Jake didn’t know why, but he got a faint feeling that he maybe should have told Miranda that a good third of the first ten Pylons were claimed by family or old friends. Perhaps it was her very sarcastic tone… nah, it can’t be that.
Alright, I did kind of drop the ball on that one, Jake had to admit, as he scratched the back of his head a bit embarrassed. It was a bit of a dickmove not to inform her beforehand, but in Jake’s defense, he didn’t know that Casper would be a big shot in the undead faction or that his brother would attend the World Congress. He really should have mentioned Jacob, though.
Either way…
“Yeah, sorry about that. But no, I don’t know any other people than them here, though I did half expect one other guy to attend here today. Luckily he hasn’t. His attendance would make it hard to follow the no-fighting rule,” Jake apologized. The person that he had kind of expected to attend was, of course, William.
Jake hadn’t really thought about the metal-caster at all since the tutorial ended before today, but in retrospect, he had to wonder why he wasn’t present. He was blessed by Eversmile, after all.
“Just… don’t spring any more surprises,” Miranda sighed before switching the subject. “While you were meeting old friends, we managed to make contact with quite a few other factions, mainly to gather information and to try and understand the state of the planet. Haven has yet to enter any official alliances yet, but there are a few good prospects… but I wanted to get your thoughts first.”
“Do what you think is best, Miranda. Make as many alliances as you want, and if you make a few enemies along the way, just let me know. Ah, but don’t go around making people mad on purpose; that could get a bit annoying to deal with…” Jake answered but quickly backpedaled as the mental image of a dozen small factions descending on Haven emerged. He would hate having to waste time on getting them to fuck off…
“I have no plans on making enemies for no good reasons, geez,” Miranda said, with a small laugh, clearly finding the notion preposterous.
“Just saying,” Jake clarified.
“Needlessly,” Miranda interjected.
“Importantly,” Jake countered.
“Wastefully,” Miranda shot back.
“Clarifyingly,” Jake double-clarified.
“Neil and I managed to talk to the trade manager of Sanctdomo and begun early talks of establishing a trade network using spatial formations. Something the Holy Church is already working on themselves to connect their own cities,” Lillian came in, totally ruining the critical discussion with actually helpful information.
“Guys… shouldn’t we vote?” Neil also asked, clearly feeling a bit out of place.
Jake turned to the space mage in confusion. “You haven’t already? Weren’t we just going to abstain?”
“I hadn’t voted either,” Lillian said, Miranda also shaking her head as she said: “Me neither… but yeah, we skip this one.”
A minute later, the notification popped up before all of them:
The election of World Leader has now concluded!
Results: No individual obtained at least 60% of the total votes. No World Leader will be elected during this World Congress. Note that a World Leader must be elected within the first 3 World Congresses.
and tried to see if he could see a breakdown of votes but couldn’t find any way
voted for what?” he asked, hoping maybe
see what it says,” she shook her head in response, also clearly wanting to
comes to details… imagine if you could get a breakdown after getting a skill upgrade telling
that before he was interrupted by a new system
of the World Congress will relate to accelerating the growth of the planet and
sold item then becoming available to other cities through the store at a price set
the store will offer, a vote
The stores will use Credits as their currency and will, in addition to items being sold by other cities, contain three types of crafting materials depending on what receives the most votes. Votes may be distributed as the noble desires between any number
voting options are as
1.Herbs
2.Ores & Metals
3.Gems & Crystals
Monster Leather, Hides &
Parts,
6.Wood
7.Stone
8.Chemicals
&
and other
will be returned to the seller once the period expires. The Pylon
begin in:
system store… Jake had expected such a thing to not really appear as the Viper had made it clear that the tutorial store wasn’t something he should expect as
as long as you had enough points. This store was just a
if he could just buy them? He had so many Credits, after all. Maybe he could even get a
massive forest, so it isn’t like we need wood, and as we only really build using wood, so the Stone isn’t needed. Everything is basically a luxury to us and to help grow the professions of
the herbs,” Jake
doubt many others will vote for Herbs. Most larger factions are at the moment focusing on expanding their populations, so I am 90% sure either Stone, Wood, or both will be voted for
be a perpetual lack of proper materials for the blacksmiths, and it is also a barrier of entry to making the teleportation circles. Personally, I would prefer Gems and Crystals, but I
of them,” Jake said. He really didn’t care what else was picked. He doubted any leatherworker or
his long-time weapon some more, another person spoke up, someone not from the first ten, but a level 85 E-grade who was the lord or at least appeared to be the leader
vote for before we split up once more so we can focus on
terms with the first one who spoke. “If we determine
It was kind of a show of solidarity and was perhaps because they felt like they needed more time than the larger factions. The Holy Church had no issues forging alliances, but those
The barrier around each city’s area had quite a few functions, and many were still locked off as people no doubt were discussing what to do within. He used the term “no doubt” because… well, he could see them in his sphere discussing - cheat-like bloodline
to begin, Jake happily let Miranda take full charge as he just stood by her side, being the scary Progenitor he
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