Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree-Chapter 247 - 241: The Damaged True Divine Artifact

Eve felt a surge of joy in her heart, letting her avatar go idle and then returning her main consciousness to the Divine Country, where she took out the Box of the Dead from Death God Hela.

She gave it a thought and opened the continuously flickering Box of the Dead...

Once the box opened, a dark orb of light floated out, similar to the Divine Power orb Eve had placed inside earlier. It was Hela’s reply.

With a gentle tap, Eve broke the orb, from which a lazy yet majestic female voice emerged,

"Uller has only been a god for a few millennia, so the Divine Artifacts he has accumulated aren’t many. Even those he uses are mostly only at the level of quasi-Divine Artifacts. However, he does possess a true Divine Artifact that can pose a threat to a True God."

A flawed true Divine Artifact?

Eve felt a slight stirring in her heart, recalling the descriptions of Divine Artifacts in the World Tree legacy...

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However, with thousands upon thousands of Divine Artifacts, some strong and some weak, the power exerted by weaker Divine Artifacts was sometimes even less than that of legendary weapons crafted by mortals, while powerful Divine Artifacts could even make True Gods apprehensive.

Among them, what determined the power of a Divine Artifact was the amount of Divine Power contained and the strength of its laws.

According to their strength, Divine Artifacts in the Segis World were generally categorized into: sub-Divine Artifacts, half-Divine Artifacts, quasi-Divine Artifacts, and true Divine Artifacts.

The Divine Artifacts that mortal intelligent creatures encountered were almost all sub-Divine Artifacts, and this level of Divine Artifacts was the most numerous.

In a sense, the initial weapons Eve crafted for the players could be considered sub-Divine Artifacts too.

However, the Divine Power contained within was so sparse that it could almost be ignored.

Yet even so, due to the presence of the aura of life Divine Power, players’ initial weapons exhibited miraculous effects when confronting the undead...

Weak Divine Artifacts were very easy to craft; as long as a True God infused an object with Divine Power, it could become the most basic Divine Artifact.

But powerful Divine Artifacts were much more difficult.

Not all materials could withstand a large amount of Divine Power, nor could they all harness the Power of Laws.

The more powerful the Divine Artifact, the rarer its materials.

A Divine Artifact that could, by its own power, pose a threat to a True God was even harder to craft.

Such a Divine Artifact was called a true Divine Artifact.

The crafting of a true Divine Artifact was extremely difficult, and the power contained within true Divine Artifacts was immense.

Even the weakest true Divine Artifacts began with a Divine Power value of 1000...

*Do not underestimate this 1000 Divine Power value.*

*Perhaps a True God might possess more Divine Power, but a True God couldn’t unleash it instantaneously.*

*In other words, the Divine Power of a True God was akin to a reservoir, while a True God’s use of Divine Power was like a water pipe. No matter how much water the reservoir had, it was the water pipe that determined the True God’s explosive power.*

*Among True Gods, there was no essential difference in rank, only a distinction between strong and weak.*

*True God’s advancement was essentially the process of the "reservoir" expanding and the "water pipe" widening, though the reservoir’s expansion far exceeded the rate at which the pipe widened...*

Although a True God couldn’t unleash Divine Power beyond her usage limits, a true Divine Artifact could.

An instantaneous burst of 1000 Divine Power points caused by the Divine Artifact alone was enough to pose a lethal threat to True Gods of lesser Divine Power!

*Essentially, even a mortal, if they mastered a true Divine Artifact and could somehow fully unleash its power, might, by sheer luck, manage to slay a god... albeit the weakest kind.*

Of course, a True God possessing such formidable artifacts was even more powerful.

During the Silver Era, amidst the battles of the gods, many weaker faith gods relied on true Divine Artifacts to fortuitously slay even mightier ancient gods, thereby seizing their control, consolidating divinity, and achieving ascension...

In fact, many True Gods in the Segis World didn’t even possess a single true Divine Artifact.

This was because the True Gods who owned true Divine Artifacts, having weathered chaotic times, ultimately became leaders.

And the number of leaders remained perpetually scarce.

Most True Gods with power below medium Divine Power only possessed quasi-Divine Artifacts, which meant they could harm True Gods but not fatally, relying solely on the weapon itself.

