Players' NPC boss

When "Godlock" was first launched, there was a very criticized point, that is, many tasks had no actual rewards, so that the process of upgrading and gaining wealth was very close to real life and seemed too hardcore.

When players saw a villager showing a troubled expression, they would instinctively go up to help. Or send a letter, or drive away wild beasts, in short, they did a lot of processes that are considered novice tasks in other games.

But after the players completed the task, they found that the villagers only thanked them verbally, and would not take out coins as rewards, nor would they give props, and would not even tell the anecdotes of the village.

Players immediately complained about the stinginess of the production team, and some players even had the idea of ​​​​massacre because they found that they could get the NPC's property after killing it.

But as soon as this trend started, most players found that the NPCs began to be indifferent to the players, even hostile and fearful, and were unwilling to seek help from the players even if they were in danger.

At this time, a college student majoring in game production named Penguin analyzed a hidden value, which is [the trust of the natives in the group of foreigners].

Unlike other games, players do not assume an identity that has existed from ancient times to the present, but a person from a completely strange and novel world to the whole world.

No one will take it for granted to trust a group of people from another world, and the behavior of the players who start the game determines the atmosphere of the entire game world in the future.

Some players want to kill NPCs, but more players want to explore this world. Today, the whole world is full of an atmosphere of admiring strangers and regarding strangers as heroes. It was created by the group of players who started the game at the beginning, who took on the negative impact brought by the players who specialized in killing NPCs and worked hard to move forward.

When everything was stable and moving forward, Penguin once again made a new speculation on the direction of the game. He believes that there is a second hidden value, which is [the trust of the natives in a single stranger]. This trust will make the NPC take the initiative to contact the most trusted player for help.

Then, the first hidden NPC, Catherine, the elf from the novice village of Alcmene, appeared.

This was told by a Buddhist player who likes to grow flowers and plants and fish, who heard it from the village chief when he was fishing with the old man in the village. Of course, because the player was really a Buddhist, he only announced the existence of this elf NPC online, and did not say where this elf NPC was hidden.

Starting from the first hidden NPC, players found that the world had become extremely huge, with countless exaggerated worldviews, tasks coming one after another, and new things almost every day.

Originally, because of its very high quality, many people loved and hated "Godlock", which was played while scolding. The sales volume of "Godlock" expanded several times in one breath, and the praise surged.

Unfortunately, the penguin who analyzed the hidden value never released a new analysis.

According to a person with mosaics on his face, who claimed to be the roommate of the penguin. On a dark and windy night, a Gothic woman failed to seduce with her clumsy skills, so she knocked out the penguin with a helmet with [Hypnotic Evil Device No. 1] written on it, and then another super muscular man put the penguin in a sack and took it away.

After that, there were only rumors that the penguin was treated inhumanely.

In his spare time, some people suspected that this college student with no background must have offended the underworld, but no one ever doubted the producers of "Godlock", which fits the image of the two criminals very well.

After all, this penguin helped "Godlock" shorten the player exploration stage that would have a lot of bad reviews, so that every player knows a fixed process to try out the task.

There will never be a company boss who willfully thinks that the bad reviews brought by players freely exploring the game world and bumping into each other are more important than the good reviews brought by the fixed process routine.

However, although the players have a fixed process, NPCs will still give them sudden surprises from time to time.

The gift given by the old woman who helped casually, if not thrown away, has been kept in the warehouse. Then suddenly one day, when you have forgotten about it, a man or woman with a secret will find your unrequited kindness from your forgotten memory and the dusty warehouse, and ask you for help.

Such things are not uncommon in this world. Everyone seems to be unrelated, but they are connected by strangers wandering around the world.

Therefore, for players, the gifts from NPCs are extremely important, and they all symbolize an undiscovered special task.

...

"Do we really want to give this thing to strangers?"

"Use it in the grand, first knight canonization ceremony in New Arcadia in a few days?"

Herbie's eyes twitched as she looked at the Arcadia exclusive armor forged by Hader and given to those glorious knights. The reason why she repeatedly emphasized and frantically added prefixes to the knight canonization ceremony three days later was to let Hader consider it carefully.

"This is the preference of strangers. I will never go against the needs of customers." Hader waved his hand and rejected Herbie. He was just here to replenish the goods, not to listen to Herbie's doubts about his products.

"Besides, this kind of armor saves a lot of materials. Shouldn't you, a small profiteer, wish to have more sets of such armor?"

"But this..." Hebi trembled as he lifted the bikini armor that could barely cover the two points of his chest from the box. "Is it necessary to make this thing specifically for Arcadia? Anyway, it can only cover a small area before and after the transformation!"

"If such a thing appears at the knight's enthronement ceremony, it would be a public execution!"

"No, it's better to say that this kind of armor is worthy of a truly powerful warrior." Hader crossed his arms and showed a deep expression.

"I used to be very distressed. The powerful foreigners always took pride in exposing more of their bodies and regarded it as a symbol of strength. In this way, protective gear is meaningless."

"But I soon discovered that those foreigners did not simply like to expose their bodies, but were enjoying [extremes] and [dangers]. The armor covering a large area made them feel that they were just a sword in a sheath."

"So, so you want to use this kind of armor to make them come out, unsheath?"

"That's right." Hader suddenly started to speak at high speed like a great magician.

"As the saying goes, there is always a price to pay for armor that can cover all sides. The price to pay is inevitable, which is to reduce the defense brought by the material because it is dispersed throughout the body. But if there are only these three points, this tiny part, then it is equivalent to concentrating all the defense at one point, perfectly reflecting the power of the material. This time I used mountain copper, this mysterious magic ore, and the three points of defense created are no longer armor, but a sword that can bounce attacks! Although the price is that other parts have no defense at all, but the foreigners will like it!"

"They will be very excited to use these three points of armor to bounce monsters' attacks!"

"I only heard that the foreigners would use these three points to bounce monsters' attacks. I didn't know whether to complain that the foreigners were as powerful as monsters, or complain that the foreigners were like perverted monsters."

Hebi covered her face. She rarely regretted it, but when she thought that the first batch of honorary knights of New Arcadia would use this armor to defeat the enemy in other territories and receive praise, she felt a stomachache.

Had touched his chin and thought for a moment, then handed a large bikini armor to Herbie.

"Think positively, a flat and petite person like you can protect your body by wearing this armor."

"Go away, take the ore to me for ironmaking."

"Okay!" Had gave a thumbs up and dragged out a box from the warehouse of [Hermes's Travel Hat]. The box was full of gray ore.

"Oh, those rough guys from the Giant Kingdom actually let such treasures stay in the warehouse." Had took out one of the ores and wiped it clean with his sleeves as if he was treating a lover.

"There are some unknown secrets, but because they gave it so readily, I didn't deliberately investigate." Herbie walked to the side and picked up a fist-sized ore. The shape of the heart made her unable to help but ask one more question.

"Does this thing really have no curse or negative status? This is something for strangers."

Had rarely answered directly. His forger's exclusive identification skill peeked into the true face of this ore.

[Pulsating Magic Ore Heart]

[The heart of an extinct magical life form, an excellent forging material, can give the wearer extremely powerful power, but it also means that the truth of the dark world is entangled]

"Believe me, strangers always like equipment with this kind of negative effect."