Tutorial zone, p.13
Tutorial Zone, page 13
part #1 of Magic Life Series
“Sadly those brats of ours don’t like competition.” He said rubbing his head.
“Well, it takes only 1 to start a chain reaction.” She said.
He raised his brow and looked at Akor and shook his head, “That is true, but I don’t think the demons would allow him to grow. There is a higher chance for animal kingdoms, monster kingdoms or sentient nations to provide this, and with them, only as minor gods instead of their major god.” he said.
“That is true.” Edna nodded agreeing.
“So how are the ratings for the first week?” he asked.
Edna pulled up several statistic graphs. “These are the lord popularity, this is the game’s popularity and this graph shows the number of players over the last 7 days.” she said.
“Seems the lord’s show was the right choice.” Wilson said.
“Yes but quite a number of them are trying to obtain the lord class in game.” She said.
“Hmm…” Wilson fell silent before nodding, “Let them, just limit the demons. Demon lords are born, any demon player who gets a lord class will be a dark lord and won’t be able to place the Demon heart to get the racial buff.” he said. “As for the others, I don’t mind, because it is a process of expansion, so in-game class change is no problem.” he said.
“Alright.” Edna said.
The screens closed and they moved on to their own work, ignoring the ‘ambitious’ Demon lord who ruined his own game play.
***
Akor was watching the imps move wood towards the Lord’s house and dumping it on top. After gathering excess wood, he decided to upgrade the last upgrade of the lord’s house and all the upgrades for the demon huts.
Currently, the dirt mound over the lord’s house was slowly shrinking, while wooden pillars rose up. When the pillars rose, and the dirt finished spreading while the entrance to the basement changed from under the door to a space under the new frame.
Wooden walls quickly started to form with glassless windows and a straw roof. The house was large, but extremely simple, which wasn’t really a problem.
The flooring was covered in straw like the lower floor, but it was more ‘homey’ now.
When it finished he got a prompt.
You have completed all upgrades lord’s house upgrades.
You can now upgrade the Lord’s House to level 2 and level up your village to level 2.
“Great, I can level up the village now!” He said happily and did just that.
Level up requirements
● All Lord’s House upgrade
● 5 Demon Hut, Fully upgraded
● 50 residents
All requirements completed.
Akor was surprised to see there were requirements.
Before he could ask, a bright light came from the Lord’s House and shot into the sky. The Lord’s house became a bit bigger with the level up, but not much else changed besides the size.
By leveling up your capital, Demon heart has reached level 2.
When everything quiet down he turned to Valring. “There are requirements to level up?” he asked
“Ah yes, but I didn’t mention it since we completed them all.” She said.
"I see. How do I check them?” he asked.
“Just press to level up the Lord’s house to see the requirements.” She said.
He did that to check the next level up.
Level up requirements
● All Lord’s House upgrade
● All Demon Hearts placed
● At least 2/4 demon hearts level 2
● Level 2 Village Wall Completely built and upgraded
● Constructed Barrack Level 1
The requirements made him freeze and frown.
Valring saw this and smiled, “A Demon Heart needs power to grow, it isn’t strange that it requires more placed demon hearts. It stimulates Demon Lord’s to grow.” She said.
"I see.” He said nodding.
“We should build the wall first.” He said.
“Of course, my Lord.” He said and opened the research. “Where is the architecture skill?” he asked.
“It’s under the Architect class in support.” Valring said.
He opened the support section and tabbed to search and soon found it.
Demon Management
Demon Towns
Town Management
Research:
Support
Architect
Unlock
Tier 1 Research
Math Skill, Writing Skill, Paper making.
He presses to unlock and places Valring to go research it.
After sending off Valring, he turned to the rest of the village. Different from the village walls that need architect, the demon hut, demon nest and wild fruit field did not have such high requirements.
Demon Management
Demon Towns
Town Management
Research:
Buildings
Wild Fruit Farm
Upgrade
Tier 1 Research
Requires all relevant upgrades
Demon House (Imp)
Upgrade
Tier 1 Research
Requires all relevant upgrades
Demon Nest (Imp)
Upgrade
Tier 1 Research
Requires all relevant upgrades
He instantly upgraded them all, all the building released a bright light and began to grow.
The huts increased in size a bit, the nests formed a second ‘room’ and the fields doubled in size.
The effect was quite good, the fields now produce 2 units of food each, double this because of the farmers buff. The nests now have a 1.5 birth rate every 12 hours so 3 per day for every 5 members.
