The underground world was always dark and gloomy. Only the fluorescent stones at the top of the cavern brought some light to the world.
Deep Cavern, Black Rock City.
Ever since a group of strange elves came here, the city had become more and more prosperous.
In the city, the tall and slender elves had become an eye-catching sight.
In fact, it was impossible not to attract attention.
The elves had always been tall. Regardless of male or female, the lowest height was no less than 1.7 meters. Moreover, all of them had outstanding appearances. The tallest of the Dark Dwarves was no more than 1.5 meters, and the average height was only 1.3 meters.
Black Rock City, which was suitable for dwarves to live in, actually looked small and exquisite. When the elves walked in the city, one side looked taller, while the other side looked shorter. The contrast was even more obvious.
The dwarves had gradually accepted the elves who visited Black Rock City daily.
To the ordinary Dark Dwarves, these elves were much better than the other mercenaries in the underground world. They would unload their weapons when they entered the city and would not cause trouble. On the contrary, they were very polite to the dwarves. This was something that many mercenaries could not do, but the elves did it naturally and without any hesitation.
If you happened to be a dwarven blacksmith, you would find that the elves were even more polite. They would even chase after you, worship you, and take the initiative to do all kinds of things for you … just to ask you to teach them how to forge.
The dwarves' forge house had long been surrounded by elves. The elves' enthusiasm for learning dwarves' forging skills made the dwarves feel flattered, but at the same time, they were also very proud.
Of course, what made the dwarves even happier was the goods brought by the elves.
Tough spider silk, plain wheat, fast-growing rice, sweet potatoes … and all kinds of delicious fruits that the dwarves had never seen before.
These were either underground products that the dwarves could not obtain, or specialties from the surface world. The elves brought bags of these goods into Black Rock City to trade ores, magic materials, rare metals, and even forging knowledge with the dwarves. This caused countless Dark Dwarves to go crazy.
When Zero arrived at Black Rock City, she was greeted by such a lively scene...
God's chosen one, Zero, or … Eve's incarnation.
That's right, Zero was Eve's true god incarnation with the Soul Storage Orb as the core.
However, when she changed her appearance, she retained the characteristics of an elf.
This time, Eve had made the decision to send out her avatar directly. She had even labeled her avatar as a god's chosen one after careful consideration.
Eve couldn't trust the players to make contact with the believers of other gods, and Eve's believers weren't suitable for it either.
The most suitable thing to do was to open a small sockpuppet account.
The reason why Eve labeled herself as a God's Chosen was to better lead the players.
Although the guidance from the system quests and NPCs was good, there were times when Eve needed to act personally to control the players' movements more accurately, or to have the most important first communication with other True Gods.
It was just that entering the arena as a True God was a little too degrading. At this time, it was a good choice to put on a sock puppet.
A True God was still that high and mighty True God who was full of pretentiousness.
It was just that he now had a fanatical Chosen who issued missions under him.
Of course, Eve had also set this sock puppet as the third purple NPC after the Saintess Alice and the Queen of Spiders Lolth.
When Eve entered Black Rock City as Zero, she didn't attract the attention of the other players and Dwarves.
She wore a black skirted armor and carried a fine and sharp longsword on her back. She swaggered through the streets, admiring the local customs of Black Rock City.
Everyone acted as if they didn't see her and just continued with their own business.
Even the pedestrians on the streets unconsciously made way for her, but they didn't know why they made way for her and who they made way for …
Eve, on the other hand, simply swaggered all the way to the Dark Shrine in the center of Black Rock City.
This Dark Temple could be considered as a landmark building in Black Rock City.
The architectural style of the Dark Temple was completely different from the Dwarves' Black Rock City. It was dignified and majestic. The main body of the building was made of stone bricks and carved with exquisite patterns and reliefs. The base color was black and carried a trace of solemnity and sternness …
And in front of the Dark Temple, there was a small fountain. At the center of the fountain was a statue of a Goddess wearing a black robe and holding an orb and a scythe.
