When it comes to showcasing a woman's natural charm, Levi is a master. His lingerie designs were very popular on the island.
Miya took the other people's design drafts and began to browse through them. She would occasionally gasp softly in amazement; Li Wei's control over the aesthetics of the clothing was truly breathtaking. Because Li Wei designed each Sekirei's evening gown as an independent system, it was difficult to find any overlapping elements between them. In other words, each person's evening gown was unique. Even for Hikari and Hibiki, and the twin sisters Miyu and Miki, the elements of their evening gowns were distinctive.
Mei Zai sighed inwardly, realizing that Li Wei's talent was beyond the comprehension of ordinary people. Aesthetic appreciation is not a skill that can be cultivated in a short time, which shows that Li Wei was a very particular person in life.
Time had passed by unnoticed, and Li Wei and Mei Zai arrived at the living room with a thick stack of design drafts. At this hour, the girls had already gotten up one after another and were waiting in the living room for breakfast.
Izumo-sou doesn't have a fixed breakfast time. Breakfast is served after everyone has arrived. If someone oversleeps, someone else will wake them up, so there's no need to worry about oversleep people missing their meal.
The living room was already quite full, and the television was on, broadcasting the morning news. The news during this period was all about MBI and Sekirei Games, demonstrating MBI's influence in the media.
Emotional power can be described as faith, so during this period, a large amount of emotional power was aroused, and the wagtails also gained a boost in power. The more popular the wagtail, the greater the boost it received.
The girls around Li Wei are all quite popular, so their abilities have improved considerably during this period.
Of course, Li Wei had already told them the true nature of this increased strength, so the girls did not covet the feeling of becoming stronger, because such strength was just an empty castle without any foundation. Once the emotional power dissipated, they would be reduced to their original state.
Li Wei looked down on the gods who were deified through faith because these gods, who relied on incense offerings for survival, were essentially weaklings. They merely used faith as a hormone to make themselves appear strong in a false way. No matter how powerful they appeared on the outside, their inner weakness could not be changed.
Even if Mihiro successfully ignited the divine fire and used faith to become a god, this was only the beginning. Once he became a god of faith, he had to establish a religious order, perfect his own faith system, and respond to the calls of believers, turning a large number of ordinary intelligent beings into his fanatical followers. It was extremely troublesome and tedious.
Becoming a god through faith is like starting a fire with firewood; you must constantly add new firewood to keep the flame burning. Once the firewood is insufficient, your own strength will decline. If you cannot complete a snowballing process similar to borrowing new wood to repay old wood, your faith in the god will weaken due to the collapse of faith, or even fall into eternal slumber.
If the power of a deity declines, it becomes difficult to fulfill the wishes of believers. As a result, believers begin to doubt the power of the deity they believe in, making their faith waver and further weakening the deity. This creates a vicious cycle that is very easy to occur. Therefore, the foundation of faith in a deity is very fragile. If there are too many altars and pots, and the rear is attacked, it is easy for the deity to weaken or even fall into slumber.
Moreover, the higher you climb, the harder you fall. If a cultivator is strong enough, and they become a god halfway through their faith, even if their faith collapses, they can survive on their own strength. They can either abandon their faith like a gecko shedding its tail, or slowly rebuild their divine kingdom over time. Overall, they won't fall into a deep sleep.
As for someone like Yu Guangren, who wants to directly worship gods with a mortal body, it's like trying to become fat while stuttering. Although the power increase after successfully becoming a god is enormous, his mortal nature remains unchanged. Once the foundation of his faith collapses, he will be reduced to his original form. In such a situation, the backlash alone could kill him; he wouldn't even have the chance to slumber.
Ignorance is bliss, and Li Wei simply watched as Yu Guangren courted his doom. In any case, with him around, Yu Guangren wouldn't even be able to succeed in achieving the Investiture of the Gods.
Chapter 44. Unleashed Productivity
The woman was closest to the television and watched the news report with great interest.
"Don't get too close, Uranium Girl. If you ruin your eyesight, you'll have to wear glasses like Song," Misai said with a smile.
Uranium Girl took a step back after hearing Miya's words. When she turned around and saw Miya dressed up in a completely new way, she looked surprised and said, "Huh? Is it some kind of holiday today? Miya-nee dressed up!"
"It's not a holiday, I just wanted a different look and a change of mood," Mei Zai said with a smile.
The sharp-eyed Uranium Girl immediately noticed the thick stack of manuscript paper in Miya's hand and asked, "Miya-nee, what are you holding?"
