Game of the World Tree - Chapter 6

6. Chapter 6 Regaining Faith

In the natural temple on the trunk of the world tree.

Alice, the natural saint, and Samir, the old priest, knelt in front of the statue somewhat nervously.

They lowered their heads, their expressions filled with infinite joy and deep shame…

At this moment, Alice seemed to have undergone some inexplicable changes, and was filled with a sense of holiness and sacredness.

And the old priest, who had recovered, seemed to have undergone some subtle changes.

Barsaka, the oak guard, stood aside, with a serious and fanatical expression, like a statue…

“Have I fooled too much?”

In the divine space, Eve swallowed her saliva in her mind, looking at the column of the number of believers in her data box.

[Number of believers: 3 (Saint 1, Fanatic 2, Pious Believer 0, Shallow Believer 0)]

Eve’s operation was much more powerful than He had imagined.

Originally, He thought that if He could help them in times of need, it might help the two regain their faith, but He did not expect the effect to be so strong!

Saint Alice, who was a devout believer before, not only regained her faith after this turmoil, but also surpassed the level of fanatics and became a saint that is rare in the data!

The old priest who was saved also became a fanatic like the Oak Guard!

Eve can’t forget the scene of the old priest falling to the ground after realizing what happened, slapping himself and crying like a child.

Endless expectations, coupled with the final despair, the hope that appeared at this moment, the shock and effect brought by it are absolutely extraordinary.

“No wonder God wants believers to suffer. Suffering a little and then giving red dates, the effect is stronger… Well, is this what… Stockholm syndrome? Uh… It’s not appropriate to say this, but it’s a bit like it.”

Eve sighed and checked her divine power value again.

[Divine Power: 20/500]

Increasing believers can provide Him with a steady stream of faith, thereby converting divine power, which is what He expected early on.

But the amount of faith brought by high-level believers still surprised Him.

He originally only had 10 points of divine power left, and he consumed another 1 point to heal the two elves, but when the two regained their faith, he actually provided him with 6 points of divine power!

This… is too exaggerated.

You know, it only took 5 points of divine power for him to awaken Basaka.

But soon, Eve discovered that Alice and the other two seemed to be blessed with some kind of inexplicable power, which burst out at the same time as they regained their faith, which led to a surge in divine power…

This power is a bit like willpower.

In addition…

Oak Guard Basaka, who killed more than 20 orcs, actually provided him with 5 points of divine power!

Eve was very strange.

If the changes in Alice and Samir surprised him, then Oak Guard Basaka was frightened.

Although Basaka sacrificed all the vitality of the orcs to him, no matter how you look at it, the vitality of more than 20 orcs with an average strength of only the middle level of black iron is not enough for 5 points of divine power even if they are all added together.

Not to mention 5 points, even 1 point is enough.

However, the 5 points of divine power just now did not seem to be entirely transformed from the vitality of the orcs. It seemed that there was something else…

This power was very similar to that of Alice and the others.

After consulting the inheritance information of the World Tree, Eve had some speculation.

Those orcs were long-term elf hunters. They had accumulated countless elves’ resentment. As the main god of the elves, killing them was to satisfy the wishes of those dead souls.

The stronger and more intelligent the creature, the stronger the resentment after death.

The elves were originally a kind of long-lived intelligent creatures, and they were born with magical physiques. The resentment generated by the death of countless elves over the past thousand years is definitely not a small number.

Resentment is also a kind of spiritual energy, which is similar to the power of faith. The ownerless resentment and soul will fall into the underworld with the death of the creature.

Eve killed these hunters and fulfilled her duty as the “Lord of the Elf”, so the resentment accumulated over the years turned into gratitude and sublimated into the power of faith, which eventually came across the void and fed back to Eve in the form of divine power.

Not only that, even the power of faith provided by the two priests also contained the shadow of the resentment of the elves!

This… surprised Eve greatly.

“In other words, in addition to strengthening my faith, I can also quickly recover my strength by destroying the enemies of the elves, rebuilding the glory of the elves, and gaining the recognition of the dead! Not only that, the skill of war sacrifice seems to have great potential and can indirectly provide me with power…”

Eve came to this conclusion.

But soon, He felt that this was useless…

“The elven enemies I can deal with… directly speaking, most of them should belong to hunting teams, and in fact, the number of these hunting teams is limited. Even if I catch them all in one fell swoop, I am afraid I will not be able to recover much vitality. As for those indirect ones, and the real culprits, I am simply unable to deal with them now…”

“In addition, the resentment of the undead seems to be large in quantity, but in fact it is very limited. It is estimated that it can only be fed back in large quantities in the early stage. Relying solely on the feedback of the resentment of the undead, I am afraid that at most I can be relieved from the near-death state.”

