Chapter 54: The Next Step
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

As the thought of grinding popped up in Fan Xing’s mind, his next step was to first post on the forum before doing anything else.

Due to his professionalism as the creator of the Starlight Scribes, he quickly composed a post so that everyone who loved Floria knew of this hope-filled dialogue.

As for why he didn’t keep the quest a secret to himself, he thought that since everyone loved Floria, they were all comrades in arms!

The post was quickly posted onto the forum with the title [Found the way to unlock Floria’s Second Stage of Affection! Miss Doll wants you to grind for levels!]

In less than ten seconds, a couple of notifications started popping up that people started to reply to the post.

As he stepped out of the cathedral, the number of notifications had already increased to twenty-three.

Perhaps the most motivating moment of each person that posted was when they received a flurry of notifications.

When the number of replies on his new post increased to fifty-two, he knew that this post was going to take the first place in the popularity ranking of the entire forum.

Back when he posted about War, he would only be able to get around fifty replies after a whole day, while this post increased to fifty-two in half an hour!

The euphoria he felt wasn’t something that could be summarized with a few simple words.

As he clicked open his post, the replies had continued flooding in until there were more than a hundred!

PowerOfLove: ‘So you’re saying that I’ll be able to change Miss Doll’s clothes after I get to Level 50?’

MetalBall: ‘Noob battle mage seeking support for the Gray Mist Valley, please save me! I haven’t been able to get into a party for an entire day and I want to give my waifu some nice clothes too!’

NotWideAwake: ‘Who knows if you’ll only be able to change her clothes? Maybe we would be able to unlock an R18 version?’

DustyNoise: ‘Shut up you heathen! Our Miss Doll is sacred so don’t even think of it! Also gimme your coordinates, battle mage.’

AlwaysDazed: ‘QWQ I wanna play with you guys too! I wanna get a waifu too! Please give me an activation qualification, I’ve been on the official site for three days and three nights!’

The replies on the post continued to multiply, but Fan Xing had already closed the web browser to contact his friends in-game. For his waifu, he had to work his hardest!

As Fan Xing ran out of the city, Jiang Qiao walked leisurely out of the Cathedral of Resurrection too.

“What next?” Ocean Blue floated next to Jiang Qiao and looked at the crowd of new players running and jumping around on the streets.

Ocean Blue had a sneaking suspicion that all players had some disease that made it impossible for them to move around without bouncing like rabbits. Eight out of ten players in Sacred Souls skipped and hopped as they walked, while the two left were bouncing on their mounts.

“I don’t know,” Jiang Qiao replied, making Ocean Blue look at him in confusion.

“Do you really think that I’m omnipotent? This is all I can do at this point as a game developer.” Jiang Qiao looked at Ocean Blue’s expression and shrugged, as if saying that he had times when he didn’t know what to do either.

But thinking back, Ocean Blue’s greatest and only contribution was to unlock Maker Mode for Jiang Qiao, while the goddess became something like a mascot character.

Ocean Blue hadn’t played any modern games before, so she could only hand all the planning and development to Jiang Qiao without being able to give him any solid advice. That being said, Jiang Qiao wasn’t some experienced game developer himself, and so the creation of Sacred Souls wasn’t a smooth path.

“Shouldn’t we make an estimate of our forces?” Ocean Blue asked, as if she suddenly remembered that she was a goddess and not Jiang Qiao’s pet.

“An estimate?”

“Estimate our general forces and stuff? The armies back in my original plane seemed to do it so that it would be easier to manage their troops.”

“Manage…Or is it because you’re uneasy?”

Jiang Qiao could see that Ocean Blue wasn’t very confident—Queen Maya was a whole Level 65 with more than sixty million HP after all.

Even if the players were at max level, they would only be Level 50. Adding onto that was the fact that Queen Maya might be able to revive the corpses to form an army, which made the upcoming battle an uphill one.

“I-I’m not scared!” Ocean Blue puffed her cheeks indignantly.

“I didn’t say that you were. It’s true that we have to do it sooner or later, but it’s completely insufficient to just judge and estimate based on data alone, but their skill level too…Hm, I could use this chance to check out the guilds one by one.”

“Guilds? Do players in guilds all have strong skills?”

Ocean Blue saw the difference between regular players and professional players quite clearly back when Zhao Mingwei fought with the spear knight, and she knew that players like Zhao Mingwei could beat ten equal leveled players at once.

That was what Ocean Blue thought, but Jiang Qiao valued their management abilities even more.

Solo players could be compared to a bunch of guerrillas, and Jiang Qiao wouldn’t be able to control where they went, but it was a different story if there were guilds and guild players.

In Jiang Qiao’s opinion, those large-scale guilds don’t lose to seasoned and experienced armies.

As the game developer, Jiang Qiao had the duty of a general that issued orders to the army. Instead of using his position as a ruler to press them and punish whoever didn’t follow his words like what they did in the past, what he had to do in Sacred Souls was to give them motivation through quests, rewards, a sense of honor through achievements and the popularity of certain characters or players within the players.

As long as he had these, Jiang Qiao could let these guilds defeat bosses and they would rush into the dungeon with their weapons at the ready, defeating the boss even if they died multiple times.

Jiang Qiao didn’t even have to set any quests and just say that he would reward whoever killed the boss first would get epic mounts and equipment along with a server-wide announcement, and whoever did it would forever be recorded in the history and lore of the game…

The second day, the large guilds would all flood the dungeon to defeat the boss.

So now it was the problem of how many slave organizations… Bah, how many large scale guilds there were.