I think I'd better post a standalone chapter after all... I knew that chapter would cause controversy, so I added quite a bit of indirect description, but sure enough, it was still hard to accept.
Actually, I can understand it too. But buying out that chapter, aside from making the Coordination Bureau owe her a favor, was also meant to bring out a very important setting later on, which is—
Lu Xiu's performance in constructing and clearing two dungeons had already drawn attention. The Goddess designed the gamified world, dungeons, and so on essentially to create pressure for selection. This has been mentioned throughout the earlier text. Lu Xiu was moved and directly set the ticket price at one, which was equivalent to bypassing Her selection mechanism. And if the strategy guide leaked, that would be even more serious. It would reduce the dungeon's training effect and violate the fundamental purpose behind her gamified world.
There was no way She would just watch that happen...
Other bottom-tier dungeons could be whatever, but Lu Xiu's dungeon definitely couldn't be allowed to do whatever it wanted.
In yesterday's dividend plot, I vaguely mentioned meeting the Goddess face-to-face, giving a little hint.
Originally, I was thinking that in that chapter, I would directly develop the later plot.
But I also felt that would be too sudden, so I decided to write Wei Yidong's plot first, explain the Chosen talent a bit, let Lu Xiu show off along the way, and then have her accidentally let slip the shortcut in the [Sekiro] dungeon, thereby developing the plot from there.
Now it seems that really didn't work...
So I'll explain it after all... To put it even more bluntly, making contact with the Coordination Bureau was meant to better highlight the key point of [Is