Chapter 142-2: King of Ideas Catastrophe Legion (2) |
As players’ levels rose, many products could no longer meet their needs.
For example, canned food.
Players newly entering the game could use 1 point of sacrificial power to buy canned food to replenish bodily consumption, but after physical aptitude improved, the limited nutrition provided by canned food was no longer enough to sustain players’ daily consumption.
Players with strength chose to eat Spiritual Food for replenishment, but quite a few players, in order to save sacrificial power, chose to ravenously chew canned food, making up in quantity what they lacked in quality.
This could be referenced by the Anti-Tide Training Camp.
Reserve warriors undergoing high-intensity training had to eat large amounts of Spiritual Food every day to replenish consumption.
At the current stage he did not need to worry about the production of Spiritual Food. Players specializing in the Spirit Chef sub-profession supplied all kinds of delicious Spiritual Food to the Trading House every day.
But for supplemental instant nutrition there was no product to replace canned food.
For this problem, Qi Sheng thought of a kind of instant energy paste that Li Zheng and the others used on the way from the first phase training camp to the second phase training camp.
He could fully use the parsed records to replicate the energy paste.
But the cost of the energy paste used by ordinary soldiers of the Anti-Tide Legion was 83 points of sacrificial power, which was too expensive. Given players’ current sacrificial power earnings, they simply could not afford it.
So he would make a low-spec version.
In the future when players bought it, it could be automatically coagulated and generated by sacrificial power.
With the idea in mind, Qi Sheng immediately got busy.
After switching to Emperor’s Sign form, his body was shrouded in scarlet flames, and the Challenger System runes swirling around him rotated around his body.
After extracting the recorded information, a three-dimensional projection of the energy paste appeared before him.
He reached out to enlarge it, and the structure of the energy paste was presented in the form of energy particles. Each color particle represented the energy of a different spirit plant.
Next he only needed to use sacrificial power to generate different energy types and replicate the arrangement and combination to generate the energy paste.
The replication process was not difficult at all, but he made cuts in the portioning.
One stick of energy paste was divided into 8 portions, with the price of each portion set at 11 points of sacrificial power.
For every eight portions sold, he could earn 5 points of sacrificial power in profit.
Staple foods are one of the core supports for players exploring the Monster World. He had no desire to set a high price for this class of product. Pricing it too high would seriously affect players’ growth and development, thereby affecting subsequent sacrificial power output.
Selling it at roughly cost price would be fine.
After completing the energy paste, Qi Sheng began making templates for other supplemental products.
The second product was the Repair Stone.
Quite a few players did not take the spirit weapon build and used template weapons purchased from the item shop.
These weapons were not indestructible upon generation and would also be damaged in combat.
Directly replacing one was clearly too wasteful. They could be reused through repair, reducing sacrificial power consumption.
The Repair Stone’s design did not need to reference any item or object. Its form was a scarlet stone, essentially coagulated sacrificial power. Slap it onto the weapon and it could be initialized and repaired according to the template.
If the weapon quality was high, using several more stones would also complete the repair.
But the Repair Stone was limited to template weapons sold in the item shop. Weapons obtained externally did not have recorded template structures and could not use the Repair Stone for initialization repair.
After listing the Repair Stone, the third product was a batch of new spirit plant seeds.
These spirit plants are all those required to make Energy Paste. After players who own spirit fields cultivate them to maturity, he can recycle them to reduce the cost of making Energy Paste.
Next came the fourth category of products…
Half an hour later, the Challenger Notification sounded in all players’ minds:
[Challenger Notification (All Channels): Item shop update. New products listed this time: 28 types.]
Newly listed products:
1 – Energy Paste (11 points of sacrificial power): Replenishes bodily consumption and quickly restores stamina.
2 – Repair Stone (10 points of sacrificial power): Repairs damaged weapons and replenishes durability.
3 – Earth Spirit Flower Seeds (1 point of sacrificial power): Spirit plant required for making Energy Paste. After maturing, it can be listed on the Trading House or sacrificed to Emperor’s Sign in exchange for sacrificial power feedback…
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After 28 new products were listed, Qi Sheng began construction of the main city.
