Rika could control 1,000 World's Core at the same time… but he couldn't control one.
He realized that the difference between him and Rika wasn't just the abyss and the sky, but more like an ant and the sun.
Hikaru shook his head, he didn't want to think much about it. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he was too weak compared to the women around him.
"So… will we keep the Quest Core in this place?"
Hikaru had just finished speaking when the Quest's Core suddenly turned into light particles and entered the World's Core.
[You don't have to worry, I have placed the Quest Core inside the World Core, so it won't take up the space of this room.]
Hikaru nodded and said, "So… when will you finish the Quest Rune?"
[Done!]
Hikaru: "..."
[Hahaha… master, don't think too much. I just relied on the characteristics of the System and then created a similar Rune.]
Immediately after, a card appeared in front of him and floated in space.
Hikaru held the card in his hand. One side of the card showed his information including his name, picture, level and number of completed quests.
On the other side were the received tasks, the progress of completing the tasks and the rewards.
"This is…"
[It is an ID card for adventurers. I tried making one for you to preview, there are many functions above, you can check it out slowly.]
Hikaru checked it out, and he thought in his heart how to develop ID cards for adventurers.
If that's the case, then he needed a building for the adventurers. So… the Quest Hall was the best place to do this.
However, he couldn't do anything right now, as it would take a while for the Quest Hall to be completed.
After checking the adventurer ID for a while, he realized something needed to change.
"Rika, I need the ID card to not show the identity of the quest giver, but the quest giver can know the adventurer's identity."
[Why?]
"I have an idea and it is to let adventurers pay taxes through the quests they complete."
"Adventurers are travelers, their whereabouts are not fixed. But for a kingdom that wants to develop, adventurers are indispensable."
"To keep them here,The best way for that is to contribute to the taxes. Their tax money will be used to develop social security buildings like Healing Hall."
"So… they will feel that they have a part in this territory too, so it will be hard to leave."
"But when we start collecting taxes, there will be a lot of people trying to get around the law. Instead of accepting quests through Runes, or to be more precise, through ID cards, they will go to the quest maker to make a deal."
"I know we can't completely rule this out, but we also need to limit taking on private quests as much as possible."
"At the very least, let the people of this territory know that paying taxes is not just an obligation, but that tax money will become a benefit to them."
[I understood.]
Hikaru nodded, he had seen the tricks of the businesses while living on earth, especially a few Uber and Grab drivers.
When they got on the bus, they said they had to cancel the booking, so they didn't have to pay taxes to the company.
But they don't know that it's thanks to the company that they have a job.
However, one time Hikaru met an Uber driver, and he thought that the driver would also ask him to cancel the order.
But that Uber driver said a sentence that he clearly remembered to this day.
"You don't have to cancel the order, that's the part of the money the company has to take. If you live in this world, you have to be wise, not crafty."
Hikaru still remembered that sentence clearly to this day. If we are wise, we will enjoy the fruit of our labor in the long run. If we are crafty, we will only get extremely sour lemons in return.
He also didn't think that the inhabitants of this world would be honest enough to only accept quests through an ID card.
[So… we will add the ability to submit quests and quest items through the Quest Hall.]
"Can you do that?"
[Of course. As long as we arrange the reception at the Quest Hall, then we can carry out the necessary transactions.]
[Thus, there is no need for quest makers and adventurers to meet, except for special quests.]
Hikaru nodded, that would be good. However, he knew that even if he had designed a perfect plan, adventurers would still find ways to circumvent the law and evade taxes.
He can't investigate everyone and prevent that from happening 100% of the time. It also depends on the consciousness of each person.
Hikaru sighed, and continued to tell Rika some of the changes he thought were necessary.
The next change was enabling quest takers to be able to contact the Quest Hall through their ID card.
However, only those who use the ID card for the territory he provided can use the function of the Quest Hall.
On the ID card, the payment function will be integrated with the Quest Hall. Also all rewards will be received by the staff of the Quest Hall and handed over to the adventurers.
As such, the person who made the quest doesn't need to go to the Quest Hall, so if they are sitting at home or they are anywhere in the territory they can give out quests.
