Game of the World Tree - Chapter 814

Chapter 814: The Player’s Adventure Journey (Updated)

Old John told his story.

It was a happy family, but how it was broken apart within a year, and how he went from a farmer who could still afford food and clothing to a down-and-out freeman who was constantly struggling on the edge of survival.

After listening to his story, the elves felt heavy-hearted and sighed.

Along the way, they had seen all kinds of beautiful scenery and all kinds of customs, but at the same time, they also saw the miserable lives of civilians in the human kingdom.

Old John was just a microcosm of thousands of refugees, and there were many others who had similar or even worse experiences than him.

The darkness of the human world in “Elf Kingdom” is far more cruel than the players imagined. Even though they had seen a lot in the former Maple Leaf Territory, compared to the vast empire, the Maple Leaf Territory was still considered rich.

On the other hand, the lives of the nobles were like heaven, with a life of luxury and decadence.

This made the players sigh that such a country could still be maintained. It can only be said that the existence of extraordinary power made all unreasonable things reasonable.

But at the same time, as they saw and heard along the way, a doubt gradually grew in the hearts of the players.

“The lives of human civilians are so difficult, does the Eternal Church not care at all?”

After listening to Old John’s story, Demacia asked doubtfully.

He was really confused.

As an outstanding MLM (crossed out) missionary leader under the goddess, he thought he had some experience in this regard. Logically speaking, the more war-torn the times, the better opportunities there should be to preach faith.

When a person is in the most dangerous time, helping others in need, even if it is just a drop of water, will be exchanged for the other party’s infinite gratitude.

For the church, this is the best time to expand the number of believers.

Not to mention anything else, even if the Eternal Church sets up a porridge shed in the city, I am afraid it will gain a group of devout believers among the refugees.

But what they see now is that most churches don’t care about what happens in the territory.

Of course, strictly speaking, it is not really indifferent. Along the way, Demacia has seen many priests helping the poor.

However, as a missionary leader, Demacia thought that they could do better, but they obviously didn’t try hard.

“Manage? It would be great if they did. The priests only have the nobles in their eyes now.”

Old John shook his head.

Demacia frowned even more.

This is not normal, not like a normal church.

Even if the priests are corrupted, colluding with the nobles and indulging in a life of luxury, will the gods not care?

After all, they should punish them, right?

After all, believers are the source of power of the true God!

Player priests will be punished by the game system and the goddess if they make trouble. “Elf Kingdom” pursues authenticity so much, it will not make low-level mistakes in such places, right?

“However, the churches of the God of Trade, the God of Art, and the Goddess of Love and Festival are said to be much better, and they often help the poor, but unfortunately, there are no churches of them in Lyuk City.”

Old John said again.

The God of Trade, the God of Art, and the Goddess of Love and Festival are all subordinate gods of the Eternal Lord, and have their own churches.

The sphere of influence of their church is intertwined with the Eternal Church. It is independent of the Eternal Church, but also like a subordinate of the Eternal Church.

However, their churches are not everywhere, but only in some large cities, as well as in the east and south of the empire.

It is worth mentioning that in the Kingdom of Aris in the south, there are more of these large and small subordinate churches, and the control and influence of the Eternal Church on the kingdom is not as good as that of the Holy Mania Empire.

After listening to Old John’s story, Demacia became more and more confused about the Eternal Church’s practices, and finally couldn’t help but complain in the team’s chat channel.

Seeing his complaints, Zhu Zhu on the side glanced at him and replied:

“Dema, do you know how many believers the Eternal Lord has?”

“How many? Isn’t it said to be hundreds of millions?”

Demacia typed.

“More than.”

Zhu Zhu sent a shaking head expression.

“I once did a short-term mission in Maple Moon Free Territory with Big Sister. It was when we had just liberated that place and started to preach. At that time, I felt the corruption of the Eternal Church, and I specially asked Big Sister about this question. Do you know how Big Sister answered?”