This should be the statue of Hella.
Eve thought to herself.
She looked at the base of the statue and saw two lines of words written in the Dwarven language and the common language — "Death is the end, and also the beginning."
This was the most famous and widely spread saying of the Church of Death …
If it was placed in Eve's Druidic Order, it would be similar to "May Nature be with you" or "May the Goddess of Life bless you".
Eve looked at the statue for a while and then shifted her gaze. She raised her head and looked at the Dark Temple that belonged to the God of Death, Hella.
In her sight, this dignified Dark Temple was a little different.
She could "see" that the Dark Temple was like a huge light source in the darkness. It also seemed to radiate a huge network that enveloped the entire Black Rock City. And there were flickering photons all around that were constantly converging towards the Dark Temple …
This was the energy of faith.
As a True God who had established a Divine Kingdom, Eve could see the energy of faith and the network of faith that ordinary people could not see.
This Dark Temple was the center of faith of Black Rock City.
The center of faith weaved a huge network of faith, absorbing the power of faith of the Dark Dwarves and storing it in the Dark Temple. At the same time, it would also be fed back to Hella who was far away in the Underworld through the Dark Temple and converted into Her Divine Power.
If Eve's guess was correct, there should be a statue in the Dark Temple that was dedicated to storing the power of faith. That was the core of the center.
In fact, when Eve collected the power of faith, she also used such a trick.
The statues that Alice had built for her had the function of collecting the power of faith. They were also the core and nodes of the network of faith.
In addition to collecting the power of faith, these statues that acted as nodes of the network of faith could also form a zone of True God's protection, which was also the sphere of influence of a True God.
In the sphere of influence of a True God, the communication between believers and Gods, the prayers and meditation of pastors, priests, and priests would be more efficient.
In addition, a True God could also use Divine Power through the statues to directly turn the area into their sphere of influence!
Although it was not a Divine Realm, it could still allow a True God to know the area like the back of their hand. They could also cast God's Descent and summon their own followers …
Of course … because it required crossing realms, for a True God, this kind of operation would consume a lot of energy, so generally speaking, no True God would do this.
Except for Eve who was in the same plane as the Dark Temple …
The Totem Guardian that Eve had killed, Demigod Walker, was actually summoned by the Night Roamer using a statue of Oulleur that the Grotto Tribe had prayed to for hundreds of years as the core, and using other magic materials to construct a True God summoning array.
For this, the Night Roamer directly consumed the power of faith that the Grotto Tribe had accumulated for a long time in the statue.
However, in addition to these functions, believers could also use a similar method to stimulate the power of faith in the statue, thus allowing the temple to possess great power and construct large-scale defensive divine spells, or cast offensive divine spells that could deal a fatal blow!
Because of this, when an enemy attacked a city with a temple, they would first think of a way to destroy the statue in the temple.
Otherwise, they would have to consider how to defend against the counterattack of the temple, or how to break the defences of the temple.
If the Beastmen had used the statue at the last moment to cast defensive divine spells, they would not have been so miserably chased by The Black Dragon Merril, and could have calmly evacuated more of their tribesmen …
However, all of this was impossible now. Choosing to summon Demigod Walker meant that the energy of the statue would be depleted.
While observing the shrine of the Grim Reaper, Eve was astonished.
She noticed that the light of the core of faith in the Death Temple in Black Rock City seemed to be very dim, and the network of faith seemed to be on the verge of collapse …
This situation meant that the energy of the statue that stored the power of faith in the Death Temple was most likely not much, or had been depleted long ago.
Could it be that because of the existence of the Shadow Lord's believers, the Church of Death had not completely controlled Black Rock City?
Or could it be that the Church of Death had once used the power of faith in the statue?
Eve frowned slightly.
Suddenly, her heart skipped a beat, and she had some guesses.
Eve retracted her gaze, then stepped lightly into the temple …
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