Actually, in the World Tree’s legacy, the former World Tree also had its own true Divine Artifacts.

But those true Divine Artifacts were either taken by other True Gods following the World Tree’s fall or were lost somewhere with the collapse of the World Tree’s Divine Country...

In short, when Eve inherited the World Tree, she had nothing except her body and faith.

*From this perspective, for Uller to possess a flawed true Divine Artifact, he was rather fortunate indeed.*

At this thought, Eve’s expression grew solemn as she continued to listen to Hela’s message:

"Uller’s flawed true Divine Artifact is named the ’Heart of Wither,’ and its appearance should be a necklace shaped like a skull..."

"Allegedly, when Uller was still the faith totem of the Half-Beasts, he obtained it from the royal court ruins of the Titan Giants in the Death Desert. It originally belonged to a Titan Giant who had fallen to the abyss, sealed within the royal court ruins..."

"A thousand years ago, Yggdrasil also suffered a great loss because of this artifact, as many sub-gods of the Elf Clan perished at the hands of this true Divine Artifact..."

"This isn’t an offensive true Divine Artifact but a sealing one. It can temporarily seal a True God’s power, reducing their strength to that of a demigod or even less temporarily..."

"However, this flawed true Divine Artifact is only effective against True Gods with lesser Divine Power or below."

"Moreover... due to its erosion by abyssal forces, it can’t be controlled by Divine Power and requires sacrifices of flesh or life force. The cost of using it is substantial and reportedly leads to the user being eroded by the abyss as well."

"It’s rumored that in recent years, Uller has grown increasingly irritable, partly because of this erosion. The War God has repeatedly demanded that Uller destroy this flawed true Divine Artifact, but Uller has never agreed..."

"Consequently, the War God has also grown discontented with Uller..."

"Your Grace, Eve, if you engage Uller, be wary of his flawed true Divine Artifact!"

Death God Hela’s message concluded here.

And Eve’s expression gradually turned grave as well.

"*So, the power I sensed earlier must belong to this flawed true Divine Artifact named the ’Heart of Wither’!*"

"*The Half-Beasts brought it with them and, taking advantage of the war, sacrificed those fallen Half-Beast warriors, attempting to activate its power...*"

"*Uller intends to directly use this artifact to imprison my power!*"

Quickly, Eve understood Uller’s plan.

*Perhaps... the invasion of the Elf Forest by thirty thousand troops was merely superficial.*

*For Uller, successfully wiping out the Elf Clan through a faith war would be optimal. At least on the surface, the elves didn’t appear capable of opposing.*

*To put oneself in his shoes... he probably saw only two paths for the elves’ future:*

*One path was for the elves to be annihilated by the Half-Beast Army, causing the newly risen True God Eve to lose her followers and fall in rank. Then Uller would dispatch the strong to eliminate her and finally seize divinity...*

*And the other was thirty thousand troops sieging the elves, forcing the True God behind the Elf Clan to take action...*

*If the True God behind the Elves intervened, then the thirty thousand troops would become sacrifices for the flawed true Divine Artifact, summoning it to seal the intervening True God. Uller would then send his powerful troops to eliminate her and finally seize divinity...*

*Either way, it was victory.*

*Clearly, Uller had made more than one plan. The thirty thousand troops were not only his stabbing blade but a bait targeted at Eve and sacrifices for the flawed true Divine Artifact!*"

"*Truly ruthless! Thirty thousand Half-Beasts, discarded just like that. While mostly superficial believers, they still provided a significant source of faith...*" Eve shook her head.

*In fact, Uller’s targeting was quite effective.*

*Perhaps the players could contend with the thirty thousand troops, but if there were totem guardians, Eve would indeed have to step in.*

Of course, she wouldn’t act in a True God’s form; rather, she would disguise herself as a Divine Favored, "summoning" the power of a True God.

However, the issue was that from the previous sensing, Eve now strongly suspected that this flawed true Divine Artifact was quite sensitive to a True God’s aura, possibly making it easy for the Half-Beasts to see through her disguise...

*That would be quite awkward.*

*So... what should I do?* Eve fell deep into thought.

After a moment, a slight surge moved through her heart,

"*Hmm? That might be not right...*

"*Perhaps... this might actually be a good opportunity!*"