Game of the World Tree
chapter-132

▪️WHERE IS BOXLUNCH?

Disputes between gods should be conducted through godly means…Actually, this statement is not entirely accurate.

More precisely, the ‘gods’ mentioned here almost exclusively refers to the faith-based gods who solely relies on religion in order to gain divine power.

In fact, this statement was formulated by the gods after the Heavenly War a thousand years ago.

In Saigües, the most common reason for declaring war is because of religion. The battles among mortal beings are mostly wars of faith because their Patron Deities power are determined by the dominance of their religion.

These wars are mostly fought by the believers on both sides and rarely did the gods themselves or their demigod-rank envoys ever intervenes in this battle.

Especially in the mortal realm!

The mortal realm rarely becomes a battlefield for beings of demigod level and above due to it being the land where majority of their believers reside in.

This is the covenant amongst the gods.

It will inevitably cause great damage to the mortal realm, if beings of demigod level and above ever engage in battle in Saigües which is not what the deities want to see since this land is the main source of faith for the true gods.

Especially after the heavenly war a thousand years ago, which resulted in the stability of the mortal realm becoming far less than what it used to be.

Seeing the aftermath of that heavenly war further solidified the decision of the pantheon gods to create a Covenant that barred any mythological-level battles from ever occurring within the mortal realm.

Generally speaking, battles involving beings of demigod level and above usually take place in the Heavenly Realm or the Cosmic Void…

These matters were read from the memory of Volker, when she annihilated the demigod.

Evé originally hoped to learn some secrets of the gods from Volker, but unfortunately, some of the demigod’s memories seemed to have been sealed by Uller and would self-destruct if someone would try to forcibly read them.

However, the rules of the Covenant formulated by the Pantheon Gods that she read were not a disadvantage to her at all.

At least… she knew now that if necessary, she could threaten the gods by using the mortal realm as a hostage.

However, how effective it would be still remains to be seen. Since Saigües was almost the only source of faith for the true gods even way back at the ancient times.

However, after reading the limited memories of Volker, Evé also learned that almost all the qualified gods have also started spreading their own religion in other realms for centuries as well.

It is a well-known truth understood by all that one should not put all their eggs into one basket.

But even so, as the largest source of faith, the world of Saigües position within the hearts of the gods is still far higher than any other realms.

Evé conveyed her message to Uller for two reasons: to throw a smokescreen onto her real identity and to lay the groundwork for the players’ future actions…

After everything settled, Eve began to check her own status,

【Name: Evé Yggdrasill 】

【 Race: World Tree (Ancient God) 】

【 Level: 150 (Mythical) 】

【 Status: Low Divine Power 】

【 Divinity : Nature, Life, Elvenkind 】

【 Divine Power Value: 363/3000 】

【 Titles: Mother of Nature, Goddess of Life, Matriarch of the Elves 】

【 Number of Followers: 222 (Saints 1, Fanatics 3, Devout Believers 81, Shallow Believers 107) 】

【Abilities: Absorption, Communication, Bestowal, Enlightenment, Healing, Summoning, Divine Descent, Celestial Domain…】

Unlike before, after opening the NPC system, Eve’s number of devout believers have soared once again, and the faith of many Rageblaze clan elves were further strengthened.

This made Evé very satisfied.

The NPC task system simply meant more fun for players, but for the native elves, acquiring this ability meant their Patron Goddess’s blessing and approval!

However, compared to the pleasing changes within her own followers, her soaring DP value made her much more delighted.

It must be said that this was the biggest victory she had gained ever since her rebirth. Not only did she eliminated a demigod and cut off one of Uller’s Godwarden, but she also annihilated more than 4,000 orcs!

After accounting for consumption, Eve’s DP value had surpassed 300 and reached an unprecedented 363 points!

However, after this victory, some problems also began to surfaced.

One of them was the issue of feedback from those wandering haunted spirits.

Shortly after the players attacked the Caverock Tribe, Evé realized that the resentment of those wandering elven ghosts have been completely resolved.

With Evé resolving these grievances and resentments, she also inadvertently depleted their numbers, thus lessening the divine power she could obtain when killing orcs in the future. The amount of divine power she could obtain from this battle would’ve been much more than three hundred points.

This also means that she will need to find new ways to increase her divine power in the future.

The second issue is with the players.

During this entire quest, Evé intentionally did not give too many instructions and instead allowed the players to freely assess the situation by themselves and plan accordingly to their own judgments without any direct input from her.

As a result, the most players experienced explosive growth.

Even without the system’s prompts, they were able to find the most suitable strategy to use and complete the quest in a spectacular fashion.

However…

The problem lies in the strategies used by the players.

