Chapter 54: Chapter 54 The Next Step Management Plan
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

When Starry Brain had the idea of going crazy leveling up, the next thing he did was… post on the forum first.

This was a professional ethic as the founder of the player community Book Team. He wanted to make Fureya’s hopeful dialogue public to all players who considered Fureya their virtual wife.

Upholding the principle of “Since you like Fureya and I like Fureya, doesn’t that make us friends?” Starry had no intention of hiding this quest.

The post was quickly edited by Starry, titled “Method Found to Unlock Fureya’s Second Stage Affection! Doll Girl Calling You Home to Level Up!”

Starry’s post was published in the Holy Spirit section for less than ten seconds when his message notifications popped up with two or three new replies.

By the time Starry exited the Resurrection Cathedral, his new reply notifications had surged to twenty-three.

This was probably the most exciting moment for every poster: watching the new reply notifications continuously pop up.

When new reply notifications kept climbing to fifty-two, Starry knew his post had once again taken the top spot for player community popularity.

Back when he was writing instance plot analyses during Discord, it took him a whole day to get fifty or so replies, but now, in less than half an hour, the responses had quickly increased to fifty-two.

This feeling couldn’t be described with just the word “thrilling.”

Starry opened his edited post; it already had a total of one hundred and sixty-one replies.

“Does this mean my wife can change clothes when I reach level fifty?” replied Magic Power of Love.

“Newbie little war method in Gray Mist Canyon looking for help, any expert can rescue the newbie, I’ve been looking for a party to do an instance for a whole day, I also want my wife to wear new clothes.” replied Big Iron Ball.

“Unlocking second stage affection doesn’t necessarily mean changing clothes, are you sure Holy Spirit doesn’t have an 18X restriction version?” replied Dream Not Waking.

“Shut up, scoundrel upstairs, my doll girl is sacred and inviolable, and also, Gray Mist Canyon’s war method, PM me your coordinates.” replied Chen Shuo.

“Boohoo…I also want to play with you guys, want a wife, begging the officials to give me activation qualifications, I’ve been hanging on the official website for three days and nights.” replied Mysterious Always.

The replies to the post were still increasing, Starry closed the post and directly contacted his friends in Holy Spirit, at least for the sake of his own doll girl, he had to quickly level up this account to the max.

When Starry ran towards the city gate, Jiang Qiao also walked out of the Resurrection Cathedral with Hai Lan.

“What should we do next?” Hai Lan hovered by Jiang Qiao’s side, watching the street…crowded with bouncing new players running past.

Hai Lan suspected these Holy Spirit players had a condition where they would die if they didn’t jump while walking. Eight out of ten Holy Spirit players walked while jumping and the other two sat on mounts jumping.

“I don’t know.” Jiang Qiao gave Hai Lan an answer that left her somewhat confused.

“Do you really think I’m omnipotent? I’ve done everything I can do as a game planner at this stage.” Jiang Qiao glanced at Hai Lan’s surprised expression as if saying, “Invincible Jiang Qiao is also helpless.”

But thinking carefully, since Jiang Qiao and Hai Lan had met, Hai Lan’s biggest role was helping Jiang Qiao enable the creator mode. After that, this goddess turned into a pet-like character.

Hai Lan had never played modern video games, so she couldn’t give Jiang Qiao any advice on Holy Spirit’s operations; Jiang Qiao understood this. But Jiang Qiao wasn’t exactly a professional operator either, he had also figured out Holy Spirit’s various developments bit by bit.

“Then shouldn’t we do a detailed count?” Hai Lan finally realized she wasn’t Jiang Qiao’s pet but the omnipotent goddess in all of Holy Spirit’s lore.

“Count?”

“Like the specific combat power of the subordinates, similar to the legions of various world countries in my previous world, this way at least it will be easier to manage when war starts.” Hai Lan said.

“Manage… should say it will make you feel more at ease.”

Jiang Qiao saw through Hai Lan’s thoughts; she now seemed somewhat lacking in confidence. After all, Queen Mei’s level was a whopping sixty-five, with nearly sixty-six million health points.

Even if players reached the maximum level of fifty, with Queen Mei’s potentially resurrected undead army, in Hai Lan’s view, it would still likely be a tough battle.

“I’m not scared.” Hai Lan argued.

“I didn’t say you were scared. The counting work was something I planned to do later. This task, it’s definitely not enough to just look at players’ paper data, we also need to see the average skill level of players, well…might as well use instance runs to observe each guild one by one.” Jiang Qiao said.

“Guilds, are the players in guilds technically skilled?”

Hai Lan had seen the difference between professional players and ordinary players in the Gun Knight provocation, like Zhao Mingwei; top-tier players like him could probably take on ten players of the same level.

This was just Hai Lan’s viewpoint, Jiang Qiao put more importance on the management capabilities of player guilds.

Solo players were a bunch of uncontrollable guerilla fighters; Jiang Qiao couldn’t uniformly control where they wanted to go or what monsters they wanted to fight. But it was different with players belonging to guilds.

Especially those planning to dominate in Holy Spirit’s large guilds.

In Jiang Qiao’s eyes, they were no less than high-combat-quality legions with battlefield planning.

And Jiang Qiao, as Holy Spirit’s GM, was the ruler issuing commands to these “legions,” but in ancient times, legions were driven to action by the ruler’s pressure and severe punishment for disobedience.

In the game Holy Spirit, Jiang Qiao’s driving force for guilds was quests, reputation, the glory from instance first kills, and popularity among players.

As long as these existed, if Jiang Qiao wanted these guilds to eliminate the boss in an instance, they would immediately raise their butcher knives and charge to the boss’s lair. Even if they got wiped out a dozen times, they would find a way to kill that boss.

Jiang Qiao wouldn’t even need to issue any quest, just tell the poor boss, “You’ve entered the instance, I’ve set up epic gear and mount rewards, your first kill will be announced server-wide and permanently recorded in the game’s historical events.”

The next day, a large guild would handle that “boss” for Jiang Qiao.

Now the question was, how many such powerful workforce groups… ahem, large guilds were there in Holy Spirit?