This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 91: Six-Member Squad?

"Damn, how did he get in?"

Seeing Pat tear open the void with his bare hands and forcibly join the battle, Pan Yang was stunned.

You’re not listed in the team!

Clearly not a member of the Hero Squad, yet stepping up when the Hero is in crisis—what kind of spirit is this?

Bro, are you really after my wife?

For some reason, seeing Pat, who wasn’t a teammate, join the battle to protect Anna made Pan Yang suddenly feel a little green on top.

He’s the Hero!

It’s always been the Hero who cheats on NPCs, so how come today it’s the NPC cheating on the Hero?

"What kind of disgusting bug is this...?"

Pan Yang couldn’t stand it. Just thinking that he might become the first Hero in the history of "Divine Grace Continent" to be cheated on by an NPC, he couldn’t help wanting to kill Pat.

This bug is really disgusting!

A stinky man always following the Hero’s lawfully wedded wife, even joining the battle scenes to fight alongside her, was just too much.

Does the Hero have no shame?

Amidst casual chit-chat, the Hero Squad’s battle with the Demonized Wild Boar officially began.

It was also at this moment that Pan Yang discovered Pat’s actions weren’t controlled by the player, functioning like an "auto-play" mode.

Aside from being out of the player’s control, Pat did seem like the fifth team member of the Hero Squad, as he could initiate attacks and the other teammates including the Hero could benefit from his aura buff skills.

The true fifth person of the squad!

The Demonized Wild Boar was, after all, a level 10 monster, while Pan Yang’s team had an average level over 40, and easily ended the battle in one round.

After the battle, Pat continued to follow Anna everywhere like a shadow, thoroughly annoying Pan Yang, the rightful husband.

Just as he was planning to head to the Advanced Demon Area to find a way to kill Pat, his live stream audience gave him some advice.

"Don’t be impulsive, host. Hold on for now!"

"Yeah! Try recruiting another NPC teammate first. If you can recruit, you’d have a six-person team."

"A six-person team, is that cheating?"

"If you can really have a six-person team, does that mean you could have a seven-person team, an eight-person team, or even a hundred, a thousand-person team?"

The bullet comments piqued Pan Yang’s curiosity.

Glancing at the four teammate portraits in the team list, he was also quite curious: Does Pat’s situation count as the fifth person in the team?

If not, then recruiting another NPC teammate, wouldn’t it be just like the bullet comments said, creating an unprecedented "six-person team" achievement?

Think and act.

Since he had no more gold coins and was too lazy to run tasks to improve affinity, Pan Yang decided to test it with an NPC whose initial affinity was at "Follower" level.

Easily recruited!

Pan Yang’s Hero Squad was full, clearly only five people, but Pat was still sticking like glue to Anna.

"No way?"

Actually, when the fifth team member was successfully recruited, Pan Yang vaguely guessed something.

But it was only after triggering the battle again and seeing Pat tear through the void to join the battle, he confirmed for real that he’d done something incredible.

Six-person team!

Holy crap! Weren’t Hero Squads limited to five people? Where did the sixth come from?

The audience in Pan Yang’s live stream reacted quickly, capturing this shocking scene and sharing it with friends or chat groups.

Soon, most "Divine Grace Continent" players knew about it and rushed to Pan Yang’s live stream to verify the screenshot’s authenticity.

You don’t know until you see it; once you see it, you’re shocked!

Is this for real?

Everyone thought it was a fake, edited image. How could "Divine Grace Continent" have something as outrageous as a six-person team?

But upon seeing Pan Yang’s live stream, they were stunned.

Six-person team?

Bro, you’re outdated!

Using the same mechanism, Pan Yang simultaneously gifted "full affinity" teammates and unfamiliar NPCs. In just one hour, he’d increased the team size to 10 people.

Though these NPCs were generally low-level and lacked special training or powerful gear, their combat strength wasn’t particularly high, yet...

There were so many of them!

Do you get the feeling of overwhelming the enemy demon with sheer numbers in one action round? Even if each NPC could only strike once, ten strikes could finish it.

It’s always been demons bullying heroes with numbers, crushing the Hero Squad. When have you seen heroes bullying demons, leading a bunch of NPC brothers to leave demons bewildered?

A Hero lacking martial virtue!

Pan Yang also noticed a surge in viewers for his live stream. Many were asking how he achieved the six-person team, even the ten-person team.

"Actually, it’s a game bug I discovered by accident just now..."

He explained the conclusion and trigger method he arrived at after repeated trials.

