Chapter 77:

Murphy passed out due to excessive blood loss.

If it weren’t for the young lady by his side, he might have become the first vampire in the history of Transia, no, the entire vampire history, to die an ignoble death from excessive blood loss.

Hmm, this wasn’t the first time he had found himself in such a predicament, was it?

Although Murphy’s body could no longer withstand the ravages of sunlight plus Jed’s final counterattack and was forced into a deep slumber to recover, his spirit was unusually active at this time.

He found that in this unconscious state, he could still connect to the game forum through his consciousness link, but this time it was not to share the good news with his lovely and ferocious little players.

Because he himself had not yet seen his own gains.

“Good! Let me take a look!”

In his conscious activity, Murphy summoned his admin interface, and with the joy of opening a loot box, he looked at the long string of prompts floating in front of his character card:

【Newbie Guide Quest (6/6): Return to the beginning and the end, completed!

Details:

Complete the Black Iron Trial! (Completed).

Trial target is Silver Rank, evaluation: Perfect!

Own your own territory! (Completed).

Current territory is the outer city area of Kadman City, current population is 1078, current territory status is Neglected – Roughly Stable, evaluation: Perfect!

Overall evaluation: Perfect!

Rewards: +10 test invitation codes, remaining basic admin system functions: dungeon snapshots, reputation system, world map system, save point function etc. all unlocked.

Perfect evaluation bonus: Achievement system unlocked, territory management system unlocked to advanced level, “Spirit Convergence Stone” blueprint unlocked.

Developer’s note:

Perfect!

Perfect?

Are you sure?

You little rascal must have cheated, right?

You better not have, or I’ll ban you!

But well done, congratulations on completing all the newbie guide quests, you are now a mature and qualified test admin. Apart from the main storyline, there will be no more deliberate challenges for you.

I guess you must be dying to know the secret behind all this now.

Well, come on then.

I’ve put everything at the beginning and end of all things.

As long as you can get there by yourself, you’ll know it all.

Enjoy the rest of the game, my alpha.

——

Love from【DATA REDACTED】.】

Murphy blinked his eyes.

His character card had now become very complicated, with the newly unlocked functions taking up two new pages as they couldn’t fit on one. But the vampire didn’t immediately go to read those verbose function explanations.

Because after the six-cycle newbie guide quest ended, all that remained was a fairly simple “main storyline quest”.

【Test Admin Main Storyline Quest (1/N): The Dawn of Transia

Quest Objective: Become the de facto ruler of the Transia region before the next imminent danger arrives.

Time Limit: Six months.

Quest Reward: Flattery from subordinates and love from subjects.

Developer’s Note: Ha, didn’t see that coming, did you? I’m back again, that farewell just now was me joking with you. I wouldn’t miss recording your entire growth story for the world.

This feels like an old father watching his son grow up step-by-step into a man, getting married and having kids.

Uh, don’t flip me off, it’s just a metaphor.

But I advise you to be on your toes.

Really, the sooner the better! Because you’ll soon realize what kind of cruel world you’re in, and then you’ll know that everything you’re experiencing now doesn’t even qualify as the light breeze before the storm arrives.

Oh, and to take care of your ‘gaming experience’, I’ve left you some ‘admin assistance tools’.

But I seem to have forgotten where I put them.

Go find them yourself, after all, treasure hunting is fun too, isn’t it?】

“F**k!”

In his consciousness, Murphy flipped a mighty middle finger at the sky.

Especially that last reminder made him realize that no matter who made this admin system, that guy was definitely an ultimate troll. Isn’t this like telling me you left me a 10 billion inheritance in the bank, but you forgot the password so I have to try one combination at a time?

This is definitely messing with my mentality!

It has to be, right?

F**k!

Murphy cursed again.

But he was already used to this test admin system’s way of not playing by the rules, so he quickly calmed down and carefully observed the changes in his character card’s attributes.

He had risked his life to complete the Black Iron Trial, if you don’t give me a super powerful upgrade for that, it wouldn’t be fair to the hand I lost!

See, haven’t I already completed and launched the much-awaited dungeon feature you’ve all been craving?

