When all the players vanished from her sight, Bai Fu heard the special notification sound as usual.
【Plot Participation Confirmation (0%…10%…)】
【Current Plot Progress on Source Star: 13.4%】
【Current Plot Progress on Indigo Star: 8.1%】
【Current Plot Progress on Initial Gateway Star Cluster: 0.2%】
【Character Positioning Adjustment (0%…2%)】
【Character Positioning Adjusted from [Legendary Protagonist of Source Star] to [Legendary Protagonist of Source Star] + [Legendary Demon God of Indigo Star] + [Player Guide of Initial Gateway Star Cluster]】
【Character Setting Adjustment (0%…2%)】
“Hmm?”
Bai Fu exclaimed in surprise.
Unexpectedly, her character positioning was not directly replaced by a new setting this time. Instead, two new positions were added while retaining the original ones.
“Will the legendary positioning be permanently retained?”
Bai Fu’s lips curled slightly. She suddenly thought of something: once she finished exploring all the beginner planets, wouldn’t she have dozens of legendary positions? When players introduced her, they might spend several minutes just reciting these positions.
It seemed a bit absurd.
But she liked it!
The more positions she had, the more players would think she was impressive, and the more impressed players were, the more likely they would follow her. The more followers she had, the more new positions she could obtain, creating a positive cycle.
Moreover, since the official kept these positions, they probably wouldn’t offer no benefits at all, right?
After a few minutes, the character setting adjustments were complete. Bai Fu quickly reviewed each adjustment prompt.
【Adjustment 1: Your race underwent a special evolution; Skill [Spiritual Perception] has been adjusted to [Eyes of the Heart].】
【Eyes of the Heart】 and 【Spiritual Perception】 are both perception skills, but the former has a larger range. After reaching level 10, its detection radius reaches one kilometer. With this skill, Bai Fu can sense energy flows even without transforming into the Shadow Phantom form.
“Not bad, a great thing!”
【Adjustment 2: Skill [Miracle Resonance] has been adjusted to [Nightmare Resonance (Bai Fu)].】
【Miracle Resonance】 is a rare skill similar to Anya’s 【Holy Link】. Before the adjustment, it was an unupgradable general skill that could bind one target, providing a 3% bonus to all base attributes for both parties.
After the adjustment, it became Bai Fu’s exclusive skill that could be upgraded. At level 1, it could bind only one target with a 3% bonus, but at level 2, it could bind two targets with a 5% bonus.
Notably, the upgrade method for 【Nightmare Resonance (Bai Fu)】 is unique. Bai Fu cannot increase its level by consuming experience; instead, its level is tied to her base inspiration. Every additional 500 points of base inspiration automatically raises the level by one.
With over 1100 points of base inspiration, Bai Fu can now bind two targets.
“I’ll choose Anya!”
With a thought, Bai Fu found herself connected to Anya in a way that was hard to describe.
Great, now she is in a bidirectional connection with Anya and Anya. If she can also connect with Xia Shi and Scarlet Leaf, she could evolve into a four-winged angel Bai Fu!
Another thing Bai Fu was happy about was:
She recently discovered that every time she strengthened, she gained an exclusive skill or talent, indicating that she was performing exceptionally well. The official seemed to be intentionally moving her towards a path where she would have a variety of exclusive skills and talents.
This was undoubtedly good news.
【Adjustment 3: Exclusive Talent [Uncommon Traits (Bai Fu)] has been adjusted to [Evolutionary Body (Bai Fu)].】
Compared to 【Uncommon Traits】, 【Evolutionary Body】 only adds a 10% increase in base spirit energy, but this addition significantly boosts Bai Fu’s performance.
Who doesn’t want to become more durable?
Bai Fu certainly did.
The only issue was that Anya, who helps her with mana, would have to work harder. There was no other choice, as her needs increased.
Bai Fu flipped through the remaining adjustments.
【Adjustment 4: Template [Shadow Phantom (Praying Star Person)] has been adjusted to [Nightmare Sovereign].】
【Adjustment 5: You received the legendary certification [Nightmare Sovereign (Indigo Star) – Bai Fu].】
These two prompts made Bai Fu’s eyes light up.
Wow, an exclusive template and a new legendary certification?
These adjustments alone were exciting, but what really surprised her was that the names of the exclusive template and the legendary certification were both “Nightmare Sovereign”!
