Sandstorm City, in the north-central part of the Death Desert.
This was the economic center of the entire Death Desert, and also one of the few cities built on an oasis in the entire desert.
Of course, with the level of civilization and social order of the half-orcs, they were more inclined to settle down in tribes along the oasis. This included the half-orc royal court.
The reason why a settlement like Sandstorm City existed was entirely due to its unique geographical location.
Sandstorm City … was a city built on a passage that led to the underground world. Below it was the jurisdiction of the Dark City-State Alliance in the underground world.
This was the most convenient way to enter the underground world in the entire Death Desert.
The history of this city could be traced back to the Silver Age when the elves ruled …
At that time, the Death Desert was still a beautiful forest, and Sandstorm City was also a city built by the elves. Even after thousands of years, there were still some elf-style boulders and reliefs in the city.
However, as the Death Desert changed, the forest became a barren land, and the elves abandoned this place. Later, it was inherited by the dwarves, who used it to mine the nearby obsidian and mithril mines.
Two thousand years ago, the mines dried up, and the dwarves left. Some of them escaped underground and became the dark dwarves, while others went to the east of the continent to find a new home. The current owners of this place were the half-orcs.
Until today.
As the transportation hub between the Death Desert and the underground world, as well as the main connecting passage between the surface and underground in the southwest of the continent, Sandstorm City had always been the most prosperous place in the entire Death Desert.
Although the rulers here were the half-orcs, there were also many underground residents, fugitives from the human world, adventurers, and mercenaries gathered in the city …
As long as they obeyed the rules set by the half-orcs, outsiders could stay here after paying a certain amount of gold pounds.
As long as you had money, you could get whatever you wanted from the black market merchants, underground residents, and mercenary leaders gathered here.
This was heaven for the strong, hell for the weak.
Therefore, Sandstorm City had another name — "Chaos City."
The ruler of Sandstorm City was the third largest tribe among the half-orcs — the Sandstorm tribe.
This was a large tribe with a population of 100,000, and was also one of the four half-orc tribes in the entire Death Desert with a population of 100,000.
The Sandstorm Tribe was very powerful. They had two Gold-level orcs and a Beamon beast that was also at the Gold-level.
Throughout history, the Sandstorm Tribe had become the rulers of the Half-Beastmen Royal Court, giving birth to more than one Half-Beastman King.
Only such a powerful tribe could hold such an important city in their hands.
North of Sandstorm City, in an abandoned dwarf mine that was connected to the underground world.
Residents in ragged clothes were shuttling back and forth.
Most of them were half-orcs, but there were also some underground residents and even humans.
They were the lowest rung of the city and were also known as the mine scavengers.
Although the mineral deposits in Sandstorm City had long since dried up, there were still some lucky people who found some scattered obsidian or even mithril here and there, making a fortune in one fell swoop.
Qi Duo was an orc scavenger.
He had lived here for more than ten years and was very familiar with the mine. He had also relied on the obsidian fragments he picked up to raise his family.
Today, as usual, he sneaked into the depths of the mine and followed his experience to look for possible traces of mineral deposits.
"It seems like there was another earthquake yesterday … Ever since last year, the number of earthquakes in the Desert of Death has increased. Every time there's an earthquake, I'll find ore fragments in the mine. This time … I have to grab the opportunity and go deep into the mine!"
Qi Duo murmured.
He carried the tools he had prepared and skillfully sneaked into the mine. Following his memory and experience, he went straight to the mine that he thought was the easiest place to find mineral fragments with the earthquake.
However, when he arrived at the destination of his plan, he was slightly stunned.
"What is this?"
He was a little curious and surprised, but also a little fearful as he looked into the mine.
The original mine was shrouded in a dense golden halo. The halo continued to circulate, illuminating the dark mine with incomparable brightness.
In the middle of the halo, there was an illusory milky-white mirror. There seemed to be waves of water rippling on it.
The surface of the mirror was elliptical, and it flickered with a strange radiance. Black cracks could be seen on the edges of the mirror. Those cracks were constantly changing, and they faintly emitted a heart-palpitating aura of destruction.
