“At once master.” She said and took all the scrolls and headed to the basement.
Due to donating research scrolls you encountered, your town has unlocked several new research options.
Researched obtained:
Warrior: Taunt skill, Warrior Shout.
Archer: Keen Eye, Double Shot
Mage: Rock Shot
Guild House
Akor perked up when he saw that, he didn’t check all of them so he was surprised when he saw a magic spell and a new building.
Research
Research
Description
Unlocked items
Guild House
A research topic for creating guilds. A guild doesn’t just include player guilds but also NPC guilds.
Guild house (building)
Guild System
Unlocked item
Guild house
You can build a guild house and sell it to players to set up a player guild or use your Lord authority to set up an NPC guild branch of existing guilds.
Guild System
You have unlocked the guild system for your nation and now players and NPCs can set up guilds. You can also designate guild houses to become a certain type of guild and the system will automatically apply the rules and regulations of the existing guild to the guild house and recruit NPCs as workers.
Akor smiled brightly as soon as he saw this.
Before he placed down the village cubes, he opened up the construction tab, and pressed the guild house. Around the outside of the walls were small wood huts appeared as the subordinates built up their homes.
He placed a guild house right next to the gate.
This moved a few of the huts and opened the construction site. The architects left the architect house very quickly and shouted at the subordinates to get materials. With subordinates to be bossed around by the minions, the construction proceeded at a breakneck pace and all the material was gathered. After ten minutes, the level 1 guild house, without any colors or plaque, appeared.
Congratulations, you have established your first guild house. Would you like to sell it to players or set up an NPC guild?
“NPC guild.” Akor said.
His eyes were shining because this was the best research topic for radically evolving his nation towards a path that would rapidly improve his residents as well as improve income.
Which guild branch would you like to establish?
Guilds
Adventurers Guild
The most powerful guild in the human and humanoid nations. They rarely appear in monster nations and have never appeared in the demon nations because they are enemies of humans.
Mercenary Guild
One of the strongest guilds. The Mercenary guild is responsible for establishing mercenary groups and giving mercenary missions such as raids and other tasks.
With the current research level, these are the only NPC guilds you can establish.
His grin was even wider as he saw that there was an extra option. He pressed the adventurers guild and the guild house shone as it began to change slowly. The colorless guild house gained a red roof and decoration while a plaque appeared over the door and a sign hung sideways in front of the door with a shield, a sword and staff crossed. The plaque said ‘Adventurers Guild’.
You have established an Adventurers Guild branch.
Congratulations! For being the first demon to establish the adventurers guild with the thought of revolutionizing the way demons live, you have gained the title ‘Revolutionary’.
Title:
Revolutionary
You think nothing like regular Demon Lords. You learn from your enemies and established one of their pinnacle existences, to transform the way demons work.
Akor pressed on the guild house and an option appeared.
Adventurer Guild Management
Guild Level:
1
Guild Exp
0/20,000
Type of Guild
Branch
Specialty
Mission Distribution
Guild Master
Pending
Vice Guild Master
Pending
Head Receptionist
Pending
Treasurer
Pending
Accountant
Pending
Mission Director
Pending
Member Teacher
Pending
Researcher
Pending
Guild Shop Manager
Pending
Guild Harvesters
Pending
Guards
Pending
Bartender
Pending
Cook
Pending
Waiters
Pending
Looking at the management page, Akor figured that the lord was the one who controlled NPC guilds like this. Probably so that they have utmost control of the guild since they are the ones controlling the minions.
“Can you explain to me what each job entitles and their requirements?” Akor asked.
Guild Occupations
Occupation
Description
Requirements
Guild Master
The guild master is, in a demon nation, regarded as the strongest authority of the guild and its protector.
Tier 2
Combat class
Level 10
20 INT minimum
Vice Guild Master
The true brain of the guild. This occupation handles all the management jobs for the guild master while following their instructions.
Support class Writing skill
Math skill
20 INT minimum
Head Receptionist
The face of the guild, they are the head of the receptionists who help the function of the guild servicies.
Female
20 INT minimum
Accountant
The one in charge of making sure the taxes on all missions and payments are done. They make sure the check book is properly managed.
Accountant class
Math skill
Treasurer
The one who manages the treasury of the guild. They are in charge of protecting and managing the items stored in the guild.