“I killed the true Nightmare Sovereign, and now the official gave me a new certification. Hehe, this is an officially designated Nightmare Sovereign. Bai Fu, do you feel like it?”
Bai Fu proudly placed a hand on her hip.
With this, she wasn’t afraid of players digging deeper into her identity for a while.
Excitedly, Bai Fu opened the detailed descriptions of the new template and legendary certification.
The 【Nightmare Sovereign】 template gave her an extra 10 Strength, 10 Agility, 10 Constitution, 15 Intelligence, 20 Spirit, and 20 Inspiration. It also added 5 points to the conversion rate from Inspiration to Spirit Energy and an extra 150 points per minute to Spirit Energy regeneration, doubling her regeneration speed. Of course, with Anya as her super assistant, such a small increase didn’t matter much to her.
Although the bonuses from the 【Nightmare Sovereign】 template were not high, it was an exclusive template that could continue to be strengthened, making it promising for the future.
The benefits of the 【Nightmare Sovereign】 legendary certification were similar to those of the 【Queen of Cards】 legendary certification on Source Star, with two main advantages.
First, it increased her base resistance to mental attacks by 50%, bringing the total resistance to 100% when combined with the Shadow Phantom’s 50% bonus. This meant she became much tougher.
Second, the certification affected the Silent Courtyard faction, giving all players joining the faction a special buff of +5% to all base resistances.
In fact, most major factions had their own exclusive bonuses. The difference was that most factions’ bonuses were fixed, whereas Bai Fu’s Silent Courtyard faction bonuses were scalable. This alone was enough to attract many players.
“You did a great job, Planner!”
Bai Fu gave a thumbs-up.
Before the boost, her maximum HP was 30,703, and her maximum Spirit Energy was 40,210. After the boost, her maximum HP became 31,671, and her maximum Spirit Energy surged to 52,390, a 25% increase, which was quite significant.
Bai Fu continued reviewing the remaining adjustments.
【Adjustment 6: Character Power Positioning changed from [Ordinary Hidden Boss (Star Ocean)] to [Regional Boss (Sea Lion Galaxy System)].】
【Adjustment 7: Ichi and Theresa are now [Silent Courtyard] [Indigo Star Branch] [Managers].】
【Adjustment 8: Xia Shi is now [Silent Courtyard] [Maintenance Supervisor] [Mechanical Engineer].】
【Adjustment 9: The private armed company [Dark Moon Tide] under [Silent Courtyard] will be corrected to a famous force in the Sea Lion Galaxy System in version 1.4 [Final Tide].】
【Adjustment 10: Ulysses will be set as the player’s main city in version 1.4 [Final Tide].】
【Adjustment 11: A new feature called [Title] has been added to the [Silent Courtyard] management interface.**
The last six adjustments mainly involved position corrections, recognizing her efforts in version 1.3. Only Adjustment 11 was special.
Bai Fu opened the Silent Courtyard management interface and found that after enabling the [Title] feature, she could set titles as rewards when distributing faction tasks to players.
This feature had some limitations. The official set a reference line, and the bonus from the title she distributed could not exceed this line. Also, there was a limit to how many titles she could distribute daily. To improve the limit, she needed to enhance her strength and the faction’s reputation.
However, Bai Fu wasn’t too concerned about this. She knew she had another way to exploit players!
Why must titles have attribute bonuses?
Players often collect titles not for the bonuses but for the “collection” aspect or to highlight the “specialness” of the title. Using this inclination, she could set special limited-edition titles to attract players.
For example, titles like 【Friend of Bai Fu】, 【Most Trusted by Bai Fu】, and 【Solid Supporter of Bai Fu**].
Oh, and she could set titles like 【God of Wealth of Silent Courtyard**] and **[Chief Investor of Bai Fu**] to encourage players to spend money in her store, sucking their blood like mad. If there was anything she wanted to do but couldn’t say openly, she could use titles to hint at players to do it, which would help maintain her image as a kind and righteous person in front of players.
It’s the titles tempting you to do bad things, not me, Bai Fu!
“I’ll try this out as soon as the new version launches. If it works well, I’ll be able to extract experience more efficiently in the future.”
Bai Fu licked her lips excitedly.
It’s exhausting doing quests. Exploiting players is better; both the exploited players and she get satisfaction. That’s what winning is about. Those who don’t pursue mutual benefit don’t deserve to win.
