??<strong>EVE’S PLAN</strong>
“Why did the new batch of equipmente out so soon?”
The yers looked at each other in confusion.
“Is it because of Boxlunch’s promotion?”
“God I swear… is the equipment appearance in this game tied to yer rank promotion? Does it mean that new equipment will only be unlocked when someone got promoted into a higher rank?”
“Dammit, I just acquired an epic-level equipment and I’ve already used up all my contribution points!”
“This isn’t good…damn my liver hurts again.”
“Why are these stupid devs suddenly in such a hurry to release these new equipment? Can’t they let us take a freakin break man…”
“Quick guys, let’s see how these new equipment is!”
They cursed the stupid devs while opening the exchange store within the system.
Sure enough, a batch of new equipment was added to the equipment exchange column.
There were melee-based and spell-based ones, from shoes, armor, robes, to weapons, everything was avable… all marked as intermediate-level iron-rank equipments.
However, only the whitemon, blue rare, and purple epic quality levels were released, and new legendary gold ss was not yet avable.
From the appearance, these new equipment were not much different from the lower Iron equipment in terms of quality, but their ratings in the equipment data were much higher than the lower iron equipment of the same quality.
In Elven Kingdom, the weapons and equipment would not indicate specific attribute information, such as “damage +5,” “armor piercing +10,” “defense +20,” etc.
All of these aren’t avable.
This was because Elven Kingdom was a game full of uncertainties, and sometimes pure data could not exin anything, so dividing equipment by specific attributes was not suitable.
Well…at least that’s what the yers thought.
However, although there were no specific values, rare blue and above equipment would have some special effects added to it, which were not only reflected in appearance but also in characteristics as well.
For example, the ‘toughness’ characteristics.
The equipment with the toughness effect looks more shiny, and it is more durable to use.
Like the blue rare human equipment seized by Boxlunch’s team, the system evaluated it as having the characteristic of “toughness.”
Generally speaking, the rarer the equipment, the more special effects it had, and the more powerful it would be.
Like the demon staff of legendary gold ss exchanged by Little Salty Cat, it even had three enviable characteristics such as;
“elerated spell casting,” “enhanced spell effects,” and “faster meditation.”
It’s not just weapons and equipment that have fuzzy values…
Although the personal status screen of yers still disys numerical values such as health and mana, as well as the four major attributes of vitality, strength, agility, and intelligence, yers have found that these data can only serve as reference and not an indication of actualbat prowess in actual battles.
When one’s luck is bad, one hit to a vital spot can drain their health in an instant. This makes yers feel that this virtual reality game is even more realistic and interesting, after all, reality is often full of uncertainties.
Equipment does not have specific attributes, but instead, equipment ratings are used instead. Generally, the higher the rating, the better the quality of the equipment!
The equipment rating is also factored into a yer’s overallbat power rating.
After seeing the new batch of equipment that has been put on the shelves, yers have discovered that theirbat ratingspared to the previous equipments are;
White Iron Low Rank < Blue Iron Low Rank < White Iron Mid Rank < Purple Iron Low Rank < Blue Iron Mid Rank < Purple Iron Mid Rank < Gold Iron Low Rank
The amount of contribution required for exchange is also roughly the same as the previous rating:
White Iron Low Rank < Blue Iron Low Rank < White Iron Mid Rank < Purple Iron Low Rank = Blue Iron Mid Rank < Purple Iron Mid Rank < Gold Iron Low Rank
When yers saw that the ranking of the purple epic iron low-rank equipment was rtively high, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
At least…this ensured that their previous gear acquisition was not entirely meaningless.
However, when they saw that the same amount of contribution could be exchanged for a higher-rated blue rare intermediate iron-rank equipment, they suddenly felt a sense of loss.
“F*ck, if I had known the devs would release a new gears, I would have upgraded my equipmentter on and get the blue rare ck iron mid-rank set. The rating would have been even higher…”
Some yers sighed at the missed opportunity.
“It’s okay. At least…our purple epic gear has two special effects, while the blue rare equipment only has one.”
Another yer alsoforted himself.
Features are still important, and equipment with good features is often more popr with yers. However, when Evé was adding special effects to the equipment, she almost always added them randomly…
A-Ahem, this was definitely not because she waszy per se, but to increase the fun factor for the yers.
Before taking out the exchanged equipment from the system, the store only disys how many special effects the equipment has. Only when you take out the equipment do you know what specific special effects your equipment has.
In other words, whether the exchanged equipment has good special effects or not, is still dependent upon one’s luck…
Well, a little bit of gacha mechanics in the game isn’t that bad.
Of course, the exception is the legendary golden equipment.
All golden legendary equipmentses with the best special effects, and these characteristics are also shown in advance unlike the lower tier equipments.