“And if I want to rebuild the glory of the elven race, then I must have enough helpers, that is to say, I must gather the remaining elves to be able to do it. In addition, letting the believers indirectly provide me with power through war sacrifices also requires a huge base to accumulate a small amount…”

“This number is probably at least in the tens of thousands, or even tens of millions…”

“But how many elves are there now?”

Eve had “overheard” the conversation between Alice and Samir before, and she already had a 70% understanding of the current situation of the elves.

In general, the monkeys scattered when the tree fell, and only one in ten survived. The remaining elves were hiding in hiding, and the originally glorious civilization was mostly cut off…

“If I really had enough time to gather my people, my faith would be almost restored. In this way… this is not a shortcut…”

“And if I want to rebuild the elven civilization, it will be even more difficult. The population base required for a civilization is quite large.”

The more Eve thought about it, the more disappointed she felt.

“It’s still too weak. If it was the World Tree in its heyday, there would be no need to worry about the population problem. It would just consume divine power to give birth to the original elves.”

The original elves are the first generation of the elves. They are the first elves born from the World Tree.

“But then again, if I really have the strength to give birth to the original elves, there is no need to rely on rebuilding the elven civilization to restore my strength. This is simply a dead end!”

Thinking of this, Eve felt helpless.

The birth of the original elves consumes too much divine power for Eve now.

To be more precise, the birth of the souls possessed by the original elves consumes too much power for the world tree in poor condition.

Eve has the “life” priesthood, and theoretically has the ability to give birth to souls.

But in her current state, her ability to give birth to souls is almost lost. If she uses it forcibly, the divine power consumption required is much greater than in normal state.

For example, if the consumption of giving birth to a soul in her heyday is 1, then the consumption required in a weak state may be 10…

Not to mention the birth of souls, even “enlightening” Basaka’s soul consumed 5 points of her divine power!

That’s right, “enlightening” the soul.

When she enlightened Basaka, Eve was forcibly exerting her ability.

Of the 5 points of divine power consumed, most of them were used on the soul, and the consumption of giving the Oak Guardian vitality and silver strength actually accounted for very, very little…

And with Eve’s current state, giving birth to the soul of the original elf out of nothing, the consumption would be even greater.

If only the body is born, the consumption is not big.

But if the soul is not given, then what is born is just an empty shell, which is useless.

Of course, as Eve’s strength recovers, the consumption of His soul will gradually decrease… and eventually return to the normal state of the birth of the original elf.

At that time, He will not even need 1 point of divine power to give birth to the soul!

But that is too far away, Eve can’t wait.

This is actually a question of time and efficiency.

“Can I only gather the tribesmen little by little and restore faith to improve my strength? In that case… I’m afraid it will take dozens or hundreds of years?”

Too long!

Moreover, He is not without opponents. Inheriting the World Tree, Eve also inherited the enemies of the previous World Tree. Those old guys are also true gods!

The body of the World Tree was stable for a thousand years before, because the previous World Tree tried his best to cast a curse on his body at the end of the God War.

Under this divine art, except for natural believers, no one below the true god can touch the body of the World Tree.

After the war of gods, the magic power of the world of Segos became increasingly sluggish, and the passage between the heavens and the secular planes was closed. The true gods of the heavens could not descend in their true bodies, and the true gods of the secular world fell into a deep sleep…

In this case, the world tree was preserved.

But when Eve inherited the inheritance, this magic had already been broken.

If Eve did not have enough strength and was still in a dying state, then even if there were a few legendary enemies, she herself would probably be in danger.

“It would be great if there was a way to find a large number of souls. Speaking of which, if there were souls, I could only worry about the body and give birth to elves by tricks… In this way, the population problem would be solved. Then continue to gather the remaining tribesmen, strengthen faith, and take a two-pronged approach to gradually rise…”

But… where can I find souls? Because of the existence of faith, almost all souls in this world have owners! And he can’t enter the underworld…

Moreover, even if he can find a soul that can be used, the other party must be willing to be driven by him.

“It’s too difficult.”

Eve lamented while surfing the Internet in the Godhead Space out of boredom…

“Wait…”

Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, his consciousness trembled, and he stared at the network channel of Blue Star thoughtfully:

“It seems that there is really a way…”

There will be another update in the evening

(End of this chapter)