Chapter 398

And now, the astonished spirits had grown further, adding the wind spirits.

The wind spirits had just joined, so they were led by green earth spirits, one green earth spirit guiding one wind spirit.

"Just place a holy flame every fifty meters, but before placing it, carry the holy flame around in a circle to disperse all the dark matter nearby, then fix it in place—after the dark matter is dispersed, it usually takes a few minutes to surge back, so you must cover the entire fifty-meter radius within those minutes."

In the forest, a green earth spirit was instructing a wind spirit on the procedure.

It's actually very simple.

First, carry the holy flame and walk a circle around, dispersing all dark matter in every spot, leaving no blind spots.

Although dark matter spreads, its speed is not fast—slower even than mist.

So once dispersed, just fix it in place.

Holy light is different from ordinary light.

Holy light has a certain penetration ability; the stronger the holy light, the greater its penetration.

Just like when Princess Luo Ying saved the Crown Princess in the Dongcheng church, that holy spirit emitted intense holy light from a holy stone, so strong that even the ground and walls couldn't block it.

When holy flames burn, the penetration of the holy light they produce is naturally not that strong.

After all, the energy within a holy flame is limited.

Lin Yan couldn't pour too much energy into them—this was large-scale reclamation, where quantity mattered more than quality.

Tens of thousands of spirits praying at once consumed over a million energy points; even if holy flames could be reused, daily consumption would still be enormous, and putting in too much energy wouldn't be worth it.

But even so, as long as you first walk the circle and disperse all dark matter in blind spots, then fix the flame in place for over ten minutes, any remaining dark matter in blind spots simply won't survive.

The wind spirits learned quickly—they weren't stupid.

Once they quickly mastered it, the reclamation front extended further.

The reclamation speed increased by about one-third.

After all, when reclaiming the Dark Forest, more people meant better results.

Patches of the Dark Forest were lit up one after another.

Since they were advancing in a carpet-like manner, the dark creatures within the Dark Forest had almost all been driven off by the holy light, and none dared to launch attacks.

When the Loki Forest was being reclaimed, the spirits back then were also cautious, but over decades, hundreds were injured in ambushes, and dozens died.

But this time, because the holy light was far more powerful than the magical flames the spirits used back then, after days of reclamation, not a single dark creature had dared to ambush them.

Holy light was the natural enemy of dark creatures.

Some weak dark creatures suffered injury merely from being exposed to holy light.

Stronger dark creatures had appeared too, but none were willing to be exposed to holy light.

Also, dark creatures weren't everywhere in the Dark Forest—their density wasn't particularly high.

This was also related to the fact that they hadn't ventured too deep yet.

But overall, with Luomina's vigilance and the spirits deploying numerous strong warriors as sentinels, the threat of dark matter had been reduced to the minimum.

Thus, reclamation continued.

Some green earth spirits hadn't noticed that, over time, their tone when mentioning the Lord of Flame had begun shifting toward "devotion."

The newly arrived wind spirits were the same.

A few days after the wind spirits joined, another spirit tribe arrived.

This was also a spirit tribe originally living east of the Loki Forest, consisting of over thirty thousand spirits—they belonged to the sun spirit tribe.

Like the wind spirits, when this tribe first arrived at the Dark Forest, they were equally terrified.

When they arrived, the area of the Dark Forest already reclaimed was even larger!

It left the thirty thousand spirits utterly stunned!

Of course, after the shock came joy.

Every spirit was delighted.

Because it meant they could quickly reclaim a vast forest.

Just imagine—the Loki Forest Empire had taken sixty or seventy years to accomplish what they were achieving in just a few months; they couldn't help but feel excited!

They hadn't entered the Loki Forest not only because of strength.

There was also the matter of who came first.

Originally, these spirit tribes lived scattered across the Continent of Gods.

They were dispersed, living in terrible conditions, often forced to hide their forests behind barriers.

Because too many humans coveted them.

Humans without strength to target them were fine.

But humans with strength—who would pass up such beautiful, eternally youthful spirits?

Later, several spirit tribes agreed to meet and reclaim the Dark Forest behind the Loki Mountains.

Well, that was over a thousand years ago.

Then, they spent decades and truly reclaimed the Loki Forest.

Many spirit tribes joined afterward, one after another.

Tribes like the night spirits and wind spirits on the outskirts of the Loki Forest only learned of it late and rushed over.

But by then, the Loki Forest was nearly saturated.

Fortunately, there were still scattered forests left outside the Loki Forest where they could live.

But not being able to enter the Loki Forest remained their greatest regret.

Yet now, this regret would soon be made right.

For upon their hands, a new Loki Forest—the Holy Flame Forest—would be born!

So every spirit rallied their spirit, pouring their full passion into this task.

In their mouths, the phrase "Lord of Flame" was being mentioned more and more often each day.

Now, they mentioned the Lord of Flame even during prayer.

Even in casual conversation, they couldn't help but praise the greatness of the Lord of Flame.

Yes, it was thanks to the holy flame bestowed by the great Lord of Flame that their land-reclamation efficiency had become so swift.

Now, each of them looked forward to the day, months from now, when they would finish reclaiming the land and establish a new Elven Empire—wondering how the Elven Empires of Loki Forest would react in shock.

Three more days passed, and another elven tribe joined.

Now, five elven tribes had joined.

The arrival of this elven tribe made the reclamation force even larger.

Anna, Eshala, and the new tribal leaders Daisi and Heidi each took charge of one sector.

Night Elves, Greenland Elves, and Wind Elves were assigned to push reclamation deeper inward.

The two newly joined Miai tribes were tasked with reclamation to the north.

Together, the four elven tribes totaled one hundred eighty thousand people.

It matched the initial population of Loki Forest's Elven Empire during its first reclamation.

Yet the speed of reclamation surpassed even the later stages of Loki Forest's Elven Empire, when hundreds of thousands of elves worked together!