At this time, the Vita Tournament was also coming to a close. All that was left was to announce the winners of the Combat tournament, as well as the Tradeskill tournament. Countless live streams had been busy recording and commenting on the fights and competitions within.
However, even outside of the tournament itself, many had managed to launch a successfull channel, getting famous practically overnight. There were those who recorded themselves using Vita Kingdom’s various amenities and facilities, others found their niche via info channels in which they explained the layout of the kingdom, what they knew to be its history and its benefits.
Just like in real life, there were a variety of channels for entertainment in this regard. Some did mukbangs of food served in Vita’s restaurants, some did reviews of various amenities, some showed the secret and best places to get this or that, some discussed pricing and where to get the cheapest things, some also showed hidden avenues or rules one could use or abuse to get benefits.
Basically, there was a lot of entertainment surrounding Vita’s latest event going around, which was great since the the player base had surpassed 900 million and was slowly approaching the critical number of 1 billion.
In the not so distant future, a seventh of the entire human race would be invested in Boundless, and obviously, even those who weren’t would also be fed news and information about the game inadvertently.
There was a lot of glory and publicity, so all those who participated became household names and were envied due to the items they were given. Some were even given chances to join Umbra, which they naturally accepted without a second’s hesitation.
Even the young masters and arrogant ones bowed their heads because Umbras’ internal welfare was notorious. Foulmouthed players had already spread around the slogan ‘Reject hard work, embrace Umbra’.
After all, it was ‘common knowledge’ that Umbra pampered their members like they were babies, so many people who fought, sweat and toiled were jealous and hateful of such a thing. Whether or not Umbra actually did so, and if it was undeserved, we all know people don’t really care about such things when they are filled with negative emotions.
The celebrations were lively after the tournament came to an end, and Vita Kingdom hosted a grand after party with free food and drinks. Players literally screamed upon discovering that the lowest tier of food or drink that was being served was at the Uncommon Rank, with many being Rare Rank and even some Epics for important players.
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Umbra was currently ranked as the sole Divine Guild.
Kamisuo (Gentle Flower), Desecrators (Noble Soul), Meiren (Yui), Myriad Cards (Joker) and Lorebinders (Happy Scholar) had long since merged with Umbra as subsidiary guilds, with their Guildmasters becoming core members.
Those guilds’ former core members were accepted into Umbra as expert members, their expert members became advanced members and the rest were given a chance to fight for spots to join Umbra as different tiers of sers.
With Draco and Eva’s actions of being benevolent, empowering players and generally bringing the world forward, the average power level of players was twice that of this same time period in the previous timelines, and 1.5x better than the AI’s pre-launch predictions.
Draco and Eva could have used their power to suppress all players and make them suffer for face slaps and other childish reasons, but to what end? Rather than that, it was best to make the players more skillful, knowledgeable and competent.
People who always felt the need to control the place of others were generally insecure of their own ability and felt that they could not match up to others, which was detrimental to progress.
As a result there were almost 300 Legendary Guilds out there. Each of their guild leaders had been given executive treatment by Vita Kingdom. They were able to eat and drink Epic food and drinks for every meal, their names announced when they entered and given prime seating positions in the grand banquet.
These leaders were tremendously flattered by this, obviously. To get to where they were, there were no fools among them. Each of them had varying strength and weaknesses, but one truth was that they were all frighteningly clever and perceptive.
They had long seen through Draco and Eva’s intentions and was why they never made trouble for Umbra or caused any hindrance, rather acting as unappointed enforcers of Umbra’s will in the background.
They also knew that there was nothing they had or could do that could interest Umbra since day 1. They had worse combat skills, worse welfare, worse Tradeskill players, worse resources, worse materials, worse items, worse power and influence…
So basically, the treatment Umbra and Vita gave them was a form of acknowledgment.
Sublime was basically making them go on all fours and petting their heads with a gentle smile.
‘I’ve noticed all you’ve done. Who’s a good boy, huh? Who’s a gwood bwoy??’
And naturally, they – the legendary guild leaders – were barking with glee at being praised.
‘Bark bark, woof woof woof! (Me! Me! I’m a good boy!)’
As for the Epic guilds below them, they were also treated pretty well. They were far more numerous, coming up about over 5000 in total. More and more were joining this rank per week as more and more players got access to better items, better equipment and better opportunities to harness their true talents.
Rare guilds numbered over 50,000 in number and Uncommon guilds reached almost 720,000. Common guilds were in the millions while unranked guilds were in the tens of millions.
Compared to the previous timeline where there had been 5 Divine Guilds, 25 Legendary Guilds, 70 Epic Guilds and 225 Rare Guilds, you could see the stark difference. The killer part was that the classification used the same terms, but the values were leagues apart.
The Divine Guilds in the previous timeline wouldn’t even qualify as Epic Guilds now, much less those below them. When one thought of it like this, one could really see the benefit and effect of the White-Haired Duo’s actions.
Speaking of them, now that both were no longer in seclusion and were back on the Main Plane, the portal within the Morningstar World had re-connected with the one in the Anomaly Realm. Although the Inner Universe was full of energy and was expansive enough, many felt like taking a stroll.
