Arcane Lord

Those countless primary elements, after "eating" their share of gem fragments, quickly dispersed and chased and wandered freely in the nearby airspace.

At this time, Tarafu also explained: "Actually, most of these elements have not yet reached the standard of primary elements. Once they reach the standard, they will either be harvested immediately or transferred to the next stage of cultivation."

"What is the next stage like?" Xia Duo asked.

"As you have seen, it is to let them move freely. Generally speaking, primary elements can be cultivated by feeding them gem fragments. It is nothing more than the length of time. But for intermediate elements, the elements need to have enough activities. As for advanced elements, in addition to gems, , activities, you also need special elemental promotion rituals, or you need to gamble on luck. "

"What will happen if the primary elements don't have enough activity?" Shado asked again.

"If there is not enough activity, the primary elements will stagnate when they grow to a certain limit. In this case, it is possible to advance them unless a large number of gems are fed at once, but this is obviously not suitable for mass cultivation."

"I see!"

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Next, Xia Duo continued to visit the next stop, which was the breeding area for intermediate elements. The breeding area was not limited. After all, it was stocking. It was just that different levels of elements had different feeding areas and different times.

Considering that he had already seen the scene of feeding primary elements, Xia Duo did not wait to see the feeding of intermediate elements. It was just that the feeding objects were different and the specifications of the gem fragments were different, but everything else was the same.

The subsequent promotion ceremony of the intermediate elements that he mainly visited was actually the configuration of the high-level element ranch and was not within the scope of the agreement between him and the Mairead family, but Tarafu still provided an opportunity to visit.

The promotion ceremony takes place in a sea of ​​clouds and is presided over by an elemental elder. It also requires the consumption of gem fragments, but the gem fragments at this time are actually quite large. They can be used as energy for magic items in Netheril. Buffer core.

It is similar to the previous feeding scene, but the difference is that the promotion is carried out in the domain of the elemental elders. When the ceremony is over, only about 30 to 40% of the intermediate elements are promoted to high-level elements.

All elemental creatures that are successfully promoted will be acquired immediately. In the domain of the elemental elders, after a strong release of elements, only the shining souls are left on the scene.

The elements in this state are not really dead yet. As long as a suitable environment is provided, the spirits will still return to normal elemental creatures.

But at this moment, the element elder pushed those spirits into the wind field channel above the sea of ​​clouds, and then those high-level spirits quickly disappeared into the distance under Sha Duo's gaze.

At this time, Tarafu also explained in time: "Those high-level spirits will be sent to the floating island for temporary storage. The spirits of other levels will also be temporarily stored there, and then specialized people will take them away regularly."

"Why do those high-level elements have to be harvested as soon as they are promoted, and why can't they continue to be cultivated into elemental elders?"

Although Tarafu had mentioned many times before that elemental elders could not be cultivated through elemental pastures, Shaduo was still curious whether it was because they could not be cultivated through various means, or if they simply could not be cultivated on this pasture.

After all, it is a high-level element. It is too wasteful to harvest it directly. Even if it is left there and no longer fed, it will not be too late to harvest it when needed one day!

Anyway, elemental creatures don't live by feeding them, so maybe some elemental elders were developed in the process!

Regarding Xia Duo's doubts, Tarafu smiled politely, "Since the establishment of the family's first elemental ranch, there has never been a precedent for a high-level element born from the ranch to be promoted to an elder!

"At present, all the elemental elders in the family are either captured directly from the elemental plane, or they capture high-level elements first, and then are promoted through special means. It is basically impossible for the high-level elements cultivated to be promoted to elders.

"But this is not absolute. After all, this is just the past experience of our Mairead family. Maybe the Tower of Time can cultivate elemental elders. Lord Shado can try it."

Tarafu did not continue on this topic, but stopped there. After all, the agreement reached between the Mairead family and Sha Duo only transferred intermediate ranch-related technologies, and could not even cultivate advanced elements, let alone follow-up.

"By the way, Lord Shado, during the elemental cultivation process, if you find a special type of element that can naturally dominate other elements, remember not to harvest it. That element is most likely the elemental lord. If the elemental elder If there are special means for promotion, then there will be no possibility of human intervention in the creation of elemental lords.”

"Will elemental lords be born from the cultivated elements?"

"Yes, although we have never encountered it in the Mairead family's ranch, other Calimshan families have had such a precedent, and there is more than one case. Lord Shado must take this matter to heart. If you find a newborn Element Lord, the Mairead family is willing to pay a high price to acquire it, or engage in related cooperation.”

"Okay, I will pay attention to the completion of the Element Ranch of the Tower of Time."

Xia Duo didn't expect that cultivating elements would have surprises like opening a blind box. If he could really find a newborn elemental lord, then he would want to cultivate it himself instead of selling it.

After all, there is a high probability that the ones you have cultivated can be subdued, but the wild ones have a high probability that they cannot be subdued. Even if they are controlled by force, it is almost impossible to control them because of the wind element's nature of advocating freedom. People would rather die than surrender.

There is only one elemental lord owned by the Mairead family, which is Rohasi, whom Sha Duo has met before, but there is a high probability that the Mairead family has more than one lord-level spirit.

The core of the Storm Fortress that was previously given to Xia Duo was a lord-level spirit. Obviously, the value of a living and active elemental lord should be much higher than that of a nearly dead elemental spirit.

But the Mairead family did not resurrect the spirit to subdue it or forcibly control it. Did they not want to? It is not difficult for the elemental essence to resurrect elemental creatures, but it is obviously out of control, so it is better to use the essence directly.

The elemental elders and elemental lords both have wisdom comparable to that of humans. Forcible control is just a common practice, because it is not sure when they will be out of control, which is a time bomb that may detonate at any time.

The Mairead family's approach is mostly a combination of control and subjugation. Under the premise of signing a magic contract, both parties try to maintain a win-win cooperative relationship as much as possible.

From what Shado has observed, the Mairead family treats the elemental elders more like long-term employees than slaves. For the elemental elders or elemental lords who are in key positions, Tarafu does not hesitate to respect them.

This is the way to go in the long run.