The little yers who wanted to see the story and exploit the rich lolidy have already made a “storyline branch choice”, so Murphy, as an “NPC”, naturally has to satisfy their wish.
He left his two assistants here to take care of Lady Adele and guard the “quest items” they robbed from the Goldflower transport team, and then with amand, he led the 11 excited and fully armed little yers, who had physically swapped their weapons for guns, towards the area where the Midnight Hunters and the main force of the transport team were battling.
Although in this world, the development has only reached bolt-action rifles, which are not necessarily better than cold weapons in small-scale battles, the little yers clearly trust these ranged weapons that can pull the trigger more.
For example, Onboard Joy Stick wasining that the firepower in this battle was too unscientific in the magical world, while teaching others how to use these bolt-action rifles, as if finding the happiness he had when he was an instructor in Africa.
But as he went on, Joy Stick, this former professional, just like Miss Lumina before, quickly noticed something was off.
“Hey! Wait a minute! This gun is different from what I know! There’s no firing pin, is there? And this ball-shaped bullet looks so strange! Why is it this color?”
He eximed, putting the disassembled parts in front of him for a closer look. He could be sure that those old antiques he had seen in the past did not have these weird-looking things.
This also caused surprise among the other little yers, and Murphy rolled his eyes inwardly as he listened to their chatter.
Hey, steam technology, kid!This is an otherworld with spirit energy!
If you want to live happily here, you’d better discard your original knowledge of physics and your worship of Newton like he did.
Although he didn’t know much about the “technology tree” of this world, Murphy knew that the technology here was absolutely not the same as the technology he was familiar with after seeing that outrageous automatic crossbow!
He could still exin the miniaturization of steam engines with advanced craftsmanship, but the fact that such a small device could maintain the power to drive a revolver cylinder and fire automatic rifle rounds…
If steam engines were really that good, internalbustion engines and the like would never have appeared, right?
Miriam has a lot of authority in this regard.
The Shaldor Engineering Academy where she studied was the origin and core of mechanical knowledge in this world. Although she was not a mechanical engineering student, she had told Murphy a bit about the principles of the halflings’ steam engineering.
She repeatedly mentioned something called a “Combustion Gold Catalyst”, saying that it was this thing that transformed steam engineering, and Murphy can confirm that this did not exist in the original world.
The group moved forward noisily along the Smuggler’s Woods towards the battlefield, and after leaving the ambush area, Murphy finally saw the prompt he had been waiting for:
【Newbie Guide Quest (5/6): Comprehensive Assessment (Completed)
1. Alpha mustplete tactical discussions and form strategies with the lovely little yers in the game. (Completed)
2. The mainbat action must be carried out solely by Alpha and the yer faction. (Completed)
3. Alpha or the yers must personally kill the leader of the chosenbat target faction, and ensure that at least one-fifth of the current manpower survives at the end of the action. (Completed)
Evaluation: At the end of the operation, 11 people remained,pleting the quest with: Outstanding!
Reward: +10 Test Invitation Codes, in-depth Data (Combat Record) function unlocked.
Outstandingpletion bonus:
+10 Test Invitation Codes, Tester Active Login function unlocked, limited to 6 hours/day, this function requires manual activation by the test administrator.
Developer’s note: Outstanding! It’s hard to imagine anyone could achieve such a high rating, just one step away from perfection.
Ah, it seems I set the strict quest limitations too low.
By the way, you cheated, didn’t you? You must have, right?】
“Got it!”
Upon seeing the reward for the fifth Newbie Guide Quest, Murphy punched the air violently.
At this moment, the reward of 20 reserve manpower was nothing. The prompt that allowed him to manually confirm and activate the yer active login function was what he wanted the most!
If the yers could not actively control the game time, no matter how good the game was, it would seriously dampen their gaming enthusiasm. But now, this problem that had been guing him and the yers was finally solved!
He, the game tester in charge, could finally go to the forum and report this good news to the little yers who had been eagerly waiting, while boasting about how hard the virtual development team that only existed on the forum had worked.
Rejoice, brothers! You no longer have to wait for my summons to go online. This way, it’s convenient for you, and I don’t have to make up test content on the forum anymore.
Then, as usual, a new guide quest popped up:
【Newbie Guide Quest (6/6): Reach the beginning and the end, return to Kadman City, pass the Trial of Strength – ck Iron Body, and obtain your own exclusive territory.
Reward: +10 Test Invitation Codes, all remaining basic functions unlocked, additional advanced function rewards based on the scale of your exclusive territory.
Developer’s note: You have finally reached this step. ording to my estimation, it should have taken at least a year for you to reach this new beginning. In this year, you have had enough experience to temper your will and polish your character. You will take the final step, and then, you will shed the mundane and be a truly qualified test administrator.
Let the lovely little yers take pride in you, and let you take pride in your lovely and loyal little yers!】
“A year?”
