Now that he had an abundance of faith, Lu Yao directly called up the [Spell of True Sight] to scan the enemy.
……
Statue of Mandrill God
[Godhead]: Yes.
[Divinity]: humble as a mole (4306).
[Divine Body]: trainee deity (355).
……
[Apostle LV29] Papaloukas
Life Value: 1351/1351
Mana: 989/989
Damage: 16
Defence: 14
Speed: 10
[Wisdom Lv7]
Wisdom is the key to an Apostle’s ability to listen to the will of the gods. The higher the level of Wisdom, the easier it is to improve and comprehend the abilities.
[Abnormal Strength Lv5]
Life value is substantially higher than normal.
[Mist Elemental]
Gain [Camouflage] in cloudy elemental environments and gain double speed.
[Aversion to War]
Aversion to combat, and will become emotionally drained when fighting, even leading to a sustained reduction in overall attributes.
[Raining Clouds]
You can constantly create a cloudy environment for rainfall.
[Taking off Clouds and Mist LV1]
[Papa Lucas Exclusive]
The ability to control clouds to create a moveable area made of clouds, with effects related to the level of this ability.
……
Lu Yao locked the apostle and clicked the mouse.
Shoot the man first, deal with the Apostle moving the idol first.
[Lightning] x 34!
The unsuspecting Papaloukas was blasted by the lightning and turned into a scattering mass of thinning mist.
At the same time, a statue of the god crashed to the ground from the air and smashed crookedly into the ground ice.
The elf god idol looked like an inverted gourd, large at the top and small at the bottom, with what looked like a foot or a tail at the bottom.
The idol stood up, making Lu Yao think of an upside-down guitar.
The snowman activated at the moment the idol of the elf god hit the ground.
It swept past on its white horse at speed, completing the first wave of the ground attack.
The upper right corner of Lu Yao’s screen displayed, Faith +1852.
Before the Elf God could react, Tyrant Sarina cut in from the side again.
Numerous [Mist Spirits] dropped their gargoyles and desperately rushed towards the Tyrant, using their lives to stop the intruder.
Sarina, who transformed into moonlight, chopped up all the blockers along the way.
She pointed her bone sword at the idol.
“Submit, or die.”
After issuing the warning, a green light suddenly emerged from the top of Sarina’s head, and her entire body disappeared without a trace.
Lu Yao’s heart tightened as he watched.
Crap, Avada Solo!
Or is it a directional skill?
Nope.
Lu Yao calmed down a little and realised that Sarina’s words were still there. It was just that she had become invisible, moving at an extremely slow speed.
There was an additional [Shrinking] symbol above her head, a status that had a time limit and was fading a little.
“Think it’s useful to make me smaller?”
Sarina was very calm, unseen she still floated the dialogue box, “Even if you shrink me to a grain of sand, I’m still gravel that you can’t resist.”
The tiny moonlight flickered, decimating the [Mist Spirits] that came up around her. But on the other hand, after shrinking, Sarina’s movement became relatively slow.
One by one, new [Mist Spirits] kept appearing around the elf god, trying to further slow down the opponent in this way.
Lu Yao then understood.
This was a shrinking and morphing ability, which should be the ability of the Elf God.
New [Mist Spirits] were constantly being born around the idol of the elf god, which was clearly another miracle of the elf god. Part of them blocked the trolls behind them, part of them delayed the shrunken Sarina in front of them, and part of them carried the idol and ran.
On their escape route, the Blood Knights had been waiting for a long time.
Nevid had a one-two punch, and no mist spirit could get past his two-handed sword.
The elf god did not use [Shrink] again.
Lu Yao estimated that the miracle either consumed a lot or had some sort of CD period.
The snowman struck again.
It rushed into the [Misty Spirit], one in and one out, and once again managed to retreat and also grabbed a prop.
Faith +1047.
The rest of the battle became boring and tedious.
The Blood Knight and the recovered Sarina, one after the other, wiped out the last of the elf god’s [Mist Spirit], leaving him with only a bare-bones idol.
Lu Yao used the [Spell of True Vision] to observe and found that the Elf God’s [Divinity] only had 11 points left.
That number was about right.
A god that lacks reserves of faith is like a car without fuel, a pure pendulum.
But how to interrogate this elf god turned out to be a difficult problem.
It suddenly occurred to Lu Yao, doesn’t the Elf God have followers?
There would surely be prophets amongst the 300+ people.
The idol took the initiative and brought the apostles along. If the idol had never returned, the prophet would have brought people to look around.
Lu Yao decided to wait patiently, these populations might be able to receive it.
After a while, a group of small people did appear.
