[The Dreamteller smiles, relieved that everything has ended well.]
"Exactly."
As I was working on the new content to add to the game, a message came from our Constellation.
“When I first learned about [Theft], and when I realized it was consumed by the sin of Lust, I had no idea what to do.”
With the help of other investors and 'Wisdom,' we were able to remove all of his sins.
“This makes five.”
The four Constellations who overcame their sins, and Wisdom, who decided to join us.
After spending a few days with his apostle and lover, and catching up after hundreds of years, he returned to the heavens and came to find me and our group.
He continuously thanked us, and we informed him about our situation and the Abyss, the beings from another dimension who spread sin.
Then, he declared his intention to join our group.
Knowing what he had done in his life, I felt incredibly reassured.
Having seen how we cooperated so organically in this incident, we were no longer afraid of the Abyss.
...And, since that incident, he hasn’t come to visit.
"So, I’m planning to add more content to the game."
The role of our investors in purging [Theft] was the biggest factor in this success, but it was also fortunate that a fear event was happening in the game at just the right time.
Because of that event, we were able to gather the attention of people from all over the continent, and using that collective intelligence, we were able to chip away at his sins.
That’s why I decided to add as much content as possible to prepare for any unforeseen situations.
I wanted to ensure we had a wide range of content that could be applied to reality whenever needed.
Recently, I had forgotten something important while making the game.
In subculture games, especially in character collection games, the most important thing is the charm of the characters.
The character’s appearance and performance are very important factors.
These factors make players want to summon new characters.
But the part that most contributes to opening wallets is the character's charm.
That’s why so many game companies spend a lot of money creating character PVs or holding offline events.
They need to appeal to the charm of the character so that more customers get attached to the character and spend money.
The strength of our game isn’t just that we can use the real-life appearances of Constellations or the virtual reality system—it’s that we can make players feel the charm of those characters.
I hadn’t realized that yet.
[The Dreamteller asks if the new chat feature you're working on is also for the purpose of increasing charm.]
“Yes, that’s right.”
The feature I’m working on is for exactly that purpose.
It’s content where characters send messages to players through chat, called "Archive Talk."
It’s not easy to bring back the main characters from stories that have already concluded.
If that happens, the excitement that was once there could fade away.
If players can’t meet the characters again for a while, a character they once found charming may start to feel stale over time.
Just like love fades when there’s distance.
That’s why many game companies bring back those characters through events to re-ignite their charm, but due to the nature of our game, it’s not easy to have an event where Constellations from different stories gather and chat.
Of course, I am planning to do it, but it requires a lot of preparation to make it look plausible without breaking the world’s lore.
So, I prepared this content to appeal to the charm of the characters.
The concept is for the protagonists of stories in the [Archive] to send messages to players based on the connections they’ve built.
“I’ve already integrated our investors' egos into it.”
The characters of our investors, who appeared as pickup characters, were added into the dream in the form of avatars. I made some slight adjustments to fit the character concepts.
Some characters, like the Magitech Engineer who was altered to appear as a villain, are somewhat different from their real personalities.
That’s why I had to make some necessary adjustments when adding them.
They won’t act exactly as themselves, but they should function well enough as chatbots.
Of course, the 4-star and permanent 5-star characters I created will have to be made by me.
...But, should I really create these characters who won’t make any money?
To quickly fill in the characters, I created chimera-like characters by mixing various character personalities from past games.
These characters, who only appeared in side quests and were never part of the main storyline, need to be pushed into the spotlight...
‘But, some players might really like these characters, so I should at least do this for them.’
Instead of discriminating based on character popularity and facing backlash from other players, it’s easier to just do everything equally.
It’ll just mean a little more effort.
Wait a minute.
Maybe I don’t have to do this myself?
Isn’t there a decent, experienced employee who just joined?
***
The Imperial Palace, located at the highest point of the Empire’s capital.
The deepest and most secret room.
“Quite interesting.”
The ruler of the Empire was enjoying the virtual reality game implemented through a device.
At first, it was simply out of curiosity when he heard that Raizeol was secretly siphoning money to play this game.
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He wanted to check what kind of game could captivate such a sharp-minded individual.
Having run the Empire from the top for decades, he was confident that he would not fall for any temptations.
Even if this game had a mind-corrupting effect, the [Authority] passed down by the previous emperors would protect his mind.
Thus, it all began as a light-hearted activity...
“How do I get more Wisdom Stones?”
Before he knew it, he was looking into ways to spend money on the game’s gacha pulls.
He had charged up about 1000 pulls to try his luck with the banner of the current pickup character, [The Girl in Love, Versia].
Instead, he ended up choosing the permanent banner next to it.
He had charged his gems for the 4-star character from the permanent banner.
Since the character he wanted was not part of the main banner, this was his only option.
“Hm...”
Before spinning the gacha, he checked the pull rates next to the banner window.
1% for a 5-star and 9% for a 4-star.
The remaining 90% was junk trash.
Since there were 10 different 4-star characters, the probability of getting the one he wanted was 0.9%.
The expected number of pulls was around 111.
Enough magic bullets.
“...Victory.”
He managed to get the character after the last 10 pulls.
He had spent all the Wisdom Stones, but he succeeded.
Even though his Wisdom Stones kept depleting past 111 pulls and the character didn’t appear, he was a little anxious, but now that he succeeded, it was fine.
Finally, he summoned the character he had pulled.
A large, muscular figure, big enough to make an adult man look like a child.
Dense, hard muscles with no room for a spear to fit.
He buried his face in the powerful muscles of the healthy female warrior.
For a while, he enjoyed the firmness of her embrace and then opened the chat feature, [Archive Talk], in the game.
He then sent a message to the character named [Amazons Queen Lohanjaji].
‘I succeeded in pulling your character.’
Ding!
A reply came immediately.
‘It was such a trial that it felt like my heart would break. But the trials that can’t kill me are what make me stronger. I endured with perseverance.’
Long ago, before he became Emperor, he encountered muscular female warriors while visiting a foreign land.
As a teenager, he was immediately captivated.
There was no femininity to be found, just the result of relentless effort, those thick, powerful muscles.
Muscles that required more than twice the effort of a man to match a man’s strength.
How beautiful was the fruit of sweat in those muscles?
Through the firmness of those muscles, he could tell how hard they had worked, and it was impossible for the Emperor not to be enchanted.
However, once he became Emperor, he could no longer meet just any woman.
Any woman lacking even a modicum of education was not allowed in the palace, let alone a foreign female warrior from a distant land.
He focused on managing the Empire for a long time and forgot about his distorted sexual tastes.
And then, he met the woman who matched his tastes in this game.
‘I want to meet you.’
‘Until the day I meet you again, I will train my muscles.’
Once, he had reached the peak as a swordsman, but due to overflowing responsibilities, he had set aside the way of the sword.
Now, a late passion was leading him back to the training grounds.