At this point, some people also noticed that amongst all the new equipment added on the store, the highest rated one was still the Legendary Golden items for the low Iron-Rank.
“These golden items is truly a legend…even the new purple equipment can’tpare to these golden equipment!”
“After all, it’s a toy for those rich people…”
“Aw man I wonder when can I also have a piece of the legendary golden equipment!”
“It’s just too expensive…one piece costs tens of thousands of contribution points, which can also be exchanged for two or three sets of purple equipment for the whole body.”
“By the way, isn’t the only one who has all the golden equipment that yer named Little Salty Cat?”
“Haah, we can’tpare ourselves to that whale. I heard that when Salty Cat PK’d someone before, she just activated the magic shield on her robe, and stood there without being able to be touched by anyone else.”
“Sheesh!”
“I remember Box also has a golden dagger, which is said to have been exchanged from the store and is particrly a powerful item amongst all the golden equipment.”
“Well they are all hardcore yers, we casuals better stick to saving up for the purple equipment in the middle and ck ranks, as the ratings aren’t too far off…”
Looking at the newly released equipment, their joy of just upgrading their equipments hadpletely dissipated.
And seeing the contribution points needed for these intermediate-level purple epic equipment, they all felt their legs go weak.
“Haah, I’m going guys… a piece of purple mid-level equipment actually needs 20,000 to 30,000 contribution points…shiet, who knows when will we even have the chance to grab these?”
“Not good, my liver hurts again!”
“Don’t mention it man…let’s just continue grinding.”
The yers shook their heads as they sighed ruefully, and left the side hall of the Natural Temple.
Although the legendary golden equipment still had the highest rating, most yers did not consider acquiring it.
Even if more advanced equipmentes out, the contribution points required for the legendary golden items is still nearly twice that of the purple intermediate level equipment…
These legendary golden equipment, at the minimum costs fifty thousand contribution points.
It was just too expensive!
“Well, that’s it for now. I can wait a bit longer to release a new batch of golden equipments. After all, gold ss items is the most precious of all and in the mean time, I’ll let the yers adapt to lower things first.”
After putting the new equipments at the exchange store, Evé was feeling quite satisfied after looking at the yers’ reactions.
Although she’s been cursed at a few times, the yers still obediently went off to grind and do their tasks.
After the release of these new batch of equipments, Evé began to consider her next steps.
“I’ve managed to eliminate a demigod envoy of Uller, but I’m sure he won’t let it go,” She thought to herself before adding, “With my warning, he will likely retaliate in some form of a religious war…”
A religious war was amon method for true gods to settle disputes amongst themselves. In essence, the gods would not directly engage inbat, but rather let their followers fight for them.
This rule was set in ce in order to protect the mortal realm wherein their followers lived. After all, the might of a true god were just too powerful. The damage would be colossal and even has the potential of destroying the mortal world if a deity unleashed their full strength in Saigües.
However, the power of a true god relied upon religion, and these faith was gathered from god’s believers.
In essence, the followers were the cornerstone of a true god’s strength.
When a god lost all of their followers during a religious war, their power would also crumble.
A believer’s prayer who ascended to the heavenly realm would gradually merge with their patron god over time, but prayers were not eternal. They would also eventually perish, though the time frame was much longer.
If all of their believers vanished, and the prayers dried uppletely, unlike an Ancient One, an average deity would lose its source of divine power and at that point, they would either fall or sumb into a state of slumber…
For the newer gods, their followers were even more important.
However its different for Old Ancient Ones. They had countless of believers and a substantial amount of divine power as well. Even if they all lost their followers, Ancient Ones could still survive for a time and seek opportunities to regain faith.
But newer gods were different.
They have a shallow foundation, and many of them don’t even have an established divine kingdom. Even if they did, their believers were limited, not to mention their overall divine power capacity.
Generally speaking, if most of their believers were destroyed, these newer gods would naturally be on the brink of extinction as well.
Therefore, Evé could easily guessed that Uller would surely choose to dere a religious war against her since he had mistaken her as a new god.
In the eyes of ordinary people who didn’t know the truth, they would simply assume that she would undoubtedly perish just as long as her forces within the Elven Forest was wiped out.
And this…is exactly what Evé wanted.
War begets death.
And arge-scale war would definitely give her plenty of opportunities to devour some lifeforce!
The number of followers worshiping Uller isn’t small, but Evé can use the yers as shields and weapons to wage war against Uller’s forces, and also steal their lifeforce through the use of the passive skill, War Sacrifice!
umting small amounts of lifeforce amidst a battlefield is also quite thrilling endeavor.