Meizai said, "Didn't Li Weijun say yesterday that he would make design sketches for your evening gowns? These are them."
Upon hearing Meizai's words, the girls curiously gathered around.
Each design draft has the names of the girls written on it, so they all pick up the draft with their own names on it first, wanting to see what their evening gowns would look like.
Mei Zai smiled and said, "No need to rush, everyone will get one. I've already looked through your evening gown designs, and they're fantastic."
Looking at the boisterous girls, Li Wei said to Mei Zai, "This noisy life is really nice."
One after another, girls came down from upstairs. When they saw the design drafts on the coffee table, they all ran over curiously and started chatting and laughing with their companions while holding their own evening gown design drafts.
Everyone had arrived, but seeing their current enthusiasm and the conversation focused on evening gowns, Mei Zai and Li Wei didn't intend to interrupt them. A slightly later dinner wouldn't make a difference, since they didn't have anything important to attend to anyway.
Holding her design draft, Hu Die approached Li Wei, her face slightly flushed, and whispered, "Sir, isn't this evening gown a bit too sexy? I feel really embarrassed to wear such an outfit in front of the whole world."
At this moment, Hu Die was dressed in casual home clothes, wearing a white t-shirt on top, a thin blue knitted cardigan on the outside, and a fitted gray pencil skirt on the bottom. This outfit gave her the feeling of a virtuous wife and loving mother. In addition, her long sky-blue hair was let down and tied into a dangerous side ponytail, making her "wife" vibe almost overflow.
Hu Die is a slightly introverted person. Although she is very decisive as a strategist when providing tactical support to the team, she is shy when talking to her companions in her daily life.
She is the kind of person who appears very strong on the surface, giving off a mature and aloof vibe, but once you get to know her, you'll find that she's a very feminine girl who is easily shy and occasionally likes to act coquettishly. However, when she acts coquettishly, she's afraid of being seen by her friends and being teased by them.
The evening gown that Li Wei designed for Hu Die wasn't particularly revealing; at least compared to other people's styles, it was relatively conservative. However, Hu Die was too shy, and this style was a bit too daring for her.
Li Wei laughed and said, "Hu Die, you are the team's strategist and our brains, so you need to have some confidence. Moreover, this party is also a good opportunity for us to observe our competitors and see what kind of opponents we will encounter after entering the third stage."
Hu Die snapped out of her reverie and said, "Yeah, I was actually agonizing over this kind of question. Instead of wasting time agonizing over it, I should have thought about how to observe our next opponent. After all, the third stage isn't a contest of pure brute force, and strictly speaking, our team doesn't have an absolute advantage."
At each stage, MBI operates behind the scenes. For example, in the first stage, to prevent the Reed Sprouts from engaging in premature conflict, MBI has specific rules to protect the new Reed Sprouts. The second stage uses combat-based rules, with one-on-one duels to gradually get the Reed Sprouts used to challenges and cultivate a tacit understanding between the Reed Sprouts and the Wagtails.
In the next third stage, the rules are more comprehensive. Although force can be used to achieve one's goals, there are times when even force cannot accomplish the objective. Therefore, familiarizing oneself with the rules in advance and understanding the opponent's weaknesses can make it easier for the team to achieve victory.
Li Wei could actually win them over with his own abilities, but that would hurt the self-esteem of some of the girls around him. Considering this, Li Wei decided to hide his talents to give the girls a chance to show their abilities.
Hu Die said with a serious expression, "I will try my best to do it and make sure I can get more information!"
Li Wei knew that Hu Die's attention had been diverted from her evening gown. Once Hu Die entered a state of deep thought, her perception of the outside world would decrease to a certain extent. She returned to her seat and began to anticipate various situations that might arise at the banquet.
Uranium Girl raised her hand and said, "Li Wei, I'm quite satisfied with the design draft; it doesn't need any modifications. I just don't know when we can start production?"
Li Wei said, "As long as you think the design is fine, I can start production anytime. With the help of magic, the production efficiency will be very high."
The uranium woman said, "Can I just watch you do it?"
Li Wei said, "Of course you can. It's not some kind of secret technology. If you're interested, you can learn it slowly later. When you like any style of clothing in the future, you can make it yourself anytime, and you can wear new clothes every day without any problem."
