Chapter 423: Chapter 409: Constructing the City! (First Update)

The winner of the first place in the Holy Spirit NPC conquest event is… Cola Fanatic Guild.

Bubbles didn’t even know how he managed to grab first place, possibly because the base construction strategy Cola Fanatic took was different; they opted for a ‘resort-ification’ rather than the ‘fortress-ification’ that the other seven guilds pursued.

Indeed, Cola Fanatic built their base along the lines of a seaside resort, conveniently located right next door to the initial base, or more accurately, right behind it.

This sneaky choice of location meant that as long as the initial base remained intact, nothing would happen to Cola Fanatic’s base.

As a result, during the final battle on Dark Tide Island… while the bases of the other six major guilds were destroyed to varying degrees, the gods hired by Cola Fanatic could still enjoy their seaside resort life.

But when it came time to tally the event rewards, there was an awkward situation… Jiang Qiao didn’t want to bring up.

That is, actually, none of the guilds in Holy Spirit managed to achieve the minimal goal Jiang Qiao initially set.

Jiang Qiao’s baseline goal was for the first place to raise the affection level of two SSR-rated characters to Adoration, and five SR-rated characters to the same level.

Despite General Silver’s ambition to plunder the wealth of all gods, Jiang Qiao had oversimplified the task of increasing affection levels.

Up until the start of the final battle on Dark Tide Island, the Cola Fanatic Guild, which was ranked first in points, hadn’t managed to conquer even one SSR-rated character; instead, they won with the quantity of SR-rated characters’ points.

Ranking second, Dancing Nuclear did have the backing of an SSR-rated calamitous lady at the adoring affection level, but busy dealing with the final battle on Dark Tide Island, the gods working within their base couldn’t really elevate their affection levels effectively.

In this unavoidable situation, Jiang Qiao had no choice but to stealthily remove the ambitious baseline conditions he had set at the beginning.

After fifteen days of the conquest event, Cola Fanatic, in the end, had four deities at the Trust level–just one rank below Adoration, while Dancing Nuclear had three, and the other guilds one each.

As for gods whose affection levels were at other stages, Jiang Qiao hadn’t bothered to do a specific tally yet.

Because this entire affection conquest event was a foundation for one thing, and that was to repair the damaged Divine Fragment.

The requirements for repair, besides the gods, included that they had to reside within the Divine Fragment for an extended period.

Only gods with affection levels at Trust or higher would consider the request to settle in the Holy Spirit City.

Jiang Qiao, busy with repairing the Divine Fragment, wouldn’t hold onto the construction stone either. Once the event was over, he issued the rewards right away.

“Hotpot Prince, I won this time!”

The moment Bubbles received the construction stone reward from his mailbox, he ran all the way to Dancing Nuclear Guild’s entrance to show off to General Silver.

“I know, come on in.” General Silver had been waiting at the door for Bubbles for a while now. Bubbles wasn’t someone with a strong competitive spirit, but it surged when competing with General Silver.

This was a clash between two tycoon players in Holy Spirit! Bubbles pondered, weren’t all their past showdowns won by him?

When the other world first opened, Thorne attracted countless visitors, which made his Prosperous Square even busier than General Silver’s New World Square.

But now wasn’t the time to dwell on that…

Bubbles, along with Xue Bi, stepped into the reconstructed base of Dancing Nuclear, where presidents of the other major guilds had been waiting for a while.

As for the alliance of building a city together in Holy Spirit by the Chinese Esports Club tycoons, aside from the Master of the World’s boss’s refusal to talk and the Gray Eyes Association’s overwhelming capital making negotiation unfeasible,

Night Sprint, Nan Feng, and Abyss Temple, these three guilds were quite interested.

And in Holy Spirit, the Master of the World had completely severed ties with the club and joined the ‘construction alliance’ as an assistant.

“Is everyone waiting?”

