The room quieted down again. Roland slowly sipped on the warm water, waiting patiently for Hawk to ponder quietly over this idea.
For a person like Hawk who had been in charge of a large-scale guild, before anything was done, he would ponder it ahead of time. Even back when he was killing nobles, he contemplated it beforehand.
Could it be done and should it be done? What effects will this bring to the organization?
He had to consider all the aspects. It wasnât as simple as getting a good idea and just doing itâthat was the way of a lone wolf. It wasnât the attitude a deputy leader of a guild should have.
Roland had already finished three cups of water before Hawk finally spoke after contemplating for nearly ten minutes. âItâs not a problem to gather the beggars, but how should we cooperateâhow should the power and benefits be distributed?â
âIt hasnât even been done. Youâre already starting to consider the power and benefits?â Roland was slightly surprised.
âOf course,â Hawk said matter-of-factly. âEven for a gaming guild like ours, with a mere few hundred people, the majority are still occasional playersâthere will still be disputes of interest. Not to mention, if we really could gather the beggars, the benefits that arise may be even greater than we imagined.â
Roland nodded; he couldnât help but agree with Hawkâs point.
It was just as Hawk had said: in places where there are lots of people, there will always be disputes of interest. Even if the members of F6 were all childhood friends, there were still small hidden groups amongst them.
For example, Roland and Schuck had a better relationship with each other, while Raffel and Li Lin were even more familiar with each other than they were with the rest.
There were at least over ten thousand beggars inside this city. Even if they only gathered one-tenth, that would be over a thousand people.
A thousand people would undeniably be considered a large force inside this city.
âActually, Iâm not interested in establishing an organization.â Roland thought for a moment and said, âFor me, those things are too problematic.â
Hawk was somewhat confused. âThen why did you give me this idea?â
âAs I said earlier, I want you to investigate something for me,â Roland explained. âAs for the matter of the beggars, I just happened to see this and came up with the idea in passing. After all, I donât want to be taken as a pushover and be messed with by the nobles. If they control or force you guys away, Betta and I will have to deal with their malice next.â
âWeâre on the same boat, at least thatâs what they see.â Hawk sneered in disdain. âThose nobles donât dare to face us head-on, so they thought of this despicable method to chase us away!â
Roland also laughed and said, âOnly once weâre gone will they be able to continue to do evil with impunity. For example, eating human hearts or kidnapping and killing young girls.â
The room went silent all of a sudden.
The three of them all thought of different scenes. The scene that surfaced before Hawkâs eyes was the corpses of the boys and girls drifting on the river, while what emerged before Rolandâs eyes were the dozens of bones inside the cave.
âThis ignorant, cruel, and primitive world.â Hawk clicked his tongue in disgust. âI really want to smash it to pieces.â
Within his words, there was an indistinct wrath. This was a passionate young man. If he werenât so, he wouldnât openly go against a noble for the sake of the corpses of those young boys and girls.
âThen you should recruit more people, and perhaps thereâll be a change,â Roland said with a smile. âAs a guildâs deputy leader, this should be something youâre good at.â
Hawkâs thick sloping brows knit into a frown, then somewhat puzzled, he said, âI canât help but feel that this is a little unfair. Weâre doing all the bitter and strenuous work and we have to gather information for you, while you only have to come up with the idea.â
âThereâll be places where I can help,â Roland said with a smile. âIâm currently the deputy chairman of the Association of Mages in this city anyhow.â
Hawk was momentarily startled. He stuck his thumb up in approval. âI thought you simply joined the Association of Mages, but I didnât realize you were already in the upper echelons.â
Roland chatted with them for a little while longer. He then left after he cast Language Proficiency on them.
Then, he returned to the magic tower and continued to work on the derivative spell Character Proficiency.
As he produced more and more data, he progressed faster and faster.
Another four days passed in the game, then he finally completed the derivative spell Character Proficiency.
Excited, Roland wasnât in a rush to cry for joy. Instead, he held a book in his hands and lost himself in reading it.
The bookâs title was Meditation Techniques and Important Cautions.
This was also the specialty that Roland wanted to learn the most right now. Before he arrived at Delpon, Falken told him that this was a specialty skill specific to mages and one that must be learned.
The so-called Meditation Spell was, in essence, the combined application of mental power and spirit.
Enter a calm state between sleep and awareness by sitting cross-legged or lying down, then condensing mental power, one would be able to enter their own spiritual world.
Afterward, they would be able to mobilize their own mental power and form a mental world within their spiritual world.
Since it was a mental world, one could transmogrify the majority of the physical scenery of the world in the game.
Most importantly, one could conduct magic simulation experiments that wouldnât cause any substantial harm to oneâs own body and spirit.
This Meditation Spell was easy to explain but hard to do.
For the majority of people, after they entered a state of calm, they would immediately fall asleep. Roland was no exception to this. He tried four times, and once he emptied his mind, he would start snoring in less than three minutes.
And then, he would be forcibly ejected from the game world, because after players entered the game, they were already sleeping.
It was absolutely impossible to be in a state between sleep and consciousness, this in and of itself was a paradox.
Moreover, Roland couldnât help but think it was a little similar to lucid dreaming.
However, Meditation Spell simply had the addition of using mental power.
Could it be that we players canât learn this Meditation Spell?
Although Roland had this thought in mind, he still tried many times and succeeded in none of them, unfortunately.
After the gaming time for the day was over, Roland got up from the immersive cabin. He first went to upload the Character Proficiency node model illustration onto the forums, and then he went to the gameâs suggestion and bug feedback section and explained the effects of the Meditation Spell. He said in his post, âWe players are essentially already lucid dreaming, so it should be impossible to enter another kind of state of sleep, right?â
Afterward, he closed his computer, washed his face, brushed his teeth, and ate breakfast.
When he was halfway through his breakfast, his phone rang. He thought it was Schuck calling, but once he checked his phone, he saw that it was an unfamiliar number.
Seeing that it didnât seem like a disturbing advertisement number, he picked up the call.
Soon, a feminine-sounding male voice came from the other end of the phone. âHello, may I ask for Roland?â
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âThis is he, and you are?â
âIâm World of Falanâs head planner, Ma Huajun[1], you can call me Old Ma.â
âOh, hello, Mr. Ma.â Roland was somewhat surprised, thinking that this person might be a swindler.
âWeâve investigated the bug you submitted, it is indeed a problem.â Ma Huajunâs voice sounded unusually clear through the phone. âNow, we have two courses of action. The first is to change Meditation into an active support specialization. For example, after activation, the next few spells will increase in damage or have their effects amplified. The other is to change it to a passive skill. For example, while out of combat, one will speed up mental power regeneration. Because you discovered this bug, we thought that you should decide whether or not to change it into an active specialty or a passive specialty.â