Miss Player, please don't cast spells on me.

Kiyono felt that... perhaps it was because he had taken full control of every detail of the performance that made this fox lady feel embarrassed.

Now that Miss Fox can finally act as a senior to guide and answer questions for Kiyono Hai, she naturally has to put on a smug look.

"An illusion?" Kiyono Hai had a vague idea of ​​what the so-called illusion referred to.

"This is easy to understand. Take the game 'Dungeon Sacred 2' as an example. If a player explores the dungeon alone, the strength of the monsters they encounter in the dungeon may be one-thousandth, one-ten-thousandth, or even one-hundred-millionth of the monsters' true strength."

"After all, we need to divide the world line into tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of parts to satisfy the individual exploration and play experience of each player."

Rena Takigami, speaking in the tone of a seasoned senior, explained to Hai Kiyono the most basic knowledge about the strength of players.

"Therefore, correspondingly, if two players explore the dungeon together, they will find that the monsters in the dungeon not only have more health, but also higher attack power..."

"It means that their timelines overlapped, and the strength of the monsters from the two timelines also overlapped."

Is the principle behind the fact that the more people play online, the stronger the monsters in the dungeon become?

"So, Senior Takigami, you mean that the players' strength seems impressive, but it's all fake, just a performance? Their strength is nothing compared to the real gods?"

Kiyono Gray's conclusion made the little fox girl shake her head rapidly.

If all the players' strength is fake, then Miss Fox wouldn't need to worry about her followers being slaughtered by the players!

"Of course not, this only applies to beginner players or players who don't play games much!"

Rena Takigami said with a serious expression.

"But those players who have traveled through many game worlds, and whose game characters have fought for thousands... even tens of thousands of hours in various game worlds."

"Once their game characters are inherited into the current game world, they will become heroes who have defeated the Demon King in the local world, or terrifying beings like the Demon King himself."

"And the players in the Fighters' Tea Party, once their game characters are inherited into this world, they will become genuine powerhouses, demigods, and a group of guys that even I and a host of gods find troublesome."

After hearing this, Kiyono Ash roughly understood the power levels of the player characters in this world.

To put it simply, the levels are roughly: individual level, regional level, city level, national level, and then world level.

This is a classification method that Kiyono Gray heard about from somewhere. It doesn't have a particularly strict definition and may not be used later. Kiyono Gray just needs to have a general idea of ​​it.

"So that means players just need to spend a lot of time playing games to make their main character stronger? Play as many games as possible and let your character experience as many different game worlds as possible?"

In Qingye Hui's opinion, any veteran player who has played for thousands or even tens of thousands of hours should be able to build a character powerful enough to influence a magnificent city.

"Of course not. If it were that easy for player characters to improve their strength, we gods would lose face."

"In short, the improvement of the player's main character's strength... will also be limited by the player's own 'capacity' or 'value'."

Miss Fox waved her finger to indicate that things weren't that simple.

“‘Capacity’ refers to the maximum amount of ‘faith power’ that players have in reality.”

"Only by increasing the upper limit of their 'faith power' in reality can players' game characters' strength be improved accordingly."

Kiyono Ash understood completely by this point, as the upper limit of faith power had been discussed several times before.

It is the sum of a person's value in the real world, that is, all the achievements he has made in all aspects of his life.

Thinking about it this way, those top-tier professional players can indeed increase the upper limit of their faith power simply by playing games, achieving various first kills and speedruns, leading the establishment of a powerful gaming guild, making game strategy videos, and so on.

Those top players who have already achieved success in other fields in the real world can also gradually cultivate a powerful game character if they are willing to invest their time in the game.

I wonder if these masters who have reached the pinnacle in other fields have time to play games.

Is this why there are so many holidays in the world?

When Kiyono Hai arrived in this world, he realized that the overall social atmosphere of this world encouraged everyone to play more video games and watch more movies, TV series, and anime.

This also makes it easier for those gods to harvest the 'gold mine' of faith power.

After Qingye Hui roughly understood the relative strengths of the players' characters, he asked the fox lady a new question.

"There's something else I'm curious about, Takigami-senpai. Have any gods ever tried to raise their own private army of players? Like how a big company hires people to play games?" Kiyono asked.

"Of course, some gods have tried it, and many gods have seriously organized such player companies."

Perhaps she was getting thirsty from talking, Takigami Rena raised her hand and produced two glasses of lemonade from somewhere. She handed one to Kiyono Hai and continued talking.

"But they all failed because hiring players to play the game would undoubtedly reduce the 'purity' of the players."

"Player purity?" Kiyono Gray understood the meaning of the term, but still wanted to hear her explain.

"You see, if you're paid to play the same game over and over again, you might switch to another game later, but you still have to follow the company's instructions."

"Then just playing games isn't enough. You also need to create corresponding strategy guides or speedrun videos, because this is an essential process for accumulating your own 'capacity'."

"In such a high-pressure work environment, it would be impossible for anyone to fully enjoy any game, right?"

Rena Takigami said, biting her straw.

"Of course, there are also companies that just pay people to play games and don't care about anything else, but the 'yield rate' of such products is too low, so it's not worth it."

"So the final solution is the guild system... A truly dedicated god will become the guild leader and fight alongside the players as 'friends' to become stronger together in the guild."

"But ultimately, the solution to the war between the gods is to hire these powerful player guilds, rather than to cultivate them themselves."

At this point, Kiyono Ash finally understood the relationship between the gods and the players in this world.

In short, the gods can hire major player guilds to participate in their wars, but it is difficult to permanently bind a large number of top players to their service through money and interests.

Perhaps a few top players belong to a god, but most top players are 'free'.

"Is it really more effective to bind a player forever with emotional bonds between them in real life or in the game than to use money and benefits to tie them down?"

