In the player community forum, Holy Spirit had become popular, but what Jiang Qiao didn't expect was that it wasn't the game itself that was popular, but a not-so-important female NPC in the game.
Now, more than half of the posts in the forum's VR game section were discussing this doll girl NPC.
The post initially made by the Starry Night Scholars team already had over twelve hundred replies. This verification enthusiast player didn't do any research, instead, they delved into some storylines related to the doll girl or used some items to tease the doll girl.
If Holy Spirit players weren't punished and warned for doing anything excessive to NPCs, this group of guys might have turned Holy Spirit into an 18+ game.
The rapidly increasing popularity of Holy Spirit made the player community administrators have to create a new dedicated section for Holy Spirit.
Jiang Qiao spent the entire night reading posts in the Holy Spirit section, carefully going through every water post, complaint, or strategy post from the players.
These were the most direct feedback from players to the officials, and Jiang Qiao could also figure out what needed to be improved in Holy Spirit at the moment.
Most of the complaints still focused on the scarcity of activation qualifications, making it impossible to enter the server, but gradually, more and more strategy posts began to appear in the Holy Spirit section.
One such post was published at eight o'clock in the morning, and the editor's ID was Rain Song.
The title of the post was "[Dancing Nuclear Guild's Original Release] The Fastest Way to Obtain Fairy Wardrobe Costumes and Exchange Items in the New Holy Spirit Instance Event."
Jiang Qiao hadn't read the content of the post yet but directly scrolled down to check the comments. The players in the forum were very familiar with both the Dancing Nuclear Guild and the editor of this post.
"Rain Song personally posted? Is the Dancing Nuclear team entering Holy Spirit?" Replied by: Community Warmer.
"Is the Dancing Nuclear Guild in Holy Spirit recruiting?" Replied by: Shoelace-Tying Priest.
Dancing Nuclear Guild was one of the largest player guilds in Huaguo, with guild organizations spread across all VR games. Meanwhile, Dancing Nuclear also had a specialized eSports club that performed exceptionally well in the Conflict project. However, due to personnel changes this year, they didn't make it to the Conflict World Championship.
But the popularity and fanbase of the Upper City Nuclear team still ranked at the top in Huaguo, making the fans and fame of the Dancing Nuclear Guild very significant in the player circles.
It was quite common in the player community for the fame of professional teams to extend to online game guilds. There were roughly seven or eight guilds in Huaguo with their own professional teams, among which the most popular were the Overlord Guild and the Dancing Nuclear Guild, along with another guild called Abyss Temple. Their Conflict professional team was top-tier in terms of popularity in Huaguo.
Abyss Temple Guild sounded a bit pretentious, but the strength of its Conflict professional team even surpassed that of the Overlord team, and the Abyss team was humorously referred to as a "dark force" by players.
Now that the Dancing Nuclear Guild had released this strategy post related to Holy Spirit, and it was posted by an experienced member, Rain Song, this undoubtedly gave players a lot of room for imagination.
Firstly, the Dancing Nuclear Guild would definitely enter the Holy Spirit game. Secondly, it was equivalent to issuing a challenge to other competing guilds.
A new game with potential was very important for attracting fresh blood to the clubs. Once other guilds saw the potential of Holy Spirit, they would definitely not remain indifferent.
Jiang Qiao quickly skimmed through the replies under this strategy post and then directly focused on the content of the post.
The content of the post provided a detailed analysis of the equipment exchange mechanism with the fairy merchant Razr, including that magic stones could be obtained by dismantling Tower of Trial equipment, and they could also drop from the small monsters in the Tower of Trial.
However, the efficiency of using these two methods to obtain magic stones was very slow. It would take at least a week of grinding to exchange for one costume, and the rarest rainbow unicorn headpiece in the Fairy Wardrobe would take half a month of grinding, even with good luck.
Thus, the main focus of Rain Song's post was on obtaining additional magic stones by accepting tasks from NPCs outside the Tower of Trial or directly extorting those NPCs.
"This day came really fast." Jiang Qiao had long expected that players would do this kind of thing. The "NPCs outside the Tower of Trial" mentioned by Rain Song were not the NPCs placed by Jiang Qiao but residents originally from the Tower of Trial.
Jiang Qiao read this part in detail, wanting to see how Rain Song communicated with the original residents of the Tower of Trial.
"Every now and then, one to ten NPCs will respawn outside the Tower of Trial without any set pattern. The NPCs themselves are not fixed, and neither are their identities. But they all have one goal: to challenge the Tower of Trial. By clearing the Tower of Trial, they hope to achieve higher rankings.
We can try to negotiate with these NPCs. They will offer a certain magic stone price to join our team. Some poorly equipped NPCs only need to clear the Tower of Trial, while a small number of rare NPCs require their names to be on the ranking stele. The magic stone rewards for both sides are not fixed, and the system will not provide detailed data. The higher the attributes of the NPC's eloquence and charisma, the higher the hiring price they offer. Additionally, be aware that some of these NPCs might be swindlers who can back out, so don't trust them easily."
Jiang Qiao felt no emotional stir from reading this description. Players did not have any feelings about the "high intelligence" of the residents since NPCs in Holy Spirit were designed to act like real people. The extensive preset dialogues made players accustomed to NPCs performing like real-life actors.
Moreover, the attributes of eloquence and charisma were not limited to Holy Spirit's NPCs. These attributes were also useful in real life, somewhat similar to the charm of succubi, which could make people subconsciously feel favorable.
"They've gotten into it." Jiang Qiao glanced at a few screenshots attached by Rain Song. The screenshots showed the residents of the Tower of Trial, either looking conflicted or worshipful, handing over a bag of magic stones to the players. They appeared very confused facing this sudden group of strangers.
"What's going on?" Hai Lan had been watching from the side all along, but this part of the strategy post confused her.
"A new event. I should also start a guild and join in on the fun." Jiang Qiao, as a player of Holy Spirit, did not intend to miss out on such an interesting event.
The most critical aspect was that the event "Assisting the original residents of another world to clear the Tower of Trial" was not arranged by Jiang Qiao himself.
"Have you thought of a guild name?" Hai Lan's expectant tone made it clear she hoped Jiang Qiao would name it Sea Blue Divine Sect.
"The Nameless, since I can't think of a name, then it will have no name. At this stage, I plan to develop as an entertainment guild." Jiang Qiao played Holy Spirit not to fight against anyone but simply to enjoy the game's fun, even though he created the game himself. And now, since an unplanned "system event" had appeared in Holy Spirit, Jiang Qiao felt it was very necessary to join in on the excitement.