To be honest, Carl did not have much expectation for this either. After all... not many players were interested in a three-star character like Carl, especially a male three-star character.
Sure enough, Carl's popularity ranking was near the bottom among all characters.
No Feeling Players: 10.18 million.
ta Players: 0.
True Love Players: 33.
"Are they doing an Oath population census or sothing?"
But when Carl's gaze landed on the final line, even Carl himself froze.
Fanatics: 1.
"This..." Carl clicked on the number "1."
Very soon, the ID of what might have been the first Fanatic player born since Oath's launch appeared in front of Carl.
Mio.
Fine, that made sense too.
Does she like ? No, she's craving the gas I make!
With the way Mio had refused to sleep last night and dragged Carl into playing Oath Cards with her all night.
If sothing happened to Carl, she really might search the whole world for traces of him.
It could only be said that Mio had been craving a ga like this, one where she did not need to think about anything and could simply have fun and feel good, for far, far too long.
"But... just one Fanatic probably won't settle into much of a wage, right?"
Just as Carl thought his wages for these few days would be two or three dollars at most...
[You possess one Fanatic-level player. You have received a reward of 200 Sacred Contract Stones.]
The next second, two hundred Sacred Contract Stones emitting rainbow-colored light fell into Carl's hands.
These were different from the Free Contract Stones and Paid Contract Stones that players could obtain.
These were rare items that could truly strengthen his data volu.
A reward of 200 stones... was that considered a lot or a little?
When Carl received the reward, he also quickly received a letter from his little maid Irene.
Sure enough, the instant she received her wages, she handed all of them over to Carl.
As a highly popular character that all players on the server had to build, the wages Irene received were 500 Sacred Contract Stones.
"Is it really only this much?"
Carl was not suspecting Irene of secretly keeping so for herself. He was simply curious.
So he imdiately used the academy's personal information terminal to send Irene a ssage and ask her.
But she was now the second most popular character on the entire server, and Elysium only gave Irene 500 stones and called it a day?
"Uh... Lord Carl, I did indeed keep so Contract Stones to buy snacks and strengthen myself, around fifty or so. If you want them, I'll send them all to you."
Irene clearly thought Carl had co to check whether she was hiding private money.
"There's no need. I was just confirming how much your wages were. In the future, if there's anything you want to buy, just tell directly and I'll transfer the money to you."
If Carl did not urgently need Sacred Contract Stones to expand his data volu in the early stages, he would not want to rely on this little maid to support him either.
"Okay! Also, Lord Carl, you're truly a genius! I'm really popular in the Saviors' teams! Basically every Lord Savior chooses to join their team!"
"Do you think I might surpass Lady Hasumi in the future and beco the players' favorite character? Hehehe..."
Impossible! There are tons of super-sized limited five-star female characters coming later. What are you going to use to compete with them?
Carl did not tell his little maid this cruel truth.
Irene continued answering Carl's question.
"A reward of 550 Sacred Contract Stones seems like a lot already! I saw those standard five-star characters, and the rewards they got were only around five or six hundred too!"
Carl looked at the ssage from his little maid and could almost feel that her chin was already tilted up to the sky in pride.
Those standard five-star characters only got five or six hundred too?
Carl instantly fell into deep thought as he looked at this ssage.
First of all, the compensation given to banner characters by Oath's official side and Elysium was different.
The revenue compensation given by Oath's official side was Paid Contract Stones. This type of Contract Stone could not be used by banner characters to strengthen themselves, but it could be used to buy all kinds of materials. This portion mainly ca from paid revenue.
The Sacred Contract Stones given by Elysium were good things that could rapidly increase a banner character's data volu after they absorbed them. This type required accumulating player popularity to obtain.
The most important point was... what Elysium wanted was not ta Players or True Love Players.
This could be seen from Irene's wage reward. No matter how many ta Players and True Love Players there were, Elysium would only symbolically hand out so wages.
What Elysium wanted... were those Fanatic players who would unconditionally go to war in all directions for the ga characters they liked with just one command from those characters!
