The first fantastic question Kiyono Ash to ask is...

"Takigami-senpai, do you know how to calculate the combat power of the player character?"

Kiyono asked, tapping his hand on the handle of the chair of the fictional movie theater.

"Look... Players play every game with combat development elements, and although the game characters cannot be said to be the strongest in the world, they can be regarded as a powerful existence in the first echelon. ”

"If players in every game world can so easily cultivate powerful game characters and inherit them to the next world."

"Is the player's strength growing too fast for the gods, or is it too cheap?"

This is a doubt that Kiyono Ash has always had.

Nowadays, players on the market can play a mainstream action RPG game for between 30 and 60 hours, and it may go up to 100 hours after a few weeks.

But even if the player clears the game for as long as 300 hours, the speed at which their character's strength grows in the game is extremely exaggerated!

The combat effectiveness of any player's character after clearing the game is not to mention everything in seconds, no matter how it is, it can be regarded as a demigod.

After all, these actions are RPG games, and the final boss doesn't come to something or something, and the gods always feel wrong.

"Hmph, that's what you're thinking about too much, most of the player characters' strength in the game is just an illusion."

When Rena Takigami said this, there was always an extremely smug feeling in her tone.

Kiyono Ash feels... may be that she has full control over all the details of this performance, which makes this fox lady feel very shameless.

Now that this fox lady can finally guide and solve the confusion of Kiyono Ash as a senior, of course she has to put on a smug face.

"Illusion?" Kiyono Ash was actually vaguely aware of what the so-called illusion meant.

"This is also very understandable, take the game "Labyrinth Sanctuary 2" as an example, if players explore this maze alone, the strength of the monsters they encounter in the maze may be one thousandth, one in ten thousand, or even one in a hundred million of the real strength of those monsters."

"After all, we also need to divide the world line into tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, to meet the needs of each player's solo exploration and gameplay experience."

Rina Takigami, in the voice of a senior who came over, explained to Kiyono Ash the most basic knowledge of the strength of the player.

"So correspondingly, if two players explore the maze online, they will find that the monsters in the maze not only have more blood, but also have higher attack power..."

"It's that the world lines of the two of them coincide together, and the monster strength of the two world lines also coincides."

The more people online, the stronger the monsters in the maze will become.

"What do you mean, Takigami-senpai, that the strength of the players seems to be strong, but in fact they are all fake, just the effect of the performance? Their strength is nothing to mention to the true gods? ”

Kiyono Ash's conclusion made Miss Fox's little head shake rapidly.

If all the players' strength is fake, then Miss Fox doesn't need to worry about her followers being slaughtered by the players!

"Of course not, it's just for those beginner players, or players who don't play games much!"

Takigami Rena said with a serious face.

"But those who have traveled through many game worlds, and the game characters have fought thousands in various game worlds... More than tens of thousands of hours for players. ”

"Once their game characters are inherited into the current game world, they will become the native world, which can be said to be the brave after defeating the Demon King, or the terrifying existence of the Demon King himself."

"And the players in the Fighting Array Tea Party, once the game characters they have been cultivating inherit into this world, they will be real powerhouses, demigods, and will become a group of guys that even me and the gods find tricky."

When Kiyono Ash heard this, he probably understood the difference between the strength and weakness of the player characters in this world.

In the simplest way, it is probably an individual level, a regional level, a city level, a national level and then a world-class level.

This is the division method that Qingye Ash has heard of from somewhere, and there is no particularly serious definition of the scope, which may not be used later, and Qingye Ash himself probably has a concept.

"Does that mean players who want to make their main character stronger, just need to pile up game time? Play as many games as you can and experience as many different game worlds as your character can play? ”

In Qingye Ash's opinion, as long as they are veteran players who have played tens of millions or more of thousands of hours, the strength of the game characters they focus on should be able to affect a magnificent city.

"Of course not, the strength of the player character has been improved so simply, and we gods are too faceless."

"In short, the improvement of the strength of the player's main characters... It will also be limited by how much 'capacity' the player has or 'value'. ”

Miss Fox, she waved her finger to indicate that things were not that simple.

"'Capacity' refers to what the player's own 'power of faith' is in reality."

