At the end of version 1.1, due to the impact of the official update preview, some players anticipated that the Silent Court might offer even more benefits in the new version, so they decisively abandoned their original camps and began migrating to the Silent Court.
The number of these players was enormous, and their arrival resulted in the player base of the Silent Court growing by a hundred or two every day.
But this was just the beginning.
After version 1.2 launched, the popularity of Bagalos challenge instances made the Silent Court even more enticing.
Many players who were initially indecisive couldn't sit still after seeing the events that unfolded in the Silent Court on the first day of the new version.
Perhaps they too could unlock a Hidden Profession after arriving at the Silent Court?
Even if they couldn't unlock a Hidden Profession, acquiring a few skills that could be described as Divine Skills would significantly enhance their gaming experience.
Recently, players from the Silent Court have been continuously posting videos on the Community and video websites of themselves threshing Sandworms with Flowing Light and Radiant, putting Moon Conceal to use, making players from other camps turn green with envy.
However, the real driving force that convinced most fence-sitters to go the extra mile and join the Silent Court were the two incidents that followed.
After unlocking the Moon Dancer Profession, Patrick scored thirteen consecutive wins in the arena, and in the no-rules competition mode, he even defeated the top competitor of another popular online game, landing himself in the fourth spot on the real-time Point rankings, ready to challenge the first place and become the new "King."
This event propelled Patrick to become one of the most followed players among the Stars, with many professional teams inviting him to join.
You know, although he was famous for his skills before, he was still a notch below the very top players. Now, after honing his skills in the Silent Court, he seemed poised to transform into a dark horse.
"This is the Silent Court!"
"People who like Fufu are in luck."
"Join the Fu Sect, increase combat power by 20%."
If that incident wasn't enough to prove the point that "joining the Silent Court makes you stronger," then the video released by Digging Girl was the most compelling evidence.
Everyone knows Digging Girl is a noob; her Level is high, but she can't even beat regular players half her level.
However, in the newly released video, using the skills Flowing Light and Moon Conceal, she managed to stealthily take down two Level 12 Sandworms without dying herself!
The first reaction of the players who watched the video was that they must be dreaming, and the second was—
"If even Digging Girl became so badass after learning Flowing light, Radiant, and Moon Conceal, I'd definitely be even more awesome with those skills!"
No way, no way, surely there's no one more noobish than Digging Girl, right?
Even if there were, they wouldn't admit it.
Digging Girl's video was like a Charm bomb dropped into deep water, attracting a large crowd of players to the Silent Court.
"Now we're getting a hundred or two every day; in a few days, I reckon it'll be three to four hundred, or even more."
Seeing this situation, Bai Fu hurriedly handed over all the vehicles she had previously acquired to Gao Yuan, allowing him to set up a fleet to shuttle back and forth between Shelter 11 and Shelter 5, transporting players from all over to prevent any potential shortage of transport from causing players to get stuck at Shelter 5, creating a situation where some may lose interest in coming to the Silent Court.
"A new player willing to spend money can bring me at least 2,000 Experience in the early stages. Coupled with the Experience gained from other places, I'm currently netting almost 500,000 Experience a day, and when the peak period arrives, that number could double."
Bai Fu estimated this peak period might last ten days to half a month. If her calculations were correct, this Experience would be enough to max out her advanced Moon Dancer profession and then level up her Spiritual Ability Painter Profession by 6 or 7 levels.
The future looked bright indeed!
Bai Fu chuckled to herself as she walked to the window, overlooking the busy players outside.
So many players flooding into the Silent Court at once was both a boon and a huge challenge for its development.
The increase in the number of players meant that if the tasks she offered remained the same as before, players would face a lack of enough to go around, causing their gaming experience to plummet. By then, surely plenty of players would simply leave after spending Experience on skills.
It's true she would still have fleeced these players once, but a single shearing was far from satisfying her.
"Joined the Fu Sect, and you think you can leave without being squeezed dry?"
What Bai Fu wanted was not just one feast, but feasts for every meal.
To solve this problem, she came up with several methods.
The first was to speed up the construction of Gao Yuan's commission platform, taking on more tasks from the outside world to distribute to players in the Silent Court.
The second method was to reach cooperation with other forces—like the Dark Web, regularly sending players over to do jobs for them.
The third method was to boost the Reputation of the Silent Court, creating more challenging instances to quench players' thirst.
But compared to these methods, in her heart, Bai Fu had an even bolder plan, one that she had come up with on the fly. She named this plan—
"The Ancestral Origin Star Rebuilding Plan!"
After the Great Battle and the Great Catastrophe, Ancestral Origin Star had become a wasteland, littered with Mutated Life and pollution sources, with survivors enduring a tough existence among the ruins. They often imagined how beautiful the world might have been before the disaster but dared not hope that it could truly be restored to its former state.
They didn't dare, but Bai Fu did—after all, she had a myriad of players at her disposal who weren't afraid to die or of pollution.