What did you do with the dice?

Since words were not enough, she demonstrated it directly in front of the Sani Tower. She walked to a huge flower bud on the side, gently used magic to make its petals bloom, and a ball of red light flew out of it and was locked firmly in her palm.

She took the ball of light and ran to the corpse of a monster. She first set up a barrier to cover its body and then shot the ball of light into it. The next moment, something magical happened. The corpse, which had been dead for a long time, suddenly "came back to life" under the infiltration of the red light and had a heartbeat.

But not long after, the body gradually turned into ashes and disintegrated, and all the magic particles flew out of the one-way barrier. As the barrier closed, Maggie held the barrier in the palm of her hand, and then injected dye into it, turning the air inside into a ball of red light again.

Rusalka thought for a moment and said, "Ah? So you dyed this thing?"

Sanitta had no expectation of Rusalka's understanding. He said thoughtfully, "You mean, we can't feel or see this power. But it exists there, and we can capture it with special means."

Maggie's eyes lit up: "Wow, your understanding is the strongest I have ever seen! That's right, as for the method I used to capture it, it was to use

With the blessing Elune gave me, I can easily control the natural forces contained within the World Tree. Using this power from the gods, I can create a cage to capture these life forces."

Rusalka: "Besides rendering corpses harmless, what else is it used for?"

Maggie was a little surprised by their reaction: "You actually believed what I said so quickly?"

Rusalka: "That's not so strange, you know, in our place..."

Sanita had signaled him to keep quiet in the private chat, but was he really going to say everything? Why not just use a loudspeaker and announce that you're from Earth? And see what the Twelve Gods will do to you.

Rusalka then changed the subject: "I've led human armies to fight against demon lords from Hell. What kind of scenes have I not seen?"

Sanitta: "Since you said it is the key to resurrection, then why didn't the corpse just now resurrect but dissipated instead?"

Maggie didn't answer directly, but complained first: "Actually, the reason I didn't bring this research out of the forest to share, and I didn't dare to go out of the forest to conduct experiments, is because I felt that if my purpose was exposed, I would definitely be kidnapped by those terrifying human mages, and then tortured and forced to reveal my research results."

She sighed, "Although our elves are quite powerful, we are still too isolated and helpless in the outside world. It's really difficult for the rangers to rescue me from the castles of those most powerful humans. It's really too difficult. After all, the Second Prince was able to succeed when the Grand Duke's family had no people or troops."

Rusalka immediately interrupted her with dissatisfaction: "How dare you make such malicious assumptions about our kind and great Archmage Sanitita? How could he do such a thing!"

Maggie was a little confused and tilted her head. "I didn't say he had such an idea, did I? I was talking about those very, very bad human mages out there who would do anything for their research."

Rusalka: "Shut up. Who is this evil wizard who kidnapped you? Don't we know it in our hearts?"

When Maggie realized what was happening, she immediately showed a frightened expression: "You...you wouldn't do this, right? This is the Elf Forest!"

Sanitita cast a silence spell on Rusalka: (If you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb.)

Fortunately, Maggie did not take Rusalka's bad little joke to heart. She told the two that in fact, from the first sight of them, Maggie could see that they were different.

In fact, she also wanted to communicate with the two of them, but she was an introvert and didn't like to interact with other people. She finally plucked up the courage to apply to be a "guide", thinking that she would be able to meet the two of them by chance. However, it was her first time meeting a human being, and she was a little nervous, so she didn't have time to say it out loud.

She had thought of discussing it after their second meeting, but Rusalka had left an "indelible" bad impression on her the first time they met. She thought Rusalka had that kind of intention towards her, and thought that was too bad. She decided to wait until Suarez beat them down before discussing it.

Unexpectedly, Suarez lost first, so now I have to go up even if I don’t want to.

Sanita gave Rusalka a look: (Look at what you have done.)

Rusalka: (Hey, you’re welcome. I’m a kind-hearted person and I like to do good things.)

This is the thing about my good brother that's a headache, even on Earth. Every time I bring him along for a group run, the difficulty of negotiating with NPCs during the investigation phase skyrockets. He always makes statements that are more restrained than those of the cultists, but still far from human, right down to the realm of divine gold.

Maggie's subsequent theory does seem to go beyond the current academic version of human understanding of the world.

She first proposed that "vitality" determines the upper limit of a person's strength at birth. Creatures from ancient times possessed a greater vitality at birth. Therefore, both their magical power and physical strength far surpassed those of modern humans, leading to the saying "the older, the stronger."

