After conquering the Sain Plateau, Rennes did not immediately incorporate the plateau into the empire as promised in the Supreme Council.

He didn't want to go back on his word, but was waiting for a better opportunity.

Several purposes of unifying the plateau are: one is the mine resources, and the other is to develop believers for Gillman to help him wake up. These two purposes are the most important. Finally, it is the turn to announce the expansion of the territory to the people of the empire and increase their political achievements.

If it is just announced, but it does not bring substantial benefits to the empire, it will have limited effect on improving one's prestige.

So we have to wait until the rule of the plateau is stabilized and roughly grasp the mining resources, and then try to see if the plateau can drive the development of the western border province of the empire.

This takes time and planning, and cannot be done for a while.

Renne was not in a hurry either.

He left a part of the legion to Malius to deal with the affairs of the Mataki tribe. He rebuilt tribal order, suppressed resistance, accepted all the territory of the Mataki people, established the temple of Gilman, and reversed faith step by step.

These steps have been done many times in other tribes, and Marius is very skillful and will not make any mistakes.

The only thing to worry about is that behind the Mataki tribe is the King of Green Dragons, so as not to kill Zhan Qing unexpectedly, Renn decided to keep the Star Destroyer as well.

The Star Destroyer hovered at the altitude of Buckhalu, opening the invisible force field, which ordinary people could not detect.

Huge warships can also serve as a legion base.

Just so happens that the Star Destroyer has no home port yet, and the half-plane will build a new ship next, and there is no place to stay. It can still play a role when temporarily stopping on the plateau.

A few days later, the news that the Sain Plateau was unified by the consul's legion gradually spread in the empire, causing some discussion, but the empire's official did not officially announce that the plateau was too far away from the lives of the empire's people, so it did not cause too much shock and soon calmed down.

The battle process of Buckharu City was also intentionally blocked by Rennes.

Therefore, there are only a few rumors about Star Destroyers in the Empire with uncertain origins. Except for those who believe it, no one in the upper class of the Empire knows it.

This is exactly what Rennes wants.

Although there are many people who see the Star Destroyer and will not be able to cover it up sooner or later, the later the Star Destroyer is exposed, the better. As long as you don’t see it with your own eyes, just relying on some rumors will not be enough to arouse the enemy’s vigilance.

As time goes by, the changes on the Sain Plateau are gradually forgotten.

It will be winter three months later.

Rennes secretly came to Caranos's main fort again to listen to Marius' report.

This time, his younger brother Carlody did not come to find him again. He has been promoted to the higher-level Holy Spear Knight and was transferred back to Gotham City not long ago.

"grown ups."

Standing opposite Marius took off his helmet of power armor, and his face showed an uncontrollable joy, and he shouted: "We have completely controlled the Mataki tribe. Now in the city of Bachalu, there is no open belief in the Mother of the Dragon. Almost 20% of the Mataki people are re-entered in Gilliman's arms, willing to follow our Lord and revitalize His glory."

Renne smiled unanimously.

The Mataki people worship Tiasith for hundreds of years and have long been deeply rooted. It is extremely difficult to convert them into a belief. Due to the high-pressure rule of the Extreme Team, the Mataki people abandoned the faith of the Dragon Mother on the surface, but in private it is another matter.

Those savages who claimed to be willing to convert to Gillman had a very low proportion of sincere intentions, and would not provide Gillman with much power of faith.

This is not a matter of one day or one night, and it will take at least one generation to completely turn it around.

"Has He brought down the oracle?" asked Renn.

The "He" he mentioned naturally refers to Gillerman. In almost two years, Gillerman's believers have increased by millions. Even if most of them are shallow believers, they should have some effect.

"Not yet, sir."

Marius shook his head, his expression changed from joy to solemnity, and in fact he was also waiting for Gilman to contact him.

Logically speaking, with so much faith supplemented, Gilman's awakening should be accelerated, and the frequency of contact increased, but since the night when he decided to cooperate with the adults, He has never passed on a word.

This made Marius worried that there was something wrong with Gilman. He returned to the Temple of Astate many times to check, but found nothing.

He wanted Rennes to go there in person.

However, without Gilman's permission, Marius did not dare to expose God's true body privately, and could only hold it in his heart.

"Then wait." Renn pretended not to know anything, but actually knew Marius's mind very clearly.

Whether Gilman wakes up or when he wakes up doesn't matter to himself.

Even, he hoped that Gilman would fall asleep forever.

The most important thing right now is another thing

Get the source crystal!

The teleportation, aerospace and flight operations of the Star Destroyer all come from the core of Iola. As long as there is no fire, the source crystal consumes very little, which is almost negligible. In the past two or three months, they stayed above Bacharu, occasionally patrolling the plateau, but did not use much source crystal.

However, the power armor consumes source crystals every day, and it has grown to 130 sets, and the consumption has gradually increased.

At present, the biggest source of source crystals is the Misilan Mine in the Principal of Augustus. After years of mining, it increased its production regardless of cost. It reached its peak the year before yesterday and obtained nearly 8,000 pounds of source crystals. However, since last year, the output of Misilan and source crystals has begun to decline.