Scholar class
Math skill
Writing Skill
Mission Director
The one who obtains information from scouts and players and places missions for minions, subordinates and players to participate in.
Scholar class
Member Teacher
A special scholar who is there to teach all the new members the rules and regulations of the guild so that there is order in the guild.
Scholar class
Guild Shop Manager
A worker under the treasurer, they buy and sell items for the guild. They can hire shop hands to sell guild items and obtain better deals for the guild.
Merchant class
Math skill
Guard
They protect the guild from the adventurers in case of trouble.
Combat class
Researcher
Different from common researchers, they are scouts for the guild and their field of research is the movement of monsters in the territory. They are the source of monster/bandit related missions.
Combat class
20 INT minimum
20 AGI minimum
Guild Harvester
Similar to a butcher, this job specializes in taking recovered bodies of monsters hunted to harvest the items from the monsters at a price.
Harvest skill
Cook
A cook for making food for the guild tavern.
Cook class/skill
Bartender
The one who sells food and ale in the tavern.
Merchant class
Waiter
The workers in the guild Tavern.
None
The easies
t to accommodate were the scholars while the hardest was clearly the guild leader. With only two Tier 2 demons in his city, he didn’t doubt that it would take a long time to get more since level 10 was also a requirement.
The first ones he assigned were the vice guild master, then all the scholars followed by the merchants and the harvester. Accountant was also easy and the guards he picked from the soldier rank imps. The second hardest to pick where the researchers. They needed both high intelligence and agility. This would fit with thief class but the village only had archers, warriors and magi for now.
When he pressed on it, he sighed in relief that there was actually two imps that actually fit the conditions. They were sergeants, but this was more important since he could easily replace them in the army.
He assigned both to be researchers in the guild. The next hardest was the head receptionist, they were like the shop managers and could hire other receptionists on their own but the fact that it had to be female was a bit strange but then again, this was a system requirement. There were many more, so he picked the best one as the head while the secondary receptionists needed a minimum of 15 Intelligence meaning they were able to talk at least.
All that was left was the cook and waiters.
Waiters could be anyone but the problem was that they had no cooking skill or even class. He didn’t doubt that it was easy to unlock it so instead of picking someone, he decided to put a ‘for hire’ sign for both occupations and added a mission in the quest board.
Repeatable Quest:
Quenching the thirst
The newly built adventurer guild has just been built but although it has a tavern, it lacks ale.
Objective:
Produce drinkable ale
Reward:
dependent on the ale
With the cook and waiters for hire and the ale also put for being obtained by players, he finally relaxed.
Once he accepted all the options he smiled as all the minions obtained a message and moved to their new workplace.
Akor stood up and went to the army to replace the two sergeants before going to learn the new spell and wait for Valring to finish the research upgrades.
***
The next morning was far busier than normal. Instead of entering the game early in the morning, Lucas and Sam met up at the waiting area for taxis in their apartment complex.
Sam was well dressed while Lucas was casual, since he didn’t have newer clothing, he could only wear his casual wear.
"I can’t wait! I will be on TV!” Sam was bubbly despite it being only 7 am.
Soon enough the car arrived, it was, like most cars, havering at the side of the building in a designated zone for their specific apartment building.
The two of them were the only ones in their building going with this transport so they got in.
Sam was bubbly but Lucas was calm. Still, he was inwardly anxious, which was normal for all the people going on television the first time.
At the studio’s backstage they saw that there were already some players there waiting. They all had to undergo some small touch ups to make them look better on television if only for aesthetics.
Lucas was against it and just stood at the side but the female players traded tips with the professional make up crew while all the males looking at the female backstage crew members and female players.
“Alright everyone, please proceed over here and we will install the microphones.” one of the crew shouted.
Several people came in and brought very tiny objects which were placed on their shirts and a small earplug that was fully hidden in their ear. Obviously these were earpieces for communication and the microphone which had all undergone massive technological upgrades over the last centuries from their creation.
They were pretty much spy gear compared to their ancestors.
Lucas was one of the few more uncomfortable ones as he had the item placed on his shirt at a distance where it could pick up his voice. The main problem was the proximity of the person putting it on that he didn’t really like.
“So how are you doing?” Sam asked as they finished getting ready.
Her makeup had been improved a bit and lifted up her natural beauty instead of forcing ‘good’ looks on her. Lucas actually preferred how she was now compared to the makeup she did before coming.
