Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree-Chapter 318 - 301: Life Scepter

The old man stopped in front of the stone gate.

He placed his hand on a protrusion of the stone gate, pressing gently.

The stone gate suddenly emitted a deep light, which extended along the old man’s hand to his body.

*As if for identity verification,* the eerie light circled around the old man, then slowly retracted. With creaking sounds, the stone gate gradually opened...

Several players widened their eyes, curiously peeking inside the stone gate.

Eve, too, was on high alert.

The view gradually expanded, and at last, everyone could see the scene within the stone gate clearly.

It was a vast hall, surrounded by ancient stone pillars, with ferocious and terrifying dragons depicted on them.

*Eve felt a sense of regret and relief* that she didn’t sense Nidhogg’s presence in the hall.

Of course, this also meant that the entity had already awakened.

The so-called "Land of Vitality" had long fulfilled its mission.

However, although she did not sense Nidhogg’s presence, the moment the hall opened, Eve suddenly felt a familiar sense of agitation.

She abruptly raised her head, looking toward a certain direction in the hall...

At the deepest part of the hall, there stood a tall, gray-black pyramid.

On top of the pyramid floated a crescent-shaped light cluster.

The light cluster was dark green, flickering continuously, and something seemed to be spinning continuously within it.

The instant she saw the light cluster, Eve felt her familiar and agitated sensation growing stronger.

"This is... the aura of a True Divine Artifact! Moreover... it evokes a sense of familiarity and closeness within me; this belongs to the former World Tree!"

For a moment, Eve’s eyes widened, her heart pounding with excitement.

"However... this aura feels somewhat strange, a bit scattered and unstable."

Watching the flickering light cluster, Eve noticed the crescent shape and quickly regained her composure.

"Could it be... the shattered Life Scepter?"

Despair Dragon Nidhogg’s Despair Church believers could perform healing Divine Arts stronger than those of the True God Church.

And they could achieve this only means one situation.

That Nidhogg had somehow stolen the law of life and gained some control over the law of life.

At that moment, Eve speculated in her heart that perhaps Nidhogg had gained some of the World Tree’s essence by consuming its roots back then, and thus understood a portion of the law of life.

Or... that she directly or indirectly mastered a True Divine Artifact from the World Tree’s domain of life.

Seeing this crescent-shaped light cluster, the answer was already clear...

"Indeed, it was the Life Scepter! Nidhogg was using the Life Scepter to allow believers to perform healing Divine Arts. However... this was not the complete Life Scepter but fragments of it!"

Eve reached a conclusion.

Then came the boundless joy.

The Life Scepter! She never expected the Life Scepter to be here!

Although... it seemed to be just some fragments, obtaining it would still allow her to take another step in mastering the law of life!

However...

Eve’s gaze moved slightly downward, her eyes narrowing.

Below the pyramid, she saw rows of translucent gray-black cocoons, each cocoon encasing a tall figure with closed eyes...

"Wow, aren’t those elves?!"

"So many elves! There must be at least a few hundred of them!"

In Little Xian Miao’s live stream, the comments from the players started floating across the screen.

The players who came with Eve also grew increasingly serious.

"Why are there so many elves here?"

Little Xian Miao typed with curiosity.

Gugu Bird’s eyes narrowed:

"Quick, look at the base of the pyramid!"

Seeing her message, several players quickly looked toward the base of the pyramid, seeing each cocoon connected to the pyramid with a slender conduit.

Looking carefully, they noticed a faint dark green energy flowing through the conduits into the pyramid, finally converging in the crescent-shaped light cluster at the top...

"What is that?"

Several players were very curious.

However, upon seeing those elves below, Eve instantly realized what Nidhogg was doing...

"I see... she was using the elves’ bloodline power to repair the Life Scepter!"

The Life Scepter was one of the three True Divine Artifacts of the former World Tree and also the scepter governing the law of life.

Though the Life Scepter might not possess powerful offensive abilities, it had terrifying healing capabilities and the power to transform and evolve life.

For any race, this was an artifact capable of altering racial destiny.

Precisely because of this, the gods fought over the Life Scepter during the millennium-long divine war, leading to its shattering...

No one had anticipated that the entity long collecting the Life Scepter fragments was the newly awakened Nidhogg!

Hmm... though it seemed she had already completely fallen into becoming an Evil God.

The Life Scepter was created by the former World Tree from a portion of her essence, concentrated with the Original Law. Thus... to repair it, she had to use the bloodline power of the World Tree.

"You all, come here."

As the group gazed at the pyramid, lost in thought, the old man spoke again.

He had reached the base of the pyramid.

"You have all become true desperate believers, and as my lord’s clansmen, every believer should come here to offer sincere prayers."

The old man said.

After speaking, he turned around and bowed slightly to the crescent-shaped light cluster atop the pyramid, fervently praising:

"Praise my lord, the great God of Despair!"

The other believers mimicked his action:

"Praise my lord, the great God of Despair!"

Seeing this, Eve was stirred.

By now, she knew why the old man had brought them here.

Repairing the Life Scepter required not only the bloodline power of the World Tree but also the Divine Power of life.

However, Nidhogg lacked the Divine Power of life, so... in a relative sense, he used faith power more easily accepted by Divine Artifacts compared to his own Divine Power, having believers ceaselessly pray to the Life Scepter!

This was both Nidhogg’s method for repairing the Life Scepter and the way she left her mark on it!

When the players saw the old man’s actions, they glanced at each other and pretended to pray to the pyramid.

Of course, their prayers had no effect.

However, in Eve’s heart, a bold idea gradually formed...

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