295, Time to Farm Some Gold Coins!
Li Aoz glanced at the time; after an afternoon of fussing and thinking, it was already 7 p. m.
Get off work!
Li Aoz turned off the terminal, pressed a button to call a maid to bring food, and then leisurely lay back in the presidential chair, opened the forum, and began to observe the latest developments.
With the upcoming update, players who have reached the Level Cap are running around everywhere, freely using resources and ammunition they wouldn't normally use.
The most obvious change is Sky Ring's ' Red-White Battle '.
Thanks to the assistance and support of Li Aoz, a large number of Sky Ring players in Gretvor's Red Brigade government obtained the mysterious power of the Red Arrow, which made the White Army of the Royalists question their existence.
They never imagined that the Sky Ring, which had always lacked Spellcasters, would now be filled with traces of Aoneng on the battlefield. Moreover, unlike White Candle Star Azure Planet Star, as a technological civilization, had almost no magic resistance equipment on its own.
Many of the Mutant have upgraded to the Gamma-rank (3) have embarked on the path of Bloodfiend Style under the guidance of Li Aoz's Dao path planning. They also have Gravity as an output control method. In the eyes of the Royalists, these Aoneng are all like unkillable and sticky leeches.
In layman's terms: it means that while you gain a lot of health, you also deal a lot of damage.
Li Aoz has put a lot of effort into developing his Dao path, and now the Bloodfiend Style build has changed the team dynamics among players.
In the past, when people ran dungeons, a six-person team would need at least two players with the "Redemption" class: one "Inquisitor" to tank damage, and one "Healer"/"Priest" to set up resurrection and heal.
However, now, the Inquisitor's mentor Gretvor, is busy with military and political affairs every day and has no time to pay attention to players. The Inquisitor players he can train are not very strong, and the few big Big Brother are all trained by large guilds.
At this very moment, the Bloodfiend Style quietly rose to prominence.
To everyone's surprise, the Bloodfiend Style [Mutant] not only provides considerable spell damage, but can also double as a scouting unit. Most importantly, although the Bloodfiend Style build has low armor, it is quite durable!
[Death Link] Shares damage while also providing extremely high damage output.
[Sever Life] Enhances life steal and percentage-based spell damage; the more damage you take, the more health you gain.
This immediately filled the gap in the number of Inquisitors. If it weren't for the fact that Mutant couldn't establish resurrection points, they would have almost squeezed out the Inquisitors' niche.
The Bloodfiend Style's outstanding performance immediately attracted the attention of a large number of players. In high-intensity battlefields like the Sky Ring internal war, high tankiness means a greater chance of survival.
It's important to understand that Sky Ring is a large country with a population of 600 million and an area of approximately 42.6 million square kilometers. Conventional weapons simply cannot achieve a blockade of such a vast territory.
Therefore, the Heavenly Ring People chose the simplest and most brutal tactic: dropping nuclear bombs everywhere, using the Outland snow and wind to create large amounts of radioactive wasteland, forcing the enemy into designated encirclement zones for brutal urban warfare.
Pollution? The Outland is uninhabitable to begin with, with blizzards and deserts raging. Why would you care about a little Nuclear Contamination? Although it sounds a bit cruel, in reality, when players fight, they get hit by 200,000 shells every day, and even occasionally by Hydrogen Bomb. Gradually, they get used to it.
In this environment, the Bloodfiend Style, with its high survivability, has become one of the most important units.
The Mutant class has suddenly gone from a common T3 class to a T1 class, and even reached an absolute T0 dominance in the nuclear radiation war zone! If this news doesn't seem to have any obvious benefits yet...
In just half a month, the number of players on the [Dominator] path recorded by the [White Obelisk] skyrocketed, with many choosing to team up with [Mutant] players to cope with the brutal war.
Li Aoz watched as the number continued to increase.
Today, the number of registered believers in the Holy Monument Religion has reached 400,000.
And what about the Gamma-rank [Mutant] players?
1.712 million.
Li Aoz clenched his fist.
This is a player who has reached the Gamma-rank!
In fact, the number of players who have already entered the [Mutant] rank, including ordinary people who have not yet entered the Alpha Rank, is more than 10 times that of the Gamma-rank.
This doesn't even include NPCs.
According to rough estimates, the native inhabitants of the Azure Planet who have reached the Gamma-rank exceed 300,000.
This outrageous number reinforced Li Aoz's belief that the awakening of Entropy was imminent, forcing the will of Azure Planet to seek self-salvation.
