Evil God? My servants are players!

After witnessing the ID card processing, Shen Yuan understood that the players could now be released.

Shen Yuan spent some more time updating the new system.

First and foremost, there's the new version update.

[Version Update:]

[1. A larger map outside of Hamlet Town has been opened.]

2. The player level cap has been increased to 40.

3. Introducing the permanent quests "Arts Festival" and "Scattered Stars".

[4. The number of open test slots is increased to 500.]

5. Fixed some bugs.

Secondly, there's the new system that Shen Yuan has been optimizing and improving recently.

[Arts Festival]

[To my wise and courageous family members:]

With the Lord's help, you successfully resolved the crisis in Hamlet Town.

[And the actions of your family members have successfully won the approval of the townspeople, so you may now remove your disguise and walk freely in Hamlet.]

However, after the crisis was over, new problems arose for the family members.

The Lord is bored.

Therefore, my fellow family members, use your wonderful talents to please the Lord.

[Mission Objective: To spread the influence of the evil god within the cultural industry. (+)]

[Task Reward: Gold coins awarded based on popularity score.]

[Note: This task is ongoing and will not end.]

Of course, in addition to the new gameplay, there is also the continuation of the old gameplay, which is Shen Yuan's way of stabilizing people's hearts. After all, the Frost Adventure Team has not yet set off, and there is no new dungeon in sight.

Scattered like stars

With the complete conquest of the Sien dungeon, the servants were no longer able to plunder more beings for their master.

Fortunately, there are still many more dungeons in this world waiting for our familiars to explore.

However, most of these dungeons are located far away, requiring someone to set up teleportation arrays in advance.

Fortunately, an adventure team has already chosen to join us, and we can send them to install the teleportation array.

Of course, we may need to wait for a while.

[Mission Objective: Wait for the Ice Adventurer Team to depart and successfully install the teleportation array.]

[Quest Reward: A new dungeon instance.]

"Another diarrhea-style update. Either they don't update at all, or when they do, it's a huge mess." Quanxianbangua complained as he flipped through the extremely long update.

"It's alright, more updates just means more new content, right?" The muscular man was also looking at the updates.

"Wait, what is this new, abstract task? Where did I get this assignment?" Quan Xianbangua was completely bewildered after flipping to the [Arts Festival] section.

"Although I expected it somewhat, this game is a bit too abstract. Why would they come up with such a niche gameplay?" the Phase Man commented.

"A niche way to play? I've never heard of this before?"

"Yes, there are some, like simulating being a celebrity, but most of them are pretty boring. They're basically just focused on showing off, and the content is quite empty."

After finishing his explanation, the man with the phase continued, "It's like completing a 'masterpiece' by loading a bar, and then suddenly you're on stage. You can get points by following the system's prompts to perform actions."

"Then the cheap AI in the audience started shouting excitedly."

After hearing the explanation from the "phase man," Quanxianbangua exclaimed, "Is that stupid?"

"After all, it's a niche market, and since we can't get computing power, we can only do some simple things."

"But why does this game do this?" Quanxianbangua asked, puzzled.

"Who knows? But it was expected, considering they did something like the 'Scare Festival' right from the start of the game."

Phase Man then commented, "It probably just was an experiment by the development team, since they did release a proper update after all."

"Holy crap, this [Arts Festival] isn't in the taskbar! It's directly in the system interface!" Quanxianbangua exclaimed in surprise.

"Didn't the quest description say that this quest is permanent and won't end? I guess it's a long-term side quest."

"So, are you going to play?"

"Let me see, there's a plus sign here. Hmm, he could be a writer, singer, screenwriter, actor..."

"Quite a few tricks up your sleeve, huh? This is kind of interesting! So, you, the 'Phase Man,' are you in or not?"

While talking to the Phase Man, Quanxian Bangua suddenly noticed that the Phase Man was standing there in a daze.

"Phase-breaking powerhouse?! You've logged off?"

"A hunky phase man?"

After the semi-trailer pushed the man in the phase, he finally realized what was happening.

