Eve ascended to the Segis stage under the name of the World Tree, which naturally meant that the Oak Guardians, former divine envoys, could act freely.

As time passed, their numbers were no longer the mere one hundred or so as they were initially.

Over the past few years, every time Eve’s power improved or the magic power in the Elf Forest changed, a batch of trees would evolve.

At this moment, the number of Oak Guardians in the Eve Divine Country has exceeded five hundred.

This is even without Eve deliberately nurturing them.

In fact, the presence of more affordable and battle-hungry players means that the Oak Guardians no longer need to serve as the main force of the Natural Army.

However, the Oak Guardians are peaceful by nature, immensely strong, and possess vibrant vitality. They are also fervent believers, so despite not needing to be the main force of the military, they are quite useful in many other ways.

For instance, in city construction, they often serve as labor forces providing strength, and they are reliable enough to become loyal guardians of the city.

Moreover, as natural Druids, they can participate in the production within the Elf Forest, engaging in crop cultivation and variety improvement... truly versatile.

Therefore, once the Oak Guardians left the Divine Country and descended into the Elf Forest, they quickly attracted numerous Player Guilds vying for them, and soon, they confusedly boarded the players’ metaphorical pirate ship.

From that day on, whether in city construction within the Elf Forest or agricultural production, the towering figures of Tree-men will likely be seen everywhere.

Of course, that is to be discussed later.

As Eve no longer concealed her identity, the news of the World Tree’s revival began to spread throughout the entire Segis Plane, and even across the universe.

Within just a few days, Eve was surprised to discover that the number of her believers had surged once again...

However, this time the types of believers were somewhat varied.

Although a fair portion still consisted of Elves and Half-Elves, believers from other races such as humans, dwarves, goblins, and even vampires emerged among the ranks...

As the ruler of the Silver Era, even though the former World Tree did not deliberately expand its faith, the legacy of its faith was substantial.

Even after a thousand years, when Eve re-entered the historical stage as the World Tree, she still benefited from her predecessor’s legacy.

Of course, being aware of the condition of the Eternal Lord, Eve understood that faith is ultimately risky and cannot be overly relied upon.

In Eve’s view, this is likely related to the nature of faith.

When the number of believers is sufficiently large, the collective intentions of all beings accumulate too much of the believers’ willpower, and for believers who often pray to the True God, confession and discourse are commonly the main content of their prayer.

In other words, these intentions are often negative, and when accumulated to a sufficiently large amount, they might exceed the True God’s limit of endurance.

This is what is typically known as "pollution."

The Eternal Lord’s believers number in the hundreds of millions, or even more, and from this perspective, being influenced is almost unavoidable.

Fortunately, Eve possesses the key to the [New World] universe, which is the green orb that grants her the [devour] ability.

With this key, Eve can, upon gaining the power of faith, use the [devour] ability to transform the power of faith into pure Divine Power unaffected by the intentions of faith.

Furthermore, as Eve is an ancient god, faith is not her foundation, thus her resistance to assimilation by the intentions is stronger.

Therefore, Eve warmly welcomes these new believers.

The number of believers further expanded, and the quality of faith greatly improved.

Especially in the Elf Forest, the quality of Elf Believers has always been high, and compared to other races, especially humans, they are relatively more pure.

Although Elves constitute less than one-twentieth of Eve’s nearly twenty million believers, the faith power they provide accounts for about a third of the total faith power.

This amount of faith is already enough to support a newly ascended true god with strong Divine Power.

And this proportion of faith power made Eve suddenly realize why the Eternal Lord targeted the Elf Clan.

When the number of Elf believers is sufficiently large, a qualitative change will occur. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

If the Eternal Lord had indeed been indifferent over the millennium, perhaps... the Elves might have been able to resurrect the predecessor through faith alone.

Free of distractions, pure-hearted and pure-minded... the disposition of the Elves has granted them exceptionally high-quality faith, which even causes Eve to suspect that perhaps the predecessor’s creation of the Elf species was not solely for the purpose of managing the Segis World.

Perhaps... there was a deeper consideration.

Half a month after Eve revealed her identity, the war in the Underworld was completely over.

The God of Darkness and Shadow fell, and it was a war without suspense; as the gloomy dwarves and the Elf Alliance advanced, the Dark City State Alliance was soon completely overrun and became history.

The faith of the Underworld was also unified by the Death Church.

It is worth mentioning that after signing the covenant, Eve also gained the right to preach in the Underworld.

Or rather, after ascending to strong Divine Power, becoming the incarnation of death and the Netherworld Sovereign, Hela was no longer interested in the power of faith.