Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan

It had even reached the point where on Inference Days, the True Game no longer increased the difficulty for Players on the Karte Continent.

Only on the Oakland Continent, where the five races were not under the jurisdiction of the Dragon Race, did conflict provide more opportunities.

Of course, opportunity also meant a greater risk of Players perishing.

As a result, the True Game was still able to consistently release over a thousand new slots after each Inference Day.

However, even so, the people of Blue Star, and even the Players themselves, had all figured it out.

The True Game of today had grown somewhat complacent.

The difficulty of Inference Day was getting lower each time, and the number of Player slots had remained at the three million mark.

It felt very much like the True Game had entered retirement mode.

But almost everyone had reached the same reasonable conclusion as to why the True Game was this way.

The consensus was that the development of new game maps had hit a bottleneck. The True Game could only regain its momentum through conflict and the addition of more maps.

Of course, this didn’t mean the True Game was incapable of developing new maps.

According to popular speculation,

the True Game was actually in a period of recuperation, gathering its strength.

And for what purpose?

Naturally, it was to revive the Deities of the Oakland Continent during this period.

It was also to focus resources on cultivating Players at the Saint Tier and above.

So, what was the current situation?

Over the past thirty years, sixteen Deities had been revived one after another on the Oakland Continent.

Among them were three Deities of Powerful Divine Power, six Deities of Medium Divine Power, and seven Deities of Weak Divine Power.

Among these Deities were three Human Deities, five Sea Race Deities, two Demon Beast Deities, two Elf Deities, and four Beastman Deities.

That covered the full extent of the Deities’ revival.

As for the Player population?

Aside from the more than 1,300 existing Saint Tier Players, the Player base now even included fifty-two Demigod Players.

There were even three Players who had successfully become Deities of Weak Divine Power!

Yes!

There were now Players who had achieved Ascension to Divinity.

In fact, one of these Players had even achieved Ascension to Divinity in the real world on Blue Star.

And this deified Player was none other than the current honorary Deputy Director of the Blue Star Alliance.

His Player nickname was Masked Monk.

Six months ago, this Player’s Ascension to Divinity had caused a media frenzy across all of Blue Star.

As for how he ascended, according to his own account, it was because he had participated in the Green Saturn campaign. During the two-year war, he had reached the strength of Saint Tier Peak.

After the war, he used all the points he had stockpiled to exchange for a suitable Divinity Law.

He then took advantage of an in-game map that offered a tenfold time acceleration. In what was only half a year in the real world—four years in the game—he managed to fuse all his Divine Power in one fell swoop.

Finally, using the True Game permissions he had acquired, he returned to the real world and successfully ascended to his divine throne!

Even after his Ascension to Divinity, this Player remained very down-to-earth.

In a televised address, he stated that his path to promotion was filled with uncertainty and that he had also been very lucky.

While the people of Blue Star were certainly jealous, they were also filled with admiration and joy.

After all, the appearance of a Deity in the real world meant that Blue Star finally had a Star Realm Power to protect it.

Aside from this Player,

The Player who achieved Ascension to Divinity in the Oakland World was Brother Cheng Takes Off.

The Player who achieved Ascension to Divinity in the Karte World was Logical Genius.

In any case, the emergence of three deified Players from Blue Star served as a powerful source of encouragement for many.

However, this boost in morale also gave many Players the excuse to start coasting.

To quote the coasting Players: "We have our own people among the Deities now, so why should I keep trying so hard and risk perishing, losing my access to the game?"

Ultimately, there are all kinds of people.

And no one could really blame these Players.

After all, the three deified Players had jointly confirmed one piece of information.

Namely, that the True Game had indeed entered a phase of rest and recuperation.

It was also a phase for gathering strength, and it was highly likely that before long, the True Game would open up more Player slots and even new maps.

And so, in this environment, everyone on Blue Star was waiting patiently.

They could only hope that this "before long" wouldn’t actually be too long.

However,

only the three deified Players knew the truth.

Ultimately, the release of new Player slots for the True Game was dependent on the return of the Chief Player.

After all, thanks to their clearance levels, the three deified Players already knew that the current Chief Player was focusing all his efforts on breaking through to the Ancient God Mythical Realm.