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Chapter 2025 Tips for Gaining Reputation

Devouring soul flames sounds like a pretty simple thing: defeat monsters and the soul flames will appear as the corpse turns to dust.

By crushing the soul flame, one can absorb it and gain experience points, but all of this is contingent on the Blessed One defeating the monster.

Only monsters defeated by the blessed will turn to dust and reveal their soul flames; this is a fundamental rule.

Naturally, only the blessed can absorb soul flames as experience points without any burden.

Apart from those who are blessed or related to the dead, they cannot even be touched, let alone absorbed soul flames; they are like phantoms.

Therefore, when an entity other than the blessed person or the deceased appears and absorbs the soul flame—a situation that defies common sense—it generally signifies some kind of huge conspiracy.

Guild Master Zero drew a longsword and stabbed it into the orc undergoing metamorphosis in the Goblet of Fire. The sword pierced the orc's nape with precision, and with a twist, severed the orc's life force.

The orc's body gradually turned to dust and disappeared, and the mixed-colored soul flames that were originally in a state of fusion suddenly exploded, scattering in all directions like fireworks.

Guild Master Zero and Wardsif exchanged a glance, nodded in agreement, and decided that since they had run into each other, there was no need to miss the opportunity.

"It seems we'll have to trouble you for a while longer," Guild Leader Zero said with a smile to Ice233.

"Whatever." Ice233 maintained her indifferent attitude, glancing regretfully at the soul flame that appeared after Guild Leader Zero killed the orc.

They were not in a team, so they did not share experience points.

"Ah, this." Guild leader Zero noticed Ice233's regret. "Sorry for stealing your monster. As compensation, I'll teach you a little trick for farming reputation here."

“There are usually victims around the perpetrators.”

"What do you mean?" Ice233 frowned in confusion, as she valued reputation highly.

In this demolition operation, in addition to clearing out the barbarian orc strongholds and creating a favorable feng shui layout, there is an extra way to gain points: reputation.

At the end of the event, each person's reputation in the orc territory will be digitally tallied and converted into event points proportionally.

Some players have already teamed up, with some responsible for raiding barbarian orc strongholds and others responsible for completing resident quests in various orc clans to gain reputation.

"Literally speaking, what's special here is that the monsters don't just appear out of nowhere, and they certainly won't just stay in their lair waiting for players to hunt them down. Even monsters have their own lives; they need to eat, exercise, and reproduce."

"Their activity will have a negative impact on the surrounding residents. Generally, it is people in trouble who issue quest requests, and players accept the quests to kill the monsters. But conversely, after killing the monsters, players can also come to the residents and tell them that they don't need to worry anymore."

"While this approach doesn't yield a reward, it does earn more reputation. The difference lies in paid versus free services. People are always more grateful to passing heroes, aren't they? After all, gratitude isn't worth much." Guild Leader Zero gestured towards the reward.

If it weren't for that last sentence, Bingxue233 would have thought the guild leader was undoubtedly a good person.

But bad people are better at calculating gains and losses than good people.

Ice233 pulled out a map, which also marked the locations of orc clans. Around this medium-sized savage orc stronghold, there were many tribes of varying sizes. After receiving guidance from Guild Leader Zero, Ice233 immediately set off, efficiently selecting orc tribes within the teleportation tower network to spread the word.

Soon, the good news that the medium-sized savage orc stronghold that had been disrupting their normal lives and launching attacks from time to time had been defeated and destroyed would spread to all the areas plagued by the medium-sized savage orc stronghold.

Just like Guild Leader Zero said, free services garner more gratitude, and the visible reputation is jumping wildly.

Another benefit of rising reputation is that special story events will come knocking on your door.

Just as Ice233 was about to lead his people away amidst the cheers of the orcs, a commotion arose. The orcs, who had just been cheering, split up to the sides, making way for each other, as if they were avoiding something terrible and filthy.

An elderly orc, hunched over and leaning on a cane much taller than himself, walked slowly from among the separated orcs and approached them.

"Strangers, thank you for bringing peace to this land, but please allow me to ask you something." The old orc raised his head, revealing a beastly face with many horns.

"In that gathering place of wild beasts, is there the flame of the Great Beast God, performing some kind of fusion ritual?"

"Special intelligence has arrived. Although I don't know how your event is settled, special intelligence is undoubtedly quite valuable and should be able to be exchanged for a large number of points," Guild Leader Zero reminded Ice233 from behind.

"Ah."

Ice233 nodded and described what she had seen: the orc undergoing a metamorphosis in the Goblet of Fire.

"As expected..." The elderly orc sighed deeply, his back seemingly even more hunched.

“Stranger, if you wish to hear the sad stories of this land, please follow me.”

After saying that, without waiting for Ice233's reply, he turned and left. The other orcs looked at the old orc with undisguised disgust and fear on their faces.

"Who is that?" Ice233 asked an orc.

“Impure, a despicable hybrid,” the orc replied respectfully.

"Orcs actually care more about the purity of their bloodline than other races, but this is not a theory of noble bloodlines, but rather a manifestation of psychological reproductive isolation," Guild Master Zero explained. "Dog orcs will mate with different kinds of dog orcs, but they will never mate with cat orcs."

"Normally, cats and dogs cannot reproduce, but beastmen are different. Their human part makes them genetically immune to reproduction, allowing them to have offspring. Their beast part will conflict with each other, eventually resulting in keratin piercing the skin and growing out."

"This type of hybrid is called a polyhorned hybrid, which was an auspicious symbol during the peak reign of the Great Beast God, signifying that under the rule of the Great Beast God, orcs would become one."

"Unfortunately, due to the tyranny of the Great Beast God, the status of multi-horned hybrids has continued to decline, eventually reaching the point where they are regarded as a calamity and unclean. Not many of them have survived to this day."

"In other words, this old gentleman probably possesses quite important information." Guild Master Zero gazed thoughtfully at the elderly orc's retreating figure in the distance.

"Back then, I felt that the Great Beast God was defeated too easily."

(End of this chapter)