“How did she answer?”

“The faith in the Eternal Lord has long spread throughout the Segos Universe. There are no less than 500 main material planes belonging to Him, or even more. Among them are large planes with an area comparable to that of the Segos world, and this does not include various other half-planes suitable for believers to live… Just think about it, how many believers are there in all the planes combined?”

“Fuck?! This is too exaggerated, right? What kind of monster is the goddess facing? In the background of the game, hasn’t the Eternal Lord only risen for a thousand years?”

“Dema, do you underestimate the reproductive capacity of mankind? Not to mention that in the extraordinary world, no matter how difficult the lower class is, the overall resources are abundant. Overall, the population growth rate is much more exaggerated than that of Blue Star.” “Hiss…

So, it’s not that the true God allows the church to corrupt, but that the gods don’t care at all?”

“Of course, think about it, ruling so many planes, having so many believers, what difference does it make if there are more or less?”

The two players communicated with each other in the chat channel, and Demacia’s expression changed several times.

As a pyramid scheme (crossed out again) missionary leader under the goddess, he had never taken the crappy Eternal Church seriously, but now he suddenly realized that he was facing such a huge behemoth…

“By the way, the big sister has another word.”

Rong Rong typed again.

“What?”

Demacia was a little curious.

“The Lord of the Era is the Lord of the Era after all, no matter how crappy he is, he is still the Lord of the Era.”

“Wow, the big sister even knows how to say ‘crazy’.”

“Thrandil has also learned to flirt with girls in various ways…”

The players chatted in a random manner, and after talking about their own things, Old John also introduced the situation nearby to everyone.

Although the players had almost inquired about everything, they still listened carefully. After all, different people would bring more or less different news.

Of course, overall it’s pretty much the same.

The players are now in a small city of 50,000 people. Well… at least in human society, a city with this number of people can barely be considered a small city. In the underground world, it can be called a metropolis.

This small town is called Luc City. It is located in the northern border of the Empire and belongs to the Rosen family, one of the seven electors.

The Rosen family is the main branch of the Wells family to which Sophia belongs. They are the unlucky noble family whose army was completely wiped out by the Titan Evil God. In a sense, they are also old friends of the players.

Further north is the military town of Klinburg, which is adjacent to the Arctic Ice Field.

Of course, although Luc City is located in the north of the continent, it is affected by the monsoon of the Elf Forest. The four seasons here are distinct and the climate is pleasant. It is not as cold as imagined. It is even hot in summer.

The people of Demacia came here only as a way. Their real purpose is to visit Dragon Island.

That was a task issued by the big sister of the church a few months ago. Specifically, it was to thank Dragon Island for its assistance in the war. In other words, they were the messengers of the Elf Forest.

In theory, it should be the fastest to start from the northwest of the Elf Forest and then ride a dragon to Dragon Island.

However, since the world map of Segos was open and the date for visiting Dragon Island was still a while away, the players did not rush to go there, but changed another route, planning to cross the human empire, cross the Arctic ice field, and then go to Dragon Island.

In the final analysis, they just wanted to go around and have fun, and feel the real adventure life of “Elf Kingdom”.

It is worth mentioning that it was Li Mu who proposed this idea. He also specially opened a special topic of mainland travel on the barrage video website based on this action. It is said that the number of views directly exploded.

And this time, it was not just the three of them who went forward together. Each of the seven major guilds sent at least one person, a total of ten people, and everyone acted together.

The participants were almost all the presidents of various guilds. Even if they were not, they were the senior leaders of the guilds, and their levels had all been promoted to gold before departure.

This is also the confidence for them to choose this task.

After the gold rank, the speed of promotion by brushing small monsters is getting slower and slower. In contrast, traveling on the mainland and solving problems that NPCs cannot solve often have unexpected gains.

