When You Become an NPC That Might Die Any Moment in the Novice Village
Chapter 400 - 400: 152 From a Village Girl to the Lord of a Planet, Bai Fu's Path to Advancement【5k】

Instead of adventuring in unknown worlds, Bai Fu preferred playing with players in familiar ones, whether there was something for the players to do or not. She just enjoyed teasing them when they were idle, highlighting the ease and comfort of her approach.

But how could she avoid it if she couldn't gather more advanced Spiritual Ability Knowledge on Ancestral Origin Star?

Without the Advanced Knowledge, she couldn't trigger the Transferring Professions Task. In such a case, no matter how much Experience she wrung from the players' hides, they would inevitably surpass her one by one as the game version updated.

With so many players around, there were bound to be a few chaotic types who wanted to kill her. To avoid dying at the hands of a player, she had to maintain a Level lead over them.

Thus, she made her way to the Starry Sky. After spending nearly half a month gathering criminal Experience through extensive interactions with a host of rogues along the chaotic paths of the Sea Lion Star System, she finally succeeded in unlocking the Transferring Professions Task.

[Branch 1. Warrior Glory - Reach 1000 Combat Points]

[Branch 2. Renowned Far and Wide - Raise Reputation in a given area to 50]

[Branch 3. Power of Knowledge - Gather two additional pieces of Advanced Spiritual Energy Knowledge]

[Task Reward: 3 million Experience Value, random Talent or Passive Skill*1, qualification for Transferring Professions]

Bai Fu's gaze quickly swept over the Transferring Professions Task options that unfolded in front of her.

Like the last time she unlocked higher-level Professions, the rewards for this task were rich, but neither branch was easy to complete.

The requirement for Branch 1 was to slay monsters. Each monster defeated earned a certain number of Points, and racking up 1000 Points would complete the task. The catch was that there were restrictions on which monsters would yield points; monsters that were too low-level wouldn't count, no matter how many you defeated.

Branch 2 demanded grinding Reputation. While 50 didn't seem like a high number, "area" here referred to at least an entire star system. Raising the Reputation of a whole star system to 50 was no easy feat.

Branch 3 required the collection of additional Advanced Knowledge, a task that seemed simple but was anything but in practice.

Bai Fu had already searched the trading center. Purchasing two pieces of Advanced Spiritual Energy Knowledge would cost 30,000 Credit Points. Based on her previous experiences, she just needed to take players out to "borrow" money around 60 to 80 times to earn those 30,000 Credit Points.

But that was purely theoretical.

Players weren't puppets she could manipulate at will; they had their own tricks and schemes.

They had followed her into the Starry Sky in the hopes of accessing higher-level Tasks, more interesting gameplay. Sure, "borrowing" money from NPCs was fun, but even the most entertaining of tasks would become nauseating after nearly a hundred repetitions.

Besides, doing this Task didn't even allow for Leveling up. Bai Fu felt that if she really continued taking players to "borrow" money, and if that went on just a bit too long, the situation would inevitably evolve into—

[Queen Fufu rules ineptly, commits heinous crimes, inciting widespread player complaints, eventually leading them all to bolt!]

Hmph, as if! How could the chives from her secret garden even think of escaping?

As the Ancestor Farmer of Ancestral Origin Star, she would not allow it!

"We need to find the players some other tasks, and sneakily complete the Transferring Professions Task while they're at it. As for what to do after the transfer is complete..."

Bai Fu pondered for a moment.

Having dealt with the troubles brought by the True Spirit Pillar, she had a clearer plan for her own future.

Just like on Ancestral Origin Star, she intended to continue growing her influence. The first step was to secure a base of operations, such as buying a planet. She planned to lure all the players from the Newbie Planets near the Edge World to her Silent Court. To accommodate so many players, having a planet of her own was a necessity.

Bai Fu opened the trading center interface again and searched for planets, filtering by price from low to high. However, even the cheapest planet was so expensive the string of zeroes made her scalp tingle.

"At this point, we must focus on making money," she said, shaking her head.

One thing she was satisfied with after arriving in the Star Sea was the presence of a very sophisticated task delegation platform, meaning she no longer had to spend all day figuring out how to find more tasks for the players.

The Pan Universe Delegation Platform, a platform established by a collaboration of hundreds of members, listed all sorts of weird tasks ranging from finding lost cats and dogs to kidnapping Imperial Princesses.

As the platform's operations covered every star system with intelligent life known to the explored universe, the number of tasks available was countless. It didn't matter that she only had a few dozen players with her now; even if she had millions, this delegation platform could easily keep them all fed.

With no need to stress over finding tasks, the only thing Bai Fu needed to do was build herself up as a gold-lettered signboard to convince players that following her in the Star Sea would be just as good, if not better, than sticking with other NPCs.

This was difficult, possibly even harder than becoming the game's poster girl, but she still had to try.

She had to pull players towards her, not let other NPCs poach hers.

"Come on, let's take a look inside."

Led by Bai Fu, the players excitedly entered the office of the Pan Universe Delegation Platform.

The office buzzed with activity, and so did the livestream of Digging Girl.

While other players were still busting their humps on the ground, Digging Girl and her companions were already teasing NPCs in the Star Sea, inducing envy in their fellow players.

[Aren't you going to continue scamming NPCs today?]

[I wish I could take your place!]

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