For the demon hut, they hold now 12 members each with the small increase of size.
This was a good improvement, because now there were a few more residents and much more food. What is more, he opened his Town management to see the specific buildings and smiled.
Demon Management
Demon Towns
Town Management
Stone
174 Unit
Wood
125 Units
Number of Buildings
Lord’s home
Level 1
Wood 50 units
Upgrade
1
Village wall
Level 1
Wood 20 units
Build/Upgrade
1/1
Demon Hut (imp)
Level 2
Wood 70 units
Build/upgrade
5/10
Demon Nest (Imp)
Level 2
Wood 100 units
Build/Upgrade
2/3
Wild Fruit Field
Level 2
Wood 15 units
Build/Upgrade
5/10
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↓
>>
Demon Towns
Town Management
Stone
174 Unit
Wood
125 Units
Number of Buildings
Succubus House
Level 1
Stone 50 units
Wood 120 units
Build/Upgrade
1/1
Animal Ranch
Level 1
Wood 90 units
Build/Upgrade
1/5
Forester hut
Level 1
Wood 60 units
Build/Upgrade
1/7
Farmer’s hut
Level 1
Wood 75 units
Build/Upgrade
1/2
<<
↓
>>
The increase in buildings was great news for him.
He opened his town map to build and that was when he saw a new button common to strategy city builders. It was a button to move buildings. He pressed it and a tutorial appeared.
Tutorial Guide
The move tool is a special tool that only the lord class can access. It allows you to move a building without having to destroy it.
This made him happy and he looked at the village, which was compressed into a small space. Since the new wall was most likely to be wider, he moved the less important buildings, like the houses out of the walls and rearranged the fields to the east side closer to the water.
The, he put the construction of five new fields. Because of the level up, the houses were built directly in level 2.
That said, the cost of the house was equal to the construction and all the level 1 upgrades. Still, it was better than having to do one upgrade at a time. The five fields with sturdy fences and tilled fields were all made raising the number of fields to 10 and the production to 40 units per day.
This was actually an impressive amount for a small village, considering that upgrades will come as well, it will radically improve, making him very happy and decided that he would upgrade the forester hut first to increase the number of forester imps and increase the amount of wood they get per day.
"I guess now, all that is the few battles, which will need to be done.” Akor muttered as he sensed the nearby tugs on his horns.
He thought a while and decided that he will first build the new village walls and then will lead the imps to take the mana spring.
Nodding, he went to train his writing, which had leveled up to level 3 already because of his diligent daily practice.
***
While Akor was busy, something he didn’t expect was happening.
After a week, the Lord’s show officially began.
“Welcome to the new and daily show of the Second Life Channel, the Lord’s reality show, with your host, Ronald Tristan.” The opening narrator announced.
Clapping could be heard from the virtual audience who paid to have a sea. Of course, like most shows, they are done in virtual reality to cut many costs, such as set construction, which can be easily built by the AI.
“Greetings and welcome, I'm Ronald Tristan. Welcome, I'm happy to host this new and inspiring show for you all as we’ll dive into the mysterious of what makes a Nation in the Latest released [Magic Life]. Just as you know, we will not be limiting ourselves to just the lords and will also show the fantastic players in the game, after all, this isn’t a full strategy game but an MMO.” He said as he walked to the stage and sitting there was Edna.
“For our first show, we have our beautiful and always competent, Edna Winston, Vice CEO of Second Life INC here to show us what to expect as well as introduce a very fun segment of our show.” Ronald said. “So, Mrs. Winston, I have been curious ever since I heard this, though I only heard a few bits. Care to explain to us all?” He asked.
“Of course, well first off, this show is to show the game and its events. This can be from submitted quests done by players, boss battles, events and more. Beyond this, we are also here to show the many unique ways a nation can be made under various obstacles, such as powerful existing lords and kings blocking the way. As you all know, each player in the lord game-play makes major choices, which influence their citizens more and more. These specific choices can been seen on the ten studio sites here.” She said and raised her hand and a screen with the ten studios and their website addresses. “At the current moment these are the ones managing the contracted players, but because we did not block the lord class in game, there are sure to be more lords who will appear later on.”
“From what I heard, you let all available game-play races get 100 lord class players, right?” He asked.
“Yes, at least for those who wanted to choose to have their class given at the character making state yes.” Edna said.
“So, with these choices made, exactly what is so special about these choices?” He asked.
