Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 505 - 141. Pathway management_2

Chapter 505: 141. Pathway management_2

Seizing this opportunity, Li Aozi got up close to the Pathway architecture to inspect the recent operational status of the Pathway. Now that he had the authority, even without switching back to his original form, he could perform certain operations upon encountering the buildings.

The good news was that renting out the "Eye of Truth" alone brought in at least 4 million Experience in revenue each month.

The others, like "Blood of Eternity" and "Spontaneous Combustion," which were relatively simple and easy to understand, rented out better, while "Gravity" could barely be rented out four or five times a month, making its sales extremely dismal.

But that doesn’t mean there were so few players who possessed "Gravity."

"We can prepare an official gameplay for the early players," he said.

The Mutants were too random, whereas the Pathway buildings could partially influence the Dominator System’s pathways.

The number of followers attracted by the White Obelisk had already reached 1567, which was quite substantial. After a slight upgrade, the White Obelisk could now grant two additional postnatal Arcane Abilities to the followers of the Dominator System’s pathways in Azure Star.

This was a good ability. Not all players early on had access to Power Pods, nor were everyone as drastic as Li Aozi, who could directly steal other’s Arcane Powers. Most players awakened their powers slowly through medications, mutations, and task rewards.

Now, the Mutants under Li Aozi’s command only needed to level up to LV.5 and LV.15 to obtain two Arcane Powers respectively.

Moreover, Li Aozi made slight modifications to the attributes of the Core Arcane Energy, as he needed to boost the overall population of the Dominator System first.

For the new players, the initial choice of Arcane Energy could be one of two: "Gravity" or "Eye of Truth." For early players, "Gravity" was definitely not as useful as "Eye of Truth," as most players could initially exert only one to two times the gravitational force, making it mediocre for hard control.

But the "Eye of Truth" was useful whether it was finding paths, exploring mazes, investigating cases, or facing off with guns. Most players would choose this.

Even if players didn’t choose "Gravity" at the start, it was okay as Li Aozi was very friendly toward the players of the Dominator System. Stay here for a while, and you could awaken "Gravity" for free.

Freebies were certainly not free.

You need a place to live if you stay here, right? Here was the Bed and Breakfast Inn run by Uncle Red Arrow, affordable and beautifully furnished.

Just lodging is not enough, players need to eat, and since most were Transcendents with enormous appetites, they needed to spend money, right? Here were local specialty countrysides dishes, guaranteed to delight you.

After eating and drinking for a while, you find your money is not quite enough, and you need to spend, then you need a job, right? The number of permanent NPCs here had already exceeded 1500, and by the time Li Aozi introduced an instance, the player traffic was definitely going to be through the roof.

"Strange, why do I feel like I’m coming here not to gather talents but to help the poor?"

Li Aozi muttered.

He hadn’t made much money yet, but Erga City had definitely won a lot.

Afterthoughts, Li Aozi considered and chose two postnatal awakened Arcane Energies for the players.

[Super Genic Sequence Modified]

[Dominator System Pathway Followers will obtain the following bonuses:]

A. Upon leveling up to LV.5, awaken Arcane Energy — "Physical Enhancement Kappa"

B. Upon leveling up to LV.15, awaken Arcane Energy — "Spontaneous Combustion Mystic Kolon"

"This should be about right," he said.

The Kappa-Rank "Physical Enhancement" had the highest cost-effectiveness, providing benefits in Strength and Health Points, but it had no prospects for further development. It was perfectly suitable for transitioning.

And "Spontaneous Combustion" was the beginning of a qualitative change for players; filled with destructive power, it was very suitable for players to level up by grinding monsters.

Li Aozi glanced at the fund pool; not bad, thanks to the villagers’ honesty as well as their reverence for the miraculous, the local corruption index was only 13 points, with a peak of 26 points.

That meant that among every hundred thousand people, only 13 could potentially be considered to have engaging in corruption.

Enterprises and units were very steadfast, and could be considered fair and clean.

With a total of 2.1 million Galun in the fund pool, the combination of religion and extraordinary power brought considerable tourism benefits.

Li Aozi used these funds to build a large-scale rural entertainment complex.

He also expanded a sub-structure named ’Sanctuary,’ which could continue to increase immigration attraction for the next fifty years.

This was intended to retain as much of the external population as possible.

The person in charge of the building was soon instructed by the White Obelisk, and immediately started planning actions. The extremely low corruption index allowed Li Aozi extremely high operational speed, requiring only nine days to complete the construction.

However, a too low corruption index was not entirely perfect. Li Aozi noticed that to activate the "Rapid Development" status, it required a corruption index higher than 55 points, sustained for a year, which could provide a significant acceleration in developmental rate, tempting Li Aozi.

Considering corruption reduces happiness and lowers birthrate, Li Aozi gave it up.

Population was too important for him; even if it meant losing money, he had to boost the birthrate.

With one generation every ten years and a version usually lasting 20 to 40 years, that meant Li Aozi would have at least two and a half generations of Dominator System reserve population before the calamity of the 2.5 version Ersha crisis erupted.

By then, the first generation of the Dominator System newborns would have become age-appropriate warriors.

Once players advanced to Gamma Rank, Li Aozi could consider adding advanced Arcane Energies like "Bloodline" and "Calamity."

The number of immigrants was still increasing, though the trend was very slow. Li Aozi made a trend chart, which showed that if things proceeded normally, Erga City, where the White Obelisk was located, would have a population growth to 4 million in 20 years.

Among them, at least 500,000 people would live or have lived within the influence range of the White Obelisk.

500,000, age-appropriate warriors, Transcendents.

Among them, thirty to forty thousand would enter the Alpha Stage, about three thousand would be Beta Rank, and Gamma Rank was hard to say, there might be some, or there might be none at all.

These numbers already approximated the number of Transcendents that the Frost Plating Federation had.

By this stage, Li Aozi truly felt how unshakeably powerful those Narrative-Level Civilizations were.

Just one Obelisk could bring such a powerful influence.

Narrative-Level Civilizations, on average, had at least six pathways, with the number of influenced individuals often measured at the galactic level.

But no matter what, Li Aozi was finally stepping into the same arena as them, and Azure Star was also poised to achieve the potential to become Narrative.

"Give me 20 years, and I’ll make Azure Star a prosperous and strong Dominator System!"