WHERE IS BOXLUNCH?

Disputes between gods should be conducted through godly meansActually, this statement is not entirely accurate.

More precisely, the gods mentioned here almost exclusively refers to the faith-based gods who solely relies on religion in order to gain divine power.

In fact, this statement was formulated by the gods after the Heavenly War a thousand years ago.

In Saiges, the most common reason for declaring war is because of religion. The battles among mortal beings are mostly wars of faith because their Patron Deities power are determined by the dominance of their religion.

These wars are mostly fought by the believers on both sides and rarely did the gods themselves or their demigod-rank envoys ever intervenes in this battle.

Especially in the mortal realm!

The mortal realm rarely becomes a battlefield for beings of demigod level and above due to it being the land where majority of their believers reside in.

This is the covenant amongst the gods.

It will inevitably cause great damage to the mortal realm, if beings of demigod level and above ever engage in battle in Saiges which is not what the deities want to see since this land is the main source of faith for the true gods.

Especially after the heavenly war a thousand years ago, which resulted in the stability of the mortal realm becoming far less than what it used to be.

Seeing the aftermath of that heavenly war further solidified the decision of the pantheon gods to create a Covenant that barred any mythological-level battles from ever occurring within the mortal realm.

Generally speaking, battles involving beings of demigod level and above usually take place in the Heavenly Realm or the Cosmic Void

These matters were read from the memory of Volker, when she annihilated the demigod.

Ev originally hoped to learn some secrets of the gods from Volker, but unfortunately, some of the demigods memories seemed to have been sealed by Uller and would self-destruct if someone would try to forcibly read them.

However, the rules of the Covenant formulated by the Pantheon Gods that she read were not a disadvantage to her at all.

At least she knew now that if necessary, she could threaten the gods by using the mortal realm as a hostage.

However, how effective it would be still remains to be seen. Since Saiges was almost the only source of faith for the true gods even way back at the ancient times.

However, after reading the limited memories of Volker, Ev also learned that almost all the qualified gods have also started spreading their own religion in other realms for centuries as well.

It is a well-known truth understood by all that one should not put all their eggs into one basket.

But even so, as the largest source of faith, the world of Saiges position within the hearts of the gods is still far higher than any other realms.

Ev conveyed her message to Uller for two reasons: to throw a smokescreen onto her real identity and to lay the groundwork for the players future actions

After everything settled, Eve began to check her own status,

Name: Ev Yggdrasill

Race: World Tree (Ancient God)

Level: 150 (Mythical)

Status: Low Divine Power

Divinity : Nature, Life, Elvenkind

Divine Power Value: 363/3000

Titles: Mother of Nature, Goddess of Life, Matriarch of the Elves

Number of Followers: 222 (Saints 1, Fanatics 3, Devout Believers 81, Shallow Believers 107)

Abilities: Absorption, Communication, Bestowal, Enlightenment, Healing, Summoning, Divine Descent, Celestial Domain

Unlike before, after opening the NPC system, Eves number of devout believers have soared once again, and the faith of many Rageblaze clan elves were further strengthened.

This made Ev very satisfied.

The NPC task system simply meant more fun for players, but for the native elves, acquiring this ability meant their Patron Goddesss blessing and approval!

However, compared to the pleasing changes within her own followers, her soaring DP value made her much more delighted.

It must be said that this was the biggest victory she had gained ever since her rebirth. Not only did she eliminated a demigod and cut off one of Ullers Godwarden, but she also annihilated more than 4,000 orcs!

After accounting for consumption, Eves DP value had surpassed 300 and reached an unprecedented 363 points!

However, after this victory, some problems also began to surfaced.

One of them was the issue of feedback from those wandering haunted spirits.

Shortly after the players attacked the Caverock Tribe, Ev realized that the resentment of those wandering elven ghosts have been completely resolved.

With Ev resolving these grievances and resentments, she also inadvertently depleted their numbers, thus lessening the divine power she could obtain when killing orcs in the future. The amount of divine power she could obtain from this battle wouldve been much more than three hundred points.

This also means that she will need to find new ways to increase her divine power in the future.

The second issue is with the players.

During this entire quest, Ev intentionally did not give too many instructions and instead allowed the players to freely assess the situation by themselves and plan accordingly to their own judgments without any direct input from her.

As a result, the most players experienced explosive growth.

Even without the systems prompts, they were able to find the most suitable strategy to use and complete the quest in a spectacular fashion.

However

The problem lies in the strategies used by the players.