More specifically, it’s their use of sacrificial rush tactics to eliminate the enemies…

Although Evé had considered the possibility of problems arising in the future when setting up the perfect revival for players, what she did not expect is for it to happen this soon.

To be honest, the players’ tactics were not wrong, and the suicide rush strategy was indeed quite an effective method to win battles against stronger opponents.

However, it was entirely different matter for Eve, who is the primary source and grantor of the players’ resurrection.

In the early stages, when players were still at a lower level, the cost of reviving them was low and the benefits gained from killing targets were high, so there was no issue so far.

But as the players’ levels increased, Evé found that the cost of resurrecting players have rapidly increased as well…

Especially more so since instant revival and body creation were vastly different.

Creating a player’s physical avatar can be extended over time, and a single point of divine power can create up to 300 avatars, but the consumption of instant resurrection is way more than several times this amount.

During the battle with the orcs, the cost of resurrecting players was still far lower than the rewards for killing their targets, but after the elven ghosts’ resentments was resolved, these bonus DP rewards became lower and lower.

Although still tolerable, it also sounded an alarm for Evé.

She could foresee that as the players’ strength keeps on further increasing, the cost of resurrecting them would surely become more higher and higher and if its not properly regulated then…there would come a time wherein the revival cost would be so astronomical that it’s no longer viable to do so.

“It seems that the method of perfect revival is not entirely perfect either. It’s still okay for low-level players who didn’t need much DP to revive, but I need to think of a better way to lessen the resurrection of high-level players in the future. Especially after reaching mid-to-high levels, players must cherish their lives a little bit more…”

At this moment, she suddenly sensed a large number of offerings and prayers…

With a mere thought, Evé chose to accept them all.

In an instant, a large wave of shabby beastmen equipments flooded into her celestial domain as it quickly piles up into hills, making her domain look more like a junkyard.

Eve: …

Seeing this situation, she realized that the players have started selling their unwanted items yet again.

Even though the players fought hard in this battle and seized countless pieces of equipment as spoils of war, many of these items were either damaged or broken beyond all repair.

With thousands sets of similar equipment flooding the market and supply exceeding the demand, the value of these goods would certainly drop to bargain prices.

In this situation, many people would choose to offer these low quality equipments to Evé instead in exchange for contribution points.

Of course, this was only limited to melee-based equipments.

Orcs have no spellcasters except for priests, and almost all of them are warriors, hence naturally, the excess equipments was also mostly belonging to that of melee-classes.

As for spellcaster equipments…the quantity was still very scarce.

The few lucky ones who managed to loot some priest’s equipment made a fortune.

Thinking of this, Evé naturally accepted all these junk equipments, waved her hand to reward the players who initiated the offering rituals, and started to repair and enhanced these damaged goods in bulk…

After adding some special bonus properties, these equipment could be resold for a good price.

Of course, circulating these items back into the markets had to be done little by little.

As the saying goes, scarcity leads to higher prices.

Most of these equipments will be stockpiled for now in preparation for the eventual launch of the open-beta which will inevitably draw in massive amounts of new players needing equipments.

At the same time, Evé also added Night Wanderer’s Ring and Volker’s Frost Axe that she had seized to the exchange system store.

The former was renamed Spatial Ring, and the latter’s name was changed to Frost Battle Axe, both of which were legendary golden class equipments!

However, the rings’ contents was already emptied by Evé, and the divine power imbued within the Frost Battle Axe had also been completely drained by her, leaving it as an ordinary axe that could only display power close to silver rank…

The Elven Forest.

Each player’s eyes lit up with eagerness when they saw the two newly added golden legendary items in the exchange store.

“Oh nice! Spatial Ring? It’s actually a storage ring!”

“What? A Spatial Ring? Did the devs finally released space storing equipments?”

“This is…the demigod’s Frost Battle Axe? S-So cool! I’m going for it! A level 40 golden legendary weapon! How powerful is that! It’s the current weapon with the highest level on the entire server!”

“Both are legendary golden items! And there’s only one of each in the entire server!”

“So it’s imited edition? Now I really want it even more now…”

However, their excitement immediately died down upon seeing the strings of ‘zeros’ attached to the contribution points price requirement.

“…one…ten…hundred…thousand…t-ten thousand…H-Hundred Thousands!?”

The players gasped in shock as they felt their stomachs cramping at the sheer ridiculous price needed to be paid in order to purchase it.

“Whoa…not good, my l-liver hurts.”

“No way man, only those damned whales could afford these things.”

“This sucks…it looks like only the super-rich or the hardcore players can successfully exchange for it.”

“F*ck, I’m so jealous…”

“Oh yeah, speaking of hardcore players…what happened to Boxlunch?”