The current Emperor’s Mound Village space was too rudimentary. Aside from three functional buildings and a Teleportation Plaza, all other areas were completely empty.
It did not feel like a main city at all.
The construction of a main city might seem meaningless, but in the long run it is an important part of the player’s game experience. It can significantly increase the fun of the game and enhance players’ sense of faction immersion.
The city template had already been completed in advance. With a flicker of Qi Sheng’s thought, the sacrificial power in the underground Sacrificial Power Pool blazed.
A surging energy welled up from underground, and Emperor’s Mound Village’s structure began to change.
A breathtaking city rose from the ground, and its buildings spread skyward at astonishing speed.
The new city’s architecture blended multiple styles, including modern Earth, ancient, and alien. At the same time, a bright sun appeared in the sky.
The city was divided into five districts to the east, south, west, north, and center.
In the central area stood a statue of Emperor’s Sign shrouded in scarlet flames. Its face was obscured by the burning scarlet fire, and it stood with one hand stretched out to grasp the sun.
Several fountain landscapes appeared near the statue, and the ground was paved with white jade floor tiles.
Opening the map, one could see that the name of the central area was ‘central plaza.’
The respawn point would be set in the central area, and players would be reborn on the plaza after revival.
Outside the plaza was the main city’s commercial district, where many uniquely shaped shops stood.
However, these shops were not yet open for use.
Going forward, Qi Sheng planned to sell these shops to players via auction.
With the Trading House system in place, the existence of shops was more for the promotion of goods.
This was also why the shops were set near the most crowded revival plaza. After reviving, players would see the nearby shops at a glance.
Arms Dealers, the Apothecary Alliance, Spirit Chefs, and other capable merchants could provide offline services through these shops.
To the west of the city stood a magnificent Gothic building with spires piercing the clouds as if to stab through the firmament. Exquisite carvings adorned the walls, and stained glass windows refracted multicolored light under the sun, scattering on the ground to form interlaced shadows.
This building was the library.
It stored a large amount of knowledge and information about the Monster World. Players in need could enter at any time to consult it, but this building was not a functional building. There were no layered spaces inside, and players shared the same library scene while consulting.
To the north of the city was a cluster of buildings full of Eastern charm, with red walls and green tiles, flying eaves and bracket sets, showing splendor and elegance.
Between pavilions and towers, small bridges crossed flowing water. Lotuses bloomed and fish frolicked in the water, presenting a serene and peaceful Jiangnan-like water-town scene.
The southern district of the city featured modern skyscrapers and wide roads where vehicles could be driven at high speed.
Most of the city’s buildings had a production cost of less than 10 points. They mostly existed as scenery. Although they could be entered, they had no practical function.
As functional buildings increased, he would demolish old buildings to provide sites for newly appearing functional buildings.
At the current stage the only truly useful buildings numbered five.
They were the revival plaza in the city center, the test tower in the western district, the Teleportation Plaza east of the central district, the Armed Vehicles Factory in the southern district, and the Guild Hall in the eastern district.
There were many more envisioned new functional buildings for the future.
For example, the Pet Adoption House, the Forging Hall, the Rune Assembly Hall, and so on.
They would provide players with various customizable functional services.
However, the appearance of these buildings needed to follow the pace of the players’ power growth.
At the current stage the focus remained on the growth of individual player strength. After the player legion scaled up, various types of power amplification services would be provided.
Just like the Anti-Tide Legion, warriors were only part of the legion.
Every race had a different role in the Anti-Tide Legion, and only the most elite portion of each race could enter the Anti-Tide Training Camp.
The rest of the racial members provided various services around the war legion.
Some races were responsible for monster husbandry, some for spirit plant cultivation, some for potion making, some for weapon and equipment forging, some for crafting space wristbands, and some for city infrastructure, and so on.
All kinds of supporting services guaranteed the Anti-Tide Legion’s combat power, and the stable rear environment could continuously produce elite warriors.
In fact, every faction in the Monster World had such supporting services.
The Black Tide was no exception.
It was just that the Black Tide’s warrior training, Evil Eye incubation, unit system design and optimization, and a series of supporting services were not carried out in the Monster World.
Those invested into the Monster World are all very mature warriors.