Murphy sneered and said:
“I finished your damn challenge in just one month and five days! Excluding the one month it took to unpack and install your shit, I speedrun your broken challenge in five days.
Most of this is thanks to the bravery and wisdom of the little yers, but I also did a little bit of trivial work in it.
Anyway, don’t underestimate me! Bastard.”
In that instant, he felt extremely proud and aplished, but Murphy soon noticed the “in-depth Data” function in the reward for the fifth guide quest, which made him very curious.
Hasn’t his character card already been digitized?
Then he switched to the character card, and indeed, a prompt had appeared, asking whether to enable in-depth Data? It also said that this function could be turned off and switched back to “simple mode” at any time.
This made Murphy roll his eyes again.
So the character card he had been using was actually the “idiot mode”?
Alright, let me see what your real professional character temte looks like.
In a good mood, he casually confirmed the switch, thinking it would just be a refresh, but the next moment, a violent headache erupted from Murphy’s brain, as if his skull was about to be cut open.
He stumbled backward, dazed, and was quickly supported by the little yers.
“Quick! The NPC is injured and unconscious! Who knows first aid?”
“Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation! Mouth-to-mouth, quick! Call Lumina over here. Oh, Lumina identally died? Never mind, let Ah Yuen, the sluttiest one,e.”
“In my opinion, we should still do chestpressions. Traditional medicine advocates a point-to-stop approach. After all, giving mouth-to-mouth to a vampire sounds quite fantastical.”
“Don’t you think it’s equally fantastical for you topress the chest of a vampire?”
The group of idiots argued back and forth, while the experienced Electronic Subus Old Tune was already doing chestpressions on Murphy in a professional manner.
But in reality, their NPC was neither sick nor weak.
He had justpleted the temte upgrade and could kill an ox with one punch, well, physically kill, he was just a bit dazed by the constant flow of data into his mind.
The character card in front of him had changed into a form he couldn’t understand at all under the in-depth Data mode:
【Name: Revnor Murphy Lessenbra
Race: Vampire【Blood Vulture n – Descendant of Desire】
Temte: Dark Spirit Alignment – Rare Individual
Rank: Level 8 Professional
Profession: Level 9 Blood Vulture Swordsman / Level 7 Dark Spirit Apprentice / None
Talents: Dark Spirit Perception & Maniption【Proficient】, Stealth – Shadow Walking【Master】, Close Combat – Physical Attack Specialization【Master】, Swordsman Job Talents (Omitted), Spirit Apprentice Job Talents (Omitted)
Expertise: Otherworld Creature Summoning【16/40】
Skills: Blood Vulture Sword Arts【Master】/ Dark Spirit st【Proficient】/ Summoning II – Astral Dire Wolf【Novice】
Detailed Character Card Data as follows:
Strength: 7 → 7 + 3.5 (150% initial attribute boost from Rare Creature Temte)
Agility: 10 → 10 + 5
Endurance: 9 → 9 + 4.5
Intelligence: 5 → 5 + 2.5
Perception: 8 → 8 + 4
Charisma: 1 → 1 + 0.5
Exnation 1:
The meanings of the attributes are as follows:
Strength: Determines attack/destruction power, defense sess rate, environmental destruction, and weight-lifting limit.
Agility: Determines movement speed, attack speed, and dodging sess rate.
Endurance: Determines carrying capacity, constitution, wound healing, and stamina recovery speed.
Intelligence: Determines spirit affinity and learning speed,prehension of books and scrolls, and spirit recovery speed.
Perception: Determines detection range, hostile perception, environmental observation, and reaction speed.
Charisma: Determines the sess rate ofmunication, persuasion, deception, intimidation, and first impressions on others.
Exnation 2:
The initial value total for vampires is 40, and for other supernatural races, it is also 40.
Without undergoing the Trials of Strength at each stage, the racial base values will gradually weaken or strengthen with age, rted to the characteristics of each race, but natural changes will not exceed 10% of the base limit.
Afterpleting the Trials of Strength at each stage, the character will receive attribute increases. The base increase is 12 points per stage, allocated ording to strength and job orientation, and cannot be freely distributed.
Furthermore, when the character’s temte changes, their attribute values will also change significantly.
Temte changes only ur for creatures in this world, and testers do not enjoy temte bonuses, uniformly using the standard creature temte.
Exnation 3:
The base human temte (tester/yer) has an initial racial value of 30, with each attribute initially 5 ± 3. This base temte adopts the average value of the【Human – Nord/Ket/Sn】races in this world and is slightly adjusted based on the individual tester’s biological characteristics.
Testers cannot upgrade their character temtes, but they have 1.5x growth potential and learning ability.
After the test administrator and testersplete each stage of the Trial of Strength, the total attribute increase is 18 points per stage, with 12 points allocated ording to strength and job orientation, and the remaining 6 points can be freely distributed.