However, compared to the destructive aura coming from the cracks, Qi Duo was more attracted to the mirror.
The moment he saw the mirror, he felt an indescribable force rushing toward him. That force was invisible and untouchable, but it gave him an incomparably peaceful and comfortable feeling.
Qi Duo subconsciously took a deep breath. Faintly, he seemed to smell the fragrance of flowers and plants. For a moment, he felt refreshed.
"What is this thing?"
Qi Duo repeated curiously.
His common sense as an orc told him that this was definitely some mysterious force that he could not understand.
However, an inspiration that seemed to originate from the depths of his biological instincts told him that what he saw would not cause him any harm …
For some reason, he reached out his hand and gently touched the mirror that looked like a door of light.
The moment he touched it, Qi Duo only felt a huge wave of energy coming toward him. His head buzzed and he did not know anything …
Vaguely, he seemed to see a vast and boundless forest ….
Qi Duo quickly recovered and was still standing in place.
However, when he came back to his senses, he realized that the entire mine was filled with green grass and flowers, and vines were constantly growing out of the rock walls ….
The bright light illuminated everything.
Everything around him was magical and beautiful.
However, Qi Duo, who had heard a lot of news from the orc warriors, changed his expression.
The sudden appearance of the vines …
Countless flowers …
The sudden appearance of the light door …
This … Could this be the magic of the legendary elves?!
He fell to the ground and was scared out of his wits. Then, he scrambled out of the mine, shouting as he ran, "Brother Li, I'm sorry.
"Not good! The elves are attacking! "
His voice was miserable.
After a few months of plundering, the orcs in the north of the Death Desert had already developed a phobia of elves.
Qi Duo's fleeing speed was very fast.
He did not notice the speed that he should not have.
And his body seemed to have undergone some sort of evolution from the touch just now ….
Ten minutes later.
Dozens of fully armed orcs surrounded a orc wearing a gorgeous priest robe with oil paint on his face as they entered the mine.
This was the high priest of the Sandstorm Tribe, who had the strength of a lower gold rank.
He looked solemnly at the light door in front of him, his expression full of disbelief.
"This is … a Space Door?!"
He hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his hand to touch the light door. The moment he touched the light door, he only felt that his vision suddenly turned white.
The light door refused his entry.
But faintly, he seemed to see a stalwart figure …
At the same time, countless prayers were faintly heard.
The prayers seemed to be in a very beautiful language. Just listening to them gave people a wonderful feeling.
At the same time, the prayers seemed very distant, as if they had traveled through countless years, full of vicissitudes and sadness.
However, as a gold rank professional, the high priest's spiritual perception was far beyond that of ordinary people.
The moment he heard the prayers, he instantly understood the meaning behind them …
His eyes suddenly widened, and his face was full of disbelief. He could not help but cry out.
"World … World Tree?!"
…
Chaos.
The Sandstorm Tribe was in chaos.
The people did not know what had happened. They only saw a large number of orc warriors suddenly appear in the mine area, instantly sealing off this area that they did not care about.
Among them, the Sandstorm Tribe even sent out the Sandstorm Warriors that they were proud of. Although there were not many of them, they were all silver professionals.
The curious orc residents, black market merchants, and human mercenaries gathered around and discussed.
"What happened?"
"Tsk tsk … even the Sandstorm Warriors were sent out?"
"Did they discover a new mineral vein?!"
"That's impossible … I heard that the mineral vein here has already dried up …"
"Hmm?! Isn't that the high priest? Even the high priest was alerted? "
"What happened …"
The people were extremely curious.
However, the Sandstorm Tribe was secretive about it.
However, an urgent Half-Orc team hurriedly sent a message to the Half-Orc Palace.
Seeing how nervous the Sandstorm Tribe was, the eyes of some experienced underground merchants and bounty hunters flickered …
The last time the Sandstorm Tribe was like this was when they lost the competition for the position of king of the orcs and their opponent ascended to the throne.