"Interesting."
Carl did not know why Elysium needed so many Fanatic players who were loyal to their favorite ga characters.
But the electronic virus known as the Calamity was still spreading through this world, and only players with true flesh-and-blood brains could resist the erosion of the Calamity Virus.
Perhaps this was also one of Elysium's thods of recruiting soldiers.
Carl no longer obsessed over how much wages other people received. He took out one of his two hundred Sacred Contract Stones and began trying to absorb the data volu inside.
The Sacred Contract Stone was a hexagonal stone shimring with many colors.
Carl focused his attention, and soon felt... the power within that stone being drawn out and digested by him.
During the digestion process, Carl could very clearly see his data volu steadily increasing.
310, 330, 340, 380, 400, 413!
A single Sacred Contract Stone increased Carl's data volu level by almost more than one hundred.
"Damn it... refining this thing actually consus quite a bit of stamina and energy. Do I need to take it slowly?"
Carl wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
This thing was not sothing he could just eat whenever he wanted... During the digestion process, there was a kind of fatigue like doing weightlifting and cardio.
But Carl did not relax either. He forced himself to eat another seven or eight Sacred Contract Stones in a row.
Carl's data volu finally broke through the 1,000 mark! It reached 1,080!
"Fuck!"
The price was that Carl's entire body collapsed onto the ground. His whole body felt as if it had been broken apart, and he could not even move.
Yet at this exact mont, Mio, who should have been working at her company, suddenly ca online.
"Carl!"
Mio called Carl's na in her own worldline.
"...Miss Player, you... ca at a bad ti. I definitely can't do it today."
After Carl appeared, he had just wanted to take one step forward, but he directly sat down on the ground and did not even have the strength to stand up.
"What... happened to you? Don't tell you're exhausted because you spent several days elbowing each other with other players as the final boss?"
Mio had also gotten used to Carl's setting as a ta character.
A character who knew players were real people in reality and could answer all kinds of questions in the ga from the player's perspective was still pretty fresh to Mio.
"You can think of it that way..." Carl was too lazy to explain.
"Don't worry, I'm still at work. I'm going to take a nap later, so I'm not here to find you to play gas. I just wanted to ask you one thing."
Mio opened her player interface and showed Carl a video.
The title of the video was, "Don't Rush to Fight Oath's Final Boss! You Might Be Able to Play the Most Interesting Hidden Built-In Mini-Ga in Oath!"
"I asked everyone in the ga group, and none of the others triggered the part where they got to play Oath Cards with you. I was the only one who triggered it."
"So I want to make a gaplay video and share the footage of playing Oath Cards."
"It's just that I don't know... what the stable thod for triggering a card ga with you is?" Mio asked.
The thod is that it depends on my mood!
Carl had not used his main body to receive the other players. He had directly used secondary consciousnesses to take over, so of course they could not trigger the Oath Cards gaplay content.
"Are you actually a secretly popular video creator?" Carl glanced at that video title and asked.
"No, no... I'm just a forever-lurking old-tir with barely any fans. But this Oath Cards part is seriously too interesting. I searched online and found that there weren't any related videos or explanations at all."
Mio quickly waved her hands modestly and said.
"So I was thinking... did I trigger so strict hidden condition, which was why you were willing to play cards with ?"
"...There aren't any hidden conditions. Go ahead and post this video. If players co later wanting to play cards with , I'll let them play as much as possible," Carl said.
Although Carl was currently lying on the ground and unable to stand at all, which gave his words absolutely no persuasiveness.
"Then I'll post it. Though I feel like not many people will watch it."
Mio directly clicked publish and uploaded the entire process of playing Oath Cards yesterday onto the internet.
Carl also did not place any expectations on Mio, because she was not so ga guide creator. She only had two followers, and one of them was probably herself following herself.
But... how should he put it? The hottest topic right now was Oath. Anything related to Oath would attract attention once it was posted online.
Carl had already found a way to improve his own strength. It was also ti to open a few more machines and let the players who ca because of its reputation experience it!
(To be continued.)
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