In fact, this is a method evil gods used to strengthen themselves…
Most evil gods also gain power by inciting wars and conducting blood sacrifices. However, they absorb not only lifeforce, but also the souls as well, which is why they are reviled by most gods.
Of course, Evé will never admit that she is an evil god herself.
Well, she’s only ns to collect the lifeforce lost in the war, not touching other people’s souls, so how can she be considered evil?
Moreover, is there even an evil god that looks so beautiful?
Anyway… even if she doesn’t actively collect these lifeforce, it will still dissipate, so it’s better to let her just absorb it rather than be wasted.
However, preparing for a religious war takes time and Uller cannot send arge army to attack right away, so Evé is currently in a precious rtively calm period.
She can use this time to develop her influence.
After all… with the current strength of the yers, they will definitely not be able to win the uing religious war without Eve’s intervention.
Although they can be resurrected, they still cannot contend against a powerful enemy!
And when the gap in strength isrge enough, even their infinite resurrection advantage would lose its value…
Evé can asionally intervene, but if she does it too many times, then someone will eventually suspect her.
So… it is necessary to improve the yers’ overall strength and develop her control within the Elven Forest.
“I might’ve as well nt some crops and develop some agricultural fields during this time.”
“Rivendell has already been found, and exploration of that area is definitely necessary. It would be great if they can find some ancient books within these ruins as well.”
“In addition, although Elven Forest is rich in resources, ores and other minerals are rtively scarce in this forest. I should consider having the yers rebuild Rivendell like they did with Florence and search for possible ore veins there…”
“But at this stage, I don’t have enough manpower to implement these ns, so I should halt this for now.”
“The underworld can also be explored. I don’t need to intervene for now, and just let the curious yers explore it since some will definitely not be able to resist entering such mysterious ce. I can based my decisions depending upon their findingster on.”
“Perhaps… the monsters in the underworld can also provide me with some lifeforce.”
“And when the underworld is fully explored, I can finally consider opening the public beta.”
“But…it still feels too early to open the public beta for now, since the foundation of the Elven Forest has not been fully established just yet. It will definitely be chaotic if too many yers were to rush in at once at this time, and I don’t have that much divine power to waste as well…”
“Hmm… if things don’t work out, then I can just limit the number of yers. Or perhaps I shouldn’t do a public beta at all, but just invite more people instead.”
“As for the specific number of people, it should be between five and ten thousand, and it will cost more than 30 points of divine power at most. With this number of yers and their resurrection ability, it should be adequate enough tounch a defensive stance in the uing religious war.”
Currently, Evé has around 400 points of divine power and is rtively well-off, so using a mere 30 points of divine power is not a problem for her.
“However, it’s still early. I didn’t need to rush things since there’s still another matter I need to deal with first…”
Evé sighed, recalling how some yers behaved when attacking the orc tribe and human caravan.
“Some yers’ behavior is still a bit too… uncivilized. I need to find a way to make them pay a bit more attention to their manners or at the very least make themselves presentable. Otherwise, it will also be detrimental to the cooperation between yers and indigenous elves. Sigh, it will definitely be chaotic when more yers arrive in the future.”
Although Li Mu’s game evaluation changed some yers’ perception of the NPCs during the closed beta, its reach was obviously limited and only a small percentage of the yerbase had seen his video.
Actually, this was also Eve’s fault.
After all, a game is a game, and even if yers immerse themselves in it, it’s impossible to expect them to treat the game the same way they do just like in reality.
This is both an advantage and a disadvantage.
Turning the world into a game not only encourages the yers passion and motivation, but it also creates many hidden dangers as well.
yer divergence is certain, and their impatience is absolute.
After all…reality is already so cruel, so why can’t they let loose and be themselves when ying games?
However, Eve’s requirements for these yers aren’t that high.
It’s good enough for her just as long as they can behave like a decent person while doing the questlines.
Also, don’t scare the natives away.
Otherwise… it will really be a disaster.
In summary, the goal is to make yers truly aware of how to improve the indigenous elves’ favor towards them and how to truly integrate themselves into this game world.
As for how to do it, Evé already has some ideas.
There are actually some outstanding examples amongst the yers who have done very well in this regard.
One of them is the yer, Li Mu.
This guy almostpletely immersed himself in role-ying of his character, learning about elves behavior in all aspects, except for the natives inherent stubborn kindness and goodness, of course.
The result is that all the elves he has acquainted with have a high opinion of him.
This can be considered a very sessful case of a yer integrating into the society of indigenous elves.
And what Evé wants to do is to guide the rest of the yers as well to actively learn Li Mu’s attitude towards the game.
In short, these yers just need a proper guidance, and to see the benefits of being a little more disciplined and tampering their inhibitions.
After all, role-ying also has its own unique appeal.