Aside from the bonfire, the environment around them had also changed when the Players weren't paying attention.
Two boxes, one red and one blue, and a semi-open tent appeared within the light of the bonfire.
Aside from Marni who was teleported away because of his clumsy hands, the others studied the new objects curiously.
The red box was called a supply box, but there was nothing inside at the moment. The blue box was called a loot box, and could be exchanged for game coins and EXP by throwing in various materials or unused equipment from the dungeon.
There was a simple bed inside the tent, and Edward found that he could quickly recover stamina by lying on it.
"Look, what's this?" Eleena entered the tent and found a small statue in a corner.
It wasn't as if Eleena hadn't seen statues before since there were carpenters in the village, but this statue was very unusual: aside from the base, it was a weird sphere.
"Maybe it's a statue of the God of Games." The guardsman said casually, too lazy to think about it.
"No way! That's disrespectful to the God of Games!" Doug Ag, otherwise known as Eggface, who was so loyal to the God of Games that he was almost a fanatic, quickly retorted.
Eleena, Joe, and Edward nodded in agreement. They had seen Xi Wei's body with their own eyes — how could the great God of Games be a ball!
"I'm sorry, I'm just joking. I'm actually very devout." Of course, the guard captain would not be stubborn about this matter. He apologized heartily and then picked up the statue curiously to examine it. After a while, his eyes sharpened. "Wait a minute, look at the bottom of the base. There are words."
Everyone then turned their attention to the base of the statue in Eleena's hand.
[The God of Games who hasn't thought of what he looks like — Made
in
Divine Kingdom]
"…"
At this moment, the word 'f * ck' popped up in everyone's mind at the same time.
So that thing really was the statue of the God of Games!
"Could it be that the one we met before was just a clone of the God of Games, and the God of Games is really a ball?" Joe's expression was shaken as he stuttered out his opinion.
"How could it be …" Goudan had a shocked expression on his face. He obviously didn't want to believe this.
At this moment, Edward, who took some time to organize his thoughts, let out a dry cough.
"Don't panic. Even if this statue was made by the Divine Kingdom, it doesn't mean that His Excellency God is really a ball." He deduced seriously, "After all, even if the believers enter the Divine Kingdom after they die, they may not be able to meet the gods! It must have been carved by a devout believer who ascended to the Divine Kingdom. I remember Marni saying that the God of Games is a new god that appeared in the last hundred years, and unlike the other ancient gods, there are no specific myths or legends passed down to the world. That's why it's normal that they don't know what the God of Games should look like! "
"So, so that's how it is. As expected of Big Brother Edward!" Eleena looked enlightened.
Even Goudan, whose outlook on life had been shaken once again, calmed down and nodded with conviction.
Only the guard captain still had some doubts, but he wasn't stupid enough to say it out loud.
"If I'm not wrong, for this thing to appear in the tent, I'm afraid it's related to some hidden mission!" Edward guessed. "And it must be a large-scale mission related to the senior believer who ascended to the Divine Kingdom!"
"There's actually such a thing! Then how do we trigger the mission? "
"So scary, so scary!"
"Hurry up, hurry up!"
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In the Divine Kingdom, Xi Wei couldn't help but find it funny that Edward's analysis was as ferocious as a tiger's, but he didn't get anything right.
In fact, he had really made that statue himself. It was used to reinforce and modify the campfire.
It could use Xi Wei's divine presence to scare off undead spirits that didn't believe in him, and it could also ensure that the campfire wouldn't be destroyed by the residual divine power in the Valley of the Tragic Dead.
Apart from that, the statue itself was also an anchor point, and the players' teleportation depended on it. Of course, they could only teleport to the corresponding anchor point after clearing the area ahead. After all, the players' identities were bound to the System, and there was no need to worry about them doing anything out of the ordinary.
This statue was also modified from the remains of monsters that the players had sacrificed, and it was essentially the same type of existence as Game Coins, but Xi Wei had added a special attribute to it. The players could only play around with the statue at the campfire, and couldn't bring it out of the campfire.
Moreover, after the players left the campfire, they would be teleported back to their original tent no matter where they placed the statue.
Xi Wei made a total of 100 sets of these statues, and every time a player explored the Valley of the Tragic Dead by 1%, he would throw one down as a new anchor point until the entire Valley of the Tragic Dead was fully explored.
"Okay, now the dungeon system of the Valley of the Tragic Dead is basically complete, and the rest can only be left to the players and the undead creatures in the valley." Xi Wei nodded in satisfaction at his own creation.
But soon, he started to frown again.
After Eleena and the others successfully preached to the merchants and earned a large amount of divine energy, the flow of divine energy into their accounts had entered a relatively stable period. Even though there was a lot coming in every day, there probably wouldn't be any additional income for the time being.
After crafting the statues and various dungeon items, Xi Wei realized that his divine energy reserves had become pitiful again. Moreover, the dungeon facilities in the Valley of the Tragic Dead needed daily maintenance, and the construction of various buildings in the newbie village, as well as the planting of crops out of season were also consuming more divine energy than he expected.
With that in mind, the amount of divine energy he was saving every day was very little. If he didn't think of a way to reduce the consumption, Xi Wei would have to stay in the newbie village and the Valley of the Tragic Dead for a long time.
Just as Xi Wei was thinking hard about new ways to recruit believers for his future plans, he suddenly noticed that Marni, who had been teleported back to the newbie village earlier, had pulled out his merchant convoy and was ready to depart.
Xi Wei was puzzled for a moment before realizing the reason.
Although Marni Wilf had joined the Church of Games, he still had another identity: a traveling merchant of the Silver Chime Merchant Guild.
He had stayed in the newbie village for quite some time, and had to report to the merchant guild before he could leave.