In less than three years, the mitral mine will run out.

The second is acquisition.

The source crystal ore produced by the Congatro Kingdom and the Empire was almost bought out by itself. The source crystal, which was not very useful, has become very popular in recent years.

Some people saw business opportunities and plundered the source crystal mines from various countries in the Old Continent to sell them to the empire, making a lot of profits.

This has driven the rise of the source crystal ore market in the entire main material world. The prices have soared several times, but it is still difficult to buy if you have money.

Rennes now has money and doesn't care about the price.

Even if the price of the source crystal ore is ten times more expensive, you can easily buy it yourself. You can buy as many as you want, but you can buy less and less.

So money is not a problem, the real problem is that there is no mine.

More than 10,000 years ago, the Giant Empire dug up most of the main material world and the adjacent planes that ruled. After thousands of years of unremitting digging of source crystals, it had already dug up most of the mines.

Rennes still has more than 30,000 pounds of source crystals in its inventory, which may account for more than 80% of all source crystals mined in the world.

But these source crystals can only last for five years at most.

This is only counting the consumption of power armor. If the Star Destroyer participates in the war and the intensity is similar to that of the battle in Buckharu City, the inventory of the Source Crystal may bottom out four to five times.

The source crystal consumption of the Titan furnace is much higher than expected.

At the same time, the energy release of the source crystal is one order of magnitude lower than expected, and two orders of magnitude lower than the nuclear reactor in previous life.

Fortunately, the energy output of the Titan Furnace is sufficient. The Star Destroyer has reached the power of the Ten-ring Spell. As long as the problem of source crystal supply can be solved, the Star Destroyer's design is successful, maintaining its maneuverability and firepower advantages over the floating city.

But how to solve it?

Since the Duke of Black Robe was outside Buckharu City, Rennes has been thinking about this issue.

I met with the teacher recently and the teacher asked with concern.

To this end, Rennes went to the Storm Temple specifically.

He asked Titan Elder Sorim for advice and obtained the territory map of the Giant Empire in the Second Era and the planes ruled by the Giant.

After looking at the map and plane catalog, Renne was helpless.

At its heyday, the giant empire dominated almost half of the main material world. The earth belonged to the giants, and the sky was the realm of the dragon. In order to maintain the rule of the empire, the giants dug the source crystal mines in the territory completely. The source crystals that can be dug now are all residues leaking between the giants' fingers.

The regeneration period of source crystals is extremely long, more than 100,000 years, and it is almost impossible to find more source crystal ores in the main material world and adjacent planes.

So Ren could only turn his attention outside the main material world.

The first thing I thought of the bottomless abyss!

He had a space-time coordinates bought from the Lord of Hestaff, Shenzhen-Hong Kong City, pointing to the 404th floor of the abyss. As Hestaff said, when he passed by this abyss, he discovered an open-pit mine rich in source crystals, and had a large reserve.

An open-air source crystal mine, you can see that it has a large reserve by just passing by...

This kind of mine is only available in the main material world before the rise of the Giant Empire. It can be seen that the Abyss Demon does not understand the value of the Source Crystal.

Most importantly, the Giant Empire has never touched the abyss.

In addition to the abyss, there is also the heaven!

These two worlds, which are hundreds of times larger than the main material world, must contain countless source crystal ores, and even during the most powerful period of the Giant Empire, they cannot get involved.

There are gods and heavenly clans living in the heavenly realm, with countless strong people, and every heavenly plane has a master.

Similarly, the bottomless abyss is filled with countless demons.

The ancient four gods of the abyss rule countless levels of the abyss, which is even more terrifying than the heavens, and there is no need to invade. Any creature who dares to enter the abyss, if you are not careful, will be polluted by the ubiquitous evil energy and become a monster in the abyss.

A large number of source crystals can be obtained in both places.

This was also vaguely revealed in the words of Titan Elder Solim, but Solim, as a demigod, dared not go there.

As long as you don’t encounter gods or abyss lords, demigods will not be in danger. However, mining source crystal mines is a long-term job, and it is not enough to have only one demigod. It also requires mining equipment and miners, and a series of logistics facilities. It is by no means to come and go as soon as you say.

There are only a few hundred giants in the Storm Temple, which is not enough to support mining projects.

After a long time, it will cause trouble and sooner or later, it will provoke powerful enemies.

Rennes can solve mining equipment, miners and transportation problems, and things that Elder Titan cannot do are not difficult for him.

But he was also worried about meeting a strong enemy.

Seeing Renn's contemplation, Marius thought he was still considering Gillman's affairs, and whispered: "Sir, although my Lord has not delivered an oracle, I know that His state has changed and there should be no problem."

"What I'm thinking has nothing to do with Gilleman." Renn shook his head and explained.

He glanced at the extreme commander and asked, "Marius, between heaven and the abyss, if you had to choose a target to attack, which one would you choose?"
To be continued...