Chapter 6: The Renewed Faith
The main trunk of the World Tree is in the Temple of Nature.
Alice, the Lady of Nature, and Samir, the old priestess, knelt in front of the idol with some trepidation.
They bowed their heads with infinite joy and deep shame......
At this moment, Alice seems to have undergone some kind of inexplicable change in her body, permeated with a sense of holiness and sacredness.
And the old priest, who has been restored, seems to have undergone some subtle transformation.
The oak guard Basaka stood to the side, his expression serious and fanatical, like a statue......
"Am I fooling myself too much?"
In the Godhead space, looking at the column of the number of believers in her data box, Eve swallowed a mouthful of saliva in her consciousness.
[Number of believers: 3 (1 saint, 2 fanatics, 0 devout believers, 0 shallow believers)]
Eve's actions were far more powerful than he could have imagined.
Originally, he thought that if he sent charcoal in the snow, he might be able to better regain their faith between the two, but he didn't 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 crossed the level of a fanatical believer and became a rare saint in the data!
And the old priest who was saved his life has also become a fanatical believer like the oak guard!
Eve could not forget the sight of the old priest falling to the ground when he realized what had happened, slapping himself and crying like a child.
The endless anticipation, coupled with the ultimate despair, the hope that appears at this moment is absolutely extraordinary in shock and effect.
"No wonder God wants to make believers suffer, and if they suffer a little and then give a red date, this effect should not be stronger...... Hmm, that's what that is...... Stockholm syndrome? ”
Eve sighed and checked her divine power again.
[Divine Power: 20/500]
This result was a great surprise to Him.
Originally, he only had 10 points of divine power left, and in order to heal the two elves, he consumed another 1 point, but when the two of them regained their faith, they actually provided him with 6 points of divine power!
Of these, 4 points are provided by Alice, who was promoted to sainthood.
Not only that, but he killed more than 20 half-orcs in his oak guard, Basaka, and provided him with 5 points of divine power.
This time, not only did his divine power not decrease, but increased to 20 points, which was even higher than before he summoned Basaka!
Looking at her divine power, Eve fell into deep thought.
Increasing the number of believers would provide Him with a steady stream of faith that would transform His Divine Power, which He had anticipated in the early days. But he was taken aback by the amount of faith that high-level believers bringed.
But he also knew that this kind of thing should be unavoidable, and the two elves were originally natural believers who persevered to the end, which also showed that they already had great faith potential, after all, not everyone can become devout believers in an instant.
In this regard, Eve proved one thing, the path of strengthening the faith is absolutely right for Him now!
But......
Thinking of the 5 points of divine power that the Oak Guard had just provided for herself, Eve's heart was very strange.
5 Divine Power!
If Alice and Samir's changes surprised him, the Oak Guard Basaka was a frightening one.
Although Basaka sacrificed all the life force of the half-orcs to him, no matter how you look at it, the more than twenty half-orcs with an average strength of only the middle of the black iron are not enough for 5 divine power points even if they are all combined.
Don't say it's 5 o'clock, 1 o'clock is enough to choke.
It's just that the 5 points of divine power just now don't seem to be all transformed by the vitality of the half-orcs, as if there are other things......
And after consulting the inheritance data of the World Tree, Eve had some kind of speculation.
Those orcs are perennial elven hunters, and they have accumulated the resentment of countless elves, and as the main god of the elves, killing them is to satisfy the wishes of those dead souls.
The more powerful and intelligent the creature, the stronger the resentment after death.
And the elf is a long-lived intelligent creature, and it is born with a magical physique. The resentment generated by the death of countless elves over the past thousand years is definitely not a small number.
Resentment is also a type of spiritual energy, similar to the power of faith, and the resentment and soul of the ownerless will fall into the underworld with the death of living beings.
Eve killed these hunters to fulfill the duty of the "main god of the elves", so these years of resentment turned into gratitude, sublimated into the power of faith, and finally crossed the void and fed back to Eve with divine power.
This...... Eve was pleasantly surprised.
"In other words, in addition to strengthening my faith, I can also quickly regain my strength by destroying the enemies of the elves, rebuilding the glory of the elven race, and gaining the approval of the revenants! Not only that, but the skill of War Sacrifice also seems to have a lot of potential, which can indirectly provide me with strength......"
Eve came to such a conclusion.
Soon, however, he felt that this was a piece of the chicken......