This is unavoidable. Most of the time, planetary wills lack the ability to operate precisely. Appeasing the powerful inhabitants does not diminish the planet's value.
That's how Li Aoz got his title of "Star Charmer".
The Gamma-rank alone has accumulated over 2 million [Dominator] level cultivators Deified Person. The actual number of Overlord Class members definitely exceeds ten million.
Li Aoz's profession, [Astral Echoer], as Class Path, has unique exclusive talents.
[Path of the Class Talent: Astral Rhythm]:
"You are the guide of the starry sky, the listener of the song of the universe. Those who follow you will surely be bathed in the same starlight as you."
You will receive attribute bonuses when you guide more people to join the path of the Echoers.
Azure Planet: For every 100,000 increase in the number of [Echoers], you gain 1 point of random attribute value.
"With 2 million Gamma-rank [Dominator] level beings, once the version is updated, they will only have one path of inheritance to choose from—[Echoer]!"
Li Aoz is the only [Dominator]... system mentor on Azure Planet.
All he left to the path of the Dao was the legacy of the [Echoers].
This is a monopoly.
For every 100,000 players, one random attribute point is provided; Azure Planet alone can provide him with 20 attribute points for free.
What about the next version? When those ten million Overlord Class Deified Person also advance, that's at least 100 attribute points.
Don't forget, the population will increase. After solving the problems of Malefic Calamity and Entropy, Azure Planet will definitely experience a population explosion. It's possible that the entire planet's population will reach 10 billion.
By then, with Li Aoz's near-dominant influence on Azure Planet and the massive [Dominator] group, even with the most conservative estimate... the number of [Dominator] group members Deified Person on Azure Planet will reach over 100 million.
Furthermore, with the integration with interstellar space and the gamma-ification of the population... how many attributes can this 100 million Gamma-rank [Overlord] system provide?
1000 points.
This is the path of the Class Path... the Path to Divinity.
Li Aoz's calculations were even quite conservative.
After all, Azure Planet is currently too small, and he has only occupied the path of the [Echoer].
Those Narrative-level Civilization completely occupy an entire path!
Once you embark on this path, you will be greeted by extreme numerical expansion.
"This is the core interest of Narrative-level Civilization. They have trillions of people offering sacrifices to the Dao. Even a pig can be turned into a numerical monster. Not to mention the Deified Person are carefully selected, nurtured, and carefully cultivated by Narrative-level Civilization, as well as the members of the Deep Abyss Squad who returned from the Lower Star Abyss..."
Li Aoz felt suffocated for a moment.
For the first time, he felt the absolute crushing power of Narrative-level Civilization from the very foundation.
Under the monopolistic control of Narrative-level Civilization over the path of cultivation, the strong will naturally gather under a narrative, and as time goes by, their thoughts will gradually come to agree with the Grand Narrative of the civilization they belong to.
Even if they ultimately fail to ascend to godhood, they still provide a high-end population for Grand Narrative, continuously expanding, improving, and passing on superior genes, resulting in an ever-increasing success rate...
That's outrageous, absolutely outrageous! It's like the mother of all outrageousness opening the door for outrageousness itself, it's outrageous to the extreme.
"In the future, it will be necessary to closely unite Azure Planet and White Candle Star together and bind them into a single civilization."
Li Aoz immediately spread his hands, and two invitations popped out from the Dogmatic Spacetime Belt.
Hunter's Gathering Invitation
Teleki Exhibition Hall Admission Ticket
"We haven't found any information about the Qualia-Direction yet. After solving the problem at hand, I need to hurry up and dive into the Star Abyss."
Without much thought, Li Aoz, "My luck has just started to turn around. I don't have much foreign exchange on hand right now. In that case, I'll go to the Hunter's Gathering and try my luck."
The Hunter's Gathering is also an opportunity for information exchange. In addition to the information about the [Hidden Society] that must be made public, Li Aoz also plans to inquire about the issue of Qualia-Direction.
Speaking of which, among the hunters of the Abyss, there are a few stubborn old men who ripped off players a lot of money in the game in their previous lives.
but...
Li Aoz opened the [Shop] and, faced with the dazzling array of goods, revealed an evil smile.
As the 14.0 version of the [Shop], Li Aoz's resources are incredibly abundant and diverse, buying low and selling high. If Lao Deng happens to come across it this time...
Li Aoz could only make a pittance through tears and blood.
Old man, it's time to release some gold coins this time!