Vitality itself does not increase or decrease out of thin air. When a creature with vitality dies, its vitality will enter the cycle of the world and be inherited by the next new life.

Rusalka concluded: "A lottery to be reborn?"

Maggie shook her head and told Rusalka that the distribution of life force wasn't random, which was why the "War of Faith" erupted in the world after the gods' power was established. It was because the gods knew of the existence of this "life force."

If you want to make your followers and power stronger, you need to have more vitality.

There is only one way to gain more vitality, and that is to plunder the vitality of other forces.

In other words, by killing people from other religious forces, you can inherit their vitality.

Although there will be no changes in the short term, in the long run, the overall strength of the newcomers in one's own forces will increase. If the advantage is maintained for a long time, one can become a monopoly overlord.

This is why the Dragon Clan was so renowned during the War of Faith. Their individual strength far surpassed that of other factions. Due to their uncontrollable trait of "Dragon Syndrome," they passively followed their biological instincts to plunder and slaughter, then used Dragon Island to protect newborns. This repetitive cycle made them the strongest and most dominant force in the early stages.

This statement seems to be consistent with the doubts of anthropologists at that time about the origin of the "War of Faith", but

There are actually many different opinions on this, and humans have actually proposed the "limited theory of magic particles."

It means that the magic particles available to the gods are limited, and only by eliminating other forces can they monopolize the right to use magic. This statement is actually in line with the current situation of the strength and diversity of human magic.

Sanita had no habit of interrupting others, and Rusalka had no habit of reading to learn about the history of the Eternal Plane, so Maggie continued her conversation smoothly.

Later, when the Demon War began, the demons' primary target was not the humans closest to the Seven Sins, but the dragons. This shows that the essence of demons is actually the existence of "plundering vitality."

Hearing this, Rusalka, who had been unable to get a word in edgewise until now, finally found a way to argue: "That's not right. The world's combat power was at its highest during the Demon War. Back then, great wizards were everywhere. If you're saying that, the demons must have taken all the life force. Shouldn't that be the other way around?"

Maggie shook her head. "As you saw in the experiment just now, too much vitality isn't necessarily better. Even for demons, it has its own limit, and the excess will automatically enter circulation. At that time, the world's population had dropped by half due to the demon war, and the birth rate also plummeted."

"Even if 20% of the overall vitality is plundered, it also means that the next newborn population will share the entire vitality of the dead half, making them extremely powerful. So from this theoretical point of view, the demon war is absolutely impossible to lose."

After Maggie finished speaking, she couldn't help but laugh. "Yes, it does sound ridiculous, doesn't it? Even if the people in the world did nothing at the time, as long as they were slaughtered to a certain extent, the demons would ultimately be unable to defeat those newly born, extremely powerful individuals. Their fate of being sealed was inevitable."

Sunita frowned, Maggie's theory really sounded like complete nonsense - the premise was that this world operated according to common sense.

Obviously, with the Twelve Gods intervening outside and the high-dimensional gambling table, the victory of the First Demon War was indeed impossible to fail from the perspective of a time traveler like him.

If we had lost the battle at that time, what would those gods have fought for later?

That DM wouldn't have let the game end so early. So, from a higher-dimensional perspective, Maggie's theory that "the First Demon War cannot be lost" is completely correct.

When Rusalka heard her brother agree, she was surprised and said, "This little elf potato is so intelligent. Could it be that when she was born, she absorbed all the intelligence of the elves into herself?"

Sanitita: (Then you should first doubt whether you selflessly shared your intelligence equally with other people on the earth when you were born.)

In this way, many things can be explained, such as why people become stronger as time goes by. In fact, during the time of the War of Faith and the War of Demons, people's death rate was very high and the birth rate was very low. This indeed created strong people with qualifications far superior to others.

As for why the sea people have not participated in so many wars, their strength has been steadily declining. This is because the population of the sea people is increasing. In the absence of active plundering of vitality, the number of deaths is far lower than the number of new births, which will make the new generation weaker and weaker.

A positive population pyramid will weaken a tribe, and to avoid this, they must plunder. Otherwise, they will become the target of plunder...

Therefore, the God of War's idea of ​​"not treating believers and weak races as human beings" is correct from the perspective of the overall situation.

This is why the El Empire was clearly in disarray in the early days, with no policies, no magic, no production, no food, and seemed to be unable to do anything, but it inexplicably became stronger and stronger.

