Chapter 600: Chapter 510: Exposed Crisis (Part 2)

After optimizing the faith network, she had already delegated the prayers of ordinary believers to be handled by the network itself, and those who could communicate with her directly must have special matters.

With this thought in mind, Eve connected with the faith network and turned her gaze toward the source of the prayers.

In her vision appeared a solemn Life Temple.

Under the statue of the Life Goddess in the temple, a brown-haired half-elf was praying devoutly.

Surrounding him were several familiar figures to Eve.

Natural Saintess Alice, Divine Favored Ail, Primordial Elf Serandir, and other high-ranking members of the church, along with some primordial elves born following Serandir.

They all watched the half-elf kneeling before Eve’s statue with eyes full of encouragement and anticipation.

And in the farther distance, many other half-elves stood, faces filled with envy and longing.

Seeing this scene, Eve already knew roughly what had happened…

She cast her gaze toward the kneeling half-elf and recognized the person:

“Taylor?”

Taylor Yan Sha.

He was among the first batch from the Oros Half-plane to purify his bloodline and come to the Segis World.

During this time, he had been active in the Beautiful City of Cenolan, undertaking various trial tasks and learning tasks in his effort to become a true elf.

“Had he completed Alice’s trials so quickly?”

Eve raised an eyebrow slightly.

As if in response to Eve’s soliloquy, Taylor was seen prostrate on the ground, his expression fervent, and his voice quivering with excitement:

“Praise nature! Praise life! Praise the great Eve Goddess!”

“Great Goddess! I have completed the trial. I humbly beg your generous and kind self to grant me the power to become a true elf!”

“Quite quick indeed…”

Eve nodded slightly, her previously depressed mood improved considerably.

She could sense that Taylor’s faith was more devout than when he first arrived on the Segis Plane.

He had already met the conditions to purify into a true elf.

“Not bad, I can help purify his bloodline.”

Eve nodded to herself.

Increasing the number of elf believers as soon as possible was beneficial for the strengthening of the Elf Clan and for enhancing her powers.

Not to mention, she needed these devout believers to find the true World Tree Divine Country.

With that thought, she snapped her fingers gently.

With Eve’s motion, flowers bloomed throughout the Life Temple, green photons spreading in all directions, and everyone inside the temple felt a majestic and sacred aura descend upon the scene.

At this moment, everyone realized that a True God was watching.

They became excited, bowing their heads respectfully and devoutly, also beginning to pray continuously.

For a moment, the Life Temple was filled with the sound of devout prayers.

Eve smiled slightly and then beckoned lightly with her hand.

Following her action, the Life Scepter in the Divine Country Temple slowly rose and, after a playful spin in mid-air, landed obediently in her hand.

Then, Eve gently lifted the scepter and pointed it at Taylor from a distance…

A brilliant light shone, projected through the faith network onto the statue within the Life Temple, then transformed into radiant Holy Light, illuminating everything and enveloping Taylor…

Moments later, the light faded, and Taylor’s appearance completely changed.

He became taller and more beautiful, with a pair of pointed ears indistinguishable from those of a true elf.

He had become a true elf.

Taylor was still a bit bewildered until Alice handed him a mirror.

And when Taylor saw himself in the mirror, he instantly became so excited that tears filled his eyes, once again kneeling before Eve’s statue…

And, unbeknownst to all, Eve sensed that his level of faith rose another notch, just a step away from becoming a true zealot.

The surrounding elves congratulated him enthusiastically, and the gazes of those half-elves directed at Taylor were full of admiration and veneration.

“Not bad, another elf believer has emerged.”

Eve nodded with satisfaction.

And after nodding, she seemed to remember something and suddenly her eyes lit up.

“No…”

“Perhaps… I still have a way!”

Eve’s heart stirred as she pulled up the status of her believers.

At this moment, the number of her believers was already different from two months ago—

[Number of Believers: 79,951 (Saint 1, Fanatics 128, Devout Believers 8,132, Shallow Believers 71,690)]

[Types of Believers: Earth Cave Spider Empress (1), Dragon (1), Oak Guardians (105), Elves (2,254), Half-Elves (556), Elf-Human Hybrids (76,977), Humans (58)]

…

After a few months of development, the total number of Eve’s believers had doubled from less than forty thousand to nearly eighty thousand!

The greatest contribution to this increase came from the elf-human hybrids of the Oros Half-plane.

Now, the elf-human hybrids had become the mainstay of Eve’s believers.

In nearly eighty thousand believers, the number of devout believers also exceeded eight thousand people.

Although most believers were still shallow believers, Eve could sense that at least one-third of them were already close to the level of devout believers. Given a bit more time, the surge in devout believers was inevitable…

After examining her believers’ condition, Eve felt both pleased and somewhat regretful.

She was pleased, naturally, because she had achieved such significant gains in such a short time, far beyond her expectations.

And the regret—

*”What a pity, if I could locate the true World Tree Divine Country, then getting through this crisis wouldn’t be impossible. In that case, I would only need to prove that the Divine Country in the Death Desert is false…”*

Eve shook her head inwardly.

The enemy’s trap had many loopholes.

And the biggest one among them was that the “Divine Country” wasn’t a real Divine Country.

If Eve could indirectly prove that it wasn’t a true Divine Country and make everyone aware that it was an illusion, then she would have every reason not to step into this trap…

After all, being polluted by the power of faith only meant being extreme and radical, not foolish.

In that case, Eve could completely continue pretending to be a polluted True God.

In other words… as long as Eve could uncover the true World Tree Divine Country in advance, everything could be resolved.

However… the idea was good, but time wasn’t on her side.

*”The number of believers is about right, but the proportion of devout believers is too low. Without enough devout believers, I can’t cross the void to locate the true Divine Country.”*

Eve sighed inwardly.

She had long planned to use the prayers of her believers to locate the former Divine Country.

But to locate the Divine Country, certain conditions needed to be met with the believers.

This required a specific number of believers, as well as a certain level of faith.

For pure elves, it was ten thousand believers, five thousand devout believers.

For half-elves, the numbers doubled.

For elf-human hybrids, it required one hundred thousand believers, fifty thousand devout believers…

These standards weren’t fixed, but roughly within this range and interchangeable among each other.

Now, even though the number of Eve’s believers had soared, and if the elves, half-elves, and human believers were combined, the total believers barely sufficed…

But while the total number was about right, the quality fell short.

Eve roughly sensed a significant gap in the number of devout believers.

She needed to at least double her current devout believers, and ensure all elves become devout believers…

Based on her rough calculation, it would still take at least two months to achieve this.

By then, it would be too late.

She felt as though she was being roasted over a fire; the longer the delay, the greater the suspicion of others…

“Wasn’t this method feasible…”

Eve felt somewhat disappointed.

“If only the difficulty of finding the former Divine Country could be reduced. But alas… the Segis World as a whole was still closed off, and faith naturally struggled to cross realms, making the connection to the former Divine Country inherently difficult…”

“Is there any way to lower the requirements…”

She pondered.

And at this moment, her gaze once again stopped on the simulation sand table of the Divine Country Temple.

Watching the edge of the sand table, the location of the Divine Country forged by Uller, Eve suddenly had a spark of inspiration:

“No…”

“Perhaps… I still have a way!”