Bai Fu closed the Silent Courtyard management interface.
The reinforcement was complete. There were still about half a month until the release of version 1.4 [Final Tide]. For now, she didn’t have much to do. Considering she had been running around in the Sea Lion Galaxy System for months without much rest, she decided to take a break.
But before her vacation, she had a few small things to do, starting with the ever-popular gambling cards.
After leveling up, she had over 800 million experience points. With so much experience, she naturally wanted to gamble her luck.
This time, Bai Fu chose the control and summon directions. After investing over 50 million experience points, she successfully combined a bunch of low-level blessing and debuff cards. These cards were useless to her but perfect for exploiting players.
Besides these low-level cards, she also combined two rare cards: 【Dark Whirlpool】 and 【Phantom FuFu**].
The effect of 【Dark Whirlpool**] was to generate a whirlpool that gradually decreased the attributes and drained the stamina of targets caught in it. The effect of **[Phantom FuFu**] was to summon a spirit resembling Bai Fu that could use some of her skills. After upgrading the prayer card to +10, this phantom could match the power of an average A-class superpower user, though the cost of making a +10 prayer card was very high due to its expensive production costs. Poor Bai Fu couldn’t afford to make many +10 phantom cards.
No problem.
If she couldn’t make a +10 phantom, she could start with +1 and +2 phantoms.
What if +1 and +2 phantoms weren’t strong enough?
No worries, Bai Fu never intended to use them herself. She planned to open a rental shop within Silent Courtyard, renting prayer cards to players who couldn’t afford to buy complete ones. These summon-type prayer cards would be her first batch of flagship products.
Let the player mercenaries hire her prayer cards to complete missions!
That makes perfect sense!
After gambling, Bai Fu walked down from the roof and found Scarlet Leaf, who was still awake.
Her trip to Indigo Star yielded a massive amount of experience, but she didn’t earn any credits since the currency there wasn’t credits. Whether buying spiritual crystals, prayer card materials, or advanced knowledge, she needed a lot of credits, and poor Bai Fu could only seek help from Scarlet Leaf.
But she wasn’t here to freeload. Not long ago, she got a bank card from Scarlet Leaf, so asking for money again would be too embarrassing.
Bai Fu came to ask Scarlet Leaf about the battle card game **[Cosmic Web]**, which was popular across three cosmic civilizations. Relying solely on endorsements and advertisements had its limitations; she needed more ways to make money.
“That’s right. Once selected and made into a card, you can earn a share of profits annually.”
“When you ask how much I earn? Not much, about 300,000 credits a year. I heard that famous superpower users across the three cosmic civilizations earn tens of millions or even more annually from sales.”
“These numbers aren’t exaggerated. With billions of supporters, even if only 1 in 1,000 supporters buys their card, the sales figures are still substantial.”
“In fact, this is a form of indirect investment. **[Cosmic Web]** is developed by a company under the most renowned eternal investment fund within Titan Industries. Through profit sharing, they maintain good relationships with many Overlord and even Transcendent superpower users.”
“At your current strength, getting noticed by **[Cosmic Web]** is challenging, but your fame is already sufficient. Once you meet the minimum requirements, your share will be much higher than mine, and the eternal investment fund might even give you extra funds, as they often invest in superpower users they believe have potential.”
Scarlet Leaf explained Bai Fu’s concerns clearly.
More shares and additional investments?
Looks like she needs to keep working hard!
“Take care and rest well. I won’t disturb you.”
After bidding farewell to Scarlet Leaf, Bai Fu returned to her residence.
She filled the bathtub with hot water, lay back, and leisurely read the posts and videos posted by Tai Ergen and others on the community during her absence, learning about the situation in the Initial Gateway Star Cluster.
Good news was that despite the conflicts between the Secret Tower and the various civilizations in the Initial Gateway Star Cluster being escalated, neither side rushed into direct conflict but prepared instead. She didn’t need to rush back to avoid missing important plot developments.
Bad news was that after she and Anya fled Ulysses, the enraged Tessia destroyed all the buildings she and the players had built on Ulysses.
“Damn woman!”
Bai Fu was furious.
Once she became an S+ superpower user, she would not let Tessia off easily. At the very least, she would tie Tessia up and beat her several times before killing her.
Fortunately, after Tessia vented her anger, Manu avenged her.