Bubbles walked into the guild like a landlord, hands behind his back. Xue Bi was too lazy to pay attention to Bubbles, who was flaunting his victory, and simply released the attributes of the construction stone.

‘Construction Stone

Legendary

Item Description: Contains the remnants of a destroyed city, with the power to upgrade a base’s Keystone to a City Stone.’

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“This item is dependent on the upgrade of a stronghold. Mr. Lu, I’ve reviewed the detailed distribution plan you provided, but to build a city centered on that guild’s stronghold… How should we decide on this?”

Xue Bi had received a draft of the cooperation contract from President Yin several days ago.

The draft of the profit-sharing mentioned many details, but these were just empty talks on a piece of waste paper without knowing what the Holy Spirit city-building system was like.

Now, the first decision of the city-building system was in front of the five major guilds, that was… whose guild stronghold should be the core for this city-building stone?

“I vote for Cola Fanatic.” President Yin immediately made a decision upon Xue Bi’s inquiry.

Pao had secured the city-building stone; he could completely disregard the thoughts of the other four guilds and go build the city on his own…

Since President Yin had made his decision, the other guilds naturally had no objections; after all, they were just there to have a share of the spoils.

Pao didn’t decline and directly opened his game interface to share mode, allowing all guild leaders present to see Pao’s various… game status bars.

When he took out the city-building stone and activated it, several expected input options popped up.

The first thing to fill in was the name of the city.

“How about we call it Holy Spirit City, simple and straightforward?” Can Xin said looking at the option, and unsurprisingly, this plain and unadorned name was approved by everyone present.

Pao had wanted to name it Cola City, but he obediently wrote down ‘Holy Spirit City’ in the city name slot.

After the city was named, the next option that popped up caused Pao to hesitate, the next input field was ‘city pre-set positions’.

For this pre-set position, Pao was the City Lord, a default position that could not be changed by the system. Below the City Lord, there was an option for Deputy City Lord.

Pao could appoint seven Deputy City Lords. In addition to that, there were unlimited positions for City Builders and City Merchants.

“Are you all representing the bosses behind the scenes?” Pao directly pulled President Yin into the Deputy City Lord slot, but he was doubtful about the leaders of the other three guilds.

The resources of the Holy Spirit inner guilds came from club operations, whether it was Can Xin, Cruel Moonlight, or Thorne, none of them could represent the bosses behind the three guilds; at best, they were highly capable employees.

This was also true for Mo Shigui. As the coach of Dancing Nuclear, although the probability was very slim, there was still a chance that he could be poached by another guild.

This was also why Pao was reluctant to share the city-building stone with these three guilds, because the bosses behind these three guilds, besides the boss of Night Sprint who also played Holy Spirit, the other two bosses didn’t even have the qualifications to play Holy Spirit.

“I count,” declared Cruel Moonlight raising his hand.

“I might need to ask,” Can Xin said, uncertain in his heart.

“I have no issues, I am a shareholder of Nan Feng Howling.”

The shortest stature Thorne’s response turned out to be… the most assertive among the three guilds present.

“What? Seriously?” Can Xin suddenly felt a sense of being abandoned by the others.

But Pao did not dwell on it too much, directly pulling Can Xin, Night Sprint, and Thorne into the Deputy City Lord sequence, even Qi Junzi of World Conqueror was included.

Although World Conqueror in Holy Spirit didn’t have club capital support, it was nevertheless one of the largest guilds in Holy Spirit, and Pao, as the City Lord, had the authority to dismiss a Deputy City Lord.

“Shall I build it now?”

After Pao filled in all the necessary details, before clicking the build city option, he glanced at the various guild leaders once more.

“Build it,” said President Yin.

The moment Pao pressed the build city option, he received a no-attribute title named ‘City Pioneer,’ and the system also broadcasted a server-wide announcement.

‘Congratulations to player Pao for becoming the first city builder on the server!’

‘A player-built Holy Spirit City has been established in the distance!’