??<strong>NEW ISSUES </strong>


    “Finally, there’s now enough manpower.”


    Evé was very satisfied.


    The new influx of yers from the third batch of beta-testing had greatly alleviated the problem ofbor shortage, especially in regards to some of the most tedious mundane tasks.


    And Chosen City, whose infrastructure development had reached somewhat of a bottleneck, is once again disying a trend of further expansion due to the appearance of arge number of new yers.


    Wanting to see it personally for herself, Evé decided to walk around the Chosen City while using one of her disguise named ‘Fēng’, the enigmatic female yer whose loosely acquainted with Little Salty Cat.


    The current Chosen City has be more lively than ever before. Prior to the arrival of new yers, the city had be somewhat deserted due to the opening of several new maps and yers venturing into these locations, resulting in a more diluted city poption.


    However, with the arrival of new beta-testers, the city is once again filled with mor and noise. Naturally, most of the individuals were neers bustling about the city, diligently performing daily tasks with curiosity and joy, even if it entailed engaging in manualbor such as moving bricks on a construction site.


    Moreover, whenever a veteran yer returned from their out-of-town trip, they would often garner envious nces from the neers, which in turn led to an even higher work efficiency.


    Putting in effort toplete daily tasks was crucial until reaching level 11, at which point a qualitative leap in strength would ur, that unlocks additional game features!


    Therefore, most neers are striving hard to level up as quickly as possible.


    While idly wandering through the city, Evé also noticed that the inns run by older yers were all fully booked.


    This was because, following her announcement of the third round of beta-testing, some astute yers saw a potential business opportunity and swiftly renovated some buildings and repurposed them as Inns or lodgings.


    Although the official “Morgue” was still present in the Chosen City, the facility had be excessively cramped and overcrowded, leaving no room for the neers.


    As a result, yers who put in a bit more effort frequently formed parties and opted to rent rooms in the inns established by more experienced yers instead.


    After all… these inns were not only spacious but also well-equipped as well.


    Actually this trend had started even way back in the second beta-testing phase. Therefore, during the third round, even more veteran yers recognized this lucrative business opportunity and coborated with each other to establish lodging amodations for the neers for extra ie.


    Ensuring a secure location to store one’s avatar while offline remains a crucial aspect of ying Elven Kingdom, as the character’s body won’t disappear when a yer logs off.


    It wasn’t that the newbies didn’t care about this aspect; in fact, some would even choose a corner in the city to log off directly. However, the fact remained that if one didn’t want to log in after being stripped of their equipment, it was still better to stay in the “Morgue” or an Inn.


    After all, even the basic equipment provided by Evé at the start could be worth 400 contribution points if sold as aplete set.


    Moreover, there was no equipment binding feature in Elven Kingdom. If a yer was careless and slept outside, it was highly possible for them to log back inpletely stripped of their equipment and belongings.


    In a big world like this, there was a wide variety of people, and a yer’s avatar while offline sleeps like dead pigs,pletely defenseless and unresponsive.


    Although there was a system in ce to punish criminal actions, if the theft was only rted to equipment and didn’t physically harm the yer, then the system wouldn’t assign the perpetrator a criminal designation.


    Furthermore, since offline yers didn’t know who had targeted them, they typically couldn’t report the theft and thus could only swallow their losses.


    This could be considered a w in the game’s system, and Evé was well aware of it.


    However, Elven Kingdom is not a real game, and implementing a feature that binds equipment, items, or yers together is an extremely challenging task. Even providing yers with spatial storage space would be a daunting endeavor due to its resource-intensive nature.


    So, Evé has epted the fact that there will always be ws, and just as long as they aren’t very serious, she will try to ignore such ws. In fact, having such ws also has its pros and cons. One example of this is that it forces yers who intend to sleep in the open and negatively impact the city’s appearance to find proper amodations instead.


    She still remembered the first night of the third beta-testing phase when the central square was littered with “corpses,” creating a terrifying sight for anyone who came across it.


    Of course, after the second day, hardly anyone continued on to do that sort of thing.


    However, considering the unfortunate fate of neers who have been stripped of their belongings, Evé decided to create a function. She has established a method for yers to receive a set of basic equipment from Alice, a special service avable only in the temple for 500 CP.


    umting 500 contribution points was quite achievable, even for new yers. They could easily earn it in a single day.


    Walking along the city’s streets, Evé spent 10 contribution points to buy a cup of freshly squeezed fruit juice from a yer vendor. As she sipped it, she once again admired the vibrant city, feeling content with its development.


    What pleased her was not just the enthusiasm of the neers but also the importance veteran yers ced upon their lives, which eased her mind considerably.


    After theunch of the third beta-test, the death rate amongst the more experienced yers had significantly decreased.


    It’s not that these yers had be inherently more skillful, but rather that they had be more cautiouspared to before.


    This was mainly due to the revised resurrection system.


    Evé had eliminated the concept of perfect resurrections, and reced it with resurrection coins instead.


    One resurrection coin required 100 contribution points to be exchanged, with each yer only being allowed a maximum of 10 exchanges per day, and these coins were also non-transferable.


