Chapter 55
Major Version Update Plan

After completing the Elite-level Boss's reward content, Zhang Xing Yu and the Nightmare Lord proceeded with a system update.

The internal workings of this update were indeed quite extensive. Firstly, the addition of a Friend System and a Party System.

As an online game, how could it possibly lack a Friend System? It's a social weapon! It can significantly improve user engagement!

The Nightmare Lord didn't understand the Friend System very well, especially the communication functions included within it!

However, with the Friend System and communication functionality, the Nightmare World could be more easily understood by players as a "virtual game world." Moreover, as players made more friends in the Nightmare World, even when not playing the game, they would still actively enter the Nightmare World to provide energy.

A Party System is also necessary. When in a party, everyone can see their teammates' health and status, making it easier for the captain to give instructions.

The second update was naturally for the instructor system in the Starry Base.

This should be the most needed update for players at this stage. Now many players don't even understand how to use their weapons. The most miserable should be the archers—when new players ask what weapons are good, old players always say with a heavy heart: "Anything is good, just don't use a bow!"

Out of 10 archers, 9 miss their shots. The last one has already switched professions!

Zhang Xing Yu planned to add an instructor for every weapon. Through the instructors' training, players could grasp skills more quickly, especially basic weapon techniques. As long as they were taught by an instructor, it was almost like getting a free skill.

However, purely NPC instructors were somewhat boring. Zhang Xing Yu planned to give these NPCs more functions. For example, these NPCs would have names, stories, their own special weapon techniques, and some instructors would even have relationships with each other. For instance, the spear instructor and the halberd instructor might have a complicated past.

Teaching basic techniques wouldn't cost anything, but intermediate and advanced techniques would require payment. Some techniques would also require you to slay specific monsters. As for the special techniques possessed by the instructors themselves, they could only be learned by completing special tasks.

This game is a "realistic hunting game," and it's also a massive online game. Although Zhang Xing Yu used the Monster Hunter game as a template, there were bound to be differences. For example, the weapon system and attack methods. In the game, every weapon's attack method is the same, but in reality, because each person's situation is different, even the same weapon will have different usage methods. Furthermore, some powerful hunters would definitely have unique insights and techniques for their weapons.

Zhang Xing Yu even planned to allow players to develop and teach their own skills at some point!

Next, the third content to be updated was meant to make players show off and be happy... well, the actual purpose was to improve the energy acquisition system, that is, the ranking system.

This didn't require much thought. Simply create a hunting ranking. The top three could even receive some rewards.

Additionally, because of the Elite Boss, Zhang Xing Yu added an Elite Boss Ranking, which naturally had better rewards.

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The next day, in the morning.

"Ah————Haah——————I had a good sleep, yeah—" Little Loli Otiliya woke up from her bed. She released the teddy bear she was hugging, sat up, and stretched with a big yawn.

From Zhang Xing Yu's perspective, the little loli was undoubtedly a "beautiful girl" type of beauty. Her soft, shiny blonde hair looked like that of a European girl, but unexpectedly, the little loli's face had the features of an Eastern beauty. Her facial features were also very delicate, like a doll, especially her eyes, which were exceptionally beautiful, like crystal gems, especially captivating.

Although the little loli was a bit "chuunibyo," she still dressed very girlishly. For example, she was now wearing a cute pink nightgown. Combined with her sleepy appearance, she looked even more dazed and adorable.

Zhang Xing Yu floated in front of the little loli and said, "Hey, I said, if you don't get out of bed soon, you'll be late."

"…………En? I seem to have heard something..." The little loli rubbed her eyes. Then, she saw a strange ghost in front of her...

"Waaa————————" The little loli rolled and scrambled off the bed.

"Hey, hey—is it necessary to be so dramatic? Didn't we just meet last night, in that... Nightmare World, right? We even went hunting monsters together... though we didn't succeed in the end."

"Ghost, ghosts can talk————"

This little loli was still as scared of ghosts as ever!

After a while, the little loli finally calmed down and realized that the ghost in front of her was the person who played games with her yesterday.

"Seriously, you talk to me normally and play games with me in the Nightmare World, why are you so scared now?"

"Who, who said I'm scared of ghosts? I, I'm not scared of ghosts at all!" The stubborn little loli said with a straight face!

However, the little loli probably felt that the lie was too obvious, so she explained: "Besides, you look completely different in reality compared to the game, okay? In the game, you look like a normal person, but now you look like a transparent, floating, unidentified ghost!"

"So you're saying you're scared of ghosts."

"!" The little loli's face turned red.

"By the way, class is about to start."

"Waaa————You didn't say so earlier!" The little loli jumped up, looking at the time.

"I told you at the very beginning, but you were scared silly."

"I, I wasn't scared!"

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