After more than two years of development.
The player forums divided the growth models of different playstyles into two categories: the righteous path and the heretical path.
The righteous path referred to mainstream growth strategies.
War, hunting, competition, fishing, spiritual cooking, dungeons... These were all mainstream activities and the growth choices of the vast majority of players. The heretical path referred to growth models that went against mainstream playstyles.
The representative player was Little Mage.
Players had dubbed his growth route the Evil Great Demon King. He had abandoned the Player Camp and established an entirely new faction outside it.
He was also one of the strongest players in the eyes of many players.
There were many other heretical playstyles.
One of the heretical playstyles that leaned toward the mainstream was the Pet Stream, which had originally been called the Control Stream.
By capturing pets from the outside world, players could obtain pets that could not receive the enhancement of Monster Soul traits and could only be granted active, buff-type traits. This was fundamentally different from the Summoning Stream.
Monster Soul summons could fuse with all of a player's abilities.
For example, traits such as the player's Inkflame and Raging Thunder could be directly granted to summoned beasts.
External pets, however, could only be strengthened by actively applied enhancement traits such as Bloodburn and Wind Breaking.
Going against mainstream playstyles was the defining feature of the heretical path.
The emergence of the Summoning Stream gave the forums the concept of a conflict between righteous and heretical playstyles.
Some players who planned to follow the Summoning Stream even declared, "The heretical path ran rampant in the past, but now the righteous path shall rise."
Those words were undoubtedly conveying a message to Pet Stream players.
The times had changed. The orthodox