Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Since there were no ongoing wars, the position of Great Lord Knight remained empty. Jiaojiao did not know anything about officials and titles, but she was extremely interested in changing the name of the country.
The Eastern Continent vanished as a name, to be replaced with the Invincible Continent. The name of the new country was unveiled as well, and from now on it was the World Guild!
The monarch had a great deal of power, such as the power to change the name of the continent, rename the country at will, and even change the official positions system.
Jiaojiao thought the term King or Queen was just too Western, and she was not very fond of it. Hence, she reconstructed the official systems.
The monarch was no longer the King or Queen, and was now addressed as the Clan Master. The Chief Executive was different now too, called the Military Advisor instead. The Great Lord Knight was changed to the Great General…
Just like that, Jiaojiao created a mixed official system with plenty of Chinese flair…
Li Yi, who had been the Chief Executive, watched in exasperation as his title changed to Military Advisor. At the same time, he was secretly glad that Jiaojiao had not added ‘ of Nonsense’ to the end of that title. 1
“So for the next month, everything I say goes, huh?”
Jiaojiao only wanted to change the names, leaving the delegation of positions completely to Li Yi.
Changing the name of the country was a small matter, but distributing the roles was a big deal. After all, everyone in the Iron Alliance had worked together to claim this throne. It was not just Li Yi’s achievement alone. That was why everyone in the Iron Alliance had to receive their own rewards, without exception!
Li Yi named Confused Fox, Flower Underpants, and the other Guild Masters Castellans, while the Vice Guild Masters were made Soldier Captains. Every member of the Iron Alliance, regardless of whether they participated in the Throne-claiming War, had their official positions rise by one rank. The regular civilians were directly made City-Defending Soldiers.
Everyone had a positions, which was a rapid step upward. It was much faster than grinding out quests alone like Li Yi had done back then.
Overnight, every major city for the players in the Invincible Continent had a Castellan. Two of these Castellans came from the Three Major Guild Alliance, namely Defiantly Tyrannical and Fallen Star, but their titles did not come from Li Yi. Instead, they had climbed their way to the top, slowly and surely.
Li Yi, the Military Advisor, could both appoint and fire Castellans, but he could not do anything against Castellans that made it up there on their own efforts. Even the King was not allowed to fire players who became Castellans that way.
Other than Defiantly Tyrannical and Fallen Star, there were three other independent player Castellans who did not belong to either Alliance. Aside from these five, every other Castellan was appointed by Li Yi.
Chen Yang became a Castellan, Fire Ice became a Castellan. Since there were so many major cities, every guild in the Iron Alliance had more than 5 Castellans…
Li Yi also declared that other than the members of the Three Major Guild Alliance, every player would be tax-exempted for a month, so they could play without having to pay tax.
The coronation of the King brought widespread celebration!
After Li Yi finished appointing players to the positions, he immediately declared that the National Mecca was open to all!
The National Mecca was definitely one of the best grinding maps in the whole of Pantheon.
The National Mecca did not have many monsters, but this was the best place to grind levels. It did not matter if one had the equipment or otherwise, and it did not matter what level one was either. Anyone could grind levels freely here.
The National Mecca had three floors in total. After the King opened it, every player in the country could freely enter the first floor.
The first floor did not have any monsters at all, only a large hot spring. The left side was for men and the right side for women. Everyone could come here and soak for 2 hours, gaining EXP every 3 seconds. At the same time, they could also use their Guild EXP buff when gaining EXP at the hot springs.
Soaking in the hot springs with 2.5x EXP gave them more EXP than running dungeons, and most importantly, they did not require any equipment for this. They could soak however they liked, and as long as they did, their EXP would just keep rising. It truly was the best way to level.
The second floor was also a hot spring, but only national officials could enter with the permission from the King. The third floor of the Mecca was even more mysterious. It would only open when the country was developed to a certain extent, and before that happened, no one had the right to enter.
Once the National Mecca was opened, the members of the Three Major Guild Alliance were in for a bad time because the Mecca was in the Celestial Capital. Li Yi’s limitation meant that the Celestial Capital was constantly hostile toward anyone from the Three Major Guild Alliance. If any of them dared to approach the Celestial Capital, even if the players did not attack them, the Celestial Capital’s NPC soldiers would still take them down, no matter how many of them showed up.
If he decided to suppress them, he had to do it with force. If he allowed his victims to turn the tables on him, he would be doing a disservice to himself.
The members of the Three Major Guild Alliance could not even swear because they would be muted as soon as they did. In the first few days, some of them would still complain on the official forums, but as the time passed, even the complaints became rarer for a very simple reason: the officials ignored this matter completely.
Since the members of the Three Major Guild Alliance were paying extra taxes while also being denied access to the Mecca’s springs, their ranks began to thin rapidly. To many players, they did not truly have enemies in the game. They had only joined the guild for protection, so it was impossible to expect them to be loyal forever. These players were easily swayed by whichever the way the wind was blowing hardest.
In a mere three days, the Three Major Guild Alliance lost two thirds of their members, their number dropping more than 3 million people at once.
In the Mecca’s springs.