It could be seen that something terrible had happened in the mine this time.
Their expressions changed slightly, and they quietly retreated …
The reason why Sandstorm City was called the City of Chaos was that any order could be challenged here.
Women, slaves, status, power, and even some secrets …
As long as you had enough gold pounds, or as long as you were strong enough, you could get everything you wanted …
Therefore, in less than three days, everything that happened in the mine began to spread among the underground forces of Sandstorm City.
The sudden appearance of the light door, the mysterious energy, and the growing flowers and vines …
Behind the door of light was a vast forest, as well as an ethereal prayer …
Furthermore, the High Priestess could not help but cry out when she touched the door of light.
No one knew who had leaked all of this.
However, when the Sandstorm Tribe realized it, it was already too late.
As a hub connected to the underground world, Sandstorm City was part of the underground intelligence system of the Segers world.
A secret was no longer a secret.
…
Elven Forest, City of Heaven's Chosen.
As the players renovated and expanded it again and again, in the majestic Central Temple …
Eve, who had changed into the Oracle Zero avatar, sat on the main seat in the side hall. She looked at the stack of information in her hand and raised her eyebrows.
"Light door? World Tree? "
Following her soft exclamation, a cheerful and excited female voice came from the guest seat opposite her.
"That's right! Lady Zero, this is the information our chamber of commerce obtained when trading with the Dark Dwarves in the underground world. Although the orcs tried their best to cover it up, it caused too much of a commotion and eventually leaked out. "
"According to the speculation of some powerhouses in the underground world … this is very likely the divine kingdom that the Goddess is looking for! The divine kingdom might have fallen into the Desert of Death! "
World Tree's divine kingdom …
Eve did not comment. Instead, she looked up at the person who spoke.
Blonde hair, blue eyes, and a beautiful face that surpassed all the other players. There was also a hint of excitement and fanaticism in her expression.
She was a player.
This Fourth Beta Tester had successfully advanced and become a true Silver Priestess after many priest missions. She was also the first Priestess player with Silver strength in the entire server.
By the way, she had also become the most popular player among the other players because of this.
This was not because of her superb facial makeup skills, nor was it because she was one of the few Dragon Knights.
It was because after advancing to Silver, she had become the strongest healer among the players.
Her healing capacity was enough to take on ten players each.
Of course, due to her identity as a Silver Priestess, Tanuki had successfully "infiltrated" the Life Church. With her looks and faith (bootlicker) advantages, she had become friends with many Elven Priestesses, including Saintess Alice …
She was also known as the most devout (bootlicker) Chosen One by the Elves.
It could not be helped. She had too many halos around her.
Although she was a tough woman who only knew how to charge forward with a staff in battle, writing the Sacred Book of Life, preaching in the Orloss Demiplane, quickly advancing to Silver Priestess, and so on …
Just looking at her priestess, she had already become a model for many native Elven Priestesses to learn from …
However, at this moment, Eve's focus was not on Tanuki's excited speculation. Instead, she looked at her with a slightly strange expression.
"Chamber of Commerce?"
Tanuki's face stiffened. She coughed twice.
"It's our Amway Chamber of Commerce … Hmm … This is all to help the Goddess!"
Eve was speechless.
Mine … Ours.
Well, another one who had been tricked by Demacia.
If she remembered correctly, this female player would rather die than cooperate with that guy in the beginning.
In the end, it was really good.
After sighing slightly, Eve focused her attention on the information in her hands again …
As the successor of the World Tree, now the true World Tree, she could naturally see more from these words.
Light gate … Forest … Prayer …
As well as the wonderful changes when she touched the light gate …
As Eve browsed, she compared it with her own God's Kingdom.
And the result made her expression more and more serious.
These various descriptions.
These various situations.
It was indeed what a mortal creature should see after entering a God's Kingdom …
And these strange scenes could only appear in the World Tree's God's Kingdom — the "Source of Life and Nature".
But vaguely, she felt that something was wrong.
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