"Looking at it this way, building a large player faction seems like something that kills multiple birds with one stone. They can run errands and stir up trouble for me, while I can harvest Fate Feedback in bulk."
Slender, fair fingers toyed with an Ice Crystal Rose. Anvis gazed at its translucent, lifelike petals, but his mind was occupied with considering his next moves.
Originally, he had formed a player faction merely to gain a means of prophecy and planning that could interfere with enemy prophets, as well as a tool for handling troublesome matters inconvenient for him to deal with personally.
But to his surprise, players could also bring him a large amount of additional Fate Feedback. This caused their importance and development priority to surge once again.
After a period of testing, Anvis had also noticed a detail: all players who joined the Mysteries Society could provide him with a faint amount of Fate Feedback while completing missions.
Those who had not joined, aside from exceptions like Xia Ye Ying Huo, were basically unable to provide any Fate Feedback at all.
"However, the next version update will add more functions, including a guild system. That may have some impact on my formation of a player faction."
Casually tearing off a transparent icy petal, Anvis pondered for a moment before dismissing that possibility himself.
"Not necessarily. It is merely an NPC faction, and it does not conflict with player guilds. Besides, I have not restricted their freedom or their right to join other factions.
"In short, since I can steadily harvest Fate Feedback from players, I can invest more supplies and manpower into developing the player faction from now on."
"The more players join the Mysteries Society, the more Fate Feedback they can bring me, allowing my strength to