Jiang Qiao opened the official leaderboard of Holy Spirit. The contents of this leaderboard were very simple, only a player personal level list and a guild comprehensive strength list.
These two leaderboards were casually created by Jiang Qiao. Players could check them on the Glory Stele in front of the Lionheart City palace.
Currently, the top player on the personal level leaderboard... was still that healer, AddNURating. After a few days of not seeing her, her level had already soared to thirty-eight.
Ranked second was an Elemental Mage named Can Xin, with only level thirty-five.
Jiang Qiao highly suspected that AddNURating had not logged out of the Holy Spirit since entering, crazily grinding levels.
Did the grinders on the leaderboard not need to eat?
Jiang Qiao recalled a complaint from a player on the forums. Jiang Qiao pondered for a while and realized that they indeed wouldn't need to eat, as they only needed glucose while playing the game.
The original function of recovering one's energy by logging into the Holy Spirit via mobile was not introduced in the VR version by Jiang Qiao, because this feature was too advanced for the current technology of Blue Star, and even with Thirteen taking the blame, it would be a bit troublesome.
But AddNURating had truly not logged off since the Holy Spirit's launch.
This made Jiang Qiao suspect that this healer was genuinely playing the game while receiving a glucose drip. Not mentioning AddNURating's super long online record, Jiang Qiao focused on the guild comprehensive strength list.
The guild comprehensive strength list, as the name suggests, ranked guilds based on their comprehensive strength. The calculation rules for this list were very complicated, including the number of guild members, their levels, and the sacred relics held by the guild.
Currently, the number one guild was the Dancing Nuclear Guild, which had been the highest-ranked guild in Holy Spirit since its launch.
The Dancing Nuclear Guild had a total of two hundred and forty-five members with an average level of thirty-two, which was a terrifying average level.
Currently in Holy Spirit, there were only around seven hundred players who had reached level thirty or above, and the Dancing Nuclear Guild had monopolized one-third of these players, all of them elite.
The Dancing Nuclear Guild's ability to recruit so many elite players was thanks to the popularity of the professional team behind it, the Nuclear Team. Most players joined the Dancing Nuclear Guild because of the Nuclear Team's popularity, and many players fantasized about fighting alongside those professional players in Holy Spirit.
Jiang Qiao could understand these players' thoughts. If the players knew that Zhao Mingwei was in Jiang Qiao's guild, he would probably receive a ton of guild applications tomorrow.
But Jiang Qiao would never do that. The Nameless Guild was a guild for friends and family, established by Jiang Qiao purely to test guild functions, just like Zhao Mingwei simply wanting to play games easily.
But the Dancing Nuclear Guild was different; they wanted to be the number one guild in Holy Spirit.
The number one here didn't just refer to the number of guild members, but also the average quality of guild members, records of instance completions, and even player popularity, all of which they aimed to be number one in!
Jiang Qiao sensed the ambition of the Dancing Nuclear Guild. Other professional clubs also sensed it, and the competitive nature between clubs wouldn't allow the Dancing Nuclear Guild to develop so smoothly.
For example, the Abyss Temple ranked second.
Compared to the elite-focused Dancing Nuclear Guild, the Abyss Temple Guild, jokingly referred to by players as a "black-mafia organization," seemed much more approachable.
The Abyss Temple had four hundred and thirty-two members, with an average level of only twenty-one. The popularity of the Abyss Esports Club in China was no less than that of the Nuclear Club.
The conflicts between these two clubs had extended from the game Fentress to Holy Spirit. In the future, Jiang Qiao guessed that more clubs would come to Holy Spirit to brawl with each other.
Jiang Qiao had no intention of acting as a mediator... he just needed to sit back with some melon seeds and watch the show. The competition between guilds would drive them to find ways to become stronger, and these guilds were important forces to Jiang Qiao in future divine wars.
"I need to think of a way to make them fight." Jiang Qiao continued to browse the guilds below on the comprehensive strength list.
Ranked third was the Dream Wedding Committee Guild. When Jiang Qiao saw the name of this guild, he raised an eyebrow, but after glancing at the guild leader and managers, he understood the origin of this guild.
The guild leader was a streamer named Notched Blade Swordsman, whom Jiang Qiao had previously done instances with a few times. One of the guild managers was named Dream, whose ID belonged to a level five small warrior.
But Jiang Qiao knew that this small warrior could be one of the most popular streamers on Raccoon Live. This streamer had a peculiar reputation: over thirty-seven years old, a millionaire, and still without a boyfriend.
Spectators and trolls tried to dig up dirt on this female streamer, posting hundreds of threads, from middle school experiences to college graduation, but failed to find any significant relations with any male.
So in the player community, Dream had a nickname called the "Chaste Ice Maiden." This title had several extensions, such as "Immaculate Old Auntie," "Jade-Lotus Dowager," and due to her preference for playing violent warrior classes, she earned these... admirable titles.
None of this was Jiang Qiao's concern. This Dream Wedding Committee had a total of six hundred members, which alone outnumbered the Abyss Temple and Dancing Nuclear Guild, though their average level was only thirteen.
This was purely an entertainment guild comprised of fans, but Jiang Qiao couldn't ignore this force. Further down, the guilds of the seven esports clubs in China could be seen in their embryonic form. For example, ranked fourth was the guild belonging to Zhao Mingwei's team, the Royal Dynasty.
"You want to make these guilds fight among themselves?" Hai Lan, who was listening to Jiang Qiao's muttering, couldn't help feeling a chill, probably because of Jiang Qiao's previous decision to 'kill off' Fureya.
"Fight among themselves sounds too harsh. What I mean is... make them compete more fiercely," Jiang Qiao said.
"Isn't it already fierce?"
Hai Lan still didn't quite understand matters like guild management and professional clubs.
"There's barely any competition right now. At most, Abyss Temple and Dancing Nuclear fight over instance records in the Tower of Trial, without much effort," Jiang Qiao said truthfully. Currently, the fights between guilds were limited to these two major guilds competing lightly for instance records, very... half-heartedly.
"Then how do you plan to make them 'fight'? With powerful epic gear?" Hai Lan thought Jiang Qiao seemed a bit more like an opposition force rather than a creator deity.
"Epic equipment can only strengthen individuals. These guilds want popularity! To make a badass impression on players' minds," Jiang Qiao said.
"Then..."
"Still start with instance records. Just need to increase the impact of instance records, and the rewards for the upcoming divine wars are the most important..."
Jiang Qiao knew what truly mattered to big guilds: world-first records, world-instance completion records, records that could be remembered in the history of the game were the glory worth their fierce competition.
"Are you sure they won't really kill each other?" Hai Lan pondered for a moment and resorted to a more severe term.
"Well, the hatred between players can develop to real-life fights, but the animosity between these big guilds is limited to trash-talking, as they all care about face. Moreover, the management of each guild generally knows each other," Jiang Qiao replied with his own experience. The fervent fan fights between professional teams were intense, but relationships between professional players were often brotherly.
"This is also in preparation for the divine wars. Fureya's main quest has instilled the motivation for players to reach level fifty. However, for first-tier players, what they seek is not a dating sim experience but a sense of recognition and honor. Okay... maybe some do like doll girls,"
Jiang Qiao was saying this when he received a private message from Zhao Mingwei: "Did you take the main quest related to the doll as mentioned on the forum?"
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PS: Hello everyone, I'm pushing the book written by my fellow writer at Qidian, you've probably already read it. It's Blue and White's "Dungeon Players," which is of a similar genre. You can check it out~~ Also, I made a small adjustment to chapter twenty-two regarding the protagonist's idea of creating a guild. Now the protagonist is firmly established as the dog planner.