Crimson Night needed so ti to make the analysis video for this reunion side quest.
Because she had to do her best to make all the new players who had never played the previous ga, and even pure cloud viewers who had never played Oath, understand the kind of stirring emotion this side quest... had brought her.
This ant she had to start from the NPC-related plots in the previous ga, which also extended the production cycle by quite a bit.
"If I go all out grinding this video, I can probably finish it in about four days. Before that, Carl, can you hold on?" Crimson Night asked.
"This... isn't really up to ." Carl had no way to confirm whether he could hold on or not.
Like many mobile gas, once the main story of Oath was cleared, it could not be experienced again. There was also no such thing as a second playthrough or third playthrough.
Moreover, Elysium-system gas were limited to one account per person. If you wanted to make a new account, you could only delete your original account.
This ant that most Oath players basically followed the usual inertia of playing the ga.
The main story of Version 1.1 was online, so whether the plot was good or bad, they would clear it first and take the Contract Stone rewards.
Among them, there were even so players who did not read the story at all.
Like Mio... after she collected all the Contract Stone rewards in Saint Rite during the first six days, this girl sohow found a tool similar to a "mouse-click macro."
Since the official ga team won't let skip, I'll just make my own skip tool!
So during the first half of the Version 1.1 story, Mio entered a zero-internal-friction state of "not reading, not reading, grab the Contract Stones and get out."
As for the second half of the Version 1.1 story, Mio saw Crimson Night posting several ssages in a row on Twitter, Reddit, and her activity feed, reminding players.
"Don't push the second half of the Version 1.1 main story yet! There's a twist and hidden plot!"
She entered a wait-and-watch state.
But even though Crimson Night briefly explained the hidden plot content in her activity feed.
For most Oath players, killing Carl, the final boss of Version 1.1, had nothing to do with good or evil. They simply did not care which side was good, which side was bad, or things like clashes of ideals.
I dunno! The main story said I get 300 Contract Stones for killing him, so I killed him.
This caused the clear rate of the second-half final battle story in Version 1.1 to remain extrely high.
During the ti Carl was chatting with Crimson Night, Carl had actually already been killed two or three tis by players from other worldlines.
"Then I'll ask so players in the guild who haven't played the second half of Version 1.1's main story yet to try... how to trigger the hidden plot. In any case, at least everyone in Navigator is on your side, Carl."
Crimson Night also knew that staying here would not help. After leaving Carl with one final word of comfort, she logged off to grind out the video like crazy.
Actually... Carl had vaguely guessed the thod to trigger the hidden plot.
It depended on whether any players could bring themselves to do it.
Thinking of this, Carl glanced at the Saintess's current heat and popularity.
Originally, Carl had thought that with the explosive main story of Version 1.1, there was no way the Saintess's popularity could be high no matter what.
But as a result... after Carl browsed that video site, the current hottest video on that site was actually posted by another creator who made ga story discussion videos... an Oath sponsored video.
"You May Have Misunderstood the Story of Version 1.1's Main Plot! The Saintess Loves You More Than You Think!"
This was the only comnt Carl could think of. With just one glance, Carl could tell that this video was a mindless official-shill puff piece.
It was filled with all kinds of sophistry, saying things like, the initial fainting scene was ant to continue giving out sweet monts between the Saintess and the player. If you didn't faint, how could you get the Saintess's intimate care treatnt?
There was also the argunt that entrusting everything to Noir was because everyone was afraid you might encounter danger or misfortune and so on... sophistry that, if you thought about it carefully, could indeed be explained that way.
But this kind of mindless official-shill puff piece hit right in the strike zone of those Saintess body fans, appearance fans, and a huge bunch of loyal Oath players.
Then they took this video and went around attacking everywhere as if it were so imperial decree.
Once anyone dared to post any criticism on forums, or under this video, even if they were only questioning whether the Version 1.1 main story had problems.
They would throw out this video, or simply label that person as a casual who did not even understand the story! Things like that.
What Carl found very interesting was that the blogger who posted this video.
According to the mbers of Navigator, it seed that not even a single ga character in Oath on their account had been fully leveled, and they had never cleared high-difficulty dungeons either.
Carl did not want to comnt on this, but the follow-up event for Version 1.1 called "Saintess Tea Party" was still worth talking about.
To put it plainly, this event was just a daily-life supplent after the end of the Version 1.1 main story. The Saintess invited the player to drink tea and chat together in the garden.
There was no gaplay at all. It was a very pure waifu-feeding event.
But actually, that was enough. This kind of after-story event was exactly what ani-style gacha gas lacked the most.
Most mobile ga characters disappeared from the story after their banner was done selling.
Through his ga character authority, Carl glanced at the planner behind this event, and it was still... Kuro the writer.
Kuro... was it you who protected all of this?
In short, under the sponsored creator, the high-intensity social dia managent and comnt control of Oath, the mysterious existence holding an imperial decree and attacking everywhere, and the final ripple offered by Kuro, the writer.
The Saintess's popularity was actually absurdly high?
Carl glanced at the results of Oath Version 1.1. It had dominated the Global Best-Seller Chart for 120 hours! So good it was exploding!
"Tsk..."
Carl was basically certain that the Saintess's popularity had already surpassed Hasumi's, making her the undisputed most popular main-push character in Oath right now.
Then Carl returned his consciousness to the main world.
Unsurprisingly, today... the Holy Nation characters led by the Saintess were currently opening champagne and celebrating outside the academy garden.
"Congratulations, Lady Saintess!"
Freya could not have looked more vindicated right now!
"Do Alliance, Crimson Sigil, Dragon Garden, Everlasting... those Savior guilds with top-tier strength have all given their hearts to you... and most of the other Saviors have also submitted to your charm!"
"With my charm, of course it was easy."
During these past few days, the Saintess had indeed been imrsed in a happy mood.
"Those Saviors were far easier to deceive than I expected."
The Saintess also spoke of her view of the Saviors over the past few days.
"They clearly possess such powerful strength, but most Saviors really are just as Freya said... all of them are extrely innocent."
As she spoke, she even made one of her most frequently used cute little gestures, sothing a bit like a magical girl.
"As long as I show my charming and sweet side."
"And give them a few slightly ambiguous little hints, so Saviors will shout lines like 'I'm your dog' and fight for unconditionally across the land."
"Is there any... extraordinary army in the world easier to control than this?"
However... while Carl listened to the discussion between the Saintess and Freya, what he was thinking was...
Don't take the players' love for you as a matter of course!
But with her current popularity, it really was hard for her not to think that way.
Ti quietly passed like this for two days.
Just as Carl was observing the movents of the various gacha pool characters, suddenly, all the gacha pool characters seed to sense sothing. As if by prior agreent, they all stopped what they were doing.
Because... the strongest Oath player they had all been paying attention to, Kyo, after spending several consecutive days madly playing Monster Battles until he no longer knew heaven, earth, or anything else...
Finally, today, Kyo officially began pushing the Version 1.1 main story!
(To be continued.)
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