Chapter 86: Rules of the System (1/2)

Collectables was one of the ways Xi Wei motivated his players to complete their daily quests, among these collectables were things like dances, various accessories that didn’t take up an equipment slot, and some other fun tools that didn’t have much practical use.

He believed that the players who had gotten bored due to the recent peacefulness would start grinding through their daily tasks again.

Of course, Xi Wei wasn’t spending his time in the Divine Kingdom conjuring up ways to get players addicted, aside from digesting the remaining bits of the Aquatic Lord’s divinity still sitting in his stomach, he was wondering how he could improve his players’ skills.

After all, the enemies his players faced before weren’t really deities like him, they were more like lesser gods that didn’t have any godly blessing.

But as his players’ territory expanded, it was inevitable that they were going to face believers of much more powerful deities sooner or later.

Other deities didn’t have the power to transmigrate like Xi Wei could, Xi Wei could give blessings to players simply through the Path of Faith (in other words, without a Path of Faith he would have to do an honest job of creating miracles like the other deities), but other deities had to first get through the World Barrier before giving their blessings, the larger the blessing or secret item being passed down, the more divine power it took to cross the World Barrier, it was a hard limit on how much they could help their believers.

This forced other deities to mainly train their believers to build into the elite routes. Other than Saints, Saintesses, and Chosen Ones, the players who could receive great blessings were either players who went through countless hurdles to get a high rank in the church, or players who have proven their faith in the deity and have ascended to the rank of Devout Believer. Other believers could only receive Divine Graces equal to their rank’s ‘Sacred Arts’ limit.

It was much easier for Xi Wei, he could bypass all this struggle by dropping down into the mortal realm himself, they could eat food together, fight monsters together, and become stronger together. Once he had enough believers, at least a few of them were going to be immensely skilled players, it was simple logic…

But Xi Wei had a couple things going against him as well, he had only just become a god not too long ago, he didn’t have a stable presence in the minds of the players. Time and his number of believers were his two main deficits. Even his two strongest players, the Saintess-in-training Eleena and the Warrior Princess Leah, couldn’t compare with the high-level believers of other churches.

That’s why he needed to find a way for his players to become stronger.

Raising the level limit for his players was the most straightforward method, but he had already done so twice before, and his players had a ways to go before reaching the limit of 60, so raising it even higher wouldn’t do much right now, he might as well save his divine power to do other things.

“If I fully digest the remaining divinity of the Aquatic Lord, I’ll probably have enough energy left over to upgrade the system, maybe add a new function or something…”

If that was the case, should he make Specializations?

That could visibly increase his players’ power.

But after weighing up the pros and cons, Xi Wei decided to give up the Specialization system.

For one, the thing would require Xi Wei to make a completely new skill tree, that would take too much divine power, Xi Wei wasn’t sure he could take it right now. It would be quite a mess if he ran himself dry and still couldn’t create a fully functioning Specialization system.

Secondly, the current Class system was pretty crap. Each class had only one reclassing option, so even if Specializations were included in the game, it would probably just cause players to focus too heavily on single aspects of the game and affect the decision of experienced players to join his church. In the end, a huge group of players could end up with weird classes and skill trees, Xi Wei would have to then use up more of his divine power to create a Skill Point Reset Potion, it just felt like a waste…

Xi Wei decided he had best leave Specializations until after players got a full grasp of their classes.