However, adventurers can only go to the Quest Hall to receive quests through the staff there.
But the current problem was that the adventurers in his domain were all free players.
Calling them Free Players was also not correct, so calling them Wild Players was more correct.
They were Players who had lost their own territory, due to their low combat strength, and they are also unable to level up because there is no territory.
They came to this place just to find a safe place to live, as they did not want to go around in the fog full of danger.
Getting those people to work was very difficult. At this point, they were like Hikikomori's who suffered from social anxiety and fear of communication.
It was easy to get them to work, but for that to happen they had to create a reward that would give them the confidence to fight again.
That belief comes from the fact that they would be able to level up, but Hikaru didn't have any skills to help them level up.
[Master, did you forget that you can store attribute points?]
"Ah! Rika, you're right."
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Description 6: [Store] - For each creature you destroy, you will receive 0.5% - 5% of the total stats of that creature. The number of attribute points you receive will be stored in the Void Cloak. You can use those points on anyone (you cannot use them on yourself).
…
That was one of the functions of the Void Cloak. However, he must destroy monsters to get attribute points.
But he still had the Hell Lotus…
That's right, the Hell Lotus could decompose monster cards then produce Attribute Points and Soul Points.
He could take that attribute point and store it in the Void Cloak's space, and use it as some kind of reward.
But there was another problem… This type of attribute points could only be distributed by him. But he did not want to freely give it to other people, even if they were inhabitants of this territory.
Hikaru sighed, he felt a bit tired. After solving this problem, another problem appeared…
The successive problems that appeared made him gradually feel like he was going into a dead end.
[Master, you can use Runes to store attribute points.]
"Heh?! Can you do that?"
[I can do it, it's not difficult. Attribute points are just a kind of state of existence of energy after all.]
[However, how are you going to distribute these attribute points?]
Hikaru rubbed his chin thoughtfully. This was a difficult problem, he also couldn't add attribute points to every reward after completing the quest.
If he sold attribute points, he didn't know how to value them.
If they were sold too cheaply, they won't appreciate them and there will be a burst of attribute point inflation.
If they were too expensive, few people would be able to buy them.
This was a very difficult problem to solve.
[Master, perhaps you should discuss this with Selvih and Anno, perhaps they will give you an answer.]
Hikaru nodded, yes, if he had a problem he couldn't solve, he should ask them.
Either way, he was not an almighty lord or a genius. He was just an ordinary person.
Hikaru shook his head, and left this matter to Selvih and Anno for the time being. He then brought out some wolf and owl monster cards to evolve.
200 wolf monster cards and 50 owl monster cards.
The wolf monsters would manage the ground defense, while the owl monsters would manage the air and patrol the surroundings.
As for the inside of the earth… Faivern would be tasked in that part. Anyway, Faivern's roots now covered the entire territory.
No, Faivern's roots had also spread around, and it was within 5,000 meters of the territory.
Of course, thanks to the infinite lake, Faivern was able to develop so quickly. If not, he feared that his domain would have turned into a dead land.
"Begin the wolf monster card evolution."
[Ding! Do you want to spend 100 million Soul Points to evolve the wolf monster cards from Tier R to Tier SSR?]
Hikaru frowned, he felt that 100 million to evolve the cards into SSR was a bit low. He wanted each monster to have enough strength to fight a high level Player.
"Then… evolve them into SSR+."
[Ding! Do you want to spend 1 billion Soul Points to evolve the wolf monster card from Tier R to Tier SSR+?]
"Agree!"
[Ding! You have agreed to successfully pay 200 billion soul points.]
Right after that, the group of wolf monster cards instantly turned into werewolf cards with Tier SSR+.
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Name: Werewolf
Race: Beast
Tier: SSR+
Agility: 500,000 (+1,500,000)
Strength: 500,000 (+1,500,000)
Intelligence: 100,000 (+300,000)
Description: Werewolves are the most comprehensive of all races. They have tremendous power potential, and tremendous speed.
All of their senses are a hundred times better than ordinary humans. Especially their noses which are 400 times better than human noses.
Besides, they have the special ability of breaking magic if the magic is not too high level.
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