tree root network is the largest head.
Seriously calculated, the growth rate of the Ashan's World Tree Root Network is already quite amazing, and if all the sections are connected, the daily growth rate is measured in kilometers.
But Sean still wasn't satisfied.
There is no way, the psychological pressure brought to him by the succubus queen Mecanshut is too great, and no one knows when and in what way the other party will jump out again, before that, the only thing Sean can do is to do his best to develop himself and make himself and his territory stronger.
The normal development path is too slow, and there is no way to deal with the full-scale invasion of the Hell Demon, so you can only use your brain on this unconventional development path.
In addition to the natural growth formed by the energy absorbed from the Abigail plane, the metal minerals that can be used during the growth of the Ashane World Tree, as well as the huge root system of the ancient tree, can be used.
In this case, how could Sean allow a lot of energy to do meaningless things?