"Only by raising their 'upper limit of faith power' in reality can the strength of their game characters be improved accordingly."

Kiyono Ash already fully understood this when he heard this, and he had talked about the upper limit of the power of faith several times before.

It is the sum of a person's value in the real world, that is, all his achievements in all aspects of his life.

Thinking about it this way, those top players at the professional level can indeed rely on just playing games, achieving various first-kill speedruns in the game, leading the establishment of a powerful game guild, making game strategy videos, etc., to improve the upper limit of their faith power.

And those top gods who have already made a name for themselves in other areas of the real world, if they are willing to invest their time in the game, can also slowly develop a powerful game character.

I just don't know if these great gods who have reached the top in other fields have time to play games.

"Is that why there are so many holidays in this world?"

When Kiyono came to this world, he realized that the overall social atmosphere of the world is a feeling of encouraging people to play more video games and watch more movies, TV series, anime, and dramas.

This also makes it easier for the gods to harvest the 'gold mine' of the power of faith.

After Kiyono Ash roughly figured out the strength of the characters between the players, he asked the fox lady a new question.

"There's another thing that Takigami-senpai I'm curious about, and that's if any god has tried to raise a private army of players by himself? It's like a big company hiring someone to play a game? Kiyono asked.

"Of course, there are gods who have tried, and many gods have seriously organized such player company clubs."

Takigami Rena didn't know if she was a little thirsty, she raised her hand and didn't know where to conjure two glasses of lemonade, handed one to Kiyono Ash and continued.

"But they all failed, because if you hire players to play games, it will undoubtedly reduce the 'purity' of the players."

"The purity of the player?" Kiyono could understand the meaning of the word, but he still wanted to hear her.

"It's just that you see, if you pay to keep playing a game, keep playing and playing, maybe you will change to other games in the future, but you must also listen to the company's command."

"Then it's not enough to just play the game, you also have to come up with a corresponding strategy commentary, or a speedrun video or something, because this is an indispensable process for accumulating your own 'capacity'."

"In such a high-pressure work environment, no one can enjoy any game wholeheartedly, right?"

Rena Takigami said, biting the straw.

"Of course, there are also companies that only pay people to play games and don't care about anything else, but the 'yield rate' of such products is too low to be cost-effective."

"So the final solution is the guild system... The gods with real hearts will become their own leaders, and they will fight together with the players in the form of 'friends' in the guild to become stronger. ”

"But in the end, the solution to the war between the gods is to hire these powerful player guilds, rather than cultivate them themselves."

At this point, Kiyono Ash finally fully understands the relationship between the gods of this world and the player.

In short, the gods can hire major player guilds to participate in their wars, but it is difficult to permanently bind a large number of top players to their own use with money and interests.

There may be a few and a few top players who are affiliated with a god, but most of the top players are 'free'.

"Is it really more effective to use reality or the emotional bonds of the characters in the game to bind them forever than to bind them with money and benefits?"

Kiyono Ash pondered here, and once again changed back to the thoughtful posture of his hands and brows.

This made the god of the fox next to him suck the lemonade in his hand loudly, and the furry ears on his head also trembled, probably wondering what terrible idea the junior in front of him was thinking.

"Kiyono-kun, you... Any new ideas? ”

"It's a matter of further determining what to do next, senior Taki will ask you to further improve the 'Chanor Village' that has been built, and I may have to go on a business trip in the real world recently to meet those player ladies offline."

After confirming the follow-up plan, Kiyono Ash stood up directly from the seat of the movie theater and moved his body before saying.

"You... You're going to meet them offline? I'm sure I won't be given by their families..."Reina Takigami made a very subtle gesture of wiping her neck with her small hand.

"That's why I need to meet them offline, and that's my responsibility to the Miss Gamers who support Chanolle."

"And the player ladies were so badly stabbed by the plot of Chanoer Village, if I don't come forward to heal them offline, they won't be able to help them get out of the psychological shadow."

Qingye Ash said the truth in the second half of the sentence, and now those player ladies estimate that they will be too aggressive to the point of losing control when they see Chanol in the game.

So Qingye Ash has to go down to the line to heal them fiercely, but in the process of healing, the player ladies... I'm afraid I'll sink forever into this gentle village called Xanol.