Outside the White Wax Town Church, Motley, accompanied by the two men, drew closer.
He suddenly looked to his left at the young man who was leading his horse:
Are you a local from White Wax Town?
The young man glanced at Motley to make sure he was being asked, then shook his head and said:
"No, I am one of the priests who went to take up my post with Lord Duolin."
Motley nodded thoughtfully and asked further:
"How is Yiden now?"
"Lord Yiden is well; he's in the church now, and you'll see him soon."
"Oh."
Motley felt a little more at ease than before.
It seems that Yiden and Duolin's relationship wasn't as strained as he had imagined. Perhaps the Archbishop's assignment of the task to him was simply a consequence of his excessive paranoia.
Just then, the young man on the other side of the Hoofed Beast spoke up:
"Lord Motley, Duolin has a message for you."
"Speak."
Motley, riding on the Hoofed Beast's back, paid no attention. The real Duolin seized the opportunity to approach him and spoke in a voice only the two of them could hear:
"Stained with sin..."
"Pray for divine resurrection."
Motley immediately gave a perfectly standard answer, then the two exchanged a glance and laughed as if no one else was around.
Amidst bursts of laughter, the side entrance of the church in White Wax Town was already within reach.
To most players who were unaware of the truth or only had a superficial understanding of it, [ Zhongde ] and others seemed to have effortlessly obtained extremely high privileges that allowed them to rewrite a major version's main storyline, a privilege that made them extremely envious.
But that's not the case.
This script, created by more than a dozen veteran players, went through five revisions. Even Ed himself checked it several times to confirm the plausibility of most of the script.
However, even so, there is always one aspect that cannot be perfectly handled, and that is how to deal with the leaders of the Holy Crusaders.
Duolin, who came from the Holy City, naturally knew what the Holy Crusaders were.
Every Grand Knight Commander in the Holy Crusaders is at least at the Middle Tier, and every squad leader is likely to be at the Low Tier or Low Tier- upper level.
The reason players write scenarios is to defeat this Holy Crusaders with minimal casualties.
In other words, no matter how well the players write their scripts, they can't escape the Grand Knight Commander, just like even if they find a way to skip class across most of the Gloomy Sanctuary map, they will eventually have to face Yiden in the Inverted Hall.
The biggest problem for the Soul Returner right now is the lack of high-end combat power. Even [ Howling Pothos ] and a few professional players from other game guilds are only around level four or five at most.
However, asking Seraphina to intervene just to deal with a Grand Knight Commander is clearly not a good choice.
Although everyone knew how powerful this dragon was, and he had a professional creed of "no win, no pay," the problem was that the dragon girl's price was simply too high! It was far beyond what they could afford to pool their money to hire.
Just when everyone discovered an irreparable logical flaw in the script, the consultant, [ The Great Wei Boxing Champion ], pointed them in the right direction:
"Couldn't we just hire Ed?"
yes!
Players trapped in the logic trap slapped their foreheads in frustration.
The Second Holy See developed so rapidly that they even forgot the arduous pioneering years when they first started out.
At that time, Ed's list of services included an option like [ Combat Assistance): 1 gold/time (entering and exiting combat counts as one time).].
However, for players who were penniless at the time, one gold coin was an absolute fortune.
As the story progresses, the players' wallets grow fatter, but there's always a use for the money.
Buying weapons, buying Hoofed Beast, buying land, buying insurance... Although Ed's services are no longer the most expensive, players who only trust themselves are more willing to invest their earned gold coins in themselves rather than hire outside help.
So in the few months since the game's closed beta, it seems that only a few casual players choose to subscribe to this service when they encounter a boss they can't beat, thus making an officially certified way to skip class.
However, faced with a logical bug that prevented the script from working, the players ultimately decided to invite Ed to join the battle.
It's just a gold coin, right? If everyone pools their resources, it'll be a piece of cake!
To everyone's surprise, when they reopened the long-dormant Guide Service interface, they were shocked to see this line of text—
[ Combat Assistance): 10 Gold/time (Entering and exiting combat counts as one time)]
That heartless Ed actually raised the price too!
The good news is that Ed's combat assistance has been upgraded from basic to intermediate; the bad news is that the price has increased tenfold.
After some discussion, the group decided to go and ask Ed in person what his current skill level was.
This important task was then entrusted to the professional foreign aid [ Howling Pothos ].
Ed finished reading the script brought by [ Howling Pothos ] and listened to the demands of the Concrete Pouring Club, then fell into a pretentious state of deep thought.
Ed, who had access to the players' bodies, already knew these mediocre playwrights were after him, but that didn't seem so bad...
After some thought, he agreed to [ Howling Pothos ]'s request, but not in the way he wanted.
Under [ Howling Pothos's] gaze, a new option suddenly appeared on Ed's service interface:
[ Custom Assistance: Complete special parts of certain storylines according to the requests of the Soul Returner. Price: 15 Gold/time (This service is currently in trial operation)]
With things having come to this point, the stunned crowd had no choice but to reluctantly give up their prize. When they realized that even selling everything they owned wouldn't be enough, a Greenhouse owner who wished to remain anonymous sponsored the three gold pieces and asked to join the fight himself.
Her request was simple—she had to be included in the fight in the church.
So, after overcoming numerous obstacles, the planners finally scraped together fifteen gold coins to bring the faction leader into the church to fight the boss with them. The faction leader was even willing to temporarily halt the normal operation of the [ Gloomy Sanctuary ] Dungeon for this.
While everyone felt the pinch financially, upon closer reflection, it felt like spending a fortune to experience a custom storyline with the faction leader...
In other games, even if you spend money to the point of calling the bank's customer service to verify your identity, you still can't customize a storyline. But in this World of Disorder, it's done so easily.
The happiest person among them was a certain Greenhouse owner, since everyone else came for the victory, while she simply wanted to take some photos.
While feeling heartbroken, players also experienced an unprecedented sense of exhilaration.
Ed, who was hired, also felt great—that's why the service industry is so profitable... He really needs to learn from Seraphina when it comes to monetizing his resources!