"The elven enemies I can deal with...... Directly speaking, most of them should belong to hunting teams, but in fact, these hunting teams are limited in number, and even if I catch them all, I'm afraid I won't be able to recover much. As for the indirect, as well as the real culprits, I can't deal with them at all now......"
"And if I want to rebuild the glory of the elven race, then I must have enough helpers, that is, I must gather the remaining elven race to be able to do it. In addition, it also takes a huge base to allow believers to indirectly provide me with strength through war sacrifices......"
"I'm afraid this number is at least 10,000, maybe even tens of millions......"
"But how many elves are there?"
Having "audited" the conversation between Alice and Samir before, Eve already has a seven-eight point understanding of the current situation of the elves.
In general, the trees are scattered and scattered, and there is not one out of ten, and the remaining elves are all hiding in Tibet, and most of the original glorious civilization has been broken......
"If there is enough time to gather my people, my faith will be almost restored, so to speak...... It's not a shortcut......"
"And if you want to rebuild the elven civilization, it will be even more difficult, and the population base required for a civilization is quite large."
The more she thought about it, the more disappointed Eve felt.
"It's still too weak, if it's the World Tree in its heyday, you don't have to worry about the population at all, you can directly consume divine power to give birth to the primordial elves."
The Primordial Elves are the first generation of the Elven race, and they are the first Elves to be born from the World Tree.
"But then again, if I really have the strength to give birth to the primordial elves, there is no need to rebuild the elven civilization to restore my strength, this is simply a dead knot!"
Thinking of this, Eve felt helpless.
The birth of the primordial elf consumes too much divine power for the current Eve.
To be more precise, to give birth to the souls possessed by the primordial elves is too much for the World Tree that is not in good shape.
Eve has the priesthood of "life", and theoretically has the ability to give birth to souls.
But in his current state, his ability to give birth to a soul is almost lost, and if it is forcibly used, the consumption of divine power is much greater than in the normal state.
For example, if the cost of giving birth to a soul in its heyday is 1, then the cost of being weak may be 10......
Not to mention the birth of souls, even the soul of "igniting" Basaka consumed 5 points of his divine power!
That's right, "igniting" the soul.
When Bassaka is ignited, Eve is forcibly exerting her abilities.
Of the 5 points of divine power consumed, the vast majority of them are used for souls, and the consumption of giving Oak Guardian vitality and silver strength is actually very, very small......
And with Eve's current state, the soul of the primordial elf was born out of nothing, and the consumption was even greater.
If you just give birth to a body, it doesn't cost much.
But if you don't give it to the soul, then what is born is just an empty shell, and it is useless at all.
Of course, as Eve's strength recovers, the consumption of his birth soul will gradually decrease...... Eventually, it reverts to the normal state of the Primordial Elf.
At that time, it didn't even take a single point of divine power for Him to give birth to a soul!
But that was too far away, and Eve couldn't wait.
It's really a matter of time and efficiency.
"Can we only gather the clansmen little by little, restore faith and improve our strength? In that case...... I'm afraid it will take tens or hundreds of years, right? ”
It's been too long!
Moreover, he is not without opponents, he inherited the World Tree, Eve also inherited the enemies of the previous World Tree, and those old Yin B are also the existence of true gods!
The previous World Tree's body was stable for a thousand years, and that was because the previous World Tree tried his best to apply a curse magic to his body at the end of the Divine War.
Under this divine art, no one under the True God can access the body of the World Tree except for the natural believers.
After the Divine War, the magic power of the Seggs world became more and more sluggish, and the passage between the heavenly realm and the secular plane was also closed, and the true gods of the celestial realm could not come in their true bodies, and the true gods of the secular realm fell into a deep sleep......
In this case, the World Tree was preserved.
But by the time Eve inherited the lineage, the magic had already been broken.
If Eve doesn't have enough strength and is still in a near-death state, then even if there are a few enemies with legendary strength, he himself may not be able to protect himself.
"If only 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 be able to give birth to elves in a clever way...... In this way, the population problem will be solved. Then continue to gather the remnants of the clan, strengthen the faith, and gradually rise to the ......"
But...... Where to find the soul? Because of the existence of faith, almost all souls in this world have a Lord! And he can't enter the underworld......
And even if He can find a soul to use, the other person must be willing to be driven by Him.
"It's too hard."
Eve lamented as she was bored surfing the online world in Godhead......
"Wait......"
Suddenly, as if thinking of something, his consciousness trembled, and he stared thoughtfully at the network channel of the blue star:
"It seems like there's a way to ......"