Game of the World Tree - Chapter 242

242. Chapter 241 Eve’s Doubts

The orcs were repelled.

Seeing the orc army slowly retreating like a tide, Saint Alice naturally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, she hurriedly started to rescue other players who were injured in the defense battle just now with the druid players.

More than a thousand orc warriors died in the battle, but there were also many casualties among the players.

The level of the players participating in the defense mission was generally low. Even with the protection of the city wall, nearly five hundred players returned to the world tree.

As for the number of injured players, there were more than a thousand.

However, compared with the orcs, this loss was already small.

Not to mention that those dead players also rushed back through the teleportation array as soon as they were resurrected.

Therefore, in fact, the defense strength of the entire castle has not been reduced much.

To be honest, the only losses were the fortifications and city walls destroyed by the orcs and the behemoths in the previous battle.

After the players cheered, they also began to clean up the battlefield.

Under the coordination of the two legion leaders, some players began to collect the equipment left by the orcs on the city wall; some players began to repair the city walls that were destroyed in the battle; and some players obtained the permission of Zero, the God-favored One, to open the city gate and come to the city wall to collect the equipment left behind by the orc army after retreating…

It was strange to say that the battle was fierce and both sides almost fought to the death. However, after the battle, there was no corpse on the battlefield, only blood and equipment on the ground…

This strange situation made the native elves’ eyelids jump, but the players had long been accustomed to it and didn’t care as if nothing had happened.

As the players cleaned up, the walls became lively again.

However, after a big victory, the atmosphere in the Black Dragon Castle at this moment was much more relaxed than before the war.

Even… the players were faintly more agitated.

The benefits brought to the players by more than a thousand dead orcs far exceeded the losses of the players.

Having tasted the sweetness of the big plot, the players can’t wait for the next round of siege by the orcs.

“These orcs have such high experience points! I just killed a warrior with others and got 5,000 experience points!”

A level 11 third-test player said excitedly while looking at his experience bar.

“Hey, only 5,000? I rushed to the front, and although I died once, my cumulative contribution was more than 200%, which directly increased by more than 30,000 experience points! This orc has more experience points than a human mercenary!”

Another tank warrior player proudly raised the scimitar in his hand.

“But you died once! Isn’t that a loss?”

“Hehe, I’m from the Cute Committee. Our guild’s taunting warriors will have their contribution points reimbursed if they die in a big story mission.”

“Damn… I’m so jealous!”

“…”

However, there are still many players who simply like the feeling of fighting just now:

“It’s exciting! This is how war should feel, previous RPG games were so weak!”

“It feels great! This is much more interesting than fighting Warcraft!”

“Really… We just fought for a while and just got a feel for it, and they retreated! What a pity…”

The players tasted the sweetness, and their fighting spirit was completely mobilized. When they looked at the orc army in the distance again, their eyes had completely changed:

“They shouldn’t not come, right?”

“Don’t worry, there must be another wave of siege! How many people did they lose? They will definitely not give up.”

“Haha! If we kill all these orcs, how much experience points will we get!”

“Hehe, promotion to the middle rank of Black Iron is not a problem!”

“Haha! I just told our friends who were ambushing us about our victory. They are so envious.”

“Hehehe, who told them not to defend the city?”

The players were extremely happy and their morale was high.

However, the retreating orcs were very depressed and embarrassed.

The Lionheart King Yimsh led less than 9,000 orcs out of the castle’s range, and his face was very ugly:

“I was careless… I didn’t expect the elves to gather such a strong force.”

He originally thought that with 10,000 troops and five behemoths, it would be easy to capture the Black Dragon Castle, but he didn’t expect to bite a hard bone…

“It seems… I still need the help of the power of the Father God.”

The Lionheart King Yimsh clenched his fists.

If he could take down the elves with secular power alone, he would definitely please the true God greatly, but now it seems… he must summon the totem guardian.

The elves’ favored ones have appeared, and the castle’s defenses are very strong, and it seems to be blessed by divine power…

If the orcs are the only ones to die, there will be heavy losses!

Thinking of this, King Imush took a deep breath and ordered his left and right:

“Invite the high priest…”

A moment later, the chief high priest of the orcs, accompanied by two silver priests, came to King Imush the Lionheart.

“My king, it seems that your attack is not going well.”

The chief high priest with a bone crown and oil paint on her face smiled slightly.

In her hand, she still held a skull necklace that kept flashing light.

But at this moment, the red on the necklace seemed to be a little deeper…

King Imush the Lionheart narrowed his eyes and took a deep look at the necklace in her hand, seeming to be very afraid.

As if sensing his sight, the high priest touched the necklace in his hand and laughed softly:

“My king, don’t worry, I won’t use this sacred object until the last moment.”

King Imush the Lionheart remained silent.

After a moment, he looked at the high priest with a complicated look, and slowly said:

“I underestimated the power of the elves, high priest, I decided to summon the totem guardian directly. Have you prepared the summoning altar?”

After listening to the words of the Lionheart King, the chief high priest nodded, his expression fanatical:

“Of course!”

“If you wish, we can always ask for the power of the Father!”

…

The players cleaned up the battlefield very quickly.

There were no corpses, and they just needed to pick up equipment, which was what the players were best at.

Soon, the ground under the city wall was completely empty. The players did not even let go of the clothes on the orcs, and took them all back…

On the city wall, the destroyed fortifications were also being repaired in an orderly manner.

Everyone was looking forward to the next attack of the orcs.

However, Eve, who was standing on the city wall, had a solemn expression…

“Just now… something was competing with me for life force.”

A similar situation occurred after the death of several people in Demacia before.

In the battle just now, nearly half of the life force in the bodies of those orcs who died in the battle was not absorbed by Eve’s war sacrifice!

Especially for the orcs who died outside the city wall, even if their skills triggered the war sacrifice, Eve did not get much vitality, but seemed to evaporate out of thin air.

Fortunately, the vitality of the dead players was 100% recovered, and the vitality of the orcs who died on the city wall was almost completely taken over by Eve.

However, from an overall perspective, about one-third of the vitality of the more than 1,000 orcs who died in the battle is still missing.

Although Eve still made a profit overall, it was less than she expected.

That is a loss.

“It’s a power similar to sacrifice! But… it shouldn’t be a true god, nor an evil god, because the other party’s absorption of life force seems to be just a mechanism, or instinct, more like some kind of sacrifice, or… a divine weapon!”

“I’m afraid… it’s the thing I sensed before!”

“This ability to absorb life force is very secretive. If I weren’t controlling the war sacrifice and completely in charge of the life ministry, I wouldn’t be able to detect it at all!”

“What the hell are the orcs doing?”

“It seems that I have to be more careful…”

And just as Eve was thinking, suddenly… her heart moved, and she sensed that the Box of the Dead stored in the Kingdom of God had changed slightly.

Hela, the goddess of death, replied.

I have a cold and a headache, so this chapter is relatively short.

(End of this chapter)