Give a gift to a teammate with affinity above "Follower," then quickly give another gift to the target NPC, all within 5 seconds.

Then repeat this process until the game interface shows the target NPC’s affinity has reached the follower level and they enter the recruitable list.

At this point, click to recruit the NPC!

Recruitment will definitely fail, either prompting that the team is full, or showing that the NPC joined and then left the team...

In any case, ignore the prompt messages!

Once you complete the above steps, the target NPC will enter a "magical" state, following teammates and joining battles.

"Don’t randomly kick teammates!"

Pan Yang solemnly reminded, "Because these NPCs are following your teammates, if you kick a teammate out of the team, these NPCs will leave too."

The core logic is simple.

These NPCs are attached to teammates, essentially bound to the Hero’s teammates. Once a teammate is kicked out, the multiplayer team immediately disbands.

"And one more thing, never use your wife as this key hub..."

Pan Yang said helplessly in front of the camera, "Multiplayer teams are fun, but having so many NPCs hovering around your wife is something not everyone can handle."

In his earlier experiment, his teammate was Anna, the NPC wife he married in the game.

This directly led to...

Currently, in the ten-person team, the five extra NPCs are all circling around Anna, much like lovesick puppies or the guy next door, Old Wang.

Though Anna hasn’t changed her mind, her affection for the Hero remains at its peak, Pan Yang still felt uncomfortable.

What is this?

The Hero sacrifices his wife’s charm to recruit followers and achieve big things without sweating the small stuff?

Fine, fine!

Is this how you play the game?

Pan Yang’s discovery got many people excited, and they quickly entered the game to verify his claim.

The result was true!

Not only true, but they also made a new discovery—NPCs can, under certain conditions, win over other NPCs.

In layman’s terms, NPCs can also start harems and recruit followers... without the Hero’s limitations.

The Hero can recruit a maximum of four followers since the team limit is five, allowing no more.

But for NPCs, as long as the affection requirement is met, they can recruit endlessly, as many as they like.

The Hero worries about a harem rebellion, but NPCs don’t have that problem. They can start as many harems as they want, no problem marrying countless ones as long as they’re healthy and fit.

And so...

In just one night, through countless players’ research, this bug was truly refined and applied.

Recruit NPCs? Train NPCs?

What a joke!

The real way to play "Divine Grace Continent" is to help followers recruit more followers, help followers get married, and ultimately achieve the "my followers are endless" achievement.

...

The next morning, Chen Ba didn’t get the chance to wake up naturally, as he was shaken awake by Lu.

He woke up to bad news!

On the first day of the official release of "Divine Grace Continent," the game exposed a game-breaking bug. In just one night, players used the bug to expand the Hero Squad’s size to 800 people.

Just one step away from a thousand-person team...

Eight hundred people, what a concept?

More than the Spartans by five hundred, standing densely packed together, filling an entire 27-inch computer monitor.

"Huh?"

Still groggy from being woken up, Chen Ba widened his eyes after hearing Lu’s account: "Eight hundred people?"

"That’s right!"

"And at this rate, we might soon see thousand-person teams, or even ten thousand-person teams..."

Lu guessed that surpassing ten thousand isn’t likely, considering so many NPCs on screen would probably overwhelm a player’s CPU.

But several thousand is definitely possible.

That’s already terrifying!

Thousands of NPCs attacking at once, each taking a stab at the Demon King, would definitely give the Demon King a hard time.

Given the Demon King’s high health, facing such an assault of NPCs, a less robust demon creature would probably fall in a single round.

"Are they attacking Ping’an County over there?"

Chen Ba was astonished: "Where did so many NPCs come from? The Hero Squad’s limit is five, isn’t it?" 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

"Here’s how it is..."

Lu explained in detail the background and analyzed the situation.

NPCs have affection levels too.

That’s the main reason for the problem, but the emergence of multiplayer teams, with "heroes gone, the map’s empty" situations, is still because of NPCs having no limits.

NPCs can start harems and recruit followers just like heroes, but without restrictions, why can they recruit as many as they like?

And now!

The Hero might have only four followers, but each of those followers has hundreds of their own.

The capital is nearly emptied by players!

This isn’t just a joke; except for a few NPCs that are hard to gain affection with or have very poor relations with others, every last person in the capital—male or female, noble or commoner—was taken by the Hero.

More accurately, the Hero only won over four people, but through those four, he conquered nearly a thousand NPCs in half the capital.

It’s simply ridiculous!

Can you imagine a scene where the Hero leads hundreds of people to gang up on one solitary demon creature?

It would be a brutal sight!