With permission from Zaine and with organization by Hoover, all the mothers came out with their children and showed them around the territory. Seeing such beauties stroll around the place while holding little munchkins, many took pictures or videos of them.
As Draco’s women considered everyone in Vita to be one of Draco’s people, they didn’t want to be mean or rude so they complied with some of the bolder ones who asked them to interact with them directly. When interviewed by some players, they easily revealed proudly that they belonged to Draco and that these were his children.
It was fine when it was done one by one, but once these videos came out and many people saw the different exotic beauties proudly boasting about their man, how could the plebeians not feel hate.
Doglikefather: “Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! How can one man be so lucky! God, I am screaming: WHY?”
Edgelordprime: “Sigh, we should have the police investigate this fellow. Maybe he forced himself on these beauties and used skills to force them to appreciate him!”
Fatheriswise: “@edgelordprime say you can’t get bitches without saying you can’t get bitches. How embarrassing to be you.”
Kevinhartistall: “@Fatheriswise Ikr? Like, we all play this game and it’s not even difficult to get laid! If you don’t want to use money, as long as you have some good traits and don’t absolutely act like an idiot, hundreds of NPCs are willing to have sex. Literally everybody has a harem or two in Boundless.”
Angrywoman: “I suspect @fatheriswise @kevinhartistall are rapists in secret. What @edgelordprime said could be very likely. How can any man be good enough for so many women to bear his child? It’s more likely that, like a typical pig male, he forced himself on them!”
Getouttadodge: “@angrywoman that is the dumbest take I have heard in my life. So let’s slap the rapist tag on someone because he has a harem of beautiful women? Do you have any proof of such a thing?”
Killermike: “@angrywoman did it hurt?”
Angrywoman: “@getouttadodge oh no, the rapist manbaby is angry~ hehe. You guys make it so obvious what your true colors are when revealed by the public. I don’t need proof of anything, because I never made an accusation. I just speculated that he could be one and see how defensive you are.”
Angrywoman: “@Killermike did what hurt??”
Getouttadodge: “@angrywoman typical misandrist behaviour. The moment I presented a logical rebuttal to your ‘speculation’ you slap derogatory tags on me in order to demean my argument and lower my position. People like you are why America entered the civil war and lost WW3, becoming this shitty ‘Central Country’ of today.”
Killermike: “@angrywoman did it hurt when you fell from someone’s butt becuz you’re a piece of shit?”
Angrywoman: “@getouttadodge first of all, misandry doesn’t exist. Its just a term misogynistic men came up with to ‘slap derogatory tags on women in order to demean our arguments and lower our position’s when dealing with sexist men.”
Edgelordprime: @angrywoman its sad how much hate you’re getting for saying the truth. Truly, the world has come to shit thanks to internet manbabies.”
Angrywoman: “@edgelordprime Ikr? Men simply hate to hear the truth about their ugly behavior, and im all here for ittt~”
Fatherwise: “Wow, I turn my head for two seconds and I am already slapped with a misogynistic and rapist tag. Since you have graciously given me the title, I shall no proceed to harass any woman I see online.”
Kevinhartistall: “@edgelordprime Brother, I swear on my knees, I swear to the god I believe in, and I swear on my ancestors graves, she is not going to fuck you bro.”
Killermike: “See how easily a feminist cane derail a simple topic? This thread was made to express our envy of that Draco fellow’s harem, but now its turned into a finger pointing argument about who is retarded (I.e @angrywoman and @edgelordprime) and those who are rapists (I.e the people they have conjured in their heads from nowhere).”
Lookpapaadonger: “This thread is absolutely kek-tier. I haven’t seen this kind of shit since Elon Musk bought twitter decades ago and balanced the freedom of speech scale for both sides. I can see why that period was rated as the lowest IQ period of human history.”
Perpetualmotion: “Look, all I am saying is, lets crosscheck and make sure that Draco fellow didn’t abuse his power or connections to get those girls. NPCs now have rights and stuff which they didn’t have before, so he could have totally gone ‘ these are computer programs, I can do what I want’ on them.”
Getouttadodge: “You see, while I still think its a bit much to go after someone for this, @perpetuamotion made a beautiful argument for the case without earing down anyones position or throwing words about. Is it really that hard to be reasonable?”
Angrywoman: “You see, this is what I am talking about. You get a man riled up and he starts… blah blah *huge wall of text*.”
Doglikefather: “NOOO!!! GODZILLA!!!”
Lookpapaadonger: “SOMEONE SAVE GODZILLA!”
Elle chuckled as she continued to read the thread while watching the events unfold at the same time. She was seated on a bench with the other core members of the guild while Misery, AP_Berzerker, Nightwalker and Shadowheart were pouring over a design plan.
The men were discussing the possible lay out their future pub which they had agreed to name Valhalla, and the estimated cost was already over 300 million platinum since they wanted to build a Rank 7 building from scratch using on the best materials that could be found as well as the best workhands.
It was a far cry to Draco who had only needed to pay 100k platinum for the Rank 7 Guild Hall back then thanks to the generous help of the Tradeskill Association.
Nevertheless, these four blokes didn’t worry about the funding. After all, they intended on auctioning the right to construct the building to the best crafters from the likes of the Diad Family, the Tradeskill Association, and others.
