For the prayers of the believers she heard, Eve did not directly cast her gaze over, but instead allowed her consciousness to return to the Divine Country, and directly connected to her own faith network...
Now her followers were increasing in number.
Using her divine soul and divinity as the core to operate the faith network and listen to the prayers of the believers and respond was no longer a good thod.
Therefore, Eve had early on completely bound the faith network with the Divine Country.
Here, one point had to be ntioned.
As ntioned in many Blue Star novels, the power of faith was not without any side effects.
Most intuitively speaking, even if it were a True God, if they constantly heard the prayers of countless believers, including trivial matters, then... No matter how strong the divine soul of the True God was, the annoyance alone would be intolerable.
However, this was not the most important issue.
The most important thing was that long-term listening to the prayers of the believers, allowing one’s divine soul to be completely imrsed in the power of faith, even posed a risk of corruption to a True God...
Indeed, corruption.
*At least... for those True Gods of Faith who wished to maintain their pre-divine essence, it was a form of contamination.*
The power of faith was strong, magical, and held infinite possibilities.
Even a True God could not thoroughly comprehend its mysteries, but could only utilize conversion...
However, at the sa ti, the believers’ perception of the True God hidden within the power of faith could also affect the True God themselves.
Generally speaking, if a True God was in prolonged direct contact with the power of faith, the divine soul was very likely to be eroded by faith, leading to changes in mindset and thought, eventually becoming the True God as perceived by the believers, rather than their original self...
Therefore, when her number of believers broke through a certain limit, Eve had early adopted the approach commonly used by other True Gods of Faith.
That was to separate her faith network from her divine soul, using the Divine Country as the formal core of the faith network, while she only needed to control the faith network through the Divine Country.
To illustrate, it was equivalent to setting up a faith computer in the Divine Country to assist the True God in managing the faith network.
This faith network of the Divine Country could even replace the True God to listen to the prayers of ordinary believers and make certain responses, and handle the promotion of ordinary priests or clerics, and so on...
This way, not only was the workload reduced, but the influence of faith on the True God was also avoided, and the True God just needed to enjoy the divine power converted from the faith provided by believers.
However, this also had its drawbacks.
It required a significant consumption to maintain the faith network of the Divine Country.
Moreover, the more believers, the greater the consumption, leading to a lower conversion rate of faith into divine power...
This was why many True Gods with strong divine power had terrifying numbers of believers.
*There was no choice, to maintain strong divine power while keeping one’s true self, more believers were needed when the conversion rate of divine power was very low.*
And more believers ant a greater burden and an even lower conversion rate...
This vicious cycle led to the fact that the number of believers required for a powerful True God was extrely intimidating...
Of course, letting the Divine Country network autonomously handle the prayers and responses of believers was only with regard to common believers.
A True God would definitely pay special attention to certain prayer contents and special believers by personally listening.
*In a sense, the ga system Eve devised was actually a special faith network connected to her real faith network...*
By the way, the reason Eve dared to openly appear on the stage of Segis World and demonstrate her rapid growth and almost public shelter of elves was not just because of Hela as a scapegoat and having an alias, but also because Eve considered the uniqueness of faith power and thought of another way to explain her identity and power...
*Yes, a way that perfectly suited her, even explaining her appearance similar to that of the previous World Tree...*
Of course, these were topics for later.
*Returning to the present.*
As a True God intending to operate on the path of faith for the long term, Eve naturally set specific conditions for personally listening to believers’ prayers.
Her criteria required either the prayers of fanatics and above, or desperate prayers from believers in great distress...
Clearly, from the emotions of the praying believers faintly perceived, this ti it was the latter.
So, Eve had to personally inspect the situation.
Furthermore... she roughly knew who it should be this ti.
Connecting her consciousness to the faith network of the Divine Country, Eve quickly saw the praying believers and the environnt they were in.
It was a rugged hillside.
And more than a dozen hooded elves were cowering under a dead tree, faces pale.
The ages of these elves varied, with the young protected in the center, and the young n and elderly wielding weapons on the outside, many already bearing injuries.
Among them, a golden-haired, green-eyed female elf lay in the center of the group.
Her face was ashen, even sowhat sallow, clearly having overextended her magic power or having been rebounded from forcibly executing so potent skill.
And her appearance had long been noted on Eve’s list.
Selena Swiftwind.
She was one of the high-ranking mbers of the Oak Hand, a friend of Life Saintess Alice Gale, long active in the Human World, rescuing elves and half-elf fellow kin hunted by humans.
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