“It is a special feature of the game. Choices in life can always be life changing so we took that to the extreme. These changes can cause so many changes that it is possible that, in the case of monsters and animals, that it alters their evolutionary path.” She explained.
“What about demons? I remember there were a huge number of them like monster races.” Ronald asked.
“Demons don’t evolve, this is the biggest change compared to games who regarded the demon race as monsters.” She said.
“Wait, so demons don’t evolve, but there are so many variety.” He said
“The Demon Race originally had a single race, which are the Imps. These are the original demons, over time these original imps mated with countless different races. Because their DNA is so flexible, like dragons are normally portrayed, over time the imps bred countless different demon races, but they never evolved through the evolution system of the monsters, but were bred into new races.” She explained.
"I see, so do they have some kind of different system?” Ronald asked.
“Anything that isn’t animal or monsters, in this case, the so called sentient races and demon race, they all have what is called a ‘maturing’ period.” She replied.
“Care to explain?” he asked.
“Of course, in [Magic Life], maturing means that the genetic code of a race stabilizes. In the case of the demon race, a very distinct feature is shown between a Tier 1, or basic imp, and a tier 2, a Great Imp. That feature is that all Tier 2 and above creatures ‘grow’ with age. By that, I mean just like how humans age and gain status points, they would also get this benefit. For a more clear idea, humans are a Tier 2 race, while in rare cases, one individual can reach Tier 3, the so called noble bloodlines would come from this source.” She said.
"I see, I was told you were going to introduce a section of this show.” Ronald said.
“Yes.” she smiled and snapped her finger.
Behind her, several large boards appeared. At the top was actually rankings. ‘Lord Ranking’, ‘Lord most likely to fail’, ‘Player ranking’, ‘Most powerful Lord nation’...
These several rankings were filled in already. The most eye catching was the ‘Lord most likely to fail’.
“Wow, there are some interesting rankings there.” he said.
“Of course, because of the number of lords, we had to up the difficulty that lord players would face and as I said before, choices have major effects and well… some choices made early on have put quite a few players at an extreme disadvantage.” she said.
The names on the list were revealed all in quite bold text.
Ranking: Lords Most likely to fail
Ranking
Player
1
Akor (Demon)
2
Salgan (Wolf)
3
Xith (Dwarf)
4
Ulra (Demon)
5
Azan (Dragon)
“Looking at this list, I am actually curious about what these players did to get placed on this list? There is even a Dragon Lord on it!” He said.
“It was their choices, the first one pertains to an event we put for all the lords, which allowed them to get either an adviser or general for their people, but at the same time, warriors of a powerful existing lord, king or overlord beast would come. Inside the tutorial zone any entering creature would have to reset their levels, so the players have a fighting chance. They would choose either to gain unique minions or followers from the more powerful faction, but in return they lose the adviser or general.” She said.
“The other option would be protecting them, right?” he asked.
“Yes, this makes the faction the enemy of the player and would regularly send minions to hunt the player. If killed, they would get experience, which would eventually level the player to level 5 breaking the tutorial mode.” She said.
“That is a rather cruel method.” He said.
“It is life.” She replied, making some people sigh and shake their head at the true fact.
“Has there been any other choices?” Ronald asked.
“Yes, the #1 has done this earlier, recognition of a god. In the game, Gods play an integral part of the game by giving special blessings, but there are three types. Active gods, or gods who actively promote their religion. Sleeping gods, or gods who were gravely injured at one time in game. Lastly are Sealed gods, gods who are so powerful that the other gods had to seal it. Amongst these, sealed gods are the most powerful and unique, but if you choose to give faith to them, you will be hunted by everyone in the world. As for sleeping gods, the weakest, they are much less likely to give a large reaction depending on the race.” She said
“So this Akor made a bad choice?” Ronald asked.
“Yes and no. Sadly for the demon race, the demon gods do not like them, because the active demon gods are all of the evil faction. You see, the term Demon god, is literal very much like human god and elf god.” Edna said.
“Ah! So you mean to say that Demon gods aren’t all evil and are more like racial gods instead.” He said.
“Yes, because he discovered this fact, he choose a sleeping god making the demon gods choose to hunt him down, so that the good faction does not awaken.” She replied.
“Wow, what a troublesome choice? Did he never think of choosing an active first and then a sleeping?” he asked.
“No because gods have ‘desires’, and most of them are evil desires, which he did not like. What is more is that he further insulted the gods without thinking, making them angry. So his ranking…” she said shrugging.