More specifically, its their use of sacrificial rush tactics to eliminate the enemies

Although Ev had considered the possibility of problems arising in the future when setting up the perfect revival for players, what she did not expect is for it to happen this soon.

To be honest, the players tactics were not wrong, and the suicide rush strategy was indeed quite an effective method to win battles against stronger opponents.

However, it was entirely different matter for Eve, who is the primary source and grantor of the players resurrection.

In the early stages, when players were still at a lower level, the cost of reviving them was low and the benefits gained from killing targets were high, so there was no issue so far.

But as the players levels increased, Ev found that the cost of resurrecting players have rapidly increased as well

Especially more so since instant revival and body creation were vastly different.

Creating a players physical avatar can be extended over time, and a single point of divine power can create up to 300 avatars, but the consumption of instant resurrection is way more than several times this amount.

During the battle with the orcs, the cost of resurrecting players was still far lower than the rewards for killing their targets, but after the elven ghosts resentments was resolved, these bonus DP rewards became lower and lower.

Although still tolerable, it also sounded an alarm for Ev.

She could foresee that as the players strength keeps on further increasing, the cost of resurrecting them would surely become more higher and higher and if its not properly regulated thenthere would come a time wherein the revival cost would be so astronomical that its no longer viable to do so.

It seems that the method of perfect revival is not entirely perfect either. Its still okay for low-level players who didnt need much DP to revive, but I need to think of a better way to lessen the resurrection of high-level players in the future. Especially after reaching mid-to-high levels, players must cherish their lives a little bit more

At this moment, she suddenly sensed a large number of offerings and prayers

With a mere thought, Ev chose to accept them all.

In an instant, a large wave of shabby beastmen equipments flooded into her celestial domain as it quickly piles up into hills, making her domain look more like a junkyard.

Eve:

Seeing this situation, she realized that the players have started selling their unwanted items yet again.

Even though the players fought hard in this battle and seized countless pieces of equipment as spoils of war, many of these items were either damaged or broken beyond all repair.

With thousands sets of similar equipment flooding the market and supply exceeding the demand, the value of these goods would certainly drop to bargain prices.

In this situation, many people would choose to offer these low quality equipments to Ev instead in exchange for contribution points.

Of course, this was only limited to melee-based equipments.

Orcs have no spellcasters except for priests, and almost all of them are warriors, hence naturally, the excess equipments was also mostly belonging to that of melee-classes.

As for spellcaster equipmentsthe quantity was still very scarce.

The few lucky ones who managed to loot some priests equipment made a fortune.

Thinking of this, Ev naturally accepted all these junk equipments, waved her hand to reward the players who initiated the offering rituals, and started to repair and enhanced these damaged goods in bulk

After adding some special bonus properties, these equipment could be resold for a good price.

Of course, circulating these items back into the markets had to be done little by little.

As the saying goes, scarcity leads to higher prices.

Most of these equipments will be stockpiled for now in preparation for the eventual launch of the open-beta which will inevitably draw in massive amounts of new players needing equipments.

At the same time, Ev also added Night Wanderers Ring and Volkers Frost Axe that she had seized to the exchange system store.

The former was renamed Spatial Ring, and the latters name was changed to Frost Battle Axe, both of which were legendary golden class equipments!

However, the rings contents was already emptied by Ev, and the divine power imbued within the Frost Battle Axe had also been completely drained by her, leaving it as an ordinary axe that could only display power close to silver rank

The Elven Forest.

Each players eyes lit up with eagerness when they saw the two newly added golden legendary items in the exchange store.

Oh nice! Spatial Ring? Its actually a storage ring!

What? A Spatial Ring? Did the devs finally released space storing equipments?

This isthe demigods Frost Battle Axe? S-So cool! Im going for it! A level 40 golden legendary weapon! How powerful is that! Its the current weapon with the highest level on the entire server!

Both are legendary golden items! And theres only one of each in the entire server!

So its imited edition? Now I really want it even more now

However, their excitement immediately died down upon seeing the strings of zeros attached to the contribution points price requirement.

onetenhundredthousandt-ten thousandH-Hundred Thousands!?

The players gasped in shock as they felt their stomachs cramping at the sheer ridiculous price needed to be paid in order to purchase it.

Whoanot good, my l-liver hurts.

No way man, only those damned whales could afford these things.

This sucksit looks like only the super-rich or the hardcore players can successfully exchange for it.

F*ck, Im so jealous

Oh yeah, speaking of hardcore playerswhat happened to Boxlunch?