Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree-Chapter 58 - The Goddess Who Collects Scrap Materials
Chapter 58: Chapter 58 The Goddess Who Collects Scrap Materials
Editor: Henyee Translations
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Even junk could be sacrificed!
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This news spread quickly among the players.
Although NPCs wouldn’t allow players to sacrifice junk, if players drew the sacrifice array themselves, they could exchange junk for contribution points!
Some experts speculated that this might be a bug in the game’s sacrifice mechanism.
After all, how could a Divine being possibly collect trash?
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How could the exalted Goddess accept junk?
*Something must have gone wrong somewhere…*
However, some people believed it might just be part of the game’s sacrifice function!
After all, it was just a game.
The gods in the game were not real gods.
*Perhaps this kind of sacrifice was actually a kind of recycling mechanism of the game system, similar to selling junk to merchants in older online games.*
But regardless of the reason, players didn’t care.
They only cared if they could make some profit from it.
The damaged equipment was still devoured by the sacrifice array, and the system even fed a small amount of contribution points back to the players.
Though it was usually a measly ten points or so, they accumulated over time to become a decent income.
Perhaps to Alice and Berserker, these defunct, discarded equipment held only memorabilia value, and offering these decayed items to the Mother Goddess was a great blasphemy against Her…
But the daring players weren’t bothered.
What they lacked the most were contribution points, and they were delighted to have a way to exchange their useless junk for them.
*Ahem, if this feature were a bug, they hoped the developers found it as late as possible!*
Or rather, *hopefully never patched it at all!*
Players felt fortunate for discovering this little secret.
And after the first successful secret sacrifice case, players went into a frenzy learning how to draw the sacrifice array!
On Blue Star Network, someone even posted a summary of the process.
Yet everyone tacitly didn’t discuss this on the “Elf Kingdom” official website…
And once players learned how to draw the sacrifice array, they began secretly praying to the Goddess behind the backs of two NPCs, sneakingly sacrificing the discarded items they’d picked up.
*Well… mainly sacrificing some broken gear found in Feilengcui, as well as beast bones left behind from hunting demon beasts, to subsidize household use.*
As for those tomes, they still needed to go through the NPCs.
Because going through the NPCs to sacrifice tomes completed exploration missions, gaining extra experience points and contribution.
But sacrificing various scraps did not.
However, through further player research, they discovered that the sacrifice array wasn’t indiscriminate in what it devoured.
Torn tomes, broken equipment, certain materials from killing demon beasts, even ores, the sacrifice array never refused these.
But if it were broken crafts, household garbage, rotten bones dug up, or berries picked, the sacrifice array wouldn’t even bother.
Gradually, they jokingly called the former recyclable waste, and the latter non-recyclable waste.
And as players continued to explore and sacrifice, Eva was overjoyed from above.
During this time, a considerable amount of equipment accumulated in Her Divine Space.
Most were purple epic-grade, even some gold legendary-grade equipment!
Not only that, the equipment ranged from black iron to silver tier, there were even several sets of gold tier!
Eva estimated that if this batch of equipment were all exchanged to players, they’d have to hand over a million contribution points to Her!
And these pieces of equipment were all “recycled” from players at a bargain price by Eva.
That’s right.
These pieces of equipment were what Eva accepted from the players’ sacrifices, repaired using Divine Power, and then refurbished with some special effects.
It’s not easy to craft a set of equipment from raw materials, but if it’s about repairing and refurbishing, Divine Power was quite handy.
If repair materials were insufficient, players kindly sacrificed some beast bones and ores.
The thousand-year heritage of the elves was quite rich, many of the equipment were originally high-grade, although mortals had no way to repair them, the True God could.
However, hardly anyone thought a True God would look upon mortal equipment and stoop to use Divine Power to repair them.
After all, in the eyes of the beings in the Segis World, a True God was exalted, how could She pay attention to such things…
Furthermore, the cost of cross-realm sacrifices was also significant, and in the minds of many beings, the Heavenly Realm was truly the abode of the True God.
This kind of large-scale recycling sacrifice could probably only be carried out by Eva, who shared a plane with the sacrificers.
After Eva’s refurbishment, these were to be the goods She would sell to players next.
However, Eva didn’t dump the refurbished equipment all at once into the exchange system, but first selected a batch of low-level mage equipment and gold legendary equipment and put those in.
As for the rest, She planned to release them gradually into the market after players finished digesting the currently available items, based on the players’ increasing levels…
This was called rationally analyzing consumer potential, maximizing company benefits…
Moreover, during this time, Eva also acquired a large number of tomes through player activities, gaining more understanding of the elf history from a thousand years ago.
Unfortunately, these historical tomes still didn’t describe the secrets of the divine war a millennium ago…
*Why was the World Tree besieged?*
*Why did the True God, clearly of the good-aligned faction, have no allies?*
*Were the gods… fearing something?*
Eva didn’t know.
However, She wasn’t in a hurry, believing She would eventually find some clues.
Moreover, with the players’ continual contributions, the cultivation technique exchange system in the game was becoming more complete.
In less than a week, players scavenged dozens of incomplete cultivation technique tomes from the ruins of Feilengcui!
After Eva’s restoration, all these tomes were placed in the exchange system.
However, most of the tomes were blue rare and white common versions, almost all being cultivation technique tomes usable only for the black iron grade.
There were very few techniques usable up to silver grade, only three in total.
The elemental meditation method discovered by Li Mu and Demacia turned out to be the highest-level one among them.
That wasn’t outside Eva’s expectations.
When the elves migrated, they surely tried to take the precious tomes with them, leaving behind the less important ones.
Having one elemental meditation method was already lucky.
Anyway, the basic layout was there, so even if necessary later, She could just go personally, using Divine Power to deduce higher-level tomes from the low-level ones.
When players leveled up to silver, it was estimated Eva’s strength would recover quite a bit, and consuming some Divine Power to deduce subsequent techniques for the players would be like a walk in the park.
In short, everything in the Elf Forest was moving in a good direction.
*The little leeks were growing healthily and happily…*
The construction of Elf Town was nearing completion.
The temple in Feilengcui had also been repaired, with Eva’s statue being placed inside.
In addition, the reconstruction work of Feilengcui was proceeding in an orderly manner…
And the scope of activities for players was expanding as their levels increased.
The primeval Elf Forest was dense and complex, with various demon beasts.
Therefore, players explored slowly, covering at most thirty miles a day outside the safe area.
Nevertheless, over time, some began to reach the edge.
After some investigation, they brought back loads of exploration data.
Consequently, players even voluntarily established sections like “Monster Guide,” “Plant Guide,” “Map Sharing,” and “Battle Strategy” in the data area of the official forum…
And “Elf Kingdom” was being increasingly discussed on Blue Star Network.
When the official announcement of the second internal test appeared, this epic masterpiece finally reached another climax in popularity!
Second internal test, 900 slots!
Countless internet users flocked to the official forum, scrambling to register in hopes of being the lucky chosen one.
Meanwhile, the Hunting God Uller of Winter also finally issued new divine instructions to his believers…
