Chapter 58 The Goddess Who Collects Scrap Materials
Even junk can be sacrificed!
This news quickly spread among the players.
Although NPCs wouldn't allow players to sacrifice trash, if players inscribed their own sacrifice arrays, they could exchange the trash for contribution points!
Some big shots speculated that this might be a bug in the game's sacrifice mechanism.
After all, how could Divine beings possibly collect junk?
And how could the high and mighty Goddess possibly accept trash?
So, there must be some problem...
However, some believed that this might actually be an intended mechanism of the game's sacrifice feature!
After all, a game is just a game.
The deities in the game are not real Divine beings.
Perhaps... this kind of sacrifice is just some sort of recycling system of the game, quite similar to when we used to sell trash to vendors in old online games.
But, regardless of the reason, players didn't care.
They only cared about whether they could earn a fortune from this.
These damaged pieces of equipment were devoured without error by the sacrifice arrays, and the system even refunded a small amount of contribution points to the players.
Although it only amounted to a meager dozen or so points, small amounts accumulated could also lead to a considerable income.
Perhaps in the eyes of Alice and Berserker, these obsolete pieces of equipment that have lost their effectiveness only held sentimental value, and offering such decayed items to the Mother Goddess was a great blasphemy...
But the bold and daring players didn't mind.
What they lacked the most were contribution points, and if there was a way to exchange the useless junk in their hands for points, they were very happy to do so.
Cough cough, if this feature was a loophole, then the players hoped the officials would find out about it as late as possible!
Or better yet, simply never release a patch to fix it!
The players felt fortunate to have discovered this little secret.
After the first case of a successful secret sacrifice, players fell into a frenzy of learning how to inscribe sacrifice arrays!
On the Blue Star Network, some even created posts summarizing the entire process.
However, everyone tacitly refrained from discussing this matter on the official Elf Kingdom website...
And after the players learned how to inscribe sacrifice arrays, they began praying to the Goddess behind the back of the two NPCs, secretly offering the collected junk.
Hmm... mainly they offered broken equipment found in Feilengcui and bones left by Demon Beasts from hunts, used to supplement their household.
But the manuscripts, those still had to go through NPC hands.
Because offerings of manuscripts through NPCs completed exploration quests, granting additional experience and contribution points.
Offering various pieces of junk did not.
However, through further research by the players, they discovered that not just anything could be thrown into the sacrifice array.
For instance, damaged manuscripts, ruined equipment, certain materials left by slain Demon Beasts, and even ores, the sacrifice arrays always welcomed.
But if it was broken artifacts, household trash, dug-up rotten bones, picked berries, and the like, the sacrifice arrays completely ignored them.
Over time, they jokingly called the former "recyclable trash" and the latter "non-recyclable trash."
And as the players continued to explore and sacrifice, Eve, high in the sky, was overjoyed.
During this time, a large amount of equipment accumulated in Her Divine Space.
Most of them were purple-tier epics, and there were even some gold-tier legendaries!
Not only that, the equipment came in all tiers, from black iron to silver, and there were even a few sets at the gold tier!
Eve estimated that if all this equipment were exchanged with players, they would probably have to hand over millions of contribution points to Her!
And all this equipment was "recycled" from the players' hands at bargain prices by Eve.
That's right.
These were the pieces of equipment that Eve had received through the players' sacrifices of junk, which She then refurbished and enhanced with special effects using Divine Power.
Creating a set of equipment from scratch was not easy, but repairing and refurbishing were quite efficient with the use of Divine Power.
If there were not enough repair materials, the players also kindly sacrificed beast bones and ores.
Elves have accumulated a rich legacy over a thousand years, with many pieces of equipment originally being high-tier. Although mortals can't repair them, a True God can.
However, no one might have imagined that a True God would stoop to repairing mortal equipment with Divine Power.
After all, in the eyes of the beings in Segis World, True Gods are high above—why would they bother with these things...
Moreover, the consumption of cross-boundary sacrificial offerings is significant, and in the impression of many beings, the Heavenly Realm is the abode of True Gods.
And this kind of large-scale recycling of offerings is probably only affordable by the Mother Goddess herself, who resides in the same plane as the sacrificers.
After the Mother Goddess's refurbishment, these will all become goods that She sells to players.
However, the Mother Goddess did not throw all the refurbished equipment into the exchange system all at once but chose a batch of low-level Mage equipment and Gold legendary equipment to put in first.
As for the rest, She plans to gradually release them to the market in batches according to the players' level progression after the current equipment in the exchange system has been digested by the players...
This is called rationally analyzing the consumption potential of consumers to maximize company profits...
Not only that but in this period, the Mother Goddess has also gathered a large number of texts through the activities of the players, gaining a deeper understanding of the Elf history of a thousand years ago.
Alas, these historical texts still did not reveal the secrets of the divine war a thousand years ago...
Why was the World Tree besieged?
Why is it that True Gods of the good alignments had no allies?
Are the gods... wary of something?
The Mother Goddess does not know.
But She is not in a hurry; She believes She will eventually find some clues.
Additionally, as players continue to contribute, the Cultivation Technique exchange system in the game is becoming more and more complete.
In less than a week, players have found dozens of incomplete Cultivation Technique texts from the ruins of Feilengcui!
And after the Mother Goddess' repair, these texts were all listed in the exchange system.
However, most of them are of blue rare and white common grades, almost all below the iron tier for Cultivation Techniques.
There are very few Cultivation Techniques available for silver-tier, only a total of three.
The Elemental meditation method discovered by Li Mu and Demacia turned out to be the highest grade among them.
That is within the Mother Goddess's expectations.
When the Elves migrated, they must have taken all the valuable texts with them, leaving behind those that are not so important.
Having one Elemental meditation method is already fortunate.
After all, the basic groundwork is there; worst case scenario, She herself will enter the field and use Divine Power to deduce higher-tier Cultivation Techniques from lower-tier texts.
When players level up to silver-tier, the Mother Goddess's power should have recovered quite a bit, and it would be negligible for Her to spend some Divine Power to deduce subsequent Cultivation Techniques for players.
In short, everything in Elf Forest is developing in a positive direction.
The little saplings are also growing healthy and happy...
The construction of Elf Town is officially nearing completion.
The temple of Feilengcui has also been repaired, welcoming in the statue of the Mother Goddess.
Moreover, the reconstruction work of Feilengcui is being carried out in an orderly manner...
And the range of the players' activities keeps expanding with the level up.
The primitive forests of Elf Forest are dense and complex, and there are various Demon Beasts.
Therefore, the pace of the players' exploration is very slow; they can only cover about thirty miles outside of the safe zones.
However, as time goes on, some have gradually reached the border areas.
After some investigation, they brought back a large amount of exploration data.
For this reason, players have even established "Monster Compendium," "Plant Compendium," "Map Sharing," "Battle Strategy," and other sections on the official website forum...
And "Elf Kingdom" has also become a hot topic of discussion on the Blue Star Network.
When the official news of the second beta test was released, the epic masterpiece reached a new climax of popularity!
The second beta test, 900 spots available!
Countless netizens flocked to the official forum to register, hoping to be the lucky one selected.
At the same time, the winter and Hunting God Uller finally issued a new divine edict to their Believers...