Chapter 88: Player Forum (1/2)

After Xi Wei agreed to join the Invisible Pantheon, Lion King Aslan turned tail to leave.

“That’s it? I don’t need to sign a contract or anything?” Xi Wei asked curiously.

“Unless you can get one of the Trinity of Creation to act as an officiator, contracts don’t have much control over our actions.” Aslan shook his large white mane. “And as I’ve previously stated, the details of our alliance is much more lax than most others, a black and white contract stating the rules would go against that philosophy, you can just treat it as an exclusive club of sorts.”

“Then how can I contact you guys?” Xi Wei asked hurriedly.

Was he going to have to roam the void to find one of their allied deity’s kingdom whenever he needed help… This would put a dent into his emergency plan, cough, I mean alliance, wouldn’t it?

When his enemies knocked on his front door, they sure weren’t going to give him time to look for reinforcements…

“Don’t rush, I was just about to tell you.”

Aslan sat on the floor like an oversized cat and ruffled his mane with his claw.

And then something tiny fell out from the thick fur.

At first, Xi Wei thought it was body lice, but after thinking it through, unless it was a Lice God, there probably wasn’t any lice that could live on Aslan’s body. Scanning the object with his Divination ability, Xi Wei realized that it was a small bunch of Aslan’s hair, carrying Aslan’s deific properties as well.

Even something as small as hair was once part of a deity’s being, so it’s no surprise it could become the carrier of deific properties.

The lion used his divine power to pass the clump of fur to Xi Wei who had a disgusted expression—thankfully he didn’t have a face, if not the lion would probably be quite offended.

“This is a new Glamour that’s been gaining popularity among deities, it makes communication quite convenient. This furball carries my deific properties, whenever you want to find me, just imbue it with some divine power,” the Lion King explained cheerfully, completely oblivious to Xi Wei’s inner thoughts.

After that, the God of Justice Aslan left Xi Wei’s Divine Kingdom and returned to his own territory.

Once he was alone, Xi Wei started to study the furball more closely.

“Oh ho, it’s this sort of Glamour eh…”

Glamours were basically conduits of energy, you needed to imbue them with supernatural energy (divine energy, demonic energy, and the likes) for them to be activated.

As mortals have a much lower affinity for these sorts of powers, they were unable to fully comprehend a large majority of Glamours, needing years and years of research and determination to even begin to understand these divine practices. But for high-level beings such as deities, they could easily grasp what the humans could not.

Using a less appropriate, but more straight-forward metaphor, it’s like how for a single dot on a piece of paper, it’s difficult to know if the “wall” in front of itself was a triangle or a square, but for humans living in three spacial dimensions, finding out would be as simple as looking at the paper.

The furball in Xi Wei’s hand encompassed spectacular and intricate Glamour, it used a divine index of different deities to connect Divine Kingdoms throughout the void regardless of distance. The knowledge of how this worked was far out of the league of mere mortals, it was basically impossible to understand and learn, only deities like Xi Wei and the others possessed the ability to use it.

But this contraption did lead Xi Wei to an epiphany.

“Communication across time and space… Come to think of it, players usually just yell at each other to communicate…”

Xi Wei extended his tentacle to rub at what was presumably his chin.

He had thought about the problem before, his original solution was to make a sort of emailing system for his players, allowing them to communicate with each other one-on-one, he wouldn’t even have to cross the spatial barrier, since Xi Wei fully planned on becoming an operator to help redirect players’ calls. It wasn’t that there weren’t better communication systems that could be implemented through the Path of Faith, but they all expended far too much…