<h4>Chapter 84: Wake Up, There Are Chores To Do</h4>


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    The Follower System obviously wasn’t just a random idea Xi Wei had while stalking his believers.


    In reality, he had already been mulling the idea over ever since he redesigned the Pantheon Computer.


    Since most current frogmen were still believers of the Aquatic Lord, even if Xi Wei absorbed the divinity of the Aquatic Lord, as long as he didn’t inherit the god’s deific properties and divine order, he still wouldn’t be able to gain many followers from the frogmen.


    Along the same line of thought, it would be difficult for him to give blessings to the frogmen too. Xi Wei couldn’t even show the full extent of his Divine Grace to the frogmen either.


    To make a simpleparison, say the Path of Faith between Xi Wei and other yers was 5G, and that various video clips, photos, and powers could be shared between them instantaneously, then the connection between him and the frogmen was basically dial-up inte, even a low-resolution image could take upwards for half an hour to load, and even then there were a high risk of an “Unable to load” error popping up.


    Even though you couldn’t give Divine Grace purely through the Path of Faith, doing so without it would require extra Divine Power, and using that many resources on a normal frogman felt somewhat...wasteful.


    So to more efficiently farm divine energy, Xi Wei decided to use his already existing believers, the yers, to act as a halfway point.


    As long as the frogmen swore their loyalty to any yer, a contract would immediately be formed, the basic point of the contract was that their divine energy will be transferred from the “Aquatic Lord” over to that yer’s main deity, the “God of Games”, for safekeeping.


    The contract needed agreement from both parties involved, in this case that would be the “Aquatic Lord” and the “God of Games”.


    The Divine Order of the Aquatic Lord was currently in Xi Wei’s control, so the contract would take effect immediately.


    If it were this easy to gain the divine energy from the believers of other deities, this could lead many to the question of, “Does this mean all I have to do is defeat a small deity and create contracts to gain total control of their divine energy?”


    The short answer, no.


    This “loophole” was pretty difficult to exploit.


    The first and most important factor to Xi Wei’s sess was that there wasn’t any previous hostility between the Aquatic Lord and the God of Games, the two stoodpletely independent from each other in a silent agreement of peace, so the Aquatic Lord didn’t have time to react and retaliate when Xi Wei struck.


    Next was the problem of having the frogmen “willingly” pledging their loyalty to Xi Wei’s believers, divine energy wasn’t something you could force out of someone, the true faith of an individual and their willingness to give it to you was of the utmost importance, without it there wouldn’t be any effect.


    Lastly, Xi Wei attacked the Aquatic Lord at the perfect moment, right before his divinity’s ascension, if Xi Wei acquired god’s divinityter into that process, his targets may have already gained self-awareness, causing the contract to be unable to form. If he had attacked earlier and the god’s divinity hadn’t ascended to this level, they wouldn’t have been viewed by the contract as a proper “deity”, again rendering the contract useless.


    It was under these series of coincidences and Xi Wei’s explicit use of a loophole that he was able to do an under the table job of acquiring divine energy from the frogmen.


    The divine energy gained from the frogmen was used by Xi Wei to fully absorb the Aquatic Lord’s divinity, it was sort of like borrowing money from someone to buy a rope to strangle them with. In a way, Xi Wei did feel bad for the poor Aquatic Lord...


    After the Follower System came online, yers who participated in the Douseed Crusade event were quite intrigued, rushing to persuade a frogman to be their follower.


    Although the frogmen were pretty weak inbat, asionally losing to even the most basic Skeletons in solobat, because they were simr to the Felynes in M*nster H*nter in the fact that they didn’t take up a party slot, yers could use them as bait or meat shields during their raids, since they could be revived with a little bit of gold...


    Plus, the frogmen were still pretty low-level, even Croakatoa was only at Level 5, who knows how strong they could be in the future?


    Even Princess Leah, who, after regaining her rationality, hid in a corner in embarrassment and skipped the banquet, couldn’t help but run out to convince Croakatoa to be her follower after the system announcement was made.


    She was pretty disappointed when she found out Croakatoa had already be Eleena’s follower.


    So she changed her target to the vige elder.


    Do not underestimate the vige elder of the frogmen with his rickety old bones. In reality, he had the highest damage out of all the frogmen during theirst fight with the Society of the Secret Eye, swinging his walking stick around with the precision of a trained swordsman. You wouldn’t be able to tell from his usual frail appearance, but he could almost overtake a couple of low-level yers.


    After a long stretch of silence, the vige elder told Leah that he had already been chosen by the gods to be the leader of the frogmen tribe. The princess could only hide her face as she turned away after receiving a daily quest from the Elder System that helped yers farm reputation... To have a system like that under his control, it meant that he was an “overlord” recognized by the God of Games just like Angora and old man Vanke, Leah couldn’t just take one of his overlords away.


    After the untiring diligence of yers, they finally?—failed all of their attempts.??


    And after many failed attempts, yers concluded two main issues.


    The first was that they didn’t have enough reputation built up. The Reputation System had only just been implemented in the Frogmen Vige, their rtionship with yers was only at the basic Friendly level, meeting the requirements to recruit as a follower. However, the only person who sessfully did so was Eleena who was already at the level of Admiration among the frogmen, after all, she was viewed as a Saintess by the frogmen, her base reputation was off the charts...


    So yers thought that the higher your reputation, the higher your sess rate of recruiting a follower.


    The second problem was thenguage barrier, the already recruited Croakatoa and the unable to be recruited vige elder were the only two frogmen who spoke Shumonian. The rest of the frogmen weren’t too intelligent, and without Croakatoa or the vige elder acting as interpreters, even if yers incorporated hand gestures and bodynguage, it would only end as an unwinnable game of charades, neither party getting any point across.


    When yers went in to recruit, the frogmen not only ignored their requests, a bunch of them would gather around and watch in amusement as yers made a fool of themselves.


    If friendly fire had been enabled, it was certain that many yers would have stormed the vige in their frustration...


    The solution to these two problems wasn’t difficult, in fact it was quite easy, it was all in two words...


    Daily quests.


    Prestige not high enough? A daily quest is just the thing you need!


    Daily quests granted some prestige. If you do them long enough, you would end up at Admiration level for sure.


    Language barrier? I’m sure the overlords still have a daily quest for you.


    After you’ve built up enough reputation you’ll be able to unlock a special mission from the vige elder, after that mission ispleted you’ll receive a unique item called “The Frogmen Whisperer”, it’s a small ne with a frog the size of your fingernail, equip that and you’ll be fluent in the frogmen’snguage.


    Basically, when yers first read the system announcement, it felt like the benefits of followers were written all across the screen in tiny writing, but once they looked into the fine-print, the whole page was basically filled with “daily quests”.


    yers who weren’t interested in participating in manualbor promptly backed off gaining a follower, the ones that remained were those that either didn’t think there was much difference in doing routine quests in the Frogmen Vige and in the Unnamed Town or that were real die-hard fans of the frogmen tribe.