What Li Wei wanted to complain about was that the power of magic to boost productivity was too terrifying. There was a double backlog of raw materials and finished products on the floating island. The girls simply couldn't consume that much, so all kinds of materials were piled up in the various warehouses on the island. Li Wei could take materials from the warehouses on the island without worrying about the girls' opinions.
Fortunately, the floating island is a utopia without a monetary system. If it were to be market-based, the island's productivity would cause the entire market economy to collapse in no time. Although the girls are cultivators who have rapidly become immortals thanks to Li Wei's power, cultivators are cultivators after all. Their productivity is terrifyingly high, beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Even the most ordinary girls on the island have a personal productivity equivalent to a small town, and the stronger ones even have a personal productivity comparable to a small city. This is precisely why there is such a severe backlog of goods and raw materials on the island.
Chapter 4. The Grand Event
Not many girls were interested in the clothing making process. Only Younu and Song followed Li Wei to an empty room after dinner and watched as Li Wei skillfully took out various fabrics, precious metals, and gemstones to start making an evening gown.
Li Wei did not deliberately slow down the production speed, so the two girls watched as the fabric was cut into the predetermined shape by invisible scissors, and then sewn with a kind of golden thread. After the sewing was completed, the two girls were amazed to find that there were no traces of stitching on the clothes.
Various precious metals were melted in mid-air and then made into decorations for clothing. These decorations were very exquisite and intricate, reaching a level of refinement that human technology could not achieve.
Li Wei was making evening gowns piece by piece, and the two of them could clearly see the entire production process. Younu was simply watching the spectacle, while Song was trying to learn the craft. Although she couldn't learn it under the current conditions, her curiosity drove her to do so.
The entire production process took less than two hours. After finishing, Li Wei began to refine the evening gowns, intending to turn them into magical artifacts for the girls' self-defense. Although the island was very safe, considering that the girls might accompany him on adventures outside, it was always good to be prepared in advance.
The ritual was quite boring. Neither of the girls understood the process. After saying goodbye to Li Wei, they left the temporary workshop.
After several hours and the addition of a large amount of gold, all the evening gowns were forged into magical artifacts. Once soul-bound, these artifacts could unleash their defensive capabilities. Of course, to unleash their full power, one would need to use their own magical energy.
A few days passed in a flash, and the day of the banquet arrived. On this day, MBI started the grand ceremony early. During this period, Yu Guangren had integrated the power of most of the nobles. Now he has become the uncrowned king of the world. So with just a word from him, the entire noble system was mobilized. The entire Eastern Capital was like the New Year, and the festive atmosphere permeated the entire metropolitan area.
However, this day did indeed become a holiday, albeit a temporary one. Because MBI was holding a banquet on this day, all the companies, big and small, in the Eastern Capital were giving their employees a rare day off in order to curry favor. Even schools suspended classes for the day because of this. There were quite a few employees and students who were grateful to Mihiro.
The formal banquet didn't start until the evening, but some of the wagtails had already arrived at the MBI headquarters building, where the banquet was to be held, in the morning.
Moreover, at this time, a large number of social celebrities came here. MBI even held a red carpet ceremony and set up a huge signature wall. All the guests who came to the banquet could leave their names on the signature wall, in the same place as the future God King's signature.
The idea of a signature wall isn't new, but the prospect of having one's signature on the same wall as the future God-King is incredibly appealing to celebrities and powerful figures who crave fame. That's why so many dignitaries traveled from all over the world just to attend this banquet.
Of course, the prestige of the Yu Guang people was also an important reason for their arrival. After all, the Yu Guang people now have the shadow of world kings. As top-level nobles of a region or country, whether it is the oil tycoons of the East, the natural gas oligarchs of Russia, the financial families of Europe, or the Silicon Valley upstarts of America, they all showed great respect and arrived early, not daring to put on airs at all.
Besides these powerful figures who secretly control the world, many political figures also humbled themselves to attend the banquet. In addition, there were also many so-called celebrities and sports stars who brought their own food to freeload at the banquet.
Yu Guangren is not the kind of person who will not be allowed to enter if they are not on the invitation. As long as they have a certain level of fame, or are celebrities at the level of mainstream countries, and have been verified by the staff in advance, they can enter the venue by facial recognition on the day of the banquet, even if they did not receive an invitation beforehand.
Yu Guangren craves fame and excitement, so he naturally made multiple preparations for this major event that could ignite the enthusiasm of onlookers worldwide, trying his best to create a lively atmosphere at the banquet.