After careful preparation, Manu led a large number of superpower users to raid the Shiji Crystal Company. The company was taken by surprise and tried to escape, but all attempts failed under the siege.
Finally, Manu successfully wiped out the entire Shiji Crystal Company and captured two agents from the Secret Tower headquarters, while Tessia escaped because she was not at the company at the time.
The destruction of Shiji Crystal Company increased Bai Fu’s contribution to eliminating the Secret Tower to 0.6%, a significant improvement.
“That’s what you get for scheming against me!”
Bai Fu happily crossed her legs.
Over the next few days, Bai Fu wandered around Indigo Star with Anya and Anya. They saw many spectacular sights and met many people, paving the way for Ichi and Theresa’s Silent Courtyard Indigo Star branch to develop.
During her travels, Bai Fu also took the opportunity to ask Anya to help her stack layers of the Apostle’s Heart.
Upon learning that her race evolved into a Shadow Phantom, Anya was very excited about experimenting with her. When Bai Fu invited her, Anya immediately agreed.
Do it, do it thoroughly. Who wouldn’t enjoy experimenting with Bai Fu?
“Turns out it can be done like this!”
“What a powerful ability!”
Anya exclaimed.
Since meeting Bai Fu, every so often, Bai Fu revealed aspects that Anya had never seen before. Studying Bai Fu felt like delving into an endless abyss of surprises, a feeling that left her utterly captivated. She wished she could spend every day with Bai Fu, but even she had to consider the opinions of Anya and others.
On the seventh day, with Anya’s help, Bai Fu successfully stacked three layers of the Apostle’s Heart.
“Whew, finally, I can rest. Otherwise, I might end up with health problems.”
Bai Fu paused stacking, but Anya was reluctant, making her roll her eyes.
Reluctant? You should know your body isn’t as good as mine.
On the tenth day, Bai Fu discovered that the official finally released the final trailer for version 1.4.
Version 1.4 was the second-to-last version before the Star Ocean version. This version was named **[Final Tide]**. From the name, it was clear that most of the main questlines on the beginner planets would conclude in this version. Version 1.5 would be the transitional version from beginner planets to Star Ocean.
The official trailer heavily emphasized the climax of the main questline in the first half of the video, causing Bai Fu’s heart rate to accelerate, let alone the players’.
However, there were still some discordant voices in the video’s comments.
[I don’t want any main quest, I just want FuFu!]
[I can’t take it anymore, once the new version starts, I’ll send a signal to Star Ocean, remember to have FuFu come save us when she receives the signal.]
Unfortunately, the players on Source Star and Indigo Star ate too well, making it hard for other beginner planet players to resist temptation.
In the second half of the official trailer, they previewed the Star Ocean version, editing numerous scenes from Star Ocean.
As a prominent figure in the Sea Lion Galaxy System and the officially designated regional boss of the Sea Lion Galaxy System, Bai Fu appeared frequently in the second half of the trailer. After a simple calculation, Bai Fu realized she appeared three times more than the second most frequent character.
The most appearances and the longest screen time, isn’t this the treatment of a protagonist?
Thinking about Ulysses being designated as the player’s main city, although the official didn’t explicitly state it, it was clear they acknowledged her as the “main character” in the Sea Lion Galaxy System.
“Good, very good!”
Bai Fu was delighted.
Now, she only needed a unique mission to stand on equal footing with Wei Ke, Eron, and Su Xi as the main character in the Sea Lion Galaxy System.
“It’s not easy to snatch someone else’s mission; it’s best to create a main quest like in Source Star!”
This main quest had to be grand and eye-catching, allowing her to overshadow other protagonists and enjoy the spotlight alone. Once she became the “only protagonist” in the Initial Gateway Star Cluster, it would be inappropriate if the official didn’t let her be the hostess.
Bai Fu casually browsed the video comment section, reading praises or deranged comments about her.
Scrolling through, she saw someone shout—
[Ba Jue released a new video analyzing FuFu’s role positioning in the Star Ocean version, everyone, go check it out!]
Jiujiao?
Ba Jue, you came at just the right time!
Bai Fu hurriedly clicked the link to see how Jiujiao was praising her this time.
PS: Today, for some reason, I suddenly developed a skin allergy and broke out in a rash, which is very uncomfortable. I’ll take it easy for a couple of days, and once I recover, I’ll write more.
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