    The number of resurrection coins required for a perfect resurrection is now directly tied to the yer’s current level.


    If a yercked sufficient resurrection coins to perform a resurrection after dying, they would then be resurrected at a much lower level, corresponding to how many coins werecking.


    This new resurrection system haf quickly raised the contribution point cost needed for high-level yers wanting perfect resurrections…


    Furthermore, the daily exchange limit of 10 transactions had also curtailed the previously unlimited resurrections for high-level yers and affluent individuals.


    By implementing these conditions, even as high-leveled yers further increases their levels, it would still take them at least a week to umte enough coins for a perfect resurrection.


    Of course when this update came out, there was an outcry on the forums. yers felt that the devs had imposed overly strict limitations on the resurrection mechanism, resulting in a much poorer gaming experience.


    However, the devs official exnation was short and simple—<em>It was done to bnce the game mechanics.</em>


    Anyway, the willful undertone was obvious—<em>y if you want, stop if you don’t. </em>


    There are still more than 20 million applicants waiting in line to be chosen after all.


    Evé was quite confident now.


    After venting their frustrations on the forums and seeing that the devs wouldn’t retract their decisions, the yers inevitably changed their tune to “It’s really fragrant.” 1


    After all, what made Elven Kingdom so unique?


    It was all thanks to this mind eleration technology; it had managed to attract countless yers from around the world…


    In a sense, it was akin to quadrupling one’s own lifespan!


    Not to mention the game’s unparalleled quality.


    Of course, veteran yers’ existing perfect resurrection chances would bepensated by directly converting them into corresponding resurrection coins of equal value.


    For instance, a yer like Little Salty Cat, who had umted a whopping total of 70 perfect resurrection chances, and was now at level 21, had received 1,470 resurrection coins from the system.


    In addition, Evé didn’tpletely remove the bug that allowed yers to resurrect infinitely. After all, it was one of elven factions aces in the hole.


    If they were to encounter a powerful enemy that required yers to sacrifice their lives, then she would consider granting the yers a temporary buff of unlimited resurrections.


    With the resurrection issue having been resolved, Evé’s current challenge is solving the significant shortage of equipment.


    The influx of 9,000 neers would ce significant strain on the equipment supply.


    “I can put out another batch of lower-tier Iron-ss equipment on the exchange store. yers sent me quite a lot of these previously, and after repairing them, I’ve gathered thousands of sets, many of them are even purple epic-ss.”


    “However, it’s still not enough. I can encourage yers to ask the Dark Dwarves to tailor-make equipment for them or even teach them how to craft equipment for themselves…”


    As she watched some yers passing by, Evé contemted upon this matter.


    Merely relying on her to provide equipment wouldn’t be a sustainable solution. It would be best for yers to gradually be self-sufficient themselves, while Evé would just focused on offering much rarer items to attract high-level yers and wealthy individuals.


    In essence, Eve’s ultimate hope was for yers to establish a self-sufficient faction with strongbat capabilities and cohesion.


    “Additionally, there are also those Beastmen to consider. We could engage a few Orcs tribes in battles to acquire more equipment.”


    “Hmm…perhaps I won’t have to look for them since they mighte knocking on their own.”


    “If Uller bes anxious, there is a chance that he might send arge army to attack us before the uing winter. If he still maintains some semnce of a true god’s decorum, then he might even dispatch some of his believers to formally issue a deration of a religious war.”


    “However, this matter needs to be considered in the long run, and the neers’ levels should be improved first. The rewards for daily tasks are quite abundant, so their leveling pace should advance more quickly.”


    “Once they reach level 11, these newbies can start training in the Shadow Dungeon and after they be more proficient inbat, I can further expand their operational range.”


    Evé had umted quite a bit of divine power by now.


    With her current abilities, she could easily expand the yers’ operational range.


    However, considering that the territory she currently had was adequately enough to amodate 10,000 yers, she ultimately decided to wait a little bit longer.


    It is best to take things step by step. The yers’ strength needs to increase gradually, and the world map should also be opened up bit by bit to the yers…


    “Oh, right. There’s also the design for the city defense core that I reverse-engineered from ckrock City. I need to issue a task to encourage yers to build this in Chosen City, Florence, and even Rivendell and ck Dragon Castle!”


    Evé thought.


    Although she had put the design for the city defense core on the exchange store, sadly there was no one interested in it. Thisck of interest could be attributed to its high price or perhaps because yers didn’t have a demand for it.


    As Evé was wandering around in the Chosen City lost in thought, amotion up ahead suddenly caught her attention.


    Evé momentarily paused her thoughts and looked towards themotion, seeing a few veteran yers and native elves near the city entrance excitedly discussing something.


    Demacia, Li Mu, and even the primordial elf Thranduil were among them, surrounded by a number of other people.


    <em>What’s going on?</em>


    Evé raised an eyebrow.


    Driven by curiosity, Eve, while disguised as “Fēng,” discreetly walked towards their location…


    1 <strong><mark>真香</mark></strong> – Really Fragrant is a chinese inte ng used to describe someone doing something that he or she had previously sworn never to do


    — —