When the group first entered the empire, they unexpectedly encountered a legendary monster rampage and slaughtered the city near a town in the western territory, but the opponent was already seriously injured and only one tenth of its strength remained.

The ten gold players worked together and cooperated with a large mercenary group nearby to kill the monster.

All ten people benefited from it and their levels soared a lot.

With the sweetness, everyone became more enthusiastic about such actions.

However, after arriving in a new city, everyone often chooses to move freely. Each guild will choose its own way to inquire about the news and then reunite.

The Nature’s Heart where the three people are, thanks to Demacia, is most accustomed to looking for taverns in civilian areas to inquire.

By the way, everyone also came here on dragons, but now the dragons have been released to the suburbs by them, and they have used stealth magic to hide their bodies.

There is no way, if so many dragons suddenly appear, it will be too conspicuous.

Although… the ten people had already become famous after killing the legendary monster, I heard from friends who were adventuring in Maple Moon Free Territory that there were already bards singing their deeds.

What legends of the Elf Dragon Knight, the righteous and brave ranger, etc.

They even composed music.

After everyone started the adventure, a new function, or system evaluation, was introduced in the game system – Legend.

This is an indicator based on the reputation of the players on the continent, representing the popularity of the players.

Legend has two benefits, one is to increase the probability of players obtaining job transfer and advancement quotas, and the other is to increase the probability of triggering hidden tasks and advanced rewards.

Only when you do righteous things will your legend increase, and if you do unjust things, not only will your legend not increase, but your reputation will be deducted, and you may even become the target of the Church of Life.

In more serious cases, it will trigger the red name mechanism, or even directly ban your account.

If you do something sensational, your legend will skyrocket.

For example, the legendary monster that ten people eradicated and massacred the city became famous in the western region, and everyone’s legendary degree increased a lot.

However, the legendary degree is not static. If you do nothing, the legendary degree will slowly decrease.

Only by constantly doing some righteous causes and becoming famous in the mainland can you maintain a high level.

It is worth mentioning that the player with the highest legendary degree in the entire server is Cyber. This player who saved the frost elves was already a big boss when the legendary degree was just launched.

After the legendary degree was launched, the elves, whose image and reputation were gradually becoming subtle due to repeated wars and various deceptions in dealing with various forces, began to turn around their reputation.

The opening of the large map not only did not cause the elves’ reputation to be harmed on a large scale, but also showed a trend of gradual improvement.

However, the reversal of the elves’ reputation is different from the past impression of kindness and innocence.

This time… the impression of the elves by the world is concentrated on “justice”, “kindness”, “mercy”, “chivalry”, “bravery”, “powerful”, “hate evil as much as hatred”, “eliminating evil and promoting good” and so on.

Just like the knights in the story.

Coupled with the noble and beautiful appearance of the elves, for a time, some novels and dramas describing the adventures of the elves began to become popular in some areas, and it is said that they are deeply loved by young boys and girls.

Faintly, a wave of elves seems to be popular on the mainland.

Of course, these things are just a sign now, and only some careful players have discovered it.

As for whether there are players behind this… well, I can only say that those who understand will understand.

Back to the present.

It has been two months since Li Mu and others ventured all the way to Luke City.

After leaving here, they will cross the Arctic Ice Field, cross the Northwest Sea, and go to Dragon Island.

Of course, now they have to go to the mine first.

Golden dragons are very rare. There are more than 500 giant dragons contracted with players in the entire Elf Forest, but there are less than ten golden dragons in total.

The three players sat on the chairs in the town square, listening to Old John telling about the mine, and after a while, new elves appeared in their sight one after another.

“Miao Boss! Sister Feng! Here, here!”

Demacia waved excitedly to the elves in the distance.

Old John looked over curiously and saw that they were two female elves, a mage and a druid.

The robes they wore were even more gorgeous and beautiful than those of Li Mu and others.

Please vote for me! (Stand up straight, confident and righteous~)

(End of this chapter)