On both sides of the red carpet in front of the building entrance were newspaper and online media personnel from all over the world. These media professionals were all carrying "long guns and short cannons". With their cameras pointed at the red carpet, they would quickly press the shutter when each important person walked across the red carpet, like a pile of flashbangs being thrown around, making it hard for people to open their eyes.
Although the official live stream hasn't started yet, various media outlets have been broadcasting live for quite some time now. In these large live stream rooms, those who can't make it to the scene are enjoying the spectacle remotely thanks to modern technology.
In the morning, Li Wei and the others did not rush to the scene. The girls were not used to staying in such a crowded environment for a long time, so they simply gathered in front of the TV to watch the excitement.
Mizai sighed and said, "It's really rare for Mihiro to be able to gather such a large group of people. If a nuclear explosion were to suddenly occur at this time, the top echelons of human society would be wiped out."
Song said, "It's a pity that Jie and I can't go. We're both officially dead, so we can't join in the fun. It's such a shame."
Although Matsu and Yui couldn't attend the banquet, Li Wei had made them matching evening gowns. So, while they were disappointed at not being able to attend, they didn't find it too unacceptable; having beautiful new clothes made it all worthwhile.
Li Wei said, "While the excitement is entertaining, it might not necessarily be anything good."
At this moment, on the television and on the red carpet, a stunning woman in a glamorous evening gown is posing for the camera, trying her best to show off her figure.
Uranium Girl said, "Who is this? He looks familiar, maybe a movie actor or something?"
Guang said, "I think she's the female lead in 'Old Friends,' what was her name again? I can't quite remember. She seems to be quite famous in Taiwan."
Uranium Girl said, "Even actors and celebrities like this are here. Yu Guangren's guests are really wide-ranging. The first guest is a member of the royal family of Qatar, and the second guest is an actor or celebrity. The difference is too great."
Li Wei said, "Because to the people of Yuguang, these people are just ordinary people, so even if the truly powerful and influential have objections, they can only keep them to themselves."
Chapter 4. The Huge Team
The channel everyone was watching was a live broadcast from TV Asahi, one of Japan's three major television networks, which started airing at 10 a.m.
The program uses a traditional studio setup with direct connection to on-site recording equipment. High-definition footage from the scene is transmitted via the internet to a large screen in the studio, where the host and invited guests provide commentary on the events taking place.
Logically speaking, such a program should be very boring, but the people attending this banquet are dignitaries and celebrities who have come from all over the world. They are important figures who are only able to look up to ordinary people.
The general public is very curious about the lives of the upper class, and this time, the grand banquet organized by Yu Guangren brought together social elites from all over the world. Such "big news" naturally made the general public around the world excited.
The host's voice came from the television.
"Oh, it's the emperor of the Demon Kingdom and his empress. I didn't expect even he to be here. He's a person who rarely appears in the public eye." The host's tone was somewhat excited.
A strange man, obese in stature and dressed in a woman's long dress, said in a slightly shrill voice, "The emperor of the Transgender Kingdom is said to be a rather cruel monarch. The Transgender Kingdom's conscription system is probably the most barbaric conscription system in the world. Oh, and by the way, the conscription system in South Korea is just as barbaric. These two countries are simply like sworn brothers."
Japanese television programs, especially those entertainment programs with invited guests, often feature guests whose remarks are relatively sharp, used to create dramatic effect.
Li Wei immediately understood what the guest was talking about, but most of the girls around him didn't catch the joke and found the guest's words rather strange. Song was an exception; she immediately burst out laughing.
As a hacker who frequents the internet, Song visits all sorts of forums, so she knows all kinds of internet memes. The conflict between Japan and South Korea is quite exciting, a classic example of dog-eat-dog, which brings her a lot of joy.
Li Wei said, "Military service in the Demon Kingdom is decided by drawing lots. Once you draw a lot, regardless of your previous status, you must serve in the military, even monks with special social status are no exception. Military service in the Demon Kingdom is not only long but also extremely dangerous, so most people are unwilling to serve. It is precisely because of this that this method of drawing lots to determine fate exists. Those who refuse to serve in the military will be judged as criminals by the royal family and subjected to torture."
Uranium Girl said, "I see. There are just too many uncertainties in lotteries."
Li Wei said, "Yes, the royal family can legitimately increase the number of new recruits by cheating in the lottery. That fat guest said that the king of the transvestite kingdom is a cruel monarch, and he is actually not wrong. In fact, you could say that he has already given the other side a lot of face."
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