They wore animal skins, their hair was messy, and they carried spears and shields, hundreds of them.
“Give us back the idol!”
The person who led the speakers was a LV6 hero named Spear Victory.
“You can’t seize the idol!”
Spear Victory shouted, “This is blasphemy! It has to be punished by the gods!”
Perhaps the sense of oppression brought about by the Tyrant and the Blood Knight was too strong, and he didn’t dare to get too close.
Sarina with nonsense, the sword in her hand turned into a moonlight and slashed at the idol. The sword didn’t hurt the idol, but it caused expressions of fear and anger to rise above the heads of the believers.
“Stop! Stop!” Spear Victory shouted.
Not a moment later, another group of villains arrived. This time, the leader was a LV10 Seer called Shieldborn, an old man.
An exclamation mark lit up above Shield Sheng’s head, and then a question mark appeared.
“Why did you desecrate the idol?”
It was times like this that Isabel needed to step in.
Both Sarina and Nevid were combat groups, one condescending and the other blunt when it came to negotiation, and were professionally mismatched.
“…… The great Lord Yao God is merciful and has mercy on your ignorance, and hereby allows you to leave, and this one evil god will be punished by the gods.”
Isabel gave an explanation that made the prophet unable to believe.
Prophet Shieldborn insisted, “Lord Elf God will not lose! We will wait until Lord Elf God is completely victorious.”
He took the lead and sat down, seemingly expressing his support and faith in the gods in this way.
The hero, Spear Victory, and more of the little people behind him followed the prophet’s example and began to sit in silence in support of their gods.
Isabel also stopped counselling and just stared at them from the sidelines.
More villains arrived one by one, all joining the ranks of those waiting in silence for the return of the gods.
Lu Yao looked odd in his heart.
This group of villains, per capita Gandhi, right?
Think about it.
You can’t fight, you certainly can’t fight, so the only way to support this is non-violently.
Lu Yao stopped caring about them and returned his attention to the elf god.
Lu Yao treasured every refreshed God player.
This was because not only did they come with valuable resources, but they were also a very important source of information. Every time he fought with a different god, Lu Yao could always learn something and sometimes grow a lot of insight.
This time was no exception.
The Elf God possessed two special wonders, [Miniaturisation] and [Mist Spirit]. If the opponent wasn’t far off from his combined strength and didn’t have the relevant information, it was likely that he would have to suffer a big loss against him.
Lu Yao first confirmed the opponent’s identity from Fellows.
“Lord Yao God, as far as my subordinates know, there isn’t a God of the Gods named Elf God in the [Whistle Blower] Divine Palace.” The Skeleton Man said.
No?
But the fact that the elf god could save up over 4000 points of faith and not be quickly discovered by himself showed that the developmental and stealth abilities were quite good.
This would be considered later.
Experiment first.
At Lu Yao’s command, the snowman came out and pulled out his red gloves.
Faith +7.
One more pull out.
Faith +4.
Theoretically, the elf god is no longer divine.
After faith is zeroed out, does the god simply disappear? Or do they lose their godhood?
Lu Yao used the [Spell of True Sight] to observe again.
……
Statue of Mandrill God
[Godhead]: Yes.
[Divinity]: shaky (0).
[Divine Body]: trainee deity (721).
……
Lu Yao drew the first inference: when faith went to zero, the gods would not immediately disappear, and the idols would not immediately self-destruct.
Then, the key was population?
Lu Yao notes.
As time passed, the population of Elf God believers was decreasing. A portion of the villains who had previously dedicated their faith to him were leaving one after another, and it looked like they no longer believed in this god.
“Little Fire, pour a cup of flower tea.”
Lu Yao prepared himself for long-term observation.
Doing experiments requires patience, not haste.
He waited for about two hours, the idols had all been covered by the snowfall, and there were only 12 villains left to support the elf god. Cold, hunger and fear made more and more believers choose to leave.
Too much time had passed for the pixel villain.
Soon after, the Prophet Shieldborn’s head shows [Death], and he freezes to death in anticipation of the gods.
The hero, Spear Sheng, buries the prophet’s body and sits in silence until a ghostly villain surfaces above his head, and finally leaves silently even under the threat of death.
The population of the elf god becomes 0.
After roughly ten minutes, the idol instantly collapsed into pieces.
Lu Yao took a sip of hot tea and nodded.
Corollary 2: If all of the gods’ beliefs and populations go to zero, the idol will collapse within a certain amount of time, and the god player will be forcibly ejected from this world.
To commemorate the contribution of the Elf God to the God Image Experiment, Lu Yao named these two discoveries [Elf God Inference].