Rusalka actually felt a bit of a headache after hearing this. So if you want to become stronger, you have to learn how to snap your fingers like Purple Potato Head?

So, what she thought about the great elder Huafalin whom he killed in Alice City was really right?

Maggie: "Actually, Warfarin's idea isn't entirely correct. After all, we gain full vitality only when we kill the other party with our own hands. This has been proven by my experiments. I'm not sure what the demons kill, as I haven't done any experiments. But based on observation, I tend to give it to the faction that kills the most demons. This is why humans are now the dominant force on the continent."

Well, so when the God of War led so many troops to Alice, he didn't think of breaking up into small groups to attack the defenseless Kingdom of Snidi, but insisted on opening the Demon Gate. In fact, he wanted to become the force that killed the most demons?

Because He clearly knew that "death is just a cycle", He could not care less about the annihilation of His most elite troops.

But later, he resurrected all the people in Rusalka, not because he was kind enough, but because according to the judgment at that time, all the dead were killed by humans, and their vitality belonged to humans.

This is of course unacceptable to Him, so He decided to send a message to Rusalka, coax him to borrow the power of his own artifact to restart, and pull him into his camp.

Damn, no wonder when Rusalka said, "Then I'll still kill orcs," the God of War, Krampus, said, "Whatever." Because after Rusalka's faction became his, his life force would eventually circulate internally if he killed orcs, so of course he didn't care.

Rusalka: (Oh my god, this is really bad, what a conspiracy.)

Sanita: (So, never underestimate any god. Even the dumbest fool in a higher dimension might be better than

The smartest wise men in the lower dimensions need wisdom.)

In fact, there is no other way. Even if the truth is told to Rusalka and he is given another chance to choose, he will still choose to resurrect all the dead people.

Because he is not a god, the wins and losses of gods in that higher dimension have nothing to do with him. As a living person with emotions, he only wants to give a good ending to those warriors who are willing to sacrifice their lives for Sinidi, and does not want them to die like this.

At most, he would not choose to believe in the God of War.

But he just believed it. He got a faith and friendly forces, so from his point of view, it was actually a profit.

If I hadn't treated my vitality like those wicked gods, then I wouldn't have regretted it. But I just felt a little unsatisfied, like I was being manipulated again.

This really proves what the Seven Sins Agents and the God of Law, Basu, said: "What we gods want you to do has nothing to do with your own will."

Rusalka seemed to understand a little bit about why Theresa had become the Messenger of the End. She felt powerless and angry when she realized that all the lives she cherished, including her family, friends, and even the lives of everyone in the world, were nothing more than chips on the gods' gambling table.

In particular, Sanitta said that during the Evil War, Theresa witnessed with her own eyes the destruction of the entire Joy Sect in the isolated and helpless resistance.

Ignorance is bliss. The most frightening thing is to suddenly find out one day that the reason those forces stabbed you in the back is simply because their gods want to take away your vitality.

Just because of the victory or defeat of the almighty gods, all the kind people in the Church of Joy were sacrificed, leaving her alone. Rusalka felt that she probably couldn't help but turn evil.

But sympathy aside, what needs to be done remains unchanged - no matter what happened in the past, she is now blocking her good brother's way home.

Chapter 460 Maggie: I can tell at a glance that you are not human

Sure enough, without sufficient information and research on the nature of the world, even Sanita would not be able to think about the problem from the perspective of "there is a substance in the world other than the power of faith that the gods want to fight for."

Maggie: "Based on my research, I've discovered that what people call 'soul' is actually life force, and life force is a gift that is innate. Each person's life force is unique in form. It is pre-selected to form the 'magic particles' that make up their body, and there's no way to alter this by adding life force. Doing so would result in a mismatch between the body and the life force, and the result would be what you've seen: the outer shell would collapse on its own."

Rusalka raised her hand: "Teacher, teacher, I have a question!"

Maggie was quite happy to be recognized for the first time. Even the stereotype that the other person was Rusalka was diluted: "Hmm? Ask it yourself."

Rusalka called out Phoenix: "My cat can eat and become stronger. How do you say it?"

Maggie glanced at Phoenix and said, "She's a follower of Lady Shadow, right? She's lucky to be alive. Her followers have the ability to absorb life force to strengthen themselves. So, she was the target of public attack back then, and was the first one to be destroyed."

The one who picked up things randomly was killed by the first concentrated fire, which made sense. It turned out that Lady Shadow was the real Hakim.