The content of each stage’s Trial of Strength for testers is designated by the test administrator, but the test administrator must first pass that stage’s Trial of Strength.
Exnation 4:
In in-depth Data mode, all racial traits will also be digitized. Taking vampires as an example:
Vampire – Blood Vulture n Racial Traits:
Night’s Blessing: When in a dark environment, closebat and spirit skill checks +1, agility increases by 20%, intelligence increases by 20%, life, stamina, and spirit recovery rates greatly elerated.
Can perform Blood Wings flight (0.5x speed of sound) during the night.
Day’s Curse: When fighting in a bright environment, damage dealt is reduced by 30%, life recovery rate reduced by 50%, and continuously suffers from【Sunlight Burn】which is treated as a negative effect. This effect can be negated by spells but cannot be dispelled.
Vampire’s Touch: Each attack has a chance to drain the enemy’s life force to replenish or enhance one’s own attack, and when the power of blood reaches its limit, it can be used to enhance the next attack.
This racial ability will be activated upon reaching the ck Iron Body rank.
Bat Heritage: When a vampire is near death, they can dissipate their physical form and transform into a bat swarm to escape mortal danger, usage limit【3 times/night】. Using this ability multiple times in a short period will cause the vampire to suffer【Mental Strain】and【Physical Copse】negative effects.
This racial ability will be activated upon reaching the ck Iron Body rank.
Reclusive Blood n: The seven vampire ns have a unique andplex prestige system, causing vampires to have reduced goodwill and difficultymunicating with other factions.
Eternal Sin Descendant: Vampires, bearing the original sin, are abhorred by all other life forms, making it difficult to increase charisma.
Exnation 5:
In in-depth Data mode, detailedbat records can be viewed.
But please note that thisbat record is only a digitized interpretation of the originalbat. To obtain more information, professional data analysis skills are required.
Engaging inbat in in-depth Data mode will introduce a【Dice Roll】option, adding more fun and unexpected elements to otherwiseckluster battles.
Warning!
It is not rmended to use this advanced function at low power levels to avoid unexpected instant deaths.
Continue enabling in-depth Data? Yes/No】
This long string of numbers popped into Murphy’s eyes, making him feel immense pressure just from reading it.
Now he could be certain that no matter which idiot handcrafted this admin system, that guy must be a hardcore RPG campaign lover. Just look at his nonsensical suggestion!
Rolling dice!
You wish. If I roll six 1s in a row in a duel, wouldn’t even a favorable situation suddenly turn disastrous for me? That’s way too exciting!
What sane person would use this?
“Disable!”
Murphy muttered.
Theplex data disappeared from his sight in an instant, and the character card returned to the pleasing, concise, idiot mode. His headache immediately subsided, and he was instantly revived to full health.
Surrounded by the little yers, he stood up and thanked them for their help, while batting away Ah Yuen’s hand that was still pinching his chest.
However, he was pondering that considering the attribute exnations earlier, the reason he couldn’t withstand in-depth Data was most likely because his intelligence attribute was still not high enough?
In other words, he wasn’t smart enough?
Ugh, that was a bit too hurtful, wasn’t it?
The vampire sneered.
But when he looked at the little yers in front of him, he felt amused again. No wonder these guys were so weak – their initial character values were all 5, at most fluctuating by 3, with a measly total of only 30.
Tsk tsk, they were definitely bottom tier scrubs.
If they remained this weak, it would indeed be worrying. However, the little yers’ growth potential was 1.5 times that of the natives. Considering that even the initial racial values of supernatural beings like vampires were only 40, even a single attribute point was very important. Yet these guys could get 6 more attribute points than the natives every time they crossed a power threshold!
This meant that after just two Trials of Strength, their total attribute value would surpass that of natives at the same rank. Most importantly, the natives only had one life!
But the yers were not afraid of death.
This meant their leveling speed would definitely be more than ten times faster than the natives!
Perhaps in less than a year, Murphy could have a super army with everyone at the Silver Body rank! By then, conquering the world would be a piece of cake.
Of course, the yers’ inability to upgrade their character temtes meant they could only be evaluated using the standard temte. At the same rank, theirbat power would probably be ranked at the bottom tier. But that didn’t matter.
When the numbers wererge enough, quantity was a quality of its own.
No matter how powerful an elite temte was, it couldn’t withstand a group battle against 25 standard temtes of the same rank.
Thinking of this, Murphy’s gaze towards the little yers became increasingly gentle and affectionate. My adorable little leeks, you really do have a promising future!
“Ah!”
Just as Murphy was pondering this wonderful future, a familiar scream suddenly rang out from ahead, causing him to frown and turn his head immediately.
What on earth was Lady Femis screaming about? Is this the kind of scream a vampiredy should make? That’s way too unbing! Screaming so miserably, did she see a ghost or something?