Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree-Chapter 326 - 309: High-Quality Ingredients

The desperate believers who had been transported remained conscious.

They hadn’t figured out what had happened, only remembering that they seemed to have seen a majestic and sacred shadow, followed by a whirlwind of confusion...

Until their vision suddenly changed.

At this moment, they found themselves in a towering, splendid temple, with their bodies tightly entwined by thick vines resembling tentacles.

Not only that, they were horrified to discover that all their powers had disappeared under the entanglement of these bizarre vines.

At this point, as transcendent beings, they felt like powerless children.

Each one of them looked terrified and bewildered, not knowing what they had encountered.

Until... they saw the magnificent throne made of flowers, vines, and gold stone in front of them, and the majestic, sacred figure before the throne...

However, when they saw that figure surrounded by the Holy Light, in that instant, all of them appeared in pain, their eyes bursting as they shed streams of bloody tears...

"A True God! This is a True God!"

The old priest leading the desperate believers felt his head splitting, his heart filled with shock.

Just one glance had resulted in such a severe backlash, pointing to only one type of existence in the Segis World—

A True God!

Without the Divine’s permission, no one below a demigod was allowed to gaze upon a True God.

Even the incarnation of a True God, without the True God concealing themselves, could not be directly looked upon by mortal beings without suffering a backlash.

This matter was no secret in a world dominated by True Gods like the Segis World.

For a moment, the hearts of the desperate believers were in a tumultuous uproar.

They... had actually encountered a True God!

Nevertheless, their thoughts only went so far.

The moment they realized they were facing a genuine Divine, their thinking began to slow down...

In an instant, these believers felt the entire world growing increasingly distant, the soul-rending sensation of gazing at a Divine gradually fading away as well.

Of course, their consciousness, like sinking into the ocean’s depths, became more sluggish and more blurred...

Until they completely lost connection, falling into a slumber.

In the main hall of the temple.

Eve raised a gentle hand towards the hundreds of desperate believers who had completely lost consciousness and were entwined by vines...

As Eve waved her hand, the bodies of these desperate believers began to twitch slightly, their facial features twisting continuously.

Faintly, something seemed to be extracted from their bodies...

This was Eve attempting to extract the souls of these Evil God believers.

As a True God with the duty of life, soul extraction was merely a basic operation.

However, as Eve performed this action, faint traces of black mist emerged from the bodies of these desperate believers, hindering Eve’s extraction.

That was the power belonging to Nidhogg.

This did not surprise Eve.

Considering that these desperate believers were carefully selected clansmen of Nidhogg, their souls must have had layers of protection.

Nonetheless, since they had been brought into her Divine Country, no matter how well Nidhogg had prepared, it was all in vain.

Eve merely exerted a slight force, and numerous semi-transparent spiritual bodies began to gradually float out from within them.

Those were the souls of these desperate believers.

And in the instant the souls were extracted, these desperate believers’ bodies accelerated the extraction, large lumps began to throb on their skin.

Then... under Eve’s somewhat surprised, yet somewhat understandable gaze, the bodies of these desperate believers mutated with patches of hideous black scales, then continued to swell... swell... finally erupting in a spray of black-red blood mist, bursting into fragments.

This was the result of losing the stabilization of their souls, with their flesh unable to suppress the constantly agitated forces of despair within.

It was clear these forces were the precautions left by Nidhogg, originally intended to silence believers in case they might expose secrets.

Unfortunately... with Eve’s mastery over souls, she could effortlessly peel these forces from the souls of the desperate believers, leaving them within the body.

"Evil God believers... from the moment of their birth, they are destined for destruction."

Looking at the hundreds of lifeless corpses, Eve sighed slightly.

However, she did not let it go to waste.

With a gentle motion of her hand, the bodies and the spreading chaotic forces began to break down, eventually turning into the most essential life energy and abyssal forces, which then gradually disappeared under the absorption function of Eve’s true body...

Divine Power +8, slightly exceeding expectations.

After accomplishing all of this, Eve turned her gaze towards the hundred or so semi-transparent figures floating in mid-air.

In the instant of Eve’s forceful extraction, the souls of these desperate believers had already lost their sense of self, their eyes vacantly staring ahead.

However, Eve did not need them to retain their sense of self.

What she required was merely memories.

With another wave of her hand, she enveloped these souls in layers of dazzling Holy Light...

Afterward, countless images began to unfold in the temple’s air.

Those were the memories of these believers.

The images flashed continuously, filtered, and eventually consolidated into scenes involving the God of Despair, Nidhogg.

Those scenes showed countless believers praying before ghastly sculptures, some engaging in frenzied slaughter in the darkness, some sacrificing flesh and life, and others acquiring terrifying mutated abyss worms through prayer...

The images flickered and jumped continuously until they settled on one particular scene.

Hundreds of believers stood in an underground hall, continuously bowing towards a pyramid, and at this moment, above the pyramid, there were no fragments of the Life Scepter floating.

Then, accompanied by a violent dragon’s roar, waves of black mist emerged from the golden tower, gradually forming a huge, phantom-like dragon shape.

Its appearance bore seven or eight parts resemblance to Mairrel, except it was much larger and more ferocious.

In an instant, Eve recognized it as a genuine Ancient Black Dragon.

Indeed, it was Nidhogg.

However... its form was indistinct and fleeting, existing in spiritual form.

At that moment, Eve’s questions were finally answered:

"So... the reason Nidhogg is hiding is because she has no corporeal body, only a revived soul! No wonder her presence was only at the peak of weak Divine Power!"

"Her body... was likely destroyed after the millennium divine war. What had she gone through? What could have caused such a robust corporeal form of an ancient god-level dragon to lose its body?"

At this moment, Eve finally understood what Nidhogg wanted to do with the Life Scepter.

She probably wasn’t repairing this Divine Artifact but instead intended to use it to create a new body suitable for herself!

"What a pity, the Life Scepter ended up in my hands."

Eve shook her head slightly.

Having gathered this information, she could roughly guess the current situation of the battle in Fengye City.

Having lost her corporeal form, being only a spirit, even for an ancient god-level dragon, Nidhogg probably couldn’t contend with the will’s descent of the Eternal Lord.

Getting killed might not be possible, but it was very likely she would get thrashed and flee in disgrace.

"An ancient god without a body... and a dragon at that... also holding some secrets of the millennium divine war..."

Eve narrowed her eyes, instinctively licking the corner of her mouth.

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