Tens of millions of players soaked in the hot springs, naked. There was only one tall wall between the male and female springs, too, so when they stood on one side, they could hear the laughter and conversations from the other side.
The hot springs’ settings were extremely realistic. They did not restrict players to wearing clothes or otherwise when soaking in the springs, but if players were clothed when bathing, the EXP they gained would be reduced by 10%.
On the first day after the hot springs were opened, there was already a brave male player who attempted to jump across the wall and enter the female springs with the Ice Toad King…
This brave male player was Tall and Mighty, Castellan of Windflower City and Dark Wing’s best friend.
At first, Fatty had only wanted to steal a peak at the scenery inside the women’s hot springs, but after he leaped across, he realized players were prohibited from filming in the hot springs. At the same time, the female players could all use a skill called Beat the Perv, controlling the water to spray at him. Fatty got water straight in his face so he could not see anything at all, and he was killed as soon as he landed in the springs.
Just like that, Fatty made a name for himself once more. However, he also discovered another little secret as a result of this incident. When male players ran to the female springs, they would earn an additional 20% EXP!
Fatty made this secret public, and the world of Pantheon lost it. Countless players tried to find ways to run to the opposite springs in order to gain that extra EXP. Of course, that was why they said they went.
If male players could gain extra EXP in the female springs, the opposite was naturally true as well. However, very few female players would run to the men’s side to bathe, and even if they did, they would still be carefully protected by their boyfriends as they hid in an inconspicuous corner of the springs, bathing secretly.
It was only on the fifteenth day of the springs’ opening that the someone broke the record of female players not daring to bathe openly in the men’s springs.
That was because… Bloody Rose was here!
By then, Bloody Rose had already become Defiant Mountain Gun’s wife, defecting from the Western Continent to the Invincible Continent so that she could be together with Defiant Mountain Gun.
Rumor had it that Bloody Rose had entered the water after taking off her clothes, and there were no players within a hundred-meter radius of her. Rumor also had it that many of the players who had seen Bloody Rose enter the springs had nightmares later, suffering from insomnia for more than half a month before they finally recovered.
Rumor had it that after Bloody Rose had Defiant Mountain Gun, she never once put on her veil, revealing her real face to the world. That would not be an issue if she was halfway normal, since everyone would just laugh a little and forget about it. However, even though this heroine was being sustained by Defiant Mountain Gun, her mentality clearly had not changed much. She was just the same as before.
“What are you looking at? You wanna rape me? Hooligan, I’ll punish you in the name of the heavens!”
Tragedy struck anyone who gave Bloody Rose a second glance, and Bloody Rose’s bad name traveled across the entire Invincible Continent. Thankfully, the Invincible Continent had another hero in Defiant Mountain Gun.
After Bloody Rose got married, she spent less and less time on the game. According to Defiant Mountain Gun’s actual words, this was because she had gotten pregnant. She chose to leave King of Pantheon permanently for the baby’s sake, so she could care for the next generation with all her heart.
Of course, all of this happened later. In the first few days of the Mecca springs’ opening, Bloody Rose was still holding Defiant Mountain Gun hostage, and no one knew where they were.
Li Yi and the other national officials were in for a celebration because Clan Master Jiao had used her rights to allow all of them into the second floor of the Mecca, where they bathed in the hot springs there.
The opening of the Mecca’s springs visibly increased the leveling speed of the Invincible Continent’s players.
On the other hand, the Iron Alliance gained a drastic boost in numbers. Although the Little Drunk Cat Guild had always been implementing their elite plan, the country would become more stable the more allies they had. Hence, Li Yi found a reliable candidate, Little Elf from the Magical Realm, and asked her to start a new guild called Drunken World where Li Yi was the Vice Guild Master. Any player who wanted to join would be accepted into the new guild.
Regardless of level or equipment, and it did not matter if they used to be friend or foe — as long as they applied, they were accepted!
Within a mere three days, the Drunken World Guild’s ranks rose to more than 70 million members, becoming the Invincible Continent’s largest guild overnight.
Not long after Clan Master Jiao came up with the name of the Invincible Continent, she began to think that it did not sound very good. After mulling it over for half a day, she eventually resorted to asking Li Yi, “Perverted Wing, do you think the name Drunk Cat King Continent sounds good?”
“I’ll spray you in the face.”
“What about Drunk Cat Jianghu?”
“Jiang my *ss! Don’t try, just keep it at this name for now…”
Jiaojiao had rendered Li Yi speechless.
She clearly did not have much talent in coming up with names, so if she were to try anything else, she might come up with some other weird name.
Li Yi shuddered at the mere thought of the words Drunken Cat King above his head.
He named the guild Little Drunk Cat because when Jiaojiao got drunk, her eyes would narrow like a little cat. As for Jiaojiao, she clearly did not understand where he was coming from, hence her ridiculous attempt to call the country Drunk Cat King.
Could… could this name have some hidden meaning as well?
Li Yi was lost.
On the third day after Li Yi successfully claimed the throne, the Throne-claiming War that the Western Continent’s Reigning The World Guild had applied for officially began as well.
