Murphy glanced at his character sheet in the Scarlet Castle's midnight chamber. After he shut down the Otherworld summoning, his previously full 3000/3000 dropped to 1/3000 in an instant.
All the players except Ah Feng had been temporarily expelled from this world. Looking at the players sprawled across the secret chamber, Murphy felt that sense of being a "god," able to control everything with a single thought, rise in him once more.
If he really were a god, then these valiant outsiders before him would be his three thousand chosen ones.
Well, never mind how capable these guys were. Wasn't the number alone impressive?
"Then, on behalf of the True Otherworld development team, I hereby announce that the internal test version upgrade officially begins!"
Murphy rolled his shoulders and spoke softly to the midnight chamber full of people, wearing an air of "boundless enthusiasm for work." Then he happily prepared to slack off.
Well, this wasn't a real game, after all.
The so-called version upgrade was nothing more than kicking the players offline first, then having the NPCs under his command hurry up and adjust a few things that had been arranged long ago. There was no actual server update or new data to upload.
Murphy just needed to run another settlement, make one final revision to the development log he had already put together, and upload it to the forums. That was all.
If there really were such a thing as a "Worst Game Developer Ranking," Murphy would probably be the one with the lightest workload in history. After using a 100%-real game to portray the existence of all Transia and even the entire continent, all he had to do was reinforce that impression and concept, and make sure the players had a good "gaming experience." Then everything would