Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree-Chapter 1084 - 732: Growth of the Elf Force (2)

Although it will inevitably increase some resurrection expenses, the series of chain effects brought by the arena benefits outweigh the expenditures.

Not to mention, the wool comes from the sheep’s back.

The contributions and resurrection coins players pay when participating and resurrecting ultimately need to be obtained through slaying monsters and grinding tasks.

Retracting her thoughts, Eve focused her attention on the arena.

Watching the excited victorious players in front of her, she smiled faintly.

These highly skilled contestants are her important combat strength.

She will also secretly note down the winners’ IDs and tilt the resources when further enhancing the players’ strengths in the future.

For example, when randomly granting Divine Favor...

"Congratulations on your victory, brave Chosen One."

Eve took a medal from the tray held by the elf staff and placed it on the winning player personally.

At that moment, several silver players from the First Legion were so excited they were about to jump.

Whether because they saw their leader or the nearly one million contribution points instantaneously credited, it was hard to tell.

As for the players in the audience seats, whistles rang out and some even exclaimed excitedly or laughed heartily.

Eve knew well the madness some were feeling, probably betting on the correct team and having their winnings credited.

Just look at those players in the crowd who are downcast to understand.

Some win, some lose.

On the podium, the players from the Nature’s Heart Guild organizing the competition couldn’t stop smiling.

Presumably, they also made a big profit.

After adorning the winners with medals, Eve left the arena amidst the players’ throng.

Of course, after quietly glancing back at the players trailing her and reducing each one’s affection by a point, these newcomers leading the tail-end awkwardly smiled and halted.

Effectively using the affection system is definitely a player’s training tool.

Aurora was just too gentle; otherwise, like Primordial Elf Serandir, players would have been played into ecstasy.

Thinking of Serandir, Eve felt a slight headache.

That guy, although highly capable, has been thoroughly spoiled in a certain sense.

Stepping onto the streets of Chosen City, Eve exhaled lightly, gazing at the increasingly prosperous city due to the influx of new players.

Flying Demon Beasts were scarcely visible in the sky, only seen as tiny specks at the city’s edge.

This was because the city issued a no-fly regulation, barring flights over the city except for approved entities.

Such policies are inevitable with urban development.

As players multiply, the number of those with flying beasts increases as well. Without constraints, these chaotic players often cause accidents.

Mid-air collisions and Demon Beast droppings falling from the sky became common, with novices directly crashing magical beasts into ground structures, some even hitting the World Tree...

With regulations in place, things are much improved.

Despite the dispersion across several player main cities, Chosen City still takes prosperity to a new level as time progresses.

Several central buildings have been rebuilt, transforming into more grandiose structures, while the stone-paved roads were renovated, streets initially poorly planned during city design are being expanded...

This was accomplished through collaboration among major guilds, once again led by the Mengmeng Committee, initiated to resolve Chosen City’s growing congestion issue.

A massive workload, but the players’ strength is far reaching, mages proficient in more magic, aided by transcendental power, making progress faster than Tianchao on Blue Star.

Naturally, after reconstruction, real estate prices in the city’s core areas soared again.

The city’s permanent population has exceeded 200,000, nearly half being elf and half-elf believers.

This is normal, as players grow in number, the division of labor within Elf Forest becomes more specialized, with elves taking on many time-consuming or less enjoyable tasks in players’ eyes.

For example, coachmen, shop clerks, tavern waiters, household servants, and city guard soldiers...

Many players employ elves in their homes as butlers.

Therefore, the rising proportion of elf and half-elf residents in Chosen City is also normal.

Outside Chosen City, the population of the seven player main cities theoretically also surpasses 100,000, with the easternmost Greyport breaking through 150,000.

Similarly, a significant portion of the residents are elves and half-elves.

Players aren’t always active in the main cities, spending most of their time in the wild, the numbers only rise at night within the main cities.

During festivals or plot missions, main city populations soar suddenly, especially in Chosen City.

As for Feilengcui, Rivendell, Milovia, and Cenolan, resident numbers are also vastly different now.

Even Rivendell, the least populated, has over 50,000 residents, many being half-beast miners.

Milovia’s resurgence, bolstered by the return of Frost Elves, directly approached 200,000, second only to Chosen City.

Furthermore, Sandstorm City in the Death Desert has seen its numbers gradually rise to 100,000.

However, the races there are quite mixed, yet the Life Church has become the dominant faith.

The entire Elf Force’s population, including players and natives alike, has neared five million.

Among those, players number one million, with natives around four million.

Nevertheless, the bulk of native believers remains the elf-human hybrids from the Oros Half-plane, numbering around 2,700,000, with thousands passing tests to purify their bloodline into half-elves over the past half year.

However, future purification speed will slow greatly, as those with pious and fervent faith have mostly been converted.

The remaining devoted believers and fanatics can only continue developing slowly.

Eve wasn’t in a rush, elf-human hybrids reproduce faster than elves and half-elves, by retaining the half-plane, continually supplying fresh blood for the elf clan with scarce population.

Excluding other races in the Death Desert, merely observing Elf Forest, native believer numbers also reached the scale of a million.

The elves’ population is 350,000, with half-elves around 700,000.

Over half of the elves consist of returning Frost Elves, the remainder being purified elves from Oros and elves gradually returning from across the world.

As for half-elves, the majority are purified within the Oros Half-plane, with few returning.

This totals over five million people, which is Eve’s entire force now!

Perhaps this population is still too small compared to humans numbering in billions, but considering elves and half-elves’ lifespans and the proportion of transcendents, this power is already quite formidable.

Not only have ten thousand silver target players been completed ahead of schedule, but with Frost Elves’ return, Eve’s followers’ overall combat strength has practically soared.

Among the 4 million plus believers, over 95% are transcendent, with silver rank individuals surpassing 300,000, mostly consisting of Frost Elves.

Additionally, perhaps due to Segis World’s further increase in magic power, previously rare gold professionals have burgeoned, exceeding a thousand total.

Placed four years prior, just the gold professionals alone could repeatedly cleanse the Death Desert.

Of course, most gold professionals are returning Frost Elves, with few advancing from Elf Forest.

Undoubtedly, Frost Elves’ return is an immeasurable boon to Eve.

However, their achievements can’t be replicated.

A culmination of thousands of years of struggle and honing in darkness, steadfast diligence, sacrificing generation after generation of elves finally forging an iron tribe!

As Eve’s Divine Favored and Holy Daughter, Alice, El, and even fervent priests and High Priests within the church, Eve outright enhanced their capabilities, they too are gold rank now.

Regarding her alter ego, Eve didn’t leave Zero behind, naturally allowing the Divine Favored Zero to become a Legend...

If not for the increased magic power across the world elevating all races’ combat abilities exponentially, solely Eve’s current strength is enough to take on the entire world four years ago without the gods’ intervention.

This doesn’t include the over ten thousand Elven Prayer Merger in Eve Divine Country.

In essence, at this moment, Eve has already prepared for the divine war.