Chapter 1976 - Little Boy and Girl (3) (1/2)

Dyon first split the army.

After conquering the remaining four core universe and renaming them Eighteen, Seventeen, Sixteen, and Fifteen, he gained an additional 8 billion warriors.

Though the four core universes had the same 2 billion total of warriors the Raven Clan had, their overall quality was far inferior.

In comparison to the Raven Clan's 5 dao experts, each remaining Clan only had 2. In comparison to the Raven Clan's 10 000 Pseudo Dao Experts, the remaining Clans only had 2000 each. And, in comparison to the Raven Clan's 500 million celestials, each remaining Clan only had about 100 million.

This left Dyon with elites that totaled in 900 million celestials, 18 thousand Pseudo Dao experts, and 13 Dao Experts. Of course, this was in addition to about 9 billion Saints.

When coupled with the 1.5 billion strong army Dyon entered the original Raven Universe with – 150 million of which were celestials – it was a great improvement from his previous middling 30 million strong army.

However… Dyon didn't hesitate to do away with the vast majority of them.

First, he directly expelled any saints below the pseudo celestial realm out of the army.

Giving them the title of Guardians, they were the first among the new population the receive Soul Tags. As Guardians, their duty was the wellbeing of the people, and they were used by Dyon to ensure that the Laws of the Mortal Alliance were followed.

The first step was holding a Selection. Using their own abilities as a gauge for who could and could not make the main army diffused much of this disp.l.e.a.s.u.r.e immediately.

The second step was the previously mentioned Soul Tag. The Soul Tag's original purpose was both to act as a Census of the people and to monitor merits and demerits.

Dyon informed them of the demerit system in order to deter their thoughts of subterfuge. But, he then lay the merit system down as a carrot. After learning it was possible to earn prestige through even their jobs, much of the dissatisfaction diffused with the wind.

Second, although Dyon dispelled the Saints from the army, he didn't ignore their improvement. He set in place training regimens that included regular visits to Chaos Universe and mock campaigns to be held when Gates opened.

He split the Guardians into teams by regions designated by the planets they guarded and added a ranking system that was contingent upon commoner satisfaction and their performance in these mock battles. He hoped that over time, new talents would begin to bloom all while commoners led safer lives.

Third, Dyon began to train the main army once more. Unlike Guardians, their training would be held on a real battlefield against true opponents that would only seek to eradicate them.

Now, Dyon had a total of just over 1 billion celestials, 18 thousand Pseudo Dao Experts, and 13 Dao experts at his disposal. Of course, this Dao expert count didn't include the Title Spirits or Glorianice and Amphorae. Nor did it include the former Weapon's Guild Head of Sapientia City.