After pondering this for a while, Kiyono Gray returned to his thoughtful posture, resting his hand on his brow.

This made the fox spirit next to him slurp his lemonade loudly, his fluffy ears twitching as he watched, probably wondering what terrible idea his junior was up to.

"Kiyono-kun, do you... have some new ideas this time?"

"I guess we've finalized what to do next. Takigami-senpai, I'd appreciate it if you could further refine the 'Xianor Village' that we've already built. Also, I might be going on a business trip in the real world soon to meet those female players offline."

After confirming the follow-up plan, Kiyono Gray stood up from his movie theater seat, stretched his body, and then spoke.

"You...you're going to meet them in person? Are you sure you won't be attacked by their families..." Takigami Rena made a subtle throat-slitting gesture with her small hand.

"That's why I need to meet them in person. It's my responsibility to the players who support Shanor."

"Moreover, the female players were hurt so badly by the storyline of Shanor Village. If I don't go offline to help them heal, they won't be able to get over their psychological trauma."

The second half of Qingye Hui's statement was true; nowadays, those female gamers would probably become so agitated and out of control if they saw Xia Nuoer in the game.

Therefore, Qingye Hui needs to go offline and heal them thoroughly. However, during the healing process, the female players... will probably sink into the gentle embrace of this place called Shanor forever.

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Chapter 44 Stay away from my mom!

"You have received a reward of 800 points of Faith Power from player Snow Island."

Before leaving, Kiyono Gray glanced at his income; the Snow Island was the highest single sum.

Although the other fighters' family members at the tea party were also seriously injured, most of them were ordinary female high school students, or housewives and college students, and even if they were drained of all the faith power they could get, there wouldn't be much.

However, this also had the advantage of their large numbers. All things considered, just this one scene of the 'Xianor Village' performance alone successfully earned Qingye Hui a full three thousand points of faith power.

Having earned the power of faith, Qingye Hui wants to continue having fun with the female players, so she must do a good job of cleaning up the mess.

Qingye Hui's offline mission was less about rescuing the female players and more about truly imprisoning them in a dungeon called 'Xianor'.

Let them go in willingly.

Qingye Hui can also take advantage of this opportunity to 'ride the wave'.

After all, Qingye Hui had already learned from that fox lady that top players in this world are rare, difficult for gods to control, and so powerful that even gods find them troublesome.

If Kiyono Ash manages to successfully imprison the female relatives of the tea party in the 'Shanor Dungeon' this time, they will undoubtedly all transform into 'evil dragons' guarding the dungeon princess.

Or perhaps Chanor Castle?

With this jumble of thoughts in mind, Qingye Hui contacted Uncle Haolan, a senior figure in the tea party with considerable influence.

After Kiyono Gray explained his purpose to the old man Hao Lan, he didn't hesitate much and directly let Kiyono Gray temporarily join the Fighters' Tea Party group as the operator of "Dungeon Sanctuary 2".

When Qingye Hui joined the group... as expected, the entire Fighters' Tea Party was filled with wailing and howling, a deafening roar, and heavy casualties.

Basically, more than 70% of the tea party bigwigs were wailing in despair in the group chat, beating their chests and stamping their feet.

"What should we do?! After I finished that awful storyline with the Mysterious Swordsman yesterday, my sister cried all night and couldn't calm down. This morning when she woke up, she paused for three seconds as if she was thinking about that bastard Shanor again, and then she hid under the covers and cried herself to sleep!"

"What? What should I do? My situation isn't much better! My sister cried all night yesterday, and my parents are even suspecting I might have hurt her... They're looking for me everywhere and want to break my legs! Honestly! I have a girlfriend in real life!"

"Help! Help! Help! Help! I was playing games with a female classmate from my university's gaming club. I've been looking for her all day since last night, and her phone is always off! I'm really afraid she might have done something drastic! If any of you see this girl in the Ginza area, please contact me!"

"Isn't the storyline of 'Dungeon Sacred 2' a bit too extreme? My 14-year-old daughter still won't leave her room! She just keeps crying and crying inside. I'm standing guard outside her room, afraid to leave for a second, and I'm even thinking of calling the police."

"You guys are doing well, but my mom is still crying and scolding me for being an unfilial son."

Qingye Hui glanced at the messages in the group. The impact of the 'Xianor Village' storyline was indeed too great. It directly tormented those female players who came to get close to Xianor, leaving them battered and bruised. One after another, they became depressed on the spot!

It's real depression...

Kiyono glanced at the situation of most of the female friends and relatives at the tea party in the group. It was no exaggeration to say that most of the female players would develop mild depression if they did not receive intervention from psychologists or outsiders.

Players with more fragile personalities might even go further down the path of becoming hardcore gamers.

It seems I'll be quite busy from now on.

Some members of the tea party escaped this ordeal because they were either widows in the real world and had no female friends at all.

Either their progress was slow, or after sensing something was wrong in the group, they quickly pulled their female friends and family to stop their strategy for the Mysterious Swordsman.

So people quickly noticed that Uncle Haolan had actually invited a new person to the group.

'@Temporary·Xiannuoer, who is this Haolan-san?'

The vetting process for the tea party is extremely strict. Qingye Hui, of course, wouldn't pass.

Therefore, the addition of the prefix "temporary" indicates that Hao Lan added Qingye Hui to the group for some important reason, and he will remove Qingye Hui from the group after the matter is resolved.

This person is one of the official operations staff of *Dungeon Sanctuary 2*, and also the actor responsible for the character of Shanor, as well as the screenwriter for the storyline related to "Shanor Village".

So it was you, kid?

Uncle Haolan's reply once again caused an uproar in the entire tea party group.

He's fine... because his sister, Ms. Caihua, is still looking for a wife for Xia Nuoer in the first playthrough of "The Principality of Roses".