Chapter 192: Chapter 186 Death God Temple
The Underworld was always so deep and dark, with only the fluorescent stones at the top of the caves bringing a bit of light to the world.
Deep Cave, Black Rock City.
Ever since a group of strange elves arrived here, the place had beco increasingly prosperous.
In the city, the tall figures of the elves had beco a striking sight.
In truth, it was impossible not to notice them.
The Elf Clan had always been tall, whether male or female, none were less than 1.7 ters, and each had outstanding looks, while the tallest of the dwarves was no more than 1.5 ters, with an average height of just 1.3 ters.
Black Rock City, suitable for dwarves to live in, appeared petite overall, and as the elves walked through the city, one group seed even taller, and the other even shorter, making the contrast more apparent…
The dwarves had gradually accepted the daily visits of the elves in Black Rock City.
To the ordinary dark dwarves, these elves were much better than the other rcenaries of the Underworld, laying down their weapons upon entering the city, not causing trouble in groups, and, on the contrary, were very polite to the dwarves… sothing that many rcenaries could not manage, yet the elves did it naturally, without any fuss.
And if you happened to be a Dwarf Forger, you would find them becoming even more courteous, even worshipping you, voluntarily doing all sorts of things for you… just to ask for so guidance on forging techniques.
The dwarves’ forges had long been surrounded by elves. The elves’ appreciation and eagerness to learn dwarven forging techniques left the dwarves flattered and proud.
Of course, what made the dwarves even happier were the goods brought by the elves.
Strong spider silk, plain wheat, quick-growing rice, underground potatoes… and various kinds of fruits that the dwarves had never seen but tasted wonderful.
These were either products that dwarves could not obtain from the underground or specialties from the ground world, brought by the elves in bags into Black Rock City to trade with the dwarves for ores, magic materials, rare tals, and even so knowledge of forging, driving the dark dwarves into a frenzy.
Ling arrived in Black Rock City to see this lively scene…
Divine Favored Zero, or rather… the avatar of Eve.
Indeed, Zero was the True God Avatar constructed by Eve using the Soul Storage Orb as its core!
However, when changing her appearance, she retained the features of the Elf Clan.
This ti, Eve decided to directly dispatch her avatar, even branding the avatar with the label of Divine Favored, which served a strategic purpose…
Engaging with followers of other True Gods, Eve could not trust the players to undertake this task, nor were her followers suitable for it.
The most suitable way, thinking it over, was for her to go undercover.
Branding her disguise with the label of Divine Favored was also Eve’s strategy to better lead the players.
While the system tasks and NPC guidance were good, sotis Eve indeed needed to take action herself to more accurately control the players’ movents or to initiate the most crucial initial contact with other True Gods’ forces.
However, appearing directly as a True God seed undignified, so disguising herself was a good choice.
A True God remained the exalted, impressive True God.
But now, she had an ardent Divine Favored under her who issued tasks.
Of course, Eve set herself up as the third purple NPC, aside from Saintess Alice and Spider Queen Rose!
When Eve entered Black Rock City in Zero’s disguise, she did not attract the attention of other players or dwarves.
She wore black skirt armor, bore a beautifully sharp longsword on her back, and walked boldly through the streets, admiring the customs of Black Rock City.
And everyone seed not to see her, continuing with their own affairs.
Even the pedestrians naturally made way for her but didn’t realize why they were making way or for whom…
And so, Eve straightforwardly and boldly walked all the way to the Dark Temple at the center of Black Rock City.
This Dark Temple was considered the landmark building of all Black Rock City.
The architecture of the entire temple was dramatically different from that of the dwarves’ Black Rock City, dignified and grand. The main structure was made of stone bricks, carved with exquisite patterns and reliefs; the primary color was black, tinged with solemnity and grimness…
In front of the temple, there was also a small fountain, with a statue of a goddess in a black robe, holding a treasure bead and a scythe in the center.
This should be the statue of Hela.
Eve mused.
She looked at the base of the statue and indeed saw two lines written in both Dwarven and Common: Death is the end, and also the beginning.
This was the most famous and widely spread saying of the Death God Church…
If placed in Eve’s Nature God Sect, it would be sowhat similar to “May Nature Be With You,” or “The Goddess of Life Bless You.”
Eve glanced at the statue for a while before shifting her gaze, looking up at this temple dedicated to Death God Hela.
In her vision, this solemn temple appeared sowhat different.
She could “see” the temple as a large light source in the darkness, almost as if it radiated an imnse network, enveloping all of Black Rock City, and around it, particles of flashing photons converged towards the temple at all tis…
This was faith energy.
As a True God who had already established a Divine Country, Eve could see the faith energy and faith network invisible to others.
This temple was the faith hub of Black Rock City.
The faith hub wove an extensive faith network, absorbing the faith power of the dark dwarves, storing it in the temple, and also feeding it back through the temple to the distant Hela in the Netherworld, converting it into Her Divine Power.
If Eve was correct, inside the temple, there should be a statue dedicated to storing faith energy; that was the core of the central hub.
Actually… this was also the way Eve collected faith energy.
The statues that Alice built for her served the purpose of collecting faith, acting as the core and nodes of the faith network.
Besides collecting faith, these statues, serving as nodes of the faith network, could also create a Divine Protection Area radiating the area, representing the influence of a True God.
Within the influence area of a True God, communication between believers and Divines, ditation and prayers by Pastors, Priests, or Priests, would be more efficient.
Besides, True Gods could use these statues to directly transform the area into their realm of control through their Divine Power!
Though it was not a Divine Domain, it still allowed True Gods comprehensive oversight of the area or to perform Divine Descent Techniques and call down their Favored…
Of course… due to the cross-realm needs, such an operation was highly consuming for the True Gods, so generally, no True God would do this.
Except for Eve, who shared the sa plane with the temple…
The totem Guardian Eve had struck down—the Demigod Walker—was actually summoned by the Night Wanderer only after vigilantly praying for hundreds of years at the Rock Cave Tribe’s Uller Statue and constructing a True God summoning array with other magic materials.
For this, the Night Wanderer directly consud the long-accumulated faith power within the statue of the Rock Cave Tribe.
However, besides these functionalities, believers could also use a similar thod to activate the faith power within the statue, granting the temple imnse power to construct large-scale defensive Divine Arts or unleash a fatal attack Divine Arts!
Because of this, any city with a temple would force enemy forces to first find a way to destroy the statue within the temple before attacking.
Otherwise, they must consider how to defend against the temple’s counterattack or break its defenses.
If the Half-Beast had activated the defensive Divine Arts through the statue in the last monts, they wouldn’t have been chased so badly by Black Dragon Mairrel but could have evacuated more tribesn more calmly…
But it was all impossible because choosing to summon the Demigod Walker ant the statue’s energy would be completely depleted.
When observing the Death God’s temple, Eve felt sowhat surprised.
She noticed that the light of the faith core within the Black Rock City’s Death God Temple seed quite dim, and the faith network was tottering…
This situation indicated that the statue storing the faith power within the Death God Temple probably held little accumulated energy or was already exhausted.
Could it be that the presence of Shadow Lord believers prevented the Death God Church from fully mastering Black Rock City?
Or had the Death God Church once utilized the faith power within the statue?
Eve slightly furrowed her brows.
Suddenly, she had a hunch and had a bit of a guess.
She retracted her gaze, then gently stepped inside the temple…
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