“The noise and constant movement is a bit annoying.” he said bluntly.
“As expected of a shut in like you.” She replied with a laugh.
To the side a lord player noticed their interaction and walked over. “Hi, I'm Vince, I'm one of the lord players.” He said.
“Hello, I'm Sam, I'm a demon lord.” Sam replied..
“Really? I'm an elf lord.” He replied and looked at Lucas.
“Lucas… demon lord.” He replied awkwardly.
Sam giggled, “Don’t mind him, he is a little socially awkward.” She said.
“You two are close? Have you known each other long?” he asked.
“Not really, we met the first time in the meeting of the lord players.” She replied.
“Eh?” he looked between the two before a strange expression formed on his face. “So… you two are already…” he began but Sam’s face turned dark.
“No!” she said.
Vince raised his brow with a confused expression and continued to look between them and shook his head, “Well whatever. Anyway, my avatar is called Gwen Holytree, what about you guys?” he said.
“Ah! You were one of the top 10 lords likely to fail before suddenly getting off!” Sam said in shock.
Vince smiled at being recognized. “Yes I am.” he said a bit proud.
"I’m Ulra.” Sam introduced.
“Ulra? Demon lord… ah! I remember now, you were… #3 I think when the ranks came out. In other words we were both from the worst lords list.” He said.
“That list is really biased.” She scoffed.
The two laughed while Lucas just looked on. When Vince finally looked at him, his gaze asked the question.
“Akor.” Lucas said simple.
“Eh? Previous #1 who suddenly jumped to #50 and then raised back to #30? The person people call ‘the boring slowpoke’?” He asked.
Lucas’ face twitched, “Since when was I called that?” He asked.
“Since when? Probably after a week of playing, people called you that because you rarely hunted, barely fought and the few fights were only capture missions. Everyone wonders what kind of game play you want to do with demons going such a strange route which constantly pisses off the demon gods.” he said.
Lucas finally understood and snorted without replying.
The questions asked on the show he might answer but those privately asked were really optional. Also he felt irritated about learning what people thought of his gaming style.
It actually made him think, “Does everyone thing demons have to be bloodthirsty to be worth anything?” he wondered as he looked at the person in front of him.
Seeing Lucas not replying Vince shrugged and turned to Sam. "If I remember correctly, you are currently #40 in the ranks. I usually watch the lord rankings and went to see what happened. I believe you just planted your second demon heart right?” he asked.
“Second, why are you only in the second, didn’t you plant more when you were in tutorial zone?” Lucas sudden asked Sam.
She smiled wryly.
“The mana springs in the hellish badlands are all large springs. They give between 8-10 stats each but the distance is really far apart unlike for you who has small or small-medium sized which are within 20 km of each other.” she said.
“Oh… I see.” Lucas said and nodded.
It made sense. Remembering the environment and difficulties faced by the demon players in the badlands, he could understand why they were far off. The badland players would face intense food shortage until they could develop enough strength to wrestle it from the hand of demon beasts.
Sam already had close to 20 secondary vil
lages like the ones Lucas obtained. They filled the territory while the ones made with the mana springs expanded the territory or defined its borders. It just went to show even more that environment dictated the game play style.
After the mics were handed out, it was already 7:30 and the actual show was already underway. At 7:35 the top adventurer type players were called out. They each had a pretty large name in the game due to the ranking list.
Although [Magic Life] wasn’t the most popular game, there were still close to a few billion player when counting all those from other planets and settlements throughout space.
The interview went for around 10 minutes for all the five invited players and then the ‘best lords’ were called.
A similar time was spent on them until finally the ‘worst’ lords were called.
Chapter 7
“And now welcome out the five lord players we have invited from the list of ‘Lords most likely to fail’ ranking!” The host announced.
The crowd clapped as the five came out.
“Today with us, we have the five lord players that had the largest change in rankings among all the lords on the list. First off we have Madison Wilts, his character is a human lord by the name of Raider Vain and was the original #9 ranking player when the list came out. His current rank is #42.” The host introduced one of the player who waved. He was around 30 years old with a roundish belly and face with brown hair.
“Next up is Sasori Mashashi, he is an undead lord, quite an unusual lord to say the least. His player name is Zradan Crow, and he was originally #6 in the ranking but has since rocketed outwards reaching #45 in the first month.” The host introduced.
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