Evil God? My servants are players!

At this moment, in the stronghold of the evil god.

After discovering that there were no new storylines or quests, the two players went back to grinding levels.

Hyacinth, on the other hand, stayed at the base camp and was cleaning Shen Yuan's altar.

Meanwhile, our evil god is busy summoning new followers.

Life is tough, even evil gods sigh.

After Shen Yuan inexplicably became a sealed evil god, he has been drifting in the void.

It wasn't until recently that I finally "grabbed" a world and settled down in this underground city.

During this time, Shen Yuan also tried to create some real evil god followers to explore the outside world, but without exception they were sealed and blocked.

It wasn't until Shen Yuan discovered that he could connect to Earth by using his past identity as an anchor point.

Those who possess the soul of Earth can resist some of the barriers of the seals and travel around with their own power.

To ensure the initiative of these family members, Shen Yuan did not directly recruit them.

Instead, they chose to wrap it in the skin of an immersive online game.

This ultimately led to the current situation.

But during the time I was adrift, decades had passed on Earth.

As a result, so-called 100% immersive games are no longer considered high-end there.

Fortunately, his "retro Cthulhu" themed game was catchy enough to attract enough players.

After selecting eight new family members who were still in the reservation queue, Shen Yuan chose to summon them directly.

Because one of the young believers was present, Shen Yuan specially arranged a grand spectacle.

A beam of light shot into the sky from the center of the magnificent altar.

The hyacinth was so frightened that it covered its head and ran away, crouching down on the spot.

This time, she didn't curl up like a mouse egg.

But the hyacinth quickly realized that this was a miracle from God.

She then knelt down, clasped her hands together, and began to ramble incoherently.

"Ah, great Lord, you are truly great, you are my great Lord, great... great..."

It seems that those few prayers had exhausted all the good words this little guy from the slums could think of.

As the light gradually faded, Hyacinth witnessed eight strangely shaped "messengers" slowly emerge from the center of the altar.

"Holy crap, I just entered the game and I'm already face-to-face with monsters!"

Upon seeing his companion's appearance, one of the divine messengers let out a shout and launched an attack.

The divine messenger beside him was caught off guard and was punched directly, falling to the ground.

The divine messenger, lying on the ground, covered his face and rebuked the divine messenger who had hit him.

"Aren't you going to read the game description?! We're the followers of an evil god! I'm your teammate!"

"Huh?! Dude, sorry, I really didn't know."

The divine messenger who launched the attack apologized while helping the other divine messenger up.

Although I don't know what the game description the messenger was referring to.

The farce unfolding before her eyes made Hyacinth wonder why these messengers of the Lord seemed... somewhat dim-witted?

Then Hyacinth received another divine revelation from Shen Yuan.

"They...the chaos...guided me..."

Shen Yuan wasn't sending out divine revelation to show off.

Rather, it was to reduce information density and ensure that those receiving divine revelation were not contaminated by their own direct dialogue.

Then Shen Yuan installed the NPC's system on Hyacinth.

As Hyacinth received divine revelation, her perspective underwent a tremendous change.

Many square buttons appeared in the corners of the field of vision.

Although Hyacinth couldn't read, she immediately understood the meaning of the words on the squares.

The first one is a task?

As soon as Hyacinth had a thought, a task interface opened.

The dense text gave Hyacinth, who was illiterate, a bit of a headache.

"Oi, does the NPC have any quests?"

As the only non-player present, Hyacinth quickly attracted the players' attention.

Hyacinth, whose view was blocked by the text, became a little anxious when asked by the players.

She wanted to turn off the words in front of her to complete the Lord's mission and guide these divine messengers.

As Hyacinth was thinking, the task interface automatically closed.

Now Hyacinth understood how to use these strange buttons.

"Is this NPC exploiting a bug? Why isn't it responding?"

"Shouldn't we call her by her name? Hyacinth?"

"Here!" Hyacinth stood at attention without even realizing it.

"Huh? Is the character AI in this game not properly configured?"

Hyacinth felt a little sad looking at the whispering players in front of her.

I really can't do anything right.

"Hey, Hyacinth, any missions?"

Hyacinth, who was gradually becoming withdrawn, was interrupted by the player's question.

"A mission? Yes!" This time, Hyacinth caught the key word.

She opened the task interface and read the first line of text aloud.

"Kill 5 monsters below level 5 and receive 10 experience points."

One player complained after hearing about the mission.

"Such a common quest. Shouldn't Cthulhu games have something more abstract?"

"Alright, aren't we abstract enough? Let's go fight some monsters."

Another player responded.

Watching the players leave arm in arm, Hyacinth collapsed to the ground as if all her strength had been drained away.

She wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, but then smiled happily.

I did it.

But when she accidentally bumped into something hard on her chest, her smile vanished.

Shen Yuan, who had been observing from the sidelines, was also gratified, realizing that he had made the right choice.

Although I can directly assign tasks to players, it's also a good opportunity to train my newly recruited followers.

It was definitely not the 30 points of emotional energy generated when I was overwhelmed by the allure of hyacinths.

But seeing humanity fall back to [89%], Shen Yuan felt he had gone a bit too far.

The little one should be allowed to get used to it beforehand.

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On the other side, new players and veteran players who went out to fight monsters unexpectedly met.

"A newcomer?"

Full insurance, partial insurance.

"Hmm, what kind of mission are you doing? Why are you carrying corpses?"

A new player with the "Travel Frog lv.1" icon above their head asked a follow-up question.

"I'm telling you! We want... cough! Why did you hit me!"

Just as Quanxian was about to share his plan for a wild monster army with the newcomer, he was interrupted by the phase man's elbow strike.

"It's nothing, just a regular quest that rewards experience."

The muscular man laughed it off.

Although it seemed strange, Travel Frog did not pry into other people's privacy.

After all, everyone has their own things to do in the game.

Where are the monster-killing areas in this game?

Looking at the interconnected underground tunnels, the traveling frog asked.

"Hmm, that's hard to say. How about this, we'll go turn in the mission first, and then we'll take you there when we get back."

The phase man answered.

"Hard to say? Why?"

"It's a game made by real people, and it's still in the testing phase, so there are bound to be some problems. There are a lot of high-level monsters here, and it's really hard to find a monster-farming area."

"Alright, I'll wait for you here," the traveling frog replied.

Upon hearing this, the other players also chose to stay.

"Okay, let's go and come back quickly."

Then the man with the phase man pulled the fully-insured semi-trailer and ran in a direction that was clearly not the main camp entrance.

"Why didn't you tell them about the half-mouse?"

After leaving the crowd, he asked again, seemingly in a precarious situation.

"Are you stupid? This is our exclusive, secret method for farming high-level equipment. How can we just reveal it to the public?"

"Wouldn't it be better if we just wore high-level gear and had super-high-level equipment to dazzle them?"

Phase Man Explanation.

"It's kind of fun, but what if they find out too?" Quanxian Bangua chuckled.

"Who would be like you, running around with dead things that they won't notice for a while?"