"Oh, it's nothing, I just had a sudden epiphany."

"Huh? You had an epiphany while playing a game?"

"I've noticed that these kinds of large-scale games seem to have never really restricted us."

The man in the phase said something inexplicable, leaving Quan Xianbangua completely baffled.

"Of course there are restrictions. Didn't we just unlock the map outside Hamlet Town? And the level cap is only 40, right? Why are you suddenly bringing this up?"

"It's not about that. I'm lamenting when we lost our creativity. Even if this game didn't introduce this new gameplay, we could still play it this way, since it's a large-scale, fully immersive game."

"Isn't it normal to play whatever game you're in? There are a few weirdos like Travel Frog," Quanxianbangua retorted.

"That's true. You can play whatever game you want to do. If you want to sing, play a singing game. If you want to go on an adventure, play an adventure game. After all, there's no shortage of games."

The man who had been confronted with a half-hearted question also emerged from his rut.

"That's ridiculous. By the way, do you want to play this new mode or not?" Quanxian Bangua brought the discussion back to the main topic.

"Play! Why not play? If you're tired of grinding monsters, why not treat it as a little game?"

While the two generals (Hum and Ha) have a relatively good acceptance of the new system, not all players like it.

"What does the development team mean by this? How come this new gameplay is such a big leap?"

"Ugh~ I can't stand this new way of playing. Singing and dancing in front of a bunch of AI, I can't even imagine it."

"Indeed, it was so embarrassing I could dig out the five-bedroom, three-living-room house with my toes."

"Can't you also work behind the scenes? Like screenwriters and writers."

"Didn't you see that there are requirements for this kind of behind-the-scenes profession? They say the content must be related to the Cthulhu Mythos, but you can't reveal the background story."

"The most painful part is writing, right? What if you spend all that time writing and the reward isn't even as high as grinding monsters? Wouldn't that be utterly disastrous?"

"I think it's alright. It can give the inhabitants of this other world a shock of Earth's culture."

"No, I can't do it. The payback period feels too long."

"Thankfully, there are still regular updates, otherwise I would have thought the production team had gone mad."

"But this 'normal update' is so abstract! We have to wait? Could it be that they've been working on this abstract gameplay lately, causing the normal update to be delayed?"

"Whatever, let's just treat it as another way to play. Let's continue!"

As Shen Yuan predicted, the newly launched gameplay was a mixed bag, with some players liking it and others disliking it.

However, with the "Scattered Stars" quest as a backup, even the most annoyed players didn't show any signs of dislike.

While the players were discussing the update, Hyacinth was resting in the evil god's stronghold.

"Hyacinth, I'm so bored. You haven't been around for days," Ice Flower said to Hyacinth while hugging her pillow on the bed.

"Can't we read books?" Hyacinth asked back, sitting in the chair.

"Unlike you, I don't enjoy reading. I get a headache as soon as I start reading."

Binglinghua placed the pillow on the bed, lay down on it, and said.

Then, the ice flower suddenly sat up again and asked the hyacinth:

"By the way, Hyacinth, can you take me out?!"

"But..." Hyacinth seemed a little troubled, because she knew that the resurrected people couldn't seem to get out.

That's why hyacinths have been avoiding this topic.

Thinking of this, Hyacinth's heart ached again. Did the Ice Flower really have to stay here forever?

Seeing that the hyacinth was in a difficult position, the ice flower changed the subject and said:

"It's okay, I'm fine staying here. I can even hang out with Luna sometimes."

"Hmm." Hyacinth didn't say anything more, but just lowered her head to read the book, trying to distract herself.

Let's take her out for some fun.

Hyacinth suddenly raised its head and rubbed its eyes in disbelief.

After confirming that the words in front of her were not an illusion, Hyacinth jumped up with joy.

"Thank you! Dear God!"

After thanking Shen Yuan, Hyacinth quickly shared the good news with Ice Flower.

"Ice Flower! Let's go out and play together tomorrow!"

"Really?!"

"Um!"

The two mice then stayed up all night in excitement.