"Do you hear me, Cat? You can't steal things anymore, or you'll be doomed." Rusalka patted Phoenix's little head and said, "There's only one thing in this world you can steal, and that's my heart."

Maggie made a questioning expression, as if she was uncomfortable. Even the elves, who had never been exposed to the internet, were overwhelmed by Rusalka's cheesy love talk.

Phoenix didn't fall for it, so before returning to Shadow, she took the dagger from Rusalka's compartment.

Rusalka stepped on the shadow and turned around in anger: "Damn cat, give me back my dagger. I only allowed you to steal my heart, not my money!"

Sanitta pondered, "But you also said that demons will devour vitality, and the vitality returned will be distributed according to the proportion of resistance. In that case, shouldn't Huafalin resist the demon invasion? Will you elves still join the war?"

Maggie looked embarrassed: "Then I tell you, don't tell anyone else."

Rusalka pointed at herself and said, "This is Yuyu."

He pointed to the Sani Tower and said, "This is an elf."

Then he pointed to the shadow on the ground and said, "This is Cat."

Then he pointed at Shana and Alijie who were pouring tea and said, "This is a silly roe deer."

Alijie & Shana: "Hey! We are elves too!"

Rusalka spread her hands and said, "We don't have any humans here."

Maggie showed a look of obvious disbelief, but she still said, "Okay, this involves our World Tree. Actually, our elves' World Tree has the ability to absorb life force. Therefore, it has a large amount of life force, so newly born elves are very strong. I have also developed a method to re-implement the baptism ceremony and use life force to purify the bloodline."

Sani Tower discovered that the power of Elune sounded so parasitic like a plant. This blessing allowed Rusalka to steal 40% of her faith. It seemed that the World Tree could be planted and her vitality could be stolen. It seemed that getting rich depended on stealing, right?

Rusalka was very curious. "So, according to you, you elves should be very powerful, right?"

Maggie showed a helpless expression: "But there are too few descendants of our elves, so

Because there are too few male elves."

Sanitta said that he learned part of this from a book and found that the elves had a very slow development process.

During the Human Civil War, after the Demonic War, the elves were still renowned for their loyalty and love. Many elves were nicknamed "Fellow Birds," "Lovebirds," and "Warrior Mandarin Ducks." While these names often evoke natural imagery, the true origins lie with the elves, as they best embody the image of nature.

At that time, elves lived in pairs. Killing one meant that the other would retaliate at all costs. The fertility rate was also very high, and everyone cherished the hard-earned love.

But later, since the power of the World Tree was exhausted and the elf bloodline faded, Elune announced her retirement and retreat to recuperate, allowing the Elf Forest to be shrouded in a large fog array (actually intending to avoid being focused on and secretly let the World Tree get the vitality outside for free), everything slowly changed.

Because the elves have not fought for too long and have lived too comfortably in the forest, they lack external enemies.

As we all know, living things always compete to determine who is nobler. Otherwise, how can we tell who is nobler? Just like they now have several elders, diverse characteristics, and the theory of bloodline nobility.

But they did not discriminate based on their ancestry at that time, because the first aspect of their competition was for a spouse - if everyone had a spouse, why couldn't I find a better spouse than others?

At the time, the elves valued one-on-one matches, and only one bracelet could be given at a time. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity seemed too limited in the age of comparison. Initially, everyone would act preemptively, switching targets when they saw someone else with a bracelet, ensuring even distribution. But then, some elves broke the rules and collected multiple bracelets, ushering in a multi-to-one situation.

It is a society where female elves are sovereign, so the competition among females is much more intense than that among males. They also eliminate and dislike those inferior male elves, believing that being given bracelets by those elves will lower their image and that the outstanding males will exclude them.

As a result, a large number of male elves were forced to be unable to find a mate. They were very disappointed and could only go out to gain experience in order to improve their ability to choose a mate.

And Augustine was one of them.

As a result, over time, there were not many adult pure-blooded male elves left in the Elf Forest, and the birth rate of pure-blooded elves naturally plummeted.

The above evolution is a very long process, and it may not have developed to the middle and late stages until the founding of Sinidi.

Well, this is why there are so many half-elves living in the Elf Forest even though there are no humans. Because they are all the offspring left by male elves outside - this shows that there is no problem with the fertility of male elves.

According to the lifespan of the elves, they have "just" passed this version, and the current version has just begun to develop into the discrimination chain of bloodline theory.