So stop pestering for development progress on the forum! Your nagging demands are life-threatening, but the problem is, we, this “development team” that currently only has one person who also has to double as the entire Alpha Company’s tester, hardware, and maintenance staff, are already working really hard!

Finally, there’s the save point function.

This feature allows little players to choose Murphy’s currently owned core territory buildings to bind their location, so they don’t have to revive right next to Murphy after dying.

Of course, the description makes it clear that the prerequisite for enabling save points is that Murphy must have a territory. At this moment, Murphy’s consciousness was frowning at the territory system specifically listed on the third page of his character card:

Territory Name: Kadman City Outer Ruins and Survivor Camp

Territory Size: 1078/30000

Territory Evaluation: Neglected

Camp Allegiance: Portia Federation / Transia Region / Blood Vulture Clan / Kadman County

Lord: Revnor Murphy Lessenbra

Administrator: Miriam

Secondary Administrators: Dump Truck Iaido, Bulldozer Man Charging, Half Off With Full Coverage

Functional Positions:

Camp Architect: Heaven’s Chosen Grayman

Camp Guard Captain: Phil Portman

Camp Head Chef: Franks Chowan

Camp Chief Physician: Sister Juliette

Camp Warehouse Supervisor: Blanche Pallen Fedor

Subordinate Territory Forces:

Kadman Civilian Self-Defense Force【51/60】- Commander: Maxim Cena Vlad

Key Camp Personnel:

Tracy Cavendina Chia Lorraine Lessenbra, Femis Cecilia Lessenbra, Bella Bernice Adele Lessenbra.

Current Territory Manpower Feedback: 1%.

The entire territory system was concise and clear in summary, but what caught Murphy’s attention the most was this “Territory Manpower Feedback” at the bottom. He realized this was an extremely important function, so he immediately opened the detailed explanation:

【Term Explanation – Manpower Feedback:

For every territory owned by the Alpha test admin, he will receive a certain reserve of test personnel manpower based on the territory’s conditions.

The feedback level for different territory states is:

Neglected – 1%

Stable – 2%

Prosperous – 3%

Since test personnel are living beings, they cannot be split into fractions, so this manpower feedback is rounded down based on the current total manpower.

Note!

Each territory has a maximum population limit based on area and resources. Once the limit is reached, the population can continue increasing, but the total feedback manpower will not increase. Therefore, the lord should make appropriate arrangements based on each territory’s situation.】

“A 1% feedback level, so the abandoned Kadman City ruins and survivor camp combined can give me a feedback manpower of 1% of 1078 people? Which is 10 people?

But why round down?

I feel rounding up would be more reasonable?”

Murphy scratched his head and glanced at his reserve manpower, which had changed from【40/50】to【40/60】, filling up with the 10 spots awarded for completing the sixth newbie quest.

It was at this moment that the vampire lord truly understood this demonic system’s main means of recruiting test personnel.

The good news was, he had guessed correctly.

He really wouldn’t need to painstakingly do quests to recruit test personnel in the future.

The bad news was, his understanding of this “game” had never seemed quite right.

For example, when he first transported over he thought he was playing The Witcher. When he could recruit adorable little players, he felt it was Mount & Blade. But now the truth was finally revealed!

Turns out he was goddamn playing Civilization 6 all along!

F**k!

“Why couldn’t it be a chill beach building game? Why couldn’t I start with mech suits and deathray cannons? Why can’t I have a toggle for summoning neutron sweeps?”

Murphy tilted his head back, cursing the heavens. At that moment, he felt a summons from his physical body on the spiritual plane, causing his soul to return in the next instant as he painfully opened his eyes once more.

What entered his vision was a soft, tender...

“Tris! Let go of me...cough cough, you’re suffocating me!”

“Ah, little Murphy, you’re finally awake! You little brat, you scared me to death, did you know that? I just knew sending me away meant no good could come of it!

Just for this little patch of ruins and those people who have nothing to do with you, you’re risking your life?

Could you bear to leave me suffering all alone?

You naughty child! You scared me to death!”

“Don’t hit me, it hurts...”

“Mmm, it doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t hurt. Good Murphy, it doesn’t hurt, I’ll blow on it and it won’t hurt. Drink some blood and it won’t hurt. Good boy, open wide, ahhh...”